Flushing urinals with your feet
 

So I was just upstairs taking a leak, next to a guy one urinal over. Upon conclusion of his micturition, he lifted up his foot and kicked the handle to flush the urinal. I was pretty taken aback by this and started speculating as to why he would have done it. Is it some kind of crazy germ phobia thing? Is it for increased efficiency so he can use his hands to zip up while flushing and save valuable deciseconds?

More importantly, how many of you out in OOT land do this? If you do, please post below with your reasons.

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flushing a urinal?

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not for a urinal, but i do it when i use a toilet stall

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People pee all over the toilets, I use my shoe to flush that bad boy.

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I've been known to wash my hands afterwards.

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Sometimes I do this, but only in really disgusting bathrooms, places like dive bars where there's [censored] on the walls or whatever. I feel kinda bad when I do because I figure that there's nastiness on the bathroom floor, which goes on my show, which I then put on the handle, and the next person will presumably then touch the handle. But if the bathroom is that gross, the next person is probably the reason why, so I only feel a little bad.

Don't know if I've ever done it with another person in the bathroom, though.

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haha yeah I was thinking of toilets for some reason, who flushes a urinal?

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i don't do it on urinals because i'm not that flexible. i do it on toilets in stalls. i'm not a germaphobe. there is just pee all over the flushing handles and i don't like touching it.

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Haha - but seriously alot of guys on my floor do not flush the urinal I've noticed (I work at a big corporation). Why is that? Disgusting.

Also isn't the urinal flush lever really high? How the hell do you reach that with your foot?

-Al

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I dont flush any public toilets

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Also isn't the urinal flush lever really high? How the hell do you reach that with your foot?

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He pretty much wound up and kicked it. It seemed awkward as hell to me.

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my reply was not intended to be funny. i can't ever remember seeing a urinal that had a button to flush it. am i just somehow overlooking their existence?

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Most urinals I use (the ones at work anyway) have laser sensors that know when you're walking away, and they flush automatically. If I had to flush a urinal, i'd probably use the back of my hand and then wash it thoroughly.

In a stall, I always use my feet, no questions asked.

The other thing I do is after I wash my hands, I dry them with paper towel and then keep the paper towel on my hands when i grab the door handle to exit, and then throw the paper towel away somewhere outside the bathroom. There's a ton of piss on that door handle as well, not to mention the faucets.

I guess at the end of the day you're going to come into some contact with other people's waste matter, but i'd like to limit that as much as possible.

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This is another one of those small things that give away a person's true douchey inside.

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my reply was not intended to be funny. i can't ever remember seeing a urinal that had a button to flush it. am i just somehow overlooking their existence?

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Apparently. Maybe you thought the big lever above all pre-autodetect urinals was just for decoration?

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my reply was not intended to be funny. i can't ever remember seeing a urinal that had a button to flush it. am i just somehow overlooking their existence?

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Yeah... they all flush. Some have an automated sensor, some have a lever and some have a button. Some have a continuous flow. But virtually all urinals have a user-operated flushing mechanism...

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Also isn't the urinal flush lever really high? How the hell do you reach that with your foot?

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He pretty much wound up and kicked it. It seemed awkward as hell to me.

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I always hope these idiots slip and fall over on the bathroom floor when they try to do this.

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obviously i know about the automated sensor ones.

don't some just flush automatically every 5 mins or so and have no button/lever whatever?

now i think harder i have probably seen a big silver button above the urinal once or twice (and pressed it), but it seems to be incredibly rare in the places i frequent.

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me : how often do you see a button/lever hwatever
me : to flush a urinal
him : only abroad
me : ok so its not just me

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I use my feet sometimes, but I don't wind up and kick it or anything.

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I'm glad my office building has automatic flushes.

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http://www.michaelmain.com/urinal_cake.jpg

Yeti.....ignore the urinal cake, but notice the large, silver unmistakable flushing mechanism. Do you live outside of the US? Maybe there are urinal variations that don't have this traditional handle.

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Yeah, I live in England. It appears we are lagging behind in bathroom hygiene.

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wtf, just wash your hands afterwards

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Yes - this is so retarded to me - take a leak, zip up pants, flush urinal, walk over to sink wash hands.

Where in this process does one feel compelled to high-kick the lever?

-Al

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Where in this process does one feel compelled to bother flushing a urinal at all?


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wtf, just wash your hands afterwards

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Yes - this is so retarded to me - take a leak, zip up pants, flush urinal, walk over to sink wash hands.

Where in this process does one feel compelled to high-kick the lever?

-Al

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It's the guys who don't wash their hands.

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I kick the level if it's a toilet. I'll flush if using a urinal.

Wash your frickin hands people. It amazes me when I see people just walking out after taking a piss.

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Where in this process does one feel compelled to bother flushing a urinal at all?


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you do it for the next guy.

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Meh, I dont wash, but I also dont piss all over my hands. the less I touch in a bathroom the better, I also use the papertowel trick to open doors.

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I use my elbow. Probably 95% of the urinals I use are automatic flush now, though.

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I dont flush any public toilets

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You suck.

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It amazes me when I see people just walking out after taking a piss.

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This amazes you? Honestly? For what it's worth, I rinse my hands but I'm sure this accomplishes pretty much nothing.

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Meh, I dont wash, but I also dont piss all over my hands. the less I touch in a bathroom the better, I also use the papertowel trick to open doors.

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It's very odd to me that you'll use a paper towel rather than touch a doorknob with your bare hands yet you don't wash up after pissing.

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You suck.

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I dont piss in stalls, and there really is no need to flush a urnial. Im one of those weirdos that dont poop in public restrooms either.

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Meh, I dont wash, but I also dont piss all over my hands. the less I touch in a bathroom the better, I also use the papertowel trick to open doors.

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It's very odd to me that you'll use a paper towel rather than touch a doorknob with your bare hands yet you don't wash up after pissing.

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His [censored]'s not dirty, only everyone else's.

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Patrick - right.

I'm putting posters in this thread on ignore who 1) don't wash their hands after taking a leak 2) don't flush so the next guy is greeted by a urinal full of piss and 3) high-kickers.

-Al

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Meh, I dont wash, but I also dont piss all over my hands. the less I touch in a bathroom the better, I also use the papertowel trick to open doors.

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It's very odd to me that you'll use a paper towel rather than touch a doorknob with your bare hands yet you don't wash up after pissing.

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I find it weird that all you guys are apparently peeing all over your hands.

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Meh, I dont wash, but I also dont piss all over my hands. the less I touch in a bathroom the better, I also use the papertowel trick to open doors.

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You know, I've considered this question -- wouldn't you wash before grabbing your penis? Who knows where your hands have been. I know my dicks clean.

You still suck for not flushing public toilets. Like I want to see your [censored] from last night's burrito when I walk into the stall you used....

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Meh, I dont wash, but I also dont piss all over my hands. the less I touch in a bathroom the better, I also use the papertowel trick to open doors.

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No one watches Mythbusters or reads the Straight Dope? Your pee hits the urinal and some of it atomizes and gets on your hands. So even though the "...X taught me not to pee on myself" joke is funny, you are still getting pee on you in the bathroom.