[Closed] Sitting down to pee

Unheard of mate. They were messing with you, seeing what the arl fella thought of effete millenials pissing in a sedentary position..

The Germans have a word for it. Sitzspinkler, or something like that.

Sitting to use the en suite in the miidle of the night so I don't have to switch the light on (or break the seal on my eyes) makes sense. The rest of the time, stand. Possibly most of my peeing is don't without a toilet anyway. The perks of working outdoors.

I often do, given the option

presumably during your life you have used a urinal while wearing shorts ?

pissy trousers isn't a great attraction for me, unless it's the name of my second album

also, yeah, if the kids are in bed I'm not after making a load of noise (not such an issue now but when they were younger, yep)

I would never sit down to pee (though I’m sure my wife would prefer me to)

Appropriate OP name of the day!

You must be terribly conflicted when you sit down for a poo, and a bit of pee arrives as well.

in the middle of the night, i would find it impossible to sit down to pee.

i am quite 'proud' when i pee in the night............  ;o)

i am quite ‘proud’ when i pee in the night…………  ;o)

Me too. If I manage it five times in a row I get a lolly and a 'brave boy' sticker.

I'm 61 and yes I also sit down to pee..certainly at home and while visiting friends & family ..why wouldn't you ?..

I haven't always done this  ..but it certainly makes a lot less mess .

I also avoid urinals as much as I possibly can ..due to the splashback of piss going onto your trousers ..not a good look if you are wearing light coloured pants ..and when out in a pub always piss down the toilet ( I wouldn't sit down in this environment !) ..

42 yrs old and 9 times out of ten I sit down. Nice bit of chill time. In public loo’s I get some privacy and I avoid the whole splash back-pissy-pants situation.

At night in the en-suite, absolutely, but any other time and its my preference.

Urinals are pretty bad but nothing compares to the horror that is a latrine. How in all that is holy are these still in existence?

disclaimer, when I’m on the trails riding or running I prefer to stand up!

Just how messy are you guys? You don't have to aim the stream straight at the back of the urinal or noisily into the centre of the pan. Tangentially does it.

It all depends, during the night it avoids the risk of making a mess in the dark, at 3-4am it’s just so much easier. At other times, it’s just nice to have an excuse for a sit down for five minutes.

If you're properly manly you'll sit to take a number two yet hold the number one, then stand for the finale with the secondary hand held on the Wrangler jeans front-pocket with a slightly hooked thumb.

Good God no. I couldn't hold a number one whilst taking a number two. That's unnatural.

A guy at work pees in a cubicle, standing up, with the door open, even if all the urinals are free.

Truly untrustworthy of character.

I'm doing it right now 🙂

Stand to pee if it's a urinal, sit down if it's a pan but this is mainly because what normally happens if I try to stand at a pan to pee I get 2 streams of urine 90 degrees apart leaving me with a clean up job.

A guy at work pees in a cubicle, standing up, with the door open, even if all the urinals are free.

<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">There's quite a few of those types at our place, which I wouldn't mind so much if all of them lifted the seat beforehand.</span>

Me, at home, the dear wife not only prefers me to sit, she insists. 😕

Edit, I'm nearer 60 than 50, too.

Edit again, it's not fond of any editing yet, is it?

If I’m not in a public lav, I sit down to piss. I’m 33, and I never miss an opportunity for a sit down.

if I try to stand at a pan to pee I get 2 streams of urine 90 degrees apart leaving me with a clean up job.

But not if you point it at a urinal? Odd.

Nothing wrong with sitting down to pee, I often do it when bake’in...

https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/so-tragic-baking-cakes-for-work/

Good topic.

I also avoid urinals as much as I possibly can ..due to the splash-back of piss going onto your trousers

Very much that. Urinals are just badly designed piss-splashers. Ridiculous.

Hotels - wee in the pan standing up, or a shrub.

At home - sink, obviously.

Sitting down to talk a wee? Well I am honestly confused...

I would happily sit down to pee, but the end of my willy dangles in the water. 😉

47 yrs old and when not in some horrible shitty public toilet I always sit down.

At home it gives me time to thumb through some reading material. Usually quite boring: First Aid, Navigation, Mountain Craft, read the news on iPad etc, oh, the latest issue of Singletrack obv.

Why not take some time to relax?

But not if you point it at a urinal? Odd.

I can usually get close enough to a urinal to catch both streams. I just need to be careful not to pee on the person standing next to me 😆

Always sit down at night, saves me having to open my eyes.

I'll bet that Dr. Nira Cain-NDegeocello character from Who Is America sits down to pee.

A self-described "self-hating white male," Cohen's Dr. Nira Cain-N'Degeocello is depicted as a professor of gender and women's studies at Reed College.

No manly man would ever do such a thing unless he lost his legs in combat or something, even then he'd try his best to stand.

