OT: Things More Disgusting than....

[Edward Sargent]

I'll add another one. Supposedly the flush handle on the toilet in your hotel room is the dirtiest place in the hotel.

Think about it. No one uses the toilet, then washes their hands, then goes back to flush. And maids often forget to wipe it down.

After I read that little nugget I always brought wipes with me when I travelled and that was one of the first things I did when I checked in to a room.

Smart move. Most viral infections (including colds) are transmitted by contact

 

[intlzncster]

I read an article a couple months ago that said there is more bacteria on the salad bar at work than there is on the toilet seat in the bathroom.

They obviously didn't test the our shared office bathroom from one of my prior comments.

 

[intlzncster]

I'll add another one. Supposedly the flush handle on the toilet in your hotel room is the dirtiest place in the hotel.

Think about it. No one uses the toilet, then washes their hands, then goes back to flush. And maids often forget to wipe it down.

After I read that little nugget I always brought wipes with me when I travelled and that was one of the first things I did when I checked in to a room.

And you also deal with this problem: every public bathroom I use, including hotels, I flush with my foot (because of the above). So if you flush with your hand in public, you have to deal with what was on the bottom of my shoe too.

 

[uconndoit]

I always flush with my knuckle in public restrooms. Not a perfect solution but it's sumptin.

 

[intlzncster]

I always flush with my knuckle in public restrooms. Not a perfect solution but it's sumptin.

I swear by the foot, but if you are married to the upper body, I can imagine the elbow would be a better solution.

 

[uconndoit]

I swear by the foot, but if you are married to the upper body, I can imagine the elbow would be a better solution.

I do that sometimes but I started working out again a few days ago and now I can't lift my legs.

 

[Migs]

I swear by the foot, but if you are married to the upper body, I can imagine the elbow could be a better solution.

I abide by the same code. Flush with the foot.

Speaking of the shoes, my oldest son is notorious for having his shoes untied, really grosses me out when the laces are flopping around on wet public restroom floors.

Because I'm slightly neurotic about free use bathrooms and other people's sanitary habits, I like pissing in Lowe's. They have the touchless piss and handwashing stations in door-less bathrooms.

And if you're worried about bacteria count, use plastic to pay for everything.

 

[intlzncster]

I abide by the same code. Flush with the foot.

Speaking of the shoes, my oldest son is notorious for having his shoes untied, really grosses me out when the laces are flopping around on wet public restroom floors.

Because I'm slightly neurotic about free use bathrooms and other people's sanitary habits, I like pissing in Lowe's. They have the touchless piss and handwashing stations in door-less bathrooms.

And if you're worried about bacteria count, use plastic to pay for everything.

The shoelace untied thing is a major faux pas. Poor form. I can't even walk into a dangerous area with looses laces.

Lowe's needs to start a universal movement.

Sadly, I'm a cash guy.

 

[boba]

Nothing - nothing on this list compares to the break-room refrigerator. I work in a dev bio lab, in the room I call "mouse Auschwitz" (they come in but they don't go out, at least not intact) so I see disgusting all day long. (Except there is an elegant beauty to seeing the vascular pattern of embryonic kidneys, the morphogenesis of the cranium and a few other things I image and analyze.) but nothing compares to the mold and yeast experiments that the lab performs in the common room refrigerators in the various labs. It isn't deliberate nor is it yielding useful data (unless the hypothesis is how long before the lab manager breaks down and cleans it out - I think they have a pool going).

 

[mauconnfan]

The guy walk into the mens room, takes his leak, shakes it for a while then leaves without washing his hand and it's NOT a push out door you can use your forearm, it's a handle door you need to pull back!!! That sucks……

I always try to keep the paper towel in hand when opening the door and then proceed to try to make a long jumper if necessary….if I miss I'm sorry but you should have a push OUT door then!! LOL

 

[intlzncster]

Nothing - nothing on this list compares to the break-room refrigerator. I work in a dev bio lab, in the room I call "mouse Auschwitz" (they come in but they don't go out, at least not intact) so I see disgusting all day long. (Except there is an elegant beauty to seeing the vascular pattern of embryonic kidneys, the morphogenesis of the cranium and a few other things I image and analyze.) but nothing compares to the mold and yeast experiments that the lab performs in the common room refrigerators in the various labs. It isn't deliberate nor is it yielding useful data (unless the hypothesis is how long before the lab manager breaks down and cleans it out - I think they have a pool going).

