Defending human rights in Norway:

Urination will go to committee
A local decision that schoolboys must sit on toilet seats when urinating has provoked political debate. The head of The Democrats Party, a splinter group of former Progress Party hardliners, Vidar Kleppe, is outraged that boys at Dvergsnes School in Kristiansand have to sit and pee. . . . “When boys are not allowed to pee in the natural way, the way boys have done for generations, it is meddling with God’s work,” Kleppe told the newspaper. “It is a human right not to have to sit down like a girl,” Kleppe said. Principal Anne Lise Gjul at Dvergsnes School would not comment on Kleppe’s plans to make political waves and regretted if anyone was offended by the ban on standing and passing water. Gjul told NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) that the young boys are simply not good enough at aiming, and the point was to have a pleasant toilet that could be used by both boys and girls.

Me and the CFO were having this same argument a few weeks ago. I don’t think she could understand the CEO’s reflexive horror when she proposed that Jr. should sit down on the potty chair for both numbers two and one. I’m still not sure she realizes that that could only bring bad, very bad things. In fact, I have no doubt that requiring the boy to sit instead of standing as God intended is the first step on a path that ends with Stinkboy as a cross-dressing serial killer with a puppy and a well in his basement, mumbling about lotion. The lad will have enough problems over his lifetime dealing with the horrible genetic defects* he’s saddled with; he really doesn’t need this too.

*The defect is that the lad shares 50% of his genes with the CEO.