PSA. Don't have a conversation at the urinal!

[CZroe]

Well, did you dab? I dab! You should dab.

 

[zinfamous]

i have no problem talking while taking a leak but i draw the line at taking a dump.

a dr friend of my told my you should watch yourself pee and check the color. also you should look at your poop before you flush. Those seemed like wise and simple things to do, so I do. maybe the OP should as well.

I also like to comment on other people's poo, because I figure they don't know these things.

I hear someone in the stall finishing up, I loudly ask them not to flush. Wait! I need to inspect your poo for your health!

this works 2 out of 7 times, or so. (Obviously, I'm out the door before any of those 2 actually open the stall to let me in)

 

[WelshBloke]

I hear someone in the stall finishing up, I loudly ask them not to flush. Wait! I need to inspect your poo for your health!

I have actually had to do this a lot of times in my professional life!

 

[UsandThem]

urinals are fine but i ain't talking, and i hate it when other people do

and i never ever ever poop in public

only had to do it a handful of times in my life, and those were emergencies

Home bowl

 

[Ichinisan]

You're there to shit in them not to have a meal. Sit, poop, wipe, flush, wash up and leave.

Getting someone else's shit and piss on your skin doesn't bother you at all?

 

[WelshBloke]

Getting someone else's shit and piss on your skin doesn't bother you at all?

I tend to look down before I sit, you should try that.

 

[Ichinisan]

I tend to look down before I sit, you should try that.

I look too. That's how I know it's disgusting.

Do you carry disinfectant spray everywhere you go? If not, how does it help to look at a disgusting toilet seat?

 

[UsandThem]

I look too. That's how I know it's disgusting.

Do you carry disinfectant spray everywhere you go? If not, how does looking help?

People can be disgusting.

Once I was coming back from Ohio, and I stopped at a gas station in some podunk town in Virginia to get gas and use the restroom.

When I opened the door to the men's room, it was everywhere......floor, on the sides of the bowl, lid, and tank. They actually left their dirty underwear on top of the toilet as a "bonus" as well.

I told the cashier about it when I was leaving (I didn't go to the bathroom obviously), and the stunned look on her face when I told her about what someone did to the bathroom.

 

[WelshBloke]

I look too. That's how I know it's disgusting.

Do you carry disinfectant spray everywhere you go? If not, how does it help to look at a disgusting toilet seat?

Man, how do you guys get through life if taking a shit is this complicated for you?

 

[zinfamous]

Getting someone else's shit and piss on your skin doesn't bother you at all?

We have seat standers where I work, and in the area. ...no judgement really--they are everyone of them Chinese off-the-boaters--but you know when they are around because there is pooping going on, and no visible feet under the stall, haha. Also, the best restaurant in the area, with a straight-up Szechuan menu, has a "Do not stand on toilet seat!" sign taped over it. ...it's hilarious, and it also indicates that the food is really, really, really good.

Anyway, I mention this, because I realize that they actually have it right. (In general--but not with US-style commodes). Obviously, you can't do this on our toilets in any kind of safe way that also doesn't damage the appliance (especially at work, where all of them are wall-mounted....I mean, how do they not understand this?) ....but, I still get it. squatting on the toilet puts you in the proper, natural position for passing the poop, and it also keeps you out of contact with the filth of the other humans. It's really correct all the way around. I already use my feet to raise and lower lids as it is, take the time to line the thing with toilet paper, or a liner if available, but they already do it the right way. ....I also think that they only choose the handicap stalls because they think the bars are there only to help them balance their squat.

 

[zinfamous]

People can be disgusting.

Once I was coming back from Ohio, and I stopped at a gas station in some podunk town in Virginia to get gas and use the restroom.

When I opened the door to the men's room, it was everywhere......floor, on the sides of the bowl, lid, and tank. They actually left their dirty underwear on top of the toilet as a "bonus" as well.

I told the cashier about it when I was leaving (I didn't go to the bathroom obviously), and the stunned look on her face when I told her about what someone did to the bathroom.

OK, this was near that Bojangles in South Hill, wasn't it?

 

[UsandThem]

OK, this was near that Bojangles in South Hill, wasn't it?

LOL, no. It was a small independent gas station/convenience store (the kind that are only in really small towns anymore).

And I actually ate at Bojangles on Tuesday with the family.

Our son at college wanted to buy us dinner on campus, so we went up there. There was a Chinese restaurant in their food court, so everyone was going to get that. However, when we got to the counter they told us they were out of all rice for the rest of the day. What?

So we decided to get Bojangles (it was in the food court as well). It was good.

 

[Luna1968]

People can be disgusting.

Once I was coming back from Ohio, and I stopped at a gas station in some podunk town in Virginia to get gas and use the restroom.

