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Fri 20 Aug, 2004 06:46 pm
A friend sent me a link that I'd like to share but I can't decide if I should put it in Home Improvement or General. Maybe I'll institute a poll on that decision. Here's the link -
Alarm for Standers
What is a man supposed to do if he wakes up with morning wood and can't bend it when he sits down?
I don't know what the Germans are thinking. Men sitting down to pee is just plain wrong. It's not manly.
I admit I didn't even read the article, alarms, forget it. (Bring back the trough.., oh, never mind.)
Quote:"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," one of the devices orders in a voice impersonating the German leader, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. Another has a voice similar to that of his predecessor, Helmut Kohl. [..]
So far 1.8 million WC ghosts have been sold in German supermarkets.
But Klaus Schwerma, author of Standing Urinators: The Last Bastion of Masculinity? doubts whether it will ever be possible to convert all men.
"Many insist on standing, even though it leads to much marital strife," he said.
In German, the phrase for someone who sits and urinates, a "Sitzpinkler", is equivalent to "wimp".
Its official. Germans are even weirder than we are. Its all them wars they lost, must have screwed up their minds.
Hey, no one's answered my poll!!!!
I would have said "Human Interest"
hmm, I didn't think of that. It's a closer fit than General...
I'd say Human Interest too. Very strange story though!
fortune wrote:I'd say Human Interest too. Very strange story though!
I agree with that. Very curious .
Human interest is what I'm thinking too.
Unusual story, Osso. What amazed me more than the alarm -- which is a decent idea, I think, if one looks at things economically; what's wrong with sitting down anyway? I can't see what that says of anyone -- is that someone wrote a book called:
[quote="T"] Standing Urinators: The Last Bastion of Masculinity?[/quote]
And that it both got published and thought of as something that people would buy. Is there anyone here who'd spend 15.00 to read a Book about that?
So, I did some research, translated the title, and found that it had nearly 150 pages and was selling for 25.90 DM, which is about $17... intriguing.
Sitzpinkler? Funny what people will think up to try to embarrass others. In high school the less friendly brats would commonly refer to me as "The Tall B*tch". Strangley they seemed to think that the 'Tall' part was the more insulting and, thus necessary, word.
While understanding that the other half of the human race has some rights in the matter, I, like many other women, prefer the seat(s) be kept down when not in use, but how one uses the structure, given elementary courtesy of being tidy, seems no one else's business to me. The idea of an alarm bell seems a burst of condescending and intrusive supervision.
I know a guy who refuses to stand while peeing....lol...of course there's nothing wrong with it though....lol...to each their own! Pretty weird gadget to have though, talk about a waste of money!
I am too...
(I think that it's not a waste of money, if it means that less cleaning has to be done.)
dròm_et_rêve wrote:
(I think that it's not a waste of money, if it means that less cleaning has to be done.)
I suppose, but I think this is probably just a fad.
O, yeah, it is, it will never catch on. It will join the list of nifty ideas that never got there, along with Ultravox's 'Vienna,' the folding all-over scratcher, and Stewie from Family Guy-shaped earrings.
dròm_et_rêve wrote:along with Ultravox's 'Vienna,'
Oh my God, do you have to keep on bringing up embarassing ghosts from my past? I possess two Ultravox albums, too ...
<hides in a very dark corner ...>
I would consider sitting down to pee, however the water is cold in the winter. Deep too.
It doesn't seem comfortable for guys, at least sometimes.
I think it is a fault of facilities design. The bathroom facility, what ever it is or they are, should be useful equally for both.
I like bidets too. People should have options and not have g/d bells ringing at them. Design failure, design failure, calling all potty designers!!!
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