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| Do you wash your hands? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 11 2009, 09:54 PM (672 Views) | |
| NAK | May 11 2009, 09:54 PM Post #1 |
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Senior Carp
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Be honest. I took a leak without washing tonight and my buddy wouldn't lay off it. Pansy. |
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| Kincaid | May 11 2009, 10:07 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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And I use the paper towel to open three different doors on the way back to my office. I usually only catch a cold or three a year. Oh, at home? Not so much. |
| Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006. | |
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| Horace | May 11 2009, 10:20 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Drink a bottle of dish soap every morning, and then piss on your hands to wash them any time that day. It's more sterile than tap water, and quite sudsy. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Mikhailoh | May 12 2009, 02:04 AM Post #4 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | May 12 2009, 02:12 AM Post #5 |
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Cheers
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No, I just dry mine. |
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| kenny | May 12 2009, 02:14 AM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I'll bet a third of guys don't wash their hands after using bathroom. ![]() I also use paper to open the door as I leave a bathroom since that doorknob must have the urine, smegma and BM residue from the men who are too macho to wash. I'll use paper or my foot to flush a toilet. I'll make a paper cover for the lid out of toilet paper if covers aren't provided. Sorry NAK but touching the residue of urine, smegma and the BMs of others is not groovy. But knock yourself out dude. ![]() Apparently real men enjoy contact with the urine, smegma and BMs of other macho men. |
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| Mikhailoh | May 12 2009, 02:16 AM Post #7 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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I saw pics like that at the Mapplethorpe exhibit. Just call me a wimp. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| jon-nyc | May 12 2009, 02:47 AM Post #8 |
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Cheers
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And gay men don't. Who knew?
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| kenny | May 12 2009, 02:52 AM Post #9 |
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Apparently there are straight and gay pansies, and straight and gay real men.
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| Piano*Dad | May 12 2009, 03:33 AM Post #10 |
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I use alcohol on lots of surfaces around here .... knobs, keyboards, phones, handles. When you've got two germ-factories .... ah, kids .... living with you these are reasonable precautions. I manage to avoid many of the diseases they track in. Not all, mind you, but many. Oh, and did I mention that the fourth member of the family is a physician who .... never mind. |
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| Dewey | May 12 2009, 03:42 AM Post #11 |
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Even granting that I always wash my hands after using the restroom, home or away - you can't go through your entire day wiping, swabbing, and generally avoiding contact with every germ and foreign substance that you might come into contact with. Besides the fact that it's through that casual contact that our immune systems are exercised and "toughened up," it's just impossible to live such a sterile existence. Do you handle your cash and pocket change with latex gloves? The receipt the clerk hands you? The tomato in the grocery store that someone else picked up, and decided not to buy? Wash your hands after using the bathroom, of course, but overstressing over some of this could land you in the loony bin. |
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| apple | May 12 2009, 05:48 AM Post #12 |
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geez you should wash your hands alot. my kids are trained.. they come in from public places, school, church, shops.. they wash their hands.. not to mention before you leave the bathroom. |
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| VPG | May 12 2009, 05:53 AM Post #13 |
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I wash excessively. And I agree 100% with Kenny!!!! |
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I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK! "People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look." Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971 | |
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| Quagmire | May 12 2009, 07:27 AM Post #14 |
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There's an important distinction: home or away. At home I always wash after a session on the throne. After a tinkle, not so much. However at the office, or any public restroom, I wash profusely after anything. I kick flush the urinal with my foot (I dont dump in public), wash at length with soap and hot water, push the paper towel lever just once touching the smallest spot possible, just to get one little shred of paper out, with which I'll work the lever safely more times to produce a usuable towel for drying, then use that towel on the door handle on my way out. Its not about catching colds or getting sick, and certainly the immune system exercise is important as stated above. Its about cooties. I am utterly disgusted by the residues of other guys that Kenny itemizes (Kenny, please stop saying smegma). I work with primarily older overweight disgusting uncool geeks (no offense to that subset of the populous here), and the thought of their intimate secretions residing on me in any capacity repulses me to no end. So its mostly psychological for me. Like as kids, when the cooties of some undesirable landed on you or your possessions, you would do the ritual of holding an imaginary spray can and making the "sshhhhhh" noise as you make several passes of sterilization over the compromised article. It was genuinely unacceptable to touch before the faux spray, but genuinely acceptable after. It works. My hand washing in public restrooms is the adult version of that. My favorite restroom is at the Memphis airport where there is no door to open, you simply navigate thru a short maze of interleaved walls, the urinal flushes by motion censor, the water turns on by motion sensor, the blow dryer activates by motion sensor. I'm in and out without touching anything but myself, and hey I LIKE doing that. |
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| Renauda | May 12 2009, 07:45 AM Post #15 |
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Next time he's on your case about this, just tell him that your mother successfully taught you how not to piddle on your hands when you were a toddler. |
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| sue | May 12 2009, 07:46 AM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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There's a lot of washrooms with the motion sensor thingies here. When they work as they're supposed to, I agree it's a good thing. But I find more often that they don't, you stand there waving your hands under the stupid tap and nothing happens, or flapping your hands like an idiot in front of the dryer or towel dispenser.... First time I encountered one of those toilets with the auto flush, I do believe I shrieked.
