Probably been said already but people always assume that when they hear about bacteria that its bad/pathogenic, when in fact not much thats about the place is pathogenic at all. Also people forget that some bacteria is good for you!
Faecal bacteria join the commute
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Soldato
I always wash my hands but what good does it really do? Normal soap that 99% of people have in their bathrooms isn't antibacterial so does it even do anything?
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That's idiotic. Just because you washed it several hours ago and have managed to hit the target without wetting yourself doesn't mean it's clean. Every time you urinate there's a fine spray of urine particles that spreads itself over everything around you - it's how you can smell your urine btw.
(and yes, that means that everytime you smell somebody's fart you're inhaling molecules of their ****)
Are you unable to go potty without peeing on your hands??
Besides, urine is sterile you know.
Oh yeah? Why don't you drink a pint then?
(It's true that urine is sterile, but only when it first comes out! After a few minutes the waste matter in it becomes a hotbed for bacterial growth!)
You and I might not, but there are plenty of people using public transport every day who may well be more susceptible to infection. Just because you're fit and hardy there's doesn't mean you can go spreading your faecal bacteria around!
Don't want to be a pedant, but surely that should read "brown"?
Soldato
It only takes one person to put poo on a railing that someone touches who touches another which is touched by more etc..
It doesn't matter if it's one or one million, it's still disgusting beyond belief.
We're not living in some tribe in the middle of the amazon, we have access to everything we need to ensure our hands are properly cleaned after using a restroom and yet we still have individuals who insist on leaving cubicles and toilets without even the slightest inclination to wash. It's sickening.
Oh and for those who say, what's the point cause you touch a tap and that's dirty blah blah, well let me let you in on a little secret, that stuff you use to clean your hands? take some of it and rub it on the tap too, that way you can be sure your hands are clean after you turn off the tap
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I'm in Newcastle and yeah, sometimes I don't wash my hands after a good old poo. It's normal up here.
Soldato
Worked for the RuskiesSure you can you just have to gatehr it all up and swallow it at once
Overwhelming numbers ftw
No. When we tested it in the lab - it had a very low count of lactobacillus. It's "supposed" to have 10^8 CFU/mL. Incidentally, though, Yakult was the only one to have anything in it, Muller's, ASDA and tesco own brands, and danone's whatever it's called had NOTHING in them. And we did samples from about 100 bottles.
They're just sugary water. In fact, so sugary they're close to 25% of your RDA in some cases. (full sugar coke has 10g/100ml, yakult for instance has almost 20g/100 if memory servers... the FSA say 15g is "HIGH" so go figure...).
Given it's high salt content, and sterility, urine makes a pretty good "survival" antiseptic. It can be used for cleaning wounds etc... So it's completely fine to pee all over yourself if you want. As long as you don't have UTI. Bear in mind it's not sterile outside the body - just like stagnant water.
Incidentally, you can't catch AIDS (I know you're not being serious), you catch HIV. And you can't catch HIV from urine, or saliva... or tears.... or sweat.
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Soldato
I dont always wash my hands, but thats because when using the dirtiest of toilets ill think do i really want to touch anything else in here?
If iv gone and just had a normal crap, im not going to want to go and touch something that someone whos sprayed all over the place with explosive squits may have touched am i? its not like iv pooed all over my hands?
Lets face it, faecal bacteria gets sprayed into the air we breath when someone farts, they havnt specified quantitys, maybe 53% of men in newcastle is because up north we love to cupcake each other - you never know.
Soldato
meh, it's hardly the end of the world, there's bacteria everywhere, there's less harmful bacteria on a toilet seat than the average kitchen worktop, people worry way too much about stuff like this, I mean using a paper tower on door handles lol, I know you should keep a certain eutectic but that's funny.
And also you guys do realise that when you flush the chain you end up ingesting thousands of invisible vapour particles of urine and faeces, if someone hasn't flushed the chain properly before you go just have a think about that next time.
And also you guys do realise that when you flush the chain you end up ingesting thousands of invisible vapour particles of urine and faeces, if someone hasn't flushed the chain properly before you go just have a think about that next time
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Do you always dribble all over your hands when you're at the urinal? Depending on how I feel and the situation, but for the majority, I'll happily admit that if I haven't done the above (dribble) then I'll walk out without washing my hands - as above, I shower each and every morning, wear clean underwear every day so unless I do have some slippage or splash back, I'll walk out guilt free.
However, for a number two, I always wash my hands thoroughly afterwards.
I suggest that you read manveruppd's post earlier in the thread. You are never, ever, going to convince me that not washing your hands after either a no. 1 or 2 is disgusting and poor hygiene.
It's almost as bad as taking a pint of beer into the toilet at a pub, but that is a different argument.
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Man of Honour
they need to go and swab 1000 arabs hands... that would be a shocker.
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Man of Honour
the 'thoroughly' bit makes you sound abit OCD...
Man of Honour
This is why I drive! 
**** public transport. I'd rather be stuck in traffic than commute.
**** public transport. I'd rather be stuck in traffic than commute.Its a vicious circle, you go to the toilet with dirty hands from your surrounding - do your stuff then wash your hands (lovely and clean now) then open the toilet door and BANG full of germs again due to people who dont wash their hands. The fact is you probably leave with more germs on your hands (even tho youve just washed them) than when you went in.........
Soldato
And yet, we are all still here!!
This sounds like something we shouldn't be worrying about at all doesn't it! personally I'll just keep washing my hands after using the toilet and not worry about it at all if other people don't.
Ergh, it's no fun. Am currently lying in bed feeling pretty gross after a couple of days of feeling very down and irritable which finally broke yesterday into projectile vomiting, diarrhoea and all-over aches and pains. Seems to tally perfectly with the NHS Direct symptoms list of that norovirus.
You forget, between events, how utterly miserable it is to be immobile due to nausea, and the helpless grossness and lack of control you feel when it's forcing itself out both ends. Too much information? Bah, you didn't have to experience it, this time...
I'm usually one of these people not too fussed about bacteria and all this 'fecal matter' hysteria - though I do object when the fecal matter carries around little nasties like norovirus. Grr.
Oh, and finally - how many people actually wear but don't wash belts? I know I do. And what's one of the first things you do after wiping your arse? Pull up your trousers, do up your fly, tighten your belt. Mmm-mm.