let me tell you my tricks people: 1.- Wash hands 2.- Dry hands with paper. 3.- Use the same paper to close the water and open the door. 4.- Hold the door with your foot and throw the paper in the trash (usually the trash is near the exit) Done, your hands are clean!
People can't be bothered to wash hands for one quick pee but they know others will look at them wierdly if they don't wash. So out of need for validation and ego, humans will pretend to wash just so the potential random person in the bathroom thinks you're cool guy, even though you know you will never come in contact with said person.
What about the handle to switch on the tap, and off, mh? Every dirty right hand that needs washing touches it and every washed right hand touches it again.
Sadly though....most soaps have added fragrances to them, which are toxic to many of us with severe asthma, allergies, and MCS. How would you like having a seizure....just because you used the soap in a public restroom? I agree it's disgusting ... but companies need to quit adding fragrance and triclosan and other ingredients ... it's not necessary, and be downright dangerous to some.
I can tell you as a maid and an ex fast food worker the filthiest part of any store is always the sink, faucet, and by far the hand dryers. They were far filthier than the toilets ever were (save those few rare occurrences when someone shits/vomits/pisses everywhere), and often when I would wipe them with my white towel it would come back green, yellow, brown, and black every. single. time.
In order to "wash" the bacteria off your hands it requires rigorous scrubbing for 30 seconds minimum. Then the hot air dryer spews bacteria back onto your hands and you then touch objects while exiting the bathroom to even further the bacteria counts.
I thought the myth was that the air hand dryer uses recirculated bathroom air to dry your hands. And because it uses recirculated bathroom air, any pollutants in the air would be transferred to your wet hands.
@@JonesNate OK. I was agreeing with you. You are correct. The intake of the air and the outtake of the air are all from inside that bathroom. The filter (if any) is inside that bathroom. The heating element is inside that bathroom. All of that is contaminated by that bathroom air.
The following is a rough transcript of the video. *Narrator* : There are over 12 million hand dryers in the U.S. alone. So, can they really be a hygiene horror show? Well, the theory to this myth is two-fold. First, dryers supposedly purge fewer pathogens than their paper counterparts. And second, they can also fan a fog of micro-miasma that's a contamination catastrophe. But, will this myth be hot air? 00:34 *Jamie* : This story doesn't make any sense to me. *Adam* : How so? *Jamie* : Well, if you are drying your hands, that implies that you've washed them. *Adam* : Absolutely *Jamie* : And if you've washed your hands, you've removed all the bacteria. So, whether a drying method is cleaner than another is irrelevant. *Adam* : Right, I see your point, but only some people use the full soap and water for washing their hands. Some people, they just get their hands wet before drying them off. Why don't we test both of those and see which is the proper worst case scenario for testing hand towel versus dryer? *Jamie* : Okay. That works. 1:04 *Adam* : So, how do people wash their hands? Well, to my way of thinking, there are three things people do in a restroom regarding washing their hands. The first is...[Adam opens the faucet then swings his hands around the top of the sink]...they pretend to wash their hands. The second thing people do is get their hands wet... [Adam rubs his hands together under a stream of water]...but use no soap. [Adam is pushing the handle for the soap and catching the falling liquid soap into his hand] The third thing people do, and I think we all know you should do, is wash their hands with soap. 1:30 *Adam* : So, first things first, Jamie and I are going to wash our hands using each of those techniques and compare the bacterial growths to see if Jamie is, in fact, right. Does washing your hands in soap and water leave them completely clean? *Narrator* : And first to go is Adam, who after each cleaning custom, hands over to the Hyneman. *Jamie* : I'm swabbing Adam's hands with a soy based growth medium, so if there's any bacteria on his hands, I'm gonna find it. *Narrator* : Once Jamie is also swabbed, for science, it's time for some germ germination. 2:03 *Jamie* : Okay, Adam first... The process is pretty simple. We've collected our samples; we spread them evenly across soy agar in a petri dish, and we put them in an incubator. We're going to let them sit there overnight; we'll come in the morning and see what we've got. 2:23 *Narrator* : And, sure enough, 24 hours later. *Jamie* : Let's see what kind of surprise we have. *Adam* : [Laughs] Alright, well, the soap wash. *Jamie* : Notta [from "not a thing"] *Adam* : Freaking nothing. *Narrator* : Yep, the soap plate's correct, which cannot be said of the water wash. *Adam* : How come your bacteria are bigger than mine? *Jamie* : Sometimes, that's just the way it works. *Narrator* : And as for the no wash. *Adam* : Whoa! Gross!
There’s one thing I think they missed discussing. In regular public restrooms, you also have the “toilet spray” which is all over in the bathroom spraying germs everywhere. The air intake on the dryer pulls in the germs floating around the restroom and blows them all over your otherwise clean hands.
What about the third option: turning on the taps with dirty, poopy hands, washing hands so they're clean, then turning off the taps they just touched with their dirty, poopy hands, thus making their clean hands dirty again? I hate this.
First of all, maybe just like don't get your hands gross in the first place? There are wet wipes you can buy. Second, it's really not that hard to, while soaping your hands, soap up the taps a little too then rinse carefully.
@@WynneL What lmfao? You do realize I'm talking about other people, and I'm not necessarily talking about visibly dirty hands, right? Do you know how small germs and other particles are?
I'm a severe germaphobe, when i have to use a public bathroom i make sure to carry several papertowels. 1 for shutting off the water after washing my hands and the other for opening the door to get out. And i still use some hand sanatizer shortly after. I never used to be that way, it may be overkill but i can sleep better at night and i love getting sleep.
