Public restrooms and hand washing... vol. "You not gon wash your hands bro?"

I wash my hands and use a paper towel on the door when I'm leaving, one time in school I saw this dude piss and then just dip his hands under the faucet one time real quick like he was afraid of the water and just leave. From that point on I never shook his hand again and I told other people to prevent secondary contact
 
Let me "muddy" the water real quick. (Pun Intended) I just read this article on Yahoo after thumbing through this thread.
Everyone should wash their hands after using the restroom, right? However, a team of scientists says the hygienic practice may not be as clean as thought – that’s because the hand soap in 25 percent of public restrooms may could be dirty – even more contaminated than toilet water.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that microbiologists at GOJO Industries say that contaminated soap oftentimes contains so much fecal matter that it leaves your hands dirtier than before you washed them. GOJO says there could be so much bacteria in the soap that coming in contact with it could lead to vomiting, fever, diarrhea or pink eye."It was disgusting," University of Arizona professor Charles P. Gerba said of the GOJO study, which was published in the Journal of Environmental Health. "We didn't find any new life forms, but we found plenty of coliform bacteria. I never dreamed there could be so many bacteria in soap."

Gerba says that one soap supplier analyzed in the study had a 30 gallon tank of soap that "at the bottom was a half-inch of slime."

Of course, as the inventors of Purell hand sanitizer, GOJO does have a stake in the soap game. Their study, part of an effort to encourage end the use of bulk soap dispensers, said the bacteria is formed from airborne contaminents that come in contact with the soap when containers are refilled. Instead, the company says public restrooms should use sealed soap dispensers that have been proven to block bacterial contamination.

However, Nicole Koharik, the company’s global sustainability and marketing director, said its about changing the industry standard rather than pure profit motivation for her company. "GOJO isn't the only manufacturer of sealed (soap) systems," Koharik told the paper"This will help drive sales for our competitors as well, and we're fine with that. This is about motivating change."

For their study, GOJO researchers tested more than 500 soap sampled collected from public restrooms in health clubs, restaurants and retail stores in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Los Angeles and Columbus, Ohio.

GOJO said contaminated containers held about 1,000 times the recommended bacteria levels based on industry standards.

Based on the results from the study GOJO microbiology scientist Dave Shumaker said an individual could leave a restroom with 25 times more bacteria on their hands than before they first walked in.

Even more disturbing, the study found that attempting to clean the soap dispensers, even when using bleach, made little to no difference over time. "Within two weeks, the soap inside the dispenser was just as contaminated as before the cleaning," Shumaker said.

"You could end up going into a public restroom and coming out dirtier than you were before," he told the Plain Dealer.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...y-be-dirtier-than-toilet-water-035839590.html

Basically nothing is clean in the bathroom. Wash...in ...the ...breakroom?
 
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At my job the cleaning people leave the cover open on the soap dispenser after they fill it up sometimes. So disgusting.
 
I wash my hands and use a paper towel on the door when I'm leaving, one time in school I saw this dude piss and then just dip his hands under the faucet one time real quick like he was afraid of the water and just leave. From that point on I never shook his hand again and I told other people to prevent secondary contact
This! There are people that do that here at work, except they take dumps. Dudes just barely wet their hands leave. Just nasty.
 
Cup and water? I have never heard of such a thing :rofl: I've never used a bidet either but some people I know have and they said people just use that and no paper after sometimes which made me uncomfortable :lol:

This dude at work did the **** today! I was minding my business at the urinal (we have those waterless ones which I have no idea how they work :lol:) but some guy was dropping a deuce then got up I waited to hear water but nope! Next thing I know the door opens and then silence. I need to bring a purell for my desk man. Had to use paper on the way out to grasp the door handle
 
I tried at a Denny's back in the day, but dude next door was dropping a spirit bomb. :x

My then gf couldn't do it. I couldn't either. :lol:
 
Who here has smashed in a public bathroom before?
once at a park , it was disgusting, no toilet seat cover or toilet paper 
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i was sitting down on the seat and she was sitting on me, i tried bending her over but she wasn't having it.

just knowing we were in a dirty public restroom made me erupt like a volcano.
 
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I rolled a blunt in carls Jr bathroom the other day because I had to get my mind right before sitting on a city bus for two hours. Cant believe I smoked a dookie blunt :x
 
ion get it....touchin mostly anything got germs on it...**** your germs got germs on them. skins is skins. no matter where unless its the gooch part of yo crack/balls. but unless u in pron then i aint expectin u to wash nothin. eff im worried bout another man washin hands when damn near anything u touch got somethin on it. 
 
