A court in Germany has ruled in favour of a man's right to urinate while standing up after his landlord demanded money for damage to the bathroom floor.
The landlord, who was seeking €1,900 (£1400; $2,200), claimed the marble floor had been damaged by urine.
But the Duesseldorf judge ruled that the man's method was within cultural norms, saying "urinating standing up is still common practice".
There is some debate in Germany about whether men should sit or stand to pee.
Some toilets have red traffic-style signs forbidding the standing position - but those who choose to sit are often referred to as a "Sitzpinkler", implying it is not masculine behaviour.
Judge Stefan Hank agreed with an expert's report that uric acid had caused some damage to the bathroom's floor.
But concluding, he said men who insist on standing "must expect occasional rows with housemates, especially women" but cannot be held to account for collateral damage.
"Despite growing domestication of men in this matter, urinating while standing up is still common practice," he added.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:22 am
by CatsbyAZ
Salty wrote:Currently taking a dump right now at my favorite spot...
UA Rec Center Men's Locker room, third stall down. There's a "blessed" sticker on the inside of the door.
I've probably taken more than 500 dumps here and that's no exaggeration.
My go to spot as well, and though I didn't have a choice stall, I preferred the one against the wall.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 11:04 am
by BMalo
I used the top floor of the student union on the west side. Always v clean.
My last year there (09) my favorite place was downstairs in the ILS building. There was a stall all the way at the end that was dubbed "the stall of hate" for all of the racial remarks that were written on the wall. Staff would clean it and the next day there would be more. It was the most entertaining dump on campus.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:30 pm
by Merkin
Worst place during my time there (81-85) was the basement locker room in Bear Down gym.
It was just a row of toilets. No stalls. Looked like something right out of a WW2 army barracks.
Never could go there.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2015 12:37 pm
by UAEebs86
Merkin wrote:Worst place during my time there (81-85) was the basement locker room in Bear Down gym.
It was just a row of toilets. No stalls. Looked like something right out of a WW2 army barracks.
Never could go there.
First floor in Sierra dorm (East Stadium) was the same way. Brutal. Glad I lived on the second floor that had stalls.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2015 1:58 am
by catgrad97
The troughs in McKale weren't just as bad to you?
There was a hidden bathroom in Bear Down on the second floor. I would use it whenever I had to in the building, but the whole experience was just like going in your grandparents' old house.
Something about that building gave me the creeps, a feeling which extended into the basement of Herring Hall and a couple other of the early-20th century structures. The outmoded bathrooms there in the '90s did not assist any in relaxing my bowels.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:12 pm
by Merkin
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2015 2:16 pm
by Merkin
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 9:33 am
by azgreg
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 10:01 pm
by Irish27
Had a meeting in the ENR2, a new building right next to the 6th Street garage. I went into one of the bathrooms on the first floor and it is probably the cleanest at the UofA.
As for the worst, the bathroom on the lower level next to The Cellar in the old Student Union. The toilets always seemed to be overflowing.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2016 5:21 am
by wyo-cat
Irish27 wrote:Had a meeting in the ENR2, a new building right next to the 6th Street garage. I went into one of the bathrooms on the first floor and it is probably the cleanest at the UofA.
As for the worst, the bathroom on the lower level next to The Cellar in the old Student Union. The toilets always seemed to be overflowing.
ENRB2 is the holy grail of shitters on campus. Plus there's loading and service parking right out front for easy access.
I've always wondered if top administrators like the chancellor or the Provost get their own office toilet to crap in. I know that deans don't, but I'm not important enough to have ever met with the top administrator in his office.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 11:57 am
by azgreg
Longhorned wrote:I've always wondered if top administrators like the chancellor or the Provost get their own office toilet to crap in. I know that deans don't, but I'm not important enough to have ever met with the top administrator in his office.
Doesn't Rich Rod have his own shitter?
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 11:59 am
by azgreg
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2016 12:32 pm
by Longhorned
First poster in this thread to take a dump in Rich Rod's crapper and report back with a rating wins my admiration
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:43 am
by scumdevils86
Apparently this is at UCSB....
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:19 am
by KaibabKat
azgreg wrote:Doesn't Rich Rod have his own shitter?
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:42 am
by Chicat
scumdevils86 wrote:Apparently this is at UCSB....
