Name something unhygienic/disgusting but people do it

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I start off:
. Holding money their mouths. It’s mainly an elderly person thing. Friends working in retail see this often. Even in mask wearing days, customers lowered masks to do this, yet denied it.
. Going to the toilet and not flushing
. Washing chicken out. People don’t realise that this can spray bacteria around. Cooking it properly will kill bacteria.
. Coughing without covering mouth. Even with Covid, people are still doing this.
. Not washing hands after using loo. In public toilets, I use hand sanitiser as seen people from certain cultures spit and mums letting their toddler DS to wee in the basins.
. On planes, people walking barefooted especially in toilets. With the quick turnaround of planes, the staff can’t clean everywhere

My cats sleep in the bed, love it!

And what about if you have to have a poo when you're out, or at work, or in the pub?

Do the obsessive arse-washers trot out of the cubicle with their pants down to wash their bums?

Not sure if it was meant as a joke, but YES. Yuck. No.

I'm the same. I have a yearly cold and can't even remember the last time I had a tummy bug. In real life I have never encountered such germ phobia as there is on MN. What on earth do people think it going to happen?

I rarely get stomach upsets. I had two in early 2003: campylobacter after a meal in a pub, which was subsequently inspected by environmental health who came close to shutting it down (there had been over a dozen cases of campylobacter in 7 days among people who'd eaten there), followed by norovirus a couple of months later.

Not had one since, despite sharing my home (and bed) with dogs and generally being a bit casual about kitchen hygiene.

I suspect people who have pets are more healthy, and have better immune systems, than people who don't. This really is an OTT response - what do you think is going to happen?

Using a washing up bowl is a UK thing, the rest of the world seems to manage without one. I don't think it is unhygienic or disgusting, but it is weird - what is wrong with the sink?

That really is grim. Your thoughts about it falling off are exactly what I always think too!

Sorry, but I think rinsing dishes because of soap is nonsense, and I've tasted far more residue on things out of a dishwasher.

However, I keep reading about the filthy water in the washing up bowl - I don't know anyone here (not UK) who doesn't rinse the food off plates before washing them.

Now I’m pretty lax regarding hygiene (aside from obsessive hand washing) and wouldnt have even considered several things mentioned to be a problem, but the two things that have made my stomach crawl on this thread are you sticking your hand into the toilet to clean it, and keeping your loo brush under the sink with no holder. Ewww!

Fair, if that’s what they actually do. I can’t say I’ve ever watched that many other people do their washing up to know if that’s what happens with the washing up bowl. By the time that part of the dinner party happens I’m either a) at home or b) doing lines of coke off my friend Rachel’s tits in the living room.

Washing up in a bowl means you can still empty things down the sink (half drunk cups of tea or whatnot), rinse the worst off plates before washing them, and so on.

The places I've been where they don't use a bowl, they wash up under running water. Uses a lot more water. I've a theory that this is because these are hot places where historically water that isn't running is likely to be stagnant, so washing up developed in this way. No idea if there's anything in my theory though!

I have a huge issue about blowing my nose in public so I am the dreaded train sniffer! I don’t know where this comes from because it’s absolutely ridiculous but the thought of someone hearing me blow my nose fills me with embarrassment 🤣 this has just reminded me. I grew up in a very posh family and was taught that women do things in private so maybe that’s why?

@ComtesseDeSpair
By the time that part of the dinner party happens I’m either a) at home or b) doing lines of coke off my friend Rachel’s tits in the living room.

As long as Rachel's tits are freshly cleaned!

Ah well, my mum also taught me (not my brother; he was a boy 😡) to 'get the thick off', as she called it. This involved wiping the dirtiest plates and cutlery with kitchen paper before stacking them in order by the sink. It's not actually a good idea to rinse the food off as bits of food and grease eventually block the drain. Vexing though my mother was, her methods were thought through. As for washing up liquid suds, I'm not sure I've ever tasted any on clean china but I'd rather not put chemicals in my body.

If you have a single sink and you fill it with soapy water there is nowhere to tip left over drinks or run the rinsing water, hence using the bowl for the soapy water. Perhaps other countries are more likely to have a double sink?

Wtf. All of that is rank. This is why I eat out less and less.

That dog story is especially disgusting but what comes of allowing dogs in restaurants I guess.

Today I got one of those home cooking sets from an online company as a treat and cooked myself a lovely Greek dinner.

I have a filter coffee machine and milk foamer at home so I early go to coffee shops unless to meet friends.

I am glad I like baking and cooking and have a lot of time to do both.

How is it an OTT response?! Unless I’ve missed a post (haven’t RTFT) they just said that’s what they find unhygienic in a thread where we are being asked to share what we find gross/unhyienic. And they’ve explained very well why they think that.

FTR I think it’s disgusting too - for much the same reasons - and could never date anyone who kissed their pets. Each to their own though of course but yeah I find it gross.

I think they have them in the USA

I had this in a cafe in Poland. I felt slightly bad because the member of staff had only touched the dog because its idiot owner (wherever they were) had let it wander up to me, and it wouldn’t leave me alone and looked like it wanted to “play” and jump on me which I was not having. so I asked the staff to get the dog away from me.

She had to pull at its collar quite a bit as it was fixated on me 😂 then when it finally left me alone I realised she wasn’t going to wash her hands before serving me the counter, so I just made an excuse and left. Also was worried the dog might come back.

Then your immune system is clearly robust. Some aren't that fortunate and need to take necessary precautions.

@deeahgwitch
All bakery items are individually bagged or in containers where I live (in the US). I've heard British people in my local supermarket exclaiming about typically wasteful Americans and their addiction to plastic. I'd prefer the bagged loaf or individually wrapped muffin (especially the muffin!) every time over one that's been squeezed by dirty hands, or coughed on.

Chemicals are already part of your body. Literally every single piece of matter is a chemical ot combination of chemicals.

What I object to with leaving soapy plates and cutlery to dry is that there's often food residue there too. Everything you use for cooking and eating needs to be washed and properly rinsed with extremely hot water.

The thinking is that the TV remote control is one of the dirtiest things in an average hotel room, because it never gets wiped or cleaned in any way. There was an experiment that I read about (perhaps a clickbait urban myth) which found that the remote control was as unhygienic as the loo, with the hand germs of all the previous guests, some of whom will have disgusting personal hygiene. I assume this poster has applied the same logic to the light switch, although I don't see why that can't be given a wipe down during the room cleaning.

The floor of a plane is never washed, only hoovered at best. It is coated with all the dirt of the footwear of other passengers and a good deal of whatever is on the floor of the plane loos too. If you wouldn't walk around barefoot on your local high street (even in lovely weather) or pub, you shouldn't walk around barefoot on a plane.