Disgusting things discovered on MN

[Pricklypear12]

During my time on MN I have read about some disgusting/unhygienic things that people do on a regular basis.

Examples are:
Letting dogs lick human plates
Washing dog bowls in dishwasher with regular dishes
Sharing bath water (seen this one today!)
Sucking snot out of a baby's nose (I somewhat get it but really think I could never)

What are some vile things you've read about on MN that are seemingly normal to those that post about them?

Thinking about the fry wiping.

I mean I've honestly never asked anyone how they clean their arse.

But surely wet tissue or a wipe isn't going to clean much better than toilet paper. You'd need soap and water to clean it properly. Hence why we bathe and shower.

I always presumed that was the reason my arsehole was located between two big arse cheeks and safely under pants and clothing.

On a separate note, I'm in trouble with DH because he asked me to buy him a new deodorant when I was out shopping. I bought the same brand as normal but a new version. He says it's useless and thinks he smells BOey! 😂😂 (I havent noticed but I imagine there are a few MN who could smell him from the next town!)

I think a lot of these things come from the thought of them being unsavoury rather than any logic or practical reasoning as to why they are so disgusting and harmful. Nobody yet has been able to explain why dogs licking plates that are cleaned afterwards in a 70 degree dishwasher is disgusting. Nobody has explained why peeing in the shower is disgusting.

Things like sharing bath water you can explain. I wouldn't want to get in water that someone else has washed in because it's full of their dirt. Simples.

But if you can't explain the actual problem or the harm it's doing then it's probably just your own squeamish views. Which you're entitled to but probably not great to label those who don't share them as vile and disgusting.

Sorry - last post was badly worded. I know that waste water and toilet flush contents end up in the same place. I was just pointing out that there is a soil pipe which deals with toilet waste. I was thinking mainly about the post which described pooping in the shower and then stamping it down the drain. Soil pipes are wider than drains and designed to take solid waste, so this practice presumably would end up blocking the drains.

God help some of your immune systems when you start mixing with people again.

Super sterile house where everything is constantly washed plus no real social interaction for 12 months and your immune systems must be feeble as anything.

@Cocothecat42. I posted upthread about this. Dogs can transmit MRSA, Leptospira and gut bacteria which is harmful to humans - you shouldn’t let a dog lick your face for the same reason. I think the advice is that you should run your pet dishes through the dishwasher as the temperature is higher, so this would presumably deal in the same way with dishes your pet has licked. I think the debate is whether the temperature in the dishwasher is enough to kill all of the bacteria.

I mean I've honestly never asked anyone how they clean their arse.

You haven’t?

😂 😂 😂

I wash my arse in the dishwasher, clean the plates in the shower with me, wipe myself dry on the bedsheets and then find a random animal to suck snot out of.

This thread is a perfectly demonstrates that we have all been in lockdown for far too long !! When some sort of new ‘normal’ socialising is established I will be sure to put ‘arse wiping habits’ at the top of my list of dinner party conversation. !!

I had recently noticed that some kids dont wipe or wash their bum, or hands after a poo. Then went at the table to eat and touching all of the food. I almost fainted. That is the most disgusting thing someone can do, regardless of age.

Dogs can transmit MRSA, Leptospira and gut bacteria which is harmful to humans

And have we any evidence this has ever made a human sick via a dish that’s been through the dishwasher.

I seriously doubt it.

I mean, people let their dogs slobber all over them. I can’t get too worried about transference of germs that go through a sterile wash in the meantime.

I’m so confused. Please can someone help me?

For those of you who wash towels after every use, why don’t you wash yourself properly in the shower so you are clean when you come out? And do you shower before you get into your bed in the evening?? Because if not, then do you also change your bedsheets every morning? But then if you are still dirty when you get out of the shower (after presumably washing with soap) and have to wash your towel... and then you get into bed... well it doesn’t matter, you will still have to change your sheets daily. Unless you think your towel cleans you..... which is wrong. It dries you. Sorry. My thoughts are... you must be filthy for the soap to not clean you. And your shower.... you clean that with bleach every day right.... because.... it’s dirty after you have washed yourself in there? I’m not even going to start asking about the weeing in the shower... because you are obviously finding the concept of soap and water being the answer to cleaning.....

And do you wash your clothes after every wear? Like EVERY wear... even jeans??? Because you know that mixing dead skin cells from your OWN skin from yesterday with dead skin cells from today is guaranteed to give you dermatitis. It’s a fact. I read about it on Mumsnet

Honestly. This is the most ridiculous thread.
Have none of you heard about.... wasting water? Have none of you ever been to a hotel and seen those signs asking you to reuse your towels? Do you not understand that we are in a climate crisis and clean water is a precious thing. You are WASTING WATER.

The other things I’m confused about. Dogs. So dogs aren’t allowed to lick plates.... despite going in sterilising and soap filled dishwashers. And certainly not to be washed in the sink apparently. So where do you wash them? I’m assuming you can’t use the same sponge as you use for the other washing up. Oh god... do you ALSO throw out sponges after every washing up session? And wash your tea towels after every use????

Do any of you have lives??!! Stop worrying about dying from wiping your arse with tissue and get outside and bloody live your lives... 😔

This thread is a perfectly demonstrates that we have all been in lockdown for far too long !! When some sort of new ‘normal’ socialising is established I will be sure to put ‘arse wiping habits’ at the top of my list of dinner party conversation. !!

I run with friends (or a friend in current times) . Long runs could be 2-3 hours if we're marathon training and all manner of subjects come up. Sometimes tmi subjects that are somehow ok if you're not actually looking at the person....but dry wiping or arse washing has, funnily enough, never come up!

