If the trash is not close enough to the door, that paper towel goes on the floor. I know it's a bit rude, but every public restroom should have it close enough to do this.
I've settled into a routine of pulling the door open with the paper towel, flinging the paper towel into the nearest trashcan, and darting out quick enough without having to keep the door open with my foot or anything. Not necessary, but fun
It's truly amazing how many people including who ever made the picture don't realize this. It's kind of like those conversations where people talk about washing spoons and always getting water sprayed on themselves. Or the people that can only wipe standing up. It's like somehow they just are going through life and not managing the most basic thought processes.
Theoretically, if everyone did the Yes, the But wouldn't be that big of a But.
Sadly, I'm well aware not everyone does the Yes. Going into a men's public bathroom is disgusting; it's disgraceful how many men I've seen leave without washing.
Do you expect him to leave with wet urine on his hands? Those dryers are made specifically for drying urine and blowing away the smell. That's clearly what the little picture on them means.
They are saying that they don't feel like their hands are getting dirty by touching their dick because their dick is in their underpants all day.
The flaw to this argument is that your dick and balls can get sweaty and gross in there. And when you touch it, your hands can get gross too. Not to mention that your hands can get gross just by walking around and touching things in society. And the bathroom stop is meant to be a bio-break that enforces washing all the germs from your hands from walking around in society.
In my country it is illegal to have bathroom doors open to the inside. Same with doors leading outside. It was weird to move abroad as I couldn't get used to them opening the other way.
On the other hand doors opening to the inside are less safe in case of an emergency. In my country, all doors in public places must open towards the exit of the building.
That’s due to a panic response and people pressing against the doors so you can’t pull them open. That only happens after a certain amount of people. The couple dozen max in a bathroom or most office and conference rooms won’t have that issue. But all the doors from the hallways out will swing towards the path of egress though.
Codes stipulate the occupancy amount that requires it, I believe the model building codes of NA and most of Europe calls for 100 people occupancy. Unless it’s been changed in the last few years.
This is what I do but it’s a waste of paper honestly. If they buy a sink and maintain it so I can keep clean, it’s silly that they don’t buy a door conducive to that purpose.
I think hygiene is literally just theatre to a lot of people.
Most general public bathrooms (ie. not ones found within stores/reataurants) in Australia don’t have doors - but rather an S-shaped path that provides privacy, without the necessary “stickiness” of having to touch a door handle.
I have been joking with my roommate lately that we're probably only a decade or so out from landlords putting coin-op toilets in apartments. What a capitalist dystopia it'll be.
Like the cigarette dispenser in Dallas' apartment from the 5th element. Pretty sure he had advertisements in his apartment when he woke up. I need to revisit that gem, been a while.
I've hyperextended my knee using one. Good times. Hyperextension used to be a "oh that sucked" but as I get older they're more and more a "oh shit is this the time it fails on me? " territory.
They're not exactly wheelchair accessible so most modern and publicly accessible places would rather install an entrance corridor or a push button door.
But yeah, no reason not to add them to places like warehouses and airports.
99.9% of washrooms I use don't have either a foot thingy or an accessible button lol, so that's not the case (because they just make one accessible separate washroom)
As everyone has already said, use the paper towels. Some doors are also equiped with a small piece of metal at the base of the door which you step on, and pull with your shoe
That foot thing is an awful design IMO. Rather than a step-on to pull, it should be a design that allows you to flex your foot up and hook it under something to pull. The step-on kind necessarily requires you to put weight on it, letting off pressure on your other foot thereby causing instability. This can be difficult to manage for lighter people or on doors requiring a heavier pull force to open. The hook under kind would stabilize the person trying to open the door.
Edit: there have been some good arguments for why the step-on kind has advantages. Clearly the only answer is for bathrooms to have two doors. One with a step-on and one with a hook-under.
But realistically the hook-under could easily have a top portion allowing step-on utilization as well.
Counter argument: having to hook your foot runs the risk of damaging the tops of your shoes (often softer material) or your foot if you're wearing sandals. You can be sure that the bottoms of everyone's shoes are designed for at least minimal impact protection.
I like the foot step and use them when I can, but it helps to reinforce that the paper towel with a well-placed trash can is the best method imo.