The fact that a dev bio lab conducts ad hoc food experiments in the break room fridge is the least surprising thing I've heard all day.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Nothing - nothing on this list compares to the break-room refrigerator. I work in a dev bio lab, in the room I call "mouse Auschwitz" (they come in but they don't go out, at least not intact) so I see disgusting all day long. (Except there is an elegant beauty to seeing the vascular pattern of embryonic kidneys, the morphogenesis of the cranium and a few other things I image and analyze.) but nothing compares to the mold and yeast experiments that the lab performs in the common room refrigerators in the various labs. It isn't deliberate nor is it yielding useful data (unless the hypothesis is how long before the lab manager breaks down and cleans it out - I think they have a pool going).

True dat. Break room fridge can get nasty. Usually when someone gets really, really, really, really disgusted by it they break down and make up a sign. "Clean Your Food Out Now!!!" About two weeks later with no change in the fridge comes the "Everything Gets Thrown Out Friday!" sign.

 

[Scoe]

-old ladies reeking with perfume

-hocking loogies i absolutely hate that sound don't do it unless its absolutely necessary and do it with the sink running or the fan on and also wash that up in the sink or I will slam your head through the mirror, spitting is ok outside, in the toilet or in the sink with the sink running, and clean that up use your hand if you have to its not disgusting to touch your own spit.

 

[mauconnfan]

People (guys) that blow their snots out on the ground in front of you at the golf course, pitchers on TV etc etc……..c'mon really dude, one finger over one nostril wtf?

 

[TXHuskyFan]

People (guys) that blow their snots out on the ground in front of you at the golf course, pitchers on TV etc etc……..c'mon really dude, one finger over one nostril wtf?

Snot rocket! Sometimes necessary.

There are buggers smeared on the wall in the restroom in my office building. What adult male in a professional environment is standing at a urinal and decides to pick his nose then smear it on the freaking wall???? Wtf?

 

[Huskybass]

The guy walk into the mens room, takes his leak, shakes it for a while then leaves without washing his hand and it's NOT a push out door you can use your forearm, it's a handle door you need to pull back!!! That sucks……

I always try to keep the paper towel in hand when opening the door and then proceed to try to make a long jumper if necessary….if I miss I'm sorry but you should have a push OUT door then!! LOL

100% agree. I hate touching anything in a public restroom.

 

[jleves]

I lick doorknobs and toilet seats to build up my immune system to diseases.

 

[SixRings]

Snot rocket! Sometimes necessary.

There are buggers smeared on the wall in the restroom in my office building. What adult male in a professional environment is standing at a urinal and decides to pick his nose then smear it on the freaking wall???? Wtf?

Nothing like a bloody corn flake smeared on the wall at the urinal. I kinda want to pee it down to get rid of it before it falls or something. Like Missile Command but with my sterile urine.

 

[joober jones]

Laurie Fine's scrubby.

I misread that as Larry Fine's scrubby.

 

[intlzncster]

-old ladies reeking with perfume

-hocking loogies i absolutely hate that sound don't do it unless its absolutely necessary and do it with the sink running or the fan on and also wash that up in the sink or I will slam your head through the mirror, spitting is ok outside, in the toilet or in the sink with the sink running, and clean that up use your hand if you have to its not disgusting to touch your own spit.

Old ladies flat out reeking is worse though. I'll take the perfume to cover up the alternative.

I loathe it when people hock a big loogie in the shower. It's foul.

 

[intlzncster]

I lick doorknobs and toilet seats to build up my immune system to diseases.

Onions.

 

[intlzncster]

People (guys) that blow their snots out on the ground in front of you at the golf course, pitchers on TV etc etc……..c'mon really dude, one finger over one nostril wtf?

