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Alcoholic hand washes
« on: September 01, 2015, 12:55:06 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33983172

Was interested to hear about this on Radio 5 earlier.  Apart from the obvious, how do non-alcoholic washes differ from these?
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2015, 01:24:21 PM »
Good grief! :o

We use these hand washes very frequently at home. I also carry one in the car and use it after I have done my shopping or filled the car with petrol. They do seem to be quite good at keeping the germs at bay.
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2015, 01:57:30 PM »
Quote from: Floo on September 01, 2015, 01:24:21 PM
Good grief! :o

We use these hand washes very frequently at home. I also carry one in the car and use it after I have done my shopping or filled the car with petrol. They do seem to be quite good at keeping the germs at bay.

NO, not at bay, but pissed out of their tiny minds!
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2015, 02:29:14 PM »
No surprise there. They will do anything for a buzz. Like going into run down bars and pubs and stealing the disinfectant cakes from the urinals in the washrooms.

No Matty, it's not funny.
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« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2015, 02:43:20 PM »
Quote from: CMG KCMG GCMG on September 01, 2015, 01:57:30 PM
Quote from: Floo on September 01, 2015, 01:24:21 PM
Good grief! :o

We use these hand washes very frequently at home. I also carry one in the car and use it after I have done my shopping or filled the car with petrol. They do seem to be quite good at keeping the germs at bay.

NO, not at bay, but pissed out of their tiny minds!

Good one! ;D
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2015, 03:20:52 PM »
Quote from: Floo on September 01, 2015, 02:43:20 PM
Quote from: CMG KCMG GCMG on September 01, 2015, 01:57:30 PM
Quote from: Floo on September 01, 2015, 01:24:21 PM
Good grief! :o

We use these hand washes very frequently at home. I also carry one in the car and use it after I have done my shopping or filled the car with petrol. They do seem to be quite good at keeping the germs at bay.

NO, not at bay, but pissed out of their tiny minds!

Good one! ;D

It would appear that our Canadian critic does not agree!  BORING!
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2015, 03:22:15 PM »
Quote from: johnny canoe on September 01, 2015, 02:29:14 PM
No surprise there. They will do anything for a buzz. Like going into run down bars and pubs and stealing the disinfectant cakes from the urinals in the washrooms.

No Matty, it's not funny.

Do you really - QUOTE - Like going into run down bars and pubs and stealing the disinfectant cakes from the urinals in the washrooms. - UNQUOTE!

YEUCH! You really are gross!
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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2015, 03:31:01 PM »
You really have a problem with not thinking before you post dear Matty. "They" has a different meaning than I. Duh! You are old and should know how to read and understand English words.
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2015, 03:49:19 PM »
Quote from: johnny canoe on September 01, 2015, 03:31:01 PM
You really have a problem with not thinking before you post dear Matty. "They" has a different meaning than I. Duh! You are old and should know how to read and understand English words.

I don't care about "they" or "I" - you posted the disgusting idea! You thought of it! You are the disgusting one!
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« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2015, 03:52:30 PM »
No, it is fact. They do it. Now if you ever see a urinal with the disinfectant cake in a cage, you will know why it was done. DUH!
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« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2015, 03:55:07 PM »
Quote from: johnny canoe on September 01, 2015, 03:52:30 PM
No, it is fact. They do it. Now if you ever see a urinal with the disinfectant cake in a cage, you will know why it was done. DUH!

What is a disinfectant cake?
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« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2015, 03:59:22 PM »
Quote from: Floo on September 01, 2015, 03:55:07 PM
Quote from: johnny canoe on September 01, 2015, 03:52:30 PM
No, it is fact. They do it. Now if you ever see a urinal with the disinfectant cake in a cage, you will know why it was done. DUH!

What is a disinfectant cake?
A block of disinfectant that sits in urinals. It gives us boys something to aim at ;)
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #12 on: September 01, 2015, 04:19:05 PM »
Quote from: Shaker on September 01, 2015, 03:59:22 PM
Quote from: Floo on September 01, 2015, 03:55:07 PM
Quote from: johnny canoe on September 01, 2015, 03:52:30 PM
No, it is fact. They do it. Now if you ever see a urinal with the disinfectant cake in a cage, you will know why it was done. DUH!

What is a disinfectant cake?
A block of disinfectant that sits in urinals. It gives us boys something to aim at ;)

Apparently, at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, the authorities got fed up with the "dampness" on the floors of the gent's toilets and the huge cost of cleaning it up.

