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08-03-2004, 05:44 PM
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Guys: is sitting too pee weird?
My son is finishing up his 30-day jail sentence, and we visited him yesterday. A lot of new prisoners have been brought in, and he now has a roommate, an older married guy my son says is "weird". Being a concerned mom, I asked him how this guy is weird, and he said, "Because he sits down to pee, every time, and he wipes."
Being a girl, this doesn't seem weird to me. I said, "That's not weird, your dad used to do that when he had to sit for a while. Maybe the guy is just modest, there in a cell with you." "No, Mom, he sits down every time he pees, even if he's not taking a dump. He's weird." My daughter laughed and said "You have to sit down to pee if you've got a hard-on," and my son gave her a dirty look and said that wasn't it. And since the guy wipes instead of shakes, he is doubly weird. So we spent a few lively minutes discussing what combination of mothering or wifely nagging has brought this poor man to this state. My son says he's older (which means over 35) but not elderly. So guys, is it really weird to always sit instead of stand? (I still think it's a modesty thing in jail.) And how about the wiping? 
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#2
08-03-2004, 05:46 PM
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And if someone could teach me to proofread the title line, I'd appreciate that too.
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#4
08-03-2004, 05:53 PM
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It wouldn't help. In most cases it'd put your penis in close range of the bowl itself, or worse still, in the water. If he's a middle-manager sorta guy in for skimming company money or drug possession charges, it could easily be modesty as you suggested.
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08-03-2004, 05:58 PM
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08-03-2004, 06:33 PM
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Yeah, that's wierd. And sitting to pee with a hard-on doesn't make any sense. I'm not hugely endowed or anything, but if I sit on a toilet with a stiffy, I can't fit the damn thing into the bowl. Wiping afterwards is pretty unusual, too.
However, this puts me in mind of something else I've seen. There was an episode of The Chapelle Show, that was a spoof on The Real World, except that instead of having a bunch of completely insane white people with one token normal black guy, it was a bunch of completely insane black people with one token normal white guy. The white guy ended up having to room with an ex-con, who told him in no uncertain terms that he was to sit down when he peed from now on. I interpreted this as the con making the white guy his "bitch." Maybe it's a common prison thing, though. Like, "Don't drop the soap."
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#8
08-03-2004, 07:29 PM
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I don' t know why a guy would ever sit down to pee. You're living the sweet life, boys! Make the most of it!
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#9
08-03-2004, 07:38 PM
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You can, but you have to lower your pants a lot farther than we do, and pull some of the folding parts out of the way with a couple of fingers. There's a hip-angle thing you'll need to learn, too. I don't think it's difficult to do (looks to me like it's mostly rolling the hips forward) but you might want to practice in the bathtub until you're confident of your aim. There's an alternative posture, crouching and shooting backwards, but it looks more awkward.
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#11
08-03-2004, 08:09 PM
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Urologists will often tell men to sit while peeing if they've had kidney, bladder and/or prostate trouble, and more so if they're older. Could that have been the case?
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#12
08-03-2004, 08:18 PM
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I (almost) always sit to pee, and frequently even wipe (after shaking) because you can never get that last drop to shake off. If the weirdest thing a cellmate does is pee sitting down, I should think one would be relieved. Think how much worse it could be....
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#13
08-03-2004, 08:36 PM
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 . They skewer those subjects that seem these days to be untouchable, thanks to the PC thugs. But that's another thread... Regarding the sitting, inmates view it as a "bitch"- like behavior (I asked a friend who did some minor time) but the wiping would seem to indicate some type of incontinence. Leakage and all that. Either way, it ain't gonna make the time any easier, that's for sure. Good luck to him, I says.[Seen on a bathroom wall] No matter how much you shake, and how much you dance, the last drop always falls in your pants!  []
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#16
08-03-2004, 09:18 PM
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My brother is in the jewelry business, and one of his clients owns a chain of body piercing shops. This fellow is a showcase for his (actually, my brother's) wares. According to him, a common result of penile adornment with fixed jewelry is the need to forego one of masculinity's premier privileges, that being the ability to pee standing up, without attendant messiness.
So, perhaps cellmate's sporting some flash?
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#18
08-03-2004, 10:57 PM
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Well, as a guy, if I think there's a chance I might have to make a #2, I'll sit down to pee just in case, because its easier to just go while I'm in a sitting position than to do a friggin half-axle-mid-pee if my bowels decide to void quickly.
I'll also pee sitting down if I'm a guest at someone's house. I always clean up after myself when I pee standing up, but if I'm using someone else's bathroom, there's always the possibility that I might miss a few errant drops somewhere and the host notice, which would be rather embarassing. Im pretty adamant about asserting my right to pee standing upright, but I'll also pee sitting down when its the prudent thing to do (drunkeness, sleepiness, etc). Plus, if you pee sitting down, its easier to have a direct conversation with someone else who is in the bathroom since you can face them while talking. Okay, maybe that's a little TMI... 