Did you know that you will die without beneficial bacteria? You would die of malnutrition, because bacteria do more digesting than you do. A healthy person has about 100 to 200 grams of bacteria on and in their body.
Simon Sch. I have seen and know a lot of people who do that, it's so gross. And even worst I have seen many MANY times some guys walk out of a public bathroom without washing theirs hand.
The only time I rinse my hands and don't use soap is when I'm in my own bathroom and I only do it when I'm just peeing and haven't touched anything but my dick and the toilet flusher thing with he back of my hand
The trouble is that you can get your hands nice and clean in a rest room, but have to be careful on how you exit the door as not knowing what parts have been touched by unwashed hands, or just try and open the door with your foot.
Once I saw a man not wash his hands after using the rest room. After I washed and dried mine, I saw him outside and he shook another person's hand. I leaned in and said, "he didn't wash his hands and I'm not sure if he did a no.1 or no.2. He was in there a while". Oh you could cut the awkward tension with a knife.
That's my tension every day, since years ago. When I noticed this is a thing, that the closest people to you do all the time. I had to 'pray' people to wash their hands, and they still don't do it. That's why I now have OCD. Super hard.
+ashley johnson I'm on your side. And I am not a germophobe in any way. One thing I would love to see though. all bathrooms that have handicapped stall should also have have an automated entry exit door (I don't mean to the stall). 1st, I can't imagine how hard it is to get through the door stuggling in a wheelchair with the strong hinges they put on some of those doors. and second it would be good for those of us who would rather not have to touch the door--just bump the switch with your elbow.
People are so freaking gross. How hard is it to wash your damn hands? It takes 20 seconds to wash your hands with soap and water. 20 seconds! People don't have that kind of time!? Yuck. This is exactly why I hate public bathrooms. If I absolutely have to go though, I am like Sheldon Cooper using paper towels to shut the water off and open the door after I'm done. And I get so mad when certain restrooms don't have any paper towels and only a hand dryer. Like wtf!? How cheap is that to not provide paper towels, especially those fast food joints that make billions a year. They can afford cheap paper towels.
Razew they don't, this is the REAL STUDY, you need to wash your hands with soap in order to get rid all of the bacteria completely I mean 99.9 percent.
As a hand washer myself I *really* wanted this test to be conclusive evidence to those who *don't wash* to need to start washing. Unfortunately there's a flaw in the testing method. To have conclusive evidence that not washing after using is bad they should have had to wash their hands first then use the bathroom then get swabbed. Bacteria and whatever from everyday use may have collected on their hands even before they used the bathroom for the no-wash test.
Isn't that more of a reason to wash your hands? Even if they didn't use the bathroom, they'd still have all kinds of microorganisms on them. Also if you don't even wash your hands properly after using the bathroom, chances are you don't really ever wash your hands. So not only are you collecting bacteria and viral particles all throughout the day, but you're also running the risk of getting infected with something nasty after using the bathroom!
You know what grinds my gears? Going to a fast food place, properly washing my hands in the restroom, then having to pull the nasty ass restroom door handle to open the door. What's the point then?
honestly just using water was better than I expected. I would have assumed the damp hands would have lead to more bacterial growth than dry hands, since no soap was involved.
My questions: 1) did Mythbusters use Basic soap Antibacterial Soap Antimicrobial Soap 2) They tested for bacteria, however would the same hold true for viruses and fungi?
I would have also tested just using hand sanitizer without washing, and using an alcoholic wipe as I usually do if I need to wash my hands before working on electrical devices.
Hand sanitiser is NOT as good as washing with soap and water. Not even close. It should be used in addition to washing. That is, wash with soap and water and use sanitiser inbetween washes when you don't have time to wash.
I saw a show a few years ago that tested 300 hundred girls/women from England and they said that their test showed that 2 out of 3 of them had urine and fecal matter on their hands. So they jokingly said don't get a hand job from an English girl and that's disgusting. But I can't believe how many of them didn't wash their hands. A lot of the guys said they only wash their hands if they shit but apparently the females there don't wash their hands at all. I see washing my hands as just a normal part of using the bathroom, I don't know how people skip that step. I would feel so dirty if I didn't wash my hands. But again, if you're not going to do it for yourself, to keep yourself clean, then at least do it for everyone around you cuz all the germs and bacteria that you're spreading is absolutely disgusting and can very easily get other people sick.
I loved every word you said, except for the part you thinking is just English people, WTF? I hate those type of generalizations or assumptions, I think those are ignorant comments. This happens in your country as well!! Your neighborhood, and with the people you know!! I literally saw a very similar experiment and was about to post it today, but it was 10 people, and 6 out of 10 had urine and fecal matter. But this is absurd that you think is just English girls? The one I saw was in the USA! But could even be in my neighborhood too. You didn't understand the experiment from what I see. It doesn't matter the country, the one you saw was in England, but this reflects what happens ALL OVER THE WORLD! I'm not from England, I leave in Colombia, but my sister do leave in England. This happens freaking everywhere, is not just in Europe, England, that's bullshit and SUPER IGNORANT. The type of comments just a gringo would say.
I don't care about my clean hands spreading the bad stuff. What I think about is the jet propelled bacteria all over the floor tracked away from the urinals and stalls blown around to be inhaled.
