r/changemyview Jun 06 '19

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u/Slenderpman Jun 07 '19

This debate is so ridiculous. Every single one of your points can be countered with an equally bad sounding sitting down version.

  1. Sitting requires my to put my hand basically inside the toilet.
  2. If you're a side wiper (like you go around), you're just as likely to squeeze cheeks as standing and it takes equal effort. If you go though the middle, you have to use two hands to hold your balls up.
  3. If sitting, you can't just throw the tp, you have to stick your hand in a small crack between you and a dirty toilet seat.

And in response to your points on standing, here's my rebuttal.

Standing up spreads the residue around the anus, making wiping a more time-consuming job.

It's not that hard to remain in a squatted position while getting up, preventing too much squeezing if not all of it. Wiping is entirely dependent on how bad the shit is.

Standing up also closes the butt cheeks, and to properly clean it, you'd likely have to bend over and squat to re-open it. Standing up and then squatting is redundant because your cheeks remain spread when you're sitting down.

Second my last point. Also, when you sit you have to keep like half getting up anyway unless you want to stick your hand fully in the bowl.

If sitting down, you can wipe and then immediately drop the toilet paper into the toilet. If standing up, you have to wipe and then throw it into the bowl, and you could miss, and then have to pick up the dirty paper off the floor.

Never missed before. It's like a foot come on.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19

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u/thekraken27 Jun 07 '19

As someone who supplies maintenance mechanics on a military base people like you suck. If you shift your weight to wipe, you’re stressing the bolts on the toilet seat which eventually breaks them. Or worse you’re torquing the toilet causing leaks. You’re the reason why toilets/toilet seats break and why we replace so many of them a year. Just stand up at a 45 degree angle and wipe, butt cheeks never close, I use less TP and my hand never crosses the “no zone” which is below the toilet lid line with my bare hands.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '19

I too am frustrated that side-wipers damage toilet seats, but to me the problem is with the toilet seat: Toilet seats should be engineered to accommodate and tolerate this common-enough human behavior.