View Full Version : Is this rude or what?
Noo Yawk
10-26-2002, 08:54 PM
I see a player at my table in the men's room. He does his business and doesn't wash his hands. Now I've got to touch the cards and chips he's contaminated with his filthy germs. I might as well stick my hand in a friggin petry dish. Does anyone else have a problem with this?
Perhaps he has been to a college where they taught him something useful like not to pee on his hands.
PokerBabe(aka)
10-26-2002, 09:51 PM
It's disgusting that people lack standards for personal hygiene. I find this offensive as well. Perhaps you can offer him a wetnap at the table and say "I noticed that you forgot to wash your hands after going to the bathroom". Yucky-poo. /forums/images/icons/mad.gif LGPG and keep it clean....Babe
Yeah, I don't like that either. I have thought about carrying hand sanitizer, because a lot of people don't wash or have hacking smoker/plague/hepatitis/Marburg coughs and handle the chips and cards. I have even played in a casino where one dealer licks her thumb before every deal. After her down I'd ask for a deck change and did use hand sanitizer once or twice. But the problem is that if you start to notice it and think about it you can't touch anything and get all grossed out. So a lot of times I say screw it and leave my immune system to fight their ebola off.
But ya know what I really hate? When some guy asks to borrow a pen and then he puts yours directly into his mouth. A couple of lawyers have scored pens off me in court in this manner. "Here's your pen back." "That's OK, you keep it, I have another one."(said as you go try to bum a pen off a clerk.)
Dynasty
10-27-2002, 02:22 AM
Bring some wet naps with you to the Mirage and I'll point out at least one of the 20-40 regulars who does this as well.
Glenn
10-27-2002, 04:27 AM
Marburg's kind of an odd choice...I think TB would have been better. Remeber that Yale doctor that infected himself with Marburg? That's gotta suck. I remember reading that a significant percentage of people who have survived the disease are institutionalized because the pain was so great it drove them insane. Also 90% of surviving males are sterile because it causes the testicles to swell to the size of (insert large fruit here). Anyhow, I just think of all that gross stuff people do as vaccines.
Rick Nebiolo
10-27-2002, 07:48 AM
The key to proper sanitation in the men's restroom is that you should wash your hands BEFORE "draining the lizard" since one would think that ones "Johnson" should be about the most washed 30 square inches of skin on your body. Wash your hands afterwards out of custom and to keep from grossing out others but realize you are more likely to pick up germs from the door handle on your way out of the rest room than you would from shaking things around a bit to avoid drip spots on your pants.
Regards,
Rick
scalf
10-27-2002, 08:42 AM
/forums/images/icons/smirk.gif actually hdpm, what does not destroy you, makes you stronger....qouted from ray nistzse, linebacker for green bay packers, so acyuallly ; these brothers of the bar are trying to jack up your immune system and keep you from contracting some devastating disease down the line,,,lol,,gl
someone did a serious detailed study of infection spread in hospitals....doctors number 1....people would have clipboards openly waiting by sink to record who had washed hands, md's still would not wash...lol...what a life...gl /forums/images/icons/grin.gif /forums/images/icons/cool.gif /forums/images/icons/grin.gif
Besides, Noo Yawk, you live in New York! What, do you dip your shoes in alcohol when you come in the front door?
I suspect most chips are toxic enough with dead bacteria excrement, and tar already, that no new living organisms can be introduced intact anyway.
I once stood next to this regular at Artichoke Jokes, whom it was coming out of in all directions like a flute.
eLROY
When I was in second grade, I took an attachment to an oversized red plastic and gold metal ball point pen.
I didn't like girls, especially the ones who pulled down their pants in the playground.
One of the girls rebelled. She asked to borrow my lucky pen going down the stairs to the gymnasium.
She pulled down her pants, stuck it the whole way in, grinned, and handed it back.
I took it home and put it in a drawer, where still my lucky pen lay untouched for at least 20 years.
Yuck!
eLROY
Never touch the door handle. That's what paper towels are for. The FBI has done tests....
See my future reply to Scalf above for more.
