[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The feminization of western culture can be quite pervasive. For example, the Germans apparently are making it their business to get men to pee sitting down.

[thinking]

Yes, my first wife, complained, that I should sit down....after many years we split, I remarried, and my second wife complained that only women sat down, and that if I was a real man I should stand up....

[swarthyguy]

Keep the toilet seat down and just piss in the sink.

[LongElegantLegs]

I can't believe that this thread has gotten over 150 replies...

[Sloth]

Hey, I always ask directions

He had my respect right up to that point.

[TAdams8591]

Just as individual personality traits have their advantages and disadvantages, I have aways thought there are advantages and disadvantages to the different ways men and women communicate, not that either one was superior or inferior.

[Pablo64]

From the article: "I don't know, my attitude is that if women can leave a toilet seat down, men can leave it up."

Exactly. I had this conversation with my wife (who agrees with me, by the way) a long time ago. I told her that my attitude was that the toilet seat works both ways, up and down. Learn to work the technology.

(As an aside, we always leave not only the seat down, but the lid as well due to having had cats who love to watch their cat toys float in the water.)

[Clintonfatigued]

For a moment, I thought that it was an article about Bill Clinton.

[SuziQ]

Help, I'm talking and I can't shut up! ;o)

[kalee]

ping

[Melas]

There is tremendous irony in a man who takes up an entire page to say, "I think women talk too much."

[goldstategop]

The first rule a man learns living with a woman is the necessity of conversation. This is the ticket to sex, to going out with her and what have you. If that's too onerous, stay single.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

[OESY]

Boys Required To Pee Sitting Down At Norway School
September 27, 2006

It's an entirely new definition of "Standing Room Only." Or perhaps a new measure of "equality" has arrived.

Whatever it is, it has sparked a huge political debate at a school in Kristiansand, Norway, according to the Norwegian paper Fædrelandsvennen.

The trigger for the explosion of opinion? A decision in the local district that schoolboys must sit on toilet seats when urinating, not stand.

According to the news report, the rule was announced for boys at Dvergsnes School (pictured at right), prompting outrage from Vidar Kleppe, the chief of The Democrats Party.

He's accusing the school of "fiddling with God's work," and now he wants the issue discussed at the executive committee level of the area council, according to the newspaper "Dagbladet."

"When boys are not allowed to pee in the natural way, the way boys have done for generations, it is meddling with God's work," Kleppe, whose group is a splinter group of former Progress Party hardliners, said in the newspaper.

"It is a human right not to have to sit down like a girl," he said.

On Kleppe's contentious "stand" on making political waves, no comment was the response from school principal Lise Gjul.

But she did tell Norwegian Broadcasting NRK that the restrooms are used by both boys and girls, and the young boys are not "good enough at aiming" in order to have "a pleasant toilet."


COMMENT: I thought you guys might have known the Germans left Norway in 1945 shortly before the end of the war. Sitzpinkler refers to metrosexual tourists. How many times did you hear that appellation? What was your response, or did you just nurse bad feelings?

[mamelukesabre]

Not only do I alway put the seat down, I alway put the lid down too.

AND, I am alway yelling at my significant other when she forgets to put the lid down.

The reason...I don't want my dog drinking blue water!

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Hmmm....

It is better that women not try and force men to do something, but....

If this means that if women get to pick something that men end up having to do (like sitting down to pee), then men get to pick something that women have to do.

We must be fair and balance this out, riiiiggghhhttt?

As I side note, I am not saying this is how I feel, but...

Is there something that makes women want to try and control mens behavior, like rolling the toothpaste tube from the bottom, wanting to make them sit down to pee, saying to men, "do something" when all hell breaks lose, wanting men to talk more, etc, etc.

Maybe women should try and be a little less controlling of men.

Please, these are just thoughts, not necessarily indicative of how I feel so, please, don't engage in any emotionalized, subjective, Ad-Hominish personal attacks against me.

Thanks.

:)

[SouthTexas]

It's not that he doesn't care.

Now that's debatable.

[DonGrafico]

Tips for men:
Remember to leave the toilet seat in the up position when you are done peeing on it.

[Graymatter]

I am a woman, but I've always found that other women talk way too much. My chatterbox daughters are always telling me I don't talk enough. Come to think of it, even my husbands mentioned that.
At no time do I sympathize with males so much as when I'm listening to a female.

[Doomonyou]

Talk to me, Damn it!!!

[Lancey Howard]

It's always been one of my pet peeves - - women who forget to put the toilet seat back up.

[PzLdr]

From HERRENVOLK to Hen in Volk.