Norwegian school requires boys to sit on toilet seats when urinating - standing up and peeing is now banned!

[Mirorgate 0]

I'll say this though - go to a public bathroom in a train station in Munich and they are mostly all scrupulously clean, compared to London, LA, and NYC where your shoes slither across floors awash with urine, and you're lucky if you get out of there without a piece of #######-streaked paper stuck to your foot.

Not surprising. Germans have this thing with being fastidiously clean. When I lived there, it was required that we sweep the sidewalks for pedestrian use. Want to really see what I'm talkin about? just drive across the border into France... like night n day different

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

I'll say this though - go to a public bathroom in a train station in Munich and they are mostly all scrupulously clean, compared to London, LA, and NYC where your shoes slither across floors awash with urine, and you're lucky if you get out of there without a piece of #######-streaked paper stuck to your foot.

Not surprising. Germans have this thing with being fastidiously clean. When I lived there, it was required that we sweep the sidewalks for pedestrian use. Want to really see what I'm talkin about? just drive across the border into France... like night n day different

Something else I noticed was that all the bowls are designed differently - they have a shelf at the bottom where you can examine the "output" before you pull the chain.

[Ban Hammer 13,283]

I'll say this though - go to a public bathroom in a train station in Munich and they are mostly all scrupulously clean, compared to London, LA, and NYC where your shoes slither across floors awash with urine, and you're lucky if you get out of there without a piece of #######-streaked paper stuck to your foot.

Not surprising. Germans have this thing with being fastidiously clean. When I lived there, it was required that we sweep the sidewalks for pedestrian use. Want to really see what I'm talkin about? just drive across the border into France... like night n day different

especially after one of them pesky riots

[Fischkoepfin 1]

I'll say this though - go to a public bathroom in a train station in Munich and they are mostly all scrupulously clean, compared to London, LA, and NYC where your shoes slither across floors awash with urine, and you're lucky if you get out of there without a piece of #######-streaked paper stuck to your foot.

I could be even worse. In Ukraine and Russia they make you PAY to pee in a hole dug in the ground. And that IS at a bus stop. Also...at least there WAS toilet paper!

Russia had possibly the most disgusting public toilets I've ever seen, starting right at the border. I learned a lot on that trip...

I'll say this though - go to a public bathroom in a train station in Munich and they are mostly all scrupulously clean, compared to London, LA, and NYC where your shoes slither across floors awash with urine, and you're lucky if you get out of there without a piece of #######-streaked paper stuck to your foot.

Not surprising. Germans have this thing with being fastidiously clean. When I lived there, it was required that we sweep the sidewalks for pedestrian use. Want to really see what I'm talkin about? just drive across the border into France... like night n day different

Something else I noticed was that all the bowls are designed differently - they have a shelf at the bottom where you can examine the "output" before you pull the chain.

Jaques Derrida wrote an essay on this, comparing German, French, and American attitudes to toilets and excrement. He also argued the shelf in German toilets was for the purpose of examination.

[Mirorgate 0]

I'll say this though - go to a public bathroom in a train station in Munich and they are mostly all scrupulously clean, compared to London, LA, and NYC where your shoes slither across floors awash with urine, and you're lucky if you get out of there without a piece of #######-streaked paper stuck to your foot.

Not surprising. Germans have this thing with being fastidiously clean. When I lived there, it was required that we sweep the sidewalks for pedestrian use. Want to really see what I'm talkin about? just drive across the border into France... like night n day different

Something else I noticed was that all the bowls are designed differently - they have a shelf at the bottom where you can examine the "output" before you pull the chain.

Water conservation technique. really... who wants to stare at a stool??

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I've never been to Russia but I wonder how they compare with China? I have never been more disgusted in my life.

[ieldanth 0]

I'll say this though - go to a public bathroom in a train station in Munich and they are mostly all scrupulously clean, compared to London, LA, and NYC where your shoes slither across floors awash with urine, and you're lucky if you get out of there without a piece of #######-streaked paper stuck to your foot.

