Glad you guys find this topic interesting! 😁 And I'm actually surprised to see how different the German comments are compared to the Americans - seems like this cultural difference is even bigger than I thought! 😱 Please keep sharing your experiences below - it's fascinating to read about them! (This is the first part of my "Random Differences" mini-series! I'll be releasing a new part on a different topic every other day for the next 1.5 weeks, so make sure to subscribe and activate the bell to get notified when I upload a new episode. :) I hope you guys enjoy this series and this format and of course, I'll post my regular long, in-depth videos again in the future!)
As I wheelchair-user myself, I also had the "same thought". Or better, was thinking of my male wheeler-friends, I do not have to have a discussion with, about "pee sitting down" here in Germany :) !
As an American man, whether I sit or stand to pee just depends on how tired I am at the time 😂 I don't think we were ever told not to pee standing up as children, or at least I don't remember it. What I do remember are the little rhymes we learned in kindergarten about being clean when we pee: "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat." Or "if you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie, wipe the seatie."
I was married to a lovely German girl from Ingolstadt for 61 years until God wanted her more than I did. I learned to sit to pee minutes after our honeymoon. Luise thought missing the toilet to mess up the floor was barbaric. I think standing to pee became fashion because most men wore suspenders in the old days, and it's a real pain to have to take your pants down if you're wearing them.
Thank you for explaining why standing up might be a popular thing… It’s one of those cultural things that if you grow up around it, you don’t really think about it until somebody points it out
I mean, we could just aim well? Its always confused me how public bathrooms’ floors are always covered in pee. We practice aiming our whole lives and some guys are still so sucky at it somehow.
@@charg1nmalaz0r51, I do indeed especially in unisex bathrooms. I don’t want to have to put the toilet seat down, after some guy whom I don’t know and don’t necessarily want to know has a whiz. I am normally not a germaphobe, but, with all the things out there now, if you guys can lift the seat you can put it down again.
I'm from Norway and was taught to stand up, but when I started helping in cleaning the toilet at around 12-13, I started always sitting down. I have always preferred standing, but it's not worth having to clean the stains. Whenever there is a urinal in a public bathroom, I will use that instead, because it is much more comfortable, quick and easy. It really feels like it is taboo in Norway, and when my mom yelled at me for getting stains on the floor once, she did not believe me when I told her it couldn't be me since I sit down(It was my dad's fault, but it is very rare for him to leave stains on the floor, so she thought it was me).
@@skunkhome Is it? I've always been sitting down on my own toilet even (or especially?) when I was single because I don't want to clean the fucking toilet twice a day. I mean we have much more serious societal and political problems than sitting down while peeing. I mean if you feel feminized by it, then keep on standing. But I just hate cleaning toilets.
If you think urine stains are what's gross about a bathroom, you're kind of ignorant. What's important is bacterial growth, particularly e.coli. You need to clean your bathroom regardless of whether or not there was urine stains. If you're cleaning your bathroom less often because you pee sitting down, that's even more disgusting than having urine stains.
It's amazing how quickly cultures change. I was stationed in Germany for three years and found that German men peed standing up like Americans. What I found strange was they peed where ever. In public against a building or handy wall. When I say in public I mean in front of everyone. No they were not drunk or on drugs, it's just what they did. The women passing by didn't bat an eye. Of course this was in the mid-seventies, about 50 years ago.
No ma’am, not taught to sit down, however, taught to lift the seat prior to doing my business. I also taught my son, seat up, be respectful. If you make a mess somehow, clean up after yourself.
@@rhodawatkins4516 Right, if there's anything Americans need to do, it's to sit even more! It's much faster to pee standing and clean up any mess you make than it is to pee sitting down. It's not even close.
@@papplebeast5039 Well, speaking as a female, I've often thought how lucky men have it to have the convenience of turning their backs and standing to pee if the need arose with not even a shrub to hide behind. For women, it is much more inconvenient when a restroom is not available. (This is, I'm pretty sure, one of the worst aspects of camping for women.) And as I get older, and have to be on my feet at work more than feels good many days, I begin to think of a sit-down pee break as a little luxury that most men miss out on. Just looking at it from a practical standpoint. To each his own.
Mom said if you won't lift the seat to pee and put it back down, you will sit to pee. After a week of sitting we were trained to lift and lower the seat. When I was single I left the seat up all the time. When a female friend busted I'd tell them to leave the seat up when you finish. Only seemed fair and equal Now that I'm married with two daughters I'm glad mom trained well
I'm from Germany, and pee sitting down when at home since in my experience that never causes a mess I have to clean up otherwise. When using a public toilet I prefer urinals since public toilet seats cannot generally be assumed to be clean. If other people prefer to pee standing, that doesn't bother me as long as no mess is produced in my home. To each their own.
As an American male, and older, I wasn't taught to sit to pee. Later I did only because I realized that the splash made a mess and I prefer not to wash the surrounding area every few days. I know that I am the exception among men in my societal experience. On the other hand when I was in Germany a couple of years ago I was impressed beyond words by the urinals. I have never seen this design before and it is brilliant! The way the contours of the urinal are designed there is no back-splash! Nice
I'm German and I sit down to pee when I'm at home or at home of someone else (like friends home, etc.). I do pee standing and use the urinal at work and basically at all public places and I also pee standing out in the wild, far away from humanity, using a three (or something else). I did refuse to sit down while peeing for quite some time when I was younger, up to my late teenage years. I was always careful, but realized that I underestimated the micro spay effect of peeing. At some point I could smell it and a little bit later I had to replace a heater, that was close to the toilet, because it became rusty and all of the protective paint was ruined. I decided to give it a try, hated it at first, but now I do like it a lot.
This. I never gave it much thought, until a friend said that she'd educated the men in her household, not wanting to clean up the spray. Since then I'm a card carrying 'Sitzpinkler'. Also: Wheee! Bully!
What about women who “hover” to pee in public restrooms, because they don’t want to sit on the seat? As a person who’s first job was cleaning public restrooms, the women’s room was always dirtier than the men’s room.
Jerry Camp, I concur with your observations (from my own experiences in having to do a deep cleaning of various restrooms in my younger years. This whole topic is nothing more than a means of wanting to control others. And, (men) if you DO "miss", be a man and clean up after yourself so you're not leaving your mess for the next person.
Yes of course hover pee’ers are annoying but please also realize some of those misses are from young boys. If you watch public restrooms, young boys often accompany their moms. I realized this when my sons would come in with me and become distracted by the novelty of a public bathroom.
@@victoriaseaman2785 Then, if mom has decency, she'll wipe up the "miss" from Jr., just as she'd appreciate someone doing within her own home's restroom.
@@paulaw418 there's been research, standing or sitting doesn't make much difference in emptying you bladder wel, but hovering is really bad , you never empty your bladder like that ... so don't stop hovering for critics, do it's for your long term health and to avoid proven higher risk on bladder infection from hovering to much! a woman peeing on the ground sitting/squatting is a healthy possition duh, so if american woman don't trust public toilet seat, they would be better of with french toilettes ;) . upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/French_Squatter_Toilet.jpg
When I studied in Japan, we stayed at a corporate retreat for cultural orientation boot camp before our host families picked us up. The most important topic? How to use traditional Japanese toilets, the ones you squat over. Later on, everyone had stories about seeing shoeprints on the rim of Western-style toilets in public restrooms.
The older I become , the more I find that my bladder empties more completely while standing. Although I prefer sitting. Also , the older I get the more I find it necessary to comment on things that are frivolous and odd!
Australian here: does anyone actually care? Personally, I stand - for the simple reason that if I sit I don't empty properly and need to go again the instant I stand up. Kinda defeats the purpose.
@R. A. I answered because she asked; I pondered why she asked is all. "Does anyone care?" It doesn't affect (or effect) me in the slightest whether someone in my own home sits or stands, let alone half a world away. Unless they make a mess and don't clean up after themselves. ;p
Dafuq are you talking about? Does anyone care? Yes literally everyone who has to clean toilets does fucking care! No matter where you are from, no matter how your toilets are designed, if you are standing while peeing in the toilet you will get splash that goes outside and stains the floor and the toilet rim. It is even worse for cultures where man are circumcised, because it is harder for them to control their piss jet. It is disgusting to clean up piss stain and it is so easily preventable. Also what you do is simply take two sheets of toilet paper and hold it at your pee hole while standing up so the last few drops go in the paper, it is not a big deal and easy to do. And whoever is cleaning your toilet will thank you for it! It is just rude, disgusting and such an old school thing to not sit down while peeing! If you had said you don't sit down because you are scared of spiders attacking you then I would have accepted that lol but your reasoning is just ridiculous.
When I got too old for my mother to take me into the women's room to pee, she headed me into a public men's room with instructions to use the hole in the floor. That was when it was common for urinals to be vertical from the floor up the wall for several feet. However, the first hole I came to was the floor drain! I man yelled, "Hey, kid! Stop doing that!" I quickly buttoned up and rushed out. (This was about 1946.)
Haha, I remember when I was a kid and "peeing sitting down" became a trend, my mom would simply say, 'Either you sit down to pee or you'll be the only one responsible for cleaning the toilet from now on.' You can imagine how quickly I got used to it. 😀
In the US, in MY experience, "Be like Pop, not like Sis, Raise the lid before you piss". A "Lid-pisser" is considered both lazy and rude . Little Boys need to be taught THIS too one of the first things I learned as a tot.
I have found that women sometimes (often?) spray the underside of the seat when peeing. I stand, but don't miss. Surely most men don't miss? Also I aim for the porcelain rather than the water, to avoid any chance of splashback.
So I asked all of my male friends (Germans and Austrians) and all of them told me this: at home they sit, in public toilets they stand (but this depends on the hygene).
American: I stand to pee when not at home (for convenience and sanitary reasons), but mostly sit when in the comfort of my own home (to rest my legs and for ease of cleanup, if necessary).
I grew up in America and anytime my father peed he did it standing up and that is the way I learned. I do agree with you that standing up to pee can mean missing the toilet and peeing on the floor or on the rim of the toilet. It actually makes better sense to sit down to pee and avoid the mess of potentially missing the mark. Yes, having to sit down involves more steps and time. But it does present a cleaner outcome in the end. I would also add that sitting down shows respect to others and does not force others to deal with or clean up any mess you might make by standing up.
My mother taught me when at home to sit so to avoid making a mess. So as an adult, I do this in my home or a friends home out of respect for the cleanliness. In a public facility, I stand again due to lack of cleanliness.
My Uncle once made a joke about this he said " my doctor wants me to sit down to pee" I said "why?" "Because he doesn't want me lifting anything heavy" lol
I am Argentinian and when I was in Germany I was "lectured" on how to pee because of this 😂 I took it very personal, like I was a mess myself, I never knew it was a common practice.
@@npickard4218 As long as it's you who also cleans the floor and toilet regularly and doesn't leave it to your wife, that's perfectly fine too. If you pee standing up and the light comes in at the right angle, you can see a fine urine mist rising from the toilet and spreading evenly around the toilet. But as long as the originator also cleans that away - no problem.
I'm an Australian man and we stand up. I'd only sit if I was tired like when you first get up in the mornings. But 95% of the time I'm standing. From my understanding it's culturally in Australia seen as masculine to stand. So most guys wouldn't wan't to do that.
