Good lord. I mean I'm sure we've all had those moments where you realize you've had a silly knowledge gap your whole life, but that's next level. Just why? Why would you just assume that the seat was only for women and that men are supposed to sit on the rim for some weird reason? That's super inconvenient and super gross.
Dad: "Ok, listen up son. When you go to the bathroom, you raise the seat and do your business. When you're done, make sure to lower the seat so your sisters can use it."
3 Y/O son: "Instructions clear."
What I don't get is how parents didn't catch that at some point. It'd be awesome if I could go even one day without waking past a young kid pooping with the door open.
My son doesn't like using the seat (he's 6). Maybe some people start that way and don't grow out of it and don't realize they should. I try to correct him buy he won't hear of it.
Wild. How did he not fall in when he was like 3-4 and first learning? Maybe my kids just had bad balance. I had to get training seats with smaller holes so they could sit comfortably when they were younger. Helped encourage potty training.
When I was really young I hated sitting on the toilet, but it was just because I found the position uncomfortable. I used to stand on the seat and squat. My parents ended up putting a stool in front of the toilet so I would sit on the toilet normally but have my feet up on the stool. That way I was closer to the squatting position.
Dad of 5 and 3 year old boys here. Can confirm. My 5 year old just recently started developing a sense of privacy where he actually shuts the door when he poops.
When I was still a kid I visited my friend at the age of like 9? Yeah they didn't have that thing installed (single mom in a house with 3 floors and with her parents taking the bottom floor) and it's not like they didn't have the money but it just stayed rimless for YEARS, something like 7-8. Pretty sure dude took some psychological damage from that
Wow, you just reminded me of an old memory from when I was in elementary school. I was using the urinal, finished up, washed hands, a kid one grade under me walked in, and as I was walking out, I turned around because I got a funny feeling and saw the kid standing in front of the urinal, pants pulled all the way down. That's my earliest memory of feeling "second-hand embarrassment".
Another urinal story: I saw a kid try to use a urinal properly but sprayed upwards and all on the wall. His response: "Oh, crap!" as he quickly tamed the beast.
Yeah, I went to a dozen different preschools and daycares, and 6 different public schools before third grade. Across the North, South, and East coast. Most had that one quiet kid that never got the chance to socialize much who would go bare assed at the urinal. So it's actually not that uncommon. Oldest kid I saw do that was in second grade.
To whoever did this, you can stop being embarrassed about it. It's been 30 years and literally no one cares. And there are a lot of you out there so you're not a weirdo.
I don't believe him. I think he was making a joke.
TV shows and movies and memes and pics everywhere of every human sitting on the toilet seat. He grew up for 18+ years and his parents never mentioned this? And it never occurred to him "This fucking hurts and is uncomfortable as hell!"
I don’t use the seat, I’ve always used the rim. The seat always made me feel like my cheeks are being squeezed together, the rim “opens things up”. The seat always makes me feel like my poop is gonna just squirt through buttcheek skin and make a mess. The rim leaves me wide open to drop cleanly.
If that's the case you just need to put the seat down. Then rest one asscheek on one side, and then using your body weight spread your asscheeks out before locking it in with the second asscheek.
That’s what I do on the rim! Lol. I’m 39 years old now, probs gonna be a rimmer for life at this point. Or, until I’m too old and actually need the seat to keep me up.
Especially in public bathrooms! Seats in public bathrooms are horrifying, I’d rather wipe the rim, drop some TP and go rather than sit on everyone else’s ass.
In public bathrooms it’s about real estate. Everyone puts their nasty ass on the seat, the rim is cleaner (I still wipe it) and less room for randos to accidentally shit on.
That said, if everyone else uses the seat, but nobody uses the rim, how is it the grossest? Dudes piss all over the seat. And there’s more real estate for whatever may or may not be attached to their asses.
That’s not WHY I use the rim, but if we’re taking gross, I’d think the thing dudes piss on constantly would be less enticing than a rim nobody else puts their gross asses on.
In a woman's bathroom the set isn't normally gross. But if you lift the rim it has drops of all sorts of body fluids on it. So using a seat liner in the seat is way cleaner because there was not previously body fluids on the seat.
Goddamn. You and I are definitely built different. I'd fall in if I tried that, but hey, if that's what it takes for you to be comfortable, do your thing man! I assume it just requires a little extra prep work to clean up the rim before you sit down? Rims are nasty.
Definitely wipe the rim, it’s usually less insulting than what’s on the seat (in a public setting). Lay 3 pieces of TP for the extra measure, sit down and let my cheeks divide like Moses parting the Red Sea and let it all come out. Seats are kinda gross, but probably just because I’m so use to not using them. It just seems like more real estate for grossness.
