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are European men starting to pee sitting down?

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is urinating sitting down on the toilet better than standing up?

  • yes

  • no

  • depends. i will sit down if i am using a friend's toilet

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This was about damages that he did to a marble floor. The court decided that as long as the damage was from uric acid the tenant couldn't have the repair cost taken from his deposit.
 
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What's the big deal, I just do it because I stand up 8 hours a day usually at least, for decades now, and I like to sit and get off my feet at work a bit.

My wife doesn't care one way or another.

Is just what I do, if I'm really busy at work I'll use a urinal.
 
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skyking said:
I prefer not cleaning up a bunch of piss. The shop bathroom WILL have a urinal 🙂
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my son thought the shower was a urinal for a little when he was 3. He would turn right instead of left in the middle of the night to pee.


Good times
 
NutBucket said:
Agreed about the cleanup part.

The worst thing I had to clean when we bought our house was the bathroom used by the kids. The boy was about 10 years old and the quantity of crusted piss around the toilet seat bolts was incredible.

I sit at night so I don't have to worry about aiming while half asleep.
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Good idea to keep some bleach wipes around for cleaning said incidents.
 
I'm a man, I pee standing up, unless pooping too. No stinky woman is going to change that. That's why I buy her stuff to clean the bathroom...after she makes me a sandwich and gets me a beer first of course.
 
GrumpyMan said:
I'm a man, I pee standing up, unless pooping too. No stinky woman is going to change that. That's why I buy her stuff to clean the bathroom...after she makes me a sandwich and gets me a beer first of course.
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You walk all the way to the bathroom to pee? I make my woman hold a chamber pot under my junk while I pee, which she then empties onto the street or the heads of my sworn enemies. Whichever is closer.
 
No, but many public toilets have added a "fly" so men will be nudged into aiming correctly into the bowl.

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After the flies were added, “spillage” on the men’s-room floor fell by 80 percent. “Men evidently like to aim at targets,” said Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, an irreverent pioneer in the increasingly influential field of behavioral economics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/business/08nudge.html?_r=0
 
In all seriousness, I think this is a German thing. I stayed 3 months in Germany when a friend was living there. He said that peeing while standing up was considered rude, unless done in your own home or at a public urinal. Certainly, when visiting friends' houses the advice was to sit down to pee. As for sharehouses, I believe it depended on how drunk we were
 
If I'm at home, I sit. I can fiddle with my phone, and if it turns out I needed to poop, well, already all set.

When I'm out, I stand at the urinals like everybody else.
 
dave_the_nerd said:
If I'm at home, I sit. I can fiddle with my phone, and if it turns out I needed to poop, well, already all set.

When I'm out, I stand at the urinals like everybody else.
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I do this too. Less mess to clean when it comes time to cleaning the bathroom.

Piss splatters, it breaks down the varnish on cabinets over time, can break down marble tile and corrode metal fixtures. Depositing it in the toilet directly with no splatter is always preferred IMO. Besides, at night if you get up to pee once, you don't need to turn on any lights if you do it sitting down. 🙂
 
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