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Happy Birthday from Hugging Hannelore!

13 (28.3%)

Lt. Potter disrupts the D'awwwwww

6 (13%)

"That's the first time you've willingly hugged me since you were a baby!"

3 (6.5%)

A little physical contact...

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Schtup MY daughter, eh?

3 (6.5%)

Observatory is up at the top of the spindle... in zero-g...

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"Wuh... wait." KISSSS HURRRRLLL Agh!

2 (4.3%)

ANGUS DID YOU LEAVE THE TOILET SEAT UP?

3 (6.5%)

That's the most stereotypical, sitcom thing you could possibly...

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...You fell in? I fell in.

1 (2.2%)

You better not be making fun of me.

1 (2.2%)

Francis told me you... he told me what happened. (I'm SUCH AN IDIOT)

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Someday, everything is going to go right for you, and it will be so wonderful you won't even know what to do.

10 (21.7%)

...Will there be cake?

4 (8.7%)

Total Members Voted: 43

[Method of Madness]

I leave the seat how it was when I went into the bathroom.  If the seat was already up, I'm not going to put it down afterwards.

[Mad Cat]

Thinking about making this a new avatar on here.

[iduguphergrave]

Shoulda saved it for the Caption Game 

[J]

given that she's been living with a dude for some time now, i'd think faye would be in the habit of checking before she sat down.

[Carl-E]

Given that the dude lives with at least one lady, I'd think he was inthe habit of leaving it down by now. 

Which he is. 


Mostly.  We all have lapses...

[Method of Madness]

Isn't it easier to just learn to aim in the smaller hole?  You don't have to put the seat down if you never lift it up.

[Overkillengine]

WARNING
This toilet is equipped with a two position seat
Please ensure seat is in correct position for your intended use before using.

I'd like to progressively iterate the motion to have this engraved on all toilets.

I have glasses, and I take the extra split second to don mine for o'dark thirty calls of the wild, and still have to check to make sure the apparatus is properly positioned for use....why should anyone else get a pass on that? 

[jwhouk]

Isn't it easier to just learn to aim in the smaller hole?  You don't have to put the seat down if you never lift it up.

One word: Splatter.

[Method of Madness]

Your toilet bowl must be unreasonably full with water, because that shouldn't be an issue.

[Overkillengine]

A) Some guys for some reason can't aim.

B) Some tend towards spray than stream for various reasons.

And having to wipe urine off the seat before use is annoying for just about anyone. Sure, you could hope that it is still sterile and just sit in it...yuck.

[iduguphergrave]

Given that the dude lives with at least one lady, I'd think he was inthe habit of leaving it down by now. 

Which he is. 


Mostly.  We all have lapses...

I have a feeling putting the seat down is something ingrained in Marten's behavior. Think about his mother and what she might've done the first time he left it up by mistake. Yeah...

[jmucchiello]

1. My toilet shares the room with my toothbrush.  I put the seat and lid down every time.  I read an article in Nick Magazine as a kid that talked about mist water particles shooting into the air while flushing the toilet and ever since the lid has stayed down. 

If you can smell it, IT IS IN YOUR NOSE.

Same thing applies to your toothbrush.

On topic: Never say these things to Hanners.

[TRVA123]

Isn't the convention to leave the seat in the position you found it? If they're at Faye's apartment then Angus should put the seat back down out of politeness, but at Angus's apartment Faye should put the seat back up when she is finished.

Same with the lid, if the house you're at keeps it down, then put it down. Otherwise leave it up.

Faye and Angus shouldn't have this argument until they move in together. *uppity sniff*

[jmucchiello]

My response to my wife the only time this came up was "You don't rely on my memory for anything else. Why should this be any different? Look before you stick your ass somewhere."

You brave, brave idiot. How many nights were you on the couch for that?

Um, zero. I don't accept passive aggressive behavior from anyone.

My response to my wife the only time this came up was "You don't rely on my memory for anything else. Why should this be any different? Look before you stick your ass somewhere."

