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A court in Germany has ruled in favour of a man's right to urinate while standing up after his landlord demanded money for damage to the bathroom floor.
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The dispute in Duesseldorf is actually part of a long-running debate in Germany over whether men should be encouraged to sit down when urinating. The controversy pits stehpinklers (men who stand up to pee) against sitzpinklers (men who sit down), and it has taken some bizarre twists over the years. In 2004, for example, The Telegraph reported that sitzpinkler had become a synonym for "wimp," and that a company had invented a gadget that attached to toilets and scolded stehpinklers when they lifted the seat. One admonition, in a voice mimicking that of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, declared, "Hey, stand-peeing is not allowed here and will be punished with fines, so if you don't want any trouble, you'd best sit down." Millions of the devices had been sold in German supermarkets.

GAYS FOR DAYS posted:

How much was that guy pissing on the floor if the landlord was demanding money for damages?

Mr. Pumroy posted:

one time while a friend and i were vacationing in germany we turned on late night television and a woman was naked standing over the edge of a hot air balloon pissing onto a camera. urine and urine emissions is an important thing to consider, but i never really thought of it until then, so thank you, germany. your wisdom continues to pave the way for human thought

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The University of Chicago law professor Mary Anne Case has elaborated on the argument:

[E]fforts to encourage men to adopt urination methods associated in the western world with women have also been seen as threats to masculinity. Feminists in Germany have been urging men to accustom themselves to urinate while sitting on a toilet seat by posting signs in restrooms with the imperative “Hier wird sitzend gepinkelt” (Here one pees sitting down) and by explaining that such a practice would be more sanitary and create less work for those responsible for cleaning toilets, who are most often women. While some men have taken pride in accommodating this demand, others have vehemently resisted, going on talk shows, publishing editorials and cartoons, and forming Facebook groups of “Stehpinkler” (“Those who pee standing up”). So vehement was the resistance that academic Klaus Schwerma, a proponent of Sitzpinkeln, could write an entire critical book entitled “Stehpinkeln—Die Letzte Bastion der Maennlichkeit?” (Peeing Standing Up—the Last Bastion of Masculinity?).
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"Urinals lead restrooms equal in square footage to offer more excreting opportunities to men than to women," she explained, causing longer lines for women's bathrooms and other inequities. "When such features as fainting couches, full length mirrors, and vanities are added—as they sometimes are—to women’s but not to men’s rooms, the ratio of excreting opportunities given equal square footage gets even worse for women." Case, for her part, endorsed the model of the single-user, unisex airplane toilet for public places. She didn't address excreting opportunities in the privacy of one's home. That, after all, is a matter best left up to the excretor and his or her family—and the German courts.

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The Telegraph reported that sitzpinkler had become a synonym for "wimp,"

Cthulu Carl posted:

I sit to pee, but that's because I can't afford to lose time raiding/posting so I just keep a trash can under a mesh chair and let loose when I need to.

Do it ironically posted:

when i was in university i was an exchange student in germany and my host mother told me i had to sit down to pee lol like i did that ever

Erethizon_dorsatum posted:

why do men get pee everywhere though

there's nothing wrong with standing to pee in theory but you sacrifice the privilege of standing if you can't handle the responsibilities of not getting piss everywhere IMO

Erethizon_dorsatum posted:

why do men get pee everywhere though

there's nothing wrong with standing to pee in theory but you sacrifice the privilege of standing if you can't handle the responsibilities of not getting piss everywhere IMO

tuyop posted:

Erethizon_dorsatum posted:

why do men get pee everywhere though

there's nothing wrong with standing to pee in theory but you sacrifice the privilege of standing if you can't handle the responsibilities of not getting piss everywhere IMO

Robo Reagan posted:

sometimes the pee stream splits and at that point you have to make a decision to either stop pissing or try to adjust yourself midstream to lessen the collateral damage as much as possible

It's not something you can plan for ahead of time