Do you religiously wash your hands in public restrooms?

I was thinking about this the other day. It's funny the way people are happy to hang around DOGS and CATS that follow none of this regime and also have v.hairy arses.

That said, I do always wash my hands at the office anyway, lest a coworker think I'm a slob.

Washing your hands after going to the bathroom protects others from your bacteria. Good karma.

Washing your own hands a lot, pee or no, helps protect you from others germs.

You don't get sick after every sex act 'cause some of the bacteria is stuff you're used to, and you're definitely OK with a regular partner.

SHocking realization that came to me too late in life: you know when I or ANY OF YOU go out and get weeded with crew, there's obviously a lot of outdoor walking around, and at least HALF the dudes end up urinating somewhere outdoor, touching their thing all up and not washing......then the second spliff gets started usually shortly after so EVERYONE gets just a little of each other's pissgerm on their lips.....I'd been doing this for years before the eureka slammed on my brain one day and since I've been toking with the reverse 3-finger triangle formation every time......fuck.

I don't understand cops......you see these cop shows and they always just barehand the grimiest, most pus-covered bums and then rub their beard and get back in the car......I hate it when all my dealers are dry and I have to go getting dope off of bummy dudes, shaking bummy hands.....this one house I went to had a bunch of deathly looking H- heads and they had this MANGY little dog that reeked and the fucker started licking my crispy new Nikes so I reached down to shoo him away and he CHOMPED my index finger.....when I got in the car I almost grabbed the heavy half of my auto-Club to go back in there and dead all them guys.....but thankfully it didn't break skin and one of the girls had an astringent sheet in her purse so I could wipe off.......this other time I could not find weed ANYWHERE so I found this gross ass hash dealer and get this....I only wanted a 10 piece so the guy stuck a bigger chunk in his mouth and BIT OFF my share.....I waited till I got home and doused the thing in rubbing alcohol and cut the tooth marks off with my snips......i will admit I am totally sexist and classist when it comes to this kind of thing.....all this dirty distrust flips over into turn-ons if it's a pretty girl above the poverty line.....I'm down to lick that ass, you son of a bitch.....hey you're pretty well groomed....soooooo.... sure you can barf on my cock!

I also don't piss on my hands.

However, I'm all for a liberal sprinkling of germs in daily life. I used to eat soil as a kid, and I don't get ill very often. Hurray for the immune system! Antibacterial soaps = danger.

Who'd have thought Ramosi would be such a priss? Actually I've decided all Americans are prissy and I'm going to live with our earthy continental cousins.

I'm not too sure about public cake soap. I mean it's soap, but it's public. I usually just use it and turn up the water as hot as I can stand, hoping I catch nothing too nasty from the soap.

London's women are comparatively filthy.

So women are relatively consistently filthy wherever you go, but Northern men are gross compared to southern men?

London's women are comparatively filthy.
― Alba, Wednesday, 15 October 2008 10:23 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

why would anyone choose to live here otherwise?

t reminded me of some crappy thing I saw with Richard Hammond where he took a swab off of a hospital floor and found it had bacteria on it.

Are you kidding? Hospitals are FILTHY. Patients recovering from one thing are many times more likely to catch a secondary infection IN the hospital than out of it. And I just saw an article somewhere -- prob the NYT -- in which some researchers claimed that Drs were cross-contaminating patiences with germs on their clothing...shirt sleeves, coat cuffs...they'd washed their hands but their clothes were still contaminated by the other guy's bacteria.

Original question: well, duh.

I think Ned was making a "bacteria in hospitals, BIG SURPRISE" type point - the right-wing British press is FULL of stories about how you're going to die from even setting foot in a hospital these days.

Also, yeah, I've said it before but I'm really disgusted with the women in my office who dab some water on their hands, dry them, and leave the bathroom. Urine traces don't really bother me because ammonia, duh, and I'm sure our public work bathroom is cleaner than mine at home since it gets disinfected every 24 hours. My disgust is more for the pretense: you're not washing anything, why bother? Have the courage to back your convictions and JUST WALK OUT, then.

xp Ahh. I don't know if our press has ever gone there. But we take a different view of modern medicine, I think.

I love the self-drying alcohol foam soap they've got in hospitals - why is this not used everywhere? It's like real magic!

You can buy it in shops! That shit saved my life at Glasto last year.

I suppose if you had faeces on your hands the alcohol sanitiser stuff wouldn't get rid of it, but just leave it as bacteria-free faeces.

