Whats the correct way to wash your hands?

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This might seem a stoopid question, but Ive just realised a flaw:

1. Turn on tap
2. Wash hands, sing what you like
3. Turn off tap

Im thinking 1 and 3 defeat purpose of 2.......
 
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Often wondered that myself, especially after wiping your backside :sick: should all have infrared taps.
 
There is always a "Smart Ar8e" that finds fault with things

The idea of washing hands put forward by the Government is to pacify the "Unwashed" in this crisis

Thats why Hospitals have extended levers on taps in the "scrubbing down" areas which are operated by the elbows

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Often wondered that myself, especially after wiping your backside :sick: should all have infrared taps.
Possible at home - but if in public toilets you cannot wash your hands until after pulling up your trousers, pulling zip, doing up belt, opening door etc.

Then there is oral sex; wash hands before or after? Both I suppose.
 
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Another thing that doesn't make sense to me is saying your hand sanitiser must be at least 70% alcohol.

Why? It still has alcohol in all of it. It must be evenly spread throughout; it doesn't mean the sanitiser only has alcohol in 70% of it.

If you have a sanitiser with only 50% alcohol, can you not just use more of it?
 
Possible at home - but if in public toilets you cannot wash your hands until after pulling up your trousers, pulling zip, doing up belt, opening door etc.

Then there is oral sex; wash hands before or after? Both I suppose.


I've never really understood the logic behind washing your hands after going for a p!ss, to be honest (unless you're a wolves fan, and therefore guaranteed to p!ss on your hands anyway:mrgreen:)
My Hampton is well tucked away, minding it's own business, whereas my hands are being exposed to all sorts of riff and lurgy during their day - to - day existence.... surely the sensible thing to do would be to have a slash, then wash the ol' porridge chucker.....
 
This might seem a stoopid question, but Ive just realised a flaw:

1. Turn on tap
2. Wash hands, sing what you like
3. Turn off tap

Im thinking 1 and 3 defeat purpose of 2.......
That's exactly what I thought - "I could be a goner here", and that gave me an idea

I now use my penis for 1 and 3.
 
I saw a report that you're supposed to turn off the taps with toilet roll, then bin that.
Fine if actually can get any bog roll that is!
 
It has bugged me for years that public loo doors open in. So you have to hold the handle to pull the door when exiting.
We have paper towels at work and I always use them to open the door but it would be far easier to push it with your foot

Apparently Churchill was At the urinal with another politician and Churchill finished first.
"At Elton, we were taught to wash our hands" shouted the other MP
"At Harrow, we were taught not to **** on our hands" said Churchill
 
To be a bit sensible about this. Many years ago, when a few of us were on an induction course for a water board, we were shown a video on hand washing and bacteria/germ transfer. The truth is, if you wash your hands correctly with soap and hot water, when you rinse them you are washing the germs off your hands and when you turn the tap off the water remaining on your hands actually rinses the germs off the tap.
They proved this by using an ultra violet light to show the germs on the tap before washing and then the reduction after turning off. It was quite an eye opener.
As to regards washing your hands after having a pee. When blokes pee, especially into a wall urinal but also into the water in the toilet, it sprays back in a very fine mist which travels a fair distance so it often lands on the backs of your hands. It's so fine that you actually don't feel it landing. Here's a video showing the effects of peeing standing up. Not the one we were shown but gives an idea.

 
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A mate who had chemo was recommended to sit when peeing for that reason
 
You wash your hands, dry them on a paper towel, then turn the tap off with the towel, discard towel, rub on alco gel. TBH, it probably only makes a slight difference after all the shared airspace, surfaces we all touch every day means it probably doesn't make too much difference.
 
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