News of the Weird: Norwegian headmistress proposes that boys be taught to urinate while seated

StarTribune.com ^ | 11/1/2006 | Chuck Shepherd

[GeorgiaFreeper]

In September, the headmistress of the Dvergsnes primary school in Kristiansand, Norway, proposed that boys be taught to urinate while seated, in order to reduce splashing and mistargeting, which burden the cleaning staff

[GeorgiaFreeper]

More emasculation of young men - why don't they concentrate on teaching personal responsibility (ie cleaning up after one's self) instead?

[raj bhatia]

Don't say this aloud. Democrats will create a govt. agency for the promotion of targeted urination.

[misterrob]

I'll never forget the "learn how to aim" lecture that my borther and I got as kids.

We couldn't keep a straight face....

[FarRightFanatic]

Thank God my ancestors left this stupid, socialist, manless joke of a country and emigrated here!

[edpc]

Can't write your name in the Norwegian snow while seated.....

[rovenstinez]

Someone needs to teach the head mistress how to urinate standing up. Or maybe standing on her head.

[spinestein]

Ask any janitor which gender bathrooms have more "splashing" to clean up.


The answer is WOMEN.

[Paloma_55]

Why not teach girls how to stand over the toilet and shoot away!??

[DonaldC]

Train them up in the way they should go...

[rottndog]

...proposed that boys be taught to urinate while seated...

That's not fair. They should be teaching girls to pee standing up---That would be fair!

[ClearCase_guy]

Some folks pay hundreds of dollars for Norwegian headmistresses who believe in discipline.

so I'm told

[Abigail Adams]

I had a coworker whose father did it this way, and she trained her husband to do it too. Weird.

[MarineBrat]

They'll make me sit over my dead body!

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

How are boys going to improve their aim if they don't practice?

Nimrod!

[Atlas Sneezed]

As a rule of thumb, if you don't clean the toilet, or pay someone to (such as when you visit a public restroom whose cleaning is paid for by your purchases or taxes) then have a seat. It's the polite thing to do.

Oh, and toilets have lids for a reason.

[Enchante]

Weasel androgynous socialists who just want to destroy manhood.

Why doesn't the headmistress just post signs:

"OUR AIM IS TO KEEP THIS RESTROOM CLEAN.
YOUR AIM WILL HELP!"

[dforest]

Yeah and we girls are going to learn to pee standing up

[GeorgiaFreeper]

or these

[dinoparty]

I don't want to get too graphic here, but the manipulation needed for the male sit-down pee often leads to unsanitary contact between the pee pee and the commode.

[mutley]

Liberals squat to pee.