Personal cleanliness

Good grief! A feud? With the lovely jinglbells of all people? What on earth are you talking about Casawan?

There was a bit of a spat between me and Anniebach earlier, but heavens above, it was nothing serious. Certainly not a feud . Just a bit of healthy disagreement, misunderstanding, call it what you like.

I can assure you I've never had a feud with anyone. I wouldn't know how I could learn though

And thank you jings I love you too [heart emoticon]

Let's all clap our ( clean) hands, and say amen to that Indinana.

roses

And throw vital germ-free kisses?

Though after reading this thread I am now posting on my iPad wearing surgical gloves.

Virtual not vital....blame the gloves.

I do wear those gloves when I handle meat ....

(am I weird?)

What the heck is this thread all about now????

I never realised so many people were quite so germ phobic. How have I survived all these years without worrying.

If I am put off by people serving me with dirty hands I always change my orders.

I'm feeling quite paranoid now - I never give these things a thought - apart from avoiding touching loo door on way out if it looks a rather grubby place.

However, we recently got 2 rescue kittens and have found they have a nasty parasite infection (giardia) which is apparently very catching and hard to kill. So wish I could "see" the germs - am washing everthing with bleach and getting steam cleaner out for first time in ages.

The saying goes, "a man has to eat a peck of dirt before he dies". You need a few bacteria to keep your immune system on it's toes. I used to be a nurse but I never worry about cleanliness. Good hand hygeine is all you need.

I don't regard myself as particularly germ phobic (in spite of posts above); I've cleaned up cat poo from the garden, dog poo from where one or other of us has inadvertently stepped in it; but when I took my sister in law's dog for a walk while she was staying with us recently, and had to clean up after her, I found the whole thing particularly distasteful. Despite the kitchen paper and poo bags and all the rest of it, I managed to get some on my hands and that, and the fact of having to carry it home (no bins) rather tipped me over the edge! I spent ages in the downstairs loo scrubbing my hands and my nails and then put Dettol spray on them. I know; complete wimp! For the avoidance of any doubt, I do like dogs.

Hildajenni - I was going to mention that about your immune system needing a few bacteria too.
But handwashing is important.
Another thing to worry about - my friend had a letter from the local hospital warning that a worker in the Dept. where she had recently been seen has been found to have scabies Look out for an itchy rash.
Evidently there's a lot of it about here.

I am only germ phobic in a narrow sort of way. I can happily pick up a fallen apple in the garden and eat it after only a cursory rub on my sleeve, sometimes with soil encrusted hands. And I eat the dampers GS makes for me in his garden - definitely no handwashing there.

It's postly public loos with me. It could spring from my natural underlying dislike of the human race.

I'm with you on public loos Jingl-always open doors with sleeve or tissue and then use hand sanitiser outside the loo. Door handles are no go area for me.

I had to go for a pre op educational session at the local hospital yesterday.The occupational therapist showed us how to put on socks with a plastic thingummy. She put them on over socks the soles of which were not very clean at all. At that time in the morning there was no excuse for dirty socks and I can't imagine her having padded around the corridors in stockinged feet as an excuse. She's going to come and assess my home .hmmmm. I'm with JBF
I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it walks;
I wish I liked the way it talks;
And when I'm introduced to one,
I wish I thought "What Jolly Fun!"

Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922)

Just a note on dog poo scooping
Some poo bags are titchy and just useless, I use nappy sacks which of course have the nice little handles to tie the doings up. I put my hand right inside the bag so that it is inside out over my hand up to my wrist) pick up the offending item, turn bag right way round, then tie the handles. Even in the pitch dark it never rarely fails. Another idea might be to have a few lightweight disposable gloves (like NHS use) and after you dump the poo bag, bin the glove in a regular litter bin, peeling it off inside out in case there are traces on the outside.
Final observation, rather like nappies, one's own baby DC and DGC's nappy changing, no prob, but other babies? Maybe. In the same way I feel no revulsion at clearing up after Grace or my granddog, but "strange" dog poo on shoes? Eurgh!!!!

Alea you have just described exactly how my DH and I both bag up dog poo, right down to using disposable gloves! And I feel exactly the same about our family dogs as opposed to other dogs

At least many dog owners scoop the poop (but not all, there is one that haunts the playground where the DGC like to play )

It's the cats that roam and use everyone else's gardens as their personal loo and the smell ..... ugh!

I did pick it up in exactly the way you described and as for the latex gloves - they were in my pocket but I forgot about them. Problem is the bloomin' hound doesn't stay in one place and do her business, she wanders about, cr*****g as she goes! Absolutely no thanks! I went to a small fishery today which has a cafe. We have been before, and DH has always gone and got the coffees and bacon sandwiches. Today, I went - and came back empty handed. I took one look at the washing up facilities and bolted! Needless to say they don't appear to have been awarded a health and hygiene certificate!

What about checkout operators in food stores licking their fingers in order to separate plastic carrier bags?

Or telling you that have a dreadful cold as they pass your food through.

The cold that the checkout operators probably caught of the customers giving them the £10/20 note that they were just holding in their mouth while they packed their shopping! yuck!

I must admit I do hate that finger-licking to separate bags - shouldn't be allowed!

It's finger lickin' good!

Oh well, none of us have died from poisoning( so far)