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In the University of Bremen it’s full of big red buttons everywhere to avoid touching handles.
Grab the handle with your butt cheeks. it’s a talent/skill you can hone
I use my scrotum like an oven mitt
I personally use my dick to whip it like Indiana Jones.
Auspicious
i didn’t know we had someone blessed by the tanuki in our midst
good thing i’m drop ball world champion then
The most disgusting thing in that situation is your belt buckle. It could be the fly on your pants, but I assume those get washed every once in awhile.
Yess so you go into the stall and grab some shit tickets so you don’t have to touch the door handle and then Ooop they didn’t put a trashcan anywhere near the door.
I understand not everyone is gonna shell out for a hook so you can operate the door with your foot, but at least put a trash can in throwing distance of the door so I don’t have to touch the nasty ass handle with my clean hands.
shit tickets
lmao
I know the pain, but both of those touchless options always suck. The water never stays on or doesn’t turn on unless you motion in one specific weird spot that’s either too close or too far away. And those dryers never dry your hands well enough. I’m grateful they never had touchless doors in the same way.
Though I have seen newer foot style doors that have a small piece of metal at the bottom you can “grab” and pull open.
The perfect hygienic restroom:
Hands-free soap dispenser, set to dispense liberally (businesses never do)
A hands-free sink that actually does its fucking job and comes on at a reasonably warm temperature, with decent water pressure, for 30 seconds minimum. I can handle having to position my hands somewhere weird for a second as long as I actually get a functional goddamn sink for a usable amount of time. So many of these automated sinks fail at this it’s unreal, but I’m certain non-shitty ones exist, I have used at least one.
Motion-activated paper towel dispenser with decent paper towels loaded.
Push-to-open door with no latch (such that you can just use your shoulder or hip anywhere).
Unfortunately, every public place I’ve ever been to has at least one failing element here. Like, it’s clear some places are trying and failing; and in others it’s patently obvious they’re just trying to be cheap (miserly soap dispenser, sink set to turn off after just a couple seconds without motion in the magic spot and lukewarm temp, air blower instead of paper towels).
I really don’t even think you need to go that far. All you need is a paper towel dispenser and a trash can next to the door. OR a door that pushes out when you’re inside, like you said.
But you don’t even need both of these, just one. My favorite is the latter.
Hands free sink and soap is nice, but unnecessary.
Sure, in practical terms it’s probably overkill, but that’s why I say it’s the “perfect” hygienic restroom. You don’t need to touch anything at all with your hands in the entire room after you leave the stall/urinal.
Hell, that’s another item, come to think of it – floor-flushing toilets/urinals. The electric eye/sensing ones are fine too, I guess, but having a button on the floor I could just step on (which I have seen in places) is my preference. Minimizing hand contact areas in a bathroom is always a good thing.
Mythbusters did a segment that showed the air dryers are more likely to spread germs. So it’s just awful all around
There’s a reason they removed them all in my country during covid and they never came back.
Do you guys still have them?Australia, yes. I especially hate the ones that have a button to turn on and have so little power that if you rubbed your hands together fast enough, they’d dry faster via friction than using the dryer.
Still have them all over the place in the US 🫠
Why am i not surprised…
Environmental Health Officer here… I had a classmate who did a study on this, specifically the Dyson-type where you stick your hands in downwards.
Next time, take a look at what’s there in the 2mm gap on the bottom inside where the water, etc. collects, and where the forced air blows all that material. Remember to not breathe.
There’s a reason why we direct food businesses to use paper towels in the kitchen, not hand dryers. Also, because ain’t nobody got time to properly wash their hands for 30 seconds and then stand there completely drying their hands when they have 20+ chits on the go.
Edit: Forgot to mention, the majority of people don’t know how to wash their hands properly, especially under the nails (both men and women). They’ve just used the hand dryer. Now you use the hand dryer. Multiply that by how many days it is before these things actually get cleaned and sanitised only to be contaminated again by the first user until the next clean and sanitise, if ever. Humans are filthy. 💀
If they get cleaned and sanitized.
I highly doubt they do. They probably just get tested and tagged, and maybe to make sure the filters are cleaned/replaced. Otherwise, I really don’t know. Do the daily cleaners even wipe those down? I’ve more often seen people cleaning the traffic lights (3 times in my entire life) than I see anyone go near a hand dryer with a cloth (none).
The Dyson dryers certainly don’t get wiped. I’ve never seen one that wasn’t caked in some sort of gunk.
Even better if the door opens touchless on payment from the outside but has a handle to pull on the inside.
People that are rich enough to pay to use a restroom never have germs on their hands anyways, so they just rinse their hands with warm water to participate in the quaint hand washing ritual that the poor insist on perpetuating.
Sad thing for sure. And some of them don’t even get cleaned more than the free ones anymore. Guess the companies running them cost-optimise to the major train stations now.
