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Post by myshelly on Jun 18, 2016 2:07:47 GMT
I am at a symphony concert tonight and I just went to the bathroom. The mechanism to flush the toilet is ON THE FLOOR and you STEP ON IT to flush!
Of course I thought of the peas!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2016 2:12:47 GMT
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Post by myshelly on Jun 18, 2016 2:16:24 GMT
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Post by eleezybeth on Jun 18, 2016 2:25:50 GMT
Yes!
My new office has push button only. I wish it was motion sensor but nope, gotta reach up there with my least favorite finger, push the button, hold the least favorite finger at weird angle while opening the door, get to the sink and scrub that finger until the skin comes off. Sure, I could just wrap toilet paper around my finger, but I don't want to seem like a total germaphobe because someone will judge me.
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Post by zztop11 on Jun 18, 2016 3:08:15 GMT
Come on peas. How many times have you gotten sick because you had to flush a public toilet? Probably never or not many. I think we need to get more freaked out from touching all the germs on a door handle, not a toilet handle. Remember. . . urine is sterile.
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Post by papersilly on Jun 18, 2016 3:16:11 GMT
Remember. . . urine is sterile. I dunno..... "Urine is not sterile, even before it comes out of you and gets contaminated by your skin. Bacteria are present at low levels in the urine of healthy people not suffering from a urinary tract infection, Evann Hilt of Loyola University of Chicago reported May 18 at a conference of the American Society for Microbiology.May 22, 2014" |
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Post by 950nancy on Jun 18, 2016 3:24:39 GMT
Come on peas. How many times have you gotten sick because you had to flush a public toilet? Probably never or not many. I think we need to get more freaked out from touching all the germs on a door handle, not a toilet handle. Remember. . . urine is sterile. Urine is, but ladies do a lot of stuff with their hands in a public restroom before they get to the hand washing-at least once a month they do. Those touched lady bits then touch the handle. |
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Post by alexa11 on Jun 18, 2016 3:26:48 GMT
 Yes!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 18, 2016 3:33:57 GMT
Yes! My new office has push button only. I wish it was motion sensor but nope, gotta reach up there with my least favorite finger, push the button, hold the least favorite finger at weird angle while opening the door, get to the sink and scrub that finger until the skin comes off. Sure, I could just wrap toilet paper around my finger, but I don't want to seem like a total germaphobe because someone will judge me. Umm, wouldn't the door still be closed when you flush? Who's going to see you to be able to judge?  |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jun 18, 2016 3:36:04 GMT
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Post by gale w on Jun 18, 2016 3:39:23 GMT
I'm not a foot flusher but I was somewhere recently that had a foot pedal to flush the toilet. I can't even remember where it was now. Obviously a place I rarely go to.
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Post by papersilly on Jun 18, 2016 4:08:21 GMT
Come on peas. How many times have you gotten sick because you had to flush a public toilet? Probably never or not many. I think we need to get more freaked out from touching all the germs on a door handle, not a toilet handle. Remember. . . urine is sterile. Urine is, but ladies do a lot of stuff with their hands in a public restroom before they get to the hand washing-at least once a month they do. Those touched lady bits then touch the handle. Yup, I've seen bloody hand prints on toilet handles, door handles, toilet paper dispensers, trash lids.... |
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Post by jumperhop on Jun 18, 2016 4:20:28 GMT
Awe the ole foot flushing debate from the good old days.
I am a foot flusher here.
Jen
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Post by FurryP on Jun 18, 2016 5:28:20 GMT
I used to foot flush. But then I started thinking that someday I might lose my balance or lose my shoe (like a flip flop) into the toilet, etc.
Now I use toilet paper to flush. I don't care who judges me! I judge the people that don't wash their hands after toilet use, or before they eat!
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Post by pjaye on Jun 18, 2016 6:46:15 GMT
Remember. . . urine is sterile No it isn't. As already posted above. Nothing is considered "sterile" unless it has been sterilised. Urine, in most people would be called "clean" as in bacteria free, but being free from bacteria (or bacteria in very low amounts only) is not the same as being sterile. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2016 13:41:02 GMT
Excellent!
(This is one of those topics that I would never believe it if someone told me that it inspired one of the most enduring and passionate debates in our nsbr history.)
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Post by Zee on Jun 18, 2016 14:14:21 GMT
Urine may be clean, or it may not, as when someone has a UTI. In any case that doesn't matter because genitals AREN'T sterile, and there is also poop and menstrual blood to consider.
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Post by Zee on Jun 18, 2016 14:15:28 GMT
And to get back to the OP, I saw one of those toilets for the first time a few months ago, with a lever a couple inches off the floor.
I also thought immediately of the peas!
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Post by calgal08 on Jun 18, 2016 14:17:33 GMT
Brilliant!