@TheKeatingFive. Wouldn’t have thought so - all conjecture presumably. I only know about the transmissible diseases because a young relative is training to be a vet and she was horrified when she saw my dog ‘kiss’ me when I got home one day.

@pam290358

Quite a few posters on this thread are assuming that all waste water goes down the same pipe, so OK to pee in the shower etc. You actually have a waste water pipe which carries water from sinks, baths, showers, etc into the drain. The soil pipe exclusively carries waste water from your toilet, along with everything it contains, so if you pee in the shower it doesn’t end up in the sewer, it ends up in waste water.

In my house The waste pipes from the shower, the bath and the basins in both bathrooms all connect to the soil pipe. The kitchen waste (sink, dishwasher & washing machine) runs to a drain which runs to the same underground pipe as the soil stack.

As far as I’m aware ALL waste water ends up in the sewers which is why kitchen fats and food put down the sink causes such problems in the sewers (google fatbergs).

@IwishIwasBrave

I had recently noticed that some kids dont wipe or wash their bum, or hands after a poo. Then went at the table to eat and touching all of the food. I almost fainted. That is the most disgusting thing someone can do, regardless of age.

Really? More disgusting than murder, torture, child abuse?

I do find that people who are uptight about these things are quite boring in general.

Really sorry but please try not to say this to people, there are a lot of people out there undiagnosed and suffering and people tell them they dont have OCD, they're just anxious etc. Someone in my family is diagnosed with OCD and before he was diagnosed (as an adult) he was upset that when he talked to someone about it they waved it off.

IMO we should keep challenging people who claim to "be OCD" when they have no diagnosis. Especially those who say "a bit OCD." OCD has become synonymous with 'uptight' and makes a mockery of the disease, which can be hugely debilitating.

I do get it. I have diagnosed anxiety and it upsets me when I see MNers sneering about how "everybody has anxiety these days." But it's the people throwing around their Dr Google diagnoses that are the problem.

[quote GloriaSicTransitMundi]@pam290358 is correct:

Help & Advice > Product Guides > Plumbing & Heating

Unless you’re a qualified plumber or drainage engineer, soil pipes and waste pipes can be a minefield to navigate. There are lots of pipes inside a property and lots of pipes that exit the property too so usually unless you have prior experience, understanding which pipe is which can be an issue. One of the most common problems is confusion between a soil pipe and a waste pipe. So how does a soil pipe differ from a waste pipe?

In the most simple terms, both pipes carry waste from our homes to the sewer but there is a crucial difference between the two types. A soil pipe is designed to carry soiled water from the toilet, urinal or bidet to the sewer. A waste pipe carries water from your sinks, shower, washing machine or bath.[/quote]
But your post clearly says that all waste goes to the sewer! So all to the same place! Modern pipes are made of the same materials but soil pipes are bigger simply to allow solid waste through, urine is not solid.

@fizbosshoes

This thread is a perfectly demonstrates that we have all been in lockdown for far too long !! When some sort of new ‘normal’ socialising is established I will be sure to put ‘arse wiping habits’ at the top of my list of dinner party conversation. !!

I run with friends (or a friend in current times) . Long runs could be 2-3 hours if we're marathon training and all manner of subjects come up. Sometimes tmi subjects that are somehow ok if you're not actually looking at the person....but dry wiping or arse washing has, funnily enough, never come up!

I was expecting this post to be about having to squat down on the side of the road during a long run because of runner's trots!

This thread is a perfectly demonstrates that we have all been in lockdown for far too long

The MN hygiene hysterics have always been like this, in fairness.

But I agree lockdown is not helping them gain any perspective.

@LadyDanburysCane. If you read upthread a bit, this was kind of my point, although I didn’t word it very well. I don’t see a problem with pee going down the shower drain, as you say it’s not solid, but there was mention at the beginning, of forcing poo down the shower drain, which would eventually block it, as it’s narrower than the soil pipe and not meant to take solids. We live in an older house and the soil pipe is separate so I can only speak from that experience.

If you really all want to be freaked out, I saw a plumbing advice site a while back. One bloke had been called out to deal with a blockage which turned out to be poo that had gone down a shower drain and had become entangled with a hair ball. Yuk !!! Think we’ve gone way off topic now !!!

[quote pam290358]@LadyDanburysCane. If you read upthread a bit, this was kind of my point, although I didn’t word it very well. I don’t see a problem with pee going down the shower drain, as you say it’s not solid, but there was mention at the beginning, of forcing poo down the shower drain, which would eventually block it, as it’s narrower than the soil pipe and not meant to take solids. We live in an older house and the soil pipe is separate so I can only speak from that experience.

If you really all want to be freaked out, I saw a plumbing advice site a while back. One bloke had been called out to deal with a blockage which turned out to be poo that had gone down a shower drain and had become entangled with a hair ball. Yuk !!! Think we’ve gone way off topic now !!![/quote]
I think it was this bit of your post so if you pee in the shower it doesn’t end up in the sewer, it ends up in waste water. that made me think you were confused.

I also posted before realising you’d posted again, this is a fast moving thread.

Our level of cleanliness is actually damaging our health. Our immune systems aren't developing properly, a bit of bacteria every now and then is good for you. All this bleach and waste of water is terrible for the planet aswell. Washing towels after they have touched clean water? Absurd waste of water.

I was expecting this post to be about having to squat down on the side of the road during a long run because of runner's trots!

Thankfully that has never been neccessary!
...Although there has been the occassional outdoor wee-stop !