Hey, if it's got to be done, it's got to be done. Can't have a tickler throwing off your game. Bad form to do it on the tee box, out the side of a moving cart or in your buddies general direction though. A bit of discretion is necessary.

I love the pitchers that do it on TV. Nothing makes me chuckle more than a big fat mustachioed pitcher with a lipper whose spitting, shooting snot, and scratching his jock all over the place. Man I miss David Wells.

 

[Scoe]

Old ladies flat out reeking is worse though. I'll take the perfume to cover up the alternative.

Yes, compared to flat out reeking I agree, have you ever breathed in an old ladies perfume and you can taste it ugh.


I loathe it when people hock a big loogie in the shower. It's foul.

Yep that too, I used to shower at the gym now I just wait to go home. Gym locker room etiquette is another story, if you have to change fine do it but don't stand around naked using the sink like its your personal bathroom, wear boxers at least.

 

[intlzncster]

Yep that too, I used to shower at the gym now I just wait to go home. Gym locker room etiquette is another story, if you have to change fine do it but don't stand around naked using the sink like its your personal bathroom, wear boxers at least.

Old hairy fat guys with disappearing penis syndrome own the gym locker room. They get buck naked quick as possible. Stand directly facing you, legs shoulder width apart, fists on hips and proceed to engage you (a complete stranger) in conversation. The worst.

 

[uconndoit]

The guy walk into the mens room, takes his leak, shakes it for a while then leaves without washing his hand and it's NOT a push out door you can use your forearm, it's a handle door you need to pull back!!! That sucks……

I always try to keep the paper towel in hand when opening the door and then proceed to try to make a long jumper if necessary….if I miss I'm sorry but you should have a push OUT door then!! LOL

That's my move!

If that's not an option, for whatever reason, I try to find a place on the top or side of the door itself where I can pull it open instead of touching the handle.

 

[uconndoit]

IMO Chinese are the worst - and I mean Chinese nationals. There are endless stories - about tourists letting their kids poop in public places, hocking and spitting with abandon while on tour in Europe, professionals openly farting in meetings and just continuing to talk without even acknowledging it or getting red-faced. (I was filling out an immigration form in Kathmandu next to an Italian woman when a middle aged Chinese man just let one rip. He just continued filling out his form while the Italian woman and I looked at each other in shock. I said, laughing "It wasn't me!" She said, laughing "I know!") It's so bad their government had to do PSA for Chinese tourists about how to behave among Western people.

There's someone else in this thread who has a better idea about this than I - hopefully this triggers a nice list of disgusting anecdotes from him...

 

[Nostical]

Careful doit. You sound like Donald Sterling talking to the property manager at one of his Los Angeles apartment buildings.

 

[Hoophound]

Careful doit. You sound like Donald Sterling talking to the property manager at one of his Los Angeles apartment buildings.

That's more of a cultural thing with the Chinese. It has nothing to do with race. My son has a friend of Indian descent. He's a great kid and I really like having him around but when he eats the noises that come out of his mouth are really disturbing. Turns out that making a lot of smacking noises and chewing with your mouth open is appropriate in India as a way to let the cook know the food is good and you are enjoying it. His parents are immigrants but he's just a regular American kid so it is a habit he needs to break. I would never say anything, I just try to avoid eating when he is around. My wife say's "he's never going to get a girlfriend and he'll have no idea why."

 

[Calhoun's Court]

An in home visit with Calapari

 

[uconndoit]

That's more of a cultural thing with the Chinese. It has nothing to do with race. My son has a friend of Indian descent. He's a great kid and I really like having him around but when he eats the noises that come out of his mouth are really disturbing. Turns out that making a lot of smacking noises and chewing with your mouth open is appropriate in India as a way to let the cook know the food is good and you are enjoying it. His parents are immigrants but he's just a regular American kid so it is a habit he needs to break. I would never say anything, I just try to avoid eating when he is around. My wife say's "he's never going to get a girlfriend and he'll have no idea why."

Yeah it's just fact. Vietnamese also slurp a lot when eating - even people I worked with who were educated and from good families. It's just what they do.