I used to have "performance anxiety" when it came to pooping in public bathrooms as well! However, a semester of commuting to college for sometimes 9 hour days forced me to do it from time to time. Here's what I do:
1. Get a wad of toilet paper and wipe toilet seat off.
2. Cover the toilet seat with several layers of paper.
3. Get another good size wad of toilet paper and put it directly in toilet.
4. Poop.

#3 helps because it greatly reduces the chances of the nasty public toilet water spla

shing back up on you, AND it reduces noise (in the case that you're embarrassed about the "plopping," so to speak).

It all started one hot summer day when Barney was looking for something to mount deer antlers when he thought to himself, “If I could put antlers on a toilet seat, what else could I plaster onto a potty chair?” With seats displaying everything from painted dogs to American Indian motifs, Barney is quite proud of his art and hopes to break 800 seats by the time he turns 86 this coming May. His lifetime goal is to hit over 1,000 seats and become a record holder with Guinness for his artistic potty oddities.
He spends as many as 20 hours on each one, first penciling an outline and then using a fine-point Dremel tool to make the marks permanent. His wife wishes he would flush this business straight down the toilet, but Barney enjoys his work and attracts curious visitors from all over the globe. His toilet museum is advertised as one of San Antonio’s off the beaten trail attractions for tourists. The loo lids coverhis tin constructed garage from floor to ceiling.
Even with its bizzare appeal, you cannot help but be in awe as to how many toilet seats this man has created over his lifetime. He continues to be passionate about his art and now has an online version of his museum where you can gander his collection. His motivation is inspiring with a dada-esque quality and that is not just potty talk.

 

Society has all sorts of euphemisms surrounding the art of going to the bathroom. The normal fashion is to sugar coat the unpleasant or crude to seem more refined but behind every laminate door behind the false safety of a metal bar we all do the same, well you know. Instead of being simple and to the point, you are in the crapper, have a meeting with the porcelain god, doing number one or two, in the satellite office, going potty, powdering your nose, going to the restroom (to rest?), dropping the kids off at the pool, in the laboratory, in the john, draining the lizard, watering the lawn, doing the doo, or simply you could be the Texas Toilet Seat King of San Antonio, Texas.
I would like to introduce you to Barney Smith. He has earned the title of Toilet King for the obscene number of toilet seats he has decorated in the last 35 years. Over 700 toilet seats hang on walls which has been dubbed the toilet seat museum.

Yes, its true. The WTO has adopted a blue toilet seatfor its logo. This is not surprising, however: the World Toilet Organization–you didn’t think I was talking about the World Trade Organization, did you?–is dedicated to improving sanitation issues around the world.
While the blue toilet seatlogo, may be amusing, the WTO’s goal is life-and-death serious. In “A Sanitation Crisis that’s no Joke,” the New York Times reports that 40 percent of the worldwide population, or 2.6 billion people, has no access to hygienic toilets. “Diarrhea kills 1.6 million children each year — more, even, than malaria — and the pollution of drinking water with wasteis a principal cause.”
During my time spent in El Salvador, I saw that the disposal of human wastewas a serious problem. In the low-lying Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador, human feces often contaminated water sources used for drinking until new latrines were installed to prevent this contamination. Many of the children had diarrhea or parasitic worms preying on their health.
While potty jokes are funny, providing quality sanitation to more of the world’s population is not a laughing matter.

 

 

I got on my computer and bought a Western Digital 1TB hard drive from BestBuy.com and arranged for a store pickup so I could speed up my normal Saturday errands. I got the confirmation sheet and headed to my local Best Buy to pick it up. Well it took them a good 15 minutes to get my stuff out (quick pick up my ass) and I got a 10 buck discount for my time.

So I got home, opened the box and found not a 1TB internal hard drive but 6 pieces of bathroomceramic tile wrapped in last months New York Post. I got into my car, raced back to Best Buy and voiced my complaint. The employee and assistant manager were more than willing to help, saying that it happens. So they set up the toilet seatand I repurchased the drive and while I was checking the contents to ensure it was a hard drive this time, the store manager came up, took the box from me and said to take it up with the manufacturer.

 

The first step in toilet seattraining your cat is to move his litter box into the bathroomwhere the training will take place. Put the box right next to the toilet and allow your cat to use it in that location for a few days. After this period of time, begin raising the litter box, using books or magazines, around two inches each day. Once the toilet seatis even with the rim of the toilet bowl, you are ready to begin transitioning your cat from the box to the toilet. First, place an aluminum pan over the toilet bowl, making sure that it can support your cat’s weight. Fill this bowl with about a half inch of kitty litter. For convenience sake, it is best to use a litter that is flushable.