Why do caucasian males when taking a dump just sit on the toliet seat? No toliet paper, no cleaning no nothing,just walk right in and sit on the seat..YUUUK

Anyways i dont wash my hands when taking a pee because the way I take a piss I dont touch anything except my pants. I unzip my zippper and hold around the zipper part and let my junk out and take a piss then move my pants around to put it back in. This process i dont touch anything and when I leave the bathroom I use a paper towel to open the door
 
 
Why do caucasian males when taking a dump just sit on the toliet seat? No toliet paper, no cleaning no nothing,just walk right in and sit on the seat..YUUUK

Anyways i dont wash my hands when taking a pee because the way I take a piss I dont touch anything except my pants. I unzip my zippper and hold around the zipper part and let my junk out and take a piss then move my pants around to put it back in. This process i dont touch anything and when I leave the bathroom I use a paper towel to open the door
I'm white and at the least i'll wipe the seat down with some tp or build a "nest" on top. Depends on where it is though, if I'm at a nice restaurant or something I usually don't bother. 
 
This ish literally happened to me 30 seconds ago..smfh at those dudes..got me using toilet paper to open the door
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Why do caucasian males when taking a dump just sit on the toliet seat? No toliet paper, no cleaning no nothing,just walk right in and sit on the seat..YUUUK


Anyways i dont wash my hands when taking a pee because the way I take a piss I dont touch anything except my pants. I unzip my zippper and hold around the zipper part and let my junk out and take a piss then move my pants around to put it back in. This process i dont touch anything and when I leave the bathroom I use a paper towel to open the door
this Pakistan guy I used to know told me about pouring a cup of water down his butt after a #2.

how do you know Caucasian males just sit on the toilet?


I used to know a Pakistan guy that poured water from a cup down his butt. I think its unnecessary tbh.
 
this Pakistan guy I used to know told me about pouring a cup of water down his butt after a #2.

how do you know Caucasian males just sit on the toilet?


I used to know a Pakistan guy that poured water from a cup down his butt. I think its unnecessary tbh.
Because when im in the bathroom either taking a pee,#2 or watching my hands  they will walk straight in the toliet stool and 1 sec later you hear the bombs dropping and water splashing. if im taking a #2 in public place it takes me atleast 5 min to prepare the toliet before I sit on it which means layers of napkins on the rim
 
Some of my fellow nursing students take a piss and then just walk out wihout washing their hands 
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Makes me wonder how their hand hygiene is at work.
 
this **** can be applied to everything in bathrooms, public and private. when you flush particles from whatever is in the toilet get thrown into the air covering everything...you might as wash your hands regardless...

http://www.healthiertalk.com/exposed-toothbrushes-risk-contamination-flushed-toilets-3474
[h2]Exposed Toothbrushes Risk Contamination from Flushed Toilets[/h2]
You may have heard before that unsanitary airborne particles from a flushed toilet can make their way onto your toothbrush. In recent years, thanks largely to a segment on the popular "Mythbusters" T.V. show, the idea of water droplets traveling from the toilet to our toothbrushes has been cast as a sort of urban myth.

However, what the Mythbusters crew actually found did not disprove the idea of particles traveling from a flushed toilet to a toothbrush nor did it provide any rationale for leaving your toothbrushes exposed.

Anyone who has ever flushed a toilet while sitting on it has likely felt droplets of water splash upwards. The spread of toilet water is not limited to just those particles large enough to be felt. Thanks to "the aerosol effect", a veritable cloud of tiny droplets travels far outside the toilet when it is flushed.

Charles Gerba, an environmental microbiologist from the University of Arizona, first brought the aerosol effect to light in 1975 by when he published a scientific article describing the disturbing results of his tests on bacterial and viral aerosols due to toilet flushing. He conducted tests by placing pieces of gauze in different locations around the bathroom and measuring the bacterial and viral levels on them after a toilet flush. His results were more than a little disturbing: he found that the aerosols traveled as far as six to eight feet away from the toilet.

"Droplets are going all over the place - it's like the Fourth of July," Gerba said. "One way to see this is to put a dye in the toilet, flush it, and then hold a piece of paper over it"

In the Mythbusters segment, which has been cited to disprove the idea of particles traveling outside the toilet, what the team actually found was that fecal coliform bacteria can be found everywhere - including on a pair of "control" toothbrushes they put away in a medicine cabinet in another room.

Such a finding is hardly reassuring, nor is it in any way proof that particles do not travel from the toilet to exposed toothbrushes. Plus, the Mythbusters team only tested for bacteria and not actual particles nor viruses.

It is true that many do not consider fecal coliform bacteria to be a health risk since they are found naturally in the human body - primarily in the lower digestive tract where the body processes and eliminates waste. However, that does not mean that it’s a good idea to introduce the bacteria into our mouths.

Fecal coliform grows in an environment similar to other waterborne bacteria, and thus their presence outside of the body means that other bacteria like hepatitis A or dysentery could also be present. Notably, municipal water districts test for the presence of fecal coliform bacteria to determine whether waste treatment is being conducted properly.

Obviously, it is not healthy to leave toothbrushes exposed in the bathroom. They should be covered and protected and toilet lids should be closed before flushing.

Since bacteria can accumulate on toothbrushes wherever they are located, it would be a good idea to regularly clean them with a UV device made for that purpose and/or spritz some colloidal silver on them prior to use. In addition using toothpaste that contains a natural antiseptic like tea tree oil is a good idea.
 
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