Poll: Do you wash your hands?
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Well actually the water is doing most of cleaning, the soap just adds a bit extra. This was actually tested in India in an area with high levels of child diarrhoea. They found that the people who washed both hands with water only cut the rates of illness by half. Those that used water and soap cup them by 80% so the it's the water that has the most dramatic effect on stopping disease.
Yup I wash my hands.
I'm pretty OCD about washing them not just after going to the loo, but before doing anything in the kitchen (even just unloading the dishwasher), a result of 14 years with a stupid dog running around the house.
I also keep a bottle of alcohol hand sanitiser in the car, mainly because it's useful if I'm out and drop stuff off at the tip.
I'm pretty OCD about washing them not just after going to the loo, but before doing anything in the kitchen (even just unloading the dishwasher), a result of 14 years with a stupid dog running around the house.
I also keep a bottle of alcohol hand sanitiser in the car, mainly because it's useful if I'm out and drop stuff off at the tip.
I am frankly amazed at the number of people who seem happy with the idea of touching anything other than their own persons in a public toilet!
I would never even to begin think about considering touching the soap/towels/taps etc that thousands of others might have touched!
As some others have said. The worst part is leaving! That bloody door handle that you have to use in order to escape!
(That is what bog paper is for!)
I would never even to begin think about considering touching the soap/towels/taps etc that thousands of others might have touched!
As some others have said. The worst part is leaving! That bloody door handle that you have to use in order to escape!
(That is what bog paper is for!)
So these are the people you hear about on the news getting the winter vomiting bug, through the delightfully worded "fecal oral" transmission. Yummy.
I will avoid using public toilets at all costs but if I do (and at home) I transform into a toilet ninja and won't touch any surfaces with my hands, instead flipping the seat up with my toe and flushing with my knee, completed with an elbow door exit
Despite all this, I will still wash my hands thoroughly lol.
I will avoid using public toilets at all costs but if I do (and at home) I transform into a toilet ninja and won't touch any surfaces with my hands, instead flipping the seat up with my toe and flushing with my knee, completed with an elbow door exit
Despite all this, I will still wash my hands thoroughly lol.
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If we are to believe all the wash this wash that, germs, virus ect.........We would all be dead by now! 
More germs you catch the better the defence you build!
If you fancy go lick a public urinal! 99% of the time you get sod all.
The 1% is if its just been cleaned and you get a burnt mouth from cleaning fluids!
More germs you catch the better the defence you build!
If you fancy go lick a public urinal!
99% of the time you get sod all.The 1% is if its just been cleaned and you get a burnt mouth from cleaning fluids!
same most public door handles are probably like rubbing the inside of a toilet bowl with your penis which I try to avoid
If you don't know what I'm talking about you probably have a small penis
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Don't forget the disgusting people that use their tablets and phones in the lavatories.
So these are the people you hear about on the news getting the winter vomiting bug, through the delightfully worded "fecal oral" transmission. Yummy.
I will avoid using public toilets at all costs but if I do (and at home) I transform into a toilet ninja and won't touch any surfaces with my hands, instead flipping the seat up with my toe and flushing with my knee, completed with an elbow door exit
Despite all this, I will still wash my hands thoroughly lol.
Think of all those Mediterranean cruises.
I am frankly amazed at the number of people who seem happy with the idea of touching anything other than their own persons in a public toilet!
I would never even to begin think about considering touching the soap/towels/taps etc that thousands of others might have touched!
As some others have said. The worst part is leaving! That bloody door handle that you have to use in order to escape!
(That is what bog paper is for!)
Just a little paranoid are we?
I see people leave without washing their hands and think it is a total lack of respect for others. I was my hands and take care of the area I wash at, and having left the toilet in a decent fashion. I still can't believe in the professional environment I am in, that some people manage to take a dump all over the seat, let alone try to clean it up or flush the toilet.
I wash my hands every time. Sometimes I was my hands even if going in for a tissue, unless I am literally just seconds.
Always do, and always use my shirt or a paper towel to open the door afterwards. What bewilders me is the fact that some toilets still don't have automatic (or at least decent push down timer) taps and pretty much every toilets requires you to pull, and thus touch the handle, to get out. Would make much more sense to push on the way out.
safety hazard? is it even legal
someone could easily block the door and trap you inside
So how do you people that use paper towels to open the door deal with money?
Any notes I wipe my arse on go straight back into circulation
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This. Apparently it's not that common as a colleague laughed at me the other day and asked if I was going into surgery (we work in an office).
Also use paper towels or sleeves to open doors if at all possible.
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