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On the toilet seat note: I explained my phobia of spraying toilet germs to my husband once, reminded him two or three times, and ever since he has not had a problem putting both the seat AND the lid down. And I started when we were dating, so that solved that problem.
As for toilet paper, we have a cat that is a paper destroyer, and two kids. We keep the tp in a closed cabinet next to the toilet so we don't have to re-buy it three times a week.
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quote:Originally posted by MightyCow: If there weren't so many women who refuse to date shorter guys, the shorter guys wouldn't have any reason to be insecure about their height.
It's a nice theory. But while I am fine with a guy who is my height or several inches shorter, very few seem to be ok with me being taller than them. *shrug*
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I feel kind of weird bumping two of my own threads, but um...how do you dog-proof a house? My boyfriend has a yellow lab, and while he said she's actually really good at living in an apartment...I don't want any of my things destroyed, either. And what are the chances that I'm going to get totally annoyed at having another animal AND a guy around?
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That works, too. Put everything you don't want chewed very, very high. Higher than you think you need to, really. Particularly for a lab.
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Also, make sure any book cases are very sturdy. If you have one that rocks back and forth, don't put breakable stuff on it, *especially* up high. If the dog jumps up on it he'll send everything crashing down.
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I tried to read the whole thread, I really tried. Here are my thoughts on toilet seats.
Anyone who lives in a house with men, myself included, will know when they go to clean the toilet that the ledge under the seat is absolutely disgusting. This is the reason why men should lower the seat after they do their business. No one else, man or woman, wants to see your dried spashes of urine there.
If someone is visiting your house casually, so you haven't cleaned the bathroom, you should have a presentable bathroom. This means that you have a clean towel, a clean sink, a dry floor and the toilet seat down because dried yellow urine blotches is GROSS.
Not being gross is a prerequisite to living with anyone, man or woman. Therefore, you should always lower the toilet seat. It's not a sexist thing, it's a civilization millisecond of your life.
The lid depends on the quality of your toilet. Some toilets look just fine. Others are old where the water has been sitting for 25 year day in day out. In that case, it is pleasant to close the lid.
Toilet paper:
Change it. I don't care whether it is under or over. I don't care! As long as the person who finishes the roll changes it. Most people will get a new roll out but will not take the fifteen seconds to take the old cardboard tube off and put the new roll they're already using on. Fifteen seconds. They make these things easy on purpose.
Living Together:
Talk to each other. Chances are, the other person won't mind about the thing you're anal about and vice versa.
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quote: If someone is visiting your house casually, so you haven't cleaned the bathroom, you should have a presentable bathroom. This means that you have a clean towel, a clean sink, a dry floor and the toilet seat down because dried yellow urine blotches is GROSS.
Or you could clean your toilet often enough that you don't have dried yellow urine blotches on it for substantial periods of time. Posts: 37449 | Registered: May 1999
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Yes. I was using hyperbole. But you're not going to clean your toilet every day, are you? (Unless you're a masochist.) The point is, that it's cleaner with the the seat down as the default position.
Toilets are designed so they look best with the seat down for this very reason. In a photograph selling it, or even it just being in the background, the toilet seat is always going to be down, because that is how the toilet is designed from an aesthetic point of view.
And it takes about a second. If you really want to save time you can flush with your left hand and drop the seat with your right at the same time.
I really think this is a foolish argument that has somehow gained ground by being linked to some kind of unreasonable demand by nazi women.
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My ex-girlfriend is fostering greyhounds. She's invested in a couple of pressure-mounted child/pet gates to keep the animals out of areas with breakable things. I don't know how big an area you're dealing with, but you can get such gates for around $20.
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