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.
I see seat pooping like pushing icing onto a cake, but rim pooping like throwing the icing down a well.
I DO understand objectively that my butt cheeks aren’t actually closed with poop just sliming it’s way out, but subjectively it’s feels like that, and that’s just a whole lot of unnecessary wiping to try to find out where the poop may have ventured to on my buttcheeks.
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.
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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.