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| bachophile | May 12 2009, 07:51 AM Post #17 |
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funny how different people are... i wash my hands a million times a day between patients, but i could not care less about what germs are on any bathroom door, flusher or wherever. as it is...many studies have shown that computer keyboards harbor more bacteria then toilet seats.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3505414.stm does anyone type on a key board with paper towels... i bet pianos in music schools are also pretty germy...anyone play piano with paper towels on their fingers... i have no problem touching anything...maybe because im used to getting sh1tted and vomited and peed on. but i do take great care about hand hygeine between patients. but after a pee, and certainly after a pee in the great outdoors....i could not care less if i get some urine on my fingers, which in the absence of a urinary tract infection, is completly sterile. but hey, thats just me. |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| kenny | May 12 2009, 08:26 AM Post #18 |
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I don't wash excessively. I wash appropriately. Colds and flus viruses travel person to person via the hands. The contagous person touches their face, then a doorknob. Next you touch that doorknob then your face and POOF, you got it. Why not develop good habits that break the cycle? Keep your hands away from your face and wash your hands a few times a day. Sure you can't live in a bubble or be paranoid about germs. But you can take simple steps to reduce exposure or at least to keep your home safer. When I come home I immediately wash my hands. No I don't spray everything I bought with bleach and I don't sanitize my keys, wallet etc. You gotta draw the line somewhere or you'd turn into Howard Hughes. I figure washing hands when getting home is not that much trouble for the benefit of reducing the spread of the yuckiespoos all over my house. |
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| bachophile | May 12 2009, 08:42 AM Post #19 |
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then why am i never sick? i dont remember the last time i had a fever. maybe a cold a few years ago. and i use doorknobs as much as the next guy. and i work full time in a hospital. lots of doorknobs. |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| kenny | May 12 2009, 08:53 AM Post #20 |
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You're the doctor. I just have my superstitions. People believe ALL kinds of things here. |
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| RosemaryTwo | May 12 2009, 08:58 AM Post #21 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Eat well, sleep well, exercise, socialize, cultivate an interest (piano). My guess.
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| "Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua | |
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| NAK | May 12 2009, 09:05 AM Post #22 |
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For the record, I wash after I've touched anything I'm not sure of. Like Quagmire, I'll always step on the flusher, and occasionally I'll use my wrist/sleeve to get push the paper towel dispenser, but unless you're peeing all over yourself I don't see the point in scrubbing your hands every time you gotta go. It's just your wang; skin like all the rest on your body. Plus, it's the most well-covered part of your body, and probably comes in contact with less germs and dirt than your face or hands. As George Carlin put it, "If you feel the need to wash your hands after touching your [penis] - shouldn't you be washing your [penis] instead?”
Oh I didn't have to be taught. It's a gift. ![]() P.S. I do, however, wash after dropping a 2. I'm hairy - the risk is too high. |
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| Frank_W | May 12 2009, 09:30 AM Post #23 |
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Bach, I'm glad you wash your hands between patients. There was a study done, a few years ago, that showed that many physicians did NOT. When I was working in the emergency room and clinic, doing patient exams and administering patient care, I was conscientious about washing my hands between each patient. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| bachophile | May 12 2009, 09:38 AM Post #24 |
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our hospital instituted a policy of assigning a nurse to every department to go around and write down every incidence of negligence in hand hygeine, including name of the doc, for a report to the hosp administration. hand washing increased a thousand fold. encouraging snitching is always the best way to keep people on good behaviour |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| Renauda | May 12 2009, 09:38 AM Post #25 |
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Spoken like someone whose kids are now adults. |
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