With 3 sisters, I was harassed into sitting as a child. Getting teased now when people find out is amusing. Easier to clean the bathroom though, which is why I, as a bachelor, continued to do so. I do get great joy when in the woods, as I can let it all hang out! Even been known to take a walk in the back yard !!! Signed, a Manly man . . .
Back in the late 1950s, my dad taught me that "men pee standing up". My parents were raised on farms in northwestern Illinois. They had outhouses (don't want to waste time in there!) and were usually far away in the fields in every kind of weather. Peeing while standing next to the tractor (or horses before that) made a lot of sense.
Hi Feli, in Mexico I have never been told to sit to pee and the first time I traveled to Germany my ex girlfriend told me about sitting to pee, i never thought about it before and now I sit every time at home and pee standing when needed. No body else that I know does this in Mexico, but I find it respectful to others
My male ancestry is Austrian and German and Peeing sitting down was thought to be done only by effeminate men. I was born in 1951 so it may generational!
Yes, it is. I was born early 80's and in kindergarten the boys still were taught to stand. It just startet really to change a lot in the early 90's. I remember how it became public topic. I think it was through the discussions at the time that the term Sitzpinkler became big as a joke against that increasing demand to sit down. There are still men who are afraid to seem feminine but I think in younger generations (than mine) there are fewer of them.
Paul, I was also born in 51. Happy 69th. I spent my first seven years on this Earth living on a farm / Ranch property 22 miles from any Town, with only 32 volt windcharger - with battery, electric lights. No running water, and an out house. You pissed on that seat, and you got your ass whipped , with a belt!!!
I sit to pee most of the time, unless it just happens to be more convenient to stand. I didn't grow up with anyone saying "make sure to stand/sit when you pee", but I was reading a LOT as a kid, so I would keep magazines in our bathroom and I would just sit and read for awhile - that's pretty much why I still sit most of the time as an adult.
It's called Benign Prostatic Hyperplasty (or Hyperthropy). BPH for short. I worked for a Medical company years ago that made a device to treat it. Used a #9 French catheter with a microwave emitter in it that "cooked" the prostate and enabled the patient to pee again. And no loss of "other" functions... First time I saw it I got light headed and had to sit down. I hope I never have to have something the diameter of a 9mm bullet placed there!
@@PhilG999 Had to undergo a catheter treatment some 8 years ago. The urethra was scarred. The Urologist told me right away that I must have had a tripper when I was young. He was right. So sometimes one has to pay for something (Jugendsünde) long forgotten. That whole balagan was no fun - I tell you.
I saw a "We aim to please, you aim too, please!" at the Newport Or. Eagles club and the "Stand closer. Its shorter than you think." one at the Eagles club 8n Hood River Or. I had to let loose a laugh at those
German Girl in America it’s pretty much just calling them a woman and emasculating them. It wouldn’t be much of an insult to any reasonable person, but the meathead, jockey, “alpha” types would find it offensive. Side note: alphas don’t exist in our species. Even though people have told me I’m one, I think they’re moronic.
I was in Germany, and my hosts stopped for gas. I used the WC, and as I stood there, peeing, I read a sign on the wall, "Bitte nicht im Stehen pinkeln." I memorized the phrase and asked my hosts what it meant. "Please do not stand to pee," they said. "Too late," I laughed. Thanks for the informative and entertaining videos!
I'm a 58yo male I believe most of us were taught to pee sitting down around 1-1 1/2 - 2yo then around 3-4 yo taught to stand and pee well that's how I taught my son because if you sit and pee and forget to point or hold your wee wee down you can end up peeing between the seat and toilet ending in up in your pants
As American this one is strange to me. I never ever seen seen such signs anywhere and i never heard of anyone being told to sit down while peeing. Something tells me ladies in Germany made this a thing because they are the ones that mostly do cleaning and got tired of cleaning up random pee .
Yeah, that's the reason for most of the men. Either because they have to clean it themselves or because they respect the wish of the woman who cleans the toilet.
ladies wouldn't discuss the subject, because ladies. "Lady" doesn't mean "has a vagina". However, this probably became a thing in Germany because feminism, not because cleaning.
For me, it was definitely that the idea of "sitzpinkler" exists in the US, and it was probably even more apparent in the small town I grew up in. As an adult it no longer effects my decision making, but it is the reason I became accustomed to standing in the first place.
I think it depends. If you are at your house you can do as you wish. I bet still most sit down at home, because they have to clean it themselves. If you are at someone else's house it is considered pretty rude to spay pee all over the bathroom. At every place where there are urinals (restaurants, disco, workplaces,...) men usually stand to pee.
@@tiberius8390 I pee standing up and have never had a problem "spraying pee all over the bathroom". I can only guess that men who have this issue either shake it alot(this is seen as masturbation and frowned upon or was in my youth) or it is so short it doesn't actually hang down toward said toilet.
austria here, that must be a german beta male thing, we stand, regardless of day and night we try to aim even in the dark, we may fail but we will stand
Exactly. Don't be a sitzpinkler. I need to remember this word. 🤣 The only time I sitzpinkle (is that a word?) is in the middle of the night when I'm not going to turn the light on. Btw I'm Canadian.
Same in America, sitting down is emasculating. Also it's common courtesy to leave a urinal gap between another dude, unless there are dividers. You are NEVER supposed to make eye contact or look over at someone while using a urinal. Men don't talk to each other if they are both going pee. You have to keep distance from the urinals or toilets if you do talk. The most important rule of all, NEVER drop your pants.
@AcaciaStrain82 What's your problem? Anime are just TV shows and they have a very wide variety of genres and themes, like American shows. There are also shows for adults with complex themes. You can't generalize anime since they are very different from one another! Just let people watch and do whatever they want, because it's not affecting you at all!
LOL--there is an insult to a man's masculinity in the US too: "I bet you even squat when you pee." The big "thing" in the US IMHE is leaving the seat up/not putting it down after a male pees.
I am American. I think generally what I have noticed in American culture is peeing standing up is considered more masculine. Sitting down is for the ladies. With that said, I do both depending on how much time I have and my mood. If I am in a rush it is always standing up. If I am worried about germs, I stand up. If I am feeling lazy or just want a relaxing bathroom session, I sit. Being introverted, sometimes I feel the bathroom is a place you can go to have a moment to yourself and regroup, so I always do that sitting down. I have told other men I sit down to pee and I do get weird looks sometimes. So it is interesting that Germans prefer sitting down!
Standing up is way quicker and easier. Also sitting down can be just as messy, I've cleaned a lot of toilets and the underside of the seat can get covered with back splash from high pressure peeing male or female sitting down. So really, how you pee is nobody else's business, but either way the polite thing to do is clean up afterwards. But, but , but, if I saw a sticker demanding that I pee sitting down, my inner contrarian would be damn sure to pee standing up.
I believe many European toilet bowls have these 'shelves' near the front, perhaps some kind of water saving feature? Peeing into one of those standing up will likely cause more splashing than in North American toilets.
“You sit to pee” was an insult when I was in high school and even into college. I could see where some would think it would be less messy potentially if we would sit. But it is just so much more convenient to stand, and it has never ever been a topic of conversation, nor has anyone even expressed their preference. It just is not a thing. At all! Besides. Who wants to sit in a public restroom anyway?
The peeing habits differ a lot from country to country. In the GDR, where I was born, it was usual to pee standing at home and outside. After reunification of Germany it was funny to realize, that the West German men are "sitters". :p
Funny. :D My experience was the other way around ;) In our family it has always been the norm to pee sitting down. After the reunification of Germany, I noticed only through contact with the West, that this was probably not common over there. Or the West Germans have complained louder... I don't know. Otherwise, I know it only from the so-called 'village idiots' who peed standing up. But they also bragged about having fallen into a ditch while drunk or about having been left behind at school. So no real standard of comparison.
As an American who lived in Germany for two years, there are a few more differences on this topic than you mentioned in the video, but then I wouldn't have expected you to be aware of them. I'm not going to mention all of them because I do not know how I would explain one without being inappropriate, but just a couple come immediately to mind: . Urinals? What urinals. Every men's facility I saw had a designated wall with a trough and a drain in the floor. Some of the nicer ones had water that would flow down the wall like a sanitary water feature, usually at widely spaced intervals. . Cleaning ladies would wander in and out performing their chores. I heard one or two men grumble about it once, but in most cases no one, including me, cared about it. . Sit down at home, absolutely. Urine splashes on everything, including the clothes and shoes you are wearing. The acidity of urine is high enough that it will blister paint and stain wood. In time, even the microscopic droplets that mist the air will damage walls and floors, and not great for your shoes. You might be nose-blind to the smell, but your visitors aren't. . In a public restroom the facilities are there, so sure, use them. Some men are shy enough that they won't use the urinals and would rather use the toilet stalls, but then leave the seat down and go standing up. Hey, this isn't a cesspool, sit down, raise the seat, or use the urinal. If you are squeamish and don't want to touch the seat to raise it, then think about the next person who has to clean it off, or have to bypass that unit altogether.
We used to have these urinal walls in Europe as well. They have mostly fallen out of use, except in those high tech space public toilets that are all stainless steel, where they have water running down that wall.
The scene of Michael Herbig (Bully) in the beginning killed me :D I prefer sitting so there is no risk of getting urine somewhere else than the toilet and it is way cleaner in the bathroom so it doesn't need that much cleaning :D It's just more practical for me.. Gr8 video again :)
I'm an American, but I always sit down at my place and at other folk's homes. I have saying. Toilets are for sitting and urinals are for standing. Having to clean my own bathroom, it becomes very apparent that peeing standing up leads to over splash and more messy to clean up. In fact, placing a urinal in bathrooms has become more popular.
One of my favorite German words! Sitzpinkeler! I never thought you’d do a video about it though...I think the preference pertains to if it is your own home toilet. No one has a urinal at home in US or DE. When the toilet is shared between the two genders, women seem to prefer/demand that the toilet seat is left down. Apparently I’ve been told they some times “forget” to check that it’s down, which is silly and perhaps one deserves to see the consequence which will help ensure she always checks. Most Women I know wipe after peeing, men don’t, we “shake the snake” (wie sagt mann das auf Deutsch). This results in more random drops in spots other than the toilet bowel. For that reason at home ich bin Sitzpinkeler. Guys can shake the snake harder when sitting and not have pee droplets go everywhere.
In new build houses urinals are not that uncommon in Germany. In the most cases I heard that the wife demanded a urinal so the man is not in temptation.
@@Be-Es---___ Yep. My wife and I agreed to keep the lid down when we first got married and it makes the work equal for everyone. No arguments. Plus then the dogs don't drink out of the toilet.
I spent 20 years in the United States Marine Corps and I can assure you.....none of us sat while peeing. As a matter of fact, some of the crazier and drunker Marines stood while CRAPPING TOO!
That's some hard-core crapping! But on the real..how do you keep from dropping deuce right down on your shoe-heels or into the pants around your ankles?
My American raising on this subject was as follows It doesn't matter how you use the toilet to pee, just be respectful and clean up any mess you may make.
“The cleaning your own bathroom” comments are interesting, I clean my bathroom, but I still stand and some how manage not to make a mess, not sure what’s going on with everyone else.
@@mistermeanial1690 If you have no black light use water with colour. It's not about aiming it's about physics. There are no water rays which don't produce droplets besides the main ray.
