Do you pee in the shower?

[juju]

I guess people always fear the most what they can't see.

[elSicomoro]

Originally posted by wolf
Piss is relatively clean, by bacterial/viral standards.

That's why I don't sweat peeing in the shower.

[Kitsune]

Originally posted by sycamore


That's why I don't sweat peeing in the shower.

Exactly -- peeing in the shower is nothing. Urine is extremely friendly to bacteria growth once outside the body, which is why washing up after using the public restrooms is a really good idea.

[wolf]

Speaking of clean urine ... just in case you need some.

They really have thought of everything, including the temperature differential.

[Kitsune]

Originally posted by wolf
Speaking of clean urine ... just in case you need some.

They really have thought of everything, including the temperature differential.

You can sell your urine? I'm such a moron -- I've been throwing mine away! The body is a goldmine!

[insoluble]

Originally posted by wolf
. Nasty chilblains. I'm still in search of a good hand moisturizer that doesn't leave your hands all greasy and slippery. I'm at the point where if I can find one here, I'll have to go down to the Agway feed store for a container of Bag Balm. Of course, I don't need the "large barn" size ... mebbe they have a sample container?

Lubriderm Seriously Sensitive is pretty nongreasy

[amoeba]

Originally posted by sycamore


Milwaukee makes the worst fucking beer in the world.*

*--Do not be offended...this is merely a St. Louisan giving someone from Milwaukee a good-natured ribbing. And besides, it's not like A-B beers are that much better than Miller beers anyway.

I guess we all have our own tastes :p

[lumberjim]

Originally posted by sycamore
Anytime I see a co-worker walk out of the restroom without washing their hands, I'm like, "Ewwww!"

maybe they do the "Ivy League" wash?

[juju]

The student paper linked to seems to mainly be supported by the work of Charles Gerba. The student paper references this story, where Gerba is quoted as saying:

Toilets have an aerosol effect that remains widely unrecognized. "Droplets are going all over the place -- it's like the Fourth of July. One way to see this is to put a dye in the toilet, flush it, and then hold a piece of paper over it. You'll get what we call a commode-o-graph. Every toilet has a characteristic ... well, that's a whole other story."

Well, I went to Wal-Mart tonight and bought a $1 bottle of red food coloring. After putting much much more than was neccessary in my toilet, I held a blank piece of printer paper directly over the toilet (about 1/2 inch above the seat). After flushing the toilet, the paper turned out to be completely blank.

So, it did not work for me.


(edit:

I forgot to mention -- I stirred the toilet water up with an unused drinking straw, so as to mix and distribute the red dye evenly)

[wolf]

Let's hear it for empiricism!!

[wolf]

I discovered an error in your lab procedures, Juju. You would have gotten positive results if you'd used the correct media.

Since you used food coloring, you should have held a cake with white buttercream frosting over the toilet. Food color sticks to frosting really well ...

[elSicomoro]

Maybe it's a microbiological thing.

[lumberjim]

Originally posted by juju
The student paper linked to seems to mainly be supported by the work of Charles Gerba. The student paper references this story, where Gerba is quoted as saying:


Well, I went to Wal-Mart tonight and bought a $1 bottle of red food coloring. After putting much much more than was neccessary in my toilet, I held a blank piece of printer paper directly over the toilet (about 1/2 inch above the seat). After flushing the toilet, the paper turned out to be completely blank.

So, it did not work for me.


(edit:

I forgot to mention -- I stirred the toilet water up with an unused drinking straw, so as to mix and distribute the red dye evenly)

congratulations, juju. you have officially supplanted elspode as the poster of the funniest thing i've ever heard.


kudos!

[Kitsune]

Originally posted by juju
Well, I went to Wal-Mart tonight and bought a $1 bottle of red food coloring. After putting much much more than was neccessary in my toilet, I held a blank piece of printer paper directly over the toilet (about 1/2 inch above the seat). After flushing the toilet, the paper turned out to be completely blank.

Maybe it is the type of toilet. With the low-flows and all that non-sense today, maybe there isn't enough water flow for piss mist to happen. We should attempt the same experiment with a gas station public toilet. You know the kind: no tank, rocket engine thrust, will eat entire oranges with no clogging, etc.

[juju]

Yeah, I thought about that. I have a "low flow" toilet, so perhaps that is why it didn't work?

The guy definitely seems to be for real. His homepage is here, and it lists the insane amount of scientific articles he's published. The article in question seems to be:<blockquote>Gerba, C.P., C. Wallis, and J.L. Melnick. 1975. Microbial hazards of household toilets. Droplet production and the fate of residual organisms. Appl. Microbiol. 30:229-237.</blockquote>But unfortunately, my university library account only allows me to access articles from 1998 to present (via the internet, that is).