I really think we should come up with a new greeting…one that doesn’t involve shaking hands.
I don’t think most people wash their hands often enough, and probably not well enough.
And I’m absolutely disgusted by how many guys I see leave the bathroom after peeing (and sometimes pooping!) without washing their hands.
I wonder how many guys wash just because someone is in the bathroom with them? How many people don’t wash in private?
So…you don’t wash your hands after excreting. Tell me why.
I do most of the time, but to be honest, it’s mainly because it’s nice to wash the grime and sweat of the day off my hands, not because I’m too concerned that I have pee on my hands or anything.
I wash my hands after I go to the bathroom, but not because I went to the bathroom. I do it because it’s a convenient time to wash my hands.
People don’t stop to think that they probably get more germs opening the door to the office building than they do from the bathroom. Yet these are the same people that will wash their hands, and dry them with a paper towel, and then use another paper towel to open the bathroom door with so they can exit germ free :rolleyes:
I’m betting my penis region is a lot cleaner than half the stuff I touched on my desk i.e. my phone, pencils and pens, keyboard that’s been cleaned God only knows when. It’s crazy the amount of work people go toavoid germs in the bathroom, if they just thought about the other contaminated spots their hands have been.
Oh No! :eek: :eek: I ALSO have been known to have a cup of coffee with me in the bathroom (since the bathroom is on the back from the break room). Yes sometimes I do the bathroom first, but not always.
I’ll admit it. I don’t always automatically wash my hands after I take a piss. The reason? Because I didn’t piss on them.
I wash them after I take a dump, though, and I usually wash them after a piss if I’m using a public restroom just so I don’t gross people out, but if I’m at home and I have to take a leak (and my wife isn’t watching), I’ll often just zip up and saunter right back out of the can. The only exception is if I’m going to be handling food, in which case I always wash my hands first even if I haven’t gone to the bathroom. This is an ongoing source of conflict in my marriage. My spouse thinks it’s uncouth.
She would. She’s female. Females like to complain about such things. They also pee on the floor and universally complain about men having bad aim. Airtight alibis, my ass.
I don’t always wash the hands after a leak, but I don’t always have to use my hands. Always after going ol’ number 2, though.
In public restrooms the hand blower in a prime reason. They don’t work nearly as well as paper towels, and much more inconvienent. When I see them (and no paper towels), unless really needed I won’t wash my hands.
“Tell me why you don’t wash your hands after going to the bathroom”
McDonald’s doesn’t have paper towels. I try to remember before I go in to take napkins with me, but then I use them to wipe the seat and run out. The “hand dryer” never works.
And I have no diseases.
I wash my hands whenever I use a public restroom, mainly because I don’t know what’s on all the surfaces I have to touch, especially a toilet flush handle. As far as spreading germs to other people, getting pee on your hands isn’t the concern (pee is pretty benign and sterile when it comes out), it’s touching the nether regions, which is “is crawling with germs known as coliform bacteria.” Here is Cecil’s column Why are men supposed to wash their hands after urination? Plus: urine therapy!.
Poop, OTOH, can carry all kinds of nasty germs. Well, you’ve already got them, but if you wash your hands you won’t spread them.
All of this notwithstanding, the bathroom is not the germiest place you go. It’s the kitchen. And if you’re worried about germs, you should be more concerned about washing your hands after you use the phone than exiting the bathroom clutching a paper towel around the handle.
And even worse: A 12-year-old girl doing a science fair project found that, “Seventy percent of the time, the ice [served in fast-food restaurants] had more bacteria than the toilet water [in the same restaurant].”
Because I don’t piss on my hands, and because I can go without touching anything, and besides, my penis is clean, being both circumcised and a frequent
bather. I don’t shake hands with anyone and I don’t touch anyones personal things, so there is little chance of “contaminating” anyone. And no matter what anyone says, getting piss on your hands isn’t going to kill you, or even make you sick. I have never gotten a pee related illness in my entire life. People who obssess about washing hands after pissing because of cleanliness then go and touch door handles, etc. that are covered in germs. I mean, some people drink pee, apply baby urine to their face etc. but getting a drop on your hands is supposed to be the end of the world? Right now my penis is just as clean as my arm, but if I touch my arm, society says no problem, but touch my penis and I’m supposed to scrub up like I’m about to preform surgery? Can any hand wash advocates provide any cite which confirms any illness resulting from a normal healthy person not washing hands after urination? People on the internet eat shit with no apparent harm!
Don’t forget sauteed semen!
I wash after every bathroom use, assuming there is some sort of sink around (I go to lots of dive bars). But I’ve worked in a clinic the past three years, and at a deli the three years before that, so having clean hands is kind of pounded into my head.
Two guys are peeing in a public urinal. They both finish at the same time. One goes to the sink and begins washing his hands, the other one heads for the door.
Guy #1 says “Hey, didn’t your mother teach you to wash afterwards?”
Guy #2 says, “No, my mother taught me not to pee on my hands!”
The urine is no big deal. Although some will tell you that urine is sterile since bacteria can’t get past the kidneys, that is not the whole truth (a healthy kidney can filter out anything larger than a molecule with a molecular weight of about 60,000). There are usually bacteria living in your urinary tract that are not harmful. Each time you piss, the first bit of piss has some bacteria in it; the rest of your urine is indeed sterile, unless you have, say, HIV (viruses are generally very small). Having been pissed on in an S&M demonstration in public (fetishists, be jealous! Everyone else, retch…), I can tell you piss is nothing to worry about. Shit is another matter. There are indeed a large number of unpleasent things in shit that can do a number on you.
I always wash my hands after a take a poop. Not always after a pee, though. I usually do wash my hands in a public restroom, mostly because I don’t want to seem dirty to any other women in there. If it’s a public restroom without paper towels, I skip it, though, because I hate the freaking blowers. I always wash my hands just before preparing any food, too.
Exactly. When I pee at home, I blot myself dry, flush and that’s it. I don’t touch myself. No urine gets on my hands. I keep my bathroom sparkling clean. I bathe everyday and wash my genitals extremely well. So why do I need to wash my hands every single time I urinate?
As often as I need to go, like usually once every hour or two, my hands would be so dry and cracked from so much washing, they would be painful.
Now of course, if I am in a public restroom, I wash my hands, and always after going #2.
I guess my question for the OP is, why do you feel one needs to wash their hands after urinating?
Wash your freakin’ hands!
Cecil’s column ( http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_220.html ) also addresses this issue:
I was thinking about this same thing too. If we’re so fricken dirty down there, then my boyfriend and I should surely be dead now from preforming regular oral sex on each other, right?
As often as we have our mouths on one another’s nether regions, you’d think we be suffering from constant sickness, but we’re not. So I guess the dreaded bacteria everyone’s so afraid of isn’t as deadly as we think. I mean, because if it were, I’d be sick sick sick all the time, and I’m not. Logical deduction.
Another reason I don’t feel bad about not washing my hands after urinating in my own clean bathroom and wiping without touching myself.
The teeny tiny miniscule risk of illness is not big enough for me to want to wash my hands every single time I urinate (like 10 times a day) and have my hands as dry as a desert.
I think people are way too paranoid about bacteria. It’s everywhere and you will never get rid of it. Keep your house and body clean, wash your hands after going #2, and when eating and preparing food, and I’m willing to bet most of us will live healthy long lives.