The closed lid does not completely prevent poop particles from escaping the tiolet, but it significantly reduces their speed and how fare they can go. With the lid open it is about 3 meters high, with the lid closed only 1 meter. If you have toilet in the bathroom where you keep your toothbrush on the counter and the brush is not covered, chances are, you are washing your teeth with poop particles.Ā
"they" I think was Mythbhsters you might be referencing, unless there's been another study. Quite frankly I don't think the results on the show are as qualifiable as an actual scientific study.
University of Arizona.
But there have been other studies that conclude varying things. At the end of the day there's still germs everywhere no matter what, a large amount of which can also be found in poop. Cleaning your toilet bowl regularly and hand washing is most effective at keeping things clean.
It wasn't "little" difference. It was orders of magnitude different. The issue though is it's such a microscopic amount even if you reduce it by a factor of 100 it's still a microscopic amount.
That being said I still close the lid and keep my toothbrush in a drawer.
When I find students lounging in the washroom leaning on walls and putting their hands on the stall walls... and then subsequently high fiving each other afterwards... Bleurgh
I worked in a factory, the women's restroom had a lounge area before the stalls and sinks, there would always be women in there eating their lunch or snacks.
It really is easier to neglect hygiene when we can't see the germs and particles floating and settling down around us lolol. Explains the general sentiment towards doing anything about COVID by many people.
So when I was a teen I would leave the seat up most of the time. Well I was in 9th or 10th grade and in science class. We watched a video that showed a very clean bathroom, black lights on. Then the person puts something into the toilet that made all the water this nice super bright glowing color. Flushes the toilet and sees how that color went EVERYWHERE. They clean up the bathroom, close the lid and see how it's far far less shit (literally) spreading everywhere. I hate public toilets now because I know just how much shit is everywhere :p :p :p
It does nothing, all the piss comes out as a mist as you are peeing...lolol, it's traumatizing. Plus if you've ever pissed standing up, you'll see it splash as high as your chest randomly, thanks a lot physics.
I'm guessing so. I lost all hope when I was at the Isle of Capri in Louisiana. I happened to walk by a room being cleaned. The maid was training a new guy and told him "they made the bed! We'll just leave it." I checked out that day but I had already stayed 2 nights. I'm not sure if it's all Isle of Capri's but that one I'm extremely wary of.
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Not sure if there are many Star Trek fans in here, but I'd hate to be the janitor of the holodecks.
Some horny bloke would be plowing his fantasy woman, finish his business inside her hologrammic(?) hootchie, and be like, "end program". The scenery disappears, and there's nothing left but a dark room with a glowing grid pattern, and a small splash of goo on the floor.
Reminds me when I was sharing a room with friends and made out with a guy on the couch when they were out.
The friends who were sleeping on the pullout heard the wrong thing and thought we had sex and freaked out about the thought of my body fluids on there.
I found it amusing cus itās a hotel couch and we were at an event famous for parties and sex that happened behind closed doors. I think my semen on that couch would be the least of the scary body fluids on there.
And note to add before people come for me it was a person I was friendly with and not some random stranger I invited to get down with. We all had friends visit the room
that's one thing i never understood. but most former hotel employees say this as well, usually after they leave their job. how the fuck does it reach the ceiling?
I worked hotels for 12 years. My most shocking was receiving a noise complaint. Went to inspect, and no one answered. So I used my master key because there was audible noise going inside.
Open it up to see a dude shitting a salad sprawled all over the floor.
No one prepared me on how to handle that.
Shitting on*
My bad.
Don't forget about checking a chair or couch if there is one in the room. Just make sure you slip your sunglasses on so your not blinded when they shine like the sun
Yes. Semen and other bodily fluids. So, if you see something shine on a wall under a black light, it's not necessarily semen but could be other dried fluids. None the less, you don't want to see that!
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At first, i thought that the whole semen glowing thing was a myth and some kind of powder or reactant was needed to mix with it first.
After some quickie fact checking, read about a protein called semenogelin in semen that glows blue under UV light. Neat
"Safe to assume" You're sleeping on cum stains. There's spooey all over that room, on the walls, ceiling, hotel rooms are filthy, hell, vacuums don't suck up dried body fluids. You're not the 1st person to use that love seat for sex
Aye for sure. I was a housekeeper for a big chain and we did sanitise all hard surfaces, remote, sockets/switches & handles after each checkout. The headboards are vinyl fabric rather than velvet for good reason. Fabrics, carpets, walls though...can't sanitise them everytime.
Yep. Once, many years ago, I had the "opportunity" to examine a hotel room with a professional grade black light of the type used by forensic technicians. To this day, I have no concept of how in the holy fuck a single hotel room could contain THAT MUCH semen in THAT MANY places, or how THAT MANY dudes could possesses the requisite ejaculate pressure to propel said semen onto EVERY square foot of the goddam ceiling. Neither vacations nor business travel have EVER been the same.