Neither option is good, tbh. Hook under allows better grip for those capable, but doesn't allow for some disabled people. Step on increases the likelihood of usability but also increases the likelihood of becoming unbalanced and falling.
Both options ignore the possibility of broken toes when someone on the outside attempts to push the door in at the moment you've got your foot planted on it or hooked under it.
We live in an era where automatic doors and push buttons to open them are a well established thing. Do that instead.
Barring that, the hallway with two turns like Walmart uses is an option. Just make sure they're wide enough for the widest wheelchairs and power chairs, and the turns aren't too tight.
I don't disagree, I still use a paper towel. When it was first installed they forgot to modify the mechanism that closes the door on one of the bathrooms. The tension was set still set to prevent someone from being smashed in the face (or the door from slamming shut), but that meant you needed apply a fair amount of force to open the door. They've since adjusted it and now it's pretty easy to open with just one foot
There are a good reasons for this:
Inward opening doors pull air into the bathroom area and both contain the smells and germs, (the opposite is true for outward opening doors) but also bring additional fresh air in.
Doors that open outwards into hallways (where public access toilets are most commonly found) is a huge hazard to people passing the door.
Not to mention foot pulls and automatic door openers are becoming more common so you dont have to touch the handle as often.
Lots of newer public toilets (at least in australia) are designed with an s-bend entrance to eliminate doors completely (however require constant exhaust).
Toilets in commercial buildings often have ante-chambers where doors open both ways into the chamber so you have to touch a handle regardless of direction of travel. (Common in offices and hospitals)
Foot pulls are common in the US in places like McDonald's, where it's constantly been a struggle to keep all the self-ordering kiosks clean, as an employee I only touched it once a week and that was to clean it, and that's when I realized it was the first thing in the uncleaned hands pipeline to be touched because of how dirty they were.
Easy. You take one of those paper towels and keep it between you and the handle to open the door. Then you hold the door open with your foot while you try to toss the paper towel.
The way people behave in airport bathrooms bothers me. The bathroom gets cleaned 5 times a day and people still use a mountain of tp on the seat and flush the toilet with their foot like a bunch of homo zombies with norovirus just rode the handle.
But if you must do the above, in any restroom with soap, wash your hands afterwards. You'd want your doctor to.
that bothers you?
Consider yourself lucky if you've never heard/seen someone disgustingly snorting their snot into the sinks, or washing their feet in it.
Oh noo toilet seats are too gross! I must hang from the ceiling and rain down piss from 2 meters above. Oh oops I got blood on the seat. I'm sure the next occupant will be happy to clean it up with 1 ply toilet paper!
As someone who has spent years cleaning both - men's restrooms are predictably gross the same way every day. Women's restrooms are typically cleaner until they aren't. Then they really aren't. Piss on the floor - not in a stall, blood randomly sprayed around somehow, shit literally smeared by hand on the wall.
When that's possible, I prefer it. But my office unfortunately uses those stupid air dryers by Dyson. I petitioned TWICE to replace them, and failed both times... *sobs*
I worked security in pubs, nightclubs and licenced venues for a decade and to this day, I do not wash my hands in public bathrooms. I touch as little as humanly possible and use paper towel to open the door.
My wife thinks its gross but Ive seen shit that cannot be unseen.
Why does any of that lead to "I don't wash my hands"? In what scenario is washing your hands the dirtier option? Unless somebody took a shit in the soap dispenser, your hands will be cleaner after cleaning them.
There's definitely solutions to the problem. You could carry disposable gloves. People with dogs carry plastic bags everywhere. That could work in a pinch. You could wedge the door open and use your foot to open it to leave.
I personally just try to not use public toilets as much as possible. I carry hand sanitizer spray and a bottle of water in my backpack. It's definitely gross, but it's not unsolvable.
You also pull up your pants before washing your hands. If I were a germophobe, I’d be terrified of the two spots I grab to pull my pants up after pooping.
I've never seen an outright pull handle on a toilet door, it's always a "normal" turn handle (usually the handle itself is used to lock the door), and i just cover my hand with a sleeve or i use my elbow to open it.
That's the best version. People leave with washed hands so hands remain clean and it's possible to enter by pushing with a foot.
The other way requires using the door handle while entering. That can contaminate the hand that is going to touch or get close to the private parts. It's better to have that hand as clean as possible.
