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sitzpinkler! I had no idea this was actually a word.

15 years ago, when I was a young man in my early 20s, I lived in the top floor of a house, sharing that floor (and that floor's bathroom) with two other people: a German chap, and an English girl. Fast forward about six months and somehow one day a conversation took whatever turn would be required for it to be appropriate for me to say: "Well, I almost always leave the seat down, because I almost always sit down to take a piss." Cue a sudden burst of laughter from the German - who says they don't have a sense of humour? - because it turned out he did exactly the same thing. Good to know it wasn't just me at least, I suppose.

"Well" said our floormate. "I always wondered how such a pair of inconsiderately dirty bastards were still so consistently good at politely leaving the seat down."

There were 3 men in the house, and the 3rd man would occasionally use "our" bathroom. So the very next day the German guy put a sign up on the door in order to keep him out. SIT PISSERS ONLY.



There's also "Heimscheißer" -- someone who strongly prefers taking a dump in the comfort of his own home, and may even be incapable of doing so elsewhere, except for emergency situations.


Since that word is somewhat noted for its use in the German dubbed movie American Pie, I just wondered what the original uses instead. Apparently: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shitbreak


Or "Gehemmtpinkler" - a person that is unable to urinate at an urinal if he thinks that somebody might be looking at him or even is in the same room.




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