“WHO IS IN HERE??”
#ScariestMomentOf2016
Oh sweet summer child
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2024
726 points (95.9% liked)
Microblog Memes
5375 readers
4242 users here now
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
Rules:
- Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
- Be nice.
- No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
- Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.
Related communities:
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Counter point: close the lid to prevent things from accidentally falling in.
That also stops the spread of aerosolized fecal matter.
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
Counter counterpoint: Look before you sit.
For real, I'm not sitting down until there is a quick inspection.
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.
Luckily, there's a simple way to avoid this. It's called "clean your toilet".
this is why I'm anal about putting the lid down. that way i get to feel superior and tell the women in my life that they're the ones using the potty wrong
jk, i think i only care because autism, but I'm too timid to actually say anything and would probably be a dick if i did. i just quietly go in and close the lid after others sometimes. but like, not too soon after, that would also be weird.
view more: next ›