Answering the age old question…
Things I did not know existed
The stream isn’t always consistent and I ain’t got the patience to clean that shit up. Sittings easier.
Same here. Having to clean your own bathroom is a life-changing experience.
Even worse if there’s a pube wedged in the outflow pipe exit, splitting your stream into two completely random directions, neither of which being the bowl.
OPs restroom must be gross
No, cause he sits
At home I always sit. I don’t care how well endowed you are or how well you can aim, there’s always a bit of splash that I don’t want to deal with. In most people’s homes I’ll have the same decency to sit. Nobody wants to sit where someone’s pee has been, or clean that off the floor, etc. At work I’ll usually sit too, let’s be honest I’m probably going to scroll on my phone for a minute or two while I’m at it.
I rarely go to the bathroom in public, I’ll usually wait until I get home. For the few exceptions, I’ll almost always stand. Because some of those toilet seats, especially in men’s bathrooms, can be nasty.
As someone who has had to clean public restrooms, women’s bathrooms are worse.
That’s because all the pee washes away the other sins
Women hover no matter what
In public always use a urinal when peeing. At home always sit. Simple. I don’t like cleaning pee off the toilet, it’s disgusting.
A surprising number of respondents “Don’t know”
Yeah, like what leads to this decision? Handstand while peeing but too shy to tell?
“I’ve never really thought about it honestly 🤔. It just sort of happens on its own come to think of it. 🤔”
The bathroom blackout crowd
The diaper crowd.
Too embarrassed to say “in the shower.”
Coz “squatting to piss straight into a drain” wasn’t an option and they refused to add it when I asked.
id say idk because the real answer is pretty much never, but it’s hard to be sure
My fellow Americans, please try it. It’s much more peaceful in there, and you avoid the chatty kathies at the urinals. They don’t try to speak to you(1) when you’re in a stall.
(1) usually
Well Kathy needs to get out of the men’s room then, she can wait until I’m done peeing to have a chat.
You forgot that in the US all stalls seem to have these awkward 2 cm gaps. There is not much privacy to be had there.
No, but it’s usually enough to deter the chatterers
Chatting at the urinal is verboten in the US. It’s an unwritten rule. You’ll be the village pariah if you try.
Unless you’re at a dive bar, in which case it’s apparently mandatory.
My boss chatted me about a project at the urinal during our quarterly onsite a few months back. Wtf dude. Can you really not wait til we get back to the conference room‽
There are certain repeat offenders at my workplace
Tell them you’re trying something new for the new year: that your body faces those you talk to. If they start up a conversation while at the urinal, just rotate your body to face them. Because it’s important to focus your full attention when conversing. They’ll stop after the first time.
It’s only maybe acceptable in the rare instance that you walk into the restroom together with a friend mid-conversation
I’m really surprised by this, as someone in the “never” category I honestly didn’t realise there were men who sat down (obviously aside from physical disabilities), or that it would be a cultural thing. I’ve never thought about it.
In fact sometimes if I go for a “number two”, I will take it in two parts, pee standing up then sit down for the second part, or vice-versa. It’s just more comfortable like that.
How do you deal with all the pee splatter? Or do you piss on the sink? Or are you a dwarf?
Pissing while standing is only ok when a proper urinal is available. Pissing in toilet while standing imparts too much kinetic energy on the pee, causing violent splashing. Yes, even if you aim at an angle. And aim will always falter at the end anyway with decreasing water pressure…
Normal cleaning of toilet/bathroom areas deal with that kind of thing. It’s not like I’m pissing in the kitchen.
So in other words you regularly have to clean up piss.
People who sit to pee never have this issue. They never need to clean up piss because it never collects on surfaces.
Bathrooms should be cleaned regularly anyway, and not everyone is grossed out by pee.
Sure but there is absolutely no reason to clean your walls unless you’re getting piss on them.
I prefer not having to wash piss off my walls. Without the piss I have no reason to wash my walls.
The benefit is obvious.
People who sit to pee are still splashing the underside of the toilet seat, so there’s piss to cleanup for standers as well as sitters.
You are already cleaning that part anyway as apart of regular toilet cleaning. I’d rather stick to just having to clean that much rather then having to wash your walls and floor from all the piss that’s splashing on them
Flushing also spreads particles, do you never flush just so you don’t have to regularly clean your WC?
There is a significant difference between tiny microscopic particles you can’t even see vs clear visible piss droplets
You do realise that’s what the lid is for?? You close it and all the partucles end up on it and therefore make it easier to clean.
Here, do with this information what you want. The lid isn’t a 100% airtight seal.
Clean your damn WC.
Okay. I never claimed that you don’t need to clean it. Just makes the spread of the stuff you actually do clean smaller.
Power of the stream is a factor… As well as aim and your bowl geometry, some just splash more. I have the bladder of a squirrel, and generally splatter no more than a few drops on the toilet seat if I fail to raise it. My bestie will absolutely cover my bathroom in splatter.
I used to always stand. Once I realized that even with perfect aim, urine droplets will find their way to the floor and walls, I stopped. My toilet never smells like urine now, even if I haven’t cleaned it for a while (which is rare).
I do about half and half. Especially in the morning or in the middle of the night I sit. Don’t have to try to aim in the dark or when I’m half asleep.
I suspect also the men who are married with families tend to sit more than single guys.
I’m pro choice
I am not putting on my glasses and turning on the light at 4am. I’ll have a seat, it’s fine.
I have also come to realize that at home not only is more comfortable it is also no splashes whereas outside it is the other way around is much more sanitary and convenient. So best of both worlds.
I like to sit so I can look at my phone while I pee.
This is the real reason why people sit. People should go use their phones AFTER they pee.
The Germans are just too drunk to stand
The really weird part about this is that like 30-40% of US are elderly and Grandpa can barely walk, but he’ll keel over in the middle of it long before he “pees like a girl.”
He may have trouble getting up from the seat unaided
I bleed and hurt if I pee sitting down (urethral stricture, had some stuff done, but looking to probably get stints installed), so I pee standing up even if I do have to poop.
Side note, I had no idea how truly awful most urologists (at least in New Jersey) were until I had to get this addressed. It took two years and three doctors (in two different urology systems with many locations, one of which was clearly more of a cash grab than actually giving care), and it was only when I wad getting a vasectomy done an hour and a half away from my house (closest doctor with more than a 2-star rating and with no horror stories) that he was horrified the previous doctor said “make an appointment if it gets worse” in response to blood and pain when urinating.
The first two also seemed to refuse to accept that my 10-year married ass didn’t have an STI despite multiple tests from multiple sources to the contrary and me adamantly expressing that it wasn’t a “burning” pain, it was a “tearing” pain.
Sorry, long rant, but yeah, some of us can’t really pee sitting down.
That sounds terrible. I am truly sorry
The worst was having to self-cath twice a day for a month, then once a day for a month, to try to stretch it out. It worked…for about 3-4 weeks. Then it slowly started coming back. Not what I would call a good return on investment.
Urologists are awful. Even worse for women. I’m always joking that they are mens doctors as they seem not to know what to do with women. Blood in urine? Must be a period…
I can’t imagine how long it would take to get my issue addressed if, after finding I didn’t have an STI, they could just fall back on “irregular period” or “cramps.”
Ywss the silent majority. Much prefer to sit at home, got my soft seat and toilet space all nice, little light reading. It’s just classy.
