Yeah, with a semi-large household there’s a fairly even chance of anybody needing or wanting any sort of configuration on the toilet. But mostly you just… you know, put the whole lid down. For one so you don’t spray your poop all over when you flush, for another because it… you know, looks nice.

I get wiping the edge if you’re a peer-stander-upper. I get making sure there’s paper left. I get cleaning the bowl (which Americans don’t get because they poo in swimming pools, as it turns out). I don’t get the argument about the toilet seat position specfiically.

Incidentally, I used to think the argument was about dudes not putting the seat up to pee and spraying their stuff all over the seat, plus the mist then leaking under and drying at the bottom, so if you don’t wipe after yourself it ends up getting all crusty under there. For the longest time I assumed the argument was that people were mad at dudes peeing witht he seat down, and only later realized that’s apparently not what people are mad about?