Your hands are filthy regardless, you're on your way IN to the bathroom so you very likely haven't washed your hands but you've touched a LOT of things. Phones, keyboards, door handles, banisters etc. Pulling one more door open is not adding any meaningful contamination. If you are that concerned about one door handle, you should be VERY concerned about the state your hand is already in and thus would need to wash your hands before using the other facilities anyway.
You're being overly paranoid. Your junk is not going to explode because it interacted with real world pathogens.
Clean, dry and uncut hands create a formidable barrier to pathogen transmission. And the most dangerous pathogens tend not to live long outside a living body.
Also, sebum is a useful thing.
So wait for a while after washing hands, before touching dirty stuff.^[of course that can't be done in public restrooms, but considering that people are always coughing enough for the exhaust fans to be rendered inadequate, the exit door is hardly a big deal]
I tend to rub my oily nose/head with my fingers, right before doing something that I know would require me to wash my hands later.
Makes cleaning with a soap much easier.
Also, has it happened to you sometimes, that even if you try your best to wipe your hands after washing, they tend to easily stick dirt for a while, until they become just a little bit oily (because the palm doesn't accumulate enough oil for one to casually notice).
153 Comments
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 144 pts · 261d
Just use the paper towel you used to dry your hands to open the door
jqubed@lemmy.world · 114 pts · 261d
This is an additional reason I hate places that use air driers instead of paper towels
mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz · 47 pts · 261d
after you've peed on your hands, open the door, then quickly wash your hands and run out. the wind will dry your hands.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 261d
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 261d
Why the unnecessary steps? Just pee on the door handle.
affiliate@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 261d
this is why i usually pee on my friends hands. then they have to open the door
nuko147@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 260d
Me waiting someone to come in, so i can get out.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 261d
I’ve noticed a lot of places now have a trash can conveniently located by the door for this.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 261d
I'm that asshole who leaves paper towels by the door until they get the hint.
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social · 6 pts · 261d
Just move the bin yourself. They’ll get the hint without extra work.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 261d
Some (most) are mounted into the wall though.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 261d
Eww then ya gotta touch the bin
goldfndr@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 260d
Not if you move the bin with paper towel grip
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 261d
And some places are smart and put a garbage can by the door, for the reason.
klugerama@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 261d
If the trash is not close enough to the door, that paper towel goes on the floor. I know it's a bit rude, but every public restroom should have it close enough to do this.
whelk@retrolemmy.com · 6 pts · 261d
I've settled into a routine of pulling the door open with the paper towel, flinging the paper towel into the nearest trashcan, and darting out quick enough without having to keep the door open with my foot or anything. Not necessary, but fun
phar@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 261d
It's truly amazing how many people including who ever made the picture don't realize this. It's kind of like those conversations where people talk about washing spoons and always getting water sprayed on themselves. Or the people that can only wipe standing up. It's like somehow they just are going through life and not managing the most basic thought processes.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 261d
This is the way
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 261d
Theoretically, if everyone did the Yes, the But wouldn't be that big of a But.
Sadly, I'm well aware not everyone does the Yes. Going into a men's public bathroom is disgusting; it's disgraceful how many men I've seen leave without washing.
marzhall@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 261d
My favorite was a guy in college who came in, used the urinal, used the hand dryer, and left.
krashmo@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 261d
Do you expect him to leave with wet urine on his hands? Those dryers are made specifically for drying urine and blowing away the smell. That's clearly what the little picture on them means.
Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 261d
i hate this so much
oplkill@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 261d
I know where my dick has been. Usually.
Edit: Why so serious?
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 261d
I genuinely don't even know what you're trying to say with that comment.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 261d
They are saying that they don't feel like their hands are getting dirty by touching their dick because their dick is in their underpants all day.
The flaw to this argument is that your dick and balls can get sweaty and gross in there. And when you touch it, your hands can get gross too. Not to mention that your hands can get gross just by walking around and touching things in society. And the bathroom stop is meant to be a bio-break that enforces washing all the germs from your hands from walking around in society.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
All the more reason to wash.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 261d
My hands harbor far more bacteria than my dick. And so does that door handle, the grossest part of the whole business.
hOrni@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 261d
In my country it is illegal to have bathroom doors open to the inside. Same with doors leading outside. It was weird to move abroad as I couldn't get used to them opening the other way.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 261d
It’s unsafe for doors to open into hallways, so you need to design alcoves for every entrance otherwise, so far more space is wasted.
