paper towels vs. air dryers

Spunkie

Jammin909 wrote:

If I wash my hands in the bathroom, it's almost always before I pee. It is totally backward logic to wash your hands after you piss.

So you are at the office and you are shaking hands, typing on a dirty keyboard, fumbing through old papers, using a borrowed stapler etc- I think it's disgusting if you dont wash your hands before you piss.

Like you said, my cock has been hiding all day away from the outside world so why would it be more dirty than the door to your office, keyboard, colleagues hands etc to warrant me washing my hands after I pee rather than before?

He He He... In best Beavis voice... "you said cock".

Seriously though. I had a great biology teacher once who told me, "If it doesn't kill ya, who cares."

The energy question is a good one. So I sometimes dry my hands by running them through my hair. At my enviro-friendly workplace, we recycle the "hand paper only" wastebin and offer cloth washable hand towels... which leads into a third energy question... the wash and dry hand towel energy factor...

sonicreducer

point is to reduce paper towel waste.

energy required to run that air dryer is worth saving trees.

less trees being killed, more carbon dioxide absorbed.

yes, fun topic to pick at, but seriously,... use 'em

even flow?

sonicreducer wrote:

point is to reduce paper towel waste.

energy required to run that air dryer is worth saving trees.

less trees being killed, more carbon dioxide absorbed.

yes, fun topic to pick at, but seriously,... use 'em

Was there really anything wrong with the old towel machines that when you needed a clean piece you either cranked it up or pulled it down?

Cosmo

That's why God invented shirt tails.

sonicreducer

even flow? wrote:

Was there really anything wrong with the old towel machines that when you needed a clean piece you either cranked it up or pulled it down?

no. but with an increase in population, and an increase in people going out for leisure and such,... it seems only logical to try and reduce the amount of waste product. i think paper towel waste is a matter of convenience and in some cases, laziness.

Cosmo wrote:

That's why God invented shirt tails.

if there isn't an air dryer, i use my shirt. that is, unless im blowing my nose or something,...

brainofPJ

even flow? wrote:

But don't people worry about touching the dirty door to get into the bathroom before they touch themselves? Nobody and I mean nobody ever discusses that. Something to think of the next time you wash your hands before you go to the bathroom and then after.

Some people are terrified of germs.

Seriously......................if you go to the bathroom, unzip your pants, grab your willie, enjoy a pee, tuck your willie back into your pants, zip up and haven't dripped on yourself. Why do you have to wash up? Is your penis that dirty an object? Not you in general but I would like to hear from some people on that thought.

that's because you don't have to pull the door open, you just simply lean into it.

i don't have to touch my willie when i pee, he just hangs and does his business.

gremmiev

sonicreducer wrote:

id like to see something tangible to support this, if indeed the air dryer is more susceptible to bacteria growth for any other reason than poor cleaning technique. obviously, if the janitor doesn't do his job, everything has bacteria on it.

Apparently there are still bacteria on your hands even after washing and the air dryer APPARENTLY blows it around the room...

... the worst thing is, and as a guy I hate to say this, when you see people not even bothering to wash their hands!!! they don't even get as far as the dryer/towel situation... they just walk out... BLAH!!!

Spunkie

even flow? wrote:

Was there really anything wrong with the old towel machines that when you needed a clean piece you either cranked it up or pulled it down?

Kids were hanging themselves with those.

Cosmo

tish wrote:

Kids were hanging themselves with those.

...
Man, those kids are desperate... I mean, choosing the stench of a McDonald's restroom over the comfort of your own bedroom... that's a tough life.

hailhailkc

I prefer to employ a blind black man to follow me into the bathroom when I need to do my business. Afterwards, he's waiting with a fluffy hand towel, a fresh mint, a dash of cologne, a shoe shine...and some form of witty advice on living life to it's fullest, followed up by a dirty joke.

And yes...he has to be black...or it just isn't the same.

bootlegger10

Wow, a lot of germaphobes here. I used to wash my hands constantly when I was a kid. I'm glad I got over that. Washing your hands before you go to the bathroom????????????