Tried that once, when I regained conciousness...

If your wife actually knocked you out, you should leave her. I know you were joking but battering should never be considered funny. Not even when Faye does it.

[jmucchiello]

Speaking of Faye, has she always had as much overbite as displayed in panel 5?

[Method of Madness]

I don't remember her having one period, but then again, she might have never been shown in profile while talking.

[jmucchiello]

I don't remember her having one period, but then again, she might have never been shown in profile while talking.

I can find plenty of examples of that. Just none with that overbite.

[LTK]

Thinking about making this a new avatar on here.

"Do I LOOK like I give a SHIT?"

To be honest, yes. If you get angry about something, you definitely give at least one shit.

[westrim]

Thinking about making this a new avatar on here.

"Do I LOOK like I give a SHIT?"

To be honest, yes. If you get angry about something, you definitely give at least one shit.

I thought the problem was that she tried to give a shit and fell in.

[Armadillo]

Count me as a "lid down" kind of fella.  That way, EVERYBODY has skin in the "make sure the potty is correctly configured" game.

As to this particular comic:

1. Faye is (knowingly!) blind as Stevie Wonder without her glasses, yet she walks around without them on.
2. She apparently backed in to the bathroom and launched herself ass-first at whatever she felt like launching herself at without making sure everything was ship-shape.
3. She called her boyfriend an "asshole" because SHE did something stupid.

Am I missing something here?  LOOK AT THE FREAKIN' TOILET BEFORE YOU SIT DOWN, LADIES!!!  Do you change lanes without looking or take off running with your eyes closed?  Why is the bathroom so freakin' different than LIFE?!?

*rant done, gotta poop*

[Akima]

Am I the only one here who closes the toilet lid because A) It looks nicer and B) I'm sick of things falling into it*?

No. Closing the lid also protects your expensive porcelain from clumsy plumbers who drop hammers. If you travel on trains in China (not the flashy new high-speed ones) they have stainless-steel squatters which are sometimes heavily dented. I always wonder what happened. Possibly one of these people who poops golf-balls used it?

And I ALWAYS checked before I sat down. Not because I was afraid of falling in, but because I was afraid of spiders (stupid Discovery Channel...).

Famously, in Australia, poisonous spiders hide under the toilet seat...  You're welcome!

While we're on the subject of urban legends, toilets in Australia don't swirl the "other way round" from the Northern Hemisphere, because 1) coriolis force is too weak, and more importantly 2) Australian toilets are "washdown" style and don't swirl at all (video bragging about superior Aussie toilet technology ).

[celticgeek]

This is obviously the toilet for people who poop baseballs. 

[Kenyahp]

Am I missing something here?  LOOK AT THE FREAKIN' TOILET BEFORE YOU SIT DOWN, LADIES!!!  Do you change lanes without looking or take off running with your eyes closed?  Why is the bathroom so freakin' different than LIFE?!?

*rant done, gotta poop*

Actually, I take offense to this. I do switch lanes without looking and there is an annual running-with-your-eyes-closed every year, similar to the running of the bulls, in my household.

That is sarcasm, of course. Its actually bi-annual.

[Welu]

Jumping into the thread so excuse me if someone else made this point but at first I thought this strip came about because Jeph watched a recent South Park episode.

I've always thought of the seat up/down default as down if there's a woman in the house simply because of the odds. Women sit for both situations and blokes (usually) sit for one situation and stand for another. That's a three in four chance the seat will need to be down.

~~

Speaking of Faye, has she always had as much overbite as displayed in panel 5?

It doesn't seem as extreme in this comic.
~~

1. Faye is (knowingly!) blind as Stevie Wonder without her glasses, yet she walks around without them on.

From their attire I'm guessing they're about to go to bed or in bed. She probably already took them off and just needed to go. I'm very blind without my glasses but if I wake up in the middle of the night and am groggy, or even not groggy but really need to get up, I just don't think to put my glasses on most of the time.

