“WHO IS IN HERE??”
Just close it entirely before you flush, people. The fact that there’s a debate between fully open and half-open when both are inferior is baffling.
Counter point: I know plenty of people who close the lid and then flush, then leave. So when you open the toilet you’re greeted by a floater or shit streaks over the bowl.
I flush with it open, check if it’s clean (otherwise use the brush and flush again) then leave.
If you want to close the lid you’d have to close it, flush, open it and check, clean, close it again. Are you doing that?
Counterpoint, if you leave the lid open, you’re flinging shit particles all over the bathroom, potentially onto toothbrushes.
Realistically they are going to get everywhere anyway, but I still close it in a harm reduction effort.
That was tested with Mythbusters. When your toothbrush is nearby there was hardly a difference if you flush open or closed, sorry :)
If you smell a fart you are breathing in shit particles. It doesn’t matter unless someone in your household is severely ill.
You should never flush with it open as the other commenter wrote. Flush closed, then check after ~30sec again if there is a floater or stains. I have a friend I needed to explain that if he flushed open with his toothbrush in the vicinity, he could just go and put the toothbrush in the toilet bowl, not much of a difference.
That just concentrates the airborne germs into a jet that shoots out between the seat and the rim.
That was tested with Mythbusters. When your toothbrush is nearby there was hardly a difference if you flush open or closed, sorry :)
Counter point: close the lid to prevent things from accidentally falling in.
How strong is your toilet’s flush? Most toilets don’t use high pressure water.
Doesn’t need to be high pressure to send up particles. Mythbusters did an experiment to see if toothbrushes kept in open air actually collect any fecal matter from the air and they found the toothbrush collecting fecal contamination even far outside of the bathroom. I’m not sure if they did tests with the lid closed.
Every time you flush a toilet, it releases an aerosol spray of tiny tainted water droplets. So if, like many people, you leave your toothbrush in the vicinity of a toilet, does that mean it’s regularly bathed in bits of fecal matter? MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage uncovered the dirty truth to this myth by covering a bathroom with 24 toothbrushes, two of which they brushed with each morning — the others they simply rinsed every day for a month.
As experimental controls, the MythBusters kept two untainted toothbrushes in an office far away from the lavatory. At the end of the month-long trial, they sent their toothbrush collection to a microbiologist for bacterial testing.
Astonishingly, all the toothbrushes were speckled with microscopic fecal matter, including the ones that had never seen the inside of a bathroom. The confirmed myth unfortunately proved that there’s indeed fecal matter on toothbrushes — and also everywhere else.
It makese sense… for example there’s those ultrasonic diffusers out there which send a constant stream of aerosolized water droplets. All it takes to do that is a small pad at the bottom that vibrates at the right frequency (above hearing range in this case, hence ultrasonic). It doesn’t take that much and the extent it happens in the average toilet just isn’t perceptible.
Close the lid bc flushing causes little particles to go into the air and I dont want to breathe that
Sorry to inform you but that doesn’t help. Myth busters busted that in 2013.
There’s a recent study that also confirms this:
https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(23)00820-9/fulltext
Oh man, you uncovered a memory. The first reddit downvote I received way back when was on a comment where I mentioned that closing the toilet lid makes mold/mildrew growth in the bowl more likely, particularly in humid environments.
#ScariestMomentOf2016
Oh sweet summer child
Put the lid down. Which is why it exists.
Once you have dogs, the lid becomes something you use.
Why do people want to look inside a nasty toilet in the first place? Why even INVITE the possibility of your deodorant, lotion, phone, or cat falling in to a perpetually open toilet? I’m a very lazy man, but this is too far. Close your fucking toilet.
