German men pee sitting down?

[bwv 1080]

Explains alot according to this Baptist preacher, as he exegetes on Samuel 25:22 in the KJV

So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.



http://www.youtube.com/v/SDxcyqeRc-4

[Lethevich]

If only he was inspired by that Curb Your Enthusiasm episode... sadly, it doesn't seem so.

[Josquin des Prez]

Ridiculous, but he's right on two accounts:

1) All the new editions of the bible are a travesty.

2) Europeans are emasculating themselves into redundancy and Americans are following suit.

[bwv 1080]

This is funny, apparantly the preacher is right:

German men told they can no longer stand and deliver
By Kate Connolly
Last Updated: 7:25pm BST 17/08/2004

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/18/wpinkl18.xml

German men are being shamed into urinating while sitting down by a gadget which is saving millions of women from cleaning up in the bathroom after them.

The WC ghost, a £6 voice-alarm, reprimands men for standing at the lavatory pan. It is triggered when the seat is lifted. The battery-operated devices are attached to the seats and deliver stern warnings to those who attempt to stand and urinate (known as "Stehpinkeln").

"Hey, stand-peeing is not allowed here and will be punished with fines, so if you don't want any trouble, you'd best sit down," one of the devices orders in a voice impersonating the German leader, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. Another has a voice similar to that of his predecessor, Helmut Kohl.

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The manufacturers of the WC ghost, Patentwert, say they are ready to direct their gadgets at the British market.

Their prototype English-speaking WC ghost says in an American drawl: "Don't you go wetting this floor cowboy, you never know who's behind you. So sit down, get your water pistol in the bowl where it belongs. Ha, ha, ha."

They also plan to copy the voices of Tony Blair and the Queen.

So far 1.8 million WC ghosts have been sold in German supermarkets.

But Klaus Schwerma, author of Standing Urinators: The Last Bastion of Masculinity? doubts whether it will ever be possible to convert all men.

"Many insist on standing, even though it leads to much marital strife," he said.

In German, the phrase for someone who sits and urinates, a "Sitzpinkler", is equivalent to "wimp".

[Sergeant Rock]

So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

So I assume the good preacher will be splashing the walls of his German hosts' bathrooms rather than using the toilet. I bet he won't be invited back a second time. 

Sarge

[Ephemerid]

Men can't always aim real good (and sometimes it doesn "shoot straight" anyway), plus the toilet water does splatter.  I always make a point of wiping up the rim with toilet paper-- it is pretty gross otherwise.  I've seen some pretty disgusting public restrooms & that's usually the main cause. 

[Josquin des Prez]

^ I believe that's why god gave us the urinal. Apparently, Europeans just aren't enlightened enough to make use of this device and have to resort to making themselves look silly towards the rest of the world.

[Brian]

Their prototype English-speaking WC ghost says in an American drawl: "Don't you go wetting this floor cowboy, you never know who's behind you. So sit down, get your water pistol in the bowl where it belongs. Ha, ha, ha."

Good to know foreign nations think that highly of America.

Standing Urinators: The Last Bastion of Masculinity?

Well, there's always anatomy. And acting stoic in public.

[Brian]

[Ephemerid]

^ I believe that's why god gave us the urinal. Apparently, Europeans just aren't enlightened enough to make use of this device and have to resort to making themselves look silly towards the rest of the world.

I've seen many disgusting urinals too. 

Good to know foreign nations think that highly of America.

I wonder if they use a George W. Bush voice for that one... LOL

[Sergeant Rock]

^ I believe that's why god gave us the urinal. Apparently, Europeans just aren't enlightened enough to make use of this device and have to resort to making themselves look silly towards the rest of the world.

To bring a little sanity to this discussioin:

1) Europeans have urinals in public restrooms.

2) The article is from 2004. I've lived in Germany since 1974, permanently since 1991, and I've never run into this alarm device. Even if they actually sold nearly 2 million units, that still leaves the vast majority of German households free of this allegedly emasculating gadget.

3) There is no current trend to turn European men into women...that happened long ago 

Sarge, American cowboy and proud 

[Brian]

3) There is no current trend to turn European men into women...that happened long ago 

Well played, sir. *golf clap*

[bwv 1080]

will only those who piss standing up (as no Bible-believing Christian would do otherwise) be raptured?  What will become of all those urinals during the reign of the anti-Christ?

[knight66]

It seems that all life passes through here; though I wonder if quite all life is such a great idea.

Mike

[Hollywood]

Here in Austria most of the toilets are these german "poo-shelf" toilets. Unfortunately the WC in our flat has one of these toilets and my Austrian husband has to pee sitting down. If he stands to wee it hits that shelf and then sprays upwards all over the place. So now my husband pees sitting down so there is no longer any mess to clean up. 



Here you can read more about the german "poo-shelf" toilet:
http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000212.html

[knight66]

It seems that all life passes through here; though I wonder if quite all life is such a great idea.

Mike

Like I said.

Mike

[Sergeant Rock]

Here in Austria most of the toilets are these german "poo-shelf" toilets.

Yes, that's a definite problem. In our home we've solved it by having a his and hers. Mrs. Rock's is the shelf type...mine is American style. That allows me to do my business as God intended. Neither my masculinity nor my soul is in danger.

Sarge

[springrite]

Kinda makes it hard to write your initials and then, attack the cigarette butt and to break it to pieces.

[Szykneij]

Yes, this is proof that:
"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

[prémont]

Men can't always aim real good

Well, if you retract the preputium sufficiently to uncover the external meatus urethrae, your exactitude may be substantially enhanced, even if it doesn´t turn you into a marksman at once. Only excercise may do that. If you are circumcised there isn´t much hope for you.

By the way, this is the most interesting and relevant thread I ever saw in this board. The starter certainly demonstrates, that he has got an eagles eye for the nooks and corners of the human culture.