I just saw a clip I downloaded showing guys in the bathroom (not really on purpose; the clip was accurately titled, but due to its source, the last thing I was expecting was an unironically named video). Anyway, in it, after they were done, some of the guys used their feet to flush the toilets. Ugh! I knew women did that crap, but then that’s why they package Purell so femininely (you catch colds from not washing your hands. Colds are caused by viruses. Purell is an antibacterial.), and why it’s not alarming to see a woman at a restaurant order a glass of hot water to dip her silverware in; point: I always associated germphobia with femininity. But is it really that common with guys to use their feet too?
You’re suppose to flush public toilets?
Marc
Hey! I don’t appreciate being called feminine.
I just don’t enjoy touching a filthy piece of metal that hundreds of other mens have touched right after holding their penis.
Even Cecil has proven that the crotchal region is crawling with bacteria.
Well that would require a pretty high kick on those urinals, wouldn’t it…?
I can kick that flusher on any urinal no matter how high. I’m like the Bruce Lee of bathroom hygene.
I don’t, but I always wash my hands after using it. It’s pretty disgusting how many people I’ve noticed don’t wash their hands after using the restroom, especially a public restroom! If the exit door has a handle I have to pull, sometimes I’ll even use a towel or my shirt to cover my hand while I open it.
I use the back of my hand for the flush. However, I do kick the toilet seat up with my foot.
I usually don’t wash my hand under normal circumstances, but when in a public toilet, it is different for some reason.
I think of the dirtiest, stinkiest guy who has used the toilet just before me, and he placed the black plague on the toilet handle. I kick that bastard to flush.
i also use the " use the sink, and then use the hand drying towel to turn off the sink, and open the door" method.
But anywhere else i never wash my hands. just “black plague infested” public bathrooms.
'nother kicker here. Seriously, I don’t want my skin contacting anything that encrusted with crap (pun moderately unintended)…
So I thoroughly second Lando Griffin’s post…
The part which escapes me is this: I shower daily, and therefore my entire body is clean, at least in the morning. My hands touch numerous objects whose cleanliness is questionable at best. Therefore, when I use the toilet, I wash my hands prior to touching my private parts. So long as I am capable of using the facilities without wetting or soiling my hands, everything is still clean.
Regarding the OP, I’m a dedicated foot flusher.
I was taught since I was a little bot to flush public toilets with your feet and I still do.
I always wash my hands after going to the bathroom, some sort of habit i guess so i never worried about flushing the toilet with my foot, and now at least 50% of the public restrooms im ever in have the automatic flushers anyways…
slight hijack, my roommates best friend always uses his foot to flush the toilet, no matter the toilet, which is something that urks me… we keep our bathroom clean, and in an effort to protect himself from germs he makes it more dirty by getting whatever crap hes stepped in on the toilet lever…ugh…end hijack.
Huh. I never knew that so many people did that. I don’t know why you think Purell is “feminine,” but I use it (I can certainly be described as a germophobe of sorts). If it’s a urinal I might not flush at all and if it’s um…number 2…then, well, I probably wouldn’t be doing it in a public bathroom.
But I have a question to all the kickers out there: wouldn’t it be easier to just wash your hands afterward? It’s not as if the same germs aren’t present on the stall door or the door to the bathroom…
Put me down as being strongly against foot flushing.
First, a crotch isn’t really a dangerous thing – a hand that touches a crotch even less so. In any event, a steel toilet handle is not an ideal breeding ground for whatever small amount of bacteria is transferred to it.
On the other hand, the one place in most public restrooms that is completely disgusting is the floor. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to avoid the sticky disgustingness of the floor . . . unless someone starts putting his feet on things that people touch with their hands.
Besides, if you’re going to wash your hands in the next ten seconds anyway, why are you afraid of touching a toilet handle? Is it really so dangerous? How is it significantly different than a door knob, which people touch after their fingers have been God-knows-where.
I am continually amazed at the number of people who absolutely believe in cooties, but call it something else.
As with Rabid_Squirrel I kick the toilet seat up and I also flush with my feet.
VarlosZ raises some good points, as least for me. The entire thing is irrational on my part, it’s not as if I’m going to have a meal between the stall and the sink, yet I still prefer to use my feet.
Also, I have no problem with opening the door of the stall with my hands. I’ve never though of it as a “tainted” area.
I press all public buttons with my knuckles - ATM, lifts, toilet flush, … Knuckles never go near eye, nose or mouth.
I flush urinals at my office with my foot all the time. However, they’re built with footpedal flush valves…
I sure as hell had not seen those before I started this job…
hmmm… a video you did not purposely watch, but made it all the way to the flush?
anyway… Yes, I use my feet for public toilets(not urinals, they are too hard to reach). Some people are pretty damn disgusting, and I have seen some horrible rest rooms. Why would I want to touch anything in there when I can just kick it?
Foot flusher.
If very public, I will grab a paper towel and instead of hgih kicking, will grab the handle with the towel.
Will use the shoe wherever applicable.
Thank goodness for auto-flushers.