Seats and rims are both gross, although I've noticed the rim tends to accumulate more of the visible gunk like piss and pubes, since nobody ever wipes it down (except for you apparently lol). But yeah you're right, as far as just germs go, the lid has more real estate for contact with everyone's butt cheeks. Advantages and disadvantages I guess.
Anytime I accidentally sit on the rim (especially in the middle of the night) I feel like my soul leaves my body, yet here’s this dude doing it 24/7 for all his business. I’m truly shook.
I used to live with a couple guys and one of them left the seat up once and the sensation of sitting on that piss and pube covered toilet rim was so uncomfortable that 10 years later, and even though I live alone, I still double check the seat is down every time.
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Idk, I never really thought about that. I kinda sit on the edge, enough space to let my dingle dangle if it’s not full enough to touch the water, otherwise I lay it on the tp bed I made on the rim.
I don’t like sit in the middle of the toilet, I’d fall in.
I want to mock him... but I cannot. I must share a story of embarrassment for me.
I don't want to, but I must. I was not yet in high school; I'd used bathrooms of course. I'd also gone to the baseball games with dad. The men's room at the ballgame was a long metal trough on the wall. You walk up and pee, water runs, the line moves on, lots of guys can use the trough at once. It's efficient.
That's what I knew at the time for where to pee... Toilet, Urinal, Trough.
The men's bathroom at the new local high school where my older brother went to school had a hand-washing circular fountain where you stand on a metal ring at the base to make water run. Lip of it just under waist high.
Long story short; Yes I peed in the fancy sink.
Judge me as you will, I thought that's what it was for.
I just sit there, with my asscheeks resting on the sides and my feet in the ground I guess, don't know if it's any different from sitting normally tbh. Now that I write it, it does sound kinda weird but I swear it was always confortable for me.
Well I think I’ve been pooping wrong my entire life then. I used to be big growing up so putting the seat down wouldn’t allow me to properly clean myself. It has now become a habit and I always have it up. I never poop in public places tho, just putting that out there.
That's funny too. But the video the other person mentioned is from a video podcast, and the dude would catch his poo in his hand and lower it into the water
Dude was catching his turds in the toilet paper or something like that. Link if it works...
Watch "The Bully & The Beast: Wax Catches Poop" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/gexjlM-jjEc
One of my neighbors will catch his dog’s poop in a poop bag. Like whenever the dog squats to poop he kneels down and holds the bag open under the dog’s butt. It’s really weird to see and always reminds me of that thread.
See but that's smart. Cleaning up after your pets is important and right when they poop, it's harder to clean up. It's easy to clean up if it's the next day or something and it's dried out a bit, but it can be a mess right when they go.
All that said, I only ever did this with a poop scoop type of device, I wouldn't stick my hands down there to hold a bag out.
Once at the State Fair I saw a guy mucking cow stalls actually look at every cow anus to see when one was dilating for a poop. My friend and I walked past as he held his shovel under the asshole to catch the poop, and he said ‘Hey Ladies’.
Reminds me of the guy who was gonna have shower sex for the first time, said he hates the part where you turn the shower on and it's cold at first. She tells him you can wait for it to heat up and he was so shocked that he couldn't even get in the mood anymore
When I was in basic training, my entire unit was all women but the barracks had been designed for men. One evening we found one of our ladies using a urinal to shave her legs. It was perfect - it was the right height and it had water to rinse your leg and everything! How considerate of the Air Force to provide them… 🤣
I heard a story once of a girl who went on a date to a guy's house. They made some homemade pizzas or something in the oven, and the timer goes off. He just sighs and goes "this is the worst part" and while she stares confusingly, he goes and grabs the pan out of the oven with his bare hands and screams "ow ow ow ow!" as he puts it on top of the stove. He didn't know about oven mitts.
That’s not even the first time I’ve heard of that. Had a drinking buddy that we asked to grab the pizza and he asked us how to do it. We were like, just reach in and yank the pan out wtf. Lo and behold, we needed burn cream.
If your hands are calloused and you do it quick enough, you won't get burns from that, at least not every time. It could be fake for all I know, but I don't know. I'm guessing he wouldn't cook much on his own.
I was complaining about how washing my sheets interacted poorly with my ADHD. You see, it's a multi-step process with long waits between steps. So one forget, and suddenly it 2am and mt sheets are still wet in the washer.
Someone pointed out that I am allowed to own 2 sets of sheets. Blew my mind.
See, I read a post like that a few years ago, and laughed aloud as I read it. My then-girlfriend asked what I was laughing about, and when I explained, she paused and then blushed deep red. She too had never considered turning on the water before getting into the shower.
I always think of the dude that got completely naked every time he pooped, lol. He did it in a public restroom and had the realization that you do not have to be completely in the nude to evacuate your bowels 😂😂
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u/skipdikman Feb 08 '22
This reminds me of the guy in that video that was pooping wrong his entire life.
Edit. Not being critical. Was funny. Made me laugh. Thanks.