Also, use paper to open the door, and a lot of places have foot pulls now, easier for handicapped people as well.
The best entrance, especially for handicapped people, is a maze entrance, but uses even more space.
hOrni@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 261d
On the other hand doors opening to the inside are less safe in case of an emergency. In my country, all doors in public places must open towards the exit of the building.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 261d
That’s due to a panic response and people pressing against the doors so you can’t pull them open. That only happens after a certain amount of people. The couple dozen max in a bathroom or most office and conference rooms won’t have that issue. But all the doors from the hallways out will swing towards the path of egress though.
Codes stipulate the occupancy amount that requires it, I believe the model building codes of NA and most of Europe calls for 100 people occupancy. Unless it’s been changed in the last few years.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
I don't know by what magic a door is safe opening one way but not another. It surely depends on where the door is.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 261d
Kid running down a hallway gets a door in the face when it opens in the hallway. Or someone evacuating during an emergency.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 261d
I’ve seen a lot of places add those foot pull handles to doors since COVID. Not the best, but it’s a solution
illi@piefed.social · 5 pts · 261d
I never saw this but want them everywhere. I just have to try to grab the doors/handles on unusual places where not many people would touch them
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 261d
Some places have little foot hooks at the bottom.
I wonder if push to enter doors cut down on injuries of people rushing to the toilet, or if it’s just because they usually open into corridors.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 261d
Use a paper towel to open the door and toss it into the next garbage you see outside the bathroom. Or toss it into the trash as you leave.
myrrh@ttrpg.network · 15 pts · 261d
kadotux@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 261d
Or just simply lick the hand clean after you've opened the door.
SleepyPie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
This is what I do but it’s a waste of paper honestly. If they buy a sink and maintain it so I can keep clean, it’s silly that they don’t buy a door conducive to that purpose.
I think hygiene is literally just theatre to a lot of people.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
I just use the same paper towel I used to dry my hands
Alaik@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 260d
The objectively correct way^
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 261d
Many places put these on the bottom of the door for this very reason. Granted they only help people able to use them.
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 261d
Most general public bathrooms (ie. not ones found within stores/reataurants) in Australia don’t have doors - but rather an S-shaped path that provides privacy, without the necessary “stickiness” of having to touch a door handle.
Is this not common elsewhere?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 261d
That's what most airports, schools, and such seem to have in my experience. (U.S.)
BanMe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
Which makes it REALLY hard to vape in there
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 261d
I wish. I'm surprised we haven't brought back pay toilets in the US.
SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 261d
I have been joking with my roommate lately that we're probably only a decade or so out from landlords putting coin-op toilets in apartments. What a capitalist dystopia it'll be.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 261d
Like the cigarette dispenser in Dallas' apartment from the 5th element. Pretty sure he had advertisements in his apartment when he woke up. I need to revisit that gem, been a while.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 261d
Yeah we have that in Europe on highway stops and other places with high traffic of people like stadiums, big concert venues etc.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 260d
In facilities that have lots of room, yes (malls, schools, etc). Workplaces generally less inclined to devote that much space to it.
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
My workplace does this, there’s still a door but it’s always open
achance4cheese@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 261d
Nothing like losing your balance or getting your foot jammed when someone slams the door open from the other side. I prefer the wheelchair buttons
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 261d
Best I can do is a Palantir face recognition device that verify your identity before allowing you out of the bathroom
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 260d
If you make sure it doesn't let you out unless you wash your hands, I'm all for it.
Wolf314159@startrek.website · 4 pts · 261d
Those things fucking suck when you can get them to work and they are downright dangerous otherwise.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 261d
I've hyperextended my knee using one. Good times. Hyperextension used to be a "oh that sucked" but as I get older they're more and more a "oh shit is this the time it fails on me? " territory.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 260d
Recently saw a door with a little tab at the bottom to put your foot on and open it that way, surprisingly functional.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 260d
I absolutely love those things. I don't understand why they aren't everywhere. I've seen maybe half a dozen in my lifetime
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 260d
They're not exactly wheelchair accessible so most modern and publicly accessible places would rather install an entrance corridor or a push button door.
