If just everyone had a self cleaning toilet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ul7prwoiM

Erm, they'd better not. I've been to a place where they had these kind of toilets. Thing is, with fancy things like that, and toilets in general, people get freaky ideas. Would you care to wager a guess as to what would happen if somebody decided they needed to, oh, I dunno, TAKE A DUMP ON THE TOILET SEAT...?! 

..I don't need to guess. Think peanutbutter. Sandwich. Spread. I'll leave it at that.  

Ye, I've actually seen a video when someone does that. Don't think it's appropriate to post here though :P

 Is that a healthy or unhealthy person who just used that handrail before you, or turned that doorknob, or handled that coinage? There's no point stressing over such things because you're going to get exposed whether you like it or not.

The world is filthy. Either accept it or live in a bubble while your immune system goes crazy from lack of stimulus. Like so many other organs, the immune system needs regular 'exercise' or it becomes less effective.

I'm not advocating that people stop washing their hands or start eating dirt. Just don't be so afraid of dirty things. They're not as bad as they're made out to be. They may, in fact, be a net benefit.

 Amen. My first job was being a bag boy for a local grocery store, and I often had restroom duty. The vast majority of the time it was the women's restroom that was a wreck. It was like every trucker and lumberjack in the state had been using that restroom(*). I've worked with a lot of people through the years who had similar jobs and agreed that women's restrooms are the worst.

* My apologies to any truckers or lumberjacks offended by the above statement. 

My favourite sentence of the thread by far has to be from Superchunk.

'No, because then if they are shaking your hand they are touching your penis.'

Haha, I've had a lot of handshakes but I don't ever remember one where that happened.

 In his defense, he was making a mockery of the earlier poster that was claiming that you are touching someone's penis if you touch the faucet handles or flushing mechanism in bathrooms.

There's a lot of information in this thread that I don't know if I believe and am not sure that I'd want to... thank you for that twesterm.

It was probably wrong of me to assume that a man was responsible for that mess without actually knowing but the toilet seat was up and the part below it was covered in urine.  I felt pretty safe in my assumption.

I can deal with toilet seats covered with urine, the real problem is when I find number 2 around. In some restrooms I have seem number 2 on the toilet seat, floor, walls and even the sink (!!!). No shit (pun intended). I have seem some restrooms that make the ones in Silent Hill look clean.