Touching the faucet handle makes your hand dirty again. Touching the door knob makes your hand dirty again. Drying your hands under an air blower makes your hands dirty again because it's getting its air supply from the restroom. That's why paper towels are better. You can use them to turn off the water and open the door.
Oh my gosh!!!!! That was so disgusting!!!!! I really hope you people think twice before leaving the bathroom without washing your hands cuz you're contaminating everything you touch and especially people who work with or around food. I mean you should always wash your hands and I can't believe that some people actually have to be told but I hope seeing this will make them change their minds and wash their freaking hands. If not for yourself, at least do it for everyone around you cuz you have no idea how much bacteria and germs you're spreading and it's absolutely disgusting.
I have OCD and this is hard, everyday. I literally don't let ANYONE touch many things in my home for example, wash hands like 30 times a day. But I literally don't think on germs or bacteria, I think I literally have physical poop from others, or urine. As many other tests have shown. 6 out of 10 have it, or someone commented above a test with 300 people were 2 out of 3 had fecal matter on their hands. I saw one were 6 out of 10 people in the streets, so everything they touch ...... I'll shut up (no words)...
Only a hand dryer with a fresh air intake from outside the bathroom would be even remotely as good as a clean papertowel, but with no papertowel, you have to use your shirt to open inward swinging doors. Internal intakes just recirculate bathroom poop air onto your hands. Bathrooms with papertowels and push to exit doors (or no doors with the maze entery) are the BEST!
I babysat when I was younger and now currently work in food production so I've had to reinforce hand washing a lot. If I see an adult in a public restroom skip washing their hands I call them out. 9/10 they go back and wash with soap and water.
I would never touch the soap dispenser or faucet with my bare hands ! That is just gross. I use a paper towel or my shirt. Touchless faucets and soap dispensers are the best
That's why I now have OCD, years ago. I literally use my elbows for all you said above. Even in MY bathroom, taps, switches, doors, etc. Outside is literally with my elbows, and through the jacket and clothes.
Wouldn’t it be better to not touch anything or wash your hands before using the bathroom. I know I showered in the morning and where I’ve been but what about everything I touched with my hands before touching the toilet paper?
You want a perfectly run experiment, go get a job in a research lab. This is television and these guys do better than most people could with the restrictions they're under.
EXACTLY. They aren't scientists either, so take it with a grain of salt. They still do the best and most of their episodes are pretty good and well done. But I agree with you. But as legionaireb said this is Television. Maybe you took it too serious. Still, I can't think they didn't at least wash hands before each of the three attempts here, and tried the best to do them evenly. If the results don't show anything to you, then don't wash your hands bruh.
I've always hated those automatic hand dryers. I don't care *WHAT* anyone else says, I refuse to use them. I'd rather wipe my hands on my pants if I have to.
Thank you! I know that people play around with these things, touching the outsides and stuff, blowing it right back on to my hands. Automatic paper towel machines and doors are the way to go.
Did they do each consecutively after the other? You washed your hands first and then washed them again with soap and water. They were washed twice when you did the soap swab.
Under UV in a pitch-black dark room the whirlpool of diminutive particles of mist that rises from a toilet at the moment of flushing is visible. And if the air extractor is running at the moment, the whirlpool goes even higher. All those mist particles containing feces, urine and else settle down on surfaces --including your own body, eyes, lungs, hair, hands, etc., and on your cloth and towels, on toothbrushes, combs and other cosmetology implements in the bathroom (some people cover their towels in the bathroom with a proper-size plastic sheet)-- in not less than ten seconds. Stop the air extractor at the moment of flushing, and always put down the lid. This will REDUCE considerably the mist dispersion although it will NOT eliminate it entirely. If possible, still with the air extractor off, spray some disinfectant on the toilet seat and the interior face of the lid after flushing (alcohol will do, with the advantage it evaporates, so that you don't have to wipe it out). It is recommendable to carry a small can of Lysol or any other household disinfectant for sometimes one has to go # 2 in public toilets (when flying you can use a plastic spray bottle of the size, and with a disinfectant, approved by the TSA). Many skin and other illnesses are transmitted via toilet seats, toilet tank handles, faucet levers, and door handles; ALWAYS spray them before touching them.
You practically have to soak the items, they must stay wet for five minutes minimum for the disinfectant to be effective. 3 min for bleach water which only lasts 24 hours. Disinfectants are often misused in a household context. A toilet paper barrier might work better if the toilet roll is covered.
@TC-ku4vv Yeah, I can count on my hands how many times I've seen these germaphobes clean their phones before they eat. These same germaphobes are constantly touching their phones while eating with their hands. Observe for yourself.
Even if you use soap, if you put your hands under water before you completely lather, you are wasting soap and your time. Need to lather for 20 seconds before rinsing your hands! 🤗
Bottom Line, before using a public restroom, have paper towels already, if you can. Wash your hands with soap and water BEFORE and AFTER using the bathroom. Touch NOTHING in the bathroom - use a paper towel if you can. The hot air dryers are GROSS!!
Well, do they only touch the phone until they wipe, or do they wipe and then play with the phone a while longer without washing their hands? If they only use it before wiping, the phone shouldn't have much fecal germs. Sure there might be fecal matter in the air of a bathroom and it might get caught on the phone, but the same happens to your toothbrush if it's close to the toilet. Then on the other hand phones are seldom cleaned, so they might have bacteria on them regardless whether you use it in the bathroom.
