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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: ase on April 14, 2009, 04:12:56 pm
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we don't have poll topics around here very often but...
me and headphonics got in a little "argument" over this so let's at least get the statistics straight among this very representative and official population of gw nerds...
HOW OFTEN DO YOU WASH YOUR HANDS ON AN AVERAGE DAY??? I am not going to define "hand-washing" for you, so it this means "let some water from the faucet drip on my palms" to you, so be it.
Please try and post in the topic to explain your habits so we all know how dirty/clean you are.
P.S. Usernames are turned off in the poll. I didn't bother adding "0" as that is obviously the joke option. mark, you can just vote "1"
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i apologize for any people with disabilities i may have offended with this poll
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When you combine washing my hands after using the bathroom and to get the smell and dirt from my dogs off of my hands (since I can't pass by a window without seeing them outside and wanting to play with them), it goes quite a bit over 6 times a day.
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I put 5-6, but I didn't really read the post before hand. I consider washing my hands to be the act that involves one's hands and water, both accompanied by soap.
I usually just let water run on my hands for a short time if I had just done something as trivial as pee or if I happen to have uncomfortable food on my hands.
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the average is about six times a day, counting showers so I choose 5-6 and 6+
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Two times a day, usually. On the other hand, I'm totally unpredictable when it comes to washing hands. It just depends on what I'm doing. I always wash my hands when I go to the cinema.
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Well every time I go to the bathroom, plus if you count showering, uhh... also I'm a cook so my answer is a bit skewed.
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Prolly like 3 times
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every time i do something that you need to wash your hands after.
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on a work day, at least 6 times. i'm a cashier, so i get my hands on lots of dirty money. i try to wash them after cigarettes, too, because i've been getting some nasty-looking nicotine stains.
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About once or twice, which is also the amount of times I go to the bathroom per day. I may wash them more if anything occurs.
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6+, every time i go into the bathroom or kitchen.
not like ocd-worthy soapy scrubbing, but usually just rinsing. idk, i dont like leaving a wetroom with dry hands, its weird.
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6 times is too low for a maximum. If you cook dinner yourself you should be at at least 3 (wash before, after preparing the meat and before eating). Then add two bathroom visits and washing yourself in the morning and you're on 6 already. That's on an average day without doing anything in addition.
If you don't do it at least 6 times, remind me to never shake your hand...
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whos da dummy now headp..... whos da dummy now........
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I don't wash my hands before eating or after going to the toilet or whatever. that sounds digusting cos i just said eating and toilet in the same sentence but it isn't, really. I just don't see the need. BACTERIA whatever, I'm fine, I'm not sick and I can't see it so who cares. I don't tell people this or anything cos everyone would be grossed out or at least pretend to be but I have had a few little conversations with people who are like "yeah i wash my hands in the morning that's pretty much it, though.".
I just don't care?
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ugh i guess we cant be friends anymore
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There's probably more pee and cum on a public toilet's faucet than i've ever had on my hands!
I wanna see some hard evidence. My hands smell fine. Sometimes they smell nice when I wash'em with a delicious soap. What's wrong with the way I'm doing it? Nobody has ever noticed other than to say "your hand smells nice" when I know it smells nice so you don't need to tell me cos I know cos I used that good soap of mine.
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i am one of those crazy people who use their pinky to grab the handle when leaving a public restroom
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i wash my hands every time i go to the bathroom but that's not too often, i'll just say 5-6. more often if i am cooking obviously but since i don't do that here it's moooot. also i don't wash my hands before/after every meal because idk it is not as big a deal to me as bathrooms are. public bathrooms are kind of gross
i know a lot of my friends don't, we don't have any way of drying our hands off in the bathrooms this year because no one felt like putting a communal cloth in. i don't see why that matters to anyone but it does
jamie, this is the proper method of washing hands as delineated in my bathroom:
1: wet hands
2: apply soap, rub for like 20 seconds
3: dry hands off with a paper towel (not provided)
4: turn off faucet with paper towel
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I just don't see the need. BACTERIA whatever, I'm fine, I'm not sick and I can't see it so who cares.
I care! So YOU'RE the guy who keeps giving me URTI!
i am one of those crazy people who use their pinky to grab the handle when leaving a public restroom
You're not crazy. The door handle is the third most dirty surface you might touch in a restroom. The first and second being the toilet seat and faucet, respectively.
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More than 10 times a day. I work in a lab
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Uh, I tuck my hands in my sleeve so I don't have to actually touch it. It's not crazy, I don't think, cos those toilets stink and like I said pee and cum. It would be worse to get your hands all wet and stuff in there, I would have thought, touching what you would have to touch and then having wet and gross hands.