Water cold?

Yes, it's deep too.

Let’s face it, toilet bowls just aren’t designed for males to stand while peeing, are they? Most of my posh friends here have extra urinals in their guest toilet. A lot of my other friends who don’t have a urinal have a sign hanging up instructing you to Sitzpinkel.

If I’m not in a public lav, I sit down to piss. I’m 33, and I never miss an opportunity for a sit down.

I’m with Tom on this, not literally though, that’d be just plain weird. 41 with two young kids, so any excuse to sit down (hide) for a few minutes is cherished.

Occasionally as a wee treat to myself

Sit down at night as I can stumble in, sit down, pass water and wander back to bed without really opening my eyes or properly waking up.

Daylight hours - standing, unless some bedroom action has occurred the night before - for some reason this has a spectacular effect on fluid dynamics. Mind you, I may sit down more now that I know it's a thing...

there is a condition that can cause you to collapse if you go to the loo during the night (a friend of mine suffered it once), something to do with blood pressure dropping I think*, on that basis I choose to sit at night.

* advice is to shake your legs out before standing upright from the bed.

Late 30s here, never sit down for a pee unless I'm dropping the kids off.

A mate at uni told be about his sitting to pee at ''safe" toilets . I truly thought him odd then as soon as I became a dad (30) and had kids crawling about on the bathroom floor with grey floor tile that showed splash residue, I immediately joined the club.

I do still enjoy the opportunity to stand and pee elsewhere on "unsafe" toilets and find nothing more enlightening that peeing off a really high cliff.

Sitting at home though, absolutely, the less the floor/rim etc needs cleaning the better!

Well here's a turnup for the books. Just went for a wee, turned on the light and the bulb went phut. So there I am in the dark. What to do? Sit down like a girl or risk spraying all around the bowl and its environs? Luckily, unlike you powerfully built youngsters, my wee dribbles vertically, so having some considerable previous knowledge built up over the years, I was fairly confident I could hit the water. Come tomorrow in daylight, I may find I was wrong.

Ah but who else here stands up to shit?

I favour the crane technique, like off of the Karate Kid.

I am quite disturbed by the content on this thread!

But this is what I was just about to ask:

Ah but who else here stands up to shit?

😀

HRH Prince Albert put paid to me standing up (with the exception of urinals and toilets of people I don't like)

I have pretty much always chosen to sit down, especially as the dangers of splashbacks seem to be increased with height (I am 189cm).

I wouldn’t dare go standing up when we visit the in-laws in the Netherlands as they all have “lay and display” toilets.

And I wouldn’t dream of sitting down in a French Aire... even (especially) if it was in total darkness.

Surely nobody goes to the toilet with less than 75% battery these days? Always sit or stand into a public toilet. Don’t use urinals because the spray back onto trousers has to be sen to be believed.

Sit at night so no light needed.

Sit down for a wee, that just isn't even on my radar.

Preferred method is into the compost in the garden. If that is not available then into the lavvy. At night, even with the lights off I have an accurate aim. I'm usually a dead-eye dick, as it were. If things start to wander I can listen out for the change in timbre resultant from the urine stream- porcelaine interface and adjust the trajectory accordingly.

"HRH Prince Albert put paid to me standing up (with the exception of urinals and toilets of people I don’t like)"

Bit of shoe goo'll sort that

At night time without pulling the light cord i find it easier to piss in the bath as there's zero chance of missing

At night time without pulling the light cord i find it easier to piss in the bath as there’s zero chance of missing

Surely that makes the coal damp?

Surely nobody goes to the toilet with less than 75% battery these days? Always sit or stand into a public toilet. Don’t use urinals because the spray back onto trousers has to be sen to be believed.

Sit at night so no light needed.

This.

Can’t believe this is even a topic.. 🧟‍♂️🤘🤷‍♂️

Not actually sure when I last peed in the bog at home. I'm all about nipping outside for a nature wee. EDIT: Standing up, natch.

Another addition to this thread that I'm sure no one wanted to know. HTH.

I always sit down when at home, it is just more comfortable.  When out and about I would go for the urinal though as need to spare the cubicles for those in greater need (as they are usually in less numbers than urinals.

I've collapsed a few times whilst weeing because of lowish blood pressure. The last time it happened my immune system went into shut down for a bit, I got a load of viruses and then post viral fatigue. The whole thing knocked me out for almost 6 months, so most of the time I sit at home. If I've been stood up for a while beforehand then I can use a urinal.

At work, always a sit down unless I’m in a hurry. Why waste the opportunity for a wee wee break. It where I make the bulk of my forum “contributions”

The splash back doesn’t bother me if I’m in a hurry. It’s not me that has to put up with me stinking of piss so not my problem.

I think we’ve all taken a dump standing up at some point in our lives. And probably will again.