Well, that's another one to put on the list for Faeces Science Day.

Hospitals are getting nastier. Some staff are using hand sanitizer to the exclusion of washing their hands in the sink because they think - as Trayce said - that it's like real magic. These things need to be used complementarily.

i remember those pristine hospitals back in the days.

I am not Trayce.

I was actually in a hospital yesterday and the instructions were to wash your hands with soap first and use the magic alcohol gel stuff afterwards.

Good grief, I just forwarded that bbc story to the three other guys who are currently in my office, and two of them instantly produced from their pockets little bottles of anti-bacterial handwash, which they apparently carry everywhere! Freaks.

xxp: whoops.

I thought you were going to say they instantly produced from their pockets hands covered in faeces, Jim.

Wasn't there a story recently about smokers setting their hands on fire after using Magic Alcohol Rub?

snopes says FALSE

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/purell.asp

smoking is getting nastier - some smokers are not smoking the alcohol rub directly to the exclusion of smoking actual cigarettes.

Though still possible.

xp to me

are now

Magic Alcohol Rub kills children*!

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/sanitizer.asp

*or at least gets them pished

tramps can get two-in-one hand-sanitation and alcohol-intoxication in one fell swoop

this reminds me to update the kebab thread
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=43393#unread

little bottles of anti-bacterial handwash, which they apparently carry everywhere!

This has been proven to be pointless and actually possibly detrimental, right?

I mean, even if you actually use the liquid inside the bottles.

Yeah, soap and/or pure alcohol are preferable.

I'm wryly amused at Emma's post at the start of this thread, given that women lead men in three of five cities (in the stats listed above). Anyone who's ever had the unfortunate gig of having to clean publicly-accessible restrooms can tell you that it's usually the women's room that's more likely to get OTT gross, whereas the men's room is pretty stable (pee on the floor by the urinal and on the toilet seat, usually).

Emma's post was in response to Ally C's post no?

Oh man I just re-read Ramosi's post.

Did you guys know that Oct. 15 is actually Global Handwashing Day?

http://www.globalhandwashingday.org

Oh - duh.

heh

I have washed my hands to-day. Do I get a ribbon or something?

our work restrooms have posters on the wall showing us how to wash our hands:

1.turn on faucet and wash hands with soap
2.leave faucet running and get paper towel
3.dry hands and turn faucet off with paper towel
4.open both doors with paper towel
5.toss paper towel.

this is a lot of work and water.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1043/why-are-men-supposed-to-wash-their-hands-after-urination

I've said this before: your boxer-shorts region--from belly button to mid-thigh--is crawling with germs known as coliform bacteria. These bacteria originated in your intestine, and some of them are deadly. Remember punji stakes? They were sharpened sticks that the Vietcong concealed point up along trails and daubed with excrement. If you stepped on one you had a good chance of contracting a fatal infection. Similarly, an otherwise not-so-serious gunshot or knife injury could kill you if it perforated the intestine and allowed coliform bacteria to spread around your abdomen.

i've seen fellas walk straight out of the cubicle after taking a dump and walk out of the bogs without washing their hands. disgustipating.

Were they Viet Cong?

Did you guys know that Oct. 15 is actually Global Handwashing Day?

you must be enjoying that

this might help some of you guys out

http://diaroogle.com/

I wash my hands every time if there is a towel rather than an air dryer - unless the soap is yer regular skin-peeling bar rather than pissy liquid stuff. It's impossible to get the liqui stuff off under the tap, so if you use an air dryer afterwards you can even see the whitey-grey remnants of dirty soap clinging to your hands.

― Mark C, Thursday, 21 March 2002 01:00

that's why you only use a little tiny bit, i figured that out by the time i was ten.

A friendly reminder.

Apparently washing your hands is kinda futile (in re to mexican flue) so (uh) research has shown. Our employee told me that in Japan people seem to be washing their hands way too much (due to mexican flu scare) and their hands all get so dry, they need to go to the doctor.

wtf at that video

I've washed my hands of the problem...

If McDreamy did that dance, I'd watch GreysAnatomy

If McSteamy did that dance, he'd be arrested for being naked in front of children

Too much hand washing -> Dry cracked skin -> Higher risk of infection

who are you, jenny mccarthy? the threshold of "too much" has got to be like once every thirty minutes or something

otm, wash your hands often people