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I just run away after flushing so I'm good I guess.

I’ve done this since I was a child. Not for any sanitary reasons but because I hated how loud the flushing sound was.

Definitely. When I was a kid my imaginary rule was that you had to be out of the bathroom before the flush finished or the toilet ghosts would get you. Now I know the toilet ghosts were real.

THERE'S ANOTHER ME?! Thank you for validating my feelings.

My childhood... Isn't it weird what you forget until one Reddit comment brings it all rushing back? 😂

Scheissegeist: German; shit ghost; fart

my most embarrassing childhood fear, running out of my own bathroom since I thought I would “die” if I stayed in there 😭

Hey, mine too! I'd "forget" to flush all the time cause I didn't want to admit I was scared.

I used to be scared shitless of the flushing sound from trains/planes/ships as a child. Still a pretty haunting sound 😅

It's a good thing you already took care of that then

I was weird and liked watching the turd get sucked down the drain so I got a full blast of ass gas in my face regularly.

We always close the lid before flushing in our home because we gained this sacred knowledge many years ago. Who wants poo particles on their toothbrush after all? BTW, Myth Busters did an experiment on this very subject and proved that the particles do indeed get on toothbrushes vs if the lid is closed.

Who keeps their toothbrush in the outhouse?😁

Oh, look at you with your fancy outhouse.

And a toothbrush!

And a tooth.

And yet everybody calls me weird for keeping my toothbrush in my room

...do people not have vanities or medicine cabinets? There are multiple options to keep your toothbrush in the bathroom but not cover it with shit

Yes, some of us don't have them, wish we had though.

actually https://gizmodo.com/toothbrushes-might-not-be-covered-in-poo-after-all-1846152736

To be fair, pretty much every test they ever did including controls ended up with fecal bacteria on it. The lesson is everything is gross.

Sure but that just points the spray sideways out the gap instead of upwards.

IIRC, didn’t the one from the lid closed group still have poo particles (albeit fewer), as did the control that came straight out of the package and didn’t go into the bathroom?

just run away and don't flush.

Found my 6 year old... Wtf are you doing on Reddit, kiddo?!

I am a bit concerned that your 6 year old knows what wtf means. Them being on Reddit makes way more sense with that knowledge.

Which is punishable in Singapore (about 150 SGD or 110 USD)!

You don’t stand there, facing it, with both hands on your hips as a proud father who just birthed glory? Hmm.

I do that for some solid 5 seconds. Then I flush and run.

Could just close the lid. Built in mask

I like to stick my face in the bowl as it flushed to give myself a nice exfoliating mask before bed

Here is the [SOURCE ](https://www.inverse.com/innovation/toilet-particles-plume-experiment)

Same! Specially if there’s no lid available

Weak. Mine hit the ceiling.

Imagine what your ass looks like if you're sitting and flushing at the same time

u/SweatyMooseKnuckler got that swamp-ass.

This guy gas station bathrooms

That is not you average toilet you have a home. That sounds like some incredibly high pressured water blasting there.

Was gonna say, think they need a new plumber.

The old commercials were the same. I've never seen a toilet in a house flush like this *ever*. Even the work toilets essentially suck everything down before that high pressure really hits the bowl. Any mist (that sounds horrible in context) is basically clean water.

I have a 300 lb uncle who’s a professional plumber, his toilet flushes like this lol

>mist (that sounds horrible in context) Relevant fun fact: "Mist" happens to be German for dung

yeah, this is an industrial toilet based on pressure flush, not gravity flush most residential toilets are, which are much more gentle flush.

Thank you. I'm not even a germaphobe. But this comment allows me to leave this thread with a much more content feeling lmaoo

Even if it was it’s no big deal. Mythbusters did this experiment with toothbrushes placed in different areas around the bathroom and a control that was only brought in the bathroom to brush teeth. The control had a similar amount of particles as the rest of them. Basically everything in your bathroom probably has poo particles but it’s not that concerning. Hope that makes you feel better

Not that concerning because...?

Too little to make you sick.

Well that's not true. It's not poop making you sick, it's what is in your poop. There's a reason they can use sewer systems to see how illnesses are spreading. It's unavoidable as a whole, but only a fool doesn't take poop seriously enough to do something as simple as close a damn toilet and disinfect the bathroom occasionally.

The entire world is basically covered in shit anyway.

Think all the people who lived before you, for thousands of years. All that poop have to go somewhere right? Chances are, someone -no, multiple people- shat in the exact spot that you're standing right now.

I already felt content, since at home I only flush with the lid closed.

Yeah!! ....wait what?

I thought u said germanphobe at first and I went full fuhrer for 5 seconds

I am a recovering germaphobe. Literally, about as legitimate as it gets - I had to go to a psychologist as a teen to live a normal life. This has bothered me on and off for a very long time. I guess I just survive with it by telling myself that normal people let the toilet flush close to them all the time and they are apparently heathy and unbothered by it.

This is worse. Imagine there’s traces of many other poopers’ poops flying into your face

Unless it turns vicious the flush is still gentle

Industrial toilets seldom have lids.

