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Men
have regained their fundamental right to pee standing up in Germany, a court has
ruled, after a landlord tried to retain part of a tenant's 3,000 euro deposit
claiming an unnamed man damaged the marble floor of his toilet by sprinkling it
with urine.
RT.com reports Judge
Stefan Hank in the city of Duesseldorf has warned that traditionalists who insist
on standing "must expect
occasional rows with housemates, especially women" but cannot
be held to account for any collateral damage.
"Despite
growing domestication of men in this matter, urinating while standing up is
still widespread," he pointed out.
The debate about whether
men should stand (or rather sit?) while relieving themselves in Germany, is
worthy of Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman" comedy, except for it's
no laughing matter for local males. In fact, there's a derogatory term for men
who, for some reasons, prefer to sit and pee - "Sitzpinkler" - which
implies it's not masculine behavior. Meanwhile, some toilets in Germany, which
has the largest population of any EU country, have red traffic-style signs
forbidding the key standing position.
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