The Big Picture by Lennie Peterson for July 30, 2023

If you don’t put the seat down, you can’t close the lid. If you don’t close the lid, you get aerosol plumes of toilet water.

Most people I think don’t want that.

In a public “both” bathroom, I think the seat should be left UP. Guys will be certain they can hit the water without hitting the seat and… they can’t.

I think he is no longer married, or has a very patient wife. It really is a health matter as ‘some idiot from R’lyeh’ said.

He’s got a point. Not a good one, but a point. I agree the seat and lid should be put down before the flushing, but there’s no need to announce to a room of people that someone left them up, just put them down…

He’s spot on. Thank you for this important PSA Lennie.

Nothing worse than hitting the cold porcelain butt first in the middle of the night. Men need that experience to appreciate the need for a toilet seat in the down position.

Get a life put your own seat down

We always put the lid down on the toilet before we flush. Who wants the contents of a toilet aerosolized into the air?

I gather this thing about the toilet seat is a big deal among women, though (like Lennie’s friend) I can’t see what difference it could possibly make.

Early in the strip? 2002. A more kittenish Ginger in panel four. The ’tude is apparent in the last one.

Personally, I put the seat and lid down all the time. But, in this day and age, where women want to be treated like men, then yes, I can see where the man has a point: deal with the seat yourself.

1. The seat needs to be down when both sexes defecate, and when women urinate. It needs to be up only when men urinate. And men urinate less often than women, because their bladders are larger (women’s uteruses take up space). 2. Bacteria are sprayed around the room when the toilet is flushed with the lid up. 3. If the lid is up, things like phones may be dropped in the water. All excellent reasons why THE SEAT SHOULD BE LEFT DOWN.

I’m all for doing it as a courtesy, but coming out and confronting an entire room of people about it?? No.