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"It's an entirely new definition of "Standing Room Only." Or perhaps a new measure of "equality" has arrived.

Whatever it is, it has sparked a huge political debate at a school in Kristiansand, Norway, according to the Norwegian paper Fædrelandsvennen.

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The trigger for the explosion of opinion? A decision in the local district that schoolboys must sit on toilet seats when urinating, not stand. "