Occasionally, you'll hear someone claiming how great life is in Scandinavia. They have great health care, great schools, and it's full of blonde-haired, blue-eyed beauties. Sounds great right?
However, they seem to be quite interested in telling you what you can and can't do. I always have an aversion to anyone telling me what to do, especially when it's "for my own good". However, this government edict in Sweden, goes too far:
However, they seem to be quite interested in telling you what you can and can't do. I always have an aversion to anyone telling me what to do, especially when it's "for my own good". However, this government edict in Sweden, goes too far:
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.
That's right. They want men to sit down when they pee.
According to the folks pushing this law, there are two "very important" for making the men in Sweden do something extremely emasculating, unnecessary, and personal. Even though this should be dismissed out of hand, let's at least hear the sissies out. Are you ready? Here is reason number one:
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.
Whoa! This is a little gross, but we're going to have serious discussion. First of all, where are the janitors? Being a janitor is a specific job here in America. You know, janitors: the cleaning crew that comes through buildings to clean the restrooms? They mob the floor, they refill the little towels, fill up the soap, and generally...clean the restrooms. Does this job not exist in Sweden? Also, where are the urinals? A urinal pretty much makes it impossible to leave a "puddle" and solves your problem right there. Also, maybe this could be accomplished with a little personal responsibility. You make a mess, you clean it up. It's not complicated.
We here at Permanent Press are all for bathroom cleanliness, and as a spokesmen for all men out there, I'm sure that we could all do a better job of bathroom hygiene. I freely admit that. However, a law, an actual law, with the coercive power of the government behind it, that requires men to sit down while peeing is beyond absurd.
Ok, so I think we can all agree that reason number one is not so great. Maybe reason number two is a humdinger. I really doubt it though, because if reason number two was so much better than reason number one, then reason number two would probably have moved into the position of reason number one. Everyone still with me? Anyway, let's have a look:
We here at Permanent Press are all for bathroom cleanliness, and as a spokesmen for all men out there, I'm sure that we could all do a better job of bathroom hygiene. I freely admit that. However, a law, an actual law, with the coercive power of the government behind it, that requires men to sit down while peeing is beyond absurd.
Ok, so I think we can all agree that reason number one is not so great. Maybe reason number two is a humdinger. I really doubt it though, because if reason number two was so much better than reason number one, then reason number two would probably have moved into the position of reason number one. Everyone still with me? Anyway, let's have a look:
The Left Party also cites medical research it claims shows that men empty their bladders more efficiently when they are seated.
Umm...really? I don't really want to speak for all men everywhere, but I'm pretty sure that after I finish, I'm empty. That's the point. It's also pretty efficient in any position. Someone let me know if they have a different experience. Maybe if you've got a medical problem it's a different deal, but that's not something that requires a law for all men to take a seat.
If the men of Sweden go along with this, they are doomed. Where's the Viking spirit that made Sweden great? They are descendents of men who pillaged all along the European coast and were feared and respected. This is the land of Beowulf. The were men.
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| I'm pretty sure that these guys didn't pee sitting down. |
And it's come to this? If the men of Sweden go along with this, I hope their Viking ancestors come back to haunt them. Some busybody regulator is taking away their personal bathroom freedoms: they have to fight this.
On the list of emasculating things, being forced to sit down while peeing is got to be in the top five. I can't come up with a comprehensive list, but it's got to be up there. Any women out there want to date a guy who pees sitting down? I don't think so.
Men of Sweden: Don't take this sitting down. Better to die on your feet than live on a seat.
[H/T: @Maetenloch]
this is amazing...I'm gobsmacked.
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ReplyDeleteI am actually pro men sitting down while they pee. It is pretty common here in Norway and Europe that men sit down while they pee. It is more hygenic and it shows respect for the next person comming to use the toilet. Not to mention it reduces the costs for janitors. And if you associate masculinity with the way men pee maybe you should know women judge masculinity in a different way.
ReplyDeleteI am in total agreement with you Elisabeta, women are well our way in re-defining "manliness" in countries like Japan, Holland, France, Europe and Germany ( and eventually Canada and the U.S.) males are learning just powerful the female gender is. We females are methodically usurping male power each and every day, do males not believe the statistics show how females are passing over them, in education, jobs, economic buying power, more female businesses, political power, and the list goes on and on !! and now we are telling you males " drop your trousers and sit !) ...now that's a good boy...I'll get you a doggy treat when you're done ! as we women continue to advance over males in society, making males sit and pee is only the beginning to domesticating them. Each year more and more males are becoming househusbands, while their wives are becoming the new "breadwinners" and "head of household" Oh yes male ! all of you "will" eventually sit and pee as dictated by the ever increasing female empowerment of society. So you guys are asking yourselves, what next ? check out the men's fashion show and styles for 2014....you are really going to like what the leading women fashion designers and their styles created for men to wear ! hint, hint, guess who's the bitch now ?
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ReplyDeleteMaybe you should go help your economy; so that hiring a janitor to clean up piss in your country isn't THAT big of a deal?
I piss were and how i want to BEOTCH. And that's the way its gonna stay you dirty feminists.
I have to agree with both reasons...walking into a mens room in this country is disgusting and most of the men posting here know it if they go out at all. Hell, even at the symphony it's apparent men can't find the place to put it. I've been sitting for years and there is no problem with it, you don't lose anything by being polite....except the lingering odor of 'toilet' when you get back to your date.
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