Doesn't everyone ? A co-worker got irate when I mentioned I flush public toilets by push the handle with my foot not my hand. Doesn't everyone?

Ocaml_Kaizen · 2 years

Doesn't everyone

Aha, a work around..

MrBabyMan_ · 2 years

I slide the handle into my ass and then move my hips upwards to flush. then i slowly remove the handle and walk out of the washroom without washing my hands.

chicgeek · 2 years

People flush where you work? Lucky.

Konketsu · 2 years

I'm on team "Kick the Toilet Handle" as well.

Rhode · 2 years

No, I use a stern look to make the toilet flush itself.

rubikscubefreak · 2 years

Just wash your hands! Sheesh.

tullypimp · 2 years

I don't. I usually get a hard on and flush with my cock.

jonknet · 2 years

WTF is with all the germophobes nowadays?

[deleted] · 2 years

This is why I wear a catheter and colostomy bag to work.

[deleted] · 2 years

Flush?

I generally just pee all over the floor. If I need a number two I smear a little on the walls aswell. Then I unroll as much toilet paper into the bowl as I can and leave it there, still attached to the roll.

Then it's time to write on the walls.. never anything witty, usually a crude depiction of male (sometimes female) genitalia, or one of my friends' phone numbers. If I don't have a pen, scratching away at the paint is another good way to leave my artist's renderings.

If there's time, or the mood is just right, I also like to remove the little catch that stops the door from locking properly and/or repeatedly attempt to force the door open so that somoe or all of the locking mechanism breaks. Bonus points here if the locking mechanism is completely removed leaving a little peep-hole in the door.

Just to finish off, I get some globs of moistened toilet tissue, compact them and stick them to unlikely places for no good reason whatsoever. The wall next to the cistern, near the hole where the lock used to be, etc.

People seem to be fond of my strange toilet habits, whenever I return to a bathroom I've previously used, it's always been left completely untouched in the exact state I left it in. I've got a feeling that other people may have started picking up on the procedure aswell.

[deleted] · 2 years

As long as you wash your hands afterward, you might as well use your finger. If you are that worried, you might as well not open the latch to a stall then grab your jock because THAT is when you are most dirty. BEFORE you take a leak, you never wash your hands, only after, as if your junk and urine is dirtier than the world around you. [it usually isn't otherwise you'd be dead]

merk · 2 years

I have this thing called skin and this other thing called an immune system .... so i just flush with my hands.

bobber808 · 2 years

Ask your coworker if they would rather touch your genitals or your shoe.

Redmoons · 2 years

This thread should win some kind of award for having the highest concentration of complete pussies anywhere on reddit.

waffleninja · 2 years

Hope you don't shake hands with him, I use my foot always.

xutopia · 2 years

Flush?

razzbar · 2 years

Really, for me it's just that my foot's closer. I don't have to lean over the toilet to flush it. Nothing to do with germs, although that's a definite benefit.

razzbar · 2 years

At a university bathroom, one of the janitors made a nice sign that said "Please flush the toilet. Use your foot if you have to, but flush it".

I liked how the female janitor would just walk in the men's room and start cleaning, anytime. No shame.

[deleted] · 2 years

I use my mouth

Verroq · 2 years

No, fuck you.

ipha · 2 years

I always use my foot.

ST2K · 2 years

Maybe you could compromise and ball up some TP and push down on the lever that way, and then just toss the TP as the water swirls. See? everyone's happy.

some_moron · 2 years

I was a member of team shit at home until I did some traveling. Once you've had to use a fetid shit hole or two in Thailand or India nothing will faze you.

fiercelyfriendly · 2 years

So using your foot means that your shoes, which have doubtless got the worst contamination are now being used to flush the toilet so anyone else that comes along gets the germs because of your selfish action. So your assumption that the handle is "dirty" is probably right because everyone else does as you do.

As soon as you get out of this "dirty" place you forget all about your fastidious cleanliness and go around sitting on seats others have sat on, shaking hands, touching surfaces, riding the subway, giving your gf a nice anal seeing-to and generally being a dirty little member of the human race right? But at least your hands are clean.

brainburger · 2 years

I use my mouth.

kleopatra6tilde9 · 2 years

I am wondering why nobody mentions option C:

One can use some toilet paper to cover the fingers while pushing the handle.

No uncivilized behaviour and everything is clean.

paulkafasis · 2 years

This is slightly off topic, but worth sharing:

For the men who "Don't wash their hands after pissing, because they didn't piss on their hands".

Some facts: The purpose of washing is not to get pee off your hands. No amount of washing will make you clean. You have to do it anyway.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1043/why-are-men-supposed-to-wash-their-hands-after-urination

katoninetales · 2 years

I do it in restrooms that look like they haven't seen anyone with a scrub brush and some Ajax in a couple decades, but in a normal, reasonably clean restroom, I'll use my hands and then wash 'em.

raisondecalcul · 2 years

Who cares? You all wash your hands right after flushing, don't you? DON'T YOU?

haireola · 2 years

My coworker got irate after I sodomized him in the bathroom. Go figure.

