You may not want to know this – and it would be sensible to wait until after breakfast before reading any further – but, apparently, lots of German men nowadays routinely sit down to pee. From quite early on, so it is claimed, German sons are taught that being a Sitzpinkler – translate it yourself – is the done thing and that being a Stehpinkler is simply antisocial. The purpose of this social revolution hardly needs detailed explanation. Stand-up men, let it simply be said, are messier than their seated brethren – and almost never bother to clean up. In some German homes, little notices are tacked to the underside of the toilet seat so that seat-raising males are reminded to consider their options. In others, a ghostly little gadget called a Spuk – a spook – similarly attached to the underside issues a verbal warning to prospective standers. When these gadgets first came on the market they were available in a variety of voices, including those of former chancellors Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. Nearly two million flew off the shelves, producing one of those unexpected but decisive changes in human behaviour which have helped to make modern German men what they are. All of which raises the question of whether British men might learn from the Germans. British women would certainly approve. And a little gadget with a David Cameron voice reminding British men not to raise the seat might prove to be one of the coalition government's more lasting and transformational achievements.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... a-sit-down

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First of all, I don't want Cameron talking to me in the toilet. Not even if I was constipated

Secondly, the UK would need a lot more cubicles, and most blokes are still gonna dribble over the seat when they get up

You can 're-vote' on this crucial issue

No, but my brother in-law kneels to pee or so he tells us.

How the hell does that work, he's either got a very low toilet or very long upper legs!!?

It depends, I'm not sure on what it depends, but for me it depends...

I voted No, but I wanted a Hell No option.

No.

No, except for those with a poor aim.

It depends, at home I do, anywhere else I won't.

I lift the seat.

What more do you want?

Humans were designed to squat when emptying themselves (whether it be urinary or bowel), not to sit or stand. Hence why some men dribble emptying their bladder or have a slight leak once zipped up.

90% of the time, I will stand. But occasionally, I will sit. This is more in the middle of the night or after a night out, when I'm likely to be visuo-spatially impaired and likely to make a mess, or just too tired to stand.

In the name of evolution!
I, for one, shan't bow to this tyranny of my body so that the unborn generations need suffer. Stand now, and pee, for the youth of tomorrow expect it. What would you tell them? That they require to down-trou and sit, rather than unzip, stand tall and proud, as a man, and urinate?

For shame. For shame.

Litter tray FTW

+ 1 on this. Oh, and...



ROFL

I will stand most of the time. I suspect that this is the german solution to the toilet seat being left up. It still will not solve the problem of hands not being washed.

I sit at home and when the toilet looks like it is regularly cleaned. In public toilets, I use the urinal.

Most houses I visit have the signs with a male figure standing and peeing inside a red circle with a line through it - usually stuck on the wall behind the toilet.