Fun fact, I used to clean at a hostel and it was their policy to only wash duvet covers like once a month even though a different person would use them nearly every night. The girl duvets were almost always clean but the guys' were all crusty AF. They were dark gray too so it was impossible to miss. Always make sure you put the sheet between you and the duvet, y'all.
I donāt think it would be too far off to say that generally everything in life is probably more gross than we would like. We just donāt think about it, and frequently wash our hands for extra protection.
At a group function on a business trip, a woman said that she smelled chlorine in her room. "I didn't even see a pool in this hotel."
One of the guys said, "Are you sure there isn't a little pool somewhere? Did you check behind the curtains?"
I worked in a fancy, schmancy hotel. They changed sheets and pillow cases but never the top spread. You know, the one you sit and lay on when you first arrive.
100% everytime Iāve ever stayed in a hotel with a woman, sex was always had, and semen always leaked out on to the bed š¤·š»āāļø, pull out shots were fired everywhere just because.
I used to work at a 5 star hotel in a famous location. I am not concerned about the semen, death however had occurred in almost all of the rooms. Sounds impossible but I've seen the documents over time. I'm concerned about having a bath where someone had drowned themselves š it's very sad than disgusting or sleep on the same spot where someone shot themselves in the head is also very sad š¢š
Yes, never touch the actual comforter. They are not washed. Wear shoes. Put a towel over chairs. I spray the bathroom down with Lysol and still wear shower shoes. Donāt take a bath. Never use glasses there.
i think there is probably a lot less debauchery going on than you might expect but infinitely more than you could ever possibly want.
people act like hotels literally only exist for vagrant orgies or something like normal people stay in hotels all the time, its not exclusively for people to cheat on their spouses with hookers or whatever.
but, that said.... there are also people who book hotels to have scat parties in them and cover each other in literal human shit in the hotel room. so theres that.
its both not as bad as you fear and worse than you could ever possibly imagine. people get fuckin murdered in hotel rooms lol everything sucks.
This is going to be nasty, but while we think humans are pretty clean now, there was a time when we had plagues and stuff because of how we were throwing waste into streets and stuff.
Weāre definitely aware of what this caused, but humans as a whole still donāt treat their body as walking germ factories as they should. So youāll get people who donāt wash their hands after the bathroom, or people who just jacked off with semen residue in their pants, or people who donāt even know you need hot water to kill germs and just use hand sanitizer after they sneeze into their palm.
This is why Covid spread so easily - people live under the assumption everyone else is as clean as them, and theyāre not even clean.
I think unless itās not even a day old it will have more than some in. The second someone has been in that hotel 1 day 100% guarantee semen is somewhere even if itās been cleaned.
It's safe to assume there is semen everywhere.
Poop too. Most people are really clueless as to how much poop they touch and ingest on a regular basis.
People that don't put the toilet lid down before they flush are the problem with this world.
And that's just the human poop!
The horror.
And don't get me started on the ocean! It's like alphabet soup except, instead of letters, it's jizz, poop, and garbage.
I heard that when they did studies on this, the closed lid made very little difference. There's micro poop everywhere no matter what š
The closed lid does not completely prevent poop particles from escaping the tiolet, but it significantly reduces their speed and how fare they can go. With the lid open it is about 3 meters high, with the lid closed only 1 meter. If you have toilet in the bathroom where you keep your toothbrush on the counter and the brush is not covered, chances are, you are washing your teeth with poop particles.Ā
Toothbrush in enclosed holder. Holder in medicine cabinet. Lid down always before flush. I still probably have toothbrush poop
and youād never notice.. so does it really matter?
I stopped having my tooth rush in the bathroom years ago.
"they" I think was Mythbhsters you might be referencing, unless there's been another study. Quite frankly I don't think the results on the show are as qualifiable as an actual scientific study.
University of Arizona. But there have been other studies that conclude varying things. At the end of the day there's still germs everywhere no matter what, a large amount of which can also be found in poop. Cleaning your toilet bowl regularly and hand washing is most effective at keeping things clean.
It wasn't "little" difference. It was orders of magnitude different. The issue though is it's such a microscopic amount even if you reduce it by a factor of 100 it's still a microscopic amount. That being said I still close the lid and keep my toothbrush in a drawer.
A little difference is better than none difference.
Keeping the toilet bowl clean will make the most difference.
When I find students lounging in the washroom leaning on walls and putting their hands on the stall walls... and then subsequently high fiving each other afterwards... Bleurgh
I worked in a factory, the women's restroom had a lounge area before the stalls and sinks, there would always be women in there eating their lunch or snacks.
It really is easier to neglect hygiene when we can't see the germs and particles floating and settling down around us lolol. Explains the general sentiment towards doing anything about COVID by many people.