For me sitting on the toilet is messier because I seem to have quite a high peeing pressure. When I pee standing up I can aim at certain parts of the toilet to prevent splashing as much as possible but when sitting down my ass and the toilet seat get covered in tiny piss droplets from below as my pee comes out at too high a pressure to not splash everywhere upon impact with the toilet bowl
I raised 3 boys. I taught them both ways. Although, they preferred to stand after a certain age. (Mostly when they started being more social with other boys). Btw, born in the states, but traveled all over the world. I love history & experiencing other cultures.
As an american I was taught to stand to pee. As I got older I learned medically that it was better to sit down to pee. Not in as much of a hurry, more appt to fully empty the bladder, which is very important as a male gets older and starts experiencing enlarged prostate gland issues. However I never gave it much thought and I lived in Germany for fifteen years. It was also taught that a male sitting to pee was a "Wussy" a girl...Interesting topics!
I thought I was only one that did that..I just took a screen shot of ur post and sent it to my down stairs Neighbor ...told them to stop bitching I ain't the only one in the world that pees off there deck.lol
It’s really no worse than using a air hand dryer, touching the faucet to wash your hands, or the door handles... actually I’d bet the toilet seat is cleaner than the sink. Just saying.
Yeah most women I know say they do a hover. The reason they usually hover is because the seat is covered in pee from other women hovering. I'm American but damn do I hate public restrooms in America for multiple reasons.
Shadow Prince YES, I can see how that is true! Hovering CAN splash. I’ve seen toilets I wouldn’t sit on before because of this. But if I can’t see any mess on there I sit all the way and I haven’t died yet.
I’m German living in Texas and sometimes have friends over for beer and football, but after one of the games my wife who is from Texas was so angry about pee on the floor she put up signs in the bathroom on game days that read ‘If you pee in my house your ass better be sitting down.’
I'd just laugh at such a stupid sign and piss the way I normally do. Who gives a shit what someone else thinks or wants in regards to your bathroom habits. If you make a mess, be respectful and clean it up.
In canada we are never taught to pee sitting down, as far as I know its the same in the US. Its even funnier when you realize there are commercials for devices for women to pee standing up, LOL.
But u have to shout it in the way hollywood movies picture the germans. "NEIN, NEIN, NEIN! Ich pisse wie ein Deutscher! ....Das war ein Befehl! .... Mit dem Wischmob von Steiner wird das alles in Ordnung kommen!"
Hello Felicia, I saw in 1967 , men in Port Said, Egypt, that they used white cloths to dry themselves after peeing. Important, since they wear long white clothes. I have been sitting down for more than 10 years and I always use a little toilet paper not to mess up underwear, Greetings from Sweden. I love Germania of all my heart !!
I prefer to stand, it's easier just to open the zipper and feeling like a firefighter is fun aswell :) But since i don't have a urinal at home, I sit down so I don't have to clean up the toilet that often.
Something a woman would NOT understand: When sitting, I find that I don't empty as much as when I stand. Maybe it's just me. Otherwise, it's much more convenient standing ..... and I always leave it clean. I've heard from cleaning people that women's public bathrooms are generally messier than men's.
True, wome s public restrooms are dirty because we are taught not to touch anything and if we drop toilet paper on the floor, we won't pick it up (because it's dirty) we wash our hands anyway but there is not always facilities to wash properly. Its embarrassing as a female. -L.
Well, l'm a (German) female and l know about this. I have learned it decades ago that squatting is actually the best and most natural way to pee and poop especially like they still do in many countries. Get a foot stool or squatty potty for ideal cancer preventing bowel emptying and keep sitting when it's hygienic enough to empty your bladder completely and avoid alleged health problems that occur frim incomplete bladder emptying. Or eat as alkaline as possible and stay hydrated which is always a good idea, anyway! P. S. I never sit down in public toilets and avoid them whenever possible! But more because of the toxic chenicals/perdumed cleaning products used than the stench. Visiting the USA l was positively surprised by the clean toilets that used very little water and had a kind of suction mechanism. But then again, l see so many water wasting videos online.
@@shantinaturechild6385 that's true regarding bowel emptying in squatted position, sitting is not a natural position for humans to do this as can be seen on this page: kakilak.rs (it's in Serbian but pictures/animations are easy to comprehend, and there's always Google Translate is someone is more interested) and no, I'm not selling this thing, haha :) IMHO, peeing sitting down for men in Germany is feminist movement gone overboard, it's not natural and doesn't even help toilet cleanliness that much
@Ron Smith: on the contrary, you'll definitely *do* empty your bladder a bit more when sitting, that's first semester anatomy. Besides, you may take it as a surplus/ fun fact, that way peeing you'll end up releasing a little more farts, too. See? More-more-more, win-win-win. ,) However, do as you like, as long as you're not a guest of mine. ,)
Watching this series from Finland is very interesting, you learn about both the German and American cultures. In here, I guess it really depends on the family, in my family men usually sit down to pee at home (the toilet seats also tend to be quite low and the men in our family are quite tall, so that makes aiming even more difficult). And I think only one person has ever commented on that, so it's probably not that unusual. When living with roommates, I was constantly annoyed at one person who always left the toilet seat up...
Funny. I am an American and pee standing up, but if the toilet seat is up, it means my wife used the toilet last. I always completely close the toilet (ring and seat/lid down) whereas she lifts the seat to use the ring and doesn't bother lowering the seat/lid back down.
@@rameynoodles152 don't you? You've got the bowl, the ring that flips up, and the lid that flips up. I lift the ring and lid to use it and lower both to flush.
@@jasonbailey9139 Ah ok, you call it something different from the norm. You said lid/seat, but to most people, the lid is not the seat. What you call the ring is what most call the seat, because you're supposed to sit on it. The ring to most people is the edge of the bowl that the seat lays on top of.
Thank you for the interesting topic. I was taught to urinate standing up and while I do urinate sitting or standing, I find that I empty my bladder more fully standing. I will say though, that urinating sitting, does keep the bowl and area around it much cleaner.
Honestly, as a German who also grew up in the 90s and early-to-mid 2000s, I have always peed standing up, and up until watching this video, I had always assumed that men who sit down to pee were a tiny minority, like maybe 15-20%, so this *really* surprised me.
I originally started sitting to pee because of prostate issues, but I found that it's much more convenient. I'll never go back to standing...unless I'm outside and a bathroom is too far away. I live in a rural area, so I can get away with it. 😁
I'm a blind American male. I almost always sit, because you can't miss when you sit. When I stand, some urinals are lower to the ground than others; some have a larger bowl and some pretty small. If they were all uniform it would be easier. Public bathrooms in general are a pain in the ass for blind people. Is the toilet automatic flush? or is there a button or lever on the toilet, or a button on the wall? And do I really want to be feeling around to figure that out? Is the sink auto, or manual? What about the soap, and where is the damn soap dispenser? Is the trash bin across the room from the paper towels, or near? Are there even paper towel, or is it just the blowers? LOL. It's a challenge.
Bless you! My mother was blind and she would talk about these kinds of things all of the time in the context of accessibility. Like having Braille in places where no one would ever think to feel for the information! Or how sidewalk ramped curbs are wonderful for the wheelchair bound, but a nightmare for a blind cane user! Of course things are much better than they used to be! At least people think about accessibility and want to provide it, but there is so much more that could be done!
As an American stand-pee-er let me add: I always lift the seat, so the seat does not get splattered. I always aim the stream at an angle near the edge of the bowl, which minimizes splashing. And I lean forward as the arcing stream slows to a trickling dribble, to make sure it all falls into the bowl. And if I make a mess of the rim of the bowl, I will wipe it off with toilet paper. Am I allowed to pee standing?
Not if you come to my house. The stream can go awry. Divert, twist. And the drips can go anywhere. I don’t see the issue with sitting. It’s more relaxing. And what about in the middle of the night? You don’t want to break your night cycle with bright light.
This is my first time watching this channel and I got a compliment you on your English you speak better English than I do and I was born here so keep up the good work and you must have started learning English when you were very young
Years ago I was wearing shorts and when I peed standing up, I could feel tiny drops of water hitting my legs. I decided right then it was UNsanitary to stand. I have been sitting ever since. One lady from my church had six sons, she posted a sign for them to sit because with six of them, the area around the toilet could get messy in just one day.
As a guy in the US, it's perfectly accepted and almost expected that guys will stand up to pee. More what we run into here is putting the lid up when we do so and back down when we're done. Also, good aim is advocated and cleaning up if the aim isn't so good. While I agree, most guys seem to not pee standing up cleanly and it does make sense what you're saying, it's almost just as strange for a guy to admit to prefer sitting to pee. THAT SAID -- and this is kind of funny to admit -- I have enjoyed many a sit-down pee at home. Not because I've lost my manhood or because my wife is on me about it BUT because of three reasons. 1). Morning pees for most guys go better when sitting, if you don't understand why, ask one of your guy friends, they'll explain. 2). I have realized that stand-up pees can indeed be "spashy" and I don't like the smell of dried urine more than anyone else. 3). It's kind of nice. LOL. Probably most guys wouldn't admit this but peeing standing up involves a lot of concentration. Sometimes sitting down and letting it flow in complete relaxation isn't so bad, plus, when you well, um, shake the excess out, it's more contained. There you go!
@@millomweb must be an aussie thing. I've only seen "bog rolls" (LOL) next to urinals in China and I think I'd get a few looks washing my long John in the public toilet sink. 😂 Either way, I stand probably 97% of my pees.
I could see a sanitary benefit to sitting as opposed to standing. Sitting would reduce back spray. Standing urination does spread particulate urine into the air and by extension on the surrounding surfaces.
So does flushing - the 'contaminated' toilet water atomizes into the air... Close the lid before you flush. OMG! Flushing the toilet spreads the Corona virus: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/16/coronavirus-toilet-flushing/
Who would want to stand while urinating and get errant particulates on the floor when you can sit down to urinate against the porcelain or water at point blank range, coating your genitals with any such particulates instead?
Mike V: Agreed! If you can smell pee it means there is a mist of urine. Smell is particulate. So what does it mean when the herrenzimmer smells like poo? Figure it out.
Guten Morgan Feli, Wie geht es dir? I like your RUclips channel having German friends & been to Germany many times & like to practice your language which is not too bad 👍. This topic is a first for me, never heard of it till now (danke). I can see some advantages (mind you we might end up spending more time on the phone) 🤔 then again the phone won't fall down the loo if one was standing 👍😅, maybe I'll try it Feli 😃🤣. Btw Haben Sie Kleiderbügel? Tschüss 👋
As an Australian male, I tend to stand... *BUT* when traveling, on either trains, or aeroplanes I sit... The possible random movement while I'm 'busy' is enough to adjust my behaviour.
Train, airplane, and *especially* bus toilets are very hazardous because of movement. But I will still stand, every time, because the size of the bowls is absurdly small, and my member will always touch the bowl. That's *ABSOLUTELY* disgusting and not happening ever again!
@@m.k.2227 That is the most poorly thought out response and you are not alone. I suspect folks that think like you are city dwellers. Every living thing pees and craps from microscopic critter to Blue whales and they don't have bathrooms. Only mankind has come up with indoor plumbing. All peeing and crapping represent fertilzer after it breaks down. When you walk across your yard or a park or pasture your walking on some other species feces! Have you heard of composting toilets? Look it up with google. It makes way more since than our elaborate plumbing systems that waste huge amounts of water. Many "back to nature" gardeners these days are capturing their pee and using for fertilzer. I am not advocating chamber pots and dumping out the window on the street - supposedly happened in medival Europe. But S.E. Asia rice farmers use human dung for fertilzer and it seems to work very well. I can only assume they compost it 1st.
