Adult Potty Training

[FiveThirtyBird]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2085244/Australian-university-doles-toilet-training-lessons-immigrants-bathroom-posters.html#ixzz1jBbnGZYW

In the lower-right corner of the poster is an invaluable suggestion. I've seen many men of all shapes and colour speed out of the bathrooms (perhaps deliberately) forgetting this very important action, which should also be taken prior to all meals.

Wash your hands, or the bad guys have already won.

[Mekon]

Not sure why they think it is a problem with overseas students. I know a number of Westerners who (incorrectly) seem to think that hovering above the toilet seat is an effective method. Something to do with not wanting their bums to touch where other bums have been...

Net result - piss on the toilet seat and floor. Mind you, my wife used to complain about footprints on the toilet seat when she was working at CommSec (again, very few of those scary immigrants work there).

Don't get me wrong - I have no issue with instruction posters for all those people who have issues with best practice toilet procedures. I do take exception to the usual spin of it being the fault of "them coloured people".

Racism: blaming skin colour for all woes, since we first moved out of caves.

[Disco LT]

Ain't no reason to wash your hands, 'less you piss on your hands or use cheap toilet paper

[Mekon]

Ain't no reason to wash your hands, 'less you piss on your hands or use cheap toilet paper

Personally, I'm not particularly keen on shaking hands with your dangly bits. Unless you're one of those people who uses the hands-free method to take a leak (in which case that puddle on the floor might belong to you).

[BurntToast]

Ain't no reason to wash your hands, 'less you piss on your hands or use cheap toilet paper

That there is natures dis-in-fect-ant yeeee hawww

[Auld]

Ain't no reason to wash your hands, 'less you piss on your hands or use cheap toilet paper

Personally, I'm not particularly keen on shaking hands with your dangly bits. Unless you're one of those people who uses the hands-free method to take a leak (in which case that puddle on the floor might belong to you).

Not just that. If you think you don't pick up contaminants and bugs just touching things like your keyboard you're nuts. I'm all for keeping the immune system on its toes, but washing your hands is a great way to avoid illness.

[Kremmen]

A tradesman will wash his hands before going to the toilet
A buisiness man will wash after after he has been

[Mekon]

A tradesman will wash his hands before going to the toilet

My business partner had a tradie out recently to relay the tiles in his bathroom.

That particular tradie washed his hands *in* the toilet... and then happily dried his hands on the towel hanging nearby.

No, I can't explain it. Some people are just not right.

[DarkMellie]

I worked at a call-centre in inner-city Melbourne back around 2000. We had a massive influx of international students (all Indian) and our toilets were never the same. It feels racist to even say it but it's a fact... some among their number would blast the entire stall with fecal matter in the both the men's and women's toilet.

Of course, it's supposition that it was them as I was never there to see it.. maybe some actual racist did it to discredit them.

[FiveThirtyBird]

Haven't you heard, folks? Racism is perfectly fine as long as the victims are White.

... Anyway, the only thing that should contaminate a toilet seat is leg sweat - a harmless substance. Perhaps these people just struggle to comprehend the meaning of the noun/adjective 'public'.

[Disco LT]

Not just that. If you think you don't pick up contaminants and bugs just touching things like your keyboard you're nuts. I'm all for keeping the immune system on its toes, but washing your hands is a great way to avoid illness.

Yeah, I've never been much of a handwasher except when I worked on the railway and we used that Aqium handwash gel. I know germs exist.. I just don't worry about them in day to day life, and I don't tend to get sick often either.

[ChainsawMcP]

I sat on an interview panel with ACT Health Sterilising Services - remarked on the state of the toilet in the external venue we were at (There was a fridge in the middle of the men's toilet defrosting over the drain) - apparently the women's toilet wasn't very clean - and the chair of the panel said to me that I was lucky - I "only had to touch my person"

Her view was that "my person" was likely to be considerably cleaner than the surfaces that the women on the panel had to contend with. I was then informed that there are a LOT of women who hover over the seat rather than let their delicate areas anywhere near the previous occupants leavings - no matter how clean the seat looks.

This is so common that there are online tutorials that suggest this method...
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Public-Restroom

"Avoid toilets that have dirty or wet surfaces. Do not sit on the seat but hover above it."

That particular tradie washed his hands *in* the toilet... and then happily dried his hands on the towel hanging nearby.

No, I can't explain it. Some people are just not right.

If you think that washing your hands with water is sufficent - then the water IN the toilet is as clean as anywhere else - particularly if he has just flushed it.

If you really want washing your hands to be effective - you need to wash both hands, to at least midway between wrist and elbow, with soap worked up to a lather, then rinsed - minimum contact time for the soap should be 15 seconds.

Then you go and undo all that good work by putting your nice clean hand back on the tap that you previously touched with your "dirty" hand.

Paper towel is better than air stream drying.
Alcohol handwashes kill most bacteria and many viruses - but don't remove them, or the **** on your skin that they are feasting on.
Soap and water (used properly) works bettter than alcohol handwashes alone.
Soap and water in conjunction with an alcohol handwash is more effective than either alone.

Most people get by with a quick splash of water... and it shows.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7667499.stm

[Lurk]

I'm doing God's work by not washing my hands fully after I rub faeces all over them, I'm improving the immune systems of everyone I meet. None of this "anti-bacterial this" or "kids, don't eat dirt that". Forcing y'all to be healthy no matter what. Darwinism, ****.

[Mekon]

If you think that washing your hands with water is sufficent - then the water IN the toilet is as clean as anywhere else - particularly if he has just flushed it.

I can't agree with that.

The water sitting in the toilet is not clean water - it's the water from every previous activity occurring in said bowl diluted with clean water. Flushing the toilet does not remove all the prior water than replace it with new. Never mind any invisible fecal matter that has stuck to the porcelain.

At least washing from the tap is a steady steam of (supposedly) cleanish water. I agree that any contamination from the tap is pretty much unavoidable.

Would any sane person consider that taking a dump in a dinner bowl, then rinsing it with water from the tap would render it clean enough to eat from?

[BurntToast]

Would any sane person consider that taking a dump in a dinner bowl, then rinsing it with water from the tap would render it clean enough to eat from?