Not surprising. Germans have this thing with being fastidiously clean. When I lived there, it was required that we sweep the sidewalks for pedestrian use. Want to really see what I'm talkin about? just drive across the border into France... like night n day different

Something else I noticed was that all the bowls are designed differently - they have a shelf at the bottom where you can examine the "output" before you pull the chain.

Water conservation technique. really... who wants to stare at a stool??

Checking for blood?

They may have adopted this rule after having to repeatedly clean up where some boys inevitably peed all over everything. I can't count the number of times I have gone into a stall and it looked like a fire hose had busted in it.

[sparkofcreation 0]

What is with some men? Honestly. I've lived with three men in my life (father, ex-boyfriend, and husband) and lived in a dorm with co-ed bathrooms and had a job with co-ed staff bathrooms, and never, ever, ever has there been urine anywhere on or around the toilet when I've gone to use it. Why is everyone assuming that pissing all over the floor and walls is a given?

Also, the rule in my house (both where I live now, and growing up) has always been that you have to *close the toilet*. Not just put the seat down, but close the lid. Partly so the cats/dogs don't get into it, but mostly because ... who wants to look at the inside of a toilet? Which means that I've also never in my life had the experience of sitting down on the edge of a toilet and "falling in" because the seat was up. Because the toilet is closed and the person who wants to use it has to open it. Period.

[gugu24 0]

What is with some men? Honestly. I've lived with three men in my life (father, ex-boyfriend, and husband) and lived in a dorm with co-ed bathrooms and had a job with co-ed staff bathrooms, and never, ever, ever has there been urine anywhere on or around the toilet when I've gone to use it. Why is everyone assuming that pissing all over the floor and walls is a given?

Also, the rule in my house (both where I live now, and growing up) has always been that you have to *close the toilet*. Not just put the seat down, but close the lid. Partly so the cats/dogs don't get into it, but mostly because ... who wants to look at the inside of a toilet? Which means that I've also never in my life had the experience of sitting down on the edge of a toilet and "falling in" because the seat was up. Because the toilet is closed and the person who wants to use it has to open it. Period.

lol would that be before or after using it?

I grew up scared of toilets and if i had to face a closed lid toilet before using it I'd probably have been afraid to look at what could be waiting inside that could jump up and get me lol.

for the record..no longer spooked by them, though it seems most toilets in USA love to flood over the slightest bit a heft dropped within. Never use a toilet there if there isnt a plunger nearby. uuh and no i dont drop whale turds.

Edited September 28, 2006 by gugu24

[Scott & Lai 12]

Worst place I ever went to was a truck stop bathroom in the desert between Barstow, CA and Las Vegas. It had a little saloon door, which opened onto a toilet that looked like it had recently come into contact with a bad case of food poisoning. Suffice to say, there was a terrible mess. Made me gag just standing in there (luckily that's all I needed).

Unfortunately while I was in there, I saw a guy's feet appear on the other side of the door - he was waiting for me to finish, which made me paranoid that he'd assume that I was responsible for the mess. So when I came out of there I had to apologise to this huge trucker and explain that it wasn't me whose guts exploded.

Didn't seem to bother him any, he grabbed a filthy mop near the sink, brushed the mess and sat down anyway. That really made my bile rise.

I think I was in the same place this past Memorial Day. One of the urinals had a....log....in it

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Worst place I ever went to was a truck stop bathroom in the desert between Barstow, CA and Las Vegas. It had a little saloon door, which opened onto a toilet that looked like it had recently come into contact with a bad case of food poisoning. Suffice to say, there was a terrible mess. Made me gag just standing in there (luckily that's all I needed).

Unfortunately while I was in there, I saw a guy's feet appear on the other side of the door - he was waiting for me to finish, which made me paranoid that he'd assume that I was responsible for the mess. So when I came out of there I had to apologise to this huge trucker and explain that it wasn't me whose guts exploded.

