The Right To Pee While Standing Up

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Recently a landlord in Germany had a problem. He had nice marble floors in the bathrooms of his apartments. He noticed that when male tenants moved out the floors around the toilets were almost always damaged to some degree. This happened less often with female tenants and he realized why - the dudes were missing the bowl while peeing

Comments

[planetgeorge]

That is ridiculous! It's one thing to tell your 8 year old son to sit down to pee because, well, he's 8 years old and doesn't know any better. But to tell an adult that? Jeez.

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That seems to be how the court felt.

[evilzerg_r]

Sounds like a joke. But I've found this in news, "Focus" didn't allow me to read it.

[radiumhead]

how could you enforce a rule like that? put cameras in the bathroom?

a more reasonable request (which most leases have)-is that the tenant be responsible for any damage they cause. Thats what security deposits are for.

[radiumhead]

and how hard is it to hit the bowl?? i get so drunk i can barely see, i never pissed on the floor.

[jvmatucha]

I've been in all-male households in Germany where there are signs in their bathrooms insisting that ALL people pee sitting down. It's kind of a big deal in Germany. The scourge of urine splashing is upon the minds of many a' Deutsche.

[bart_calendar]

I sort of feel like maybe they should be really careful about any rules that imply judgement.

[quirkytizzy]

That last line is best thing I've read in DAAAYS!

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