+Camilla Nilsson shouldnt rlly matter. After u wipe u close the toilet seat. When u go to the bathroom u open the toilet seat. Year after year year of reopening and closing that thing theres gotta be something dont u think?
Well you do clean your toilet every few weeks right? It's not like years of poop is gathering on your seat. And disinfect your phone now and then? I do both these things and I think that's enough.
Okay, this went nowhere. First of all, how did their hands start out before washing them? Dirty? Clean? Contaminated for the test? Also, the reason why hand dryers have a bad reputation had to do with feces particles in the air being recirculated. This experiment needs a part 2.
I don't want to touch the school's water in the sinks. Who knows what is in there. That is why I use germ-x! Damn, that sounded like a paid actor in a commercial.
Err, assuming you live in NA, your school is probably not going to have its own water supply. Most likely it's going to use the public water supply. So basically tap water and the stuff you shower in.
This is not realy true. There normaly is no diffrence between water and no wash, a slight decrease with soap and a big decrease when washing your hands with a chlorine solution. But in eatch sampel bacteria colony's where precent (only difrence was in spieces). I know this because I caried this experiment out in my college lab and still have the notes.
The worst is having to open a door which people who have not washed their hands have touched.
Some places are starting to put handles on the bottom of the door so you can open it with your foot.
NICE!
yeah, that's why some high quality toilets don't have doors
Which is every door in the world.
You close taps with your elbow..
let me tell you my tricks people:
1.- Wash hands
2.- Dry hands with paper.
3.- Use the same paper to close the water and open the door.
4.- Hold the door with your foot and throw the paper in the trash (usually the trash is near the exit)
Done, your hands are clean!
thanks Einstein!
We're twins.... That's exactly what I do in that order
But there are restrooms that don't have paper towels 🤔😂😂
This guy toilets ^
And the paper was covered in anthrax and AIDS. Boom, you're dead.
Whats the point of pretending to wash your hands? The fuacet is on, you might as well wash your hands. LAVESE LOS MANOS
ES LA LEY
when i wash my hands i will have to re moistureise them otherwise i feel comfortable
People put in the effort to pretend to wash?
People can't be bothered to wash hands for one quick pee but they know others will look at them wierdly if they don't wash. So out of need for validation and ego, humans will pretend to wash just so the potential random person in the bathroom thinks you're cool guy, even though you know you will never come in contact with said person.
lavese las manos*
What about the handle to switch on the tap, and off, mh? Every dirty right hand that needs washing touches it and every washed right hand touches it again.
In any properly maintained building, the room is entirely cleaned once or twice a day.
Remember, your immune system is working.
most public toilet have a button you push and the water runs for a certain time and then stop. that or to close it you just push with your elbow...
Or motion sensors, relatively common.
AboubacarSiddikh wash the handle 👍
I always wash my hands with soap. When i see ppl dont wash their hands with soap im disgusted.
Sadly though....most soaps have added fragrances to them, which are toxic to many of us with severe asthma, allergies, and MCS. How would you like having a seizure....just because you used the soap in a public restroom? I agree it's disgusting ... but companies need to quit adding fragrance and triclosan and other ingredients ... it's not necessary, and be downright dangerous to some.
Same
I'm just impressed if people wash their hands at all.
I can tell you as a maid and an ex fast food worker the filthiest part of any store is always the sink, faucet, and by far the hand dryers. They were far filthier than the toilets ever were (save those few rare occurrences when someone shits/vomits/pisses everywhere), and often when I would wipe them with my white towel it would come back green, yellow, brown, and black every. single. time.
"Often", or "every single time?"
@@aaronm.1998 probably meant as "often" as she washed her hands in itself, the times she does she always or "every single time" experienced that
@@Legendt46 Maids can be men and women.
In order to "wash" the bacteria off your hands it requires rigorous scrubbing for 30 seconds minimum. Then the hot air dryer spews bacteria back onto your hands and you then touch objects while exiting the bathroom to even further the bacteria counts.
Who's watching during quarantine 2020
Who's fishing for likes in 2020?
Lol me cause part of class work I’m from Ohio! Bless u all to not get sick
I miss mythbusters =(
Me
Na watching in quarantine 2021
I thought the myth was that the air hand dryer uses recirculated bathroom air to dry your hands. And because it uses recirculated bathroom air, any pollutants in the air would be transferred to your wet hands.
Not a myth ! !
@@INJURYCOMP I'm not sure if you understood me. I meant that the myth they tested was a different myth than the one I heard.
@@JonesNate OK. I was agreeing with you. You are correct. The intake of the air and the outtake of the air are all from inside that bathroom. The filter (if any) is inside that bathroom. The heating element is inside that bathroom. All of that is contaminated by that bathroom air.
Basically the same bruh
@@INJURYCOMP EXACTLY ... So it is exactly the same, it basically does use recirculated bathroom air to dry your hands.
The following is a rough transcript of the video.
*Narrator* : There are over 12 million hand dryers in the U.S. alone. So, can they really be a hygiene horror show? Well, the theory to this myth is two-fold. First, dryers supposedly purge fewer pathogens than their paper counterparts. And second, they can also fan a fog of micro-miasma that's a contamination catastrophe. But, will this myth be hot air?
00:34
*Jamie* : This story doesn't make any sense to me.
*Adam* : How so?
*Jamie* : Well, if you are drying your hands, that implies that you've washed them.
*Adam* : Absolutely
*Jamie* : And if you've washed your hands, you've removed all the bacteria. So, whether a drying method is cleaner than another is irrelevant.
