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LobsterSauce


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Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee
#23415777 - 07/06/16 01:48 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Splashy urinators may now micturate in peace, after a man won a court battle against his landlord for the right to tinkle as nature intended.
The man sued his landlord after he refused to pay back €1,900 of a €3,000 deposit, saying he needed the money to repair urine-related damage on the bathroom floor.
The landlord had brought in a "technical expert“, who had the unenviable task of confirming that wayward droplets were indeed the cause of the damage to the marble tiles.
While Düsseldorf judge Stefan Hank found the pro-sitting landlord's arguments "credible and understandable“, he said that he could not side with the landlord.
"Despite the increasing domestication of men in this regard, urinating while standing up is still widespread", he wrote in his judgement.
The landlord should have warned the renter of the floor's "sensitivity" to potentially damaging bodily fluids beforehand, the judge reasoned.
"Anyone who still practices this formerly dominant custom has to expect occasional clashes with - especially female - flatmates.
"But they don't have to worry about corrosion to the marble floor", he concluded.
There has long been a campaign in Germany to convert messy Stehpinkler - standing urinators - into Sitzpinkler - their more socially responsible brethren. Story continues below…
Many German homes have notices in the toilet asking guests to make use of the seat rather than risk unwanted collateral damage to the bathroom.
Others even go to the lengths of installing a device called a Spuk - a spook - on the underside of the seat which issues a warning to would-be standing pee-ers, with models even available in the voices of former Chancellors Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. http://www.thelocal.de/20150122/court-allows-man-to-urinate-standing-up
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abltsandwich
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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: LobsterSauce]
#23415778 - 07/06/16 01:48 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Do you like golden showers, bro? You're posting a lot about peeing tonight.
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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: LobsterSauce]
#23415786 - 07/06/16 01:52 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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This whole thing stinks to high heaven.
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Sticky Green



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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: abltsandwich] 1
#23415787 - 07/06/16 01:52 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I feel like I could take over germany with a butter knife.
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rackem



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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: Sticky Green]
#23415791 - 07/06/16 01:55 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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right up until they really get pissed and pull out the mausers.
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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: Sticky Green]
#23415792 - 07/06/16 01:55 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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LobsterSauce


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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: abltsandwich] 1
#23415794 - 07/06/16 01:57 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
abltsandwich said: Do you like golden showers, bro? You're posting a lot about peeing tonight.
A gentleman would never tell.
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twighead
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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: Sticky Green]
#23415857 - 07/06/16 02:30 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Sticky Green said: I feel like I could take over germany with a butter knife.
Because they have frivilous lawsuits? 
German rage trances are legendary, and they're still one of the best/most armed countries in the world
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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: Sticky Green]
#23415865 - 07/06/16 02:35 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Sticky Green said: I feel like I could take over germany with a butter knife.
And I feel like you couldn't take over a one direction concert with a butter knife
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Landlords in germany really try to find any miniscule reason to not pay rent deposits back. Its just ridiculous.
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twighead
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No different in the US that's for sure
Or consider patlal in canada, he'd hand and fist you for a scratch on the wall I bet!
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LobsterSauce


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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: twighead]
#23415976 - 07/06/16 04:29 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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My landbaroness tried to get me to pay an 80e cleaning fee as I was moving out before.
The apartment was ridiculously small and I'd been living there a month and hadn't made a mess.
I said, eh you know what, I think I can manage cleaning the apartment myself.
She rambled on about needing eight hours to clean the apartment.
Took about 20 minutes.
I'd clean her apartment, though.
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Re: Judge: Landlords can't stop men standing to pee [Re: LobsterSauce]
#23416110 - 07/06/16 06:38 AM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Can't help but wonder if the guy is just disgusting and pisses all over the floor
If there's damage to the floor, its probably plumbing, but half a gallon of piss a day could do it
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