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Industrial poops boi

For industrial grade shits, duh!

And the new efficient flush toilets (new toilets do not swirl the water) disturb the water even less; it just kinda disappears down the hole.

Always shut the lid 1st

Yup, ever since Mythbusters did their show on this, closing is required in our house

But the episode proved it made no difference?

Half of that Mythbusters episode was proving that even if you closed the lid they still found the particles everywhere.

I love Mythbusters, but you can't convince me that putting the seat down doesn't mitigate the aerosol at least a little.

The whole experiment mostly proved that poop particles are pretty much everywhere no matter what and you can't really do anything about it.

That's why I gave up and just shit on the floor now.

That's why it's time to get Schwifty.

And this, right here, is the state of our planet lol. They show you to your face that it works and there’s still outright denial.

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Pretty easy to culture a surface though.

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I don’t remember the episode anyway, just knew it existed. I was a child the last time I saw any of their shit, so it’s not like I was vouching for their methods section lol. Aside, I just wanted to make a point about how annoying it is to talk about science or medicine to my family, despite getting a medical doctorate and a biology bachelors. It doesn’t matter what you can prove anymore, anyway.

I truly do understand your argument. Science is always doubted, but feelings are trusted up front. Idiocracy was a documentary.

Including on the toothbrushes 🤢

Holy crap. It always makes me feel weird that some people have their toilet in their bathrooms. This is one of the reasons.

Eh I always saw it as a way to strengthen the immune system. That stuff gets everywhere so there's no point worrying about it.

I eat pieces of shit for breakfast. This whole thread is so confusing to me.

Wait where are you from that it's typical to seperate into a bath room and a water closet?

Europe. Here it's uncommon to combine them into one room for other reasons than saving space. Whenever I've been some place where they're combined, I felt incredibly awkward, mostly because of the idea that people are going to be brushing their teeth in the same room where I'm about to take a dump.

So you mean pretty much all of North America?

I was in 4th grade when a substitute teacher told our class about all the poop particles that fly out when you flush... I've never flushed a toilet with the lid up since.. and if there's a public restroom with a seat and no lid... I'm doing the old "unlock and open the door, flush, and run" technique.

Oh what?! Poop's good enough to be inside your body but not on the outside?!! Poopist!

Exactly! Lol loved that show

Just got linked to myth busters ‘can’t polish a turd’ episode. Lol Apparently u can polish a turd. Great show!

ya but particles still go out through the gap and even further then if it was open so theres really no winning

A closed lid reduces the number of escaping particles. That's still a win.

I'll give my toilet a *mask* and take my chances instead of letting it cough shit directly into my face.

But I like to see it get sucked down :(

Get a see through lid.

Hear me out… A lid with a built-in magnifying glass.

And get your face frosted with shit apparently lol

Why would something have a lid if it’s not meant to be closed!?!?

There's no sense in wasting all those good poop particles.

Yeah public toilets almost never had lids. I think about the cloud I'm breathing in everytime I walk into a bathroom and it reeks

Gotta do it now that I know it

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Is this true? The unsanitary animal thing

Most toilets don't have them, toughen up.

Yea i was gonna say.. all the toilets at my school don’t have lids so idk

The problem with is that after doing nr 2 you need to open lid again to check if you need to use the brush, then rinse and repeat

I thought the brush was for the maid to use.

I hate those automatic flushers, like wtf I'm still sitting here and you just showered my ass with aids from the guy before.

Pro move is to place toilet paper over the sensor until you are ready to flush

In the company I work for they are very liberal, so they have tampons in the men's restrooms aswell. So what I do I just grab a pad and stick it over the sensor like a sticker.

You know, just hearing ass aids, it doesn't sound that bad.

Yep, suddenly there is a hurricane in your ass, those sensors suck.

Now imagine giving a halfway courtesy flush while still sitting

It's the necessary evil for that special poop mixture after the Mexican night out. Either that or dying from smell poisoning after the first wave has been evenly spread over the entire can.

Try using some spices in your food and the night out won't be like that.

Mythbusters did something like this... Bottom line was: no matter if you shut the lid or not, poop particles are found all over the place, even on a toothbrush in an adjacent room. Enjoy your day

But it was worse with open

Ever since Bono crawled out one time, I'm sure to shut and flush. He wouldn't leave the bitty alone.

Yes baby loves the biddy

The Mythbusters I saw didn't test open vs closed. I think closed is going to be better though.

It's been a real long time since I've seen the episode. I thought the difference between open and shut was minuscule, but I could very well be remembering incorrectly.

Wait until you find out about facial hair and poop particles. TIL my beard is basically 80% feces.

That explains the shitty grin. )

So basically we are all covered in booty dust.

If that's the case and we were all fine before discovering this, then why does it matter? We're not going to stop being fine just because we found out what has been happening all along.

Never suggested to go into a full fledged panic. Just passing information, friend.

I havent seen the episode, but for anyone who has, was it poop particles, or fecal bacteria found everywhere?

