Do you use public bathrooms?

You guys really are spoiled. Just wait till you have to live in a dorm !


Dorm life has made me get over having to shit in a public bathroom. We have people clean it every morning, and for those of you who say "Do you know how many people shit and piss on those seats?" you do realize that the handle to flush the toilet has MUCH more bacteria than the toilet seat. Think about it: People's asses generally don't touch the seat, the backs of their thighs do. However, the flusher is the first thing people touch after they've wiped themselves and before they've had a chance to wash their hands.

Anyway, I personally get annoyed by germaphobes. I'm taking microbiology this semester and do you know what we had to do in lab? We had to swab the inside of our vaginas and our rectums and then cultured them to see what was growing! (Like I really wanted to know!! )

But, even after that, you have to be rational. I think that germaphobes completely underestimate the power and beauty of our natural immune systems. As long as you have common sense (i.e. don't wipe your ass with your food and then eat it), have a normal, healthy immune system, you have virtually nothing to worry about. Getting colds/flus/viruses is usually a sign that you have encountered a strain of bacteria or virus your body has not encountered before. So, the more often you are sick when you're young (assuming your immune system is normal) the less often you'll get sick as an adult.

Oh, and for all you avid hand washers:

In my micro lab, we did an interesting experiment: We divided a petri dish into four sections. In the first we put cultures of an unwashed part of our hand, the second, our hand after rinsing with water, the third, our hand after soap and water, and the fouth after washing and wiping with a paper towel.

Guess which was cleanest? The section from the hand that had just been rinsed with water. In fact, after washing and drying, our hands had the same amount of bacteria as before we washed our hands. Bacteria can live on soap (especially the bar kind; liquid soap dispensed by a pump has the least amount of bacteria), paper towels, and ESPECIALLY terry-cloth towels are a haven for bacteria.

So, don't get too uptight about bacteria. Most of them can't hurt you anyway.

-Kate

 

yea, definately living in a dorm brings a new meaning to public bathrooms...i dont' care, i take a poop on them.

 

i cant stand people that won't use public bathrooms. sitting on them won't do anything to you. and people that squat over them are just as dumb.

now unless you rub your genitals or your tongue ON the seat, your not going to get anything that could be on the seat. and most are pretty clean, the chemicals used on them keeps most bacteria off of them for awhile. so i use public toilets just as i would use my own

 

reading back....i sound like a weird poop obsessed mad man....oh wait on second thought I AM!

 

if it's a really NASTY public restroom i wont use it...normally, i dont give a fuck. when ya gotta go, ya gotta go.

 

Not unless I absolutely have to

 

It's not that I think I might get anything, it's just the idea I find to be rather unpleasant... Only the best for my ass!

 

I'm jealous of guys, they can pee anywhere they please

and they can aim!!

 

Hehe I've known a few girls who could do that...

 

Hehe that's what I was like...

 

My ex-husband had spent a year in South Korea before we had gotten married. Women there wear long dresses alot so they are able to squat down & pee anywhere they please too.

 

I spent a year in Korea. I always peed in the rice paddies.

 

damn marc, thats kinda nasty

 

Really?!!

 

maybe

 

I never doo dooed in a rice paddy.

 

Thank God...but guess some do, thats why my ex always told me to wash the rice really good.

 

They use cow shit to fertilize it.

 

So do you work outside the home? Do you ever go to the bathroom at work or do ya hold it for 8-10 hrs till you're back home?