Danke für dieses Thema! I am Israeli living in Germany for 10 years now, moved here when I was 21. I would say in Israel no man pees while sitting. In Gernamy I had to learn to sit down. I guess some men find it somewhat awkward. I think the German way is nicer and more respectful. Just discovered your channel and I am loving it. Liebe Grüße aus Hamburg, werde mir jetzt die anderen Videos anschauen!
I was born in 1976 and I was taught or "potty trained" to pee standing up and to lift up the toilet seat beforehand and put it back down afterwards. I would bet money that this is what the majority of boys from my generation were taught to do when "peeing" or urinating.
The concept of a man sitting to pee is absolutely absurd to me and I was born in 84. Even some of my friends that grew up to be pussies don’t raise their kids to piss sitting
I sit down because I am old. I'm a dribbler, not the fire hose that I was in my youth. I'm a widower and I live alone. I have to clean the toilet and my floor by myself. That is, when I reach the toilet and the floor. Most times, I manage to pee on my shoes.
"On the eve of old age this physical difficulty inspired Dr Urbino with the ultimate solution: he urinated sitting down, as she did, which kept the bowl clean and him in a state of grace." Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wasn't going to mention this but I will. The few times in my life when I have peed sitting down I have always had to pee more once I stood back up and I end up making more mess than if I would have just peed standing in the first place.
I agree. Also while standing if you arch your back just a little it seems to get the pee juices flowing better. A better steady pee flow. I think men were designed or built more for standing and peeing.
I’m American, but I’ll always remember my father’s saying when I was a child in the bathroom “If you can hit it, sit on it ! “. So ever since then I’ve considered it sanitary and polite to sit rather than stand at a residence, but I will of course use a urinal at public restrooms.
@@willgaukler8979 citing the year is a baseless, substance-less, and fallacious argument. It is quite literally a fact that the perception in the US of a man sitting to pee is extraordinarily effeminate and essentially unheard of. It has nothing to do with being “evolved,” it’s just a cultural norm for men here to pee standing (and also far more liberating and practical if you’re not doing the cleanup).
@@jimobrien84 but someone else still has to do that clean up. It's "liberating" for you, more work for the women who have to clean up everyone's messes all the time with no help or consideration.
@@CallistaZM what makes you assume anyone, let alone a woman cleans it up? Or that cleanup is necessarily required? Most of the time there is no mess but if there is I clean it up myself right then
This is fascinating. As for me, I'm accused of being weird by both men and women. There is a reason. Firstly, I do usually pee standing up. But none would know this, and thus it isn't what makes me weird. What makes me weird is that I keep the toilet seat and lid closed at all times other than during active use. I lift the lid and seat to pee, then I close both, and then flush. The tell-tale sign someone other than me has been in my apartment is when the lid is up (a woman was here) or when both the lid and seat are up (a man was here). Seems everyone finds it odd that I do this. I know women tend to make a fuss about men leaving the seat up, but neither men nor women seem to have any thoughts on the lid. I know it's unusual only because it has come up multiple times over the course of my life. I think it's best to close the lid before flushing as that activity might lead to splashing or something, and keeping it closed adds an element of aesthetic niceness to the restroom. It has come up that if I had pets, this behavior would "make sense" but given I do not, it leaves only the "you're weird" option.
I stand up, too, and I leave my lid and ring up. In public places, the ring can get awful messy left down. What you do is not weird......it's sanitary, and I should but I don't. I've seen homes where they cover the seat with seat covers, and they leave the lid down just like you do......at home! You, sir, are rare in a good and healthy way, and you have my respect.
Glad you guys find this topic interesting! 😁 And I'm actually surprised to see how different the German comments are compared to the Americans - seems like this cultural difference is even bigger than I thought! 😱 Please keep sharing your experiences below - it's fascinating to read about them!
(This is the first part of my "Random Differences" mini-series! I'll be releasing a new part on a different topic every other day for the next 1.5 weeks, so make sure to subscribe and activate the bell to get notified when I upload a new episode. :) I hope you guys enjoy this series and this format and of course, I'll post my regular long, in-depth videos again in the future!)
So Felichen...will you do a short video on the differences of how Germans and Americans POOP?...LOL!
@@balancedactguy please no
Felicia, are bidets common in household bathrooms in Germany?
When you are very young its fun to play "Swords" with your buddy by crossing streams.
Not super common, I've only seen a few households in Germany who had them. And I think I haven't seen any in the US yet? 🤔
I'm an American man and I pee sitting down. But then again, I'm paraplegic and use a wheelchair. I do almost everything sitting down. 😜
Give that man a standing ovation.
@@Hans-gb4mv The women are allowed to give him standing ovulations as well.
As I wheelchair-user myself, I also had the "same thought".
Or better, was thinking of my male wheeler-friends, I do not have to have a discussion with, about "pee sitting down" here in Germany :) !
@@Hans-gb4mv I see what you did there.
Fellow paraplegic guy here. Represent!
As an American man, whether I sit or stand to pee just depends on how tired I am at the time 😂 I don't think we were ever told not to pee standing up as children, or at least I don't remember it. What I do remember are the little rhymes we learned in kindergarten about being clean when we pee: "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be neat and wipe the seat." Or "if you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie, wipe the seatie."
I was married to a lovely German girl from Ingolstadt for 61 years until God wanted her more than I did. I learned to sit to pee minutes after our honeymoon. Luise thought missing the toilet to mess up the floor was barbaric. I think standing to pee became fashion because most men wore suspenders in the old days, and it's a real pain to have to take your pants down if you're wearing them.
Thank you for explaining why standing up might be a popular thing… It’s one of those cultural things that if you grow up around it, you don’t really think about it until somebody points it out
I mean, we could just aim well? Its always confused me how public bathrooms’ floors are always covered in pee. We practice aiming our whole lives and some guys are still so sucky at it somehow.
lmao or you could just aim well, in majority of countries sitting down to pee whilst being a male is considered feminine.
Sitting down you would leave the toilet seat soaking wet. You would get in trouble for that when she sits down.
It's not really a thing here in our culture. However, not lifting the seat is considered extremely rude and disrespectful.
And not putting the seat down afterwards is considered a total and unforgivable insult.
Nigs Balchin, I agree wholeheartedly and I desperately wish my husband would put the seat down when he finishes his business.
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@@hume6900 you expect him to lift it and put it down. lets get some of that equality going
@@charg1nmalaz0r51, I do indeed especially in unisex bathrooms. I don’t want to have to put the toilet seat down, after some guy whom I don’t know and don’t necessarily want to know has a whiz. I am normally not a germaphobe, but, with all the things out there now, if you guys can lift the seat you can put it down again.
Ever since I started cleaning my own bathroom I have started sitting. Nobody aims as well as they think
That is the truth .
This
Lol! I make a bigger mess when I try sitting. It's much easier to just wipe up after peeing than to risk needing to change clothes.
Damn right!
I'm a man and I've never been able to pee sitting down. I just can't seem to make it "go."
I'm from Norway and was taught to stand up, but when I started helping in cleaning the toilet at around 12-13, I started always sitting down. I have always preferred standing, but it's not worth having to clean the stains. Whenever there is a urinal in a public bathroom, I will use that instead, because it is much more comfortable, quick and easy.
It really feels like it is taboo in Norway, and when my mom yelled at me for getting stains on the floor once, she did not believe me when I told her it couldn't be me since I sit down(It was my dad's fault, but it is very rare for him to leave stains on the floor, so she thought it was me).
We were always taught to clean up your own mess. This thing in Germany is not about manners it’s about the politics of feminization.
@@skunkhome Is it? I've always been sitting down on my own toilet even (or especially?) when I was single because I don't want to clean the fucking toilet twice a day. I mean we have much more serious societal and political problems than sitting down while peeing. I mean if you feel feminized by it, then keep on standing. But I just hate cleaning toilets.
@ Ok, I edited it: It's rare for him to leave stains of the floor.
If you think urine stains are what's gross about a bathroom, you're kind of ignorant. What's important is bacterial growth, particularly e.coli. You need to clean your bathroom regardless of whether or not there was urine stains. If you're cleaning your bathroom less often because you pee sitting down, that's even more disgusting than having urine stains.
In my company we have a sign at the urinal saying "Step closer, he's shorter than you think"
still stand but it takes longer than it used to
HA!
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Lol.. I always like this sign
I have a sign behind my toilet that says, "Do your worst."
It's amazing how quickly cultures change. I was stationed in Germany for three years and found that German men peed standing up like Americans. What I found strange was they peed where ever. In public against a building or handy wall. When I say in public I mean in front of everyone. No they were not drunk or on drugs, it's just what they did. The women passing by didn't bat an eye. Of course this was in the mid-seventies, about 50 years ago.
They did it while I was there 2005-2008 as well
Must be in Soviet Eastern Germany.
Eeew! 😣😝😖
Must be the French influence
Yes! My childhood friend in Germany also peed against a fence on our street. I'd forgotten til I read this.
No ma’am, not taught to sit down, however, taught to lift the seat prior to doing my business. I also taught my son, seat up, be respectful. If you make a mess somehow, clean up after yourself.
Seems like sitting down would make less splash and mess and would give you a bit of a break from being on your feet.
Same in countries of Visegrád Group. Maybe a train can be an excuse, but we don't sit. We only clean up after if we miss the target.
@@rhodawatkins4516 Right, if there's anything Americans need to do, it's to sit even more!
It's much faster to pee standing and clean up any mess you make than it is to pee sitting down. It's not even close.
@@papplebeast5039 Well, speaking as a female, I've often thought how lucky men have it to have the convenience of turning their backs and standing to pee if the need arose with not even a shrub to hide behind. For women, it is much more inconvenient when a restroom is not available. (This is, I'm pretty sure, one of the worst aspects of camping for women.) And as I get older, and have to be on my feet at work more than feels good many days, I begin to think of a sit-down pee break as a little luxury that most men miss out on. Just looking at it from a practical standpoint. To each his own.
Mom said if you won't lift the seat to pee and put it back down, you will sit to pee. After a week of sitting we were trained to lift and lower the seat.
When I was single I left the seat up all the time. When a female friend busted I'd tell them to leave the seat up when you finish. Only seemed fair and equal
Now that I'm married with two daughters I'm glad mom trained well
I'm from Germany, and pee sitting down when at home since in my experience that never causes a mess I have to clean up otherwise. When using a public toilet I prefer urinals since public toilet seats cannot generally be assumed to be clean.
If other people prefer to pee standing, that doesn't bother me as long as no mess is produced in my home. To each their own.
Sehr gut gesagt, ganz meiner Meinung.
I sit when in other people’s homes ALWAYS.
As an American male, and older, I wasn't taught to sit to pee. Later I did only because I realized that the splash made a mess and I prefer not to wash the surrounding area every few days. I know that I am the exception among men in my societal experience. On the other hand when I was in Germany a couple of years ago I was impressed beyond words by the urinals. I have never seen this design before and it is brilliant! The way the contours of the urinal are designed there is no back-splash! Nice
I'm German and I sit down to pee when I'm at home or at home of someone else (like friends home, etc.). I do pee standing and use the urinal at work and basically at all public places and I also pee standing out in the wild, far away from humanity, using a three (or something else).
