Automatic soap dispensers!

[Silver Fox]

Which would be ok I guess, if every person who used that public toilet made use of those hygienic facilities but we all know that's never gonna happen, they'll always be some filthy sod who'll go in drop a log, and walk straight out again! mmm lovely! Like I say I normally have a little tube of hand sanitiser in my bag for when I'm out and about. Once bitten, twice shy, I'm afraid. A few years ago we went up to Chester for a short break, and we had to change trains, had drunk a couple of glasses of wine on the first leg of the journey and didn't fancy using the toilet on the train...yuk. So I used the one on the station. It was rather unpleasant to say the least, and though I washed and dried my hands, I had to touch the door handle, and made a note to self...make sure you wash your hands before eating anything! But like all the best plans I forgot, and shortly tucked into a packet of crisps I had in the bottom of my bag....I heartily regretted that 'cause I spent the entire evening throwing up! Thankfully I was ok the next day, but even so!

Still don't believe that soap dispensers are our enemy though!

URGGGGG!!! Merryone hope you were not changing trains at Manchester Piccadilly!
I always wash my hands after being to the supermarket after handling trolleys / baskets!

 

[merryone]

URGGGGG!!! Merryone hope you were not changing trains at Manchester Piccadilly!
I always wash my hands after being to the supermarket after handling trolleys / baskets!

It was Crewe wot made me spew!!!!

 

[Loveinamist]

I always cringe when I see people putting their bins out and then getting in their cars and going to work, the back of those wagons are gag inducing and the handles touch everywherel.

 

[merryone]

I always cringe when I see people putting their bins out and then getting in their cars and going to work, the back of those wagons are gag inducing and the handles touch everywherel.

I do that sometimes, and I have to say I would never have thought of running back indoors to wash my hands unless one of the bags had split and I'd got yuck all over my hands. If we think about it most things we touch during the say (ahem!) are pretty yucky, but I think that as long as we're sensible enough to wash our hands before we eat, and santise them when necessary we'll get along fine.

 

[Rentochops]

Well I had swine last year and this paranoia about germs and toilet doors is getting way out of hand. You need nasty bacteria exposure to build immunity. Air conditioning makes me more ill than any toilet I am sure of that!

 

[amn]

Well I had swine last year and this paranoia about germs and toilet doors is getting way out of hand. You need nasty bacteria exposure to build immunity. Air conditioning makes me more ill than any toilet I am sure of that!

Correctamundo. No one has the hard earned germ imunity they once had - our bodies are designed to sort things out for themselves, not be constantly sanitised and disinfected. Of course it makes sense to wash your hands after the loo or doing anything vaguely vile, but everyones turning into bliddy Howard Hughes.

Same as all this sell-by dates nonsense. In our house they get ignored.
We work on the system of - If it smells ok - eat it.
If it doesnt smell ok rinse it under the tap and if it smells ok then - eat it.
If it smells dodgy, get a second opinion and if they think it smells ok - eat it.
When all else fails chuck it in the bin.

 

[BusyMum]

Correctamundo. No one has the hard earned germ imunity they once had - our bodies are designed to sort things out for themselves, not be constantly sanitised and disinfected. Of course it makes sense to wash your hands after the loo or doing anything vaguely vile, but everyones turning into bliddy Howard Hughes.

Same as all this sell-by dates nonsense. In our house they get ignored.
We work on the system of - If it smells ok - eat it.
If it doesnt smell ok rinse it under the tap and if it smells ok then - eat it.
If it smells dodgy, get a second opinion and if they think it smells ok - eat it.
When all else fails chuck it in the bin.

Same here Ali, tho have only just got my daughter to understand that a yogurt half an hour past it's sell-by won't poison her! I'll be glad when they stop using the damn things!

 

[Loveinamist]

I do that sometimes, and I have to say I would never have thought of running back indoors to wash my hands unless one of the bags had split and I'd got yuck all over my hands. If we think about it most things we touch during the say (ahem!) are pretty yucky, but I think that as long as we're sensible enough to wash our hands before we eat, and santise them when necessary we'll get along fine.

I was referring to the wheely bins being dragged out of people's drives and the handles on them touching the wagon merryone, not the bin liners.

 

[Ciociaria]

Well I had swine last year and this paranoia about germs and toilet doors is getting way out of hand. You need nasty bacteria exposure to build immunity. Air conditioning makes me more ill than any toilet I am sure of that!

I totally agree with this. I used to work in an open plan office with no open windows just a dreadful air conditioning system that blasted out recycled air all day. I have never been so ill - I kept picking up infections and was eventually hospitalised with a very bad case of pneumonia. My lungs are weaker and I have to try to avoid colds and flu now. I swear it was down to that bliddy air conditioning. Needless to say I have now moved on to a healthier environment.

 

[Ciociaria]

I should also mention that I once witnessed the air con units having their annual clean. We were absolutely horrified when we saw the dirt that was lurking up there. Thick black layers of dirt.