--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
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).
It’s a Swedish thing, you wouldn’t understand...ping.
I'll quit peeing outside when someone uses FORCE to keep me from doing that.
/johnny
Men should protest these Nags by peeing on their cars. See who can shoot the roof.
--H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920
Sweden today, New York tomorrow.
Monitors—I hear they pay pretty well :)
We're missing half of the argument. They want us to pee inside. Who wastes money on flushes when God gave us the great outdoors.
And, nyet, tovarich... I'm not sitting inside to pee. Not when I've got the great outdoors.
/johnny
Piss on Sweden.
50,000 men at a NASCAR race would require hundreds if not thousands of stools.
That episode was amazing.
Nothing new about Communism.
Is that what they call the Left Party in Sweden these days?
Oy vey!
Nothing surprises me anymore. Maybe this will be nanny bloomberg’s next health crusade.
Ib fact in Sweeden they have developed gender neutral terms instead of ‘he’ and ‘she’ and force small children to use it in kindergarden. They also developed fairy tales to indoctrinate children into gay agenda.
I don’t see the hygiene in making men soak their winkies in public toilets.
Coming to Kalifornia in the near future.
You all seem to think this is funny. It is crazy but it has been around a long time. In 2004, an alarm to prevent men from standing up was marketed in Germany.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1469694/German-men-told-they-can-no-longer-stand-and-deliver.html
According the the article, 1.8 million had been sold then.
In 2006, boys at a school in Norway were told that they could not stand.
http://www.wnd.com/2006/09/38125/
What to do when a$$holes pee all over the seat?
Well, you can’t write your name, which is one reason not to sit to pee. And, it’s a very good reason.
A while back I wrote a comment about a girlfriend who wanted me to pee sitting down. I was not amused, and, although she was hot, we went our separate ways shortly thereafter. I’m not saying that was the only issue; it was more what I perceived as an attempt to control me. Not gonna happen.
I pee wherever I want to, usually outside while looking at the stars. Seems natural to me.
Of course, in some cultures, women stand while urinating.
Message to governments, whether here or in Sweden or anywhere: LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE.
haha
real men don’t pee indoors
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