Do you have your own towel?

SexyGreyFox · 5 Apr 2016 at 18:46

krooton said:
So you have professionally taught people how to wash their hands, but cannot bath/shower with enough skill to clean your own body properly?

How have you worked that out from my OP?
Weird.

Pretty sure I wrote somewhere that I use the black towels and I use a separate hand towel.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'll give you some help since you're incapable of reading

SexyGreyFox said:
I use the black towels and nobody else does, my wife has red and my eldest uses white.

SexyGreyFox said:
I can't believe how many dirty buggers on here share a hand towel
You've just done a big number two, washed your hands, dried and then let somebody else use the hand towel.

Shame on you

Gilly · 5 Apr 2016 at 19:51

ttaskmaster said:
EVERYONE on here is a dirty bugger - If you have touched something taht someone else has touched, like a door handle or a phone or a train seat or anything, you will be carrying their bacteria.

So until the world is peppered with little bottles and dispensers of alcohol gel and foam everywhere, I guess you'll just have to rely on your immune system.

At that point we'll be vulnerable to attacks from Mars.

krooton · 5 Apr 2016 at 21:35

SexyGreyFox said:
How have you worked that out from my OP?
Weird.

Pretty sure I wrote somewhere that I use the black towels and I use a separate hand towel.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'll give you some help since you're incapable of reading

Shame on you

I did admittedly get my trains of conversation mixed up with bartledvd.

Still, you said

I can't believe how many dirty buggers on here share a hand towel
You've just done a big number two, washed your hands, dried and then let somebody else use the hand towel.

Yet you also say

Oh, and I used to give lessons at the hospital I work at in hand washing techniques & bacteria.
I even won a Nursing Times Award for an Aseptic Techniques tutorial DVD.

So why would the towel (in quote A) be full of letterbox ammo if you are as good as you say you are (in quote B) at washing your hands?

SexyGreyFox · 5 Apr 2016 at 22:15

Thanks for the apology

krooton said:
So why would the towel (in quote A) be full of letterbox ammo if you are as good as you say you are (in quote B) at washing your hands?

Because even though I may wash my hands correctly I can't trust other people to do the same.

ttaskmaster · 6 Apr 2016 at 11:43

SexyGreyFox said:
Pretty sure I wrote somewhere that I use the black towels and I use a separate hand towel.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

No, you wrote that stuff here and there and we did read what you wrote... the issue is that whatever point you were trying to make was not as blindingly evident as you think it was. That's why I went back again and reiterated, to query it...

In other words, we read your stuff. You weren't clear on the exact point you were trying to make.

Gilly said:
At that point we'll be vulnerable to attacks from Mars.

They're already putting stuff into your food and beverages...

SexyGreyFox said:
Because even though I may wash my hands correctly I can't trust other people to do the same.

But because you still wash your hands correctly that shouldn't be an issue, right? If not, what's the point in washing your hands correctly?

Do you go through life wearing latex gloves, or just never touch anything that anyone else might once have touched?

Zefan · 6 Apr 2016 at 12:17

SexyGreyFox said:
It's something I've never thought about but apparently I use the black towels and nobody else does, my wife has red and my eldest uses white.
My eldest finds it abhorrent that she could be wiping her bits when I've wiped my bits with the same towel.

SexyGreyFox said:
I shower every day but don't use soap.

This might explain why people specifically avoid using your black towels!

SPG · 6 Apr 2016 at 12:50

People have a shower then throw the towel in the dirty bin ..... The world has gone mad.

Sharing a towel is a no no unless you have forgot your towel.

ttaskmaster · 6 Apr 2016 at 13:13

Zefan said:
This might explain why people specifically avoid using your black towels!

Or perhaps why it's black in the first place!!

Skiddley · 6 Apr 2016 at 13:16

I have the lowest hygiene standards in our house of 3, so I just pick the closest

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ncncore · 6 Apr 2016 at 13:23

Definitely own towel. Sharing is not caring in this instance!

gothic_hobbit · 6 Apr 2016 at 14:00

nipnosis said:
Definitely own towel. Sharing is not caring in this instance!

This.

Basic hygiene and all that.

Judgeneo · 6 Apr 2016 at 14:04

Perhaps I'm a filthy slob, but I'm happy to share towels with the GF, and with my parents when I lived there.

They get cleaned regularly and are only used to dry clean people.

SexyGreyFox · 6 Apr 2016 at 18:06

Zefan said:
This might explain why people specifically avoid using your black towels!

I use shampoo.
What's the point of using soap when I've already got shampoo on my head?

Angilion · 6 Apr 2016 at 18:23

kindai said:
People really wash a towel after 1 use? After coming out a shower, assuming you've had a good scrub you're mostly clean anyway and just wiping away clean water...

I take 2 showers a day and wash the towels (3) every 3-4 days.

I take 2 showers a day and wash the towels once or twice a day. I might use the same towel twice between washes, but usually not. I'm clean when I come out of the shower, but I'm not sterile. So when I dry myself the towel will have water, skin cells, hairs, oil and bacteria on it. I'd rather use a washed towel than one that's been hanging on the door for 12 hours after that. I'm a bit fussy.

I live on my own, so they're all my towels.

Smokey Deza · 6 Apr 2016 at 19:03

tres said:
Even after a bath, you're not completely clean. You're bathing in your own filth

I love these statements. Does everyone who takes baths work in the sewers or something?

Gilly · 7 Apr 2016 at 11:43

Angilion said:
I take 2 showers a day and wash the towels once or twice a day. I might use the same towel twice between washes, but usually not. I'm clean when I come out of the shower, but I'm not sterile. So when I dry myself the towel will have water, skin cells, hairs, oil and bacteria on it. I'd rather use a washed towel than one that's been hanging on the door for 12 hours after that. I'm a bit fussy.

I live on my own, so they're all my towels.

You might wash your towels twice a day?

That seems crazy to me

ttaskmaster · 7 Apr 2016 at 12:09

Angilion said:
I take 2 showers a day and wash the towels once or twice a day.

Thank-you for paying my wages... but could you shower more often, please? I need the pay rise so I can buy a VR headset!!

Angilion said:
I'm clean when I come out of the shower, but I'm not sterile.

You been watching too many Dustin Hoffman movies about viruses, or summat? I assume you boil the towels in a bleach, alcohol and Domestos cocktail too?

Smokey Deza said:
I love these statements. Does everyone who takes baths work in the sewers or something?

If they do, I've not seen any of them down there... I prefer showers, because baths are a girly thing, especially with candles and scents and music and all that... and I have neither the time, nor bill money to waste on lengthy sterilisation programmes for my body and my linens every few hours.

I'm more curious to know if any of the bathers eat a Cadbury's™ Flake™ while in the bath!!

Gilly · 7 Apr 2016 at 12:11

ttaskmaster said:
I'm more curious to know if any of the bathers eat a Cadbury's™ Flake™ while in the bath!!

How else do you bathe? :confused:

Captain · 7 Apr 2016 at 12:18

I use a towel once and then put it in the wash, as does everyone in my house.

ttaskmaster · 7 Apr 2016 at 13:27

Gilly said:
How else do you bathe?

In goats' milk, tended to by seven Egyptian virgins, with a basket of asps kept handy just in case...