Wait, where do YOU go when you need to get away from the family? This is the only room in the house with a lock on the door (apart from the dungeon, but the lock is on the outside of that one).
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I understand the score with temps I just gotta raise it with them.
Itās unbearable, surprised nobody has raised it previously.
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Never heard of a courtesy flush?
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Annoyingly I cannot find the ones I originally read ages ago (because of the enshittificstion of Google, but I digress). Thereās a Wikipedia article, but itās quite dry.
So, try this:
The first comment seems to be a decent summary.
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Mythbusters tested this and found that while yes the toilet flush aerosolised water it made no big difference to the fecal matter on a test toothbrush nearby. In fact after they spread 44 toothbrushes at various distances from a toilet they all contained similar levels to the two test toothbrushes kept in their office.
Aka we are all a bit more grimy than we think and just carry it around with us.
Source Mythbusters episode ā āBreakstep Bridgeā
(And yet I always close the lid to flush anyway as childhood training is carved in deep).
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Itās a wonder that we arenāt all dead already with all these germs flying around.
Did they check if the folks in the office had washed their hands after doing their business?
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I canāt remember! I remember them washing their hands but I donāt remember about others. Iāll have to treat myself to some Sunday Mythbusters rewatching 
Judging by the amount of people I saw yesterday (at a busy museum) just coughing away in to open space without even any attempt to cover their mouth I would say āprobably notā.
My āfavouriteā though was the lady at a food shop who actually covered her mouth, coughed in to her single use gloves, then went back to work.
I left there without a sandwich 
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This is the issue with a lot of these fears around germs. For the most part most things you donāt need to worry too much about. Basic hygiene is fine.
The classic example is āthe average kitchen surface has more germs than a toilet seatā - in which case given we arenāt all dropping like flies in our kitchens this is broadly fine and nothing to worry about.
It just sounds yucky - and therefore sells cleaning products through a cycle of fear.
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Poo particles aside, Iām sure a previous workplace had signs about closing the lid to stop Covid spreading 
not even joking.
This is not as daft as it sounds. Many Covid patients present with gastrointestinal symptoms (usually diarrhoea) and some with only gastrointestinal symptoms. The virus is often still present in faeces after a negative Covid test following infection, too.
Having said that, transmission from hand to mouth is not a common vector for Covid infection but it canāt be entirely discounted.
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I sometimes used to see blokes (usually the same ones) go straight from the loo to the kitchen at work without washing their hands, even after a poo.
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Probably the non-dabbers 
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Some of us like to be men.
All this femininity getting out of hand, someoneās gotta show up.
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Fun.
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If people canāt shake properly thatās on them really, nothing much more to add.
If they wanna dab let them dab 
As someone who does pee a lot, if I can wear white boxers all day and they still be white at the end, Iām doing something right, right?
Also a good conversation starter, or a fight, depends how good the aim is.
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If these guys were even half attractive then I wouldnāt mind
Some Alex Shteynshlyuger, Director of Urology at New York Urology Specialists said:
When it comes to those drops, then, Shteynshlyuger says neither the dabbers nor the shakers are wrong. āEither using toilet tissue or shaking off the residual urine is acceptable and safe,ā
āThere are pros and cons for each, but overall nothing dramatic to recommend one over the other,ā Shteynshlyuger concludes. āAs long as proper hygiene is maintained, and the area is washed daily with soap and water, the risks are minimal.ā
āā-
So itās just down to your own moral agenda, we are all āwrongā or ārightā in our methods, solely how you perceive it - like most things, not worth extending effort to push your agenda unto others because you think they are wrong doing it their way 
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