Standing or sitting?

I had a postcard stuck on the wall by the loo when we used to host foreign students

IF YOU SPRINKLE
WHEN YOU TINCKLE
BE A SWEETIE AND
WIPE THE SEATIE

didn't always work, and I remember the unpleasant take given to OH to have a serious talk about WC manners with one f the boys, twice- until things improved.

It's not their skirts staying dry that I was thinking about...

One of our installation engineers once came home from a trip to Nigeria, and said that the women stand up too over there. In the middle of the street, with their skirts hitched up to keep them dry.

Love that Ariadne, would have copied it and stuck it on the loo wall when I had young and messy boys in the house

Heartfelt, Ariadne!

A poem on the subject - somewhat plagiarised because I couldn't find the one I wanted!

Why so men pee on the floor,
Walls and cistern and the door?
don't they know the mess it makes,
Those nasty, smelly, little lakes?

Why can't they point it straight and true
And make it do what is should do?
But no, they even pee hands free
Which means the floor is like a sea.

The yukkiest thing for me to see
Is a bathroom floor all full of pee.
Why can't they make it in the bowl?
Don't they see there is a hole?

Out in the woods, they think it's cute
to see how far a man can "shoot."
But in the house, it's plain to see
there is a bowl in which you pee!

(It's usually white and kinda round
you hit the water, not the ground.)
Why can't they make it in the bowl?
Is it a problem with control?

I meant always have a mixture of both- Anno, sorry. Some aires only have the arab toilet- but some have both.

My DDs will pee in front of anyone! They let it all hang out!

Not 'always', granjura. In recent years, I have found a number of perfectly modern toilets in 'aires' on French motorways.

The poll placed on the expat Forum here shows about 50/50 split of sitters and standers- but I think it has been rigged and is not representative.
However, I found out yesterday that Muslim men are instructed by an hadith to squat to pee for modesty reasons- rather than 'flount'- which I suppose translates as sitting in modern Europe. Another reason why Motorway and public toilets in FRance always have (and at times only have) the arab toilet in the floor, which is truly hate.

Isn't it strange that men quite happily pee in company while us girls, who are totally blasé about having our bits and pieces looked at by all and sundry throughout life, generally choose to pee in private

He stands during the day and sits during the night.

Here's one for the boys for a bit of fun - put the bathroom scales by the loo, stand on them and watch your weight go down as you pee! Caused a riot of laughter when OH and friend tried this (many years ago!) - us girls were downstairs wondering what the heck was going on!

Mr. hjj cleans them on my days off. He must need new specs!!! Or is it a man thing.

I shall have to sit down for a while and think about where I stand on this one.

To put a technical angle on the matter, perhaps it's a good question for those still using the X'P' operating 'cistern'.

I used to put a ping pong ball in the loo to give the boys (both big and small!) something to aim at. It doesn't flush away and can happily stay there all the time. Certainly stops most of the splashing and makes them concentrate on what they're doing.

TMI .........yuck!

Well, that went well. Really

hilda - Respect. *Really^

Eeeeuuuurghhhh!

I wish I hadn't read that.

If I'm dressed I stand, but if I get up in the night I'll sit so that I don't need to switch the light on. Re: urinals, it's not until you use one wearing shorts that you realise just how much splash back there is.

They all stand!

In my current job I clean the men's washroom. They have 2 urinals. They must have terrible aim as I usually have to wash the walls at either side.

I've got a feeling he sits sometimes. Lazy b-----.

Usually stands though.

Stand and aim straight and learn where the toilet wipes are kept.

Stand of course :-)