Posted on 06/16/2012 10:01:28 PM PDT by JohnKinAK
Men who work for the Sörmland County Council in central Sweden should sit down rather than stand up when urinating in office toilets, according to a motion put forward by the local Left Party chapter.
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 (SVT).
Very funny!!
It actually makes sense. We won’t do it but it does make sense. Making it a law doesn’t though.
I meant to say: Sitting down to urinate is LESS hygienic and LESS healthy for men than standing--and for those with whom men come into contact.
And what you have said is true.
S
You ever watch a male horse pee? The stream comes out in a tight focused stream except when he is peeing really fast and hard, then it comes out like a garden hose with the old brass nozzle opened up all the way for max flow. Same way with men when they get older(I have no idea why). If they have to go bad, it doesn’t come out in a slender stream. It comes out in a shotgun blast. but usually only for the first couple seconds, then it slows down a little to the ordinary tight focused stream you usually see. He may not even be aware this is happening. It took me a long time to figure it out. Most of the time when you have to go that bad it is either in the middle of the night or first thing in the morning before you are fully awake. You are not very aware of the first 2 seconds of a pee in those situations. the reason I figured it out was that I live alone and I clean my own bathroom. When I found a mess I had to clean it myself and knew it wasn’t someone else making the mess. After so many times, I started wondering how the heck I was missing the target like that. Turns out I wasn’t missing the target. I was shotgun blasting the whole area(like a horse) when I had to go real bad.
WAY TMI!
Shot placement is the key. And of course, lead the ones that are moving by a mil-dot or two.
/johnny
You mean like the Kama Sutra?
(Slaps self for smartassicity.)
(Slaps self for not admitting that I don't know what Erasmus means by that.)
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