Wash your hands
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lazyitus

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19,930 posts

289 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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after you've been to the loo?

Out of habit, I always wash my hands and I don't just mean after a number 2.

It amazes me at work how many people can have a dump and just walk back out of the loo and back to the job or even worse, straight to their sandwiches.

Am I rare ?

JonRB

79,371 posts

295 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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I must confess to occasionally forgoing a hand wash after a hurried visit to a urinal, but not washing your hands after a dump? That’s a health hazard to both the person concerned and also to anyone they come into contact with. Yeuch.

lazyitus

Original Poster:

19,930 posts

289 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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Yeah, occasionally I'll skip a hand wash after a pee at a football ground or when I'm on the move but not under normal circumstances.

MilnerR

8,273 posts

281 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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working in a lab you get a little obsessive/compulsive about washing your hands (in case you inadvertantly poison yourself). Everytime after the loo as well! When in pub loos do you ever try and open the door with your little finger so you don't have to grap the (manky) handle with your entire hand? Or is that my just my personal psychosis?

wolves_wanderer

12,927 posts

260 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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Always after a dump. Rarely after a piss, seeing as I have reached an age where I don't generally piss on my hands I don't see the need.

lazyitus

Original Poster:

19,930 posts

289 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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MilnerR said:
When in pub loos do you ever try and open the door with your little finger so you don't have to grap the (manky) handle with your entire hand? Or is that my just my personal psychosis?


And I thought it was just me.

Also try to do it on a part of the handle you think noone else touches?

Don

28,378 posts

307 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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Yes. IIRC its more important to wash your hands before handling your private parts - after all, they've been locked up in your grundies - your hands have been all over surfaces, keyboards - you name it.

Before and after for me...

einion yrth

19,575 posts

267 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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Don said:
Yes. IIRC its more important to wash your hands before handling your private parts - after all, they've been locked up in your grundies - your hands have been all over surfaces, keyboards - you name it.

Before and after for me...

Definitely before if I've been chopping habañeros.

JonRB

79,371 posts

295 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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wolves_wanderer said:
Rarely after a piss, seeing as I have reached an age where I don't generally piss on my hands I don't see the need.
Oh, you'll start doing that again as you get older. Enjoy it while you can.

MilnerR

8,273 posts

281 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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lazyitus said:


And I thought it was just me.

Also try to do it on a part of the handle you think noone else touches?



either right at the top, or right at the bottom.

minimax

11,985 posts

279 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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lazyitus said:

MilnerR said:
When in pub loos do you ever try and open the door with your little finger so you don't have to grap the (manky) handle with your entire hand? Or is that my just my personal psychosis?



And I thought it was just me.

Also try to do it on a part of the handle you think noone else touches?


me too!

Psychobert

6,318 posts

279 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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MilnerR said:

lazyitus said:


And I thought it was just me.

Also try to do it on a part of the handle you think noone else touches?




either right at the top, or right at the bottom.


Ah, but doesn't everyone?.. Now, do you go for the shiny bit that might have been cleaned recently, (or might have been poloished by so many hands), or the mucky bit which might not have been touched recently, (or might be mucky because of whats growing there)..

trooperiziz

9,457 posts

275 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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MilnerR said:
working in a lab you get a little obsessive/compulsive about washing your hands (in case you inadvertantly poison yourself). Everytime after the loo as well! When in pub loos do you ever try and open the door with your little finger so you don't have to grap the (manky) handle with your entire hand? Or is that my just my personal psychosis?


My uncle has to wait for someone else to go in or out as he won't touch the handle

JonRB

79,371 posts

295 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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I've never really considered anything like the handles etc.
Besides, if you're just about to head for the sinks after leaving the cubile then what does it matter?

And anyway, you've got to touch things that someone else has touched eventually - like the door handle on the way out.

You lot sound like borderline obsessive-compulsive fruitcakes.

JustTheTip

1,035 posts

259 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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Or you could just use a bit of clean toilet paper to flush the loo, and another one to open the door with.............and don't forget to flip the light switch on and off 15 times, or your whole family will die!



>> Edited by JustTheTip on Friday 4th February 12:18

DeltaFox

3,839 posts

255 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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Wash your hands after youve had a kak you dirty sods!

Bear this in mind: A single salmonella germ can travel thru 28 layers of boggo paper and you only used 3-5 sheets?
Do the math and wash the crap off of yer mitts.
















This has been a public health announcement by Doc DeltaF.

Ahonen

5,031 posts

302 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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MilnerR said:

lazyitus said:


And I thought it was just me.

Also try to do it on a part of the handle you think noone else touches?


either right at the top, or right at the bottom.


Oh thank god, other people do that - I thought I was weird!

As an aside, why do toilets always seem to have one push and one pull door? It means that even though you've washed your hands there's every chance you'll pick something up on the way out from the bloke before you who had a poo but didn't wash his. The doors should be 'pull' on the way in and 'push' on the way out, surely?

Not that I visit many public toilets, you understand...

Psychobert

6,318 posts

279 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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JonRB said:
And anyway, you've got to touch things that someone else has touched eventually - like the door handle on the way out.

You lot sound like borderline obsessive-compulsive fruitcakes.


Thats what I was referring to.. No point in washing hands then touching the door..

coach

1,114 posts

275 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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Yep
After both a 1 and a 2. ALWAYS wash.

BUT, if I am at work I use a towel to open the door as I have seen:

a) People leaving after a 2 and not washing hands, PUKING and (down to that peculiar different smell) possibly squits

b) Cleaners who now wear those sugical glove type things and meerrily clean bowl while waering them and then keep the same pair on whilst opening doors and even cleaning coffee machine outside!

SHUDDER

I also hate it when we have kids round at the house and mum and dad dont make them wash hands afetr going to the loo!

Obsessive/compulsive?

Hope not.....think I am just clean hate the thought of up-chucking due to a tummy bug

lazyitus

Original Poster:

19,930 posts

289 months

Friday 4th February 2005
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minimax said:

lazyitus said:


MilnerR said:
When in pub loos do you ever try and open the door with your little finger so you don't have to grap the (manky) handle with your entire hand? Or is that my just my personal psychosis?




And I thought it was just me.

Also try to do it on a part of the handle you think noone else touches?



me too!


So it appears we all do this.

Time to change tactics as the shiney, innocent part of the handle seems to be the most fondled.