Do we have any non-hand washers here? Now with poll

[snickers]

Mar 12, 2014 13:29:41 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:27:10 GMT -5 snickers said:

It's not only gastro bugs that are in the bathroom, people blow their noses and do other nasty things in there too.

OMG people do that in pretty much every single other room of their house too!

I feel like you are in a for a big learning curve with having a kid, toddlers are fucking gross! LOL

I've worked in daycare, I know their are walking germs, lol

[Jermys]

Now is probably a good time to tell you all that my great grandparents had the last outhouse in Dubuque, IA because my great grandfather thought having a toilet in your home was the most repulsive thing ever.  I remember using that outhouse, people.  I'm not that old.

[kadams767]

Mar 12, 2014 13:30:51 GMT -5 snickers said:

When I was in university, I worked at a grocery store. A lady came in and shit herself in the produce isle (like running down her leg diarrhea). She went into the bathroom and cleaned her shitty pants out in the sink, and blew them dry in the air blower (she did all of this in front of everyone else who was coming in and out) and then went back and did all over her shopping

OMG! How many fatalities were there?

[snickers]

Mar 12, 2014 13:28:42 GMT -5 eddy said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:24:40 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

We were just talking on Apr. 2012 about toilet spray and fecal matter on toothbrushes, and it turns out, fecal matter is EVERYWHERE. The Mythbusters episode found fecal matter on toothbrushes that had just been sitting in an office.

Not that I'm saying don't wash your hands.

But also don't you have to eat a certain amount of fecal matter to actually get sick from it if you have a normal, healthy immune system? I have to believe this, because, cat butts all over my house.

This is how I like to think about it, your immune system is in your gut. Soooo, a reasonable amount of ingested fecal flecks are good right?

lol I feel like I might have crossed a line.

Well, obviously you come into contact with it, but I think it would be pretty gross to purposely not wash your hands, and then eat them. Gross!

[shostakovich]

Okay, bathroom germs aside: I think we can all agree that washing my hands after riding the L - where I have witnessed people eating peanut butter and MASHED POTATOES with their fingers - is of the utmost necessity, yes?

I will repeat: Humans. They are gross.

[snickers]

Mar 12, 2014 13:32:02 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:30:51 GMT -5 snickers said:

When I was in university, I worked at a grocery store. A lady came in and shit herself in the produce isle (like running down her leg diarrhea). She went into the bathroom and cleaned her shitty pants out in the sink, and blew them dry in the air blower (she did all of this in front of everyone else who was coming in and out) and then went back and did all over her shopping

What the fuck was she supposed to do? Walk out naked?
I doubt she did it on purpose and I'm sure she was mortified. I mean come on!

lol, no.

But it doesn't make it any less gross.

[TrudyCampbell]

I'm very pregnant, I pee multiple times in the middle of the night, and I never wash my hands at those times. I also don't turn on any lights or flush the toilet. I'm not sorry.

I do wash my hands at other times.

[kadams767]

Mar 12, 2014 13:34:52 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I'm very pregnant, I pee multiple times in the middle of the night, and I never wash my hands at those times. I also don't turn on any lights or flush the toilet. I'm not sorry.

I do wash my hands at other times.

I feel sorry for your fetus.

[wambam]

Mar 12, 2014 13:32:02 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:30:51 GMT -5 snickers said:

When I was in university, I worked at a grocery store. A lady came in and shit herself in the produce isle (like running down her leg diarrhea). She went into the bathroom and cleaned her shitty pants out in the sink, and blew them dry in the air blower (she did all of this in front of everyone else who was coming in and out) and then went back and did all over her shopping

What the fuck was she supposed to do? Walk out naked?
I doubt she did it on purpose and I'm sure she was mortified. I mean come on!

The horrifying part of this story is not that she put them back on but that she didn't go home afterwards. She went and did her shopping like nothing happened.

[lilafowler]

Mar 12, 2014 13:24:04 GMT -5 kevin arnold said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:22:08 GMT -5 snickers said:

If someone poops in the toilet, and flushes it, the poop particles are sprayed into the air and land the other things in the stall.

Welp, guess I need to find a new place to store my Q-tips instead of on top of the TP dispenser in the restroom at the 7-11 down the street.

I love that 7-11.  North Providence's finest!

MWOS you are killing me today.  In a good way.  And not softly.

[eddy]

Mar 12, 2014 13:33:22 GMT -5 snickers said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:28:42 GMT -5 eddy said:

This is how I like to think about it, your immune system is in your gut. Soooo, a reasonable amount of ingested fecal flecks are good right?

lol I feel like I might have crossed a line.

Well, obviously you come into contact with it, but I think it would be pretty gross to purposely not wash your hands, and then eat them. Gross!

[birdistheword]

I didn't realize it was common practice to not flush the toilet when peeing in the middle of the night. That is the most surprising thing to me in this thread. What is the purpose of this? I don't like the idea of pee just chilling in my toilet overnight.

[wambam]

Mar 12, 2014 13:37:32 GMT -5 birdistheword said:

I didn't realize it was common practice to not flush the toilet when peeing in the middle of the night. That is the most surprising thing to me in this thread. What is the purpose of this? I don't like the idea of pee just chilling in my toilet overnight.

Yes!!! My H also thinks it's acceptable for me to pee and then ask me not to flush so that he can pee and then flush. No. I am a human being. I get my own flush damnit!

