People ask a lot of questions over at Ask Metafilter. And some of those questions are about the bathroom: about why people talk in there, why they flush things, how to not die of bathroom poisoning, and so on.

Really, there are a whole dang lot of these questions. I’ve rounded a few of them up, with a general focus on the intersection between restrooms and etiquette and grouped roughly by topic. Links after the dump jump.

CONVERSATION
- Why do men hang out in office restrooms?
- Do you make a noise when someone comes in?
- General etiquette roundup
- Phonecalls on the crapper?
- Deflecting bathroom banter?

PRIVACY
- Marriage = death of bathroom privacy?
- Going in front of your partner?

SHYNESS
- Overcoming pee shyness?
- Bonus mefi post

PROXIMITY
- Trough etiquette?
- Bonus mefi post
- Ditto

FLUSHING
- Pre-emptive flushing?
- Flushing pads?
- Flush failure!
- Why do people drop their phones?
- …and then FLUSH?
- Why don’t kids flush?

EXTRACURRICULARS
- Spitting in the urinal?
- Why does it take people so long?

SEAT ETIQUETTE
- Seat: up or down?
- Up? Or down?
- UP?! DOWN?!

HYGIENE & NESTING
- Does a toilet paper halo do anything?
- And what’s with the nesting in the ladies room?
- …and is it dangerous not to?
- And what about air hand dryers?
- Which way do you wipe?
- Bonus mefi post: international toiletry

EXOTIC LOCALES
- Peeing in a prospective new house?
- Bookstores make you poop?

MISC
- What’s with underwear flaps? (Also: standing and pooping?)
- Chances of false public-restroom cruising bust?
- Peeing = alertness, pooping = sleepy?
- Post-weed micturation takes, like, forever, man?