But yeah, no reason not to add them to places like warehouses and airports.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 260d
99.9% of washrooms I use don't have either a foot thingy or an accessible button lol, so that's not the case (because they just make one accessible separate washroom)
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 260d
I've only seen this in a few places - and of the places most had them installed in the most awkward/ineffective way.
expr@programming.dev · 3 pts · 260d
Really? They're everywhere where I live.
wallybeavis@lemmings.world · 18 pts · 261d
As everyone has already said, use the paper towels. Some doors are also equiped with a small piece of metal at the base of the door which you step on, and pull with your shoe
meco03211@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 261d
That foot thing is an awful design IMO. Rather than a step-on to pull, it should be a design that allows you to flex your foot up and hook it under something to pull. The step-on kind necessarily requires you to put weight on it, letting off pressure on your other foot thereby causing instability. This can be difficult to manage for lighter people or on doors requiring a heavier pull force to open. The hook under kind would stabilize the person trying to open the door.
Edit: there have been some good arguments for why the step-on kind has advantages. Clearly the only answer is for bathrooms to have two doors. One with a step-on and one with a hook-under.
But realistically the hook-under could easily have a top portion allowing step-on utilization as well.
Tower@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 261d
Counter argument: having to hook your foot runs the risk of damaging the tops of your shoes (often softer material) or your foot if you're wearing sandals. You can be sure that the bottoms of everyone's shoes are designed for at least minimal impact protection.
I like the foot step and use them when I can, but it helps to reinforce that the paper towel with a well-placed trash can is the best method imo.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 261d
Handicapped people can press down, but not lift up, especially those in a wheelchair.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 261d
Neither option is good, tbh. Hook under allows better grip for those capable, but doesn't allow for some disabled people. Step on increases the likelihood of usability but also increases the likelihood of becoming unbalanced and falling.
Both options ignore the possibility of broken toes when someone on the outside attempts to push the door in at the moment you've got your foot planted on it or hooked under it.
We live in an era where automatic doors and push buttons to open them are a well established thing. Do that instead.
Barring that, the hallway with two turns like Walmart uses is an option. Just make sure they're wide enough for the widest wheelchairs and power chairs, and the turns aren't too tight.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 261d
Ah-ha, so this is the maze entry the other comment was talking about.
wallybeavis@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 261d
I don't disagree, I still use a paper towel. When it was first installed they forgot to modify the mechanism that closes the door on one of the bathrooms. The tension was set still set to prevent someone from being smashed in the face (or the door from slamming shut), but that meant you needed apply a fair amount of force to open the door. They've since adjusted it and now it's pretty easy to open with just one foot
shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
The kind you describe is the only type I've ever seen.
JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 261d
There are a good reasons for this:
Inward opening doors pull air into the bathroom area and both contain the smells and germs, (the opposite is true for outward opening doors) but also bring additional fresh air in.
Doors that open outwards into hallways (where public access toilets are most commonly found) is a huge hazard to people passing the door.
Not to mention foot pulls and automatic door openers are becoming more common so you dont have to touch the handle as often.
Lots of newer public toilets (at least in australia) are designed with an s-bend entrance to eliminate doors completely (however require constant exhaust).
Toilets in commercial buildings often have ante-chambers where doors open both ways into the chamber so you have to touch a handle regardless of direction of travel. (Common in offices and hospitals)
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 260d
Foot pulls are common in the US in places like McDonald's, where it's constantly been a struggle to keep all the self-ordering kiosks clean, as an employee I only touched it once a week and that was to clean it, and that's when I realized it was the first thing in the uncleaned hands pipeline to be touched because of how dirty they were.
SleepyPie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
Huh never considered this, thanks
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 14 pts · 260d
My toilet is cleaner than 99% of my ancestors cooking tools.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 260d
For a hundred thousand years your ancestors people's population never broke a million either.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 260d
Nah, im part baboon, only been around for a few hundred years tops.
Thanks king kong!
incompetent@programming.dev · 2 pts · 260d
*Donkey Kong
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 260d
Donkey dong
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 261d
That door closer is installed on the wrong side of the door if its a pull, it's actually a push.
EtherWhack@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 260d
Closers can work from either side, depending on the model.
