Left Party wants men to pee sitting down
Published: 11 Jun 12 07:10 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/41358/20120611/
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.
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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).
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Ever notice how career-climbing Swedish women talk so far back in their throat that their voice cracks? I guess they think it makes them sound more like men, more serious. I have to smile at all of this, but the effect of the anti.male movement in Sweden is having devastating effects on young males. Maybe I need to re-read Huxley, although--at least here--I don't see too much "brave" in this new Swedish world vision.
Finally, this can't been from "the Left", rather by a bunch of ill-guided male-hating gender-ashamed "women".
But this of course only illustrates the obvious. Think how disgusting it is for women to have to sit on a public toilet after many men have peed on the floor, the rim of the toilet, and the seat.
The answer is obvious. Instead of forcing men to sit to pee, just install urinals in all public toilets. I'm amazed that though gas stations in the U.S. typically have the choice of both urinal and toilet, the bathrooms in Sweden are usually only outfitted with a stool.
Man in Sörmland are now required to cut their dicks so that they can urinate while sitting on the seat!
What the proposal requests is quite reasonable. It asks men to consider sitting down. However, the Local makes sure to spin it as a sexual controversy.
It first tries to lay out the benefits of sitting down. Then offers a compromise - toilets labeled stand-only can be used for standing while the rest are for sitting.
I proposed a similar solution at the school I taught in because the boys that used the communal toilets couldn't care less. Having the school install urinal was not possible because of the costs. Compare renovation costs to that of a simple sign and policy change.
So, yes, you can let go of your balls or your spouse's balls. Sweden isn't out to get them.
The correct term is misandry, the hatred of men, not misogyny.
This is probably the most pointless law ever. But then again, it's the exact type of thing you'd expect from the Left Party.
Women want equality on everything but physically and emotionally, they are just very different from men.
Yes, a simple sign that costs 70 Kronor and results in 0 % compliance versus adding a urinal that costs thousands of kronor and results in more than 95 % compliance.
What's the point in having a sign if no one follows its directions? As I said before, I pee sitting down when at home with empathy for my wife, but in public, when fifty other men before me have peed on the seat, floor, walls, rim, and handle, I'm not sitting down.
Of course, one could add a bunch of cameras in the restrooms and catch the perpetrators who don't follow the sign. The cost of the cameras would probably equal that of adding a urinal, except with obvious privacy implications.
Us guys like a clean cold seat for our leisurely poo, we don't want a warm seat in a shared toilet where you have to listen to woman cackle on about their make up.
http://www.southparkstudios.se/full-episodes/s16e01-reverse-cowgirl
By health reasoning then, the Left Party should advocate that ALL toilets (except handicap/reduced/altered ability facilities) be removed, and ALL people should instead squat over a hole in the floor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defecation_posture
Why didn't they propose that women should pee standing up?
What a load of poo!
23 000 SEK for female-ONLY private swimming lessons. The women/girls refuse to learn to swim where men/boys are present, so they have demanded that tax payers pay for their private swimming lessons (?!?) in which men/boys are not allowed to participate or be near.
If public toilets aren't segregated, why are public pools?? Talk about entitlement and ZERO personal responsibility!
Be like dad, not like sis,
Raise the lid before you p....
Yet again another proof that noone wants to restrict human freedom more than those who constantly preach about it. Poisonous minds.
I bet you're the kind of people who wear tinfoil hats to block the feminists mind control rays and see lesbian extremists lurking in every corner, scalpel in hand ready to emasculate you.
(Thats the headline I'm waiting for)
And what about target control? Or do they just whip it out and let go LOL
They are really trying to sell it, aren't they. hahaha
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/30/383106713_c9e09e8c4c_z.jpg
In Chicago, many public bathrooms now have signs in English and Spanish begging people not to defecate in the urinals. Seems like a pretty stupid thing to do since there is no toilet paper there, but apparently it's happening (lines are shorter)..
The world is getting messy.
I think the Left just wants an excuse to put cameras in the stalls.
@Rebel:
Hilary Clinton does stand to urinate - on three legs.
The full correct Muslim toilet etiquette involves entering left foot first, asking Allah for his protection from the evil lurking within (evil jinn inhabit toilets). Do not look at the waste passed from the body and leave right foot first thanking Allah for his protection.
Interesting claim which certainly DOES NOT agree with my own personal findings.
Sounds like more of the Left's junk research. GI,GO. (garbage in, garbage out)
ohh ...dude... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
I married a man I met there, and he has peed sitting down for his entire life. We have taught our son to do this too, He will also use TP instead of letting the drops of urine stain his clothes. It just makes sense. It's cleaner all around. We don't live outdoors, after all...and it's us women that end up doing all the cleaning!