*Adam* : Right, I see your point, but only some people use the full soap and water for washing their hands. Some people, they just get their hands wet before drying them off. Why don't we test both of those and see which is the proper worst case scenario for testing hand towel versus dryer?
*Jamie* : Okay. That works.
1:04
*Adam* : So, how do people wash their hands? Well, to my way of thinking, there are three things people do in a restroom regarding washing their hands.
The first is...[Adam opens the faucet then swings his hands around the top of the sink]...they pretend to wash their hands.
The second thing people do is get their hands wet... [Adam rubs his hands together under a stream of water]...but use no soap.
[Adam is pushing the handle for the soap and catching the falling liquid soap into his hand] The third thing people do, and I think we all know you should do, is wash their hands with soap.
1:30
*Adam* : So, first things first, Jamie and I are going to wash our hands using each of those techniques and compare the bacterial growths to see if Jamie is, in fact, right. Does washing your hands in soap and water leave them completely clean?
*Narrator* : And first to go is Adam, who after each cleaning custom, hands over to the Hyneman.
*Jamie* : I'm swabbing Adam's hands with a soy based growth medium, so if there's any bacteria on his hands, I'm gonna find it.
*Narrator* : Once Jamie is also swabbed, for science, it's time for some germ germination.
2:03
*Jamie* : Okay, Adam first... The process is pretty simple. We've collected our samples; we spread them evenly across soy agar in a petri dish, and we put them in an incubator. We're going to let them sit there overnight; we'll come in the morning and see what we've got.
2:23
*Narrator* : And, sure enough, 24 hours later.
*Jamie* : Let's see what kind of surprise we have.
*Adam* : [Laughs] Alright, well, the soap wash.
*Jamie* : Notta [from "not a thing"]
*Adam* : Freaking nothing.
*Narrator* : Yep, the soap plate's correct, which cannot be said of the water wash.
*Adam* : How come your bacteria are bigger than mine?
*Jamie* : Sometimes, that's just the way it works.
*Narrator* : And as for the no wash.
*Adam* : Whoa! Gross!
Cory Spire why
Cory Spire why
@@Cec1nator *deaf people*
There’s one thing I think they missed discussing. In regular public restrooms, you also have the “toilet spray” which is all over in the bathroom spraying germs everywhere. The air intake on the dryer pulls in the germs floating around the restroom and blows them all over your otherwise clean hands.
Exactly !!
Most popular hand dryers have air filters to remove that so clean air is used to dry hands
@@luigikoopa8771 But does anyone change filters?
@@janetshelton8948 yes because the dryer is programmed to stop working entirely when the filter is too dirty
Your hands are touched by the air anyway?
What about the third option: turning on the taps with dirty, poopy hands, washing hands so they're clean, then turning off the taps they just touched with their dirty, poopy hands, thus making their clean hands dirty again? I hate this.
First of all, maybe just like don't get your hands gross in the first place? There are wet wipes you can buy.
Second, it's really not that hard to, while soaping your hands, soap up the taps a little too then rinse carefully.
@@WynneL What lmfao? You do realize I'm talking about other people, and I'm not necessarily talking about visibly dirty hands, right? Do you know how small germs and other particles are?
I'm a severe germaphobe, when i have to use a public bathroom i make sure to carry several papertowels. 1 for shutting off the water after washing my hands and the other for opening the door to get out. And i still use some hand sanatizer shortly after. I never used to be that way, it may be overkill but i can sleep better at night and i love getting sleep.
Did you know that you will die without beneficial bacteria? You would die of malnutrition, because bacteria do more digesting than you do. A healthy person has about 100 to 200 grams of bacteria on and in their body.
who the f washes his/her hand without soap. What is the point of that?
Simon Sch. Research shows that only 5% of people wash their hands correctly.
Simon Sch.
I have seen and know a lot of people who do that, it's so gross. And even worst I have seen many MANY times some guys walk out of a public bathroom without washing theirs hand.
Simon Sch.
Some people don't even try to fake it and just walk out.
ususlly the bathroom I go to have no soap :(
The only time I rinse my hands and don't use soap is when I'm in my own bathroom and I only do it when I'm just peeing and haven't touched anything but my dick and the toilet flusher thing with he back of my hand
The trouble is that you can get your hands nice and clean in a rest room, but have to be careful on how you exit the door as not knowing what parts have been touched by unwashed hands, or just try and open the door with your foot.
I open them with my Elbows, lol!!!
It surprises me that using only water works so well
A fire hose will get people off the street pretty well without killing them. But teargas is more effective at keeping them away.
Great analogy
Once I saw a man not wash his hands after using the rest room. After I washed and dried mine, I saw him outside and he shook another person's hand. I leaned in and said, "he didn't wash his hands and I'm not sure if he did a no.1 or no.2. He was in there a while". Oh you could cut the awkward tension with a knife.
That's my tension every day, since years ago. When I noticed this is a thing, that the closest people to you do all the time. I had to 'pray' people to wash their hands, and they still don't do it.
That's why I now have OCD. Super hard.
Seems fake but ok
+ashley johnson I'm on your side. And I am not a germophobe in any way. One thing I would love to see though. all bathrooms that have handicapped stall should also have have an automated entry exit door (I don't mean to the stall). 1st, I can't imagine how hard it is to get through the door stuggling in a wheelchair with the strong hinges they put on some of those doors. and second it would be good for those of us who would rather not have to touch the door--just bump the switch with your elbow.
just fucking reply dude, its not that hard to find the fucking reply button
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Why didn't they do any experiments with the dryer blowing germs around?
