Earlier this week I was left surprised and confused when it came out in the end of day locker room banter that the guys I work with prefer to sit down to piss. I am nearer to 60 than 50 and they are mostly early 30s', turns out on further questioning they like the opportunity to have a sit down, use their phones, don't need to put the light in the night and it makes less mess. I was left reeling by this and can only assume it is a generational thing, I would never sit down to pee (though I'm sure my wife would prefer me to) unless incapacitated in some way. Is this normal behaviour by the younger generation, I suspect it's primarily an excuse to allow them to check on their various social media accounts.
Unheard of mate. They were messing with you, seeing what the arl fella thought of effete millenials pissing in a sedentary position..
The Germans have a word for it. Sitzspinkler, or something like that.
Sitting to use the en suite in the miidle of the night so I don't have to switch the light on (or break the seal on my eyes) makes sense. The rest of the time, stand. Possibly most of my peeing is don't without a toilet anyway. The perks of working outdoors.
I often do, given the option
presumably during your life you have used a urinal while wearing shorts ?
pissy trousers isn't a great attraction for me, unless it's the name of my second album
also, yeah, if the kids are in bed I'm not after making a load of noise (not such an issue now but when they were younger, yep)
I would never sit down to pee (though I’m sure my wife would prefer me to)
Appropriate OP name of the day!
You must be terribly conflicted when you sit down for a poo, and a bit of pee arrives as well.
in the middle of the night, i would find it impossible to sit down to pee.
i am quite 'proud' when i pee in the night............ ;o)
i am quite ‘proud’ when i pee in the night………… ;o)
Me too. If I manage it five times in a row I get a lolly and a 'brave boy' sticker.
I'm 61 and yes I also sit down to pee..certainly at home and while visiting friends & family ..why wouldn't you ?..
I haven't always done this ..but it certainly makes a lot less mess .
I also avoid urinals as much as I possibly can ..due to the splashback of piss going onto your trousers ..not a good look if you are wearing light coloured pants ..and when out in a pub always piss down the toilet ( I wouldn't sit down in this environment !) ..
42 yrs old and 9 times out of ten I sit down. Nice bit of chill time. In public loo’s I get some privacy and I avoid the whole splash back-pissy-pants situation.
At night in the en-suite, absolutely, but any other time and its my preference.
Urinals are pretty bad but nothing compares to the horror that is a latrine. How in all that is holy are these still in existence?
disclaimer, when I’m on the trails riding or running I prefer to stand up!
Just how messy are you guys? You don't have to aim the stream straight at the back of the urinal or noisily into the centre of the pan. Tangentially does it.
It all depends, during the night it avoids the risk of making a mess in the dark, at 3-4am it’s just so much easier. At other times, it’s just nice to have an excuse for a sit down for five minutes.
If you're properly manly you'll sit to take a number two yet hold the number one, then stand for the finale with the secondary hand held on the Wrangler jeans front-pocket with a slightly hooked thumb.
Good God no. I couldn't hold a number one whilst taking a number two. That's unnatural.
A guy at work pees in a cubicle, standing up, with the door open, even if all the urinals are free.
Truly untrustworthy of character.
I'm doing it right now 🙂
Stand to pee if it's a urinal, sit down if it's a pan but this is mainly because what normally happens if I try to stand at a pan to pee I get 2 streams of urine 90 degrees apart leaving me with a clean up job.
A guy at work pees in a cubicle, standing up, with the door open, even if all the urinals are free.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">There's quite a few of those types at our place, which I wouldn't mind so much if all of them lifted the seat beforehand.</span>
Me, at home, the dear wife not only prefers me to sit, she insists. 😕
Edit, I'm nearer 60 than 50, too.
Edit again, it's not fond of any editing yet, is it?
If I’m not in a public lav, I sit down to piss. I’m 33, and I never miss an opportunity for a sit down.
if I try to stand at a pan to pee I get 2 streams of urine 90 degrees apart leaving me with a clean up job.
But not if you point it at a urinal? Odd.
Nothing wrong with sitting down to pee, I often do it when bake’in...
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/so-tragic-baking-cakes-for-work/
Good topic.
I also avoid urinals as much as I possibly can ..due to the splash-back of piss going onto your trousers
Very much that. Urinals are just badly designed piss-splashers. Ridiculous.
Hotels - wee in the pan standing up, or a shrub.
At home - sink, obviously.
