brushing your teeth in the kitchen sink at work

take it to the bathroom ffs

that would've been a better second option

I wdn't brush my teeth in the kitchen sink at home so fuck a monster who does this publically.

what is wrong with doing it at yr home kitchen sink?

yesterday i saw someone brushing her teeth while driving. your colleague's behavior is messed up, but this is worse.

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Kitchen sink = food prep
Bathroom sink = cleaning yr filthy teeth

this miiiiight be acceptable if done through sheer desperation once, but regularly? fuck that uncivilised behaviour

what NV said

disgusting savages etc

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/09/article-0-0724B160000005DC-873_634x425.jpg

I got a text the other day from someone who was brushing her teeth while driving.

Trying to get the alcohol off her breath no doubt.

I brush my teeth everyday at work, but I do it in a private one-staller with a door that locks. brushing teeth in public kitchen sink is ridiculous.

wouldn't do it but can't see why it's that bad

if you don't leave a mess, that is

yeah, that's the thing. i am super grossed out by it - i hate walking in on her when she's doing it. but i don't really understand why.

no it's fucking gross.

i think it's all in your head

gross yuck ick

puking in the kitchen sink, pooping in the fridge, at work

disgustipating

why not just vomit on your co-workers computers?

I don't think it's acceptable behaviour but it's a long way from being fucking gross.

Kitchen sink = food prep
Bathroom sink = cleaning yr filthy teeth

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lol, as tho toothpaste is somehow more disgusting then the ACTUAL SHIT found in most kitchen sinks

uh, brushing your teeth at work that is. vomiting on colleagues computers is pretty close to fucking gross.

it's not the toothpaste that grosses me it out it's the spitting

xp basically i agree

i think it's weird (why not use the bathroom?), but thinking that it is somehow disgusting and bad in any real and tangible way just sorta means you are a dumb pansy i think

i have ACTUALLY SHIT in your kitchen sink, at work, go look

this assumes, of course, that they wash it down. spitting out the foam on like the coffee mugs and not rinsing would be weird and gross

yup

Does your coworker also bathe or shave in the sink? He/she might be homeless.

it's bad enough we have people here who use the bathroom sinks to brush their teeth and they don't rinse their mints out of the sink plus they leave dental floss in the sink.

brushing yr teeth is a very private, intimate activity and ppl who do it in public have no boundaries

next thing you know yr coworker is going to be checking for breast lumps in the middle of meetings

how abt washing yr face in the kitchen sink, i do this

pretty pumped that i will be educated/working places w/actual locker rooms for the foreseeable future

yr coworker will come over to ask a question and, mid conversation, will start scraping the Nair on her legs off into yr trash can

people shave in the bathroom sinks and don't wash their stubble down, either ;____;

q: is seeing someone else brush their teeth one of those ~things that just make ppl yucked out about in general? like guys getting ewwwy about ladies breast-feeding or seeing ppl spit on the sidewalk, or w/e?

mr que that is just inconsiderate

nah, like if i saw someone walking around, brushing their teeth? like even in the hallway? no big deal. it's the *spitting* that bothers me, plus i obviously work with a buncha savages

it's not the toothpaste that grosses me it out it's the spitting

― jazzgasms (Mr. Que), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 9:20 AM (3 minutes ago)

You and me see eye to eye on a lot of things, Mr. Que.

I would love to brush my teeth at work, but our bathrooms are a horror show (daily occurrences include: smears of feces or blood on the floor or toilet seats, careless pee spatter, unflushed turds/tampons, leaking toilets resulting in puddles of water, overflowing pad receptacles, odors like you wouldn't believe). I have seen someone brush his teeth in the water fountain, however. I also saw somebody washing his pants off (while he was wearing them - he was trying to wash off a stain, I guess) in the water fountain, too.

