[Closed] A bit OCD or a wise precaution

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Just to qualify, the bogs at work have disinfectant dispensers in the cubical, for seat cleaning purposes.

But the door handle thing is a touch wibbly.

you need to decide why you only started doing this recently - has your attitude changed as a result of falling ill after using a public convenience, from learnign what bug riddled cesspits they really are or just as a result of non-specific anxiety?

Personally, the chances of me pooing in a public loo are pretty slim but if/when I do I tend to give the seat wipe to dry off any previous users splashes more than to remove germs.

my body will not allow me to do a number 2 on any toilet except my own.

my body will not allow me to do a number 2 on any toilet except my own.

Debilitating if you're on a fortnights holiday.

[i]my body will not allow me to do a number 2 on any toilet except my own.[/i]

A two week summer holiday must present some interesting challenges when you return home.

[edit] damn, beaten to it.

I wipe it if it's pee splashed. Otherwise I don't bother. The skin of my thighs is not going to suddenly start letting bacteria through just because I am sitting down...

You're only squeamish if you let yourself be.

*this is limited to the seat of the toilet I am going to use when I need to pass a stool.

What about other items of furniture?

Warning contains swearing.

Never felt the need to do point one (or if the loo looked grim, I'd move on), but fair play to you for having some hygiene standards.

I also hold a paper towel in my hand when opening the door to avoid holding the handle.

I'm with you on that one though...

I have a m8 like Ton, I find 'that' more strange than D-S's 'issue'

Im with ton and judy garland on this one.......there's no place like home

Only if the toilet in question suffers from a severe case of [i]Garage bog[/i]
Other than that I just wash my hands afterwards

ummmmmm what's wrong with using a carrier bag and hanging it up in a tree? 😳

my body will not allow me to do a number 2 on any toilet except my own.

perfect;

a bog you can take anywhere.

In work its something I do (well not the gel) as being in a building with blind people they do 'miss' sometimes so its a case of not letting your pants touch the floor either..... 😆

If I've to use a public inconvenience, I always wipe the seat first. Though, I grant you, I don't carry round a bottle of bleach and a pack of Wet Wipes expressly for the purpose, a bit of bogroll will suffice.

Wiping the door handles is a bit excessive, though.

But the door handle thing is a touch wibbly.

1. Man does poo & wipes up. - Bacteria transfer from bum to hand.
2. Turns on taps. - Bacteria transfer from hand to tap.
3. Washes hands - Hands clean.
4. Turns off taps - Bacteria transfer from taps back to hands.
5. Opens door to leave - Bacteria transfer from hands to door handle.

Still want to touch that door handle?

[i]Wiping the door handles is a bit excessive, though. [/i]

it not cleaning them, it using a wipe to open the 'exit'.... what's the point in washing your hands (after using the loo), if the first thing you touch if a piss stained handle...

EDIT: darn too slow

usually give the seat a wipe, has the added bonus of helping avoid any splash backs

having crohns I have to use public bogs more than I'd like, but I try to use those in shops\pubs\ restaurants more than those found in carparks.

you sit on public toilets? ewww

if I HAVE to go anywhere other than home or somewhere I am staying then I have to hover!

[i]I have to hover[/i]

touch windy?

As Columbia University's Health Promotion Program sums up: "Because toilet seats are not major culprits in spreading disease, paper or plastic seat covers offer little more than peace of mind." In fact, you have more to fear from bathroom door handles and faucets than from commodes.

From what's been said so far, I feel my public loo procedures are reasonably normal. Anti-backing the seat provides some chemical protection from nasties, plus the hand towel used to wipe the seat then acts as a splash back suppressant as it sits in the bowl prior to "opening the bomb bay doors."

As for the handtowel on the door handle, surely it makes perfect sense. The door handle is probably the filthiest aspect of any public loo facility.

I am indeed sane and claim my £5 voucher off (of) my next purchase of Domestos*

other bleaches are available.

Still want to touch that door handle?

If you think that it's any dirtier than anything else you touch on a daily basis then you're deluding yourself. Ever get change when you buy something? Ever stop to think where that's been? How about the rest of the cash that's been slopping around next to it in the till drawer?

Sure, wipe that door handle. Everything else you touch is going to be spotless, but bathroom doors could KILL!

just dont wash your hands... wipe your hand down the face of the first ugly person you see in a slightly more aggressive fashion than travolta did to his kid in the film 'face/off'

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Ton shopping in Sheffield earlier.

Keyboards are found to be the least hygenic thing in any office.

I try and make sure of this by regularly licking mine.

1. Man does poo & wipes up. - Bacteria transfer from bum to hand.
2. Turns on taps. - Bacteria transfer from hand to tap.
3. Washes hands - Hands clean.
4. Turns off taps - Bacteria transfer from taps back to hands.
5. Opens door to leave - Bacteria transfer from hands to door handle.

