September 19, 2004

It's not as though beer drinking weren't demanding enough on the bladder, there's a new German device which orders men to sit down before they pissen. It must be a humbling experience, given that the word for guys who sit while doing that is "Sitzpinkler", i.e., "wimp." "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. If nothing else it's a victory for German feminism.

posted by pyrrthon1 20 years ago
  • Yeah, that's not really going to help. If they don't like cleaning up after men, they should make the men do the cleaning. Otherwise, the men will retaliate against their wives by peeing in the shower. "Many insist on standing, even though it leads to much marital strife," indeed.
  • What the hell's wrong with using the sink/garden/empty beer bottle/Tottenham Court Road like a normal guy?
  • When I was an east-ender in training, I often hopped over Tottenham Court Road for the express purpose of darkening the brick.
  • ..."Sitzpinkler"... Sitz bath, OK, heard of that. But wot is this strange talk of pinkler? The eye that held a twinkle is now twinkler, The breath incredul;ous was expelled in a great roar Of laughter and I hurt my Sitzler when I fell on the floor. Only association I can grope toward is a cat or a kitten named Pinkle Purr in the deathless works (of A. A. Milne, I think). Name still grates upon my ear as it did when I was a wee one. Wee one...oh dear, oh dear...
  • cat or a kitten named Pinkle Purr in the deathless works (of A. A. Milne, I think) This was the same guy who wrote Winne the Pooh.
  • Probably best known as a playwright during his own lifetime, A. A. Milne is now better known, I think, for the Winnie the Pooh stories.
  • I will undertake to eat someone's missing socks if pinkler's been discussed before this thread.
  • I always insist that women raise the toliet seat when they're done, its only fair. However, making them call me Pinklerbashi is, I'll admit, a bit asinine.
  • Who says you have to sit down. If you don't want to hear that noise, just don't lift the seat. A more loving wife might just get her man a urinal so he doesn't have to feel like such a Nancy boy sitting down to pee.
  • Who's got a link to that German bar where they just strap you (guys) into stools and you (guys) just flop it out and piss into a trough running under the counter? Because that is very tasteful, and a great timesaver.
  • ...they just strap you (guys) into stools... *SO not going to Germany!*