Jeffrey

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I wish that I hadn't resisted for so long the need to change myself.

To close the lid on thy throne or not to close the lid?

Oh, wait.

That is the question.

That's Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning, and I'm serious.

That really was the question a team of microbiologists tried to answer recently.

Dude, if it's a microbiologist, they're going to tell us to close it.

Are you kidding me?

Basically, the question was, is it better, meaning cleaner, to close the lid of your toilet when you flush it?

Doesn't it create like a hurricane of germs when you flush?

Yeah, that's what I've heard too.

Does anybody here want to confess to shutting the lid pre-flush?

Being so disgusted with what they did, they can't even look.

No?

I always do look because I am impressed.