My personal (male) feelings on this are very strong and the responses I’ve gotten to such proposals with other males have ranged from agreement to indifference to affronted anger at such an attack to their masculinity akin to insinuating I had just slept with their mother.
I see this as a very simple matter of common sense and foresight. It is a moving toilet. There may be turbulence causing you and/or said toilet to move. Out of decency to other users of this (and quite possibly only) toilet and to the person who has to clean it, sit down.
Teeming Millions, am I alone in this view? Are there others out there like me?
My experience with toilets on buses is that if you sat down, you’d be sitting down in the piss from all the other guys who not only don’t sit down to piss, but also fail to raise the lid.
Exactly how is it a moving toilet? I could see sitting down on a train, plane, or bus, but I see no indication that that is what you are talking about.
Unless you have really bad aim, you are going to be able to get it in the proper spot.
This poll only applies to toilets on modes of transportation (car, train, bus, plane, etc) that are IN MOTION. I’ve no problem with standing when the toilet is fixed in a building or the mode of transportation is stationary.
Depends. If it’s on the ground I can hold my own, but when the toilet is in an airplane that means not only can it sway side to side, but up and down. That means any bit of turbulence and I’m getting knocked on my ass spraying urine all over the place.
So sit down for planes, stand for trains and buses.
BigT- read the text above the poll options. I didn’t know what the hell it was talking about at first either.
I have difficulty peeing as it is sometimes thanks to BPH, so I’ll usually opt to sit to pee, especially at home. But out and about, my aversion to sitting on a dirty, and possibly still wet, toilet seat usually trumps any difficulty with peeing while standing. I can manage just fine on a plane; I haven’t ridden a bus in… 20 years? Who knows; it’s a non-issue. On a train I’ll stand and brace myself.
Neither poll option really describes my feelings (I voted for the second one) as I don’t feel so strongly about it that I would be affronted to be asked to sit. On the other hand, I have peed standing up on aeroplanes and trains many times without a problem, so I would do so again. I do so on the understanding that if I miss, I will clean it up - just like on the 1 in 1000 occasion that you “miss” at home, you clean it up.
Bus and airplane (and RV) toilet seats are generally miniature compared to normal public and home toilet seats. As such, I’d be more apt to wet the floor when sitting than when standing (even in motion). On planes, I try to brace myself, but the wall usually curves upward over where I want to brace myself, so I bend backwards, arch my midsection forward, and hope for the best. I clean up anything that I’ve spilled, unless the toilet is already covered with other guys’ pee.
If you just put your hand against the bulkhead, there’s too much play in the system. As the boat rocks, your hand stays planted, but your arm flexes at the shoulder and your body still moves. On a small enough ship in a big enough storm, it makes a difference. It’s a little more comfortable to rest your forearm against the bulkhead, and then your forehead against that.
I don’t have any issues about my masculinity, but sitting down to pee takes a lot more effort with buckles and whatnot than standing up and just using my fly. I will definitely clean up after myself should I have issues with aim, be it in a stationary restroom or not.
And, as has already been pointed out, toilets in motion tend to be public toilets where I’m probably going to encounter someone else’s mess before me, so I would generally prefer not to sit down anyway.