People are so freaking gross. How hard is it to wash your damn hands? It takes 20 seconds to wash your hands with soap and water. 20 seconds! People don't have that kind of time!? Yuck. This is exactly why I hate public bathrooms. If I absolutely have to go though, I am like Sheldon Cooper using paper towels to shut the water off and open the door after I'm done. And I get so mad when certain restrooms don't have any paper towels and only a hand dryer. Like wtf!? How cheap is that to not provide paper towels, especially those fast food joints that make billions a year. They can afford cheap paper towels.
Hand dryers suck.
They probably don't know how much germs is round us.
Razew they don't, this is the REAL STUDY, you need to wash your hands with soap in order to get rid all of the bacteria completely I mean 99.9 percent.
Mechanical Spencer How is that relevant? Hand dryers still suck. They barely dry your hands, or take ages to do so.
+Razew Handryers that actually work dry your hands in about 10 seconds.
"How come your bacteria are bigger than mine?"
"Sometimes that's just the way it works."
"quote from the video we just watched"
that didn't answerthe question
its only a part of the episode
I only wash my hands when MythBusters confirm it is a good thing.
As a hand washer myself I *really* wanted this test to be conclusive evidence to those who *don't wash* to need to start washing.
Unfortunately there's a flaw in the testing method. To have conclusive evidence that not washing after using is bad they should have had to wash their hands first then use the bathroom then get swabbed.
Bacteria and whatever from everyday use may have collected on their hands even before they used the bathroom for the no-wash test.
Isn't that more of a reason to wash your hands? Even if they didn't use the bathroom, they'd still have all kinds of microorganisms on them.
Also if you don't even wash your hands properly after using the bathroom, chances are you don't really ever wash your hands. So not only are you collecting bacteria and viral particles all throughout the day, but you're also running the risk of getting infected with something nasty after using the bathroom!
I go even further, wash my hands and then use alcohol.
It's great because just like TP you never know when the bathroom you're in doesn't have soap.
0:06 Over 12M hand driers in the US alone... shows Australian outlet underneath hand drier
You know what grinds my gears? Going to a fast food place, properly washing my hands in the restroom, then having to pull the nasty ass restroom door handle to open the door. What's the point then?
I literally close the tap with my elbows, same opening the door. Lol
"Why is yours bigger then mine" i always ask the same thing
honestly just using water was better than I expected. I would have assumed the damp hands would have lead to more bacterial growth than dry hands, since no soap was involved.
My questions:
1) did Mythbusters use
Basic soap
Antibacterial Soap
Antimicrobial Soap
2) They tested for bacteria, however would the same hold true for viruses and fungi?
I would have also tested just using hand sanitizer without washing, and using an alcoholic wipe as I usually do if I need to wash my hands before working on electrical devices.
that’s a very specific case scenario
Hand sanitiser is NOT as good as washing with soap and water. Not even close. It should be used in addition to washing. That is, wash with soap and water and use sanitiser inbetween washes when you don't have time to wash.
13 people thumb down this episod with dirty hands
I saw a show a few years ago that tested 300 hundred girls/women from England and they said that their test showed that 2 out of 3 of them had urine and fecal matter on their hands. So they jokingly said don't get a hand job from an English girl and that's disgusting. But I can't believe how many of them didn't wash their hands. A lot of the guys said they only wash their hands if they shit but apparently the females there don't wash their hands at all. I see washing my hands as just a normal part of using the bathroom, I don't know how people skip that step. I would feel so dirty if I didn't wash my hands. But again, if you're not going to do it for yourself, to keep yourself clean, then at least do it for everyone around you cuz all the germs and bacteria that you're spreading is absolutely disgusting and can very easily get other people sick.
Read the true story of "Typhoid Mary". It actually could have been "Typhoid Tom" also.
I loved every word you said, except for the part you thinking is just English people, WTF? I hate those type of generalizations or assumptions, I think those are ignorant comments.
This happens in your country as well!! Your neighborhood, and with the people you know!!
I literally saw a very similar experiment and was about to post it today, but it was 10 people, and 6 out of 10 had urine and fecal matter. But this is absurd that you think is just English girls? The one I saw was in the USA! But could even be in my neighborhood too. You didn't understand the experiment from what I see. It doesn't matter the country, the one you saw was in England, but this reflects what happens ALL OVER THE WORLD!
I'm not from England, I leave in Colombia, but my sister do leave in England. This happens freaking everywhere, is not just in Europe, England, that's bullshit and SUPER IGNORANT. The type of comments just a gringo would say.
How are you going to build up immunities to sicknesses if you're never in contact with germs
People who don’t wash hands with soap deserves to be shamed.
What is so hard about washing your hands or even washing dishes?! I swear humanity has been declining so horribly since it began
I don't care about my clean hands spreading the bad stuff. What I think about is the jet propelled bacteria all over the floor tracked away from the urinals and stalls blown around to be inhaled.
Touching the faucet handle makes your hand dirty again. Touching the door knob makes your hand dirty again. Drying your hands under an air blower makes your hands dirty again because it's getting its air supply from the restroom. That's why paper towels are better. You can use them to turn off the water and open the door.
well at lest I know only using water does help.
Nastay
Gross.
I'm assuming that they treated their hands with a harmless bacteria culture before each washing.
@@ghyslainrieux3365 I would want an established and reliable baseline to start from on each and every count.