[deleted] · 2 years

i kick the urinals too, I'm that bad-ass

timmy242 · 2 years

Totally kick the handle every time.

steamynachos · 2 years

What I usually do is use my hand, and then (now this is the important part) wash my hands.

tfortunato · 2 years

Flush with your hands! Look, you've already sat on the toilet, are your hands touching the flusher really that big of a deal at this point? If its really a problem, grab a piece of T.P., and use that to handle the flusher with your delicate hands.

Have you ever really looked at the floor of a public bathroom? In my experience, men's rooms floors get pretty disgusting (for some reason in public restrooms, many men seem to lose the ability to actually piss in the pot). You're now rubbing all of that stale urine / floor muck on the handle for the next guy in there.

MrEyes · 2 years

I use my foot ever since a few years ago when i stopped to consider if I should use my foot or my hand. I decided, someone has probably already used their foot to flush this toilet and i sure as hell don't want to put my hand on the flusher after that.

oldcrow · 2 years

Vote up if you are reading this thread while seated on the crapper.

Like me.

mattimas · 2 years

I don't think it's germophobic to use your foot to flush a public toilet, I believe it's a matter of common sense...

flynth99 · 2 years

Doesn't everyone? I always open the public toilet stall by hitting it with my (clothed) elbow, then close it by holding a piece of toilet paper between my hand and the handle. I would NEVER sit on a public toilet. It is best to stand on the side edges of the porcelain and crutch (bonus points for the splash). Then flush it holding a piece of paper again. Also almost all public toilets in UK have water taps with a button you can hit with your elbow to wash your hands.

caseyjay · 2 years

It only really bothers me when I wake up underneath a public toilet and I'm soaking wet.

notatoad · 2 years

do you take TP and wrap the toilet seat too? bathrooms aren't that scary. just wash your hands.

[deleted] · 2 years

For fucks sake you germaphobe pussies! Watch George Carlin's :Everyone is Diseased

That should give you a better perspective on being a man, and public restrooms!

[deleted] · 2 years

A friend of mine just got the Swine Flu yesterday here in Ohio.

Last place I'm going to be touching is the toilet handle.

Pufflekun · 2 years

When I was little, my mom taught me to always kick the handle in public restrooms, so that I didn't get germs and filth on my hands.

I still think that it makes sense, even considering that you wash your hands afterwards. Public toilet handles are downright disgusting.

jonnybfromcle · 2 years

I don't line the seat and flush with my hand... All you have to do is wash with soap and hot water for a minimum of 30 seconds and pretty much anything on them is gone, at least that's what we were taught when I worked at a hospital. In my mind it's good to be exposed to disease, keeps your immune system up to date.

FrozenGonad · 2 years

I just thump it with my dick

tehbored · 2 years

No, that's what washing your hands and/or hand sanitizer is for.

stromm · 2 years

If men's public bathrooms were not meant for us to take a crap in, then they would only have urinals.

Get over it. Maybe you should put all that worrisome energy somewhere else.

And yes, I use my foot too. With all the people who don't wash their fraking hands, I wish the doors opened out too!

Semajal · 2 years

I think the concept is that you WASH your hands after using the toilet. So flushing using a hand isn't really an issue. Unless you are a FILTHY FILTHY PERSON who doesn't wash their hands.

zachg · 2 years

No. Only the paranoid. or those with little faith in their immune systems. or with inferior, compromised immune systems?

dainethemain · 2 years

at my old job they made us sit through an hour of "pandemic preparation" where the top employees (ie: ultra bosses) talked to us about hygiene in the bathroom. basically you go in, do your business, turn on the sink, wet your hands, apply the soap, scrub for no less than 30 seconds, rinse, LEAVE THE WATER RUNNING while grabbing a paper towel (the pull out kind or automatic kind, not one with a crank shaft) and use the paper towel to cut off the tap. THEN you finish drying your hands, take the paper towel to the door, USE THE PAPER TOWEL TO OPEN THE DOOR and discard upon exit. This took 2 hours of my day, and afterward I overheard some co-workers discussing how they never knew you were supposed to wet your hands before applying the soap. Either way, some people learned a few things and I suppose we're healthier for it.

PS - I kick the handle when finishing a #2, and then wash my hands & open the door with the paper towel. Also, I try my best to not poop in public - pooping is MY time to reflect, read and think about stuff. Listening to someone else take a shit is something I avoid at all costs. Best idea: if you have to poop at work or school, make an effort to scope out the cleanest, most out-of-the-way restroom and hit it during the peak time (either during meetings or right after class starts) to ensure the most privacy and fulfilling B.M.

[deleted] · 2 years

Count me in...I never use my hand that is what the foot is for, and I use paper towel to turn the faucets.

bolthead88 · 2 years

Clearly, you all cannot handle the responsibility of taking care of your own bowel movements and you should all be fitted with colostomy bags immediately.

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