my favorite not-really-news item this week (well, actually last week, since i just realized this had been labled a "draft" instead of posted as a blog entry):

From Telegraph (UK):

German men were being admonished to pee sitting down by a gadget called the WC ghost; when the device detects a lifted toilet seat, it says, in German: "Hey, stand peeing ("Stehpinkeln") is not allowed here and will be punished with fines, so if you
don't want any trouble, you'd best sit down." It was reported that the term for a man who pees sitting down, "Sitzpinkler," is a synonym for "wimp."

(so use that one on a friend this week!)