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Edited three times and I forgot to say this: I really like Faye's expression in the last panel. I have that expression and thought a lot.

[pwhodges]

If I go to pee at night (due to boredom)* I sit, because it's too dark to see my aim from standing - turning on the lights would hurt my eyes and wake my wife, neither a good thing.  So seat down as a habit suits me too; but I also have the habit of feeling for the seat with my hands before committing my weight to it.


* You have about a 2% chance that my avatar will match that remark.

[TinPenguin]

When I enter a lavatory, I put the toilet seat in the position I need it. When I exit, I leave the toilet seat however I finished with it. I expect my fellow human beings to have the same basic abilities.

[Redball]

If I go to pee at night (due to boredom)* I sit, because it's too dark to see my aim from standing - turning on the lights would hurt my eyes and wake my wife, neither a good thing.  So seat down as a habit suits me too; but I also have the habit of feeling for the seat with my hands before committing my weight to it.


* You have about a 2% chance that my avatar will match that remark.

Ditto here, minus anyone else in the house to wake. I wake up with night vision, get to the toilet and back to bed with night vision intact. If I turn on the light in the bathroom, say, to take a pill, I crash into things on the way back to bed. And I often sit to pee anyway. Comfortable, better aim.

[celticgeek]

That's the way I get to and from the bathroom at night - my night vision gets me there and back, and nobody else has to be awake. 

[kajiura fan]

I always thought it WAS something sitcoms made up just to take "the war of the sexes" to its silliest extremes?

I was thinking the same thing when I read today's comic.

It annoys me when I hear about a woman getting bent out of shape over the toilet seat being left up. >.< I don't get it! And I'm a woman! Why wouldn't you look before you sit? And upon noticing the seat is up, how much time and energy does it take to put it down? Is it really that significant? (Though, I suppose it is if one really REALLY has to go.)

I love Faye, I really do, but I want to smack her right now! 

[DSL]

Y'all really think it's about the crapper lid being up or down?

No no no no no.

It's about power. Control.

Power and control.

Slam the lid on her crap, Angus!

[RyanW1019]

Faye wasn't really that mad at him, she was just embarrassed and lashed out.

[Omega Entity]

I keep the whole thing lidded, mainly because the cats will drink out of it and then unerringly stick their wet paws on my face in the morning.

[akronnick]

Cats don't use their paws to drink.

The little stinker is just fuckin' with you.

Just Sayin'

[Kenyahp]

I think thats completely dependent on the cat. Like, my cats don't use their paws. Because they're prissy. But, the woman my best friend house-dog-and cat sits for's cat DOES use his paws. No matter what. I can't tell you why, and it doesn't look effective. I think its just stupid.

[Omega Entity]

Cats don't use their paws to drink.

The little stinker is just fuckin' with you.

Just Sayin'

I've watched my cat dip her paws in the water dish and lick them mostly dry. But no, they don't use their paws to drink from the toilet. They brace their front paws along the inside of the bowl and their back ones on the seat so they can reach the toilet water to drink it.

[kiwi_goalie]

Well are they at Angus' place or at Faye's? Because if it's Faye's place and it's just been her there for a while she might be expecting the seat to be down (since Marten's away and she doesn't live with any other guys). I know I've made that mistake before - habit is hard to break!

[qdanielgrant]

there is an annual running-with-your-eyes-closed every year, similar to the running of the bulls, in my household.

That is sarcasm, of course. Its actually bi-annual.

Olé Running of the Blind! Sounds fun.

Also, clearly Jeph is a MASTER of psychological development and while Faye is projecting her own anxieties of failure onto Angus while simultenously letting her own barries down due to her lack of glasses while in his presence. 

[iduguphergrave]

You probably meant that sarcastically but I actually do get the feeling that Faye is subconsciously trying to find faults with Angus to later use against him and/or later use as an excuse to dump him.

Or maybe she's just being a Grumpy Gus.

