What Can You Catch From Restrooms?

[huey1124]

What Can You Catch From Restrooms?

quick tips to go

Avoid contact with any surface in the bathroom: cover the toilet seat with paper; use towels to open faucets and doors.
Close the lid of the toilet before flushing to block nasty airborne particles
Wash your hands thoroughly for 30 seconds with soap and hot water, then repeat.
Keep hand sanitizer handy whenever you're in a pinch and need clean hands.

Good thing I do all of the above, except for closing the lid and keeping sanitizer handy.

 

[SirChadwick]

What Can You Catch From Restrooms?

A homosexual eye peeking through a hole by the stall.

---well, it's happened to me a couple times--

Anyway, sure all those things are great precautions...Just don't fall into the OCD trap.

 

[huey1124]

Originally posted by: chadeades
What Can You Catch From Restrooms?

A homosexual eye peeking through a hole by the stall.

---well, it's happened to me a couple times--

Anyway, sure all those things are great precautions...Just don't fall into the OCD trap.

haha, so it was you who George Michael was checking out??

 

[iamwiz82]

GO AHEAD AND SIT ON THE SEAT,
THE CRABS IN HERE JUMP 50 FEET

 

[Ameesh]

ebola

 

[Spoooon]

I think the only thing you can really catch in restrooms that you couldn't catch anywhere else is crabs.

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

Small pox

 

[McPhreak]

Since when do public toilets have lids?

 

[Kadarin]

Unless you're really into the gloryhole scene, I wouldn't worry too much about it as long as you follow the given sanitary precautions. If you're worried about catching anything, try not to use anyone else's workstation.. your hands have more germs than any other part of your body, so just imagine the germs your coworkers have that would get stuck in their keyboards and on their mice (mouses?)..

 

[Ameesh]

SIDS

 

[MomAndSkoorbaby]

Heart murmurs

(beat that one Ameesh! )

 

[ElFenix]

you can't catch anything from a toilet seat unless you have open wounds on your ass.

and antibacterial soap requires 2 minutes to work, so 30 seconds ain't gonna cut it.

your immune system needs the excercise anyway.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: ElFenix


your immune system needs the excercise anyway.

Exactly.




Always try to leave more germs than you take.

 

[fluxquantum]

ElFenix, that's true.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

So, your skin, the thing covering your body that can absorb a water molecule, can't absorb anything else?

You don't need a cut in your ass to catch something from a toilet seat. You can catch anything that's alive on the toilet seat if you plant your backside.

/me wants one of those planes flying by with "truth" on the banner

nik

 

[djheater]

Necrotic Streptococci

<--- First chance I've ever had to NEF from a class

 

[Spoooon]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
So, your skin, the thing covering your body that can absorb a water molecule, can't absorb anything else?

You don't need a cut in your ass to catch something from a toilet seat. You can catch anything that's alive on the toilet seat if you plant your backside.

/me wants one of those planes flying by with "truth" on the banner

nik

Actually, you can't.

 

[C'DaleRider]

Unfortunately, most people seem to think the germs commonly associated with bathrooms are incredibly hardy when in actuality they are very fragile and die rapidly outside their warm, moist environment. STDs are not very capable germs exposed to an oxygen-rich, dry environment. You'd almost have to sit in the stuff as soon as whoever left it left it. Honestly, you have more chance catching something on the dirtiest places in the bathroom than a toilet seat.

The dirtiest places in a bathroom?

The light switch and door handle.



Necrotic strep? Well, since strep is a naturally occruing germ on our skin at all times, it takes a breakdown in our natural immune systems to allow that opportunistic bacteria to begin an invasion. Strep is everywhere, and necrotizing strep is just a varient.

 

[SSP]

Bring one of these in a back pack. Just in case.

 

[LethalWolfe]

Think about how many public places you go each day, and how many other people have touched the same thing you are touching (door knob, keyboard, desk, phone, money)...). The bathroom is the least of yer problems. We are surrounded by germs and bacteria our entire lives yet what pecentage actually gets sick (in an industrialized nation)? Knowing what's out there can make you a bit paranoid, but you've been dealing w/the same stuff for all yer life and you haven't died yet from taking a dump at a public toilet so I'm pretty sure yer safe unless you lick the bowl or something...


lethal

 

[Maverick]

Originally posted by: SSP
Bring one of these in a back pack. Just in case.

cool now I can rice out my toilet!

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: MrsSkoorb
Heart murmurs

(beat that one Ameesh! )

if SIDS doesnt beat Heart Murmmers nothing can!

 

[SuperTool]

I think the most important thing is what you do while/after washing your hands, so you don't recontaminate your hands. I usually turn the water on, than grab a piece of paper towel from dispenser. Then wash hands, after which my hands don't touch anything in the rest room except for that towel. I use it as a glove and turn off the water, and on the handle of the towel dispenser to get more tissue. Then I wait for someone to open the door or use that piece of towel on the handle.
I think it's pointless to wash your hands if you are just going to touch the faucet or door handles which people touch with their unwashed hands.