Hand Washing After Using The Bathroom

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How do you [i]usually[/i] wash your hands?

  • Always with soap

    Votes: 55 53.4%

  • Only with soap in public

    Votes: 17 16.5%

  • Always with water

    Votes: 17 16.5%

  • Only with water in public

    Votes: 8 7.8%

  • Never

    Votes: 6 5.8%
  • Total voters
    103
Danoff
Heh, I usually feel that it doesn't make a difference. After all, you've gotta grab that handle on the way out anyway.

When I say public, that includes work/school etc. Surely you can't avoid those.
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Hey, you know what I do in a public bathroom?

I wash with soap, then I use my elbow to crank the towel dispenser. I dry my hands, then use the wet paper towel to turn off the faucet and open the door. With the door open, I chuck the towel into the waste basket by the door. Problem solved. If there's no paper towels, I use my pinky to open the door.

Uh, no I don't live in a hermetically sealed bubble.. :lol: I just can't stand touching a nasty, wet door handle in a men's restroom.

At home I only wash my hands if there's a ... problem. Or if I feel particularly dirty.


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Duke
I voted "Always with water" but it's closer to "Always with soap". At the risk of TMI, I always use water and forgo the soap if it is simple urination and there were no "offs", but I use soap if there was a little, err, fuel spill. However, if it's defecation, I use soap every time, without fail.
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same
though sometimes at home as long as it was all good i wont bother washing, however if it was number 2 i always wash with soap (unless i cant get any then i use only water) doesnt matter where i am.
 
///M-Spec
Hey, you know what I do in a public bathroom?

I wash with soap, then I use my elbow to crank the towel dispenser. I dry my hands, then use the wet paper towel to turn off the faucet and open the door. With the door open, I chuck the towel into the waste basket by the door. Problem solved. If there's no paper towels, I use my pinky to open the door.

Uh, no I don't live in a hermetically sealed bubble.. :lol: I just can't stand touching a nasty, wet door handle in a men's restroom.

At home I only wash my hands if there's a ... problem. Or if I feel particularly dirty.
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That's a combination of 2 and 4 that I didn't take into account in my poll. Eventually maybe they'll start handing out rubber gloves upon entering the bathroom.

I do admit, I vastly prefer touchless restrooms. No door on the way in, self-flushing, self-starting sink, self-dispensing paper towels. That's a good experience.
 
Playing hockey, I am relegated to using just water to wash my hands, as it is rare to see arenas with soap in their bathrooms, provided for players.

Everywhere else, though, I wash my hands with soap.
 
Famine
If there's germs in your urine and on your JT, hand-washing is the least of your concerns.
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JT?

So we don't need to wash hands then?

Like Peter on Family Guy.

"Those signs in the toilets telling you to wash your hands are for staff only right?"
"Well technically yes.."
"Good, look at all these lovely pieces of bread" (As he touches every single one like it's a pack of cards)
 
Flush before using, hit the lid with your shoe tip, press the plunger with your shoe or elbow. I always use soap and water afterwards. The only exception is if the sink is dirtier than the toilet (gas stations in the middle of nowhere) or if there's no towels, for which you'll just get more germs than when you started, I'm told.
 
I always wash my hands with soap, not because I feel I am personally dirty but it like to keep clean hands to help avoid being sick.
 
I wish more bathrooms had foot-operated flushers – I think that’s a properly brilliant idea (even better than the automatic ones).
 
At home, I use soap when it's not a piss.

At work, it's antibacterial soap with steaming-hot water, then a hot-air dryer. Very clean, and an annoyingly slow process. Especially when, 15 seconds later, you pull a basket of fries out, and already have oil all over your hand.
 
Danoff
I do admit, I vastly prefer touchless restrooms. No door on the way in, self-flushing, self-starting sink, self-dispensing paper towels. That's a good experience.
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I feel like there's never one with the entire package. You're going good, got your auto urinal, touchless sink, even soap, but then you see they still have a standard towel dispenser.
 
Danoff
I do admit, I vastly prefer touchless restrooms. No door on the way in, self-flushing, self-starting sink, self-dispensing paper towels. That's a good experience.
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I hate waiting for the sink to turn on. I'm not a fan of waving my hands in front of a shiny tube like it's a frickin genie or something. Also, I feel like an idiot staring at the retarded auto towel dispenser.

"Go. I AM WAIVING MY HA...okay there we go. Wha...NO! What the hell am I going to do with six inches of paper? I can't even blow my nose with that!"