Still want to touch that door handle?

There are certain things that our bodies have had thousands of years to adapt to, I suspect most bacteria that comes from us is probably one of them.

and the door handle of the bog hasn't killed me yet...

There are certain things that our bodies have had thousands of years to adapt to

Like e-coli?

and the door handle of the bog hasn't killed me yet...

I don't think much of your Special Edition of Cluedo.

Like e-coli?

Thankyou wiki

Most E. coli strains are harmless, but some, such as serotype O157:H7, can cause serious food poisoning in humans, and are occasionally responsible for product recalls.[1][2] The harmless strains are part of the normal flora of the gut, and can benefit their hosts by producing vitamin K2,[3] and by preventing the establishment of pathogenic bacteria within the intestine.[4][5]

I'm with the OP on the paper towel for opening the door - since most people don't wash their hands after a dump (that I have observed), it's probably the most hygienic thing you can do....

1. Man does poo & wipes up. - Bacteria transfer from bum to hand.
2. Turns on taps. - Bacteria transfer from hand to tap.
3. Washes hands - Hands clean.
4. Turns off taps - Bacteria transfer from taps back to hands.
5. Opens door to leave - Bacteria transfer from hands to door handle.

Still want to touch that door handle?

I'd guess toilet door handles are a big old source of germs. Learning some aseptic technique does tend to make you a bit OCDish.

Due to my job I [b]always[/b] wash my hands thoroughly [b]before[/b] going to the loo (No1's only in hospitals, wouldn't even consider risking a bumcheek on seat encounter). Not quite so concerned afterwards as I know my 'old chap' is clean and over the years I have mastered the art of not pissing on my hands and as has been pointed out above there is a huge amount of bacteria on taps and door handles so I'd be unclean by the time I got out of the loo anyway 😉

1. Man does poo & wipes up. - Bacteria transfer from bum to hand.

I use paper - it's only when you break through that you have skin/bacteria contact. Doubling up minimises the risk.

A guy I worked with was a hover crapper, one day he got his technique wrong and hovered over his trousers too much, I had to lend him my commuting shorts, he spent the afternoon at work in a suit jacket and 3/4s.

catflees - ho ho - how did he explain his change of attire?

That's really bad work from him. He'd make a shit bombardier 😀

He'd make a shit bombardier

I'd say that's exactly what he is 😀

work is about as pulic as my sit down events get.

get some tissue, put some gel on it.
Get some gel in the other hand.
Lock door.
Wipe seat with tissue/gel.
Flush loo with seat down.
lift lid.
wipe excess gel off with tissue and drop that in to stop splash back
then clean hands with other gel.
Sit down, check my mail on my phone, whatever.
Phone away,
Wipe.
Wash hands
Get some gel.
Open doors
Rub gel into hands once in the corridor.

OCD or thorough?

One of my favourite little japes is tossing one into the soap dispenser at work, then watching other folks use it to clean their hands and faces. Never thought about doing it into the disinfectant tub thingy

OCD or thorough?

Do you wipe your phone with gel too?

find it really bizarre that people can't shit in any old bog.

what do you think would happen if you took the risk?

what diseases do you think you've avoided?

weirdos

what do you think would happen if you took the risk?

[i]stranger splashback[/i]

I make a little tissue shaped landing pad, even on home territory, there's little worse than a splashed bum to ruin a good poo and a read.

Human bodies evolved in conditions a lot less sanitary than those of today. A great deal of the modern obsession with cleanliness has been driven by advertisers pushing antibacterial wipes etc. You need to be exposed to a certain amount of germs to build up your body's defences 😉

stranger splashback

I prefer to think of it as 'Neptune's Kiss'

You need to be exposed to a certain amount of germs to build up your body's defences

Have you seen the people I work with?! 😯

don't you all have your own private bathroom at work? 😕

Massively OCD.

What do you do after you've kissed someone enthusiastically? Boil your head?

God forbid that the idea of oral sex should ever be raised....

I choose who I do those things with. I don't get to choose who sat on the loo before me! Besides, when the OH knows I'm that particular, she's more willing to do the unmentionables mentioned above.

+1 for Neptune's Kiss.

Some people need to rough it a bit more... go to a festival... maybe a spot of travelling.

I bet you're the sort of people that anally clean your bikes as soon as they see the slightest bit of muck. Infact you probably don't ride off road at all...

[i]I choose who I do those things with[/i]

Which, in microbiological terms, means exactly nothing.

It's irrational human behaviour at its finest; people will wipe toilet seats and door handles, but eat from anothers fork, kiss with tongues, oral sexify one another, all of which present a cross infection risk many many many times greater.

People = odd.

but you're overlooking the massively significant ick factor.

Onza surely you're taking the piss?

[i]but you're overlooking the massively significant ick factor.[/i]

Ah... yes, I suppose I am.

