A Hand Washing Poll

[Theben]

After working in restaurants for way too long I wash my hands constantly, with soap.

There is a certain type of bacteria that only lives in your nether regions but can be nasty if it comed in contact with body fluids or food. So even tho urine is sterile, your hands ain't clean. Wash 'em, you heathen scum.

[Verto]

ya I sometimes use the paper towel to open the door. I just wish they'd have push doors from the inside. So you don't have to touch the damn handle after washing your hands. Who thought of these things?

Yeah, push doors and no-contact urinals/toilets/sinks/paper towel dispensers. Most places now have motion sensors, but there are still holdouts.

[Unimatrix11]

Why would you cover the seat, when you´re standing anyways ?

I wash my hands, when they´re dirty. Since i am usually not conducting a sub-epidermal examination when i take a pee, they arent dirty afterwards (not more at least than after, say, scratching my arm). And when i took a dump, i know when whiping, wether it was my hand or the paper... Usually it´s the paper. The paper i dont regard as dirty either (or else, i´d have to wash my hands after every nose-blow) - so no need to wash there either.

That sense of cleaness most of you present here is a fetish and has little to do with sicknesses and the likes. If anything, you should wash your asses, because you touched them with your hands (in that regard, the only sensible post so far has been by Cartimandua).

[Theben]

They've invented metals that slow/stop/decay the growth of bacteria so at some point I figure all handles will be made of them. Of course it doesn't help against viruses or the bacteria happily growing away in the grease left behind by some slob.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I wash and soap my hands every time I use the loo.

There was a time in my life when I would wash my face every time I washed my hands as well, but that was a while ago.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I also take two showers a day, at least, and the last one is right before bedtime and I have to do it in complete darkness or I can't get to sleep.

Weird, huh?

If I drop the soap, there's no way I'm going to find it in the darkness. I leave it until next morning.

[Q Classic]

Twice a day minimum here. Once in the morning, and once right after I get home.

[Dis]

edit: oh didn't notice post above.

shower in darkness? that's kinda weird.

[Lorizael]

That sense of cleaness most of you present here is a fetish and has little to do with sicknesses and the likes.

Ding.

I used to be obsessive about cleanliness until I realized it didn't really matter. I wash my hands for the sake of removing dirt and other unwanted particles, but that's it. I have no delusions that I'm sterilizing myself, nor do I think there's anything particularly wrong with a little dirt.

I'm a healthy person who doesn't get sick very often. And if I do get sick, who cares? I'm miserable for a couple days, and then I get over it and my immune system is better off for it.

[OzzyKP]

I agree.

However if Unimatrix11 is serious about not washing his hands after #2... that's just gross.

[Blaupanzer]

For you guys, watch the line at a stadium or other event where every one has a short time to deal with bodily effusions before the event resumes. Almost no men who use the urinals wash hands. They just rush out. This is as true at football games as at intermission in a performance of the Gay Men's Chorus in Washington, DC. The reputation of gay men for a higher level of fastidiousness fades rapidly if a time limit is placed on the process.

[Q Classic]

I rarely get sick. The main reason why I do it is that I hate the feeling of skin oils.

[MrFun]

So my girlfriend was aghast to learn that after going to the bathroom (just peeing, no sitting down) I wash my hands with just water, no soap.

So I'm curious, am I, as I think, pretty normal in this regard?

I wash my hands without soap after taking a piss. I wash my with soap after doing the sit-down-on-toilet business.


Speaking of bathroom habits, I have this quirk where I always prefer using a closed stall to stand and take a piss in a toilet rather than using the urinal.

[Dis]

how can you check out other guys that way?

I find using a stall to be girly. real men are proud of their manhood, and stand 5 feet back to display for all.

lately though, since I've been working out. I have a little trouble urinating sometimes. takes me a while to get things moving. I'm kinda worried about that, but everything seems ok.

[Asher]

Okay. Thanks, MrFun -- we can close this thread now...