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Ever since Covid, I have opened doors with handles like that using my pinky finger because I don’t use that for anything important, especially not touching my face and it helps minimize the spread of germs
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
Use your elbow, or your foot.
Hand inside the shirt
You may end up with a compromised shirt
Or hand inside pants pocket. Either way is better than bare hands
That’s why I use my prehensile penis
This is what I do. I just always try avoid touching anything directly with my hands. Knee, elbow, back of wrist, foot…lots of good options if you don’t have a sleeve or something disposable available.
Edit: Sometimes there is also the discrete move of letting someone go ahead of you. Looks polite and they touch it instead.
I’ve learned that in some places bathroom doors tend to open inwards, making this more difficult
I mean unless the air blowing on your hands was freshly filtered and uv sterilized that is going to be an issue to.
At some point you’ll need to settle on an acceptable level of germs or lose your mind totally
This is true. The Mythbusters episodes about double dipping tortilla chips in salsa and about leaving your toothbrush in the bathroom convinced me that the entire world is covered in an invisible layer of poo and there’s nothing I can do about it, so I’ve got to just try to accept it.
this is kinda funny because I was in microbiology and you rarely saw anyone there who was middle ground with germs. The knowledge either made them super casual about it or super rigid. I worked in labs where the professor kept his zip locked sandwich from home in the fridge that had the salmonella samples. I would have my dews in there but I did wipe them down with 95% ethanol before drinking.
i have lost mucho sleep over the fact that even holding my breath while using an air dryer doesn’t prevent poop gems being blasted into my pores 💀
poop gems
At least they’re pretty.
poop gems
The fecal mist lingering around is real. That’s why one should always flush with a closed lid.
You ever seen an airtight toilet lid? That ain’t doing shit against aerosolized fecal particulates. Don’t worry though, no one’s gets sick just breathing the air in a bathroom, most public toilets in America don’t even have lids. If “fecal mist” was an actual health risk, the science would be well in by now, the patterns would be unavoidable and ubiquitous. Maybe if you lick the walls where the bathroom air condensates you might get sick, but most people are reasonable enough not to do that just by instinct.
Thats it-- i’m adding weatherstripping under my toilet seat
Mythbusters tested this. With the lid open or closed, poop particles were detectable in every room of a house after a flush. The lid does nothing.
And eyes and nose and ears.
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
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 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.
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
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.
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.
How am I supposed to trap a velociraptor in the bathroom with a handle like that?
Install games on its phone
I would simply pinch the handle between my absolute dumptruck bootycake cheeks
just stand there and wait until somebody comes in, like everyone does
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”?
Who cares?
Anecdotal but Lemmy seems full of germaphobes. It’s whatever but just my observation.
I’ve lived long enough and dealt with this without getting sick so I also don’t really care personally.
in 2020, i learned that hands are not needed for opening and closing things
I saw a bathroom like this that had the metal thing for you to pull the door open with your foot instead.
The door required the handle to be turned in order for it to open.
I mean, I just open doors to public bathrooms with my elbow, or whatever else can push thing down while I push door open. 🤷♂️
I usually have a coat of some sort on and just open it with my hand in my pocket
That’ll do 'er
Grab the handle with your butt cheeks. it’s a talent/skill you can hone
good thing i’m drop ball world champion then
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