I just don't wash my hands after every little thing. It's excessive and I don't like that I am expected to lie about it cos I don't think people actually think it's gross I think they just want to look good in front of the ladies. Like Dr. House said "You're all a bunch of dirty fucking hypocrits. Now where's my Nintendo DS Lite?"
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You're not crazy. The door handle is the third most dirty surface you might touch in a restroom. The first and second being the toilet seat and faucet, respectively.
Exactly! Which is why I don't touch any of that dumpy crap with my hands. I get in there, unzip, rezip and I outta there back to have a dance with my best friends!!!!
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Where's this idea that there's pee and cum EVERYWHERE in a public restroom coming from?
Who is peeing and cumming on the faucet knobs??? Come on!
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Honestly...
Only when I shower.
And since I dropped out of school again until next year I shower like once every 2 days.
In fact I'm sitting in my own filth as of this very moment. Oh it feels so awesome and manly.
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Where's this idea that there's pee and cum EVERYWHERE in a public restroom coming from?
Who is peeing and cumming on the faucet knobs??? Come on!
Well Chef saw a guy masturbating on a computer in the public library and plus of course people are cumming on these things. People cum and pee on everything. There's cum on there.
And also, residuals coming off of hands. Maybe they chebbed one out in the stall and had a little of that white honey left over when they got to the tap. And they definitely had some pee on there, too.
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That's disgusting, get a job and clean yourself
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Yeah showers are another issue. I can't start the day properly until I've had a shower. Everything just feels dirty and lame.
So I guess three times a day I wash my hands. Once before I put my contact lenses in, once in the shower, and once when I take my contacts out at night. There are sporadic instances of hand washing that happen inbetween but I can't say where or when or why.
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Jamie get over it and wash your hands after you touch your penis, nobody is cumming on the faucet knobs and any residual cum has probably been washed away from wet hands touching it
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That's disgusting, get a job and clean yourself
If that's directed at me;
yea I know dude. I've been job hunting for the past week or so nonstop but haven't really found anything/gotten any replies back. I thought it would be fairly easy since last year I had previous experience working as a general labourer at a scrap yard.. I guess I'll have to end up taking that midnight Tim Hortons baking shift. I'd really like to do some hard work again though, last time I had it good but I fucked it up bad (thats stories in the drug thread)..
btw I'm chewing my dirty nails
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Who's gonna make me? I don't care enough. I can't be bothered, I usually just want to get out of the toilet and back to what I was doing. I barely even touch my penis in the toilet anyway. I mean I'm generally standing so it's just unzip and let 'er rip, maybe with like a slight prod in the direction of the toilet bowl with one finger. That's not worth the whole song and dance. That's not worth the price of admission I'm afraid.
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also even if you dont care about bacteria getting you sick, you should wash your hands after using the bathroom so that you dont give other people gross shit like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norovirus) which closed a college near mine for almost a week
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You've got dick on your hand though...
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What some dude told me on xbox live:
"You stupid uncircumcised prick, you know you can get mucky mucky in your dick and die?"
If you don't wash it.. I suppose...
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well you don't have to worry about pee because it's sterile but you should be cautious of touching foeces in the toilet. if you must use a public toilet I recommend not touching anything, and if that is unavoidable use the sole of your shoe to open/close doors, flush the facilities, et cetera.
why is it that most public restrooms have doors with pull handles at the exit? I always thought that was stupid, if anything they should be on the outside. I don't care if I touch someone's cum going into the restroom but coming out? that's dusgusting, now that person's cum is on my food. I'm not going to eat that.
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headphonics is right though, most people do not wash their hands! sit inside a stall for an hour and see how many people do, barely any.
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ironically, if you're sitting inside a stall for an hour, it is most likely an indirect result of some asshole somewhere not washing his hands
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having extremely weakened bowels, I have spent several hours in such a way.
here's a question: shouldn't you actually be washing your hands before you use the facilities? I have a professor who does this. he washes his hands, uses the urinal, then washes his hands again. it's kinda funny to see him do it, but it makes sense because there is typically more bacteria on your hands than your genitals. if you don't wash before, you are actually contaminating your relatively clean genital area with bacteria and viruses.