[lilafowler]

Mar 12, 2014 13:29:41 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:27:10 GMT -5 snickers said:

It's not only gastro bugs that are in the bathroom, people blow their noses and do other nasty things in there too.

OMG people do that in pretty much every single other room of their house too!

I feel like you are in a for a big learning curve with having a kid, toddlers are fucking gross! LOL

My kid was scratching her butt IN TARGET yesterday.  Like full on hand down back of pants.  I was horrified.  I did make her go and wash her hands in the bathroom!

[eddy]

Mar 12, 2014 13:37:32 GMT -5 birdistheword said:

I didn't realize it was common practice to not flush the toilet when peeing in the middle of the night. That is the most surprising thing to me in this thread. What is the purpose of this? I don't like the idea of pee just chilling in my toilet overnight.

NOt waking my kids who sleep next to the bathroom.

[Jermys]

Mar 12, 2014 13:37:32 GMT -5 birdistheword said:

I didn't realize it was common practice to not flush the toilet when peeing in the middle of the night. That is the most surprising thing to me in this thread. What is the purpose of this? I don't like the idea of pee just chilling in my toilet overnight.

If it's yellow, let it mellow.  If it's brown, flush it down.

[pantsparty]

Mar 12, 2014 13:14:30 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Oral sex is so bizarre when you think about it.

Let's not even discuss anal sex.

[lilafowler]

Mar 12, 2014 13:36:02 GMT -5 wambam said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:32:02 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

What the fuck was she supposed to do? Walk out naked?
I doubt she did it on purpose and I'm sure she was mortified. I mean come on!

The horrifying part of this story is not that she put them back on but that she didn't go home afterwards. She went and did her shopping like nothing happened.

Pants person fail!

[TrudyCampbell]

Mar 12, 2014 13:37:32 GMT -5 birdistheword said:

I didn't realize it was common practice to not flush the toilet when peeing in the middle of the night. That is the most surprising thing to me in this thread. What is the purpose of this? I don't like the idea of pee just chilling in my toilet overnight.

My daughter's room is right next to the bathroom and I'm afraid of waking her. 

[lilafowler]

Mar 12, 2014 13:42:18 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Another interesting thing I was reading recently (maybe in the Mythbusters summary? I'm not sure) is that male households are less germy than female households, in part because they don't "clean" as much and therefore don't spread the germs around. It almost makes efforts to keep a clean house seem futile. lol. I know with some of those cleaning products, you are supposed to let the surface stay wet for several minutes. Who does that?

Well ladies have 'secretions' and we don't have a handy tube for peeing.

It's not fair.

[emjacobs]

Mar 12, 2014 13:27:18 GMT -5 meggers5 said:

I'm going to need Marle to come back to explain putting her hands in her mouth after a good dream.

[Deleted]

I went on a job interview once where someone had pooped themselves all over the lobby like 10 minutes previous.

He then came back down to show a condo to someone while maintance was cleaning up his poop. I am sure he washed his hands though...

I didn't get the job and I wasn't sad about it but I was sad for the guy who pooped himself because he had just had chemo & had tried really hard not to poop in his classic Jaguar and almost made it to the lobby restroom. He told me this whole story while he waited for his appointment.

I have no idea why I am telling this story.

[TrudyCampbell]

I feel like men not washing is more gross than women not washing. They have to actually touch their genitals with their bare hand. I at least use a hefty wad of toilet paper.

[MWOS]

Mar 12, 2014 13:45:44 GMT -5 @tambcat said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:44:27 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

Well ladies have 'secretions' and we don't have a handy tube for peeing.

It's not fair.

It talked about that too, but they also mentioned kitchen germs!

On the plus side, we don't have to actually touch ourselves to pee. Not that it seems to make a real difference.

left to his own devices, M would eat taco bell every night and pee in the yard.  I can absolutely see why his place would be cleaner.  I'm the one forcing him to eat poo particles.

[birdistheword]

Mar 12, 2014 13:43:48 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:43:07 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

My daughter's room is right next to the bathroom and I'm afraid of waking her. 

so you would rather just KILL HER with your GERMS?

Lol. I'm not like SUPER grossed out by the idea, I just didn't realize this was something a lot of people did. I didn't take into account not waking up kids.

[lilafowler]

WAIT-how do people feel about toilet paper vs. wet wipes/adult toilet wipes/whatever you call them?

What gets your CLEANER?

[callie]

I hope all you hand washing pearl clutchers wash your hands for 20 seconds.

95% of the people I see washing their hands in public do not so I'm going to guess no.

[fryjack2]

When we were on our honeymoon, one of the places we stayed was a villa. The bathroom walls did not go all the way up to the ceiling, nor did the toilet have a lid.

How unromantic can you get? I didn't poop the whole time we were there and went out to the balcony eery time H went into the bathroom.

The did leave fresh flowers on our pillows and a bottle of wine every day. Maybe they thought the flowers would diffuse poop smell or the wine would make us drunk enough to not care?

[fryjack2]

Mar 12, 2014 13:49:05 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

WAIT-how do people feel about toilet paper vs. wet wipes/adult toilet wipes/whatever you call them?

What gets your CLEANER?

A bidet.

[lilafowler]

Mar 12, 2014 13:51:57 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

Mar 12, 2014 13:49:05 GMT -5 lilafowler said:

WAIT-how do people feel about toilet paper vs. wet wipes/adult toilet wipes/whatever you call them?

What gets your CLEANER?

A bidet.

LOL-my rundown triple decker barely has a toilet, let alone a bidet.