# We women need this! At Last! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854 "2004-05-18T22:47:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/1 "2004-05-18T22:47:35Z")
I just found [this](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20040518/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_germany_toilet). It is exactly what married women have been waiting for! Am I right? Of course, it needs some proper translating. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/2 "2004-05-18T23:05:32Z")
Bah… We will NOT pee sitting down. :mad: You do NOT want us to leave the seat down when we pee. :eek: Someone’s gonna have to move the seat. :dubious: YOU want it down, put it down. 😃 That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/3 "2004-05-18T23:12:23Z")
Heh. I thought it was going to be a link to the story I heard on the radio today about how in about 5 years we will/should be able to buy chocolate bar candy that will give us satisfaction in the O sense. Not that it doesn’t now. **Hersey** : The Great American Orgasmic Bar. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/4 "2004-05-19T00:03:37Z")
Are they really sure that men who refuse to sit down will prefer sitting down to peeing standing up without lifting the seat? Seriously, we’re supposed to sit down? Since when? OTOH, if someone I lived with cared that I did, then I would. I really don’t think a talking toilet seat’d help. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/5 "2004-05-19T00:18:31Z")
I put up with a lot of impudence in my home… I have a wife and a 9 week old kitten. :eek: But an impudent toilet seat is something up with which I shall not put! I am not going to pee sitting down. Unless, of course, I’m _already_ sitting down, in which case all bets are off. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/6 "2004-05-19T00:34:39Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > I just found [this](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20040518/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_germany_toilet). It is exactly what married women have been waiting for! > Am I right? > Of course, it needs some proper translating. Nah, I think a woman yelling commanding things in German while a man’s vunerable would be the key factor to making him obey. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/7 "2004-05-19T00:49:15Z")
Why not have the women pee standing up (it’s possible) then? Why should the men have to change? ---
**Author:** ![pokey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@pokey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pokey)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/8 "2004-05-19T01:03:37Z")
Wow. Thank God I’m not a man or I’d be really depressed and insulted by the talking German toilets. Life is hard enough without getting yelled at by the toilet. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/9 "2004-05-19T01:08:26Z")
Once again, the men are expected to do all the work. We enter the bathroom, desperate to make our bladder gladder. The seat is down. “Oh, God! She’ll kill me if I pee on the seat!” So we raise the seat. Ah, now that we have sent our golden nectar down to the septic tank, we realize that she will kill us if we leave it up. So we put it down. If you expect relationships to be 50/50, you have to do half the work. We’ll put it up when we pee. You’ll put it down when you do. The above was not meant to be taken seriously. Well, not entirely. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/10 "2004-05-19T01:16:55Z")
I always found it amazing that women would sit without looking, and somehow that’s the man’s fault. Who the hell sits anywhere, toilet or not, without looking first? Nobody to blame but yourself. ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/11 "2004-05-19T01:21:56Z")
Just amusing little anecdote in the toilet wars: When I moved in with my ex-roommate, the apartment had been his for two years before it became home to me also, so I defaulted to _his_ toilet seat choice. His house, seat up. Another friend of mine (guy) lived in a house where the rule was to lower the seat and the lid, that way no matter who had to piss, they had to lift and close. ---
**Author:** ![jellyblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@jellyblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jellyblue)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/12 "2004-05-19T01:31:13Z")
Gay women never have this problem. Just sayin’… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Graycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Graycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graycat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/13 "2004-05-19T01:35:16Z")
If you keep the lid closed, you don’t have to worry about things falling in the toilet, and everyone has to do some lifting and shutting. ---
**Author:** ![Graycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Graycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Graycat)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/14 "2004-05-19T01:37:06Z")
That was keep the lid down except when the toilet is in use, of course. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/15 "2004-05-19T02:31:48Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > Heh. > > I thought it was going to be a link to the story I heard on the radio today about how in about 5 years we will/should be able to buy chocolate bar candy that will give us satisfaction in the O sense. > > Not that it doesn’t now. > > **Hersey** : The Great American Orgasmic Bar. I know a certain woman who is definitely 5 years ahead of her time… if the chocolate is good enough. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/16 "2004-05-19T03:30:50Z")
I always sit down when I pee The doctor told me not to lift anything heavy! Thank you, enjoy your salads, I’ll be here all week. Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![jastu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@jastu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jastu)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/17 "2004-05-19T03:47:23Z")
I don’t think the toilet seat is the issue here, I think it’s bad aim. Personally it doesn’t worry me one iota whether the seat is up or down as long as there is **no pee splashed on the seat or the floor**. It pisses me off (yes pun intended) to have to do the big clean up every time a guy uses the toilet. For crying out loud learn to pee into the water not on the porcelain or the floor. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![SSgtBaloo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@SSgtBaloo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSgtBaloo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/18 "2004-05-19T03:59:41Z")
I used to leave the seat and lid up. Then I got my dog one of those nifty water dishes with the 1-gallon jug that looks like it came from a water cooler. It goes _GLUG_ when the water level in the dish goes down.\* Buster is kind of high-strung. He took a few laps out of the thing and it went _GLUG_. Poor little guy, he just about jumped out of his fur (and he ran out of the kitchen. Very swiftly. I felt sorry for him when I stopped laughing (yes, and guilty). Not long ago I was sitting in the living room watching a movie when I heard _Lap-lap-lap-lap_ and thought to myself "Ah! At last he has overcome his fear and is drinking from the new dish. That’s when he came out of the hallway, looking self-satisfied. The kitchen is not in the hallway. How does one tell a small dog “That big bowl with the blue water is not for drinking”? I suspect the answer is _put the lid down, stupid!_ So now that’s what I do. I still pee standing up. I just have to remember to close the lid when I’m done. And if a disembodied German lady is going to tell me to pee sitting down, she’d better know enough English to understand the phrase “go piss up a rope”. –SSgtBaloo - Actually, it goes _GLUG_ _GLUG_ _GLUG_ _GLUG_ _GLUG_ _GLUG_. The dog was not amused. ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/19 "2004-05-19T08:27:42Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > Nah, I think a woman yelling commanding things in German while a man’s vunerable would be the key factor to making him obey. 😛 We had one of those and it actually yelled in our ex-chancellor’s voice. Not a pretty thing - imagine G.W. Bush or Ronald Reagan telling you to sit down while you pee. Which we did anyway, because there was only girls in the household, mind you: My roommate had thought it was funny and installed it without telling me. I got the scare of my life when I lifted the seat to clean the toilet!! It got de-installed once it started getting really sensitive to light and yelled whenever somebody opened the bathroom door. ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854/20 "2004-05-19T15:03:36Z")
I have the perfect husband who has never once left the seat up. His first wife and three daughters trained him. I’ll have to thank them one day. Wasn’t there a gadget once that automatically lowered the seat a certain amount of time after the flush? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-women-need-this-at-last/245854.md?page=2)