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

Bowling. Putting your fingers in the dark, porous holes of balls that everyone uses. And wearing rental shoes while doing it.

Some (usually elderly) people carry tissues round in their sleeve / hands all day. Gets used for several wipes and then put back up the sleeve.

Putting baked goods like sourdough loaves, maple pecan twists, danish pastries etc out on display with no cover on them - In supermarkets, delicatessens, garage forecourt shops etc so people can handle them or cough on them or flies can walk on them.
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I have wondered why it’s allowed by Health and Safety - I’m in Ireland and we have a Government quango called Safe Food Ireland. They allow it 🙄.
I loved it during Covid when all baked goods were covered.
If it was necessary then surely it’s necessary now ?

When I was a teaching assistant I noticed an awful lot of children sitting on the floor touching the bottoms of their shoes. Those shoes had been outside and you just know the children would go on to put their fingers in their mouths at some point. If I'd been the teacher I would have told them all at the start of the year that that was one of my rules, and sent anyone I caught doing it off to wash their hands immediately (or if I thought they were using it as an excuse to mess about in the toilets for ages, maybe made them use hand gel).

I am not a pet person admittedly but I find a lot of stuff people do/allow their dogs to do pretty gross.

I think having a dog in your bed is pretty disgusting, similarly on your sofa, kissing them

Yes, gross.

I agree with dogs in the bed, too. I don't understand wanting an animal in the bed you're sleeping in.

This is one of the ways kids can build up resistance to illnesses, along with playing outside on grass/mud/sand. Let them build up their immune systems!

Really?? Is this honestly true??

Have children. Awful sticky little creatures that they insist on taking everywhere and some people even let them sleep in their beds shudder

People who yawn in public and don't cover their mouths. So rude!

I teach upper primary. When having a cooking lesson and you have a lengthy talk about germs and then make them all scrub their hands, even the cleanest looking little cherubs will absent-mindedly rub their hands all over the floor, the walls, the chairs, their hair, faces, clothes, each other, before getting from the sink to the food prep. If you rewashed hands x30, you’d never get the lesson done.

Just assume, and accept, everything in a classroom is filthy.

Picking noses
I was at work the other day and a group of 4 where sat at a table just outside and in my line of vision
One of the group where sat scoffing their burger
One bite of the burger and while they where chewing it,a finger flew up their snout,had a good rummage,ate it and had another bite of the burger
Rinse and repeat
I felt physically sick
He then went to the toilet and there is no way he washed his hands
Fucking grim

Taking their phones into the lavatory.
Absolutely disgusting.

I've worked in a busy shop for 15 years and I've never once seen anyone hold money in their mouth. Not once. I mean, I've seen it done over my lifetime but I think it's very rare.

Not covering mouths when coughing/sneezing. Of course, small DC cannot be expected to do this every single time so I reserve my disgust for the parents who don't remind them.

None of us are perfect though. I feel sure we all do something others would find revolting. The thing to consider is 'Does this affect me?'.

This one is a bit weird - because looking I my bathroom bin now it has an empty shampoo bottle, a cardboard toilet roll tube and an empty toothpaste tube in it. It feels like overkill to have bagged them and thrown them straight in the outside bin. And they’re no less hygienic than when they were in the bathroom shelf filled with product as they were for weeks before them went into the bin.

Own dogs.

I take your point but what about dog poo? My understanding is that it can carry illnesses that you would really not want to test your immune system on. By the way I do realise I probably expose myself to it without knowing sometimes and I'm OK so far!

I have seen them discarding tissues on supermarket shelves. One time a lady put hers on an empty cardboard tray which had cans. When not looking, I placed the tray with tissue in the trolley

............."It’s mainly an elderly person thing." How very patronising. I'm elderly (66) and have never done that. Nor have I ever had a tissue or hanky up my sleeve.

I never said it was disgusting 🙄

What on earth are you putting in the bathroom bin that needs bagging and removing from the house immediately?

I would recycle what you've listed, although our bathroom bin is mainly dental floss, but I wouldn't bother taking that outside at 11pm when I've just brushed my teeth!

Rather tricky to put your own in

When people wore disposable gloves when shopping etc, most had no clue how unhygienic it was. Touched hundreds of items, touched their face etc. Then saw people taking out gloves from coat pockets and reuse the disposable gloves. Then took them off by grabbing a finger of glove with teeth.

Doctors, nurses and care staff change their gloves between patients and touch very few things. May had to change gloves more frequently if a messy job.

I would liked to show these people in the first paragraph a swab sample grown in a Petri dish and do the same with hands sanitised twenty minutes previously and medical staff’s gloves. The former will have more nasties