Bizarro thread of the week candidate but believe it or not this is really bugging me. I've always stepped off the throne to wipe my arse, ever since I was a lad. never considered any other way of doing it. however since I moved to America where the toilet cubicle offers about as much privacy as taking a shit in a phone box I've noticed that the natives wipe their arses whilst sitting down.
Now before you wonder how such a thing is noticed, it initially came from a bizarre assumption that Americans never actually wiped their holes. In the early days of my 6-year residency in Mad World I noticed whilst waiting to shite that in most cases the person already sitting on the shitter would go from the sitting position to standing flushing and leaving in a very disturbingly short timeframe. In my mind this simply equated to the filthy bastards not cleaning up. However at one point I was leaving the cubicle in a pub when some bloke in the queue says to me "Dude, you clean yourself standing up! I've never seen that", my usual reaction to such an outrage would be to firmly belt the sick bastard with my fist for so closely scrutinising my bathroom etiquite. However, understanding the aparent Engineering impossibility that an American could design a cubicle door that doesn't have at least a 4 inch gap either side of it, I let this one slip to simply ponder the question. Am I weird for wiping my arse whilst standing up?