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Jun 18, 2016 14:21:33 GMT
Remember. . . urine is sterile. Is poop? |
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Post by Crack-a-lackin on Jun 18, 2016 14:25:33 GMT
I used to foot flush. But then I started thinking that someday I might lose my balance or lose my shoe (like a flip flop) into the toilet, etc. Been there  I was flushing a toilet before I used it that the previous person left unflushed. Threw my shoes away and walked out of Macy's barefoot. |
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Post by eleezybeth on Jun 18, 2016 14:29:23 GMT
Yes! My new office has push button only. I wish it was motion sensor but nope, gotta reach up there with my least favorite finger, push the button, hold the least favorite finger at weird angle while opening the door, get to the sink and scrub that finger until the skin comes off. Sure, I could just wrap toilet paper around my finger, but I don't want to seem like a total germaphobe because someone will judge me. Umm, wouldn't the door still be closed when you flush? Who's going to see you to be able to judge? LMAO! Why the peas of course. I admitted it here opening it up for judgement. You aren't new here, you know the drill! My recurring nightmare is having to pee so bad and the bathroom being disgusting or without stalls and filthy. |
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Post by gar on Jun 18, 2016 14:34:47 GMT
I think even I would foot flush if it was a couple of inches off the floor....because that's what it's clearly designed for, just as one that's waist height is meant to be flushed with your hand  |
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Post by quinlove on Jun 18, 2016 14:49:45 GMT
I may have told this story before.
When my dgs was about 2 or 3, he and I went on a long road trip. Of course every public restroom we went to, I used my foot to flush.
A few weeks later at his day care, his mom asked the worker there how he was doing with using the bathroom. She said that he is doing quite well with it but --- he about kills himself trying to use his foot to flush !!!!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 18, 2016 15:03:10 GMT
Umm, wouldn't the door still be closed when you flush? Who's going to see you to be able to judge? LMAO! Why the peas of course. I admitted it here opening it up for judgement. You aren't new here, you know the drill! My recurring nightmare is having to pee so bad and the bathroom being disgusting or without stalls and filthy. LOL. No one says you have to TELL! If no one *sees* you wrapping your least favorite flushing finger with TP before pushing the button, you're all good. It can be our dirty (clean?) little secret!  And I actually did LOL about your recurring nightmare, because I have that same one!  I thank God every time I have it too, because usually it means I drank too much water the night before and I really do have to pee. On a somewhat related note, at one point my business was located in a really, really, REALLY old building that didn't have a restroom in it. There was, however, a cobbled together "facility" in the basement which consisted of an ancient toilet that probably hadn't been cleaned in decades (sadly NOT an exaggeration!) and a non-working sink, with a dirt floor. The smell down there after decades of being used by countless old men, was unbelievably bad. Needless to say, if I ever had the need to use a restroom, I went to the considerably less nasty gas station across the street. Now THAT was a restroom that bathrooms in nightmares were modeled after!  |
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Post by jackie on Jun 18, 2016 15:25:25 GMT
My thoughts exactly. I actually thought of the peas when I was in a public restroom that had a button on the wall. In my head I'm picturing the rabid foot flushers hiking their foot up there and trying to get the button pushed with their toes. |
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Post by eleezybeth on Jun 18, 2016 15:52:23 GMT
LMAO! Why the peas of course. I admitted it here opening it up for judgement. You aren't new here, you know the drill! My recurring nightmare is having to pee so bad and the bathroom being disgusting or without stalls and filthy. LOL. No one says you have to TELL! If no one *sees* you wrapping your least favorite flushing finger with TP before pushing the button, you're all good. It can be our dirty (clean?) little secret! And I actually did LOL about your recurring nightmare, because I have that same one! I thank God every time I have it too, because usually it means I drank too much water the night before and I really do have to pee. On a somewhat related note, at one point my business was located in a really, really, REALLY old building that didn't have a restroom in it. There was, however, a cobbled together "facility" in the basement which consisted of an ancient toilet that probably hadn't been cleaned in decades (sadly NOT an exaggeration!) and a non-working sink, with a dirt floor. The smell down there after decades of being used by countless old men, was unbelievably bad. Needless to say, if I ever had the need to use a restroom, I went to the considerably less nasty gas station across the street. Now THAT was a restroom that bathrooms in nightmares were modeled after! No!!!!!! That is nightmare worthy! Shivers. I want to blurt out how is that legal fully realizing my first world bias! Mine usually comes when I'm really stressed about something I'm not in control of. |
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Post by georgiapea on Jun 18, 2016 16:29:24 GMT
Good deal! I came through multiple airports recently and they were all motion activated.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jun 18, 2016 17:38:24 GMT
Good deal! I came through multiple airports recently and they were all motion activated. I like those the best too. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2016 17:56:10 GMT
My thoughts exactly. I actually thought of the peas when I was in a public restroom that had a button on the wall. In my head I'm picturing the rabid foot flushers hiking their foot up there and trying to get the button pushed with their toes. Oh, it's totally do-able. |
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Yes!
I thank God every time I have it too, because usually it means I drank too much water the night before and I really do have to pee. 