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 260d
I guess you're right, but that's probably not how I'd install it.
Siethron@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 260d
You can see the hinges though, so it is a pull
SlippiHUD@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
You are correct, perhaps the door is entirely nonfunctional.
onnekas@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 260d
Easy. You take one of those paper towels and keep it between you and the handle to open the door. Then you hold the door open with your foot while you try to toss the paper towel.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 260d
Yeah, bacteria take about a second or so to go through that if there is any moisture
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 260d
Trick question. That door doesn't work. Someone installed it like an idiot.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 260d
I don't get it bro, the hinges, door closer and handle all are formatted properly to open inward.
Educate your heathen friend here.
turdburglar@piefed.social · 3 pts · 260d
the door closer on the top will bind up on itself in that position.
azureskypirate@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 261d
The way people behave in airport bathrooms bothers me. The bathroom gets cleaned 5 times a day and people still use a mountain of tp on the seat and flush the toilet with their foot like a bunch of homo zombies with norovirus just rode the handle.
But if you must do the above, in any restroom with soap, wash your hands afterwards. You'd want your doctor to.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
that bothers you? Consider yourself lucky if you've never heard/seen someone disgustingly snorting their snot into the sinks, or washing their feet in it.
azureskypirate@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 261d
I'm unlucky :\
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 261d
I almost always flush the handle with my foot if the handle looks gross. I'm sorry but cleaning it is not my job.
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 261d
Foot pulls are a part-solution. Accessibility button as well.
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 260d
Pisses me off, especially considering that like 70% of men don't wash their hands. I've become an expert in using my elbow.
Edit: pisses off → pisses me off
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 260d
Open the door with a paper towel because men are fucking gross.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 260d
Imma be real unless you're full on immune compromised it's not that serious
MBech@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 260d
I always open doors with my hands (I know, weirdo right?) and very rarely get sick. People are being overly dramatic.
thejoker954@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 260d
Its not about getting sick. It's about getting filth on your just cleaned hands.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 260d
If you can't see it and it doesn't get you sick it's honestly not an issue beyond being a overly conscious about germs.
MBech@feddit.dk · 0 pts · 260d
If it doesn't get me sick, why care?
thejoker954@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 260d
Let me guess you also refused to wear a mask during COVID. Sometimes stuff isn't about you.
MBech@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 260d
Nope, I proudly used a mask, take your assumptions somewhere else.
SleepyPie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 260d
Spreading germs can get other people sick. Washing hands is not hard.
Alaik@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 260d
Tell me you've never seen how fucking nasty women's restrooms are in comparison...
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 260d
Oh noo toilet seats are too gross! I must hang from the ceiling and rain down piss from 2 meters above. Oh oops I got blood on the seat. I'm sure the next occupant will be happy to clean it up with 1 ply toilet paper!
Alaik@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 260d
Amen...
Slatlun@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 259d
As someone who has spent years cleaning both - men's restrooms are predictably gross the same way every day. Women's restrooms are typically cleaner until they aren't. Then they really aren't. Piss on the floor - not in a stall, blood randomly sprayed around somehow, shit literally smeared by hand on the wall.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 260d
That's what I do all the time. Just use the towel to open it up.
jnkmail@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 260d
I read paper towels are actually quite porous and don't help much
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 260d
When that's possible, I prefer it. But my office unfortunately uses those stupid air dryers by Dyson. I petitioned TWICE to replace them, and failed both times... *sobs*
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 261d
IDGI
Guitarfun@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 261d
You clean your hands but then you have to touch a probably dirty handle to open the door.
Delphia@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 261d
I worked security in pubs, nightclubs and licenced venues for a decade and to this day, I do not wash my hands in public bathrooms. I touch as little as humanly possible and use paper towel to open the door.
My wife thinks its gross but Ive seen shit that cannot be unseen.
groet@feddit.org · 6 pts · 261d
Why does any of that lead to "I don't wash my hands"? In what scenario is washing your hands the dirtier option? Unless somebody took a shit in the soap dispenser, your hands will be cleaner after cleaning them.
Please clean your hands.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 261d
Maybe their bathroom has a manual handle to turn to get the water to start and stop.
groet@feddit.org · 2 pts · 261d
Then use the same paper towel they use to open the door to shut of the faucet.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 261d
You need to use the paper towel to turn on the faucet, then wash your hands and turn it off with the towel again.
