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The Left Party in Sörmland is taking a stand to ensure men take a seat when emptying their bladders in the county council's own toilets. According to the party, there are two very important reasons for the proposal encouraging men to sit instead of stand when they urinate.
One reason has to do with hygiene and a desire to ensure that no one who uses the toilets at the county council's offices will be required to walk through puddles or residue left by stray urine which happens to splash out of the bowl and onto the floor when male employees pee standing up. The Left Party also cites medical research it claims shows that men empty their bladders more efficiently when they are seated.
The improved bladder evacuation not only reduces the risk for prostate problems, according to the party, but also helps men who sit rather than stand achieve a longer and healthier sex life, the local Folket newspaper reported. As a first step in its quest to get men to take a seat, the Left Party proposes labeling toilets which are designated for men who absolutely want to remain standing when they pee.
The Left Party's Viggo Hansen, a substitute member of the county council and the man responsible for the proposal, wants the office toilets to be genderless and as a result, is pushing for the "sit-down only" requirement. He insisted, however, that the move doesn't represent political meddling in people's bathroom habits. "That's not what we're doing. We want to give men the option of going into a clean toilet," he told Sveriges Television.
http://www.thelocal.se/41358/20120611/#.UMkb8XfkJ1E
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)whether the toilet is clean or not, if I stand to pee I'm going to remain relatively clean. If I have to sit, who the hell knows what I'm sitting in? Every men's room toilet seat I have ever seen was peed on....or worse.
Sweden can kiss my pee-free ass.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)"If you sprinkle when you tinkle
please be neat, and wipe the seat!"
Thank you.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)but does anyone follow it?
Cuz I'm betting men won't...
I work in a pretty nice office building - four stories of professional people all working for the same company. If a sit-down situation arises, I go home.
I'm lucky I only live about 10 minutes away but I still try to make sure I'm all set before going to work. To put it politely...
Mel Content
(123 posts)i don't lift the seat, and i don't squat to pee...but i do wipe the seat off if needed.
yawnmaster
(2,812 posts)essentially a porcelain hole in the ground that one squats over to do their business.
If one wants to stand to pee, fine.
Either way, no one sits on pee.
Squatting is much better for one than sitting.
According to everyone, it can improve one's sex life and grow back lost hair.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)yawnmaster
(2,812 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Here in Japan, there are squatting toilets and they are a royal pain. There is a reason why more and more of those things are being replaced with Western-style fixtures.
AnneD
(15,774 posts)Try using them while holding a purse. There is a reason why this westerner wears saris and carries long handle purses when visiting.
But everyone peeing while sitting down would go a long way toward world peace...lol. Hubby sits, I guess because he dealt with western toilets later in life and didn't know better. It makes my life easier.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)never to leave the seat up. Nobody really thinks that men sitting down to pee makes the world more equal... but women never going into the bathroom and sitting down on a toilet where the seat was left up is worth a lot.
AnneD
(15,774 posts)I went at night and not wanting to wake him up, did not turn on the light. My thoughtfulness was rewarded by a midnight baptismal. Needless to say I woke him up to remind him of his thoughtlessness.
Imagine getting you nuts dunked in cold water during the winter and and they telescope straight up you can imagine what it feels like for the ladies. It is worse for the thin ladies.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)But I fear if I had to try to squat over a hole in the floor, a fair share of the time I would be laying in whatever didn't make it into the hole.
Kaleva
(36,315 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)Will Dubya opine on this important issue regarding pee?
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Where are Bill Kristol and John Bolton on this key issue of our time?
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Problem solved. I predict huge messes with men trying to pee while sitting down.
undeterred
(34,658 posts)Women don't need to stand and men don't need to sit... pee however you want. Although I still don't understand why men have so much difficulty aiming.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Are worse than any male restroom here. They don't want to sit on the seat, so they crouch. The results are not good.
TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)It's either The Hover or The Toilet Paper Nest... I don't know any woman that sits her bare ass on a public toilet seat. Gross.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Than anything you've seen in the US. At least it was in Bahia. Elsewhere in Brazil could be different.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)Bless the Swedes!
47of74
(18,470 posts)RedCloud
(9,230 posts)yawnmaster
(2,812 posts)a bear and a bunny are crapping in the woods together.
The bear asks the bunny if it has a problem with crap sticking to its fur.
Bunny says, "no, not at all".
Bear picks up bunny and wipes butt with it.
RedCloud
(9,230 posts)Be like dad
not like sis
lift the lid
when you piss
-or-
No matter how long
you wiggle and dance
the last few drops
go down your pants
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)waddirum
(979 posts)Paid my dime.... But only farted....
47of74
(18,470 posts)...but the shithouse poet has struck again!
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)MineralMan
(146,318 posts)God created them so men don't water the floor. Install one in your home today. If you need the name of a good plumber, just let me know. In fact, if you have two baths in your home, put a urinal in one and make it the boy's room. It will change your life.
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)you know perfectly well what those puddles around the urinals are.
Guys with bad aim have bad aim everywhere.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)genderless? Good grief, just order urinals.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,354 posts)We'll need volunteers to drink mass quantities of beer.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)As a progressive "euro' pee'in", I've done it that way for years because my wife (Oops - I meant partner, honestly!) insisted.
It worked great until my balls fell off.
Lasher
(27,605 posts)I've been laughing about this one for days. Just had to come back to it, hee hee!
dufan_from_tx582
(5 posts)would get rather messy
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Good luck with that...
Chan790
(20,176 posts)It's easier to aim, cleaner, I can read while I pee, it made being shitfaced easier before I quit drinking, I was raised that way.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)sitting down.
Now he prefers it. Says there's less "splash" back (at 6'4" I believe it).
He's utterly comfortable with it.
TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)But that's due to a design foible of older German toilets
Remmah2
(3,291 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)OK, so now I am peeing in the shower because Europeans say we have to conserve and that will save one flush per person per day. Well if you exclude some parts of Europe otherwise it's one flush per week.
Now they want me to sit when I pee?
I'm done, I don't want Americans in my bedroom and I don't want Europeans in my bathroom.