And then, after about 7 more waves, 42 more inches o paper, and 2 minutes and 36 seconds, my hands are already dry because I've wiped them on my jeans. I'll leave the paper for the next person. It's only courteous.

But I will wait for automatic blow dryers. Especially the "turbo" models that blow so hard your hands get all ripply and make farting noises and such. Those are awesome.
 
I love those turbo dryers. I can't remember the name, but they're hella loud, and you can see and feel the air pressure on your skin. They actually work too, none of that sissy blowdrying style. This is full bore.
 
Zrow
I feel like there's never one with the entire package. You're going good, got your auto urinal, touchless sink, even soap, but then you see they still have a standard towel dispenser.
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I think I once found one in an airport somewhere. But yeah. Very rare.
 
There are times where you make a QUICK trip (a "oui-oui), you don't really need to wash your hands at all. unless getting your hands infected by your own waste is not an option, you save on water and soap :)
 
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Always with soap. I wash pretty thoroughly too, and I prefer warm water.
 
superberkut
Playing hockey, I am relegated to using just water to wash my hands, as it is rare to see arenas with soap in their bathrooms, provided for players.
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God... that's the worst place for me. I don't even set foot in their restroom unless absolutely needed. Then there's everything you touch and your water bottle someone may have used because they were a moron and for got to bring theirs so they use yours. :rolleyes:
 
All this is making me wonder if the people who thoroughly wash their hands, while at a less great risk for sickness now, will end up with weaker immune systems in the long run. They say you should let your kids play in the dirt to help build their immune systems. Maybe exposing yourself to the germs in the bathroom will make you more resistant?

Oh, and toilet seats tend to be among the cleanest places around in terms of bacteria.
 
philly cheese
All this is making me wonder if the people who thoroughly wash their hands, while at a less great risk for sickness now, will end up with weaker immune systems in the long run.
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I was bit worried about that. While back, as the first step, I stopped buying antibacterial soaps.
 
I dont give bacteria and viruses a chance to multiply in either my body or somone else, I use soap and hot water to remove any living beeings from my palms and fingers.

Anyone else dont using soap or even water is a stupid pig in my eyes and should avoid contact with any other people to avoid bacteria and virus-sharing.

Why would anyone use no soap at all? (if its available)
 
philly cheese
Oh, and toilet seats tend to be among the cleanest places around in terms of bacteria.
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This pisses me off so much (pun intended). People who go through abnormally compulsive tasks to cleanse the toilet seat before using it. I don't do any of that, and I have never contracted any suspicious rashes or infections of any sort.

Unless of course, the place looks like "THE WORST TOILET IN SCOTLAND" from Trainspotting...
 
a6m5
I was bit worried about that. While back, as the first step, I stopped buying antibacterial soaps.
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I've heard that anti-bacterial soap isn't good for anyone. It does reduce your exposure to germs, but more importantly it only kills 99.99% of germs. Going back to middle school science, that leaves .01% of bacteria still alive. These are stronger than the other ones because the soap couldn't kill them) and they reproduce and grow with little competition. Then we are left with lots of strong mutant bacteria that are harder to stop for all of us.

Thanks a lot.
 
philly cheese
Going back to middle school science, that leaves .01% of bacteria still alive. These are stronger than the other ones because the soap couldn't kill them) and they reproduce and grow with little competition.
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Soap doesnt kill bacteria and viruses, standart soap in combination of water makes special molecules attaching to dirt and bacteria and with water the molecules with the attached dirt/bacteria gets flushed away.

No need for killin' if you just can remove them.
 
Michael88
Soap doesnt kill bacteria and viruses, standart soap in combination of water makes special molecules attaching to dirt and bacteria and with water the molecules with the attached dirt/bacteria gets flushed away.

No need for killin' if you just can remove them.
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That anti-bacterial stuff.
 
exigeracer
This pisses me off so much (pun intended). People who go through abnormally compulsive tasks to cleanse the toilet seat before using it. I don't do any of that, and I have never contracted any suspicious rashes or infections of any sort.
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I know! Pretty unbelievable..... If I was the President, you do that on the seats, you will be eighty-sixed from that restroom. ;)
 
Michael88
Ah ok then.
But anti-bacteria soap always confuses me a bit, why do you need anti-bacteria if bacteria gets removed anyway?
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Marketing. They can convince the public that this stuff is better than the alternative. People are going to buy something that says "KILLS GERMS!" and aren't so likely to buy the product that doesn't really say anything.

But I must confess that I enjoy using that rubbing alcohol all the time. I love the smell and the way it dries and the way it feels on cuts:crazy:.
 

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