When I opened the door to the men's room, it was everywhere......floor, on the sides of the bowl, lid, and tank. They actually left their dirty underwear on top of the toilet as a "bonus" as well.

I told the cashier about it when I was leaving (I didn't go to the bathroom obviously), and the stunned look on her face when I told her about what someone did to the bathroom.

lol that guy must have had gas station sushi 100 miles back.

 

[UsandThem]

lol that guy must have had gas station sushi 100 miles back.

From the look of the scene, he probably made one batch on the road, and another one upon arrival.

 

[ElFenix]

We have seat standers where I work, and in the area. ...no judgement really--they are everyone of them Chinese off-the-boaters--but you know when they are around because there is pooping going on, and no visible feet under the stall, haha. Also, the best restaurant in the area, with a straight-up Szechuan menu, has a "Do not stand on toilet seat!" sign taped over it. ...it's hilarious, and it also indicates that the food is really, really, really good.

Anyway, I mention this, because I realize that they actually have it right. (In general--but not with US-style commodes). Obviously, you can't do this on our toilets in any kind of safe way that also doesn't damage the appliance (especially at work, where all of them are wall-mounted....I mean, how do they not understand this?) ....but, I still get it. squatting on the toilet puts you in the proper, natural position for passing the poop, and it also keeps you out of contact with the filth of the other humans. It's really correct all the way around. I already use my feet to raise and lower lids as it is, take the time to line the thing with toilet paper, or a liner if available, but they already do it the right way. ....I also think that they only choose the handicap stalls because they think the bars are there only to help them balance their squat.

i wear these things called pants which make squatting difficult when they're around my ankles

 

[BoomerD]

i wear these things called pants which make squatting difficult when they're around my ankles

that's why so many shitter stalls have hooks on the door...

 

[zinfamous]

i wear these things called pants which make squatting difficult when they're around my ankles

look man, I'm not here to dissect how the seat-standers do it, I'm just reporting what is going on.

 

[RearAdmiral]

I would say that the answer to that is that you are mentally disturbed if you can't name anything you enjoy more than listening to someone take a shit. I think that might be the strangest thing I have ever read on ATOT, and that is saying a lot.

Yea man farts are funny, and this was absolutely my serious dissertation on what I find funny.

 

[nakedfrog]

I look too. That's how I know it's disgusting.

Do you carry disinfectant spray everywhere you go? If not, how does it help to look at a disgusting toilet seat?

Desks: Dirtier than toilet seats

The last time you wiped down your desk and shook crumbs from your keyboard was — yep, a year ago, when you knocked over a latte while munching a turkey croissant sandwich. Or was it after cru…

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Here's the really scary part: At the University of Arizona, a 2007 study found that the average desktop has 100 times more bacteria than a kitchen table and 400 times more than the average toilet seat.

 

[Muse]

OK, I don't get this. Sure we are standing there peeing next to each other, but don't talk to me! Let's just do our business and then we can talk while we are washing our hands.

Second, I do not watch myself pee. I have seen it before and I do not need to look at it. So yes I look at the wall. Don't comment about that either. You want to watch yourself pee, that is fine with me. Just don't comment about the way that I do it.

I guess I work with weird people.

I sometimes (don't we all?) get put on hold when calling for assistance. Those holds can last literally over 1/2 hour. I sometimes have to pee! I sometimes do that with the phone in my hand but I fear that I'll have to talk while peeing! Yeah, on the rarest of occasions I'll talk to someone while peeing in a public bathroom. I think it's happened once or twice, but only with someone I'm friendly with, know well at my volunteer job. In general, not the thing to do. You STFU when you pee. Shakespeare might not agree, but he had a dramatist's perspective!

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

 

[CZroe]

Desks: Dirtier than toilet seats

The last time you wiped down your desk and shook crumbs from your keyboard was — yep, a year ago, when you knocked over a latte while munching a turkey croissant sandwich. Or was it after cru…

www.chicagotribune.com

Irrelevant. Not all bacteria are the same.

Don't you think it's reasonable to be a little more concerned with the fecal bacteria from some sick person crapping their pants or having to go so badly that they get it all over the seat than with some benign bacteria that likes to live on your office desk? Apples and oranges.

There are a lot of diseases and parasites that take advantage of human waste to spread.

 

[nakedfrog]

Meh. I think it's a bit silly to be that paranoid of toilet seats.

 

[WelshBloke]

Meh. I think it's a bit silly to be that paranoid of toilet seats.

Yeah, if its obvious filthy then go choose another one but not going at all in a public loo because "OMG! SOMEONE ELSES ARSE WAS THERE!!" seems daft.

 

[brianmanahan]

Meh. I think it's a bit silly to be that paranoid of toilet seats.

when i was a kid i thought that you could get aids from a toilet seat

i think this is where my fear of them comes from