Do you stomp on the handles of institutional toilets to flush them?

Excuse me but I believe you'll find that I made this exact thread about 10 years ago. Hang on . . .

No

Germs are not real

Here's one for the ladies re public toilets . . .

OK so it wasn't a poll and I guess I wasn't inclusive as I directed it to the ladies but there you go.

I am in the anti-footflushing camp. I was shocked when I discovered this was a thing.

thx ENBB I only searched thread titles for "flush", valuable archival material

I'm not worried about germs I just enjoy getting to stomp something

haha no prob. Great minds obv think about these things. :)

11 years ago. This is what I've been doing with my life for 11 fucking. Fuck.

galaxy brain take: don’t flush

up until a few years ago i would've said fucking always

but now if it's a normal home-style toilet i'll just grab toilet paper and flush

if it's one of those industrial/commercial toilets, where the handle is far away i'll still step on it, but if my conscience kicks in i'll use toilet paper. on occasion i'll justify my dirty sole touching it by telling myself someone else has probably stepped on it. i also start thinking everyone is taking too god damned long using the urinals and i see what slobs guys are when it comes to bathroom etiquette so they won't mind getting a little more dirt on their fingers

the worse thing is using your bare hands to turn the tap on and off, and lots of places use those air dryers

at a whole foods i go to there are hygienic instructions that state to use paper towel to turn off the tap...only thing is there is no paper towel in the washroom

voted always anyway btw

Compromise solution: I give the handle a good hard knee.

why do bathrooms gotta be such a quandary nowadays

every single one has some kinda bullshit to deal with

i just want to excrete waste, wash my hands, primp my personal appearance, and dry my hands with an effective, non-weird technology

used to be "always". Not sure why I stopped, I guess just because I encounter these toilets less and less.

How low is the handle to the floor?

If it’s one of those new green material-covered ones, I tend not to stomp.

How low is the handle to the floor?

If it’s one of those new green material-covered ones, I tend not to stomp.

How low is the handle to the floor? Are we at a bar or nightclub?

If it’s one of those new green material-covered ones, I tend not to stomp.

i don't stop, i gently press with my foot. the reason is that in a public men's restroom you have to assume there is piss on everything. every single thing in there could be covered in a layer of piss. it's one of the most disgusting places on the planet.

i don't stomp, rather

stomping could cause the handle to break off or the hardware to start leaking, just adding more liquidity to the risk portolio

just riffing tbh

but to be clear i use my foot, gently

I prob said this in the other thread but you almost never see toilets like that in this country, they look like they belong in an asylum in the 30s.

yours don't even go in the right direction

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It seems more sensible to me to flush as I normally would, then proceed to the washbasin to wash my hands before exiting.

of course!

my main reason for not wanting to touch the handle with my bare hand is that it definitely has pee all over it

Elbow, then knee; shoe is last resort; hand is last last resort (like, for airplane bathrooms)

You guys ever changed diapers?

Also most soap in the washrooms are not antibacterial, just regular soap which is scented liquid used so germs can slip n slide their way down your hands, which they usually don’t because people don’t know how to wash their hands

properly

The antibacterial effect of those soaps require that they be in contact with the bacteria for a couple of minutes, which means it is nothing but a placebo during ordinary daily use.

Point is antibacterial soap kills more bacteria than regular soap, which is more common

um Aimless speak for yourself, I walk around with my hands caked in soap for an hour a day

I just carry hand sanitizer in my bag

btw showers are also toilets

I’ve started swabbing alcohol swabs on my arms before bed just to feel something

i remember a dan savage column years ago where a guy wrote in about how he liked to lick certain fluids from the floors of certain restrooms, and he wanted to know how unsafe this practice might be. and dan's findings were that, as disgusting as his hobby might seem, it wasn't going to do him any harm.

heh, yeah i guess it must be as harmful as a dog licking everything

Flush normally and then wash my hands.

see I had no idea people stomped on handles

xpost

cfe The Go-Gos infamous "Corner Cleaners" game

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Hell, I stomp on the urinal handles.

That’s some limber hips you’ve got

obviously step one is a vertical leap

i like to execute a flying elbow drop on the handle

grenades in the john, run out just in time

OK so it wasn't a poll and I guess I wasn't inclusive as I directed it to the ladies but there you go.

I am in the anti-footflushing camp. I was shocked when I discovered this was a thing.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, January 30, 2018 12:40 PM (one week ago)

OTM

good thing y'all have your *much* cleaner public bathrooms to yourselves

Experienced an unstompable toilet handle at a carpenteria campground today. It was the usual toggle handle, but it was built into the wall behind the toilet. To flush, you had to push the handle into the wall, as if you are plunging the wall. It was very odd and gross.

https://www.rd.com/health/wellness/germ-places-in-public-restrooms/

Faucet handle
Hand dryers
The floor
~Flush handle~
Soap dispenser
The walls
The stall door handle
The door

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a foot stomping on the handle of an institutional toilet - forever

xp relieved that toilet water did not make the list