Do you defecate at work, in public restrooms?
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Nope, I can't bring myself to do it.  Absolute dire emergencies only...
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I have noticed that public toilets tend to flush very violently which spits stuff out onto the seats quite often!  So it probably isn't the fault of the previous toilet-user.  It is the toilet itself.
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Your toilet seat is cleaner than your keyboard \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nposted 9:20am EST Tue May 14 2002 - submitted by Thomas \nNEWS\nA recent study done by Clorox aimed to find the most germ-ridden surfaces in the workplace. The surface would be a "high-touch" area, meaning it was touched frequently by workers nearly all day long. Remarkably, toilet seats were found to be one of the cleaner surfaces, but telephones and computer keyboards were found to be some of the most filthy.\n\nThere are several obvious factors at play here. The more often something is touched, the more germs it collects. On a busy work day it was found that the average employee is touching ten items per minute. Also, janitors are expected to clean toilets regularly, but are often asked not to disturb workspaces. The study found that bacteria can grow 19 to 31% a day in a workstation if nothing is done. Employees who frequently wipe down their areas with anti-bacterial products were found to reduce the bacteria count 99.9% in two days' time.\n\nThe study was conducted in Tucson, San Francisco, New York, and Tampa. Tucson was found to have the cleanest desks, and New York was found to have the dirtiest. The researchers believe Tucson's desert climate is not as inviting to bacteria. The most germ-ridden surface in Tucson was, in fact, the water fountain handle, demonstrating that moisture is an important factor. Clorox also speculates that in "busier" cities employees are more likely to eat in their workplace, which increases the risk of bacteria spreading.\n\nThe dirtiest areas in the workplace were telephones, but fax machines, water fountain handles, microwave door handles, and computer keyboards were not far behind in the 7,000 items sampled in the survey. Scott Harper, environmental health and safety director for Pima Community College concludes:\n\nI don't want to create a paranoia about touching anything, but we can go a long ways to increase awareness about the benefits of washing your hands or wiping down your desk.\n\nWhat diseases can you catch from toilet seats?\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDear Straight Dope:\n\nWhat EXACTLY can you catch from sitting on a toilet seat? I took an informal survey and asked several of my girlfriends if they sit on public toilet seats, and 9 of the 11 of them never do. When I asked why, all of them had some variation of "You never know what you can catch from a toilet seat." So, please clear this up for all of us women who are afraid to sit down in a public restroom. --Nicole Anderson, Millis, MA\n\nSDSTAFF Jill replies:\n\nYou can get cooties, and that's about it. Sexually transmitted diseases are spread via sexual intercourse with an infected person. Most of them are spread more easily from male to female. The diseases vary in how infectious they are, but none of them are spread on toilet seats (well, assuming you're using the toilet seat for what it was intended). Most bugs don't tend to live on cool, hard surfaces.\n\nI could add that a couple of diseases - syphilis and herpes - can be spread by direct non-sexual contact with infectious lesions, so make sure there is not an infected person already on the toilet when you sit down. One should consider HOW people sit on toilet seats. Genital and anal infections most likely would not come in contact with the seat in normal use. Intact skin is a good barrier against most disease organisms ... unless of course one were to pick up a bacterium or virus on the seat, then immediately plant their buttocks on someone's nose and mouth. If this were to happen to me, disease transmission would be the least of my concerns.\n\nAs far as other kinds of diseases that have different routes of transmission, such as oral/fecal or airborne, the hands are more to blame for spreading these diseases than the bott
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I POOPED AT WORK ONCE\n\nIT SCARED MY BOSS THEN HE TOLD ME I WAS SICK\n\nONE TIME AT MY MODELING JOB FOR A SWIMSUIT COMPANY I FARTED AND EVERYONE HEARD IT  LOL
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It would be unsanitary not to. I do every time after I use the bathroom. But I do know what you mean. I have seen a lot of people who don't. The ones you immediately want to watch out for are co-workers-don't eat what they brought to a pot luck...gross! Even family members, I don't have that problem with family, but watch out eating what they cooked. People can be just sick....
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It's hard for you to have a bowel movement. You know go poo.
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not exactly, but when i was 17 i worked in a nursing facility as a housekeeper/janitor, and one day as i was cleaning a room, and i went to empty the bathroom trash. well, as i opened the bathroom door, there was a resident sitting on the toilet, (lady in her mid to upper 80's) i was so embarassed that i just left the room and went on to the next one. later that day, one of the female housekeepers told me that the lady felt bad that i got embarassed, but she wished i had shut the door because she wasn't finished. :)
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dont u hate it when u go to the bathroom and the toilet seats wet
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Do you need to poop? I'm just saying.....
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UGH.\n\nI hate public restrooms. Most of the time, the floor is covered with used t-paper, and the toilets are clogged with other people's "stuff". If I am forced to use one, I always put a layer of toilet paper on the seat first.\n\nI guess some people just don't give a damn about anyone else, and treat the world as their trashcan :(
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hahahaha funny.\nthose bathrooms are disgusting.
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I once went in to a public restroom and apparently someone had diahhrea and poop was splattered all over the stall,walls and floor. Practically SPRAYED. Some people are not from this country and are used to pooping,peeing,ect in drains.I used to work ata hotel where that sort of thing happend all the time..DO NOT GO IN THAT STALL. You could get an intestinal disorder from other peoples poop.
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i think in public is ok, but not in a restraunt, go to the restroom if you really need to blow
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All the time. But I usually fart, burp, sneeze, and then vomit. Sometimes I pee myself a little with all the chaos, but it's never too messy.
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As a supervisor at 2 different companies, I have had to explain to an employee that they had an odor problem.  As horrible and embarrassing as it was for me, it was even more so for them.  But the truth is if it were you, wouldn't you want to know?  Actually in both instances it had to do with their behaviors.  One guy used a cologne that had a BO like smell, the other worked out before he showed up to work without showering.  Simple fixes and everyone was happy in the end.
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Very Often, and it's disgusting especially when you find surprises on the seat (blood, urine, etc.)\nI will start taking Lysol with me along with emergency paper towels and tissues. Target stores have the worst bathrooms I have ever seen
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Well, that's interesting. You see, I, at one time, had a friend who owned a convenience store(like mom&pop) who begged me to do some remodeling. After a short period of phenagling, he convinced me to help him run the place while he ran his daily errands. It became convenient to me to keep some of my tools at his store so that I might leave directly from there to other construction projects. In his realising that he had not the storage space for my items, He insisted that he close the female restroom, and allowed me to use it as my personal area for storage. Well, after that, it was obvious to me that this was also my personal bathroom, as I was the only one with the key. To this date, I feel more comfortable with using the facilities given than at any other time in my life.\n  So , I would have to say yes to your question of 'Do I use the same toilet cubicle'.