I installed a home urinal in the downstairs loo, complete with aiming fly in the glaze. Check Laufen Casa urinal.

When i served my time, It was a misogynistic insult given to us "lady" electricians by the proper rufty tufty electricians. Ha.

I'm happy to stand or sit. After my double hernia op I found sitting a necessity!

The best designed piece of bathroom furniture for male stand up pissing by a country mile is the sink. At night flopping the hose over the rim is relaxing with no chance of error. And loads less effort than sitting and standing up with dodgy hips and knees.

Just don’t tell the wife.

Aside - it’s an unfortunate coincidence that older gentlemen seem to enjoy wearing beige walking Rohan style trousers and have the most erratic sprinkler attachments and post piss dribbling issues. Next time you are in a motorway service centre check out the state of your average oldie coming out of the gents.

I have never consciously sat down to piss (unless also having a crap). Ever.

it’s an unfortunate coincidence that older gentlemen seem to enjoy wearing beige walking Rohan style trousers and have the most erratic sprinkler attachments and post piss dribbling issues.

Gross 🤮

True thou.

I’ve never wear light trousers cos anything you drop on them makes you look like this, beer dribbles and ahem sink splash back when you wash your hands.

BTW how do you night sitters wash your hands in the dark then ?

I sit down a lot.

I don't think your bladder seems to empty as well as standing up.  Pressure is not as good.

I would happily sit down to pee, but the end of my willy dangles in the water.

Pah, think you've got problems.  Mine gets stuck in the U bend.

Always sit unless out in the woods or the hygiene of the toilet prevents it - studies have shown that the bladder doesn't empty fully when standing which can lead to prostate issues, plus it's just cleaner..

Ahem, a slight correction to my previous post. I have just been informed that perhaps my aim is not quite as good as I had previously thought. Oops.

Wait till you have had your prostate removed, a whole new perspective.... 😎

WTF is it with people who can't use urinals without pissing on their trousers?

Piss at an angle ffs!  It's not hard!  How can you have gotten so far in life and still not learned how to use a urinal without pissing on yourself?

These people must be the same sort of people whos minds are blown by people who go commando.  "That's dirty!  Don't you stain the inside of your jeans??!"

NO!  I CAN WIPE MY ARSE!   I LEARNED IT WHEN I WAS A KID.   WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!

Some people :rolleyes:   🙂

I bet the people who sit down for a piss are the people who have butter on warm sarnies.

Freaks

My 6 yo came downstairs this am and informed me (unprompted) that "I sat down daddy". Given that his pee was all over the back of the loo and the wall behind, he was either lying or he has a freakish anatomy. It was an unsuccessful attempt to head off the inevitable questions...

Maybe he sat down back to front?

After reading this thread, I thought I'd try sitting down for a 3am pee. Felt strange but I think I'm converted! Still learning at 33.

The angle of lob wouldn’t allow seated peeing most days. Shower cubicle is best 👍🏻

I was refitting the bathroom in a house many years ago, at the same time that work were stripping out one of the gents loos. So I (jokingly) hung one of the urinals on the wall in the bathroom. She was not impressed.

Back to the Ops question, depends on mood, location, time constraints. In the 80’s it was essential when Chino’s were derigeur.

Always sit at home or as a guest I’m not ashamed to say; an altogether more relaxed experience, but most importantly cleaner, too. It’s not about aim, it’s about secondary drippage (which it’s easy to not even be aware of) and micro rebound spray and atomisation. Those who think that all their pee ends up in the pan are dreaming tbh. And the family’s tooth brushes are stored 8’ away, it’s a no brainer tbh.

i do like a good striding pee outside though; simple standing al fresco pees are so passé 😉

At last, a thread that is quite literally a pissing contest!

Maybe he sat down back to front?

Had not considered that! I've now checked, he wasn't, but I wonder what would happen if I tried that. Could rest my copy of Singletrack on top of the cistern 👏

As per earlier reply, Friend also kept passing out stood up weeing in the night, Dr said it was due to low blood pressure from waking up and getting straight out of bed, he`s never had an incident since taking the brace position. I choose to sit at home as  like to play Tetris on my old Gameboy.

My grandad whom I never met passed away of a heart attack on the toilet when he was 50 only meeting 1 of his 27 grand children, I often wonder if the above was a factor not thought about in 1960.

'I do like a good striding pee outside though'

Try that in the snow and you get your own Bridget Riley

totally sitzpinkler here  2 reasons  first as the only male in Chez Trout I cannot blame anyone else for over spray .

2nd reason  as a floor layer of over 40 years  I don`t care how accurate you sharpshooters think you are just get your head behind the bog and smell the piss and I must have cuddled 1000s of toilets and most of em stink round the back  .

one on thursday had rotted the floorboards so new ones in for a week and  already piss stained before we fitted the flooring .