Are you a dirty minger?
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I have Megan Fox for that role.
Soldato
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I'm not boasting lol but there's 5 of us at my place of work, we have 4 bathrooms containing 5 bogs and 6 urinals, guaranteed a turd in peace.
One of the bathrooms is a women's but seen as we're all blokes it's open for business. Oh and 6 showers as well.
Man of Honour
I know people who clean toilets as part of their job. I inspect public toilets in my workplace as part of my job. It's generally the women's toilets that are more likely to be foul as a result of people misusing or abusing them. Where I work that might well be explained by much higher traffic, but I'm told by people who clean toilets as part of their job that it's a general trend.
I've also been told by plumbers that a common cause of mankiness in men's toilets is a combination of design flaws and inadequate maintainence in urinals, i.e. not the people using the toilets. Urinals will have some form of automatic flushing system that dumps water through the urinals at regular intervals. Urinals and the pipes running from them are prone to blockage. Sometimes due to people misusing them, sometimes due to people abusing them but (according to the plumbers I've spoken to) also sometimes due to design flaws and/or inadequate maintainence. Narrow bore pipes, lots of bends and joins, irregular use, extremely shallow angle and thus slow flow...all those factors exist even if the urinal system has been well implemented. Material can precipitate out of the very slow-flowing urine and block the very narrow pipes, even if no-one misuses or abuses the urinals. Once any part of the system is partially blocked, the automatic flushing will cause one or more urinals to repeatedly overflow while being flushed and drain over a bit of time afterwards...so when someone comes in even just a few minutes later they find liquid on the floor by the urinals and will probably assume it's urine from men who either missed the urinal or didn't even care and just pee'd on the floor.
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Eh?
I am a little obsessive about showering very thoroughly and I often use showering as thinking time which of course increases how long I spend in there. At most, when I'm very tired and zoning out in the shower, I'll be in there 15 minutes. Usually it's about 10 minutes. If I rush, it's about 8 minutes. Standard showering time is 5 minutes. It takes me 8 because, as I said, I am a little obsessive about showering very thoroughly. That 8 minutes includes 2 complete washes of my groin and armpits, for example.
We don't all bleach our privates while we're at it though.
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No, it isn't. Even in a healthy person without any urinary tract infections, urine still won't be sterile even in their bladder and it will gather some more bacteria as it passes through their urethra. Humans have oodles of bacteria all over the place. It's part of how we function.
The bacteria in fresh urine from a healthy person without any UTIs won't be dangerous even if you drink it(*), but there will be bacteria in it.
* In reasonable quantities for a reasonable period of time, obviously. Drinking litres of it in one go wouldn't be safe (that's true of anything, even pure water), it has an overall dehydrating effect because your body will need to use water to refilter it and it will place extra load on your body's waste disposal system. But not much.
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Man of Honour
What?
Unless you have long hair or something, I see no reason for a shower to take longer than this? Some people like to just say things for effect I swear...
If you like to relax in the shower and take a little longer, sure. But if you can't wash yourself in 4 minutes then you're doing it wrong. If someone I know was in the shower 40 minutes, I'd be breaking down the door in fear that they'd died. 40 minutes, just lol.
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Not an issue for men - it's unlikely that your hand will have significantly contaminated your penis when you're urinating. If your hands are unclean enough for that to be an issue, a much more effective approach would be to clean your hands before urinating as well as afterwards. I usually do that, just in case.
For women, a quick dab or wipe with some tissue to mop up any stray drops of pee (if there are any) seems to be fine after you've wet the lettuce.
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1-2 times a day, depending on if i have been running.
Shower every day and wear clothes only once then in wash basket (that's all of them), bed linen changed every week. I thought this was normal behaviour i.e. everyone did this, before I read the article (which made me bilious) and some of the posts in this thread.
But for all we know, the universe might be spinning at 1000mph in the opposite directionI don't run as am on a ball spinning at 1,000 mph so its pointless.
https://astrosociety.org/edu/publications/tnl/71/howfast.html
It might help for a frame of reference.
It might help for a frame of reference.
Soldato
Washing clothes after one wear shortens their life span and ruins them. T-shirts yes fine but trousers and jumpers and jackets last longer between washes. Unlike me who always spill dinner down them and therefore need washing regardless. 
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Washing clothes after one wear shortens their life span and ruins them. T-shirts yes fine but trousers and jumpers and jackets last longer between washes. Unlike me who always spill dinner down them and therefore need washing regardless.
That depends on the material and how well they're made. For modern clothing that's well made and good quality, it's not a problem. For modern clothing that's cheap and poor quality, it's still not a problem because why care if a £10 pair of trousers only lasts a couple of years? Just buy another pair. It's only a problem if you're paying far too much for low quality fashion clothing and in that case the problem isn't washing - it's that you're paying far too much for poor quality fashion clothing.
I have a jumper my mother knitted for for about 20 years ago. A well made item of clothing using good quality material. I wear it a lot and I wash it after every wear. I have probably washed it ~1000 times. It's still fine. Same size, same shape. The colour has faded, but the functionality is completely unchanged.
Soldato
People on here must sweat like the niagara falls if they feel they need two showers a day!, I think that's insane, and it honestly can't be healthy for your skin, when we was kids growing up we would have sunday bath once a week with shared bath water!, and I know in those days it really wasn't that uncommon, people are way to obsessive about cleanliness today, yes it's important but to a degree of course, this fear we have in modern society that if you skip a shower people in the street will beat you with battens calling you a smelly ******* is crazy.
https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/daily/tips/daily-shower-skin1.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...w-often-should-you-be-showering-a6819486.html
http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-often-should-you-shower-science-2017-3
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/pop-culture/how-take-shower-according-dermatologists-ncna740526
There is too many links to list tbh.
https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/daily/tips/daily-shower-skin1.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...w-often-should-you-be-showering-a6819486.html
http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-often-should-you-shower-science-2017-3
https://www.nbcnews.com/better/pop-culture/how-take-shower-according-dermatologists-ncna740526
There is too many links to list tbh.
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