I did refuse to sit down while peeing for quite some time when I was younger, up to my late teenage years. I was always careful, but realized that I underestimated the micro spay effect of peeing. At some point I could smell it and a little bit later I had to replace a heater, that was close to the toilet, because it became rusty and all of the protective paint was ruined. I decided to give it a try, hated it at first, but now I do like it a lot.
This. I never gave it much thought, until a friend said that she'd educated the men in her household, not wanting to clean up the spray. Since then I'm a card carrying 'Sitzpinkler'.
Also: Wheee! Bully!
Thats what I do in the USA also - especially now in the age of smart phones... i am sitting now :)
@@Ultrajamz Do you disinfect your smartphone before you leave the bathroom?
Theo Miller i have a bidet so many times I dont need to touch anything unsanitary...
Fragile masculinity?
What about women who “hover” to pee in public restrooms, because they don’t want to sit on the seat? As a person who’s first job was cleaning public restrooms, the women’s room was always dirtier than the men’s room.
Most of us can "hover" without pissing all over the seat. It's all in the thighs! Got to have the strong thighs to hover.
Jerry Camp, I concur with your observations (from my own experiences in having to do a deep cleaning of various restrooms in my younger years. This whole topic is nothing more than a means of wanting to control others. And, (men) if you DO "miss", be a man and clean up after yourself so you're not leaving your mess for the next person.
Yes of course hover pee’ers are annoying but please also realize some of those misses are from young boys. If you watch public restrooms, young boys often accompany their moms. I realized this when my sons would come in with me and become distracted by the novelty of a public bathroom.
@@victoriaseaman2785 Then, if mom has decency, she'll wipe up the "miss" from Jr., just as she'd appreciate someone doing within her own home's restroom.
@@paulaw418 there's been research, standing or sitting doesn't make much difference in emptying you bladder wel,
but hovering is really bad , you never empty your bladder like that ...
so don't stop hovering for critics, do it's for your long term health and to avoid proven higher risk on bladder infection from hovering to much!
a woman peeing on the ground sitting/squatting is a healthy possition duh,
so if american woman don't trust public toilet seat, they would be better of with french toilettes ;) .
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/French_Squatter_Toilet.jpg
I've tried sitting down to pee, but I fell off the urinal.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahahahaha
Did u end up smashing the urinal cake too?
Because of your fat ass, right? 🤣
I'll pee sitting down when they put vacuum tubes on my barstool.
When I studied in Japan, we stayed at a corporate retreat for cultural orientation boot camp before our host families picked us up. The most important topic? How to use traditional Japanese toilets, the ones you squat over. Later on, everyone had stories about seeing shoeprints on the rim of Western-style toilets in public restrooms.
The older I become , the more I find that my bladder empties more completely while standing. Although I prefer sitting. Also , the older I get the more I find it necessary to comment on things that are frivolous and odd!
"The more I find it necessary to comment on things that are frivolous and odd!" You mean that gets worse as you age? I'm in trouble, then[
sitting puts a bend in the urethra tube stopping the emptying of the last of the urine.
Bro lean back sit straight up and back.
@@teitel39 Or just forego the political statement and give in the your biology and *stand*.
I have the exact opposite experience.
Australian here: does anyone actually care? Personally, I stand - for the simple reason that if I sit I don't empty properly and need to go again the instant I stand up. Kinda defeats the purpose.
@R. A. I answered because she asked; I pondered why she asked is all. "Does anyone care?" It doesn't affect (or effect) me in the slightest whether someone in my own home sits or stands, let alone half a world away. Unless they make a mess and don't clean up after themselves. ;p
@@CyberiusT It's just for fun. Lighten up. Many people ponder such things. Especially if you come from another culture.
What? Are you saying men are different than women? I bet next is men can't have babies.
Dafuq are you talking about? Does anyone care? Yes literally everyone who has to clean toilets does fucking care! No matter where you are from, no matter how your toilets are designed, if you are standing while peeing in the toilet you will get splash that goes outside and stains the floor and the toilet rim. It is even worse for cultures where man are circumcised, because it is harder for them to control their piss jet. It is disgusting to clean up piss stain and it is so easily preventable. Also what you do is simply take two sheets of toilet paper and hold it at your pee hole while standing up so the last few drops go in the paper, it is not a big deal and easy to do. And whoever is cleaning your toilet will thank you for it! It is just rude, disgusting and such an old school thing to not sit down while peeing! If you had said you don't sit down because you are scared of spiders attacking you then I would have accepted that lol but your reasoning is just ridiculous.
When I got too old for my mother to take me into the women's room to pee, she headed me into a public men's room with instructions to use the hole in the floor. That was when it was common for urinals to be vertical from the floor up the wall for several feet. However, the first hole I came to was the floor drain! I man yelled, "Hey, kid! Stop doing that!" I quickly buttoned up and rushed out. (This was about 1946.)
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Haha, I remember when I was a kid and "peeing sitting down" became a trend, my mom would simply say, 'Either you sit down to pee or you'll be the only one responsible for cleaning the toilet from now on.'
You can imagine how quickly I got used to it. 😀
Stand and clean or be a female
In the US, in MY experience, "Be like Pop, not like Sis, Raise the lid before you piss". A "Lid-pisser" is considered both lazy and rude . Little Boys need to be taught THIS too one of the first things I learned as a tot.
Having cleaned public toilets men’s rooms are not as messy as women think. Women’s bathroom are dirtiest other than the area around the toilet.
As a person that has been a Janitor at many different places over the years,, You are spot on
Agreed the only place I have seen it the other direction is at hardware stores I worked at but you get something like 5 - 10 times the male traffic so
Yep! I cleaned for years and women's bathrooms are awful. I'm a woman but I can't give you an explanation as to why. Maybe, we go more often?🤷
@@mimi1568 Lots of women "hover"... As a father of three daughters mom tought then to never sit on public toilets!!
I have found that women sometimes (often?) spray the underside of the seat when peeing. I stand, but don't miss. Surely most men don't miss? Also I aim for the porcelain rather than the water, to avoid any chance of splashback.
So I asked all of my male friends (Germans and Austrians) and all of them told me this: at home they sit, in public toilets they stand (but this depends on the hygene).
That's a pretty good rule of thumb to go by. I don't ever want to sit on a public toilet unless I absolutely have to.
Other way around. 😂
Hear hear!
In public i stand, at home i sit. Thats how i do it, and thats how it makes sense imho.
In our German/Irish household we stand or sit basically how we feel, in public we stand
American: I stand to pee when not at home (for convenience and sanitary reasons), but mostly sit when in the comfort of my own home (to rest my legs and for ease of cleanup, if necessary).
Smart man
I'm English and I do this too, even my son does.
Sit down when at home and stand when in public bogs.
Thought I was probably the only man on the planet who did this....
Same!
this is exactly what i do too
I grew up in America and anytime my father peed he did it standing up and that is the way I learned. I do agree with you that standing up to pee can mean missing the toilet and peeing on the floor or on the rim of the toilet. It actually makes better sense to sit down to pee and avoid the mess of potentially missing the mark. Yes, having to sit down involves more steps and time. But it does present a cleaner outcome in the end. I would also add that sitting down shows respect to others and does not force others to deal with or clean up any mess you might make by standing up.
My mother taught me when at home to sit so to avoid making a mess. So as an adult, I do this in my home or a friends home out of respect for the cleanliness. In a public facility, I stand again due to lack of cleanliness.
That's the problem with women raising men..they teach you how to be a woman
Mom didn't exactly teach this, but once I started cleaning bathrooms, I started sitting...
@@DangerRussDayZ6533 he was a participation trophy baby 😂
or you could just aim better.
My Uncle once made a joke about this he said " my doctor wants me to sit down to pee" I said "why?" "Because he doesn't want me lifting anything heavy" lol
That's funny!
LOL!
I don't get it.
@@nobodyspecial3410 Woman get it!
@@nobodyspecial3410 Are you the uncle's wife?
I'm Mexican-American and sort of a trailblazer.
I pee LAYING DOWN!!!
So does my great grandfather. Is the name Johannsen Mexican?
How about peeing while standing, but you’re hand standing
@@jtheurp9101 the Morning Wood pee sometimes requires that bit of acrobatics.
I recommend to be consistent in fecal habits: Pee in the exact same position you poo!
@@robinschenk1799 so standing... On hands
I am Argentinian and when I was in Germany I was "lectured" on how to pee because of this 😂 I took it very personal, like I was a mess myself, I never knew it was a common practice.
You know the old saying, "When a man is in Rome, he pees as the Roman ladies do", right? Lol
It comes across as very intrusive, doesn't it. Telling men how to pee?! I pee standing up and I will not allow anybody to dictate to me how to pee.
@@npickard4218 As long as it's you who also cleans the floor and toilet regularly and doesn't leave it to your wife, that's perfectly fine too. If you pee standing up and the light comes in at the right angle, you can see a fine urine mist rising from the toilet and spreading evenly around the toilet.
But as long as the originator also cleans that away - no problem.
I'm an Australian man and we stand up. I'd only sit if I was tired like when you first get up in the mornings. But 95% of the time I'm standing. From my understanding it's culturally in Australia seen as masculine to stand. So most guys wouldn't wan't to do that.
Dang how tired are you 😂😂
@@1thess523 getting 4hrs sleep doing 20hr days with the Military bud.
Manly shmanly. I am a nurse in the US and men do both. Old men sit. Common sense, not a misogynist slur.
With 3 sisters, I was harassed into sitting as a child. Getting teased now when people find out is amusing. Easier to clean the bathroom though, which is why I, as a bachelor, continued to do so. I do get great joy when in the woods, as I can let it all hang out! Even been known to take a walk in the back yard !!! Signed, a Manly man . . .
Your American friends are correct, that isn’t really a thing in the US. First I’ve heard of it, honestly.
I'm with you Brother! I'll second that!!
Not a thing in Canada either.
Back in the late 1950s, my dad taught me that "men pee standing up". My parents were raised on farms in northwestern Illinois. They had outhouses (don't want to waste time in there!) and were usually far away in the fields in every kind of weather. Peeing while standing next to the tractor (or horses before that) made a lot of sense.
In the Philippines, it is practically unheard of, for men to pee sitting down.
In the Philippines, most signs you see on the street are in English.
An exception is an occasional sign in Filipino that says: "Don't urinate here"
Hi Feli, in Mexico I have never been told to sit to pee and the first time I traveled to Germany my ex girlfriend told me about sitting to pee, i never thought about it before and now I sit every time at home and pee standing when needed. No body else that I know does this in Mexico, but I find it respectful to others
My male ancestry is Austrian and German and Peeing sitting down was thought to be done only by effeminate men. I was born in 1951 so it may generational!
Yes, it is. I was born early 80's and in kindergarten the boys still were taught to stand. It just startet really to change a lot in the early 90's. I remember how it became public topic. I think it was through the discussions at the time that the term Sitzpinkler became big as a joke against that increasing demand to sit down. There are still men who are afraid to seem feminine but I think in younger generations (than mine) there are fewer of them.
Paul Bender. I was born In 1976. I don't think It's generational. It makes no sense to me to pee sitting down If you're a guy.
@@cassidy99ful Perhaps if you're multitasking, doing a #1 and #2 at the same time?
@@cassidy99ful it does if you're a widower and you clean your own bathroom!