Handi-stall FTW
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:44 am
by azgreg
That's a better view than the hotel I stayed in last.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 3:14 pm
by azgreg
If you sit down on the toilet and immediately paint the bowl is that something of a concern?
Asking for a friend.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:53 pm
by Chicat
Obviously not on campus . . . . . or the best place to drop a Double Chalupa Supreme bomb.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 5:56 pm
by ASUHATER!
I mean if you live alone and never have guests then sure
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:55 pm
by scumdevils86
Well that's the en suite in the master bedroom of a 3 bedroom house. Unless you frequently have houseguests in your master bedroom it's only slightly odd.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:16 pm
by Longhorned
How many dumps per day happen on campus? Maybe upwards of 8,000? How much mass is that?
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:18 pm
by CalStateTempe
So much dumps happen at the composting toilet at base camp on mt Shasta at 8700ft.
I forgot the number but it was astronomical.
Poor suckers that have to clean that shit up at the end of climbing season.
The sawdust is minty fresh!
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:29 pm
by ASUHATER!
Longhorned wrote:How many dumps per day happen on campus? Maybe upwards of 8,000? How much mass is that?
At least that many. Between students, staff, faculty and visitors there has to be at least 50-60 thousand people on campus during weekdays. I'd bet it's 20k dumps if not more.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:32 pm
by Chicat
scumdevils86 wrote:Well that's the en suite in the master bedroom of a 3 bedroom house. Unless you frequently have houseguests in your master bedroom it's only slightly odd.
Slightly? My master bathroom toilet is two closed doors away from my bed and I feel like there should be at least two more.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:33 pm
by scumdevils86
I've thought about the quantity of shit that's expelled from the population of Tucson on a given day before, glad to know I'm not alone!
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 9:34 pm
by scumdevils86
Chicat wrote:
scumdevils86 wrote:Well that's the en suite in the master bedroom of a 3 bedroom house. Unless you frequently have houseguests in your master bedroom it's only slightly odd.
Slightly? My master bathroom toilet is two closed doors away from my bed and I feel like there should be at least two more.
Eh. My wife's a nurse. She deals with crazy stuff daily. We're a lot more open about bodily functions than I'd care to admit.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 11:10 pm
by CalStateTempe
Our master bathroom has an open space toilet.
It’s how they rolled in the 1960s
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:50 am
by ByJoveByJingle
There are various ways to tackle the problem. But personally I find the toilet in a closet thing that developer houses tend to have to be problematic on a number of levels.
First, they are claustrophobic spaces when you close the door.
And second . . . really, Americans, you need to step up your asshole hygiene. In one way or another, the rest of the world doesn’t walk around with skid marks in their underwear because they clean their assholes with something other than dry toilet paper. Japan has the robot toilets that whisk the shit away and then scrub your asshole for you. Europe has bidets. The Middle East has water sprayers next to every toilet. And when middle easterners travel to the US, they all come up with some mechanism to deal with our lack of butt-hole hygiene. Many will carry a water bottle in with them. Or they resort to plumbing-destroying wet wipes.
In the absence of any of the above strategies, it’s not the worst thing when the toilet is near a sink so you can wet some TP for final cleaning. The truly luxurious master suites usually don’t have this arrangement. Because Americans like to shit in a closet and dry wipe their asses. I guess?
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 5:05 am
by Chicat
That’s called American Exceptionalism. If you want a clean chocolate starfish I’m sure there’s a border wall we can put you on the wrong side of.
MAGA*
*(make assholes grungy again)
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 7:25 am
by Longhorned
The answer is to get rid of all those early morning flights to the east coast. Those are literally the only scenario where people don't have a chance to shit before they leave the house. At home, you don't even need toilet paper. The shower is right there.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:02 am
by Merkin
Who needs toilets at all?
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:56 am
by ByJoveByJingle
Chicat wrote:That’s called American Exceptionalism. If you want a clean chocolate starfish I’m sure there’s a border wall we can put you on the wrong side of.
MAGA*
*(make assholes grungy again)
I hadn’t considered the American Exceptionalism angle. We do seem to have the market cornered on a number of fun things. Exceptionally likely to be mass murdered at a nightclub or school, exceptionally morbidly obese . . . and exceptionally dirty assholes. There’s a bumper sticker to be marketed in there somewhere.
