The Toilet Seat
04.27.05 (10:54 am) [edit]
Time to address a wide-reaching issue that affects many men and women throughout the world, and exists because of one of the many differences between the genders. Women's Suffrage? Emotional reactivity? Physical capacity? Nope. The toilet seat.
Women everywhere seem to have a problem with men leaving the seat up. For some reason, they feel that their preference, which is to have the seat down, is somehow of higher importance than mens' preference, which is to have the seat up (this isn't usually an actual preference, it's just the way we leave it). My studies in Physics 206 and 207 during my college days have allowed me to come to a conclusion on this matter, and determine who is in the right.
By studying the carefully crafted force diagram I created, you can get a clear picture of the total amount of work needed to move the toilet seat up (the left diagram), and the total amount of work needed to put it back down again. The "mg" in both pictures is the gravitational force exerted on the toilet seat itself. The "F" is the amount of force needed to move the seat into position. The "TFR" is the total force involved in the motion, when considering gravity, air resistance, and quantum mechanics.
Obviously, it takes more force to move the seat into the upright position, since you're moving it against gravity. To put the seat down takes very little effort, since you're working with gravity. The ultimate conclusion of this is that women should get off our case about the seat, because we have to work a lot harder than they do when going to do our business. By requiring the man to move the seat down after each use, the woman is potentially forcing an unnecessary workload upon any man who seeks to heed nature's call, should his facility use follow that of another man.
So stop whining ladies. And yes, it's been a boring day for me.
:arrow: Rizzo
Women everywhere seem to have a problem with men leaving the seat up. For some reason, they feel that their preference, which is to have the seat down, is somehow of higher importance than mens' preference, which is to have the seat up (this isn't usually an actual preference, it's just the way we leave it). My studies in Physics 206 and 207 during my college days have allowed me to come to a conclusion on this matter, and determine who is in the right.
By studying the carefully crafted force diagram I created, you can get a clear picture of the total amount of work needed to move the toilet seat up (the left diagram), and the total amount of work needed to put it back down again. The "mg" in both pictures is the gravitational force exerted on the toilet seat itself. The "F" is the amount of force needed to move the seat into position. The "TFR" is the total force involved in the motion, when considering gravity, air resistance, and quantum mechanics.
Obviously, it takes more force to move the seat into the upright position, since you're moving it against gravity. To put the seat down takes very little effort, since you're working with gravity. The ultimate conclusion of this is that women should get off our case about the seat, because we have to work a lot harder than they do when going to do our business. By requiring the man to move the seat down after each use, the woman is potentially forcing an unnecessary workload upon any man who seeks to heed nature's call, should his facility use follow that of another man.
So stop whining ladies. And yes, it's been a boring day for me.
:arrow: Rizzo
Back in Business
04.25.05 (6:32 am) [edit]
Finally got off my butt and got my computer fixed, so the expensive cable internet I've been shelling out for is no longer going to waste. It also means I'll be able to blog again.
In other news, I've reaquired my taste for beer, so there should be some interesting posts on the way.
:arrow: Rizzo
In other news, I've reaquired my taste for beer, so there should be some interesting posts on the way.
:arrow: Rizzo