[Carl-E]

Please, everyone - remember, Faye grew up in an all-women household (after her father departed), wherein the seat was always  down.  And I'm sure that, if Marten's mother hadn't thoroughly trained him in toilet ettiquette, Faye did.  Early on. 

She didn't look.  She's used to not having to.  Right or wrong, it was an embarrassment.  And she reacted... as Faye often reacts. 



It's still funny, dammit.  Especially the last panel, where Angus "saves the day". 


Edit: Dammit, my 'n' key keeps sticking...

[Mad Cat]

Odd. Exact same file, if I linked it as a URL to the image, the forum boards mangled it, it was illegible and forced to be square, making Faye look, well, like no woman wants to look. But by uploading it from my hard drive, it was scaled just fine.

[Is it cold in here?]

Faye's relationship hangups won't have gone away entirely. There's probably still a corner of her mind that can't stand the idea of being close to someone and that is working on ways to sabotage the relationship.

[squab]

The bigger the fall, the greater the spray raised as it splashes!

Bleargh, forgot about that part. Guess you gotta squat either way, and hope you've got good balance-and aim

Or, you know, find a tree.

As for toilets... I'm a guy, but my parents divorced when I was really young and I think I was potty trained mostly by my mother. I actually fell in the toilet when I was like 8 when my cousins were visiting...

Excuse me while I go do something manly now so I feel better.

For the poll you forgot "Puking during makeouts"

You're all welcome for the mental image.

Two girls one cup style?
I've never actually seen that and I never want to.

Count me as a "lid down" kind of fella.  That way, EVERYBODY has skin in the "make sure the potty is correctly configured" game.

As to this particular comic:

1. Faye is (knowingly!) blind as Stevie Wonder without her glasses, yet she walks around without them on.
2. She apparently backed in to the bathroom and launched herself ass-first at whatever she felt like launching herself at without making sure everything was ship-shape.
3. She called her boyfriend an "asshole" because SHE did something stupid.

Am I missing something here?  LOOK AT THE FREAKIN' TOILET BEFORE YOU SIT DOWN, LADIES!!!  Do you change lanes without looking or take off running with your eyes closed?  Why is the bathroom so freakin' different than LIFE?!?

*rant done, gotta poop*

I find these rants funny, because it's just as hard for the ladies to check and put the seat down when the go to the washroom as it is for men to simply put it down when they're done.

On the other hand, if you don't check the toilet before you sit down it's just a matter of time before you fall in. So peoples should always look.

[Soulsynger]

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The QC-Forums, rated PG-13 for potty-talk.

[Kugai]

You could say that this topic is in the can.

[Boomslang]

I actually would like to be the first person to congratulate Angus for his response - He didn't give way before Faye's anger, which would have been easy enough to do, he didn't get angry himself and lash out, and he ended the spat with a hug and a genuine apology and statement of concern.

I know, I know, that's just him being a decent human being, but it's so easy to handle this sort of thing the wrong way that I can't help but give him props. Certainly an improvement over how Sven would have handled the same situation.

[pwhodges]

Odd. Exact same file, if I linked it as a URL to the image, the forum boards mangled it, it was illegible and forced to be square, making Faye look, well, like no woman wants to look. But by uploading it from my hard drive, it was scaled just fine.

Whether the aspect ratio is preserved depends on whether the forum or the browser does the actual reduction.  I can do nothing about that - sorry*.  It's probably better to make your own edit of the image to fit within the 100x100 box.  I do get a little annoyed when people link 500kB images as avatars, as has happened (the largest avatar file I've seen was 4.5MB), as they get downloaded full size and then reduced by the browser - and they really do slow browsing down for everyone.

*[EDIT] I may be able to change this, in fact - I'll investigate further.

[pwhodges]

All together, now: Awww!

[Fen]

Erm, I've had the toilet seat argument. Won it via various shrieks in the middle of the night when I fell in. It's cold, you know =(.

[akronnick]

This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: huge success.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction...

[Akima]

I'm beginning to think Hanners' name is really spelled Hannelawww. And doesn't she look elegant in that LBD?