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 12/07/2006 04:37:55 AM · #1
you know when you walk into public washrooms, it's like a box of chocolates - you'll never know what you're gonna get. Sometimes you get to study and admire the leftovers from somebody else's session, floating proudly in the bowl. So what do you do? You'd flush it, and continue your objective, right? WRONG! DON'T FLUSH IT! Flush it only after you're done, and leave the place right after that. The reason is that when you flush, all the stuff will vaporize, and float around into the area around the bowl (think micro-droplets) and well, if you're nearby, you get to inhale those stuff, I think. Do you think this is logical?
 12/07/2006 04:59:42 AM · #2
/me Wishes he'd never clicked on this thread
 12/07/2006 05:04:51 AM · #3
Originally posted by Kerm:
/me Wishes he'd never clicked on this thread

/me jots down Kerm's name into his little bingo book...
 12/07/2006 05:15:28 AM · #4
You should make a public service announcement about this.
 12/07/2006 05:43:34 AM · #5
unless it is an emergency I will usually leave it (in case the toilet is clogged and flushing it again would cause a flood) and continue on down the line. If none available and I can, I will just wait.

Every time I see an unflushed toilet I want to leave a sign that says "If you're old enough to use this, you're old enough to flush it". About 90+% of the people that use the toilets in my area are military and I can't believe they are grown enough to handle an m16 or tank but can't handle a simple toilet knob.

Thank goodness for autoflusher...well up until that point when you're sitting there and it decides to flush..wow! :)
 12/07/2006 07:00:12 AM · #6
Actually MythBusters tested this one and if I remember correctly, they proved this particular myth to be incorrect. They found that the amount of e. coli present near a toilet due to "vaporization" was no more than that of a normal surface that is not in a restroom.

:-)
 12/07/2006 07:00:35 AM · #7
if you are worried about micro droplets you are trapped in the washroom because those same slobs that don't flush don't wash their hands either & they touched the door before you ...
 12/07/2006 07:06:36 AM · #8
Originally posted by ralph:
if you are worried about micro droplets you are trapped in the washroom because those same slobs that don't flush don't wash their hands either & they touched the door before you ...

... just before they resumed flipping your burger
 12/07/2006 07:43:07 AM · #9
What I can't stand, are the guys that pee all over the seat. Especially in the workplace. I mean, come on... we're all adults here at work! Either lift the lid, or be responsible enough to wipe your little (or sometimes huge) accident down.


12/07/2006 08:18:12 AM · #10
You'd think people would flush their own!!!

12/07/2006 08:35:42 AM · #11
Originally posted by sabphoto:
unless it is an emergency I will usually leave it (in case the toilet is clogged and flushing it again would cause a flood) and continue on down the line. If none available and I can, I will just wait.



I used to be bold and just go in and flush it... until one day at work, this situation arose and a co-worker of mine was just gonna flush it but the toilet WAS clogged and when it was flushed it actually sprayed up and out directly at her!!! SHe jumped about a mile backwards as the toilet spewed water and whateverelse up and out of itself.

I laughed my ass off.

so beware - it's dangerous.... very dangerous
 12/07/2006 09:58:48 AM · #12
When I first saw this thread I asked myself "Self, what the hell does this have to do with photography?" Then I thought "What a disgusting thread" and then I thought after seeing it again this morning, that this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If flushing the toilet with someone else's crap in it is bad, then so is flushing the toilet with your own crap in it. It is no different. Same toilet, different crap.
 12/07/2006 10:00:44 AM · #13
Yikes. Off to spray Lysol!
 12/07/2006 11:01:08 AM · #14
I really wish people would tidy up their own mess in toilets, instead of leaving it for other people. Or, what's even worse, just putting the toilet seat lid down. Yeah, that's a great plan you dumb ass. Make someone lift up the lid so they can see how disgusting and lazy you've been.
 12/07/2006 11:08:54 AM · #15
Dig this...while earning my bio degree I learned that:

Odors are detected by your nose when particles come in contact with certian receptors in your nose. Even though these particles are small enough to "float in the air" and into your nose...they are still particles.

So....when you walk into a bathroom and smell the smell, those particles have traveled into your body via your nose.


12/07/2006 11:21:54 AM · #16
I've heard that it's not the vaporization as much as the water/stuff that comes up on the seat to worry about.

When I was in college I did the midnight janitor thing, so I got to see both restrooms after a full day of use. By then end of the day the men's room had most toilets filled but not flushed. Pee on seats. OTOH, the bowls in the women's restroom were spotless. But the floors were covered with toilet paper.

And why did I read and respond to this??
 12/07/2006 01:08:47 PM · #17
Originally posted by mad_brewer:
I've heard that it's not the vaporization as much as the water/stuff that comes up on the seat to worry about.

When I was in college I did the midnight janitor thing, so I got to see both restrooms after a full day of use. By then end of the day the men's room had most toilets filled but not flushed. Pee on seats. OTOH, the bowls in the women's restroom were spotless. But the floors were covered with toilet paper.

And why did I read and respond to this??


I worked in a restaurant when I first went to college. We would draw straws and bribe each other to get out of cleaning the women's restroom. With the mens room there may be a floater but you can easily flush that. The women on the other hand apparently had a habit of standing on the seat and squatting or hovering over it in order not to touch the seat. This led to the complete misses that we would then have to clean up. I still shudder thinking back on some of the sights I saw. I'm trying really hard to not think about some of the female product mess I saw there.

Message edited by author 2006-12-07 13:09:21.
 12/07/2006 01:25:25 PM · #18
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
The women on the other hand apparently had a habit of standing on the seat and squatting or hovering over it in order not to touch the seat. This led to the complete misses that we would then have to clean up. I still shudder thinking back on some of the sights I saw. I'm trying really hard to not think about some of the female product mess I saw there.

Sounds like a classy restaurant. Did it have a Mc in the name? ;-p
 12/07/2006 01:28:25 PM · #19
You have to be especially careful when on an airplane!!!
 12/07/2006 01:31:21 PM · #20
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
female product mess I saw there.


White mice??
 12/07/2006 01:32:02 PM · #21
Originally posted by NstiG8tr:
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
female product mess I saw there.


White mice??


If only they were white.
 12/07/2006 01:38:10 PM · #22

12/07/2006 01:38:51 PM · #23
You guys are gagging me! Doesn't this belong in RANT?
I thought this thread was about "saving a photo" by using the infamous photoshop method. Gag...gag....ahhhhhhhhhhhhh....blah.....blah.....blah........
 12/07/2006 01:42:12 PM · #24
Heres why you DO flush. Cause once I was about to poop, thought about not flushing, decided too flush. My poop ended up sploshing, spraying my anal cavity, and if I hadnt flushed, some one elses leftovers would have been in, and on me.
 12/07/2006 01:42:37 PM · #25
Originally posted by Palmetto_Pixels:
You have to be especially careful when on an airplane!!!


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