Didn't seem to bother him any, he grabbed a filthy mop near the sink, brushed the mess and sat down anyway. That really made my bile rise.

I think I was in the same place this past Memorial Day. One of the urinals had a....log....in it

Indeed. Makes you wonder how much worse the stall must have been...

[AnaAndDaniel 0]

Worst place I ever went to was a truck stop bathroom in the desert between Barstow, CA and Las Vegas. It had a little saloon door, which opened onto a toilet that looked like it had recently come into contact with a bad case of food poisoning. Suffice to say, there was a terrible mess. Made me gag just standing in there (luckily that's all I needed).

Unfortunately while I was in there, I saw a guy's feet appear on the other side of the door - he was waiting for me to finish, which made me paranoid that he'd assume that I was responsible for the mess. So when I came out of there I had to apologise to this huge trucker and explain that it wasn't me whose guts exploded.

Didn't seem to bother him any, he grabbed a filthy mop near the sink, brushed the mess and sat down anyway. That really made my bile rise.

I think I was in the same place this past Memorial Day. One of the urinals had a....log....in it

Indeed. Makes you wonder how much worse the stall must have been...

oh man... just hate that!

Daniel

:energetic:

[Joel Halfwassen 0]

What is with some men? Honestly. I've lived with three men in my life (father, ex-boyfriend, and husband) and lived in a dorm with co-ed bathrooms and had a job with co-ed staff bathrooms, and never, ever, ever has there been urine anywhere on or around the toilet when I've gone to use it. Why is everyone assuming that pissing all over the floor and walls is a given?

Also, the rule in my house (both where I live now, and growing up) has always been that you have to *close the toilet*. Not just put the seat down, but close the lid. Partly so the cats/dogs don't get into it, but mostly because ... who wants to look at the inside of a toilet? Which means that I've also never in my life had the experience of sitting down on the edge of a toilet and "falling in" because the seat was up. Because the toilet is closed and the person who wants to use it has to open it. Period.

Yeah...I have a rule in my house. If I have to put it down then she has to put it up! So I always make sure the lid is down too.

And it is amazing to see how many women don't like that. "Why can't you just leave the lid up, it is such a pain to have to do one more step."

Joel

[homesick_american 1]

I grew up with a brother and I'm married, so I know all about scrubbing aerosolized pee off bathroom surfaces. MY life would be much easier if my husband would sit down because as good as his aim is, pee will inevitably get everywhere. Happens in every bathroom where men stand up to piss.

'Standing up to pee' is not a human right. Peeing is a human right. I don't think the position matters, and that Norwegian guy is a sexist jerk.

Makes you wonder how they enforce that - do they have camera's in the bathrooms? Do teacher's act as "toilet police" and go from cubicle to cubicle looking over the door? (Can imagine that causing no shortage of uproar).

Still… and no-one has pointed this out yet. But isn't urine sterile...? After all... missing with a #2 is a little bit different - and a lot worse to clean up

If someone has an infection, then no...urine isn't sterile. It's a ###### to clean up, and it stinks. I say make 'em sit.

[Ban Hammer 13,283]

I grew up with a brother and I'm married, so I know all about scrubbing aerosolized pee off bathroom surfaces. MY life would be much easier if my husband would sit down because as good as his aim is, pee will inevitably get everywhere. Happens in every bathroom where men stand up to piss.

'Standing up to pee' is not a human right. Peeing is a human right. I don't think the position matters, and that Norwegian guy is a sexist jerk.

Makes you wonder how they enforce that - do they have camera's in the bathrooms? Do teacher's act as "toilet police" and go from cubicle to cubicle looking over the door? (Can imagine that causing no shortage of uproar).

Still… and no-one has pointed this out yet. But isn't urine sterile...? After all... missing with a #2 is a little bit different - and a lot worse to clean up

If someone has an infection, then no...urine isn't sterile. It's a ###### to clean up, and it stinks. I say make 'em sit.

women should stand up for their rights too!