August 18, 2004
WHAT A BUNCH OF MCGREEVEY'S (via Rick Turley):
German men told they can no longer stand and deliver (Kate Connolly, 18/08/2004, Daily Telegraph)
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.
And people question the Time Zone Rule? If there were any straight men left on the continent they'd use the sink. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 18, 2004 3:18 PM
I must be missing something. What is the downside to getting to piss into Gerhard Schroder's mouth?
Posted by: Brandon at August 18, 2004 3:41 PMNow, if they really wanted their men to listen, they would have used Marlene Dietrich's voice. Or Himmler's.
Posted by: jim hamlen at August 18, 2004 4:11 PMBringing to mind that wonderful German adjective 'sitzpinkler', literally one who pees sitting, used to describe girly-men, i.e. wimps.
Posted by: jd watson at August 18, 2004 4:36 PMTwice in a day....
What the H is the 'Time Zone Rule'?
Posted by: Andrew X at August 18, 2004 4:50 PMAndrew,
Orrin refuses to leave the eastern time zone, except when absolutely positively, really, really, really necessary.
(Which is why it's safe to say he wasn't the guy wearing the magic hat in Cambodia.)
Ed
Posted by: Ed Driscoll at August 18, 2004 5:14 PMAnd all along I'd been thinking that it was the German women who peed while standing up.
Posted by: MB at August 18, 2004 5:19 PMOnly female Olympians from the former East Germany.
Posted by: Chris Durnell at August 18, 2004 5:41 PMI know two couples here in Michigan who have never allowed their sons to stand when they pee at home. This is like manufacturing metrosexual Democrats. God save what's left of this great country and its remnant of stand-up peeing men.
Posted by: Jim Gooding at August 18, 2004 5:53 PMIf you're sitting down, how do you write your name in the snow?
Posted by: David Cohen at August 18, 2004 6:16 PMI was last im Deutschland in 1971. I went to brauhausen in Munchen. The only places they had to pee for the men were rooms with cement walls and a water pipe sprinkling over it. Nowhere to sit. I guess things have changed. I wonder what they do at they do at the Oktoberfest.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at August 18, 2004 6:35 PMActually, I think Michigan is in the Eastern time zone (except for Ann Arbor, which is on Peking time) -- or was that in reference to something else?
Posted by: Guy T. at August 18, 2004 8:35 PMOrrin, everything northeast of Pennsylvania is a Time Zone Violation of the human frickin' spirit.
Posted by: Jim Gooding at August 18, 2004 9:30 PM>Bringing to mind that wonderful German
>adjective 'sitzpinkler', literally one who pees
>sitting, used to describe girly-men, i.e. wimps.
Gets them in practice for when they're castrated and used to guard the harems of their successors the Faithful. Will they also need to get in practice for wearing the burqa?
Posted by: Ken at August 19, 2004 12:53 PM