A lot of bathrooms don't even have paper towels, so OP possibly is at a bathroom where there's a manual faucet and no paper towels.
groet@feddit.org · 2 pts · 261d
They said there are towels but they don't wash their hands.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 261d
People don't know they can hang on to the paper towel to open the door, then Kobe that shit on the way out?
MonkRome@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
A lot of places put the waste basket by the door for this very reason.
arin@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 261d
Use the paper
Guitarfun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
There's definitely solutions to the problem. You could carry disposable gloves. People with dogs carry plastic bags everywhere. That could work in a pinch. You could wedge the door open and use your foot to open it to leave.
I personally just try to not use public toilets as much as possible. I carry hand sanitizer spray and a bottle of water in my backpack. It's definitely gross, but it's not unsolvable.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 260d
Is this the sort of thing people worry about?
SleepyPie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
Yes? Like brushing your teeth? Or showering?
Guitarfun@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 260d
Some people, definitely. I get that it's gross, but I also worked as a janitor and worked in landfills. I've dealt with much worse.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
You also pull up your pants before washing your hands. If I were a germophobe, I’d be terrified of the two spots I grab to pull my pants up after pooping.
Rolder@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 261d
I sure hope people aren’t going to the sink with their pants still around their ankles
chamomile@furry.engineer · 2 pts · 261d
@humorlessrepost @The_Picard_Maneuver I'm a germaphobe and yes this is literally true.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
Finger 2 & 3: poop.
Fingers 1, 4 & 5: trousers.
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 261d
are... are you getting poop on your pants???
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 261d
Are you getting poop on your hands? I’m not, but I still wash my hands after.
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 260d
okay but my hands go near my butthole when I wipe. the sides of my pants aren't anywhere neat that? I'm confused why a germaphobe would care
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
Hands go near butthole. Hands now unclean. Unwashed hands grab sides of pants. Pants now unclean. Wash hands. Pants still unclean.
The part you’re missing is the irrational part: the instant and binary transfer of unclean-ness on contact.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 260d
Aaahhh finally, so I'm not the only person wondering about this at just about every friggin bathroom visit...
Fleur_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 260d
This is so unbelievably close to being a single image I'm confused as to why they bothered separating it into two panels
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 116d
I've never seen an outright pull handle on a toilet door, it's always a "normal" turn handle (usually the handle itself is used to lock the door), and i just cover my hand with a sleeve or i use my elbow to open it.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 261d
Long sleeves
SleepyPie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 260d
Bruh, you would be spreading other peoples piss and shit germs on everything your sleeve touches until it’s washed 🫠
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 260d
Some of them would die from drying out. But also, just wash your sweatshirts somewhat regularly?
plyth@feddit.org · 0 pts · 261d
That's the best version. People leave with washed hands so hands remain clean and it's possible to enter by pushing with a foot.
The other way requires using the door handle while entering. That can contaminate the hand that is going to touch or get close to the private parts. It's better to have that hand as clean as possible.
el_abuelo@programming.dev · 5 pts · 261d
Hard disagree.
ronl2k@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 261d
Clean, dry and uncut hands create a formidable barrier to pathogen transmission. And the most dangerous pathogens tend not to live long outside a living body.
ulterno@programming.dev · 2 pts · 261d
Also, sebum is a useful thing.
So wait for a while after washing hands, before touching dirty stuff.^[of course that can't be done in public restrooms, but considering that people are always coughing enough for the exhaust fans to be rendered inadequate, the exit door is hardly a big deal]
I tend to rub my oily nose/head with my fingers, right before doing something that I know would require me to wash my hands later. Makes cleaning with a soap much easier.
Also, has it happened to you sometimes, that even if you try your best to wipe your hands after washing, they tend to easily stick dirt for a while, until they become just a little bit oily (because the palm doesn't accumulate enough oil for one to casually notice).
plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 261d
So better not wash hands, especially if one had to touch a dirty door?
ronl2k@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 261d
No. My point was that dry, unopened human skin makes pathogen transmission by touch nothing to worry about.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 261d
Y'all worry way, way too much about this stuff.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 2 pts · 261d
It's c/humor, it's not that deep.