Father of two daughters. Started sitting down to pee when they were toddlers so if they walked in they'd see how it was done. 10 years later still doing it; so much more comfortable; less drips and no mess. Men; ignore the propaganda, sit to pee.
@fesshole he'll be back when his knees go

@fesshole Absolutely. Also, highly useful when mum tries to appoint blame for someone pissing over the seat.

"Wasn't me, I sit down these days"

@fesshole standing - away from home. Sitting - @ home
@fesshole OK, I tried sitting to pee. It was a failure, I slid off the urinal! 😉
@fesshole That's less a confession than a public service announcement. You're my hero of the day.

@fesshole happy sitzpinkler reporting in.

men can stand to pee everywhere. insisting on doing so in a commode designed for sitting is weird.

@fesshole AND you'll appreciate it better when your urologist eventually says your urinary retention rate is pretty low for your age.
@fesshole I approve of this message.
@fesshole father of three sons here, same for me
@fesshole
Now that I get up multiple times at night, I need to sit down anyway so that I don't fall over.
@fesshole In some cultures men traditionally sit to pee, and ya know what? They have lower rates of prostate cancer.
@philpetree @fesshole please share any relevant references you may have.
@greg_b @fesshole I stopped researching that topic some years ago. I think today it would be relatively easy to pull up countries (European) where sitting is prevalent and do another search on rates of prostate cancer in those countries and compare it to countries (USA) where standing is the norm. While there may be other factors, it becomes clear that the correlation is not insignificant.
@greg_b @fesshole When I got my vasectomy (1993) the doctor told me it increased my chance of prostate cancer by 10-12%.
When I got prostate cancer, people online refuted those statistics, so I went looking for why. The sit/stand correlation is so insanely high as to be something we shouldn't ignore.
At the time, articles from legitimate sources drew the same conclusion and specifically stated so.
While there are other factors (pesticides, canned foods, etc), I believe standing is a big one.
@philpetree @fesshole that's mind blowing. Thanks for sharing.
@fesshole from the perspective of the one who had to clean it up in my house as a kid, seriously. sit. the fuck. down. it doesn't make you less manly. keeping your pissing spot clean in fact makes you more manly.
@cadence022 @fesshole Sit to pis. It doesn't make you any less of a man. This coming from someone who is clearly a man and has sat to piss for 30 years. Sit. The. Fuck. Down.
@fesshole if you're pissing in the bush then stand, squat, do a handstand for all i care.
But i cant understand one single benefit of standing compared to sitting when pissing in a toilet.
@delila @fesshole don't have to pull your pants down?
Been sitting to pee all my life, born in PR the heat was so much it was the only reliable way to cool off🤭🤷
@fesshole In some countries, it's the standard way for men.
@fesshole it's like that with all those things boys and men should do or wear (e.g. underwear),...
@fesshole I see no fess here, just straight truth
@fesshole just make sure you point it down and shake it/dab w tp when youre done. also check the seat and front of the toilet for drips. you can still make a mess when sitting if you just dont care/are a slob.
@fesshole I started sitting down about a month after we first moved into our first home. I did not want to clean the sticky yellow blobs off the walls again. I can only apologise to my mum for not doing it for the entire time I was living at home. Men, for the sake of whoever cleans after you, whether you pay them or not, sit the fuck down.
@fesshole That’s how I do it too, if only because it frees up my hands to surf social media in the meantime. 😳

@fesshole

Severe standing/walking nerve pain cured me of standing to pee.

@fesshole totally. So much cleaner, too, as if there needed to be a benefit.

@fesshole I started sitting to pee when i wanted perfect defence of peeing on the seat.

Now my 7 year old boy refuses to learn to pee standing up.

:(

@fesshole

I pee like a girl

But I shit like a woman

@fesshole used to call this a "posh pee", now also infinitely prefer it this way

@fesshole

Speaking as someone who is legally #blind, it's a hell of a lot easier to stay on target when you are sitting down.

Also, as an old man, taking every opportunity to sit just *feels* better.

@fesshole stand up to pee if you definitely don't want a poo (sitting releases the band that stops you doing this). But do lift the seat.
@fesshole I’ve been sitting to pee ever since I was a kid and I can confirm it’s so much better
@fesshole what the fuck? Are people actually STANDING to pee when at home?!?!? I mean it makes perfect sense when you're at a place where there is an urinal, but if all you have is a toilet, peeing while standing is akin to simply pissing against the bathroom wall. How dumb are people??

@fesshole I consider all men who stand when peeing to be disgusting slobs.

/50+ white cis male

@fesshole
The disgusting smell after standing at the urinal a couple of times during travel or events is reason enough for me not to do it when I can avoid it.
@fesshole Wow. The replies to this are quite eye-opening. I had no idea how many men are apparently incapable of peeing while standing up without making a mess... and they actually think it's impossible?? It's not. It just takes a little thoughtfulness.
UV light shows the unseen splashes created by standing urination

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@stine @fesshole They're doing it wrong. So wrong.

Stand closer, and aim at the back of the porcelain so it goes down the surface. Almost no splashes. Certainly none outside the bowl (and clean it regularly).

@fesshole @ennedia amen, brother! (although mine is due to incessant teasing as a young child from older siblings about any peeing noises [“Turn that tap off!” {barely vaguely amusing the first time}], so effectively a trauma response).

@fesshole @slothrop I’ve got a penis, but when I sit, I poop!

My butthole is like Pavlov’s dog!

@fesshole If you think sitting down is the end game, let me tell you about lying down to pee... actually, I don't need to tell you about it since you've raised two kids! You've already enabled others to pee in the horizontal comfy zone, why not allow yourself the same comfort?
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@fesshole what a faff. Just use the sink.

@fesshole
Same!

Well… almost. I don't want my wife and kids to have to deal with a mess of urine splashes left by me at home. It's bad enough in public restrooms. Besides that, sitting can be more convenient at times.