I have a confession to make: I’m a sitzpinkler. That’s the German word for men who sit down when they pee, and it’s a bit of an insult – like calling someone a wimp or a ‘soy boy’. Real men do it standing up, apparently.
But the reason there’s a German word for it is because the majority of Teutonic men prefer the sedentary position.

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