Anyway, we don't have a kitchen and I try not to open my mouth in the bathroom and as I am not a disgusting savage, I will not brush my teeth in the water fountain, so I chew a lot of gum.

when you go to drop a fax off at her desk, she will be sitting in her cube waxing her bikini line

careless pee splatter makes me think of careless whisper

i'm never gonna pee again

Aren't the hideous deadly mouth germs from tooth cleaning just the same as the ones poor innocent friendly microbes that people might wash off a fork in the work sink?

exactly! as long as you wash it down it's no different

Agree w gbx. But then my mom used to wash my hair in the kitch sink cos it was faster than putting me in the shower, plus we only had one shower for 6 people. Using the kit sink for last-minute out-the-door grooming was normal. Feel the same about the work one -- although we have so many people using one kitchen that the real problem would be holding up the line. Not the supposed gross-ness.

sammy sosa in the break room, lightening his skin

i think it's just a boundaries thing. i will go out on a limb and assume there is a sink in the women's bathroom. so i just don't get it and i wish she would stop. i think there might be an awesome pass-agg note in this, although i don't think i could bring myself to leave it, even for lols.

next week she'll be changing her tampon at the table during lunch

Laurel! A clerk at the law firm where I used to work got fired for washing her hair in the break room sink. Also because she was terrible at her job, but the hair washing thing was the last straw.

eventually you have to rinse your toothbrush, unless of course you really like old stale toothpaste mixed with plaque flakes in yr mouth

toilets where there is no sink except in a different room entirely are the devil's work and i would like to see J0hn D confronted with one

why are you watching J0hn D in the toilet

Dan looks at real internet porn.

pretty sure that "famous dudes pooping" counts for some as real internet porn

yeah but J0hn D isn't all that famous, is he?

obviously he has not dropped trou, he is merely walking around inspecting the facilities, mentally composing another funny-to-hilarious ilx rant and gurning slightly

gurning. . . where do you get your verbs LJ

semi-famous people inspecting facilities is where i'm at atm

next week dr3w d4niel passes judgement on a new bexleyheath multi-storey car-park, and determines that the fire escape is inadequate

gurning. . . where do you get your verbs LJ

he gets them from ENGLAND (ENGAHLAND)
arrivaderci, it's one on one

i need some british verbs

gurning and gurning in the widening jagger

gross

excuse me while i erubesce

see, he's really saying "erubesce" but most people hear "kiss this guy"

Am I the only person that can't stand the sound of people brushing their teeth? It's like nails down a blackboard to me, I shiver and get goosebumps and everything. More if there is less paste involved so you can hear the bristles more clearly....ugh.... I am shuddering even thinking about it.
Cleaning my own teeth is fine, I guess because I'M IN CONTROL - maybe like how you can't tickle yourself?

xp - i hear "Holy Ghost or Tony Danza"

you guys, brushing teeth may be bad, but on the train home today i was faced with what turned out to be the ultimate evil: people who LICK THEIR FINGER BEFORE TURNING EVERY PAGE OF A NEWSPAPER

if you do this of course you are exempted from my outburst; the lady doing it was just being SO rigorous and pernickety and offputting

that is so unsanitary - those people should be shot!

see that doesn't bother me

then maybe you should suffer their fate!

We did an opera with a director who licked his thumb after he completed a thought. Everyone was completely mystified as to how he developed this tic; the best theory put forward was my wife's, who said he was turning pages in his mind.

I can't stand to watch people put their fingers in their mouths, be it to turn pages or chew nails or (horror of horrors) lick some sort of food stuff from one's fingers ESPECIALLY on public transit, because you know those people put their spitty fingers all over the straps and poles and handles of the train car and GOD. It's just really crass.

But, you know, for about a minute I got freaked out by watching people blink this morning, in a "we are just these biological, oozing, moist sacks of goo and we have to blink these delicate flaps over our gelatinous eyes" kind of way so... I clearly have some issues and maybe shouldn't be involved in this conversation.

what about eating with yr hands, jenny??

I can't stand to watch people put their fingers in their mouths, be it to turn pages or chew nails or (horror of horrors) lick some sort of food stuff from one's fingers ESPECIALLY on public transit, because you know those people put their spitty fingers all over the straps and poles and handles of the train car and GOD. It's just really crass.

