That logic is just plain crazy and disgusting. So then after you haven't washed your hands, you return to the bar or wherever. Everything you touch from then on becomes contaminated by your grossness. Beer glass (which bar staff have to touch), tapas/appetisers possibly (which several people can come into contact with and eat), shaking your mates hand at the end of the night, etc.....
I hate public toilets because I see most guys don't wash their hands, don't believe in flushing, piss all over the seat and floor and never clean it up, and that's only half of it. I try to use public toilets as little as possible, but when I do I still flush and wash my hands. I can only imagine the OP doesn't brush their teeth either because every toothbrush has some amount of fecal bacteria on it. Bacteria is a part of life, in fact we couldn't live without it. This idea about all and any amount of bacteria is bad is rubbish, an idea that comes from the commericial companies that produce cleaning products. It's BS. Our immune system needs some bad bacteria now and then to help make it stronger. I can't help but think of the Andromedia Strain when I hear stuff like this...
Definitely agree with this, you make great points. You're absolutely right about some bacteria being good for your immune system. That's the same way flu shots work- they give you a little taste of the flu, just enough so that your body can be introduced to it, fight it off, and then if you happen to ever come into contact with that strand of the virus, your body will be better prepared to fight it. Although, I've only ever gotten one flu shot in my life, and only once or twice have I ever gotten the flu. I refuse to get flu shots. Though the logic of getting them works, the logic for not getting them is just as reasonable.
Anyway, you are right. Every now and then, allowing your body to come into contact with bacteria and germs is a good thing, as it prepares you for later.
You are talking about the men's room. Have you ever visited the ladies' rooms? They bring a new dimension into disgusting. Find yourself into one when you want to take a piss and the men's room is closed. The women here will attest to the filth in there.
Ha yes, I can attest to the filth in ladies rooms! Most of the time, it's hard to find a stall that isn't littered with dozens of pieces of toilet paper. One reason for this is that some women are overly paranoid about sitting on a toilet that was previously sat on by another woman's bottom, so if there's no seat covers, they rip off a bunch of toilet paper to cover the seat, and when they're done, they usually throw it on the floor. Another reason, which I've witnessed on my own while in the stall next to another woman, is that they'll sit there and rip off a ton of toilet paper and toss it away, because they're afraid of touching toilet paper that was previously touched by someone else.
And one thing that I've found to be extremely repulsive is when a few times that I've gone in at work (two different work places), a lady would have somehow completely missed the toilet and their poo would be all over the wall, floor, and toilet seat. Just.... how the fuck!? Eeew. And once I went in at work at the end of the night to clean the bathroom, the sink was filled with someone's vomit. Why on earth would you do that in the sink instead of the toilet? Ugh! Nasty.
And lots of women will wash their hands, and instead of throwing their towel in the trash, they'll just toss it on the floor. It's not because they used it to turn the knobs or the door handle, because they don't (very few do), it's out of sheer laziness.
Then there's women who use the bathroom as a vanity, getting their makeup and hair all over the counter, for some poor employee to have to clean up at the end of the night, adding yet another mess to their list of things to clean.
People need to be treating public bathrooms the same way they'd treat their bathroom at home. We all know full well that we wouldn't just toss toilet paper and paper towels all over our own floors, so why is it ok to do that in other people's homes? I say "homes", because when you go to a public restroom, that restroom is someone else's space that you're creating a mess of.
However, I still think men's bathrooms are far worse. I've been in them both due to work, and long wait lines for women's bathrooms so I'd end up just using the men's room. They stink, have piss all over the toilet seat, pubes on the toilets and urinals, cigarette butts in the urinals, piss all over the floor by the toilets and urinals. Stinky. Piss is a really hard stench to get rid of, so after a good while, no matter how much cleaning you do, it's screwed. It will forever smell like piss.