When I first saw this story on gawker.com, I thought that this had to be a joke, but apparently, a bistro in Canada is indeed trying to ban men from standing to pee. WHAT? Of all things stupid in this world, now Canada wants to take men squat to pee? When I was younger, it used to be a joke if you said that someone squatted to pee, which would insinuate that one was not manly enough to pee standing. Is this what Canada is trying to say about men? That in Canada we're not manly enough to stand up and pee?
The story is that a journalist walked into a Canadian bistro called Edible Canada with his family one evening for a bite to eat, and when he went into their unisex bathroom, he discovered a sign above the toilet instructing it's male occupants to not pee standing up. The sign might have been better off saying, "Tuck your sack between your legs, and put on this skirt!" Was this a joke? The journalist did point out that since most Men's Rooms are universally disgusting, the restaurant was probably just trying to keep their lavatory clean. If this was the case, why have a unisex bathroom?
For many Americans, Canada is known to be an annoying gun-hating, granola-eating, figure-skating, red headed stepchild of our beloved continent, but with this they've hit a new low! Taking away a man's public display of their masculinity is not exactly a cool thing! I mean, yes, us guys can be a little gross when our aim is off, but to be honest, I'd rather stand and pee than sit on a nasty unsanitized toilet seat. We already have to do that when number two strikes, and to me, that is disgusting enough. What does this act really tell us about Canadians, though? That they really are like the French? Where their men are all 'femininas'? This is is such a ridiculous story, and if any sign ever told me that I couldn't stand to pee, it would be in my right to pee on that sign! But that's the way I would react.
Read the story here: http://gawker.com/5849073/restaurant-tries-to-ban-men-from-peeing-standing-up
I think you're overreacting here. Is your masculinity really so fragile that you have to assert it by spraying the seat with piss for the next user who needs to sit (read: woman) to clean up?
ReplyDeleteObviously when you were younger you used to hang out with all the insecure kids who had to make jokes at the expense of others.
Yes, Dave. That is exactly it! You're so smart......
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