Longhorned wrote:The answer is to get rid of all those early morning flights to the east coast. Those are literally the only scenario where people don't have a chance to shit before they leave the house. At home, you don't even need toilet paper. The shower is right there.
Ah the ultimate luxury . . . the after-shit shower!
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:57 am
by ByJoveByJingle
Merkin wrote:Who needs toilets at all?
Imma be honest. I’m too afraid to hit play on this one.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 9:59 am
by Merkin
Something else happens, to watch through the end.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:07 am
by ByJoveByJingle
But where did the shit come from? His back pack?
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:19 am
by dovecanyoncat
ByJoveByJingle wrote:
And second . . . really, Americans, you need to step up your asshole hygiene. In one way or another, the rest of the world doesn’t walk around with skid marks in their underwear because they clean their assholes with something other than dry toilet paper. Japan has the robot toilets that whisk the shit away and then scrub your asshole for you. Europe has bidets. The Middle East has water sprayers next to every toilet. And when middle easterners travel to the US, they all come up with some mechanism to deal with our lack of butt-hole hygiene. Many will carry a water bottle in with them. Or they resort to plumbing-destroying wet wipes.
In the absence of any of the above strategies, it’s not the worst thing when the toilet is near a sink so you can wet some TP for final cleaning. The truly luxurious master suites usually don’t have this arrangement. Because Americans like to shit in a closet and dry wipe their asses. I guess?
The deplorable quality of toilet paper overseas is one contributing factor, but unfortunately OCONUS citizens spare watering the balance of the body in favor of watering the asshole, and it's obvious in the cloud of gagging ripeness that follows them around. If you put a gun to my head I'd much prefer the horror of knowing there's a ton of skidmarks wandering the streets unseen than to have no choice but to post up against a well dressed businessman who smells like roadkill cured for two weeks in a diaper. Americans are rude but we love our dogs and we let them do the asshole sniffing for us. I guess that's where rim jobs came from originally.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:31 am
by ByJoveByJingle
I’d rather not have to make the choice—I personally like clean assholes AND clean underarms. These things aren’t mutually exclusive concepts.
As a side note, the cliche of the smelly European dates back to the 70s. In the last 20 years, I haven’t experienced anymore deodorant-phobic people in Europe than I have in the US. And certainly not Japan. The Middle East is mostly the same. Sub-continental Asia is another matter entirely, but I also wonder how much of that is cultural versus socio-economic.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:57 am
by Merkin
One of my brothers used to travel to 3rd world companies for a Tucson based company that put GPSs in mining vehicles. He said in Indonesia they had side by side toilets, flush toilets for westerners, and for the locals they just had a hole in the ground where they would squat over it. Only the western side had toilet paper. The locals side just had a tub full of water where you cleaned your fingers afterwards.
ByJoveByJingle wrote:But where did the shit come from? His back pack?
His shorts. Must have been going commando.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:59 am
by Longhorned
ByJoveByJingle wrote:But where did the shit come from? His back pack?
It's possible. In college, I shared a house with a hot roommate and couldn't bring myself to stink up the hallway bathroom. So I'd stay in my bedroom and squat over a gallon-sized sealable bag, and then stuff that in a paper bag and carry it out of the house in my backpack so I could deposit it in a public trash bin. Nothing I just typed is true. Mahalo!
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:14 am
by ASUHATER!
Do Europeans and people with bidets not shower?
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:21 am
by ByJoveByJingle
ASUHATER! wrote:Do Europeans and people with bidets not shower?
They do. But back in the day, there seemed to be parallel aversions to deodorant/anti-perspirant and women shaving underarms. The shift is one of the few and unspoken triumphs of American cultural exportation. Unfortunately they also got McDonalds and the beginnings of obesity to go along with their non-stinky armpits.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:22 am
by scumdevils86
ByJoveByJingle wrote:But where did the shit come from? His back pack?
I saw this on Reddit last week. It's oddly (or maybe not, MAGA etc) not that uncommon. I've seen literally dozens of videos of randos walking around in public with turds falling out of their pant legs.
Don't judge me.
Re: the best place to take a dump on campus
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 11:26 am
by Longhorned
This unfortunately is true: I once slipped on a shit-filled diaper and ended up with shit all down the back of my leg beneath my shorts. As I was walking home in disgust to shower and try to start the day all over again, I heard a woman behind me say, "That poor man. He got sick."