[QUOTE=Spatial Rift 47]
Really? I thought Push Button, Receive Bacon was standard in bathrooms now. 
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Genius.
Although, shouldn’t that be “Applaud Bacon”?
[QUOTE=Corner Case]
My insanity has mellowed over the years. I do not remember visiting the restrooms during my school years. I can now use any facilities present and I rejoice in my maleness that allows me to have no contact whatsoever with the porcelain when necessary.
I unconsciously avoid bringing any food or drinks into restrooms. I believe I would not abandon a comestible, but I would keep it with me at all times and never leave it on the sink or even a nearby shelf.
I still make a cursory wipe of the toilet seat before sitting, though practically it’s only a psychological guard against any germs.
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I do the cursory wipe too, but it’s not germs it’s because a lot of guys miss and I don’t wanna get wet.
I don’t take food in the restroom but that’s mostly because I have no reason to. Drinks, it doesn’t bother me. Though it typically only comes up at home, like if I want a glass of water or at a bar where I don’t want to leave my drink unattended.
At home, no, only because I don’t spend a lot of time in the bathroom. My tea will keep until I come out!
At clubs and bars, I definitely bring it with me. I’ve had something slipped into my drink in the past, so there’s no way I’ll let it out of my sight. Carrying my drink inside is no more dirty than touching the door handles and faucets, IMO.
[QUOTE=Corner Case]
Anne Neville, I too remember the Myth Busters episode when they tested germ spreading in a restroom and found that the control down the hall had just as much bacteria. Germs are with us everywhere. It’s just prudent to minimize instead of eliminate them.
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The point is, keeping food and drinks out of the bathroom isn’t going to accomplish that. There’s just as much bacteria everywhere else. If it grosses you out to take food or drinks into the bathroom then fine, don’t do it, but you should know that you’re not avoiding any germs by doing so. Drinking only out of covered cups or glasses would probably do a lot more to minimize your contact with airborne germs via your beverage.
Thinking about it, I don’t think I’d take a drink into the bathroom at someone else’s house, just because I know that sort of thing grosses some people out. As LunaV points out, if I were at a bar and didn’t have anyone with me that I could trust to watch my drink and couldn’t wait to use the bathroom until after I had finished my drink, I would take it in with me.
[QUOTE=vetbridge]
Where do you go to brush your teeth?
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I meant public bathrooms, but at home I do brush at my vanity sink outside of the bathroom. It’s mostly other people’s bathroom habits that squick me out, not so much the two of us who live here. 
Just thought of another way to avoid getting germs from your beverages- spike them with some gin, vodka, rum, or liquor of your choice!
I’m not a germophobe, and in general I think germophobes need to get over it, but I could get behind that method of making sure your drinks are germ-free 
[QUOTE=Weirddave]
Of course, I’m at home in the tub, not bathing in the urinal at work.
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Yeah, suuuuure. This is what you’d like us to believe.
[QUOTE=muldoonthief]
Last week in the men’s room at work, I saw a guy brushing his teeth while using the urinal. One hand on the brush, other hand guiding the stream. Shock and awe indeed.
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I have, in times of haste, tried. this. Not a terribly good idea–keeping an eye on the aiming tends to mean drooling and foaming like a crazy dog all over the place.
For the thread generally, I should probably mention the bar I visited once, wherein the men’s rooms, at least, were equipped with a can/bottle-holder and ashtray for each and every urinal.
My friend and I, professional drinkers both, thought this was the greatest thing we’d ever seen.
[QUOTE=Indygrrl]
No way. I wouldn’t take anything in there that I planned to put in my mouth.
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Yet you take your moth in there. And you breath that awful air! And it goes over your lips and into your mouth and down your throat! :eek:
[QUOTE=Walloon]
Yet you take your moth in there.
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Do moths have some special Canary In A Coal Mine sensitivity to peno-rectal emissions?
That’d be wonderful if bathroom doors had a small window to view the caged moth with inside. If someone’s airburst has killed the moth then you know to look for another bathroom.
The bathrooms and the water fountains are located on the opposite side of the (very loooonggg) building from my office. (The water in the sinks in the laboratories, while potable, tastes funny.) When steeling myself for the interminable trek, I usually decide to kill two birds with one stone, so I visit the restroom and then fill my tea kettle from the water fountain.
I feel weird taking the tea kettle into the restroom, but it just seems ridiculous to make two trips.
The tea kettle has a lid on it, though, but Og only knows what lands on the spout, and the outer surfaces, and gets transferred to the bottom and . . .
I’m just going to stop thinking about it now.
[QUOTE=Podkayne]
The bathrooms and the water fountains are located on the opposite side of the (very loooonggg) building from my office. (The water in the sinks in the laboratories, while potable, tastes funny.) When steeling myself for the interminable trek, I usually decide to kill two birds with one stone, so I visit the restroom and then fill my tea kettle from the water fountain.
I feel weird taking the tea kettle into the restroom, but it just seems ridiculous to make two trips.
The tea kettle has a lid on it, though, but Og only knows what lands on the spout, and the outer surfaces, and gets transferred to the bottom and . . .
I’m just going to stop thinking about it now.
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So a man walks into a bathroom with a tea kettle…
Heh, sounds like the setup to a joke!
Mythbusters is your freind. Although indeed the Mythbusters dudes found Coliform bacteria on the toothbrushes they put all over the bathroom, the control toothbrushes they had in the Kitchen also tested positive.
So- do you also refuse to drink from an open container you had *in the kitchen? * :rolleyes:
Your parents have an awful lot to answer for teaching you that “pee pee is nasty-bad”.
I suppose you dudes are also freaked out when someone doesn’t flush the urinal? :rolleyes:
No, but you may work at the kind of place where people spit in your drink if you leave it at your desk.
Hey, stop all this nasty talk! You kiss your mother with that moth!
[QUOTE=DrDeth]
I suppose you dudes are also freaked out when someone doesn’t flush the urinal? :rolleyes:
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Not so much freaked out as just irritated, cause if it’s been there a while it leaves a very distinct odorl. Stale pee just smells really bad!
[QUOTE=Antinor01]
Not so much freaked out as just irritated, cause if it’s been there a while it leaves a very distinct odorl. Stale pee just smells really bad!
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and besides the odorl, the odor is bad too. Odorl of course is a technical term for…something or other..
I think odorl is that stuff that comes off when you wipe your moth.
[QUOTE=don’t ask]
No, but you may work at the kind of place where people spit in your drink if you leave it at your desk.
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Hey, that’s fine, as long as they aren’t topping it with aerosolized urine.
[QUOTE=DrDeth]
So- do you also refuse to drink from an open container you had *in the kitchen? * :rolleyes:
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For some of us, at least, fear of germs has nothing to do with it. I don’t like to eat or drink anywhere I’m going to be smelling anything nasty at the same time – hot tar, cat shit, rotting meat, gasoline, rancid grease, whatever. Last time I checked, my coworkers’ farts, shit, and standing urine all smelled unpleasant, so I don’t eat or drink stuff while I can smell them.
Given that smell plays such a large role in how we taste things, I don’t think that’s an unreasonable position.