Paul, I was also born in 51. Happy 69th. I spent my first seven years on this Earth living on a farm / Ranch property 22 miles from any Town, with only 32 volt windcharger - with battery, electric lights. No running water, and an out house. You pissed on that seat, and you got your ass whipped , with a belt!!!
I sit to pee most of the time, unless it just happens to be more convenient to stand. I didn't grow up with anyone saying "make sure to stand/sit when you pee", but I was reading a LOT as a kid, so I would keep magazines in our bathroom and I would just sit and read for awhile - that's pretty much why I still sit most of the time as an adult.
A lot of men have developing prostate problems and sitting is just more effective for middle aged men like me.
It's called Benign Prostatic Hyperplasty (or Hyperthropy). BPH for short. I worked for a Medical company years ago that made a device to treat it. Used a #9 French catheter with a microwave emitter in it that "cooked" the prostate and enabled the patient to pee again. And no loss of "other" functions... First time I saw it I got light headed and had to sit down. I hope I never have to have something the diameter of a 9mm bullet placed there!
Yeah , I have a less than roaring start and a tapering finish, so sitting is the way to go.
@@PhilG999 Had to undergo a catheter treatment some 8 years ago. The urethra was scarred. The Urologist told me right away that I must have had a tripper when I was young. He was right. So sometimes one has to pay for something (Jugendsünde) long forgotten.
That whole balagan was no fun - I tell you.
Totally agree! Much easier to keep from making a mess when sitting. I always sit at home and when visiting friends homes.
@@mraufanmike Of course you could clean up the mess yourself when you're finished as an alternative.
My favorite bathroom signs: We aim to please, so will you please aim! And: Stand closer. It's shorter than you think!
The best one I ever saw said "Boat captains with short tow ropes, *please* pull closer to the dock." I laughed so hard when I saw that one.
Lol
Poor marksmanship?
That's a sign that would get me to hit everything except the bowl...
I saw a "We aim to please, you aim too, please!" at the Newport Or. Eagles club and the "Stand closer. Its shorter than you think." one at the Eagles club 8n Hood River Or. I had to let loose a laugh at those
In America saying “I bet you pee sitting down” is one of the worst insults you can say to a man.
Yeah just like Sitzpinkler haha but I mean I hope it's clear how dumb and ridiculous that is 😂
Wow... I've lived in the US all my life and I don't think I've ever heard that. :)
@@josephcoram4361 you must not be blue collar then.
German Girl in America it’s pretty much just calling them a woman and emasculating them. It wouldn’t be much of an insult to any reasonable person, but the meathead, jockey, “alpha” types would find it offensive. Side note: alphas don’t exist in our species. Even though people have told me I’m one, I think they’re moronic.
@@FelifromGermany For a guy, standing to pee is just quicker and more efficient. Aren't Germans know for their efficiency?? LOL!
I was in Germany, and my hosts stopped for gas. I used the WC, and as I stood there, peeing, I read a sign on the wall, "Bitte nicht im Stehen pinkeln." I memorized the phrase and asked my hosts what it meant. "Please do not stand to pee," they said. "Too late," I laughed. Thanks for the informative and entertaining videos!
Weren't there any graphics?? 😂
I'm a 58yo male I believe most of us were taught to pee sitting down around 1-1 1/2 - 2yo then around 3-4 yo taught to stand and pee well that's how I taught my son because if you sit and pee and forget to point or hold your wee wee down you can end up peeing between the seat and toilet ending in up in your pants
only if you have a TEEEEEENY weenie
Sounds about right.
@@benjaminhardesty2106 You obviously aren't secure with your masculinity if you make comments about other men's genitalia.
As American this one is strange to me. I never ever seen seen such signs anywhere and i never heard of anyone being told to sit down while peeing. Something tells me ladies in Germany made this a thing because they are the ones that mostly do cleaning and got tired of cleaning up random pee .
Yeah, that's the reason for most of the men. Either because they have to clean it themselves or because they respect the wish of the woman who cleans the toilet.
Sounds like a good reason to me.
ladies wouldn't discuss the subject, because ladies. "Lady" doesn't mean "has a vagina".
However, this probably became a thing in Germany because feminism, not because cleaning.
@@Hiraghm in the 60ies mostly women were the ones who had to clean upo this disgusting mess. so there is a connection to cleaning!
American male from the Midwest here. Was taught to pee standing, so that’s what I do. I ain’t changing now.
Real men don't squat.
Hell, I'm old and can't pee sitting.
Pp 2 smol, i sit down i make mess all over balls and seat.
Stand, You clean the toilet and the bathroom. -My wife!
@@rickmiller1429 Better get that prostate looked at. It's probably a bit too big.
For me, it was definitely that the idea of "sitzpinkler" exists in the US, and it was probably even more apparent in the small town I grew up in. As an adult it no longer effects my decision making, but it is the reason I became accustomed to standing in the first place.
As an American, I thought all men peed standing up. Kind of surprising to hear that German men don't all pee standing up.
I think it depends.
If you are at your house you can do as you wish. I bet still most sit down at home, because they have to clean it themselves.
If you are at someone else's house it is considered pretty rude to spay pee all over the bathroom.
At every place where there are urinals (restaurants, disco, workplaces,...) men usually stand to pee.
I agree. I never thought of it and had no idea it was a thing. Might have to give it a try!
@@tiberius8390 I pee standing up and have never had a problem "spraying pee all over the bathroom". I can only guess that men who have this issue either shake it alot(this is seen as masturbation and frowned upon or was in my youth) or it is so short it doesn't actually hang down toward said toilet.
We like to hang our balls in the water
@@O-D-X Just place some newspaper around the toilet and wait how much pee you'll see not hitting the bowl.
In England virtually every man stands too pee.. to sit down is considered feminine (unless there's a good reason obviously)
austria here, that must be a german beta male thing, we stand, regardless of day and night
we try to aim even in the dark, we may fail but we will stand
Exactly. Don't be a sitzpinkler. I need to remember this word. 🤣
The only time I sitzpinkle (is that a word?) is in the middle of the night when I'm not going to turn the light on. Btw I'm Canadian.
Same in America, sitting down is emasculating. Also it's common courtesy to leave a urinal gap between another dude, unless there are dividers. You are NEVER supposed to make eye contact or look over at someone while using a urinal. Men don't talk to each other if they are both going pee. You have to keep distance from the urinals or toilets if you do talk. The most important rule of all, NEVER drop your pants.
And do you agree with that sterotype that it's feminine? Cause I think it's completely ridiculous.
@AcaciaStrain82 What's your problem? Anime are just TV shows and they have a very wide variety of genres and themes, like American shows. There are also shows for adults with complex themes. You can't generalize anime since they are very different from one another! Just let people watch and do whatever they want, because it's not affecting you at all!
FYI - Chuck Norris never flushes. He scares the crap down the toilet.
Lmao
Lol
And you can bet your ass he doesn’t sit down to urinate!
John Galt, nice name lol
John Galt It’s fine line, if you’re Chuck Norris you might ‘scare the crap out’ of the toilet.
LOL--there is an insult to a man's masculinity in the US too: "I bet you even squat when you pee." The big "thing" in the US IMHE is leaving the seat up/not putting it down after a male pees.
Standing g up to pee is a metaphor for men being in charge.
I am American. I think generally what I have noticed in American culture is peeing standing up is considered more masculine. Sitting down is for the ladies. With that said, I do both depending on how much time I have and my mood. If I am in a rush it is always standing up. If I am worried about germs, I stand up. If I am feeling lazy or just want a relaxing bathroom session, I sit. Being introverted, sometimes I feel the bathroom is a place you can go to have a moment to yourself and regroup, so I always do that sitting down. I have told other men I sit down to pee and I do get weird looks sometimes. So it is interesting that Germans prefer sitting down!
Standing up is way quicker and easier. Also sitting down can be just as messy, I've cleaned a lot of toilets and the underside of the seat can get covered with back splash from high pressure peeing male or female sitting down. So really, how you pee is nobody else's business, but either way the polite thing to do is clean up afterwards.
But, but , but, if I saw a sticker demanding that I pee sitting down, my inner contrarian would be damn sure to pee standing up.
This post is exactly right in my opinion.
Exactly
Exactly! One size does not fit all.
Agree!
I believe many European toilet bowls have these 'shelves' near the front, perhaps some kind of water saving feature? Peeing into one of those standing up will likely cause more splashing than in North American toilets.
“You sit to pee” was an insult when I was in high school and even into college. I could see where some would think it would be less messy potentially if we would sit. But it is just so much more convenient to stand, and it has never ever been a topic of conversation, nor has anyone even expressed their preference. It just is not a thing. At all! Besides. Who wants to sit in a public restroom anyway?
The peeing habits differ a lot from country to country. In the GDR, where I was born, it was usual to pee standing at home and outside. After reunification of Germany it was funny to realize, that the West German men are "sitters". :p
The West was infected with man-hating feminism, that's why.
Funny. :D My experience was the other way around ;) In our family it has always been the norm to pee sitting down. After the reunification of Germany, I noticed only through contact with the West, that this was probably not common over there. Or the West Germans have complained louder... I don't know.
Otherwise, I know it only from the so-called 'village idiots' who peed standing up. But they also bragged about having fallen into a ditch while drunk or about having been left behind at school. So no real standard of comparison.
Only time I pee sitting down is when I’m taking a dump 🤷🏻♂️
Same here
Any other time is gay af.
In America men actually know how to aim their d*ck
If guys wanna pee like a girl, I guess they can. I’m sure that isn’t the only thing they do like girls.
Lol dont we all?
I'd love to see more of the bathroom and toilet paper differences between the countries. Sounds interesting.
As an American who lived in Germany for two years, there are a few more differences on this topic than you mentioned in the video, but then I wouldn't have expected you to be aware of them. I'm not going to mention all of them because I do not know how I would explain one without being inappropriate, but just a couple come immediately to mind:
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Urinals? What urinals. Every men's facility I saw had a designated wall with a trough and a drain in the floor. Some of the nicer ones had water that would flow down the wall like a sanitary water feature, usually at widely spaced intervals.
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Cleaning ladies would wander in and out performing their chores. I heard one or two men grumble about it once, but in most cases no one, including me, cared about it.
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Sit down at home, absolutely. Urine splashes on everything, including the clothes and shoes you are wearing. The acidity of urine is high enough that it will blister paint and stain wood. In time, even the microscopic droplets that mist the air will damage walls and floors, and not great for your shoes. You might be nose-blind to the smell, but your visitors aren't.
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In a public restroom the facilities are there, so sure, use them. Some men are shy enough that they won't use the urinals and would rather use the toilet stalls, but then leave the seat down and go standing up. Hey, this isn't a cesspool, sit down, raise the seat, or use the urinal. If you are squeamish and don't want to touch the seat to raise it, then think about the next person who has to clean it off, or have to bypass that unit altogether.
@KRASH KA It has been a few decades since I lived overseas.
We used to have these urinal walls in Europe as well. They have mostly fallen out of use, except in those high tech space public toilets that are all stainless steel, where they have water running down that wall.
the wall type ones have been in Australia for years , we also have the single one too..,
The scene of Michael Herbig (Bully) in the beginning killed me :D I prefer sitting so there is no risk of getting urine somewhere else than the toilet and it is way cleaner in the bathroom so it doesn't need that much cleaning :D It's just more practical for me..