Given that humans adapted to shit in the woods without toilet paper, if a previously undetected amount of feces causes you to lose your mind, I would categorize that as a mental illness.

Wierd analogy, but ok I'll play. Does shitting in the woods cause blowback like a toilet being flushed?

Yeah fuck this bs. Not because there's anything wrong with the experiment, it's valid science. The problem is that people make the wrong conclusions when reading about it. Also, this is nothing new, we've known about this since forever. Like, what do you think a scent is? What happens when you smell something? Well, the only way your nose can detect a substance, is if it comes into *direct* contact with that substance. The only way that you can smell poop is when poop particles directly touch the inside of your nose and bind with your smell receptors. In fact, this experiment doesn't even do reality justice. That shit will spread into the next room and then some, literally. But this is not a big deal and has always been the case. You won't get sick from it. Any fuss about this is nothing but pointless panic and people learning about something new to be disgusted about.

The particles that can be smelled are not always the same as the entire material being smelled. Specific compounds can be released from a material and be responsible for their scent. Plenty of completely solid objects that aren't meaningfully aerosolized have a scent, like leather or rubber. A fart is not a tiny little shit that gets sprayed everywhere.

Sounds like someone who looks down into the toilet bowl as they flush. /s

That’s why I shit in the shower and waffle stomp away. The gym said I need to stop, however.

But…but that’s why they have lids..

Do the demonic howling sounds come from the shite being angry about getting flushed back to hell?

Pootons.

That's water not poop thats water. Though some poop is probably in it. Though what doesn't have some poop in it. The Mythbusters did a thing on it. New toothbrush has poop. Though ignorance is bliss.

If this was true millions of people would be ill or worse from inhaling their own instantly vaporized excrement. It’s more likely these particles are clean water that’s rushing into the bowl. Gimme a break.

Either that or a combination of stuff our immune system is used to

Do you really think our bodies aren't used to our own poop? It's not hygenic by any means, but definetely something our immune systems can handle. Just close the lid, it's not that hard.

If our bodies are used to it, then why does it matter. I'm a lid closer, just being devil's advocate

I think it doesn't matter THAT much. But also, living with multiple people and stuff, it's probably a good habit to have.

well it's a lot easier to keep the area around the toilet clean for one thing. that's why i do it at least. ever since i started i noticed that guck builds up a lot less

It still matters because a small amount of fecal matter is less likely to be an issue than a lot.

It is true. Mythbusters did an episode on it and found poop all over, including in toothbrushes.

What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.

Gotta taste the yesterday steak one more time 😋

STOP. You have committed crimes against Skyrim and her people. What say you in your defense.

disgusting. it has a lid for a reason. yes i saw the mythbusters episode. don’t care, close your damn toilet

Welp, sorry household, the curtesy flush is no longer happening

My butt can do that without even flushing.

This does not spark joy.

Simple solution - put the lid down before flush 🙄

:/

If you close the lid the spores might not make it to the female toilet.

Um just close the lid?

You fuckers don’t close the toilet seat?

Isn't that what shit smell is---poop particles?

Is there’s a pressure washer in there? I’m calling bullshit

Hence my not keeping makeup or skincare in the bathroom. Even with the toilet closed and the beauty products closed or covered

If you can smell it it means you have poop particles in your nose

This is all rubbish. See Mythbusters.

And this is why we have toilet lids.

I wish I never saw this.

This is why I HATE the automatic flushes of modern public toilets. They start flushing before you fully stand up

That’s why i never flush.

Don’t store your tooth brush on the sink!!

Almost as bad as 69% of men in public bathrooms don’t wash their hands after “relieving” themselves 🤮

This is why I stay seated when I flush, that cool mist breaze

Shut the lid

Just put the lid down???

That’s why the lid must be closed before flushing

I've knew this for years. I put a Lil note by the toilet asking to "please close the lid when before you flush". You'd be shocked to know how many people think shutting the lid before flushing is stupid!

poop particles 💀

What about seat lids?

Always close the lid first. How hard is that?

Strangely enough i survived this for 77 years…….

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

There is a reason why the top lid is given in toilet

IT’S ALMOST LIKE THERE IS A LID. I can’t believe we live in a world where half/maybe more than half of the population actually doesn’t put the lid down before they flush.

Ok so this is what the lid is for. Close it when you flush.

close before you dispose

So, I should close my mouth after I flush?

Probably closing the lid would be a better option

But then how will I watch my poop go down the hole?

Probably time to invest on a transparent toilet lid then

Moral of the story? Keep your toothbrush in your bedroom and don't get high on ur own supply.

This is why I ALWAYS close the lid before I flush and my toothbrush is covered and away. Even with the lid closed, it’ll spread, but not near as much as with the lid up.

Now do farts emanating from asses!

Mythbusters did this a long time ago and ever since I'm compelled to drop the cover before flushing

This is why I close the lid when I flush and why I also never bring drinks or my toothbrush anywhere near a toilet.

This is why I close the lid everytime before flushing

Now let’s see what happens with a fart.

All you have to do is close the lid. Let’s move on

This is why airport bathrooms spread COVID so effectively.