I’m not Dolly Parton or anything, but I’m a fair D-cup, and my boobs pretty much stay where I put them. The issue might be your brassiere. 
I’m sure you’re right. I’m all over frequent handwashing for that very reason. That being said, if a fella isn’t going to wash his hands after touching his genitals and voiding himself, I doubt he’s going to wash after calling someone on his desk phone. He likely doesn’t wash his hands when he needs to in general.
If you’re blowing your nose, you most certainly should wash your hands! Even if it’s just allergies.
Look, I volunteer at a hospital. In fact, I was there today. And by every sink there is a poster that reminds people to wash their hands and gives instructions HOW to do it. Believe it or not, most people don’t wash their hands PROPERLY, either. You should lather up and scrub your hands good for at least 15 seconds. Make sure you scrub both sides of your hands, and rub each finger. THEN rinse well and dry your hands. Technically, you’re supposed to turn the faucet off with a paper towel, but I confess I don’t do that.
Honestly, would it kill you to wash your hands? We’d avoid a lot of colds and flus if everyone would just WASH THEIR FREAKING HANDS. Gah.
Oh, and as someone who HAS OCD, I’d like to add that OCD washing is NOTHING like regular, routine handwashing. People with OCD who compulsively handwash have been known to do so to a degree that they obliterate their fingerprints. They take hours to wash said hands.
Washing your hands after take a pee != OCD
Get some perspective, please.
You know, it doesn’t have to be a health hazard to still be disgusting. Just wash yer hands ya lazy fucks.
Would it kill you germaphopbes to mind your own business?
I used to think so. Then I participated in this thread. :eek:
Yes. Now go wash your hands!
I know a lot of people get squicked by the whole pee-poo thing, but as I said in my earlier post, IMO the best argument for washing your hands when you go to the bathroom is simply that that’s where the sinks and soap are. Washing periodically is a good idea, so do it when you go to the loo.
I wouldn’t wash my hands except for the fact that while I may not have pissed or shit on my hands, how do I know that the person in the stall before me didn’t. Hence if I open the door behind them, I am going to get every little germy that they left all over the place.
This is why I wash my hands. So should you.
I’ve probably got OCD as far as hand washing, but then again I’m hardly ever sick either. One cold a year if that.
Would it kill you to wash your hands?
And again, OCD handwashing is a completely different animal. We’re talking washing your hands until they honest to god BLEED.
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned that excessive cleanliness has been theorized to account for the large number of immune system disorders and allergies in industrialized countries, a relatively modern concern (allergies and immune system problems are less common in dirtier Third World countries). The theory is, the immune system goes haywire when it isn’t given enough to do; thus, it becomes hypersensitive to otherwise innocuous things. Although many immunologists believe in this theory, no one really knows for sure. However, an article in the Washington Post a couple of months ago mentioned a study that seems to suggest that the theory is true. In this study, scientists tested the immune systems of a group of rats divided up into two colonies: cleanly raised lab rats vs. sewer rats (They used rats because rats have immune systems relatively similar to humans). They found that the immune systems of the lab rats overreacted to minor foreign invasions, whereas the sewer rats’ immune systems pretty much ignored the innocuous invasions; just as importantly, the sewer rats’ immune systems reacted more strongly to serious attacks, whereas the lab rats’ immune systems’ responses were not as strong. Next experiment: toss them candyass lab rats into the sewer to see what happens (seriously, that’s what they’re doing next).
Moreover, an article in the Smithsonian magazine last year indicated that scientist discovered that one of the reasons that polio was such a problem in the middle of the 1900’s (until Jonas Salk developed a vaccine) was because excessive cleanliness discouraged a passive passing around of immunity from person to person through what I’ll politely call alimentary canal secretions. Polio isn’t new; in fact, it’s believed to go back at least 3,500 years, but was not really common. Unfortunately, excessive sanitation concerns brought it to the forefront of health officials’ concerns until researchers worked their magic. Before the vaccine, there were 58,000 polio cases in the U.S. in a single year; more ominously, the cases were rapidly trending upward.
