I have a friend who performed the foot-flush maneuver at his sister-in-law’s house. He said the place is a complete shit-hole and should probably be leveled. :eek:
I use my hands for everything in the restroom, and I TOTALLY associate germophobia with femininity. Well, not femininity per se, but at least a general un-manliness akin to drinking lite beer, wearing cologne, or using skin products.
As cro-magnon as that sounds, well. . .whatever.
A seat kicker and foot flusher checking in.
The weird thing is, I didn’t know seat kicking and foot flushing were something that other people also did before I read this thread. I thought it was just me.
Thanks for the laugh.
VarlosZ voiced my opinion. Don’t do foot flush except if the flusher is designed for it (i.e. on or near the floor). I consider everything in a public toilet somewhat dirty; that’s why you wash your hands afterwards. And I also do like Antechinus, except I don’t use my knuckles but the side of my hand to turn the tap, open the door etcetera.
So… How many kickers ending up kicking and slipping and… falling in? 
Never fell in, but once when I was a kid, I was flushing with my foot, my shoe slipped off, and I tipped over and whacked my nuts on the Sloane valve.
I still flush with my foot, though.
Yes, you’re supposed to flush public toilets–it’s just common courtesy for the next user.
And yes, use your hands–you’re going to wash them anyway, right?
Dear god.
I always flush with my hand, especially urinals. I don’t believe that they’re particularly unhygenic. Strangely, it really grosses me out now that I know that a bunch of other people are kicking the flush valve. I’ve never seen this before - please tell me it’s not really that common!
Just wash your hands if it really bugs you - they probably needed to be washed before you went to the bathroom anyway.
Anybody else curious what pizzabrat’s movie was titled? I’m going with “Boys in the Bathroom.” 
Bad idea.
I used to kick the handles on toilets/urinals for years.
Then, one fine afternoon in the “head” on board the U.S.S. Nimitz, I finished my business and dutifully flushed. The valve stuck open, leaving the urinal in a permanent flush mode.
I decided that a swift kick to the valve would un-stick it. Poor judgment on my part. The valve broke off at the pipe and I was immediately struck in the chest by a two-inch wide jet of seawater straight from Puget Sound . They use “firemain” water for toilets on ships, at 150psi (much more than typical homes), so we’re talking about a solid powerful jet of water shooting horizontal across the bathroom to the other wall.
The water began to collect. Within mere seconds, it seemed that there were two inches of water on the floor.
I quickly left the bathroom, like a coward, as one does when a toilet overflows.
Moments later, I realized that this was probably more serious than an overflowed toilet, and my conscience made me call the emergency number and announce “flooding”.
How awful. They got on the PA system, announcing “Flooding, flooding in compartment x-y-z, blah blah blah.” Shortly thereafter a gang of folks came, loaded for bear, ready to handle my unintentional flood. I did not linger at the scene of the crime.
Don’t kick urinal handles. If one must use the toe, do it gingerly, keeping in mind that there exist booby traps in this world in the guise of urinals, with weak pipe connections.
What a bunch of girls!
I almost always flush with my feet. I don’t lift the lid with my feet though, because my ex-wife trained me to believe that toilets in their ‘natural state’ have the seats down. I do, however, lower the seat with my feet (touching only the outside, non-butt contact edge of it).
I also use the paper towel to open the door on my way out, which is why a trash can should always be located right by the door. I do run into problems when they’ve run out of paper towels or use those air dryers instead. In those cases, I open the door with my right pinky, which I suppose is because that’s my least-used finger (I’m left handed). And I use my elbow to hit the air dryer ‘start’ button.
This is all kind of weird for me, because I am NOT one of those people whom anyone would ever regard as fastidious, rather, I tend more further toward the slob end of the spectrum. I guess I starting reading too many articles about how the majority of colds are transmitted by hand contact, though I know it’s irrational to worry about the stainless steel of restroom surfaces. Still, you women should see the condition of some of the public men’s restrooms before you start thinking this is especially strange. That bathroom scene in ‘Trainspotting’ is only a slight exaggeration of some gas station restrooms I’ve seen.
And I’ve been training my sons to use the kick handle and open door with paper towel methods, too. It’s actually kind of a game to see if you can do all of your business in a restroom without using your hands.
But are we* pretty * girls?