Gr8 video again :)
I'm an American, but I always sit down at my place and at other folk's homes. I have saying. Toilets are for sitting and urinals are for standing. Having to clean my own bathroom, it becomes very apparent that peeing standing up leads to over splash and more messy to clean up. In fact, placing a urinal in bathrooms has become more popular.
It splashes in urinals aswell. So not that big of an advantage. I pee standing at home and just focus in not making a mess.
I think this topic assumes a urinal is not available.
how do you feel about urinals being a home bathroom norm?
One of my favorite German words! Sitzpinkeler! I never thought you’d do a video about it though...I think the preference pertains to if it is your own home toilet. No one has a urinal at home in US or DE. When the toilet is shared between the two genders, women seem to prefer/demand that the toilet seat is left down. Apparently I’ve been told they some times “forget” to check that it’s down, which is silly and perhaps one deserves to see the consequence which will help ensure she always checks. Most Women I know wipe after peeing, men don’t, we “shake the snake” (wie sagt mann das auf Deutsch). This results in more random drops in spots other than the toilet bowel. For that reason at home ich bin Sitzpinkeler. Guys can shake the snake harder when sitting and not have pee droplets go everywhere.
@Pustekuchen in Österreich sagt man auch "ausbeidln" dazu :)
In new build houses urinals are not that uncommon in Germany. In the most cases I heard that the wife demanded a urinal so the man is not in temptation.
I have a toilet with seat and lid. I demand both to be down. I will not be the only one having to lift something when under pressure. 🧐
@@Be-Es---___ Yep. My wife and I agreed to keep the lid down when we first got married and it makes the work equal for everyone. No arguments. Plus then the dogs don't drink out of the toilet.
I spent 20 years in the United States Marine Corps and I can assure you.....none of us sat while peeing.
As a matter of fact, some of the crazier and drunker Marines stood while CRAPPING TOO!
Squad bay dumping.... A man with no fear, looks another in the eye while grunting.
The Marines are on a whole other level of crazy, even crazier than the infamous Florida man.
Even Indians and Boy Scouts at least squat!
That's some hard-core crapping!
But on the real..how do you keep from dropping deuce right down on your shoe-heels or into the pants around your ankles?
@@VolcanoEarth Use your deuce bulls eye aiming tool!
My American raising on this subject was as follows
It doesn't matter how you use the toilet to pee, just be respectful and clean up any mess you may make.
Marble stains easily, not smart for a floor in the bathroom or kitchen counter.
marbles floors should be sealed to prevent staining, a lil maintenace goes a long way but ppl are lazy n cheap, thats not the tenants fault tho.
Not smart to miss the bowl, either. Plenty do it, though, especially drunk. That said, I’d not have marble in the bathroom.
“The cleaning your own bathroom” comments are interesting, I clean my bathroom, but I still stand and some how manage not to make a mess, not sure what’s going on with everyone else.
Small droplets... you're still pissing all over the place.
Use black light and ull see the reason for sitting down.
I guess they weren’t taught how to aim
@@mistermeanial1690 If you have no black light use water with colour. It's not about aiming it's about physics. There are no water rays which don't produce droplets besides the main ray.
For me sitting on the toilet is messier because I seem to have quite a high peeing pressure. When I pee standing up I can aim at certain parts of the toilet to prevent splashing as much as possible but when sitting down my ass and the toilet seat get covered in tiny piss droplets from below as my pee comes out at too high a pressure to not splash everywhere upon impact with the toilet bowl
I'm American and this is the 1st time I have ever heard of this
Me too.
It's all over radical feminist and WOKE culture in US.
I raised 3 boys. I taught them both ways. Although, they preferred to stand after a certain age. (Mostly when they started being more social with other boys). Btw, born in the states, but traveled all over the world. I love history & experiencing other cultures.
you love experience how other culture make urine god bless you
As an american I was taught to stand to pee. As I got older I learned medically that it was better to sit down to pee. Not in as much of a hurry, more appt to fully empty the bladder, which is very important as a male gets older and starts experiencing enlarged prostate gland issues. However I never gave it much thought and I lived in Germany for fifteen years. It was also taught that a male sitting to pee was a "Wussy" a girl...Interesting topics!
I stand at the end of the back porch.... I thought everybody did that...
I just open the backyard door and take a leak
ONLY when it's the "back porch" of a boat and we're not in a 'public' place.
I thought I was only one that did that..I just took a screen shot of ur post and sent it to my down stairs Neighbor ...told them to stop bitching I ain't the only one in the world that pees off there deck.lol
Me too, when I was a kid my mum wondered why there were brown dead patches on the grass, I never fessed up!
Guys fertilize the trees and shrubs. Women tinkle.
Not even the woman sit down on a PUBLIC rest rooms.
Girls told me that they will not sit down in any toilette outside of their home
If you find the seat dubious, you can hold you're butt above it.
They hover.
It’s really no worse than using a air hand dryer, touching the faucet to wash your hands, or the door handles... actually I’d bet the toilet seat is cleaner than the sink. Just saying.
Yeah most women I know say they do a hover. The reason they usually hover is because the seat is covered in pee from other women hovering. I'm American but damn do I hate public restrooms in America for multiple reasons.
Shadow Prince YES, I can see how that is true! Hovering CAN splash. I’ve seen toilets I wouldn’t sit on before because of this. But if I can’t see any mess on there I sit all the way and I haven’t died yet.
Helo Feli, great video, nice topic...can't wait to watch your next video..greeting from Indonesia
I’m German living in Texas and sometimes have friends over for beer and football, but after one of the games my wife who is from Texas was so angry about pee on the floor she put up signs in the bathroom on game days that read ‘If you pee in my house your ass better be sitting down.’
What city, I live in Austin
@@mrcloyd3681 Plano
I'd just laugh at such a stupid sign and piss the way I normally do. Who gives a shit what someone else thinks or wants in regards to your bathroom habits. If you make a mess, be respectful and clean it up.
In canada we are never taught to pee sitting down, as far as I know its the same in the US. Its even funnier when you realize there are commercials for devices for women to pee standing up, LOL.
Def not the same in US. Virtually all public men’s bathrooms have urinals.
@@beetee4295 I don’t think having urinals in public is relevant.. lots of guys are taught to sit at home in Canada but use the urinal in public
Next time some guy calls you “you pee like a girl” and you can say “Nein, I pee like a German!”
But u have to shout it in the way hollywood movies picture the germans.
"NEIN, NEIN, NEIN! Ich pisse wie ein Deutscher! ....Das war ein Befehl! .... Mit dem Wischmob von Steiner wird das alles in Ordnung kommen!"
I always pee like that if another guy points it out i'm going to say "WHY THE HELL ARE YOU IN MY STALL" then piss on him
Too Deutch from your part.
Same thing, German = girl
@james westfall welp guess i'm a girl now damn
Hello Felicia, I saw in 1967 , men in Port Said, Egypt, that they used white cloths to dry themselves after peeing. Important, since they wear long white clothes. I have been sitting down for more than 10 years and I always use a little toilet paper not to mess up underwear, Greetings from Sweden. I love Germania of all my heart !!
I prefer to stand, it's easier just to open the zipper and feeling like a firefighter is fun aswell :)
But since i don't have a urinal at home, I sit down so I don't have to clean up the toilet that often.
That's what back yards are for.
it's impossible to play longest distance and highest arch games when sitting
My 5 year old said he could pee farther than me while we were peeing on the side of the road two days ago.
I'm bamboozled by men peeing outdoors with other men
Challenge accepted!
Something a woman would NOT understand: When sitting, I find that I don't empty as much as when I stand. Maybe it's just me. Otherwise, it's much more convenient standing ..... and I always leave it clean. I've heard from cleaning people that women's public bathrooms are generally messier than men's.
True, wome s public restrooms are dirty because we are taught not to touch anything and if we drop toilet paper on the floor, we won't pick it up (because it's dirty) we wash our hands anyway but there is not always facilities to wash properly. Its embarrassing as a female. -L.
Well, l'm a (German) female and l know about this. I have learned it decades ago that squatting is actually the best and most natural way to pee and poop especially like they still do in many countries.
Get a foot stool or squatty potty for ideal cancer preventing bowel emptying and keep sitting when it's hygienic enough to empty your bladder completely and avoid alleged health problems that occur frim incomplete bladder emptying.
Or eat as alkaline as possible and stay hydrated which is always a good idea, anyway!
P. S. I never sit down in public toilets and avoid them whenever possible! But more because of the toxic chenicals/perdumed cleaning products used than the stench.
Visiting the USA l was positively surprised by the clean toilets that used very little water and had a kind of suction mechanism.
But then again, l see so many water wasting videos online.
@@shantinaturechild6385 that's true regarding bowel emptying in squatted position, sitting is not a natural position for humans to do this as can be seen on this page: kakilak.rs (it's in Serbian but pictures/animations are easy to comprehend, and there's always Google Translate is someone is more interested)
and no, I'm not selling this thing, haha :)
IMHO, peeing sitting down for men in Germany is feminist movement gone overboard, it's not natural and doesn't even help toilet cleanliness that much
@Ron Smith: on the contrary, you'll definitely *do* empty your bladder a bit more when sitting, that's first semester anatomy. Besides, you may take it as a surplus/ fun fact, that way peeing you'll end up releasing a little more farts, too. See? More-more-more, win-win-win. ,)
However, do as you like, as long as you're not a guest of mine. ,)
Me too
Watching this series from Finland is very interesting, you learn about both the German and American cultures.
In here, I guess it really depends on the family, in my family men usually sit down to pee at home (the toilet seats also tend to be quite low and the men in our family are quite tall, so that makes aiming even more difficult). And I think only one person has ever commented on that, so it's probably not that unusual. When living with roommates, I was constantly annoyed at one person who always left the toilet seat up...
Funny. I am an American and pee standing up, but if the toilet seat is up, it means my wife used the toilet last. I always completely close the toilet (ring and seat/lid down) whereas she lifts the seat to use the ring and doesn't bother lowering the seat/lid back down.
@@jasonbailey9139 wait, wait, wait... your wife SITS on the RING???
@@rameynoodles152 don't you? You've got the bowl, the ring that flips up, and the lid that flips up. I lift the ring and lid to use it and lower both to flush.
@@jasonbailey9139 Ah ok, you call it something different from the norm. You said lid/seat, but to most people, the lid is not the seat. What you call the ring is what most call the seat, because you're supposed to sit on it. The ring to most people is the edge of the bowl that the seat lays on top of.
Thank you for the interesting topic. I was taught to urinate standing up and while I do urinate sitting or standing, I find that I empty my bladder more fully standing. I will say though, that urinating sitting, does keep the bowl and area around it much cleaner.
ha ha i will be right back coffee is making an appearance again
I'm Dutch and we have a restroom with a urinal and a standard toilet bowl at home. That makes life easy.
I think urinals should become common in American homes, as well a bidets.
How charming...
Honestly, as a German who also grew up in the 90s and early-to-mid 2000s, I have always peed standing up, and up until watching this video, I had always assumed that men who sit down to pee were a tiny minority, like maybe 15-20%, so this *really* surprised me.
I'm a man of this age too. My thoughts were exactly the opposite 😂 But I knew this surveys and were surprised that only 50 % are sitting.
Stand! Because you can!
