August 19, 2004

Stehpinkeln

Rachel posts about a new device being marketed in Europe that yells at men when the try to lift the toilet seat to pee. Rachel is right in all of her criticisms; she just misses the one obvious way for men to defeat the device. Simply piss with the seat down! That way your wife/significant other doesn't have to worry about falling into the toilet because the seat is up, instead they just have to worry about sitting on a piss soaked seat. Assuming she doesn't file for divorce, I'd be willing to bet any women with half a brain would simply give up and remove the stupid device. And any women with more than half a brain would learn to check the seat before she sits down. How hard is that anyway? Why is the toilet seat issue an issue?

I mean really. The crux of this issue is that women don't want to come into the bathroom and sit down only to find that the seat was up. And they blame men for forgetting to put the seat down. Men, on the other hand, do 1 of 2 things with the toilet. One allows for them to stand and most civilized men have learned to check the seat and raise it prior to letting go. The other actually requires the man to sit down, and due to some weird genetic anomaly, most men have learned to check the seat before they sit down. So, to recap, when a man goes to the bathroom, he either; 1) raises the seat to piss, or, 2) checks the seat prior to sitting down. In both instances the man checks (as in touches and/or moves) the seat. Women, on the other hand, have never learned to check the seat.

And because of this, a company named Patentwert has sold 1.8 million devices in German supermarkets.

Serenity has offered a different (and cheaper) alternative.

(This poster, when not in a hurry, actually prefers to sit when at home. It is after all his bathroom and he know how clean & safe it is. It also allows this poster to catch up on his reading. And write about himself in third person. Something he rarely does.)

Posted by Clancy at August 19, 2004 2:09 PM
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You're a sitzpinkler?

I never would have guessed.

Posted by: Jim at August 20, 2004 10:05 AM

Only at home...

Posted by: Clancy at August 20, 2004 11:47 AM

I've always wondered why women can't just check the toilet to make sure the toilet seat is down. I mean, the expectation is that the man is supposed to make sure they lower it after use, but no one ever asks what genetic anomaly prevents females from putting the toilet seat down before use.

If women want equality, I suggest we start small and ask them to be self-sufficient in the bathroom. Once they prove they can handle putting the toilet seat down themselves, we can move on to bigger things... like disposing of dead bugs. ;)

Posted by: E! at August 20, 2004 3:58 PM

My sister the former Marine Gunny assures me she can stehpinkeln. She says that the Marine Corps teaches all it's BAM's to do that. I wasn't interested in a demonstration, so I just took her word for it. After all, would a gunny lie?

Posted by: stehpinkeln at September 7, 2004 12:44 AM