Any handle or surface in public areas, assume the person that handled it before you had just finished taking a monster shit and skipped the handwashing before rubbing their pathogen-factories all over it. Photo in OP, there’s not really a good option, so you’re in damage control mode… check for toilet seat liners that some public restrooms stock and grab one of them? At least that’s something the other people handle before getting shit all over their hands.
One of the nastiest assignments I’ve had working in a hospital was ‘Handwashing Monitor’. And let me tell you, I’ve debrided infected wounds; wiped maggots out of some fucker’s pannus; cleaned up every bodily fluid our bodies are capable of cranking out from the floor, walls, and sometimes ceiling; helped amputate limbs that were literally rotten to the bone, and wiped a cumulative mile or two of ass crack…
…apply to nursing school today!!..
…but anyway, Handwashing Monitor. It is beyond appalling the number of patients, visitors, techs, nurses, doctors, housekeepers, you name it… who’d go in and out of patient rooms without performing hand hygiene; or they’d wash their hands, but for like half a second; or not use soap; or turn the faucet on with their grimy-ass hands, do a thorough handwash, then immediately contaminate themselves by grabbing that same dirty-ass faucet with their bare hands to turn it off. The thing that made that position take the crown above all the other examples I gave in the previous paragraph was the realization that the community who is THE single most painfully aware of pathogens and their origins / mechanism of spreading… can’t even wash their fucking hands!
…which brings us back to my opening sentence: it’s not advice on sheer ick factor, but a reasonable assumption based on directly observed evidence.
And no, this wasn’t just a particularly icky hospital: I’ve worked in multiple states for multiple organizations/facilities, and to this day get eye-rolls for asking people to re-wash or even first-wash their hands.
We nasty. Be a germaphobe. End rant.
Keep fighting the good fight. Many years married to a germ conscious nurse, and I think I have a pretty good routine now but still feel like borderline OCD and go through a gallon of hand soap a month.
Thanks, Murse. TIL
Pannus is an abnormal layer of tissue that can form in various parts of the body, often associated with conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, where it can damage joints.
I thought that was their way of saying “wiped maggots out of some fucker’s penis” and cringed hard.
Pannus? I’m talking about the ‘apron’ of abdominal tissue that hangs in front of morbidly obese people. Under those things there’s often a lot of skin breakdown and infection - and in one of my patients, maggot infestation - because it becomes a progressively harder place to keep clean as they pack on more weight, then come to the ER once it looks like something from a zombie movie.
Side note for my larger friends reading this: don’t neglect those nooks and crannies when performing hygiene! Dry it thoroughly, and keep it dry with powder or by keeping a layer of fabric in between areas with a fold so it’s not skin-on-skin. Often those first stages of an infection aren’t painful or anything, so by the time it’s actually bugging you, it’s BAD! Cleaning it can be tricky if your reach is limited, but you can get creative with it - one of my patients would bring a clean towel into the shower, soak it with soapy water, and kinda ‘floss’ into those folds. Dude was pushing 500 lbs, but never had skin issues. Lots of other issues, but he had hygiene down to a science.
Quick search seems to suggest you mean Panniculus, which sounds and reads similar enough that Wikipedia has a “not to be confused with” for Pannus.
Also, TIL that piece has an actual name.
Looks like they’re interchangeable. In a clinical setting I’ve only ever used or heard it called a pannus. We even stock “pannus retractors” (basically a sticker with Velcro on the back - sticker part slaps onto the pannus, whole thing gets pushed wherever you need it, then Velcro straps connect to that to hold it on place).
This might be a regional thing, too - chips vs fries kind of situation. Not sure where you’re posting from; I’m in that weird unstable area with all the guns that some orange neanderthal has been busy raping for the last couple of years.
Obviously it doesn’t work on these types of doors, but I really liked the foot grips that were installed on bathroom doors at the height of the pandemic. It makes no sense to me why they were removed
My last job had those, prepandemic. It was nice.
Current job has an accessible button to open the door that I can hit with my knee.
Those worked for you? They have always been comically small such that they are barely usable, if at all.
The ones I’ve seen be a problem we’re so flimsy that to put enough force onto them to open the door you ended up bending them down so far they scraped the ground.
Unless there’s something super contagious (e.g. COVID) going around you’re not going to get sick from a door handle. Stop being an irrational germaphobe.
Stop being suck a dick.
Freudian slap.
So? Like a their to half of people (sorry don’t remember the stat, just remember being shocked how high it was) do not wash their hands after using public toilets.
Why would I want to touch that doorhandle.
There are much worse things
I’ve cleaned up some really nasty things in my time.
How am I supposed to trap a velociraptor in the bathroom with a handle like that?
Install games on its phone
This (and a lot of other reasons) is why I carry a handkerchief.
i cary a box of tissues mainly to goon but this to
LOLNEIN has this catchy song about exactly that…
This is why I always bring two dinosaur grabbers. One for me cock, and one for the door.
might one say “one for the cock, one for the lock”?
I would simply pinch the handle between my absolute dumptruck bootycake cheeks