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I originally started sitting to pee because of prostate issues, but I found that it's much more convenient. I'll never go back to standing...unless I'm outside and a bathroom is too far away. I live in a rural area, so I can get away with it. 😁
I'm a blind American male. I almost always sit, because you can't miss when you sit. When I stand, some urinals are lower to the ground than others; some have a larger bowl and some pretty small. If they were all uniform it would be easier. Public bathrooms in general are a pain in the ass for blind people. Is the toilet automatic flush? or is there a button or lever on the toilet, or a button on the wall? And do I really want to be feeling around to figure that out? Is the sink auto, or manual? What about the soap, and where is the damn soap dispenser? Is the trash bin across the room from the paper towels, or near? Are there even paper towel, or is it just the blowers? LOL. It's a challenge.
Man I never thought of all that. Best wishes & Good luck!
I agree with everything you said 👍🏼 (but can you “read” my comment?)
@@tugboat2 Yes. I hae speech enabled on my computer, so what you see on screen, my computer reads to me aloud.
If a public toilet is a pain in the ass to use, you likely forgot to lift the lid. 😉 Or you sat on something. 😳
Bless you! My mother was blind and she would talk about these kinds of things all of the time in the context of accessibility. Like having Braille in places where no one would ever think to feel for the information! Or how sidewalk ramped curbs are wonderful for the wheelchair bound, but a nightmare for a blind cane user! Of course things are much better than they used to be! At least people think about accessibility and want to provide it, but there is so much more that could be done!
As an American stand-pee-er let me add: I always lift the seat, so the seat does not get splattered. I always aim the stream at an angle near the edge of the bowl, which minimizes splashing. And I lean forward as the arcing stream slows to a trickling dribble, to make sure it all falls into the bowl. And if I make a mess of the rim of the bowl, I will wipe it off with toilet paper. Am I allowed to pee standing?
Exactly!!!!
Thank you. You are litterally one in a million, Sir
That's just common courtesy. We need more men like that.
Not if you come to my house.
The stream can go awry. Divert, twist. And the drips can go anywhere.
I don’t see the issue with sitting. It’s more relaxing. And what about in the middle of the night? You don’t want to break your night cycle with bright light.
Taste the inside of your toilet seat cover and then brag again about precision. You guys are so funny...
Standing to pee was what I was taught. Sitting never occurred to me and the presence of urinals reinforced the standing scenario.
This is my first time watching this channel and I got a compliment you on your English you speak better English than I do and I was born here so keep up the good work and you must have started learning English when you were very young
Years ago I was wearing shorts and when I peed standing up, I could feel tiny drops of water hitting my legs. I decided right then it was UNsanitary to stand. I have been sitting ever since. One lady from my church had six sons, she posted a sign for them to sit because with six of them, the area around the toilet could get messy in just one day.
I bet that made you think about what was also hitting the legs of your trousers too. Definitely an EW! moment huh?
We, Russian guys, just secretly use the sink
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Hmmmm this has been bugging me alot lately, i also was wearing shorts and noticed this same thing!
@@milliethemog I have often wondered if there is and how much splash back occurs when you guys pee into a urinal.
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As a guy in the US, it's perfectly accepted and almost expected that guys will stand up to pee. More what we run into here is putting the lid up when we do so and back down when we're done. Also, good aim is advocated and cleaning up if the aim isn't so good. While I agree, most guys seem to not pee standing up cleanly and it does make sense what you're saying, it's almost just as strange for a guy to admit to prefer sitting to pee.
THAT SAID -- and this is kind of funny to admit -- I have enjoyed many a sit-down pee at home. Not because I've lost my manhood or because my wife is on me about it BUT because of three reasons. 1). Morning pees for most guys go better when sitting, if you don't understand why, ask one of your guy friends, they'll explain. 2). I have realized that stand-up pees can indeed be "spashy" and I don't like the smell of dried urine more than anyone else. 3). It's kind of nice. LOL. Probably most guys wouldn't admit this but peeing standing up involves a lot of concentration. Sometimes sitting down and letting it flow in complete relaxation isn't so bad, plus, when you well, um, shake the excess out, it's more contained. There you go!
"Shake the excess out" - Bog roll is handy for that. There's no bog roll next to the urinals :( No matter, I can wash it in the sink.
@@millomweb must be an aussie thing. I've only seen "bog rolls" (LOL) next to urinals in China and I think I'd get a few looks washing my long John in the public toilet sink. 😂 Either way, I stand probably 97% of my pees.
@@wizardmix Well, I guess if washing it in the sink didn't work, you'd have to dry it under the hot air hand dryer :)
@@millomweb So many positive things a man can do in the airport loo!
How do you bend it with the "morning" pee? Is yours that small? More like standing and bent at a angle works much better.
I could see a sanitary benefit to sitting as opposed to standing. Sitting would reduce back spray. Standing urination does spread particulate urine into the air and by extension on the surrounding surfaces.
So does flushing - the 'contaminated' toilet water atomizes into the air... Close the lid before you flush.
OMG! Flushing the toilet spreads the Corona virus:
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/16/coronavirus-toilet-flushing/
Well recognized, it's disgusting!
Who would want to stand while urinating and get errant particulates on the floor when you can sit down to urinate against the porcelain or water at point blank range, coating your genitals with any such particulates instead?
Just aim properly.
Mike V: Agreed! If you can smell pee it means there is a mist of urine. Smell is particulate. So what does it mean when the herrenzimmer smells like poo? Figure it out.
Guten Morgan Feli, Wie geht es dir? I like your RUclips channel having German friends & been to Germany many times & like to practice your language which is not too bad 👍. This topic is a first for me, never heard of it till now (danke). I can see some advantages (mind you we might end up spending more time on the phone) 🤔 then again the phone won't fall down the loo if one was standing 👍😅, maybe I'll try it Feli 😃🤣. Btw Haben Sie Kleiderbügel? Tschüss 👋
I've long been a believer in, "Sit when you can, stand when you must."
The latter case being on a crowded subway.
Stefam Fisher - I'm a man, entitled to stand, so I must.
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Of course you would sitzpinkler
What men can do, women can learn, too! ruclips.net/video/AJtXQu-0tTE/видео.html
@@saltymcsaltface reconsider your plans for continued tenure of this mortal coil.
As an Australian male, I tend to stand... *BUT* when traveling, on either trains, or aeroplanes I sit... The possible random movement while I'm 'busy' is enough to adjust my behaviour.
Train, airplane, and *especially* bus toilets are very hazardous because of movement. But I will still stand, every time, because the size of the bowls is absurdly small, and my member will always touch the bowl. That's *ABSOLUTELY* disgusting and not happening ever again!
Australian man aged over 60 who stands: Never ever heard of this issue before. There is a benefit from having houses with back yards.
No neighbors... front yard... ftw
wow... sorry but thats just disgusting
Yessir
Too many venomous snakes in Australia to pee in nature.
@@m.k.2227 That is the most poorly thought out response and you are not alone. I suspect folks that think like you are city dwellers. Every living thing pees and craps from microscopic critter to Blue whales and they don't have bathrooms. Only mankind has come up with indoor plumbing. All peeing and crapping represent fertilzer after it breaks down. When you walk across your yard or a park or pasture your walking on some other species feces! Have you heard of composting toilets? Look it up with google. It makes way more since than our elaborate plumbing systems that waste huge amounts of water. Many "back to nature" gardeners these days are capturing their pee and using for fertilzer. I am not advocating chamber pots and dumping out the window on the street - supposedly happened in medival Europe. But S.E. Asia rice farmers use human dung for fertilzer and it seems to work very well. I can only assume they compost it 1st.
Danke für dieses Thema! I am Israeli living in Germany for 10 years now, moved here when I was 21. I would say in Israel no man pees while sitting. In Gernamy I had to learn to sit down. I guess some men find it somewhat awkward. I think the German way is nicer and more respectful. Just discovered your channel and I am loving it. Liebe Grüße aus Hamburg, werde mir jetzt die anderen Videos anschauen!
I was born in 1976 and I was taught or "potty trained" to pee standing up and to lift up the toilet seat beforehand and put it back down afterwards. I would bet money that this is what the majority of boys from my generation were taught to do when "peeing" or urinating.
The concept of a man sitting to pee is absolutely absurd to me and I was born in 84. Even some of my friends that grew up to be pussies don’t raise their kids to piss sitting
I’m 10 years older, yep! And you learned real quick not to let the toilet seat fall while you where still peeing🤢😵💫
I sit down because I am old.
I'm a dribbler, not the fire hose that I was in my youth.
I'm a widower and I live alone. I have to clean the toilet and my floor by myself.
That is, when I reach the toilet and the floor.
Most times, I manage to pee on my shoes.
"On the eve of old age this physical difficulty inspired Dr Urbino with the ultimate solution: he urinated sitting down, as she did, which kept the bowl clean and him in a state of grace." Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"My aim is to keep these toilets clean, your aim would be appreciated"
A common sign over the public toilet: We aim to please, you aim too, please.
Love your perkiness and energy!
I feel like I can get more pee volume out of my system while standing vs. sitting.
Wasn't going to mention this but I will. The few times in my life when I have peed sitting down I have always had to pee more once I stood back up and I end up making more mess than if I would have just peed standing in the first place.
I agree. Also while standing if you arch your back just a little it seems to get the pee juices flowing better. A better steady pee flow. I think men were designed or built more for standing and peeing.
I’m American, but I’ll always remember my father’s saying when I was a child in the bathroom “If you can hit it, sit on it ! “. So ever since then I’ve considered it sanitary and polite to sit rather than stand at a residence, but I will of course use a urinal at public restrooms.
Peeing sitting down is considered feminine. Right or wrong that’s is the perception.
...remember this is 2020 not 1947 .... we evolved ...
Hi Tracy...
Indoctrination of Europe started before here.
@@willgaukler8979 citing the year is a baseless, substance-less, and fallacious argument. It is quite literally a fact that the perception in the US of a man sitting to pee is extraordinarily effeminate and essentially unheard of. It has nothing to do with being “evolved,” it’s just a cultural norm for men here to pee standing (and also far more liberating and practical if you’re not doing the cleanup).
@@jimobrien84 but someone else still has to do that clean up. It's "liberating" for you, more work for the women who have to clean up everyone's messes all the time with no help or consideration.
@@CallistaZM what makes you assume anyone, let alone a woman cleans it up? Or that cleanup is necessarily required? Most of the time there is no mess but if there is I clean it up myself right then
This is fascinating.
As for me, I'm accused of being weird by both men and women. There is a reason.
Firstly, I do usually pee standing up. But none would know this, and thus it isn't what makes me weird.
What makes me weird is that I keep the toilet seat and lid closed at all times other than during active use. I lift the lid and seat to pee, then I close both, and then flush. The tell-tale sign someone other than me has been in my apartment is when the lid is up (a woman was here) or when both the lid and seat are up (a man was here). Seems everyone finds it odd that I do this. I know women tend to make a fuss about men leaving the seat up, but neither men nor women seem to have any thoughts on the lid. I know it's unusual only because it has come up multiple times over the course of my life. I think it's best to close the lid before flushing as that activity might lead to splashing or something, and keeping it closed adds an element of aesthetic niceness to the restroom. It has come up that if I had pets, this behavior would "make sense" but given I do not, it leaves only the "you're weird" option.
I stand up, too, and I leave my lid and ring up. In public places, the ring can get awful messy left down. What you do is not weird......it's sanitary, and I should but I don't. I've seen homes where they cover the seat with seat covers, and they leave the lid down just like you do......at home! You, sir, are rare in a good and healthy way, and you have my respect.