Oh my gosh!!!!! That was so disgusting!!!!! I really hope you people think twice before leaving the bathroom without washing your hands cuz you're contaminating everything you touch and especially people who work with or around food. I mean you should always wash your hands and I can't believe that some people actually have to be told but I hope seeing this will make them change their minds and wash their freaking hands. If not for yourself, at least do it for everyone around you cuz you have no idea how much bacteria and germs you're spreading and it's absolutely disgusting.
Angel Albano think about all the stuff you touch before going to the bathroom.
I have OCD and this is hard, everyday. I literally don't let ANYONE touch many things in my home for example, wash hands like 30 times a day.
But I literally don't think on germs or bacteria, I think I literally have physical poop from others, or urine. As many other tests have shown. 6 out of 10 have it, or someone commented above a test with 300 people were 2 out of 3 had fecal matter on their hands. I saw one were 6 out of 10 people in the streets, so everything they touch ...... I'll shut up (no words)...
Only a hand dryer with a fresh air intake from outside the bathroom would be even remotely as good as a clean papertowel, but with no papertowel, you have to use your shirt to open inward swinging doors. Internal intakes just recirculate bathroom poop air onto your hands. Bathrooms with papertowels and push to exit doors (or no doors with the maze entery) are the BEST!
Using your shirt is pretty paranoid
I babysat when I was younger and now currently work in food production so I've had to reinforce hand washing a lot. If I see an adult in a public restroom skip washing their hands I call them out. 9/10 they go back and wash with soap and water.
Downvote for incomplete video.
Discovery Go/now or whatever tje hell ot os called...Wish you coild buy them digitally
JonatasAdoM tf is wrong with ur typing
here is the complete episode:
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Dat picture on the wall... lol
If only they had soap in the first place.
*pretends to wash hands while walking out the door, not stopping at the sink*
0:35 *First time I heard about this myth, and I always use the restroom’s hand dryer*
Anybody know what season and episode this is?
Why can't I view any Mythbusters videos on my iPod Touch?
Now I'll never learn about which bathroom surfaces I can protect myself from!
It's gross but a little bacteria is good to help use be immune to illnesses.
I would never touch the soap dispenser or faucet with my bare hands ! That is just gross. I use a paper towel or my shirt. Touchless faucets and soap dispensers are the best
BRUH! Same. I literally use my elbows, as I commented today many times above.
I love the American gothic painting in the back.
What about using paper towels or an air blower, will those have an effect on the amount of bacteria on the hands
That's what was supposed to be the subject of this clip.
Ok. Guys that did it for me. From now on im freakin washing my hands with soap..
Don't worry, your immune system will thank you.
I am going to wash my hands right now, be right back, wash my key bord first.
1:04
Dafuq is that on the top left
A recreation of a famous painting with Adam and Jamie's heads instead
And it looks beautiful.
A “beautiful painting”.
Why is no one notice that we open the taps with our dirty hands, clean it, then close the dirty taps with out clean hands
YOU SAID IT BEST... People Literally don't notice
When you start noticing, you get OCD. No way back
That's why I now have OCD, years ago. I literally use my elbows for all you said above. Even in MY bathroom, taps, switches, doors, etc. Outside is literally with my elbows, and through the jacket and clothes.
What’s the liquid in the test tube before testing
And what was in the Petrie dishes
Wouldn’t it be better to not touch anything or wash your hands before using the bathroom. I know I showered in the morning and where I’ve been but what about everything I touched with my hands before touching the toilet paper?
I use to believe myth busters when I was young but as I got older I noticed their experiments are not controlled at all do to so many variables
You want a perfectly run experiment, go get a job in a research lab. This is television and these guys do better than most people could with the restrictions they're under.
@@legionaireb doucher
EXACTLY. They aren't scientists either, so take it with a grain of salt. They still do the best and most of their episodes are pretty good and well done. But I agree with you.
But as legionaireb said this is Television. Maybe you took it too serious.
Still, I can't think they didn't at least wash hands before each of the three attempts here, and tried the best to do them evenly. If the results don't show anything to you, then don't wash your hands bruh.
Interesting video 👍
What season is this in and what episodes is this
we dont even see them drying their hands lmfao
Vor gamle er vannrør ene og vannrense anleggene?
Vorr mye bakterier finner du i drikkevannet
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If you have a myth who you gonna call? Myth busters I ain’t afraid of no myth
I've always hated those automatic hand dryers. I don't care *WHAT* anyone else says, I refuse to use them. I'd rather wipe my hands on my pants if I have to.
Thank you! I know that people play around with these things, touching the outsides and stuff, blowing it right back on to my hands. Automatic paper towel machines and doors are the way to go.
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Did they do each consecutively after the other? You washed your hands first and then washed them again with soap and water. They were washed twice when you did the soap swab.
See kids that's why we wash our hands
Under UV in a pitch-black dark room the whirlpool of diminutive particles of mist that rises from a toilet at the moment of flushing is visible. And if the air extractor is running at the moment, the whirlpool goes even higher. All those mist particles containing feces, urine and else settle down on surfaces --including your own body, eyes, lungs, hair, hands, etc., and on your cloth and towels, on toothbrushes, combs and other cosmetology implements in the bathroom (some people cover their towels in the bathroom with a proper-size plastic sheet)-- in not less than ten seconds. Stop the air extractor at the moment of flushing, and always put down the lid. This will REDUCE considerably the mist dispersion although it will NOT eliminate it entirely. If possible, still with the air extractor off, spray some disinfectant on the toilet seat and the interior face of the lid after flushing (alcohol will do, with the advantage it evaporates, so that you don't have to wipe it out). It is recommendable to carry a small can of Lysol or any other household disinfectant for sometimes one has to go # 2 in public toilets (when flying you can use a plastic spray bottle of the size, and with a disinfectant, approved by the TSA). Many skin and other illnesses are transmitted via toilet seats, toilet tank handles, faucet levers, and door handles; ALWAYS spray them before touching them.