Count me in DtC’s camp. I pretty much only wash my hands after using the bathroom a) if I felt piss splash back on me or b)if there are other people in there. I don’t wash my hands at home after using the can.
I do not believe that taking a leak in the urinal is getting my hands any dirtier than any other task.
The main reason that I don’t wash my hands everytime I go to the bathroom is because I would have to carry around a big jug of Jergens to keep my hands from drying out and cracking. I HATE putting lotion on my knuckles (which dry out and crack very easily at certain times of the year) then going to take a leak then washing my hands. That means I have to put MORE lotion on, wait for my hands to absorb the lotion AGAIN etc… I have the bladder of a little girl and piss once an hour or so and it gets annoying.
I think most guys just do a quick rinse and bit the door. If you need to scrub your hands with soap and water everytime you go piss you have some pisspoor (pun) aim son.
(PS. I’m NEVER sick and neither is my family)
I think this is the best username/post content combo ever.
Why’s that? There’s nothing special about ‘dick skin’ that makes it more prone to infection. Unless you’re rubbing the end of your urethra with your hands (and even then, odds are the runie will flush out anything before it can give you a UTI or bladder infection,) having bacteria on the outside of your wang is no worse than having it on your hands. So you might as well save yourself the trouble and time and just wash once when you’re all done.
That being said, there are times to wash up before pissing, like if one has grease/grime/dirt/etc… on them.
That doesn’t really have anything to do with washing your hands. Most of the bacteria on your hands that spread infection like e.coli, shingella, bacteroides, etc. have nothing to do with immune disorders.
Our local newspaper has a column by Dr. Peter Gott. I don’t know if his column is syndicated and don’t know much about him, but he said the same that Diogenes said, it’s not really necessary for men to wash their hands after urinating.
Little bit of an ewww factor there, because I’m an admitted germaphobe, but that’s what he said.
It’s not so much an immune system disorder as an immune system atrophy. If you don’t give it anything work with, it can’t handle even minor infections. I watched apparently healthy children dive for pesos in the Phillipines in what was essentially an open sewer (the river probably had a name, but everyone referred to it as Shit River). I was informed that if I fell in to this water, I would feel like a pincushion after the number of vaccinations and antibiotics I would need to survive the experience.
Granted, it’s tough to develop a resistance to E. Coli, but I would wager that a person with a robust immune system from exposure to a wide variety of common bacteria would have a better chance of surviving it unscathed than one who avoids the faucet handles or doorknobs in restrooms for fear of touching something dirty.
Given that, a moderate level of hygiene is a good thing. An even higher level is necessary in medical and food service industries for reasons pointed out above. But if I knew you just took a wizz and didn’t wash your hands afterwards, I’d still shake your hand, but I’d refrain from putting my hand in my eyes, nose or mouth afterwards.
You use a string.
Autoimmune diseases, or so it is theorized, are a modern problem because of too much antisepsis. In 20 years we’ll be spraying the nursery with aerosol barnyard fecal effluvia to ensure normal healthy exposure to bacteria.
This whole GERMS obsession of the last couple decades is really starting to creep me out. I see people at the gym scrubbing the machines with Lysol before they’ll touch them. I see folks spraying telephone receivers with disinfectant before they’ll answer a phone.
Meanwhile, my dog, who cheerfully eats fallen food right off the floor, never gets sick.
Most bacteria aren’t going to do you any damage unless you get a pretty large dose of them (and even then your body is excellently well-equipped to fend the little bastards off).
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Count me in DtC’s camp. I pretty much only wash my hands after using the bathroom a) if I felt piss splash back on me or b)if there are other people in there. I don’t wash my hands at home after using the can.
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Yeah…but you’re named Stinkpalm!
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