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).
I prefer to pee standing, thank you very much.
Now go back to producing metal bands, Sweden.
Chris Matthews’ wife taught him to potty that way.
While seated, make it fun by seeing how high your stream can reach on the opposite wall.
Dave to Sweden:
This is still Texas. I can still stand and wet on a mesquite bush if I want to.
Free men need not ask permission.
By the way, my Mother was a Swede from Minnesota. She has been a Texan since just after WWII.
I hadda check to see if this was parody. Lo and behold, it’s not. Wow.
I would love to know how they plan to enforce this.
I can see them ban have urinals in a men’s room. But, assuming we have toilet privacy in a stall, how would anyone know if you sit or stand to do # 1? I guess we can assume all will sit to do #2, but again, how do you enforce something like this?
Wow, I didn’t know that I was peeing “wrong” all my life! Thank God for the Swedish Lefty parties for teaching me how to do it right! They obviously put a lot of thought into it. I’m glad they put so much time and energy solving such an important crisis! The nanny state at its best. I can’t wait for when they can teach me how to breathe!
Wow, I didn’t know that I was peeing “wrong” all my life! Thank God for the Swedish Lefty parties for teaching me how to do it right! They obviously put a lot of thought into it. I’m glad they put so much time and energy solving such an important crisis! The nanny state at its best. I can’t wait for when they can teach me how to breathe!
Wow, I didn’t know that I was peeing “wrong” all my life! Thank God for the Swedish Lefty parties for teaching me how to do it right! They obviously put a lot of thought into it. I’m glad they put so much time and energy solving such an important crisis! The nanny state at its best. I can’t wait for when they can teach me how to breathe!
The water is so cold...so I guess I will stand. Did anyone suggest to the experts in Sweden to install urinals?
Maybe, if they pay for the surgery and the lifetime supply of all the Oxycodone I want, I’ll think about it.
Sounds like a certain country that is in control of the European Union . . . the men there do #1 seated.
But, assuming we have toilet privacy in a stall, how would anyone know if you sit or stand to do # 1?Maybe they're basing it on the number of times they have gone in to a booth and found the toilet seat covered in piss?
Based on my personal observations, I would say at least 50% of the previous toilet users were filthy, disgusting animals who couldn't be bothered to avoid covering the toilet seat with their urine.
At one time, there was a social convention that one leave a public restroom (at least) as clean as one found it. That convention has died, and I think it is a prime example of a dying culture.
How the hell can you write your name sitting down?
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
I DON’T EVEN SIT DOWN TO POOP!
They’re doing this for hygiene? ummm if you stand your body doesn’t touch the toilet.
Really, they just want men to be like women.
“I would love to know how they plan to enforce this.”
You don’t see? They want to abolish the men’s room. Just one kind of toilet for everyone.
LOL! Poor Butters. Where else would you rest your comic book and chocolate milk?
“Sounds like a certain country that is in control of the European Union . . . the men there do #1 seated.”
In their pants after reading the financial news.
In your dreams?
Funniest thing I have read all day. Thanks.
;-)
Just indoors or when out in the woods as well??
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