Sitting down to talk a wee? Well I am honestly confused...
I would happily sit down to pee, but the end of my willy dangles in the water. 😉
47 yrs old and when not in some horrible shitty public toilet I always sit down.
At home it gives me time to thumb through some reading material. Usually quite boring: First Aid, Navigation, Mountain Craft, read the news on iPad etc, oh, the latest issue of Singletrack obv.
Why not take some time to relax?
But not if you point it at a urinal? Odd.
I can usually get close enough to a urinal to catch both streams. I just need to be careful not to pee on the person standing next to me 😆
Always sit down at night, saves me having to open my eyes.
I'll bet that Dr. Nira Cain-NDegeocello character from Who Is America sits down to pee.
A self-described "self-hating white male," Cohen's Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello is depicted as a professor of gender and women's studies at Reed College.
No manly man would ever do such a thing unless he lost his legs in combat or something, even then he'd try his best to stand.
Water cold?
Yes, it's deep too.
Let’s face it, toilet bowls just aren’t designed for males to stand while peeing, are they? Most of my posh friends here have extra urinals in their guest toilet. A lot of my other friends who don’t have a urinal have a sign hanging up instructing you to Sitzpinkel.
If I’m not in a public lav, I sit down to piss. I’m 33, and I never miss an opportunity for a sit down.
I’m with Tom on this, not literally though, that’d be just plain weird. 41 with two young kids, so any excuse to sit down (hide) for a few minutes is cherished.
Occasionally as a wee treat to myself
Sit down at night as I can stumble in, sit down, pass water and wander back to bed without really opening my eyes or properly waking up.
Daylight hours - standing, unless some bedroom action has occurred the night before - for some reason this has a spectacular effect on fluid dynamics. Mind you, I may sit down more now that I know it's a thing...
there is a condition that can cause you to collapse if you go to the loo during the night (a friend of mine suffered it once), something to do with blood pressure dropping I think*, on that basis I choose to sit at night.
* advice is to shake your legs out before standing upright from the bed.
Late 30s here, never sit down for a pee unless I'm dropping the kids off.
A mate at uni told be about his sitting to pee at ''safe" toilets . I truly thought him odd then as soon as I became a dad (30) and had kids crawling about on the bathroom floor with grey floor tile that showed splash residue, I immediately joined the club.
I do still enjoy the opportunity to stand and pee elsewhere on "unsafe" toilets and find nothing more enlightening that peeing off a really high cliff.
Sitting at home though, absolutely, the less the floor/rim etc needs cleaning the better!
Well here's a turnup for the books. Just went for a wee, turned on the light and the bulb went phut. So there I am in the dark. What to do? Sit down like a girl or risk spraying all around the bowl and its environs? Luckily, unlike you powerfully built youngsters, my wee dribbles vertically, so having some considerable previous knowledge built up over the years, I was fairly confident I could hit the water. Come tomorrow in daylight, I may find I was wrong.
Ah but who else here stands up to shit?
I favour the crane technique, like off of the Karate Kid.
I am quite disturbed by the content on this thread!
But this is what I was just about to ask:
Ah but who else here stands up to shit?
😀
HRH Prince Albert put paid to me standing up (with the exception of urinals and toilets of people I don't like)
I have pretty much always chosen to sit down, especially as the dangers of splashbacks seem to be increased with height (I am 189cm).
I wouldn’t dare go standing up when we visit the in-laws in the Netherlands as they all have “lay and display” toilets.
And I wouldn’t dream of sitting down in a French Aire... even (especially) if it was in total darkness.
Surely nobody goes to the toilet with less than 75% battery these days? Always sit or stand into a public toilet. Don’t use urinals because the spray back onto trousers has to be sen to be believed.
Sit at night so no light needed.
Sit down for a wee, that just isn't even on my radar.
Preferred method is into the compost in the garden. If that is not available then into the lavvy. At night, even with the lights off I have an accurate aim. I'm usually a dead-eye dick, as it were. If things start to wander I can listen out for the change in timbre resultant from the urine stream- porcelaine interface and adjust the trajectory accordingly.
"HRH Prince Albert put paid to me standing up (with the exception of urinals and toilets of people I don’t like)"
Bit of shoe goo'll sort that
At night time without pulling the light cord i find it easier to piss in the bath as there's zero chance of missing
At night time without pulling the light cord i find it easier to piss in the bath as there’s zero chance of missing
Surely that makes the coal damp?