I'm a nurse though, and 20 odd years of blood/poo/wee/sweat/ooze/drip/squelch/mucus etc has left me somewhat de-icked.

As you were then, odd folk... 🙂

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Just poo Wilko style, no need to touch at all. Your turds can then escape like Navy Seal types fast roping out of a helicopter. Sort of.

I bet you're the sort of people that anally clean your bikes as soon as they see the slightest bit of muck

Its all going a bit Howard Hughes. No, that's not rhyming slang although given the subject matter perhaps it should be.

get some tissue, put some gel on it.
Get some gel in the other hand.
Lock door.
Wipe seat with tissue/gel.
Flush loo with seat down.
lift lid.
wipe excess gel off with tissue and drop that in to stop splash back
then clean hands with other gel.
Sit down, check my mail on my phone, whatever.
Phone away,
Wipe.
Wash hands
Get some gel.
Open doors
Rub gel into hands once in the corridor.

OCD or thorough?

You've definitely got OCD!! All this just to check your mail on the phone. You need help of some sorts. Ever tried this: take phone out of pocket, read mail, put phone away.

😉

find it really bizarre that people can't shit in any old bog.

And I find it really bizarre that some people can't organise their lives in such a way that they are able to empty their bowels before leaving/after returning home.

I am at the moment working on a site with one of those small portable non-flushing toilets, and it seriously annoys me that some people use it to have a shit - I go in there to have a piss and the sight of huge dollops of turds hanging on to the bottom of the pan 'cause they haven't quite managed to slide into the tank full of piss and crap, makes me want to throw up.....durty bashturds 😐

I also worry about those doorhandles which is why I have perfected the art of opening them using my teeth.

A choirboys ruff placed on the seat = no touching.

A smear of Vaseline around your ringpiece = no wiping.

Leave the door open = no touching door handles.

Robert's your father's brother.

Leave tap running then climb out of window.
It's the only way to be sure.

I've met a few drain unblocking blokes (as the drains at my house date from Victorian times) and they all say they've never got sick since they started, and don't take a paranoid amount of care washing their hands. Certainly not when I give them tea and a biscuit just to check.

And practitioners of A to M seem OK.

just go on the floor

A choirboys ruff placed on the seat = no touching.

A smear of Vaseline around your ringpiece = no wiping.

Leave the door open = no touching door handles.

Robert's your father's brother.

No further questions, your honour.

And practitioners of A to M seem OK.

Still you wouldn't want to borrow a toothbrush would you.

whilst away on holiday i usually swim out to sea and release whilst treading water......... 😀

whilst away on holiday i usually swim out to sea and release whilst treading water

I shared a flat with a girl for a while who couldn't void her bowels if anybody else was in the house, she was so uptight that somebody would know, hear, smell etc. When she got married, she would make her husband go for a walk for 10 minutes.

Bet she was a rubbish shag !

The flat was always nice and clean tho.

get some tissue, put some gel on it.
Get some gel in the other hand.
Lock door.
Wipe seat with tissue/gel.
Flush loo with seat down.
lift lid.
wipe excess gel off with tissue and drop that in to stop splash back
then clean hands with other gel.
Sit down, check my mail on my phone, whatever.
Phone away,
Wipe.
Wash hands
Get some gel.
Open doors
Rub gel into hands once in the corridor.

OCD or thorough?

this is acceptable, except i wouldn't get your phone out in a public loo, it might get contaminated, or you might drop it on the floor. 😕

 

@ tsy. Slow day at work 😉

phil.w - Member

1. Man does poo & wipes up. - Bacteria transfer from bum to hand.
2. Turns on taps. - Bacteria transfer from hand to tap.
3. Washes hands - Hands clean.
4. Turns off taps - Bacteria transfer from taps back to hands.
5. Opens door to leave - Bacteria transfer from hands to door handle.

Still want to touch that door handle?

You seem to be forgetting the fact that every single square inch of your skin has an estimated 50 to 500 million bacteria on it, washed or not.

1. Man does poo & wipes up. - Bacteria transfer from bum to hand.
2. Turns on taps. - Bacteria transfer from hand to tap.
3. Washes hands - Hands clean.
4. Turns off taps - Bacteria transfer from taps back to hands.
5. Opens door to leave - Bacteria transfer from hands to door handle

while i dont intend to go licking man 1, it just keeps your immune system on its toes. [u][b]MTFU!!![/b][/u]

I've met a few drain unblocking blokes (as the drains at my house date from Victorian times) and they all say they've never got sick since they started

So wading through shit is actually good for you - it stops you ever getting sick ? .......well I never knew that.

.......it's learning stuff like that, that keeps me coming back here 🙂

Yes but while they're drinking their tea they amuse themselves with tales of ex colleagues who died of undiagnosed ailments.