You practically have to soak the items, they must stay wet for five minutes minimum for the disinfectant to be effective. 3 min for bleach water which only lasts 24 hours. Disinfectants are often misused in a household context. A toilet paper barrier might work better if the toilet roll is covered.
And the fourth thing people do is walk right out the toilets without even attempt to fake it. 🤦♂️
Bruh!! :')
I have seen someone use the hand dryer without washing their hands
Same for door handles. (Why even put doors with handles on the inside of a washroom door?! Just make it a press plate.)
I lick my hands instead of washing them after I go poopoo
that is fking disgusting
They should test, going into the bathroom to pee and leave, without touching ANYTHING.
Oshri Balilti
How do I get in and how do I open and close my pants :/
@@i.i.iiii.i.i Telekinesis. Duh.
It's funny that people that worry so much about their hands being clean are constantly on their germ filled phones. Comedy writes itself
Phones can be cleaned bruh
@TC-ku4vv Yeah, I can count on my hands how many times I've seen these germaphobes clean their phones before they eat. These same germaphobes are constantly touching their phones while eating with their hands. Observe for yourself.
Even if you use soap, if you put your hands under water before you completely lather, you are wasting soap and your time. Need to lather for 20 seconds before rinsing your hands! 🤗
Yeh but did you pee first to check and see if man sausage bacteria was present, or just some other bacteria?
Bottom Line, before using a public restroom, have paper towels already, if you can. Wash your hands with soap and water BEFORE and AFTER using the bathroom. Touch NOTHING in the bathroom - use a paper towel if you can. The hot air dryers are GROSS!!
@INJURYCOMP Hand Dryers are not gross, nor are they unsanitary. You're clearly misinformed.
@@chandlersleziak6416 Well...Tell me where the air comes from...
Er... they left out the whole hand-dryer bit. I know people who don't wash at all or just rinse have dirty mitts.
My family calls me a germophobe cause i dont wanna use their phones. They use those things on the toilet and everywhere, and am i rlly a germophobe?
Well, do they only touch the phone until they wipe, or do they wipe and then play with the phone a while longer without washing their hands? If they only use it before wiping, the phone shouldn't have much fecal germs. Sure there might be fecal matter in the air of a bathroom and it might get caught on the phone, but the same happens to your toothbrush if it's close to the toilet.
Then on the other hand phones are seldom cleaned, so they might have bacteria on them regardless whether you use it in the bathroom.
+Camilla Nilsson shouldnt rlly matter. After u wipe u close the toilet seat. When u go to the bathroom u open the toilet seat. Year after year year of reopening and closing that thing theres gotta be something dont u think?
Well you do clean your toilet every few weeks right? It's not like years of poop is gathering on your seat. And disinfect your phone now and then? I do both these things and I think that's enough.
+Camilla Nilsson every few months, and no1 ever uses disinfecting wipes
Yes. Yes you are.
Need to show this to my 5th grade teacher
Girls when they see my face:
2:45
Dont get the wrong idea- just because rinsing your hands is better than not rinsing them doesnt mean that you should do that
0:33
When they say there is over 12 million dryers in the US but show a dryer that is clearly in the UK because of the socket underneath it
I don't wash my hands with soup. I find that soap works better.
Who goes to the restroom just to pretend to wash their hands? like wtf? they just wasting their time!
Now i hardly found any hand dryer that produce heat air. All of them produce high speed air
Okay, this went nowhere. First of all, how did their hands start out before washing them? Dirty? Clean? Contaminated for the test? Also, the reason why hand dryers have a bad reputation had to do with feces particles in the air being recirculated. This experiment needs a part 2.
What happened to the aseptic technique? At least do a control with just agar to show what kind of stuff is just in the air
+David Musheyev wasn't too important in this particular case since nothing grew on the plates corresponding to hands washed with soap
Am I suppose to wash my hands after taking a piss?
As a janitor, often I see a lots of people not washing their hands after…its really gross. Employees at an health center at that too. 🤨
I don't want to touch the school's water in the sinks. Who knows what is in there. That is why I use germ-x! Damn, that sounded like a paid actor in a commercial.
Err, assuming you live in NA, your school is probably not going to have its own water supply. Most likely it's going to use the public water supply. So basically tap water and the stuff you shower in.
This is not realy true.
There normaly is no diffrence between water and no wash, a slight decrease with soap and a big decrease when washing your hands with a chlorine solution. But in eatch sampel bacteria colony's where precent (only difrence was in spieces).
I know this because I caried this experiment out in my college lab and still have the notes.
Hello covid19 hand washing season ha ha I came here to see the toothbrushes esp. now I learned more.
So what about air dry vs paper towel? That's what was supposed to be the subject of the investigation.
What about the drying though? Where’s that?! WHERES THE BLOODY CONCLUSION?!
In the full episode on Discovery Channel.
@@simoncallelaverde rly?! :O
I love that picture in the bathroom. :D