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"I don't give a @#&% about the spirit of Mother Earth and why she's personally pissed off at me just because I throw rusty car batteries into freshwater lakes and piss on baby birds nests. ... I don't care about the romantic lives of two 12-year old girls that look like eight-year old girls imitating six-year old girls who have had their DNA genetically combined with the DNA of an insect and a creature composed solely of tits" Lowtax N
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#23
08-04-2004, 12:34 AM
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If the cellmate is tall, that may contribute to the reason. Mr. Adoptamom is 6'7" and sits as often as not because it's hard to keep a steady aim from that height, as well as spashback from the pee hitting the water so hard.
hmmm ... I must remember to NEVER allow Mr. Adoptamom to read all of the posts I written about him. Something tells me he wouldn't be a happy camper knowing how much y'all know about his private life.
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#24
08-04-2004, 12:51 AM
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 *Local distance peeing champ* 
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"I don't give a @#&% about the spirit of Mother Earth and why she's personally pissed off at me just because I throw rusty car batteries into freshwater lakes and piss on baby birds nests. ... I don't care about the romantic lives of two 12-year old girls that look like eight-year old girls imitating six-year old girls who have had their DNA genetically combined with the DNA of an insect and a creature composed solely of tits" Lowtax N
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#26
08-04-2004, 02:32 AM
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#27
08-04-2004, 02:37 AM
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 Seriously, a friend of mine always had to pee at night and when he got a boyfriend, he started to sit down to pee cause his boyfriend complained about finding the seat wet in the morning or finding that he's peed in the trashcan. :wally
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08-04-2004, 08:57 AM
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#30
08-04-2004, 09:36 AM
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I sit and wipe....................guess that makes me weird.
I have always sat whether I have book/magazine with me or not............And I wipe cause I'm uncut and shaking just doesn't do it for me (and trust me things can get rather nasty/smelly if an uncut doesn't wipe). I even wash my penis afterwards (but only at home - never anywhere else). As far as urinals are concerned I just can't pee when someone stands next to me...............I always go for the stall and I'll walk to different floors if the closest stalls are taken
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#31
08-04-2004, 10:30 AM
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I used to consider sitting down weird, but then I came to work in an office at the university with mixed (temporary, student) staff and one toilet, and the women put their foot down - rounded us guys up and told us peeing standing up is filthy, even if put up the seat you wipe down the bowl's brim afterwards (as we were doing). It's true - just pee somewhere against bright sunlight and see there's always a fine spray. Anyway, we hung our heads and sat down henceforth.
Sometimes I also see discreet notices in office/bar etc. toilets, also in private homes (put up for the lady of the house, presumably after she had to clean up after guests once too often). It's a reasonable thing to ask, really. Some people seem to take this the wrong way, though. (the notice translates as "Please pee while sitting".)
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#32
08-04-2004, 10:50 AM
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Peeing while sitting isn't weird but sitting to pee every time kind of is. Only time I ever sit is when I have a number 1 and 2 to do. Might as well get both in one sitting, right? Also many apartments have the annoying habbit of installing midgit toilets that are like a foot off the ground with no bowl depth to speak of. I'm only 6 feet tall but the splashback on these damn toliets is insane. Due to their small size, sitting and peeing is difficult as well. What I'd like to do is find the moron who picked these kindergarden toilets out and piss on their carpet.
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#33
08-04-2004, 11:03 AM
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I think the only reason to stand while peeing is when the seat is dirty. What's weird, with people's bad aim, most of the time a dirty seat is caused by people standing while peeing (imho, ymmv). I'd prefer everyone to sit down and not make a mess.
As for wiping - on the one hand your underwear won't have to absorb the rest droplet, but on the other hand you run the risk of having bits of the paper clinging to the tip, so I cannot really recommend it.
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#34
08-04-2004, 11:10 AM
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Looks like I'm going to have to hold the dissenting opinion here on peeing sitting down with an erection. I frequently wake up in the morning with 2 things - a case of "morning wood" and a desperate need to take a leak. It's difficult and somewhat uncomfortable to pee with a hard-on, but it's much more unpleasant to wait for it to subside, so I'm gonna go, one way or another. If I pee standing up it'll shoot out like a windshield-washer sprayer, so I sit down. Yes, it usually contacts the side of the bowl, but so what? I'll be taking a shower in the near future anyway, and I'm way too tired to care. And no, I don't have an SO and I live alone, so my penile hygene decisions are my business alone.
For the record, I generally pee sitting down any time I'm tired, like in the morning or if I wake up in the middle of the night. But other than having one of the aforementioned piercings I can't imagine why any man would pee sitting down every single time.
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#35
08-04-2004, 12:08 PM
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Could this guy be an Indian or Middle Eastern? In those cultures, men do sit down while peeing. In India, men traditionally wore the dhoti or the lungi , which were just a piece of colth wrapped around in different manners. So naturall, when they had to pee, they had to sit down, to prevent the pee from falling on their garments. Some people in India still pee in this manner.
The dress for the Middle Easter men, the dishdasha leaves no scope for peeing while standing up, so have to sit down while peeing. Aslo, I have observed that they do wipe after they pee. Its to do with sanitation or their beliefs, I suppose. so I am guessing the cellmate os of a middle eastern origin.