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In this paper, we internalize the cost of yelling and model the conflict as a non-cooperative game between two species, males and females.We find that the social norm of leaving the toilet seat down is inefficient.
 However, to our dismay, we also find that the social norm of always leaving the toilet seat down after use is not only a Nash equilibrium in pure strategies but is also trembling-hand perfect. So, we can complain all we like, but this norm is not likely to go away.
All hope is not lost though. An important issue regarding social norms is whether they are created to increase welfare. Are they society’s response to market failures? One such norm is tipping for service quality.
Azar (2003) has shown that the norm of tipping increases social welfare. In this paper, we show conclusively that the social norm of leaving the toilet seat down after use decreases welfare and by doing that we hope to convince the reader that social norms are not always welfare enhancing. Hence, there is a case for scientifically examining social norms and educating the masses about the fallacy of following social norms blindly.
The Structure of the Game
The basic ingredients of the game are the same as in Harter (2005). Where we differ from Harter (2005) is the explicit modeling of the costs of yelling.

By Hammad Siddiqi
The issue of whether the toilet seatshould be left up or down after use seemingly generates a lot of passion among the parties concerned, however, scientific inquiries into the matter are almost non-existent. Notable exceptions are Choi (2002) and Harter (2005). Choi (2002) argues that the rule of leaving the toilet seatdown after use is inefficient in the sense that there is at least one other rule that outperform this rule. The unit of analysis in Choi (2002) is the household and the efficient rule is defined as one that minimizes the total cost of toilet seat operations per household. Choi (2002) does not model the issue as a situation of conflict, hence ignores the game theoretic aspects of the problem. Harter (2005) models the situation as a cooperative game and proposes a contract that splits the costs of toilet seat operations evenly among the parties. Both papers agree that the social norm of leaving the toilet seat down in inefficient in the sense that it does not minimize the total cost of toilet seat operations per household. However, both papers fail to address an important concern: If a female finds the toilet seat in a wrong position then she will most probably yell at the male involved. This yelling inflicts a cost on the male. Based on this omission, women may argue that the analysis in these papers is suspect.

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Highlights of the Features:
Heated screen to prevent condensation.
Water tight seal front and rear to meet all current wet room electrical regulations (IP66).
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The imam of the mosque in the town of Latina in the central Italian region of Lazio, Sheikh Yusuf, on 26 October heckled interior minister Giuliano Amato about the toilet seatas he presented Italy's new 'Charter of values, citizenship and integration' for immigrants' at Rome's Grand Mosque. "This is an insult to the Muslim faith that we must react to," Yusuf called out to Amato, who reassured Yusuf, saying: "I would like to tell our friends from Latina that we have been informed of this matter and are taking action because it is offensive." […]
 
Al-Quds al-Arabi reported that local Muslims are planning further non-violent protests against the toilet seatuntil it is removed from stores.
 
Imported from China and sold in Italy by the Orizzonte group, it is still in sale in six towns in the region, including Latina and Frosinone, many of them in local markets, according to the Arabic paper. But according to local Italian media, a special investigative unit of the police had already begun probing the issue several days before Yusuf's verbal protest to Amato in Rome last month and seized 212 'Koranic' toilet seats from five supermarkets in the area, where they were on sale at 15 euros a piece.

Hammad Siddiqi gives us THE SOCIAL NORM OF LEAVING THE TOILET SEAT DOWN: A GAME THEORETIC ANALYSIS in the The Science Creative Quarterly.  He looks at the question of leave-it-in-the-last-position vs. leave-it-down via game theory.  Here is the conclusion:
For “mankind”, the analysis in this paper has the following appeal: Once again, it has been found that the social norm of leaving the toilet seatdown is inefficient; hence, “mankind” may feel vindicated.

For “womankind”, the analysis in this paper is appealing for the following reason: It has been shown that the social norm of leaving the seat down is a trembling-hand perfect equilibrium. Hence, this norm is not likely to go away, at least in the near future.
In our household this battle has been settled, not by yelling or being "right," but by adding other variables.  Namely, we don't want the cat(s) drinking out of the toilet seat.  And now that there are children about: we don't want them diving in.  (Granted, they are big enough to open the toilet themselves now.)

 

November 02, 2007
Bathroom round up
In honor of National Kitchen and Bath month and also Bathroom Blogfest 07, we've decided to do a round up of all the green bathroomposts since the blog began.
Way back in August, Jeff gave us the low down on low-flush toilets seat. He discussed not only how these toilets use less water but how they have less impact on a septic system.
In September, he talked about the challenges of LEED, a toilet seatrecognized system for determine the eco-friendliness of a building, or in this case a home. We also asked if something not recycled could still be considered green.
More recently, we blogged about Caroma, an amazing Australian manufacturer that used the crippling droughts in its home country to devise innovative toilets.