Ok, I used to go to this restaurant sometimes right by a big city public hospital. Clientele could be sort of upscale, but the usual array of germs plus AIDS or hepatitis could be lurking. Because of the constant trauma cases, at any moment a doc could have to stick his hands into gaping horrible wounds both accidental and intentional. Anyway, I'm in the bathroom and a doc in scrubs comes in. I follow a "normal" public bathroom procedure, wash hands, don't touch faucet or door handle after washing, lob paper towel in trash on way out. Doctor didn't know how to wash. I almost asked him WTF he was thinking. I mean, I wouldn't eat my own food after what he did. He might have had his mitts in someone's brain or chest cavity. Ick. He'd probably say, "well, we wear gloves before touching a patient, why wash?" /forums/images/icons/grin.gif
Rick Nebiolo
10-27-2002, 02:52 PM
HDPM,
I agree and make it a practice of my own.
Here is a hint: You can be sanitary and "politically correct" at the same time by using the same towel used to dry your hands to grab the bathroom door handle and open the door on the way out. Discard in a proper receptacle of course.
Regards,
Rick
This is a common practise among american men, am watching it with disgust everytime I see it.
It seems to be more common than not in America.
Land of the free, home of the brave.... yeah right
MMMMMM
10-27-2002, 07:38 PM
Also, if you are in a restroom where you must "crank down" the paper toweling from a dispenser, the trick is to crank down some length of paper toweling and leave it hanging there BEFORE you wash your hands. Then you only have to hope that some ill-mannered cur does not grab it before you.
PokerBabe(aka)
10-27-2002, 10:17 PM
First, always wear long sleeves. Then, before you enter the stall, you crank the paper towel dispenser with your elbow (because you don't want to touch the little black button thing on the paper towel dispenser with your hands). Rip off TWO (2), individual clean sections of towel and use the first to dry your hands after you wash them BEFORE actually "going to the bathroom". Next, use the (used) towel to open the door latch on the stall and to flush the toilet with. You can also flush the toilet with your foot, if it's a manual one. Some rooms now have autoflushers (is this like flopping a flush ? ) so the foot technique is unnecessary /forums/images/icons/grin.gif If you are not going into a private stall, you can just use the 1st (used) towel to flush the toilet with (if autoflushing is not provided). After your "toilet", (such a European phrase... /forums/images/icons/cool.gif ), wash your hands again and use the 2nd (heretofore unused) towel to dry and to open the latch which exits the bathroom. /forums/images/icons/wink.gif LGPG, and please keep it clean. /forums/images/icons/laugh.gif Babe
Noo Yawk
10-27-2002, 11:27 PM
The shoes come off at the front door!
Noo Yawk
10-27-2002, 11:36 PM
Please Babe, don't even get me started on toilet seats. If you've never had the pleasure of using a public men's room sitting down, you're in for a viral treat. The only reason they invented the auto flush is because 90% of the male public restroom using population never even had a thought about flushing. But that's ok because they miss the flippin' toilet half the time anyway. You need to wear one of those bio-hazard suits just for pre-use preperation.
andyfox
10-28-2002, 01:06 AM
Worried about germs?
Stay away from card rooms, lest
Drips fall where they may.
Kurn, son of Mogh
10-28-2002, 12:45 PM
Wow. This whole thread makes me think, like, playing poker brings one in contact with a bunch of Howard Hughes types.
If it's not bots online, it's e. coli in the B&M.
karlson
10-28-2002, 02:36 PM
You guys are all crazy. The amount of germs and stuff that you will pick up by handling all those chips, cards and money is so high that worrying about one guy not washing his hands seems ridiculous.
Wash your hands before you eat and you will be fine.
its funny i thought i was weird to be germ phobic.
Jimbo
10-28-2002, 05:59 PM
Brad,
Who is saying you are not weird? /forums/images/icons/smile.gif I want to see it in writing! /forums/images/icons/smile.gif /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
Jimbo
Yes,I do believe that personal hygiene is important-aka hand washing-you guys are really pushing this issue too far. The bacteria on the chips far exceeds the germs someone may put on them from not washing his/her hands. The hands are one of the dirtest part of the body, I'D venture to say much more dirty than him touching his genitals. Gross Yes!!
well really im not saying im not wierd im just saying it looks like i fit right in with you guys, heh.
M.B.E.
10-30-2002, 03:21 PM
Wasn't it Sabia virus that the Yale researcher contracted?
(http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00032515.htm)
(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/archive/1994/940905/940905.medicine.html)
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