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Survey finds airport restroom users seldom wash
Sun Times ^
| 09/16/03
| JIM RITTER
Posted on 09/16/2003 6:42:02 AM PDT by bedolido
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To: _Jim
Maybe you can tell us how the towels become 'soiled' pre-use?There are two kinds. One is on a roll requiring you to push down a big lever. The second is the drop down pull out kind.
The big lever needs to be touched and the pull out kind have been touched by the prior person.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:29:05 AM PDT
by
VRWC_minion
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To: bedolido
All this focus on washing in the bathroom is rather silly. Unless your hands come in actual contact with your bodily waste, it is rather pointless to wash them. Even if you do wash your hands, as soon as you touch the door to leave, your hands are contaminated all over again.
We are surrounded by germs. There is no escape. If you were to put your skin under a microscope, you would be grossed out. Everybody has thousands and thousands of parasitic mites and other microscopic bugs on them. When you get under your sheets at night, there are many thousands of dust mites waiting for you. Doesn't matter if you laundered your sheets that afternoon either.
There is no escape from germs. And if there were, our immune systems would become so weak that the next germ could well kill us.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:30:20 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(220.4 (-79.8) Earning back my youth one mile at a time)
To: whd23
Yes, the clean and the filthy. which is which. Those who wash their hands probably leave with more germs than those who don't.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:31:35 AM PDT
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VRWC_minion
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To: whd23
the clean and the filthySounds like a soap opera or a western movie from the 60's.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:32:59 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(I can forgive you for killing my sons, but I cannot forgive you for forcing me to kill your sons)
To: VRWC_minion
the pull out kind have been touched by the prior person.Really?
The system's analyst in me says "The previous person, in obtaining a paper towel for him/herself has removed paper towel 'N' revealing a new, untouched, paper towel 'N+1'."
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:33:05 AM PDT
by
_Jim
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To: SamAdams76
Unless your hands come in actual contact with your bodily wasteUnseen splatter ...
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:33:54 AM PDT
by
_Jim
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To: A Broken Glass Republican
I never wash my hands in public bathrooms. I never touch anything in public bathrooms if at all possible (Which would include their faucets and towel dispensers). I kick doors open and flush with my foot. I second that. Actually, I will wash my hands if the sink has a automatic motion sensor, or if the handles are levers that are easily operated with my elbow or the back of my wrist. I flush with my elbow or my foot. I attempt to not physically touch anything, except perhaps clean paper towels, if they can be acquired without touching anything else.
Getting out the door is often the hard part. If a wastebasket is close to the door, I will use a paper towel to open the door & prop it with my foot while I throw the towel away. I sometimes grasp the edge of the door, if I can get hold of it. If I absolutely have to touch the handle, I will touch it in an odd place that requires an awkward, uncomfortable grasp, as it is less likely to have been touched there. Long sleeves can be pulled down if necessary.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:35:35 AM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: SamAdams76
All this focus on washing in the bathroom is rather silly. Not really ... if you consider the "99% percent reduction rule" is applicable here ... were you NOT to wash ever, the exponential growth of 'germs' would be immense. Studies have shown that such simple practices as 'hand washing' are efective ... remember the last time you rubbed your eye and about five to ten minutes later it was seeping and maybe stinging - GERMS baby, from your own hand ...
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:38:00 AM PDT
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_Jim
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To: bedolido
"Great idea... I tried washing my hands during but the guy next to me told me to get my hands out of his urinal."
PMSL! (peeing myself laughing) People are starting to look into my cubicle wondering what the heck I'm laughing at.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:39:28 AM PDT
by
-YYZ-
To: _Jim
"The previous person, in obtaining a paper towel for him/herself has removed paper towel 'N' revealing a new, untouched, paper towel 'N+1'."It depends on the type.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:40:29 AM PDT
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VRWC_minion
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To: TontoKowalski
I don't know how women can stand to sit down as a matter of routine. Perhaps they have some sitting tips they can share. Ladies? You out there?
I would like the record to show that I have
never tried this.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:41:17 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: Movemout
San Francisco: males, 20 percent; females, 41 percent This is an interesting anomaly. In all other airports women had a much higher rate of hand washing than males. Here it is reversed. That is because homosexual men are much more neat/fastidious than straights, while lesbians are more sloppy than straight women.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:41:49 AM PDT
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Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: _Jim
were you NOT to wash ever, the exponential growth of 'germs' would be immense.You are assuming that folks who don't wash in high traffic areas are not washing elswhere and not washing when they get to their destination. Our relative time traveling in contact with high travel areas is small compared to other times.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:43:22 AM PDT
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VRWC_minion
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To: Damocles
Really. I love the part about washing your hands every time you sneeze or cough. These folks want us to spend our entire lives at the sink! Except for preparing food which will not be eaten immediately, and preparing to perform an invasive medical procedure on someone, there is little benefit to handwashing.
To: Xenalyte
I'd pay good money to see that. LOL!
To: Diddle E. Squat
No offence? And call me a selfish slob?!?
Pfft to you, lick my "diseased" hands and die/
idiot.. No offence- of course.
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09/16/2003 7:47:10 AM PDT
by
CygnusXI
(Where's that dang Meteor already?)
To: _Jim
Didn't say you should never wash. In fact, I shower daily and wash my hands before eating. But this phobia about washing after using the bathroom is ridiculous. At least in the bathroom, I know where my hands have been. When I shake hands with somebody, I have no idea where that hand was. It could have been scratching his butt or picking his nose a half hour before. How would I know?
Thus I feel much dirtier after shaking somebody's hand then I do after dropping my zipper in the men's room to take a leak. Of course, if I rushed to the bathroom to wash my hands everytime I shook somebody's hand, I would very quickly not have much of a social life.
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:50:12 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(220.4 (-79.8) Earning back my youth one mile at a time)
To: _Jim
FORTUNATELY they are going to those 'proximity' switches that then snap the water on and off ...It wasn't so fortunate at the Cleveland airport during the blackout. Reportedly there wasn't a single flushable toilet in the whole place, with thousands of stranded travelers.
To: _Jim
The same person who cleaned the toilets restocked the towel dispenser.
To: VRWC_minion
You are assuming that folks who don't wash in high traffic areas are not washing elswhereArriving HOURs before a flight (handling touching what: dozens of surfaces, luggage, steering wheel, public door nadles ) ... hours ON the flight (handling, again DOZENS of artilces ALREADY touched by Lord knows who) ... an hour, perhaps to DRIVE to destination (handling the rental car's steering wheel) -
- I wonder how puffy this person's EYES would be should he/she rub them (MEANING germs are constantly growing, proliferating, spreading WITHOUT constant attention, WITHOUT hand washing being performed on a periodic and regular basis) ...
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posted on
09/16/2003 7:54:34 AM PDT
by
_Jim
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