Нет, балансируют на пятках, уделывают сиденье - или сооружают рождественские гирлянды из обрывков туалетной бумаги, которые потом засоряют слив. Запугали народ микробами, вот он и кумекает по-своему. А мне потом на этом голым местом сидеть.
It isn't true, of course, but it is likely that most of the bacteria found in public restrooms are coming out of human gut, and many of these bacteria are pathogenic. I think they do fecal and total coliform counts. More-or-less the same results are obtained when they count only staph, eg http://cleanseats.com/toilet_seats/view/article-7.html They give a nice table with frequency of contamination per site.
There is a guy from UAZ who makes living out of such studies, eg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16134485 I've heard him once talking... and run to the bathroom in the middle of the presentation.
Somehow I don't think that people who take all these precautions are doing it just to avoid germs. Getting someone else's urine or worse on your body and clothes has unpleasant effects beyond microbial infections.
Culture are the techniques for a forgotten cause. We do bunch of things that got disconnected from their immediate purpose. Hopefully lacking the ultimate litmus test those techniques do not mutate to their opposite. In the case of anti-bacterial soap it unfortunately seems to be the case.
True, but I think it is absurd to install objects of which people are afraid, and so develop elaborate rituals putting themselves and the others in more danger. If sitting on a public toilet is regarded by half of the nation as a suicidal act, then maybe we should admit that and go back to squatting -- or explain things better. This is a cultural solution that satisfies no one.
By the way, I have always found it hard to believe that washing fruits and vegetables can make them any safer to eat (by "washing" I mean brief rinsing in water, nobody uses soap to wash vegetables anyway). I buy apples or peaches on a market and what to eat one straight away, but no, I am always told that they should be brought home and washed first! What do you say?
And regarding washing one's hands: well, and what about surgeons who wash their hands before performing a surgery (at least according to any medical series or movie), do they have any reason to do it?
They use alcohol-based sanitizers and those are very efficient. I also remind you that they mostly rely on sterile gloves rather than their bare hands.
Washing produce is a good idea because you remove at least some of the agrochemicals that they use and also soil particles that can harbor all kinds of things. Mind that they use fungicides, food dyes, and what not to transport and package fruit. I'd wash it less for the sake of the bacteria than this other stuff.
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затем я прохожу десяток метров по офису, сажусь за рабочий комп и кидаю скомканную салфетку, защитившую меня от ручки туалета, в мусорницу
я считаю что это очень хорошая привычка
on the flip side - рано или поздно коллеги заметят эту закономерность и подумают СТРАШНОЕ (не поняв что это за бумажка)
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Я бы предположил, что ручка выходной двери туалета должна быть самым чистым местом туалета, - и, возможно, всей компании.
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Если чуть не половина людей панически боится сесть попою на унитаз: зачем их, собственно, тогда ставят в общественные туалеты? Ставили б squat toilets, как в Европах - или Японии. Википедия, кстати, предлагает соломоново решение
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Nature%27s_Platform_toilet_converter.gif
Нет, балансируют на пятках, уделывают сиденье - или сооружают рождественские гирлянды из обрывков туалетной бумаги, которые потом засоряют слив. Запугали народ микробами, вот он и кумекает по-своему. А мне потом на этом голым местом сидеть.
Не могу молчать!
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>And ladies, never put your bags on the floor.
May be just don't put ladies fecal bag on a table or a bed?
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http://cleanseats.com/toilet_seats/view/article-7.html
They give a nice table with frequency of contamination per site.
There is a guy from UAZ who makes living out of such studies, eg
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16134485
I've heard him once talking... and run to the bathroom in the middle of the presentation.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/17/earlyshow/main20071969.shtml
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And regarding washing one's hands: well, and what about surgeons who wash their hands before performing a surgery (at least according to any medical series or movie), do they have any reason to do it?
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Washing produce is a good idea because you remove at least some of the agrochemicals that they use and also soil particles that can harbor all kinds of things. Mind that they use fungicides, food dyes, and what not to transport and package fruit. I'd wash it less for the sake of the bacteria than this other stuff.
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