{"id":49340,"date":"2015-01-23T09:49:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/german-court-rules-men-can-pee-standing-up.html"},"modified":"2015-01-23T09:49:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:49:26","slug":"german-court-rules-men-can-pee-standing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/german-court-rules-men-can-pee-standing-up.html","title":{"rendered":"German court rules men can pee standing up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#39;s a comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the case had to do with a landlord claiming that poor targeting from the renter in question had caused damage to the marble flooring in the bathroom. Which I would think a tenant <i>would<\/i> be liable for, regardless of the preferred urination method, but the judge decided otherwise. Which seems goofy to me (poor targeting doesn&#39;t mean you shouldn&#39;t clean up, or face the consequences &#8212; take it from a married man).<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, there is in fact some social debate in Germany over whether men should pee standing up or be _Sitzpinkler_s.  This decision is being hailed by supporters of the first group as a vindication. Sounds more like an invitation to be a slob, to me, regardless of the posture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30937492'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/sA09RPH3ds6zc8RgroUWB7VFCr7Jucszl6LGyFYFbAr64YisSzt-t1PMUJBcFVp1RvDXXINe1RSEkHKHrX0kbo4KR-TTVrx67ZCyCI53lWQGOE-4jZSm0p8=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30937492'>German men &#8216;free to pee standing up&#8217;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/7V3czUgKqBC'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#39;s a comfort. Actually, the case had to do with a landlord claiming that poor targeting from the renter in question had caused damage to the marble flooring in the bathroom. Which I would think a tenant would be liable for, regardless of the preferred urination method, but the judge decided otherwise. Which seems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/german-court-rules-men-can-pee-standing-up.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;German court rules men can pee standing up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41470,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/20\/when-the-addams-family-was-pee-wees-playhouse.html","url_meta":{"origin":49340,"position":0},"title":"When the Addams Family was Pee-Wee&#39;s Playhouse","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Mar-14 3:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's apparently some dispute as to whether the garish wall colors were chosen for black-and-white effect, or if it was just left over from what had been previously shot on the set -- but, regardless, it was a lot more ooky in grayscale.(h\/t +Yonatan Zunger)Reshared post from +Kensington FensingtonThe reason\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_mwz409TSOt1sdciiso1_500.jpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":40257,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/01\/unreasonable-searches-of-urine.html","url_meta":{"origin":49340,"position":1},"title":"Unreasonable Searches of Urine","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 1-Jan-14 12:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A federal judge \u00a0has struck down Florida's \"Want a welfare check? 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