Look I’m sorry but we need to appreciate all the little pleasures we get in life, including a splash of cool refreshing water on the rear-end from an overzealous automatic flusher. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth and all that.
Like those days when you have a particularly plop-worthy poop that causes a bit of water to splash back up onto your hole… quite invigorating, don’t you think?
You would also need enforcement; $25 fine for not washing your hands, $50 fine for shitting in the urinal, $15 fine for not flushing the toilet, $20 fine for anything that otherwise ruins the clean look of the bathroom. If you don’t have enforcement, it could very easily go from a germaphobe bathroom to a normal douchebag bathroom. 
I would be SO GOOD with that.
I’m tired of finding wads of paper towels around the door handle because someone didn’t want to touch the handle, but was OK with the next person touching his paper towels. Or leaving TP covering the seat every which way (why don’t these people use the ass gaskets, conveniently located right next to the TP? I’ll never know) or even paper towels instead of TP?
I understand OCD; I’m married to an OCDer. But she doesn’t leave messes for the rest of the world to clean up. I’m not sure why these other head cases feel they have to.
But as long as they do, yeah: give 'em their own damn bathroom.
Yes, there’s a button. But if the auto-flush doesn’t work after you get up, then why even have a goddam auto-flush at all? Why not have just the button, and no auto-flush at all? In fact, why not just have a simple mechanical lever? No batteries to replace, and fewer germs getting spread around as sitters no longer get their asses sprayed with germy toilet water.
We have auto-flush toilets where I work. The bathrooms also have automatic hand dryers, which I hate because they’re painfully noisy (I have measured them at 96 dB). The dryers, when new, had small stickers on them that said “FEEL THE POWER”. One day I discovered that someone had peeled one of these stickers off and stuck it on the auto-flush mechanism of the toilet.
Love this, will be using it.
And re: the hand washing. I have an allergy to many soaps, and I cannot take the chance of using the dispensed soap in a public restroom. I do wash in hot water, but I don’t use soap.
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Yeah, I do too. I bring my own soap in a little squeeze bottle, which I refill about once a week from my master bottle at home.
ETA: I’m not sure how this quote messed up. Sorry.
A friend of mine at work was wearing a fancy gold bracelet one day when she went to the bathroom. She was fiddling with the clasp while concentrating on other things and was horrified to watch it slip off her wrist and plop into the toilet water.
She immediately got up and prepared to fish it out, but was even more horrified to hear the automatic flush kick on, sweeping everything away.
She asked the guys from Maintenance very nicely for help, and one of them opened a downstream trap and found her bracelet for her. I’m sure they continue to snicker about that episode to this day.
I’ll preface this by saying I wash my hands every time I use the bathroom.
However, you do realize that the only time germs are really spread due to bathroom use is from feces right? Human urine is sterile. While it may be gross, chances are you won’t catch any germs from the guy that took a leak in the urinal and didn’t wash their hands.
Also, the penis is one of the cleaner areas of the body. It’s covered (theoretically) for most of the day and is not exposed to all the surfaces that germs thrive on. In fact, touching someone’s hands (washed or not) will almost always carry more risk of germ transmission than touching someone’s penis (or penis hands as it were).
ONLY $50? Shit that’s a bargain right there. Where do I sign up?
So you do realize that the bathroom only looks clean, right? That no matter what you do, there will be another person in it who will have been breathing, therefore leaving germs? Not to mention shedding hair and skin?
You are getting off easy (maybe because you are male). It is not unusual for a toilet seat in women’s to have urine all over it, sometimes with matching shoe prints, because some Precious Princess couldn’t let her Beautiful Bottom touch the icky public toilet. Not to mention the joy of getting hosed with water from the broken flush handle because so many women kick it instead of using their hands. I’m not even going to go into the joys of having the changing table (and now the toddler tether!) in the handicapped stalls…
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The mental picture that I got from this is, the ‘Precious Princess’ succeeding in not letting her ‘Beautiful Bottom’ touching the ‘icky public toilet seat’, but in the process urinating all over her own shoes, at the same time! :smack:
I know for a fact that women can’t ‘aim’ better than men!
On that score, I think we’re even, because so many guys won’t bother to lift the seat when peeing in the toilet. Admittedly, guys almost never leave shoe prints on the seat, but if it’s heavily baptized with urine, that really doesn’t matter.
But that raises a question I’ve wondered about before in toilet-related threads. I know there are women who ‘hover’ when peeing because they don’t want their butts to touch the seat. Why can’t they just lift the seat and hover over the rim of the bowl instead? (I know you probably don’t have any more insight into this than I do, but maybe someone else does.)
At least with automatic flushers, you don’t have to worry about broken flush handles. And the men’s rooms have changing tables too, and we guys are gradually catching up in using them for their appointed purpose, though I admit it’s still a long way from even.
Zurn, just in case I’ve left anyone hanging. 
I hate the automatic soap dispenser in my office’s bathroom. It finds the manner in which I was my hands very attractive or something, because it will just sit there pumping out soap non-stop while I wash.
By the time I’m done, it looks like someone jerked a horse off into the sink.
Seems to me the answer to premature flushing as well as non-flushing at the end is to have the flush mechanism triggered 2 or 3 seconds after the door opens. Or is that too logical?
Lifting the seat would involve touching it, and remember, these special princesses think they’ll catch plague/Ebola/VD/flesh-eating bacteria from toilet seats.
My single biggest problem with hoverers is that they do not clean up their own splatters. They’re too special and dainty to do so. Some lesser being coming along after them will be honored to see/clean up their body wastes, after all. Her Highness need not so condescend.
The sensors typically trigger off of changes in the infrared light that they see, which corresponds to temperatures. The door is the same temperature as everything else in the room, so the sensor can’t “see” when the door is open or closed; it can only detect when a (warm-blooded) person has arrived or departed - or, in the case of these hypersensitive flush sensors, when a seated person shifts or moves ever so slightly (as for example to wipe).
I guess they can’t grab a big wad of TP and use it to lift the seat.
Yep, let the germophobes have their own damn bathroom, and let them leave the rest of us alone.
Apparently not, since they don’t.
And I bet ours would be cleaner.
One thing I honestly don’t understand: those paper seat covers. Paper is a porous substance, and I’m quite sure those pores are bigger than most bacteria or viruses. So how would paper actually do any good at blocking any ickies? Is it just some symbolic placebo kind of thing?
I especially hate the ones where the sensor area is so tiny that I have to wave my hands around for two minutes trying to activate it in the first place.
Hmm, never thought of them peeing on their shoes. You’d think that would be an incentive to not hover tho!
There are also those who put their feet on the seat and hover that way - that’s how we end up with footprints on the seat. I think that is mostly a cultural thing and hopefully will go away in time. The Pwecious Pwincess thing, probably not.
Do they put them in the handicapped stall? Do you have the toddler seats too?
It allows for some levity at least - when I am trying to use one of those, they almost always start working when I tell them Make Water! in my best no nonsense tone. 