Gentlemen meet Spuk
For those of you who do not know, Spuk or Spook, is a little device that attaches to the underside of a toilet seat, like soÂ…
As long as the toilet seat is down, all is well. But once the toilet seat is lifted you will hear
"Hey, stand-peeing is not allowed here and will be punished with fines, so if you don't want any trouble, you'd best sit down," one of the devices orders in a voice impersonating the German leader, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder. Another has a voice similar to that of his predecessor, Helmut Kohl.
Their prototype English-speaking WC ghost says in an American drawl: "Don't you go wetting this floor cowboy, you never know who's behind you. So sit down, get your water pistol in the bowl where it belongs. Ha, ha, ha."
"Excuse me, but there's a penalty for peeing while standing in this house," it warns culprits. "You'd better not risk any problems and sit down!"
Other versions start roaring like a lion or try to persuade stubborn customers with the soothing voice of a female flight attendant.
"We welcome you aboard Never Come Back Airlines," the voice says. "We'd like to ask our male passengers in particular to sit down, buckle up and refrain from smoking."
Riight.
Even schools are starting to tell the boys how they should be going to the bathroom. Back in September there was an article in the news about it. A school in Norway had told the boys that they had to sit down when using the bathroom. The washroom at the school is used by both genders and it seems the young boys
are not "good enough at aiming" in order to have "a pleasant toilet."
Pleasant toilet?
So there are two reasons for this so called "war".
Listen up women, (and IÂ’m saying this to the women because I have yet to hear a man complain about the toilet seat being left down) when you go to use the bathroom and the seat is up, PUT IT DOWN. See? Magic. The problem is solved. If you donÂ’t notice that the seat is up and you go to sit down, once your butt hits that water youÂ’ll remember to check next time. Stop being so petty and dramatic! Act like an adult.
According to some wimmin
a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity and, by extension, degrading women.
Huh?
To micturate from the standing position is now viewed among the more progressive Swedes - as the height of vulgarity and possibly suggestive of violence.
Surprise! Surprise! Women are the victims!
`All my friends demand that their husbands or boyfriends sit down,' says Jessica, from Uppsala. `I think it shows respect for the women who clean,' adds the 31-year-old biologist. `My brother, for example, would not dream of standing up. Among the young, leftish intelligentsia there is also a view that to stand is a nasty macho gesture.'
Her English husband has refused to be cowed, she admits, because `it infringes his manly rights'. Reward for his heroic stand? Full-time cleaning duties.
Yola, a 25-year-old trainee psychiatrist, is yet more strident. She dumped a boyfriend, in part, for refusing to comply. His replacement is better trained. `What can I do?' implores Ingvar, the new boyfriend, and one can see his dilemma: Yola is painfully pretty. As she says, `They either want me and they do what I say, or they can go.'
What can you do?? Oh Ingvar.
`The way they go to the toilet is just another example of why men are so bad. They watch football, they have not good manners. Women have had enough.'
Man = bad. Woman = good.