There’s an entire subset of the population that didn’t want to wash their hands during the pandemic, the bar is much lower than this.
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If you ever go for a shit in a men's public toilet, especially in a pub, you get to be lucky enough to hear multiple people not washing their hands after a piss.
I was in a bathroom recently, and a guy used a urinal, then the hand-drier, then left.
He got enough urine on his hands that he decided that he needed to dry them, but still chose to not wash his hands.
People are gross.
How does one even get pee on their hands whilst peeing‽
I am not trying to body shame, but I am assuming it's a size issue.
If your overweight, the fat on your lower stomach goes outward, but the penis doesn't get any bigger. So, I assume it's much more difficult for some people to use a urinal.
When it snows in winter, things appear to be smaller because the snow drifts cover them. Fence posts and flag poles still show above the snow, but things like fire hydrants get completed covered. If you need to hold a fence post, you can probably walk up the snow bank and touch it, if you need to hold a fire hydrant, you'll need to go digging.
And this is why you use hand sanitiser even after washing your hands. Like you would expect the dryer not to be covered in piss, and yet.....
Every time I use a public restroom I'm reminded how much better urethral health I must have compared to the average man... The sounds of sheer pain some of these guys make while literally just taking a whiz is... I dunno, saddening? I wouldn't even know that lots of men moan and shudder and groan while peeing if it weren't for public restrooms. What are the normie men doing to their cocks???
I didn't think this had anything to do with urethral health. Sometimes it just feels so good if you've been holding for a length of time. I moan occasionally, but it has nothing to do with pain as much as relief.
I also wash my hands every time and talk shit to people who don't, cause I'm huge and can get away with stuff like that(read don't put yourself in danger, I'm doing it enough for both of us)
You never know who you might be talking shit to... but you do you.
You have no idea. I pretty much welcome death at this point. If me talking shit to you about not washing your hands, then society gets a bonus of two pricks taken out of circulation.
If it comes out in a series of bursts, something might be seriously wrong with their prostates.
Prostate issues - usually manifesting as trouble pissing - are quite common especially in older men, but it's an embarassing subject so people don't usually talk about it
The shudder is not consider a sign of bad health but so far no studies had been performed to confirm the exactly cause.
(I might suggest that making good alt-texts on Lemmy may be another good example. Yes, I transcribed that whole screenshot into the alt-text by clicky-clacking.)
you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart.
That's totally not true; you encourage the continual framework of a civilized society, which should benefit you in the long run as an uncivilized, every-person-for-themself environment is generally much harder to deal with overall.
It is hardly a litmus test, which by definition is pivotal, sure, but has nothing to do with the level of sacrifice attached.
I know it's a tongue-in-cheek 4chan image, but I just felt like going serious on this anyway. I feel like a real litmus test is seeing someone in need and choosing to help them or not.
The shopping cart gremlins will kill you. You don’t know about them because they leave no survivors.
Yes, every single time and fuck people who don't
Even though you have to go through all that effort of easily pulling the lever?
Not true. I gain 1 €, 50 ¢, or at least a nice plastic token.
This is why people need an imaginary sky daddy to tell them to return the cart.
Based on life experience, the magic sky daddy people are the ones more likely to not return the cart, there's no punishment for not doing so.
It's not a sin, so there's really no reason not to leave them in the middle of a parking space. Plus it creates more work for those lazy store workers who are always getting in my way while I'm shopping. /s
Those who refuse to return the cart should be reclaimed for biomass.
Pick up speed, hop on and skate that mf to the cart storage. Personal gain unlocked.
For me the gain is a dopamine release in knowing I made someone else's job just a little bit easier.
Same feeling when you put back the weights at the gym. I can‘t stand people who just litter the plates all around on the floor.
I pushed carts at a retail store in highschool. I always appreciated when people returned their carts.. not so much for my convenience, but out of respect for people's cars. I've definitely seen a few slam into cars after people just leave them wherever.
Elderly folks or people with mobility issues I totally get. You're cool, do what you need to do. But the lazy entitled ones drive me nuts.
If everyone who was able to put the carts back, it would make a significant difference. In my country, the disabled parking is often adjacent to a pedestrian walkway that cuts through the car park. People often leave the carts in this walkway, which means that it's quite often that I'm unable to park because all the disabled parking spaces have a trolley that's drifted into them
Saw a guy leave his cart right on the divider. Grabbed his to put away, while putting away my own, and made eye contact with him the whole time.
The shame was just dripping out of him. It was wonderful.
No, because I don't have a cart. I cycled to the shop and everything we need for the week fits in a basket.
Either be a human leech or return the cart.
It's not a hard choice.
I'll do you one further, do you take a cart from the corral on the way in if you know you need a cart?
I have a fat backpack that will carry all the groceries I will need for a week. I'll use the cart to putter about the store, but once all the groceries are in the backpack at the register, I'm walking to the car sans cart.
Depends, there’s this place I go to where I have to circle around all the cars to bring it to the front of the supermarket. They could put a corral somewhere back there but they don’t because they would lose some parking space. I never return the cart in this store.
I just like to ride the cart through the parkinglot and try to aim the cart into the cart corral and jump off last second. I made it into a game, im sure people look at me funny.
You gain a world where people don't see you do shitty things and then get ideas.
It's dumb to say that good things that help everybody are nothing, in part because it's a lie.
i prop the wheels up so it doesn’t roll or take up any parking spaces, and leave it out there because i’ve actually worked at places like that and going outside for something is the best part of the shift….
if it’s raining or 80 degrees then i’ll put it in the cart corral….
the whole “it’s soooo rude and evil to not save money for corporations” is made up by: corporations
I don't have a car, so if I can't carry it myself I'm not getting it.. There is no cart.
I do.
I put it in the corral always but sometimes I flip it over too. I want them to believe I returned the cart so hard it flipped over.
I don't usually return it to the front of the store. But no matter where I'm parked in the lot, it never goes to a far-away corral, either the closest corral to the storefront, or better. I try to help out just a little.
Chaotic Good perspective:
If it's a nice day out, I put the cart as far away from the store as possible, like waaaaay out in left field. It gives the poor kid pushing carts more time away from the watchful eye of management and more time outside instead of stuck in a cold grocery store with repeating music.
Source: I was that poor kid and loved it when I had to spend more time away from my supervisor.
For me it's all about how many carts there are. One or two yeah sure but if there are like dozens then im not cleaning up. Maybe the right ethical answer is emergent not inherit.