SloMo toilet seat

Well you can buy new seats of that design at Costco for about =A322

I can't think why one would want a loo seat that you can't get down quickly.

Attack of Montasumas Revenge and mad dash for loo only to have to wait 10 seconds for the perishing seat to close, 10s is a *LONG* time when you are about to piss out of your arse.

In situations like that, a seat is a luxury, not an essential. ;-)

Tim

The ones I've got, you can push down manually pretty much as fast as you like. They just don't fall if you let 'em go ...

Arfa

They'd have to be able to pushed down quickly - forget the exploding arse problem, can you imagine the grief you'd get from half of the household if they needed to wait everytime they wanted a piss? :-)

There are two main ways this sort of mechanism works I'd imagine. first, the viscous paddle that moves slowly due to the oil, and the other is the geared fan approach which to whirl around a device like a paddle steamer wheel geared from the main shaft. A few years back I recall a web site that had toilets around the world on it, and some of the most fascinating seemed to be in Japan. Can't recall the address now. Brian

Keep the seat and lid down and then you'd have to just open the lid.

I know you're just begging to be asked by why do you think the seat should be left up ?

Paul Mc Cann

My daughter has these in her house. We stayed there for 2 weeks and ever since I have come home I have been having problems forgetting and letting our normal seats bang down, (after use!)

Seats that slam down are an occasional cause of injury to young boys who are just starting to use the toilet.

I hope it's better now :-P

I bet that only happens once. B-)

You do come across the occasional seat that won't stay up because it's been fitted incorrectly or is a replacement seat and doesn't match the pan/cistern.

Dave Liquorice :

Installed by a feminist plumber, probably.

But usually because it's had a hideous fluffy cover fitted. ;-)

Tim