They found that by painting a fly onto or into the porcelain of the urinals they cut these costs spectacularly because, as you say, Shaker, it gave the boys something to aim at and ensured that they missed the bigger target - the floor.
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« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2015, 04:25:11 PM »
I heard that story too  :)
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2015, 04:28:27 PM »
Quote from: Shaker on September 01, 2015, 04:25:11 PM
I heard that story too  :)

Unlike most good stories this one is actually true!

I just wonder where they got the idea from? But maybe I really don't want to find out!
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2015, 04:32:24 PM »
Quote from: Floo on September 01, 2015, 01:24:21 PM
Good grief! :o

We use these hand washes very frequently at home. I also carry one in the car and use it after I have done my shopping or filled the car with petrol. They do seem to be quite good at keeping the germs at bay.

That's what they all say, to begin with.

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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #16 on: September 01, 2015, 04:42:19 PM »
Quote from: Hope on September 01, 2015, 12:55:06 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33983172

Was interested to hear about this on Radio 5 earlier.  Apart from the obvious, how do non-alcoholic washes differ from these?

Do you mean "are there any non alcoholic hand washes that are as effective as alcoholic hand washes and that could be used instead?"
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #17 on: September 01, 2015, 04:49:04 PM »
Those who are 'toiletarily' intrigued may enjoy this.

https://worksthatwork.com/1/urinal-fly
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« Reply #18 on: September 01, 2015, 04:59:41 PM »
From Gordon's link a couple of snippets that I rather liked:


Even positioning a company logo at the bottom of the bowl would work, although . . . companies probably would not want to encourage people to urinate on their trademark. The University of Louisville in Kentucky has been particularly inventive in this respect—placing the emblem of the rival University of Kentucky at the bottom of the urinal in some of their changing room

A Victorian urinal target dating back at least as far as the 1880s features a bee. The Latin for bee is apis, a vulgar joke understandable to Victorian gentlemen, but almost certainly lost on 21st-century men.
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #19 on: September 01, 2015, 05:58:08 PM »
Quote from: jeremyp on September 01, 2015, 04:42:19 PM
Do you mean "are there any non alcoholic hand washes that are as effective as alcoholic hand washes and that could be used instead?"
Thanks for bringing the thread back on-course, jeremy - and yes and no, that is what I was/wasn't asking.  I was half wondering what it is in the non-alcoholic ones that make them work, and also whether any non-alcoholic versions could be used instead.
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #20 on: September 01, 2015, 06:45:49 PM »
Quote from: Hope on September 01, 2015, 05:58:08 PM
Quote from: jeremyp on September 01, 2015, 04:42:19 PM
Do you mean "are there any non alcoholic hand washes that are as effective as alcoholic hand washes and that could be used instead?"
Thanks for bringing the thread back on-course, jeremy - and yes and no, that is what I was/wasn't asking.  I was half wondering what it is in the non-alcoholic ones that make them work, and also whether any non-alcoholic versions could be used instead.

At least, this time, the thread was derailed by a Christian and not a Pagan or an atheist!
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« Reply #21 on: September 01, 2015, 08:55:15 PM »
And I'm probably going to be accused of derailing it again. Today I visited a public toilet, and on the door was a notice which said, 'This toilet is twinned with a toilet in Sierra Leone." It then give the exact GPS Co-ordinates and a photo of said toilet. Finally it gave a link to a charity to give aid to help the poorest nations have clean water and hygienic toilets.

Looking on t'internet afterwards I found much more about it, under 'Toilet Twinning'. Sounds like an interesting and creative idea.

End of derail. ;D
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Re: Alcoholic hand washes
« Reply #22 on: September 02, 2015, 02:09:14 AM »
And how is a alcoholic stealing urinal cakes for the alcohol content a derail? Bet a few have gone missing from hospital men's rooms over the years. I know that they hang around out side hospitals quite often.
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« Reply #23 on: September 02, 2015, 07:54:03 AM »
Dear Enki,

To derail or not to derail, no that is not the question. ???

To meet the mind that came up with toilet twinning. :o

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« Reply #24 on: September 02, 2015, 11:22:49 AM »
There was a problem during the swine flu outbreak with children drinking hand rub and getting drunk in schools, often quite young ones.

The hand gel obviously does a vital job in hospitals but when it comes to preventing g stomach bugs it is no substitute for warm soapy water. I'm horrified at the number of mothers in public loos who get their kids to use hand gel instead of hand washing in the belief it is more hygienic or more effective. It isn't.
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