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#37
08-04-2004, 12:50 PM
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Am I the only one who thinks that the really weird thing here is not the issue of sitting or standing---it's why a guy is casually disscussing his father's pissing habits with his mother, and his sister is talking about hard-ons, while he is IN JAIL. What does this family talk about on a typical day at homel?
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#38
08-04-2004, 05:47 PM
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Guys: is sitting to pee weird?
No, I have a hernia and the doctor told me not to lift anything heavy.
It’s not often I get to use that joke.  Most of the reasons to sit down to pee at home have already been mentioned, but allow me to add: Regardless of whether it’s you or your spouse who cleans the bathroom, your life will be more pleasant. When I get up in the middle of the night, I don’t have to open my eyes any more than necessary, or even pay very much attention to my situation. I get to commune with my hemmoroids. There is often reading material in the bathroom, and I don’t have a problem with lingering to read a page or two of my latest epic. When I’m at home I’m usually wearing sweatpants or something else zipperless, so since I have to pull them down anyway… As to the problem of certain portions of my anatomy coming into contact with cold, cruel porcelain, I installed elongated toilets in my bathrooms to deal with just that problem. You can too. As for sitting while out and about: It’s much easier to use your cell phone, PDA, etc. You also don’t have to worry about dropping said device into the water. You don’t have to worry about splashback on your good slacks. You don’t have to worry about your briefcase, or ‘manbag’ swinging around at an inopportune moment and intersecting the ‘stream’. It’s pretty embarrassing to have to tell a clien that you…umm…spilled lemonade on their papers, yeah, that’s it, lemonade. It’s up to you whether you prefer the last few drops on your underwear or a bit of TP. kittenblue; you need to have a talk with your son about being judgemental towards people who do things differently.
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#40
08-04-2004, 07:02 PM
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I can think of one other reason for a guy to sit all the time. He can't aim. (It could be vision, size, large belly, or, hell, some form of palsy. I dunno, I happily suffer from none of those.) I would think you would be really unpopular making a smelly mess that you can't clean up. I am assuming that there aren't many good ways to clean up.
And of course, if the guy was sitting, he will at least need that "last drop" taking care of. If you are tall enough that some of your plumbing is below that closer to the exit, then some will be trapped. For us taller guys, sitting can be messier than standing. (Picture sitting so low your knees are close to your ears.) So maybe that was the "wiping".
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#41
08-04-2004, 07:44 PM
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There's another reason, SlowMindThinking: I am a perfect example of it. I lost the toes on my left foot so it's sometimes difficult and painful for me to stand or walk when I don't have to.
I'm also an addicted bathroom reader, so that may have something to do with it. There's no worse feeling than dropping Second Foundation into the toilet while you're standing there with one hand on your junk and trying to turn the page with your thumb and oooop... Not that I've ever done that. It was one of the Well World books, I think.
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#42
08-04-2004, 08:28 PM
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#43
08-04-2004, 09:50 PM
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#45
08-04-2004, 11:17 PM
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I am 6'1", with a 34" inseam. The water level of the average tiolet is about 12" from the ground (I'm estimating; I am not going into the bathroom to measure!). So if I stand up, the stream of urine drops close to 2 feet, then splashes. It's bad enough at home; if I am at someone else's house it's downright disgusting. So I almost always sit down.
BTW, Rhiannon just verified that 12" is correct, at least in our bathroom.
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#46
08-04-2004, 11:33 PM
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I pee a lot and also noticed the problem with splashing, sometimes my knees are wet but I could not sit and pee.
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#47
08-05-2004, 08:02 AM
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My children know they can discuss any topic with me. If they get too gross or intimate, I might do the mom thing, but my willingness to listen has resulted in some serious problems being addressed quickly and without lasting damage, where a child who felt less able to discuss difficult topics frankly with a parent might hide or deny a problem until it was too late to avoid bad consequences. They are far from perfect, but at least they know I'm there to listen.
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#48
08-05-2004, 10:04 AM
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For those of you who own your homes, consider replacing the standard toilet with a handicapped w/elongated bowl. Much more comfortable for tall folks because the drop to a seated position is not as far, therefore it's easier on your knees and back. According to Mr. Adoptamom, your wacker won't hit the bowl either.
Ours ran about $100 more than the standard/midget toilets. Worth every penny!
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#50
08-05-2004, 12:46 PM
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No, I've done it for the last... some number of years. Basically, my dad was complaining that there was piss on the edge of the toilet or the floor, or something along those lines, and made some less than nice comments about my brother and me and our cleanliness standards. (Hello? When was the last time you cleaned your bathroom?) So I decided to start sitting and peeing, and liked it more than standing. (Lazier, too.) So now I just do it everywhere, except public bathrooms, where I use urinals, because public toilets are usually nasty.
Re: the German "inspection shelf": I never had a problem with it. It was also only in houses, I found, but if there were a couple of smears, they went away when the next person flushed anyway. Never even worried about it. But it should save water, since there's only a little reservoir in the front.
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