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Do you still wash your hands after using the bathroom if you don't touch anything?

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ElectricBlanketFire

Member
DiipuSurotu said:
No. This was already answered in the rest of the thread, people with foreskin need to pull the foreskin back.
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Uh I'm circumcised and you definitely need to hold it unless you want to get piss all over yourself.

Also, how do you take it out of your pants without touching it? Put it back?

Nothing about the OP makes sense.
 
Carnby

Carnby

Member
Scenario 1: If I use none of my hands to use the toilet, I wash both of my hands.

Scenario 2: I only use one of my hands, then I only wash the hand I used.

I would only use one of my hands if I was carrying something that I did not want to set down in the bathroom.
 
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DiipuSurotu

Banned
Breakage said:
The fact that there are people who don't wash their hands after peeing, pooping, or sticking their finger up an orifice is why I am invariably disgusted when I see people eating food with their hands on public transport after touching the handrails. It makes me shudder to think what kind of germs they are picking up and ingesting along with their kale and cheese sandwiches.
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How many of them actually get sick?
 
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Breakage

Member
DiipuSurotu said:
How many of them actually get sick?
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I don't know as they are random members of the public that I only see in passing; I wouldn't be surprised if they get sick on a regular though. Ever since I started ensuring I wash my hands after touching anything outside (public door knobs, handrails, keyboards, etc) before eating, I've noticed I rarely get sick. (I've enforced that rule upon myself for several years now.)
 
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ClosingADoor

Member
Carnby said:
Scenario 1: If I use none of my hands to use the toilet, I wash both of my hands.

Scenario 2: I only use one of my hands, then I only wash the hand I used.

I would only use one of my hands if I was carrying something that I did not want to set down in the bathroom.
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How the hell do you wash only one hand? That's not washing, that's just holding it under the water for a bit.
 
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Don Draper's Hat

Member
Wants to save time; posts utter shite on Neogaf.

For fuck's sake. Just wash your hands.

How do you get your cock out of your trousers if you're not touching anything?
 
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andthebeatgoeson

Junior Member
I can unzip and let it dangle without touching it.

Or drop trou, at home, and sit without touching a thing. But cleaning your hands is such a small amount of time that I'm usually washing my hands more than i go to the bathroom. What's the point in not doing it? Washing your hands, after the bathroom, is good practice and should be a minimum. You can still touch a door handle and get germs on you from someone sick. Or pass them on to the next person/surface.
 
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velociraptor

Junior Member
Tigress said:
People who would be grossed out at their cashier not washing their hands after they used the restroom amuse me. Those cashiers have been handling money so I gaurentee you washing hands or not their hands are gross (we don't get a chance to wash out hands while on duty). It's why as a cashier I always wash my hands at each break and after my shift is done.

And why you should just want that fast food employee to wear new gloves when handling your food as they are also handling money.

Money has poop, pee, drugs, blood and who knows what else on it.

Though with most people paying by cards these days at least I handle less money.
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This is why I always wash my hands after handling money.

I always wash my hands when I first enter my home too.
 
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Xun

Member
Yes.

Even just walking into a bathroom makes me want to wash my hands with soap.

I do have OCD though...
 
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Breakage

Member
Tigress said:
People who would be grossed out at their cashier not washing their hands after they used the restroom amuse me. Those cashiers have been handling money so I gaurentee you washing hands or not their hands are gross (we don't get a chance to wash out hands while on duty). It's why as a cashier I always wash my hands at each break and after my shift is done.

And why you should just want that fast food employee to wear new gloves when handling your food as they are also handling money.

Money has poop, pee, drugs, blood and who knows what else on it.

Though with most people paying by cards these days at least I handle less money.
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That's why I stopped eating fast food and eating out in general. They've just handled money from dozens of people and they go to prepare your food. They pop open a paper bag for your fries and spread it out with the same hands that's just handled filthy money.
 
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Queen Vulpix

Member
One of my guy friends does this and it annoys me so much. I have to complain to him to wash his hands after everything he does in my bathroom as he won't or at best splash water on his hands for half a second as if that'll do anything. Then he wants to use my computer/keyboard to play his games while I'm watching tv and it's gross.... He's 23 too bleh

At least he lifts the toilet seat up thankfully.
 
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kitchenmotors

Banned
Why do I get the feeling that these same guys who don’t wash their hands after peeing also don’t wash their hands after ejaculating because cum didn’t get on their hands?

I wouldn’t be surprised.
 
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cakely

Member
I think the only way that this would work is if you walked in and out of the bathroom with your junk hanging out, and that comes with its own set of problems.
 
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paperboywriter

Member
I think people in here overestimating other people's hygiene. I bet shaking someone else's hand is a thousand times less hygienic than not washing your hands.

People are dirty. But in the end it doesn't really matter.
 
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Erudite

Member
If I didn't touch anything in the washroom, I definitely was touching stuff in between my last washroom trip and the most recent one. Seems as good of time as any to wash up.
 
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Kazuhira

Member
I always wash them,some of my coworkers don't do it even after taking a piss,i wish i knew who they were so i can avoid shaking hands with them.
I can only hear them taking a piss,flushing the toilet and leaving without a second thought.
 
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playingwithfire

Member
I doesn't matter whether you've touched anything in the bathroom or not. Think of all the other stuff you've touched since you last washed your hands. Going to the bathroom is your opportunity to periodically wash all germs off your hands that you're picking up throughout the day.

People who don't wash your hands when you go to the bathroom, when ARE you washing your hands? Never?
 
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Octavia

Unconfirmed Member
Isn't continually washing your hands contributing to bacterial and viral immunities to sanitizers?

(I wash my hands)
 
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Xe4

Banned
Yes. It's good to wash your hands with multiple times a day anyhow, so I just automatically do it when using the bathroom because it's there.

Octavia said:
Isn't continually washing your hands contributing to bacterial and viral immunities to sanitizers?

(I wash my hands)
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No, unless the soap is antibacterial (which it usually is not). Soap usually just washed germs down the drain by instilling them from your hands.
 
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Logistic

Member
This thread is disgusting. You should always wash your hands. It's something you teach to toddlers.

If you can use a keyboard, you can use soap and water.
 
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killdatninja

Banned
OP do you not wash your hands before eating because your hands are clean?

Hell sometimes I wash my hands even if I didn't use the bathroom. I can't trust other people or public places to be sanitary.
 
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Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The number of bathrooms I've been in where I don't have to touch anything other than my own junk is exactly one.
 
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MikeyB

Member
Wash your hands before and after.

You are transferring whatever you touched recently to your junk. From a selfish point of view, that's the grossest part.
 
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Sad Affleck

Member
Logistic said:
This thread is disgusting. You should always wash your hands. It's something you teach to toddlers.
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Judging from this and other toilet threads on GAF it's safe to say that some gaffers spend too much time playing games and too little time learning about personal hygiene.
 
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