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

[homesick_american 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.

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

Take the channel tunnel train from the UK to France sometime. France is so much tidier than the UK; makes the UK look like a landfill.

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.

Erica Jong made some similar comparisons in 'Fear of Flying.'

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!

I couldn't aim even if I wanted to, which is why I sit to pee. I wish my husband would do the same.

[ace13 0]

I'm a squatter. I think it is gross to sit on a public toilet--even WITH toilet paper. I am even one of those that will wait until I get home to do #2 because I don't want to sit. I have learned to squat and have very good aim. My husband is a sitter when he is tired and stands when he is in a hurry.

[homesick_american 1]

I'm a squatter. I think it is gross to sit on a public toilet--even WITH toilet paper. I am even one of those that will wait until I get home to do #2 because I don't want to sit. I have learned to squat and have very good aim. My husband is a sitter when he is tired and stands when he is in a hurry.

Not me...I inspect a public toilet seat before sitting on it but only because I don't want my ### to get wet. If the seat's wet I just wipe it off and sit down. I don't put reams of toilet paper on the seat before I do so either. I've never been sick because of it.

Not judging, just sharing.

[ace13 0]

I'm a squatter. I think it is gross to sit on a public toilet--even WITH toilet paper. I am even one of those that will wait until I get home to do #2 because I don't want to sit. I have learned to squat and have very good aim. My husband is a sitter when he is tired and stands when he is in a hurry.

Not me...I inspect a public toilet seat before sitting on it but only because I don't want my ### to get wet. If the seat's wet I just wipe it off and sit down. I don't put reams of toilet paper on the seat before I do so either. I've never been sick because of it.

Not judging, just sharing.

I can't do it. I picture all these asses on the seat and I can't bring myself to sit. It is hard to squat in an airplane-with all the turbulance

[Fischkoepfin 1]

I'm a squatter. I think it is gross to sit on a public toilet--even WITH toilet paper. I am even one of those that will wait until I get home to do #2 because I don't want to sit. I have learned to squat and have very good aim. My husband is a sitter when he is tired and stands when he is in a hurry.

Not me...I inspect a public toilet seat before sitting on it but only because I don't want my ### to get wet. If the seat's wet I just wipe it off and sit down. I don't put reams of toilet paper on the seat before I do so either. I've never been sick because of it.

Not judging, just sharing.

I can't do it. I picture all these asses on the seat and I can't bring myself to sit. It is hard to squat in an airplane-with all the turbulance

I used to squat until I though about it and realized that it was as unhygenic because of the back-splattering. Since then, I wipe off the toilet seat, ideally with disinfectant if provided. If I carried a purse, I'd probably even bring my own disinfectant.

[homesick_american 1]

I'm a squatter. I think it is gross to sit on a public toilet--even WITH toilet paper. I am even one of those that will wait until I get home to do #2 because I don't want to sit. I have learned to squat and have very good aim. My husband is a sitter when he is tired and stands when he is in a hurry.

Not me...I inspect a public toilet seat before sitting on it but only because I don't want my ### to get wet. If the seat's wet I just wipe it off and sit down. I don't put reams of toilet paper on the seat before I do so either. I've never been sick because of it.

Not judging, just sharing.

I can't do it. I picture all these asses on the seat and I can't bring myself to sit. It is hard to squat in an airplane-with all the turbulance

Well, don't think about it. I know, I know...easier said than done.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Perhaps women should carry around a plastic seat cover, or why not their very own replacement seat?

[homesick_american 1]

Perhaps women should carry around a plastic seat cover, or why not their very own replacement seat?

LOL...what do you think my purse is, a Tardis?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Perhaps women should carry around a plastic seat cover, or why not their very own replacement seat?

LOL...what do you think my purse is, a Tardis?

I'm sure they make em collapsible these days. I know - how about inflatable?

[homesick_american 1]

Perhaps women should carry around a plastic seat cover, or why not their very own replacement seat?

LOL...what do you think my purse is, a Tardis?

I'm sure they make em collapsible these days. I know - how about inflatable?

HAHAHA....if I were sufficiently motivated I suppose I could carry something, but I'm not a germophobe.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Perhaps women should carry around a plastic seat cover, or why not their very own replacement seat?

LOL...what do you think my purse is, a Tardis?

I'm sure they make em collapsible these days. I know - how about inflatable?

HAHAHA....if I were sufficiently motivated I suppose I could carry something, but I'm not a germophobe.

I can't see many women wanting to put their lips to an inflatable seat cover

[homesick_american 1]

I can't see many women wanting to put their lips to an inflatable seat cover

My sister-in-law probably would, she actually carries that antibacterial hand gel around with her. It's not at all insulting to have her squirt that ####### on her hands right after she's shaken my hand. Not insulting at all. Y'know, since I never wash my own hands.

[Ban Hammer 12,839]

I can't see many women wanting to put their lips to an inflatable seat cover

My sister-in-law probably would, she actually carries that antibacterial hand gel around with her. It's not at all insulting to have her squirt that ####### on her hands right after she's shaken my hand. Not insulting at all. Y'know, since I never wash my own hands.

you should mess with her - get some green food dye, put it on your hands, tell her that don't stop gangrene

[isleta521 5]

Put some ganGREEN on the toilet seat and see what happens.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

One word. Superglue...