To ask if you stand up or sit down?

[Blessedbethefknfruit]

Okay, so this may seem like a bizarre question.
However seeing as I'm awake at 5am listening to my 9 week old squealing with delight in her cot, because for some reason she has gotten herself into the routine that after the 4am bottle and nappy change its playtime... Anyway I'm awake and thinking of random things...

I discovered a few months ago that my partner stands up when "cleaning/wiping" himself after going to the toilet.
I found this so strange, I'd never heard of anyone doing this. I just assumed everyone remained sitting down and it seemed really alien to me.
Somehow the subject came up when we were with his family (we're not pride and perfectly confortable talking about these things) and it turns out they are a family of stand up wipers! They thought this was normal and the usual thing to do.

So for research purposes and because what else is there to do at this time whilst I wait for my little squealer to go back to sleep, let's do a poll.

I'm not being unreasonable : I remain sitting down to wipe my butt.
I'm being unreasonable : I stand up to make sure I get in all the crooks and crannies.

Hopefully by the time anyone responds to this I'll be asleep!

Well..some people may stand up to regard the contents with interest, before the toilet paper covers it.. 😎

I do both. But then I wash my cheeks over the bathtub as its common knowledge tissue alone is unhygienic - not judging anyone btw.

It's normal to just use tissue in the UK, but in many countries I've travelled to its more normal and cleaner to use a bidet or wash up.

Weird that you want to know.

So a normal conversation with your BF's family is around how they wipe their arses? Right

Depends on positioning of loo roll holder!

I stand up so I can reach lol

I’m a sitter. Wipe from behind. Stand and flush. Pull up pants.

Stand. How anyone can do it sitting is beyond me

I have bowel issues, and I will do whichever one is better for the .. umm.. conditions. So I can't really vote.

Stand, obvs

Stand

Stand. Sitting means it ting hand down loo? Ew.

There was a whole thread about this a while ago. Sitters can't understand standers and vice versa

I worked for a tissue manufacturer in the 80s when they launched a new, softer toilet roll. Part of the sales spiel was the product was made specifically to meet uk needs as in the USA users scrunched the TT before use, wheras in the UK we folded it. So the paper was made to feel like velvet when it was folded. I have wondered fir 40 years whether this was discovered by market research or was just marketing bollocks made up to justify the product that the new mulri million pound machine produced. I suspect the latter.

I don't use toilet paper, very yuck for me. Have a water spray, so its spray wash while still sitting, then pat dry with washable coton wipes. I have an enormous stock of WC paper, for visitors' use. I have very pretty wrapped rolls from "Who gives a Crap". Hilarious conversations sometimes concerning my toiletry habits.

No, you lean forwards whilst sitting, your hand doesn't go down the loo.

I remain seated. Were I to stand, my buttocks would press together and smear shite all over the place.

Urgh! You'll never get properly clean that way. Use some paper, ya mucky mare!

This. And also the preamble justifying the timing of the post…/

I think in general men stand and women sit. I say in general as the only people o have known yo stand have been men.

Maybe, nice generalisation, but I'm a man and I sit.

Truth be told, until it was mentioned here, I thought the only way was sitting!

Reminds me of a Malaysian friend describing the Muslim hose method... I asked how you dry off after squirting a hose up your bum and she said that's what your underwear is for. Not my cup of tea :).

Stand!

How on earth do people get clean if they stand?? Surely your cheeks need to be spread a bit to wipe properly. Anyway, I'm in SE Asia and use a combination of the hose and then wipe dry with some toilet paper. While sitting.

When I say spray, it is a specific one attached to main water pipe, quite strong, have very clean bum thank you and never any bits of paper or anything else gets stuck...Same method as used in most of Asia. Also very good for any pile sufferers.

Most mind-blowing tread ever! I didn't even realise stabnding was an option. This is like finding out some people don't have an inner monologue or they think in abstracts!

Shall be questioning dh when he gets home from work. And reassessing my life.😁