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Why not just live in a bubble faggits
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I wash after I go to the bathroom, and usually after meals, so about 5-6 times a day i suppose
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youre nuts if you think this is in any way indicative of people washing their hands. nobody washes their hands dude
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that's what i'm sayin
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Probably 10+ and I'm not even counting showers. Pretty much every time I do anything in the kitchen I wash them, plus of course bathroom visits. It's not that I'm being hyper-hygienic or something (I practically never use soap), it's just a habit.
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just running water over your hands isn't washing them, though!
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i probably wash my hands like 10 times a day when i dont have work and 20 times a day when i do
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headphonics is right though, most people do not wash their hands! sit inside a stall for an hour and see how many people do, barely any.
no way i was JUST sitting in a stall for like 20 minutes masturbating (i came on the faucet) and like 90% of the people washed their hands.
people wash their hands dog
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maybe you could say it's true for dudes but i don't know any girls that i've seen that don't at least wash their hands after going to the bathroom
add in the number of guys who do and it is really dumb to say NOBODY WASHES THEIR HANDS you are dumb!!!
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alot because my hands sweat profusely and get sticky so I got to keep washing them and washing them and washing them
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people are more likely to wash their hands if others are watching, if you are honestly watching in a stall its not going to be valid.
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Everytime I go to the bathroom and before I eat. I'm a pretty picky person like that when it comes to the cleanliness of my hands.
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I wash my hands after using the bathroom 100% of the time. Like, I rarely use soap unless I take a shit or something, because I'm not peeing on my hands or anything, but I still wash 'em.
But if you wash (not rinse, actually get in there) with just water, I consider that to be washing. Since I use bathroom breaks as an excuse to not work for a couple seconds, I end up taking 5 pees a day, so +shower +pees at home that =more than 6, easily.
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man not washing your hands is pretty gross, esp. after i did a lab in microbio where we swiped our fingers to let the bacteria cultures grow, some people had really nasty colonies growing.
i do it after every bathroom visit (lots of people do wash their hands, and yeah, more likely when others are around) and before every meal.
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Jesus... reading this thread makes me want to wash my hands more than I already do.
I wash my hands A LOT. Probably 7-8 times per day. After meals (so I don't get my controllers greasy.), after bathroom visits, and especially after even visiting a public bathroom. I'm not a health freak or anything... I just like to keep my hands clean. (And everything else for that matter.)
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now, at least five times a day, soap and water. part of that is that it's mandated that you wash your hands before you walk into a dining facility in either iraq or kuwait.
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I wash my hands only when using a public (ew) toilet or after I have just done a shit (which never coincides with using a public toilet)
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Why isn't there 0??
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because ew
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at least 10-15 times at work
probably around 5 or 6 at home
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i once saw a guy dry his hands with a paper towel after using the bathroom. he didn't wash his hands he just dried them with a paper towel and then i saw him shaking somebody's hand when i walked out of the bathroom and this is so gross.
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i once saw a guy dry his hands with a paper towel after using the bathroom. he didn't wash his hands he just dried them with a paper towel and then i saw him shaking somebody's hand when i walked out of the bathroom and this is so gross.
Yuk!! I feel kinda sorry for the ladies... lol. I didn't know so many guys were so gross.
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EW you're all gross! wash your hands, dammit. use soap, and scrub for as long as it takes to sing the alphabet.
please stop wetting your dirty dick hands and counting that as washing.
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women..... such an enigma .... they hate our dirty dick hands but love our dirty dicks....
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i thought this poll was about dicks
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I polish mine off twice a day
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women..... such an enigma .... they hate our dirty dick hands but love our dirty dicks....
Ahahahahaha... best post ever.
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women..... such an enigma .... they hate our dirty dick hands but love our dirty dicks....
think about it: like maybe one out of every FIVE HUNDRED are not filthy (that's being generous too). that's 0.2% chance that you will shake hands with someone and not get dick dirt on yours (assuming no one washes their hands).
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you might get contaminated with the dick virus....
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I don't know about you but I wash my dick every day. I also wash my hands after going to the bathroom so I guess that's a moot point.
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I always assumed everyone did but... ew
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I wash my hands obsessively; i can't stand it even if they feel even a little bit dirty...or if they have an odd feeling to them..
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approx. 5 times.
That's excluding two showers, though.
So if that counts, then 7-8.
I cook often, and find myself washing my hands often enough during that time.
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I wash my hands pretty often. Like whenever I handle something I know other people wouldn't want on their hands I wash them, so probably 6+ times per day. Even more so when I work as a chef because that means handling bloody and raw meat and fish and shit like that.
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I'm germaphobic. The slightest anything that could give me some sort of infection or from even touching something like garbage makes me wash. That and ofcourse after using the bathroom.
+6