Pretty sure I do this w/o even thinking about it for one second. :-/ TBF, everyone is a bag of germy slimy fluids that leak out all the time, all over the place, so it's hard for me to get TOO worked up. When you see those stats showing that almost everyone's kitchen has fecal bacteria in it already...

what about eating with yr hands, jenny??

Eating [with hands or with utensils] on public transportation: No. Bad.
Eating with hands in restaurant/privacy of own home or office/other venue appropriate for eating: knock yourself out.

Laurel, get your fingers out of your mouth.

It's hard to resist, I bite my nails.

Also for the getting a bit of fluff off your coat sleeve or some schmutz off a skirt, and it just won't come off on a dry finger. Sorry, I realize it's thoughtless, it's just so...there's no thought involved at all. This is like your mom moistening a handkerchief to get that dirt off your face on the way to church, it's auto-pilot. Family spit is pretty innocuous.

True, but I am not related to all the people who ride the bus with me.

Part of it is some germ-phobia on my part, for sure. Like, I would definitely not just stick my fingers in my mouth without washing my hands first, because on a given day I touch so many grimy things that thousands of other people touch (take public transit, work in a public building, live in a city) and I see other people cramming their fingers in their mouths after grabbing on to the backs of ten different bus seats and I want to yell, "WHY DON'T YOU JUST LICK THE BUS DIRECTLY???"

I'm probably blocking out some horrible childhood experience where a grim-faced great aunt whipped me with an electrical cord for biting my nails or licking a city bus when I was four.

That's okay, I forgive you.

Haha – washing my teeth in the public bathroom outside my bathroom a few minutes ago, I saw some guy walking away from a sink; he left blood-soaked paper towels in the sink. This thread was meant for me.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew

my dad used to have a boss who would brush his teeth in the office water fountain

*outside my office, rather.

my dad used to have a boss who would brush his teeth in the office water fountain

I've seen this more than once around here. Also: people spitting in water fountains.

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tbh I was pre-empting the spirit of ILX "grossed out by human ickiness" threads and I wouldn't find teeth cleaning in a kitchen sink that viscerally traumatic but there is no way I would ever do it and I wd be distressed on a using the wrong-tool-for-the-wrong-job level by somebody who did.

the idea of this is ridiculous but is made worse by the fact that the sink at work is visible from the whole open-plan office

ON a similar tip to this I'm also a bit umcomfy (if not grossed out) by women who feel the need to put their entire makeup routine on, on the tram or train. They sit there and apply moisturiser, foundation, powder, mascara and lipstick, making gurning faces into their little mirror and often getting the makeup way off because of the movement and bad lighting.

WHY WHY WHY DO YOU DO THIS I HATE YOU.

See also: ppl who get out of the house with still dripping-wet hair. WTF.

what does "gurning" mean?

Making stupid faces, basically (esp that face women make when putting lippy on)

got thrown out of a pub once for shaving in their toilet, which was kinda wtf but i guess not reading this.

Haha, Trayce, I am almost 100% positive that we have had the conversation about public make-upping/wet hair before.

Basically we would be great friends in that we could ride public transit together and cluck disapprovingly at people, and then share stories at the end of our ride.

Yeah we likely have, it is a bit of a peeve of mine I must admit haha.

I don't like the makeup-on-buses thing either but this is partly because there used to be this woman on my bus who'd do her makeup every morning, and if she ended up sat next to me she would get really huffy when I needed to get off cz it interrupted her makeup routine and made her pick up all her makeup bags and powders and brushes etc

the person I have most hated on public transport was someone who would do her nails (complete with endless clipping and filing noises, air getting dense with nail-filing dust and foul-smelling manicure spray), which I have ranted about on ILX before, but still

anyway you guys had better not meet me ever because I chew my nails and will eat crisp crumbs off my hands after finishing the packet and etc

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i was hoping for a landslide but i'll take this. at least i'm not alone.