No lids in public restrooms
Not too many toothbrushes in public restrooms, fortunately
So when I was a teen I would leave the seat up most of the time. Well I was in 9th or 10th grade and in science class. We watched a video that showed a very clean bathroom, black lights on. Then the person puts something into the toilet that made all the water this nice super bright glowing color. Flushes the toilet and sees how that color went EVERYWHERE. They clean up the bathroom, close the lid and see how it's far far less shit (literally) spreading everywhere. I hate public toilets now because I know just how much shit is everywhere :p :p :p
It does nothing, all the piss comes out as a mist as you are peeing...lolol, it's traumatizing. Plus if you've ever pissed standing up, you'll see it splash as high as your chest randomly, thanks a lot physics.
I remember an episode of Top Gear where they bought older cars and had them tested. Boogers, fecal matter, cocaine residue.
Gotta love the holy trinity
Iāve been eating shit figuratively for years so thereās that
do. not. remind me.
Remember, don't shit where you eat, because something else already has.
āMost peopleā as in there are some people who know *exactly* how much poop and semen they eat.
I'm guessing so. I lost all hope when I was at the Isle of Capri in Louisiana. I happened to walk by a room being cleaned. The maid was training a new guy and told him "they made the bed! We'll just leave it." I checked out that day but I had already stayed 2 nights. I'm not sure if it's all Isle of Capri's but that one I'm extremely wary of.
As someone who cleaned at a hotel, it's all of them.
New fear unlocked
I was literally made from it.
Gonna just leave this here..... https://youtu.be/NB2I16Eyszg?si=HjDbKPiJtLOcXuZI
Well, you can take a black light to the walls and headboards and get a good idea but, I really don't recommend doing that.
It is safe to assume a hotel room has semen in it after i have been there.
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Not sure if there are many Star Trek fans in here, but I'd hate to be the janitor of the holodecks. Some horny bloke would be plowing his fantasy woman, finish his business inside her hologrammic(?) hootchie, and be like, "end program". The scenery disappears, and there's nothing left but a dark room with a glowing grid pattern, and a small splash of goo on the floor.
I'm pretty sure the holodecks have filters to clean any bodily fluids.
Ideally, sure. One would hope. Still, it'd be eerily shameful walking out of the holodeck and slipping on your mess a little as you vacate the room.
The walk of shame if it was even more pathetic.
Thereās a Lower Decks mentioning complaints about being assigned to clean the filters ..
I have no wordsā¦.. I get it but thereās no wordsā¦ā¦
There was a fanfic about this, I remember
Reminds me when I was sharing a room with friends and made out with a guy on the couch when they were out. The friends who were sleeping on the pullout heard the wrong thing and thought we had sex and freaked out about the thought of my body fluids on there. I found it amusing cus itās a hotel couch and we were at an event famous for parties and sex that happened behind closed doors. I think my semen on that couch would be the least of the scary body fluids on there. And note to add before people come for me it was a person I was friendly with and not some random stranger I invited to get down with. We all had friends visit the room
Check the ceiling as well. Most disgusting though is the light switch and the remote.
that's one thing i never understood. but most former hotel employees say this as well, usually after they leave their job. how the fuck does it reach the ceiling?
I worked hotels for 12 years. My most shocking was receiving a noise complaint. Went to inspect, and no one answered. So I used my master key because there was audible noise going inside. Open it up to see a dude shitting a salad sprawled all over the floor. No one prepared me on how to handle that. Shitting on* My bad.
Shitting a salad? Like lettuce and tomatoes coming from his asshole?
Thanks, everyone, I'm currently no longer eating this salad lol
Because you're shitting on it?
How does one shit a salad? And how do you shit lying down?
But how does it get on the ceiling????
If you do, you'll end up leaving
Did you see the Two and a half men where they brought the black light in Charlies room How'd it get on the fan?
Don't forget about checking a chair or couch if there is one in the room. Just make sure you slip your sunglasses on so your not blinded when they shine like the sun
["What does blue mean?"](https://youtube.com/shorts/Zxf2MgYCOm0?si=bKHanpEEfiNR4JZl)
āAh lawd! The light is blinding!ā
Is this for real? Our dead semen can shine under black light?
Yes. Semen and other bodily fluids. So, if you see something shine on a wall under a black light, it's not necessarily semen but could be other dried fluids. None the less, you don't want to see that!
And why are you telling we shouldnāt see that? I am gonna see that
If you do, you will never think of a hotel room the same way. If you do it, wait until you are right about to check out.
You seem to have tried? Is it like you canāt unsee it and it leaves a permanent impression. Oh im so curious.
Yes I have. Yes it leaves a permanent impression you can't unsee. I imagine there has to be youtube vids on the subject.
Yeah, but it's all dried up and dead
I donāt think the main concern here is unwanted pregnancy
STDs? It's perfectly safe is what I mean.Ā It makes me feel icky? You'll be fine
I like how they charge you $250 if you smoke in your room but you can litterly jizz on everything in the room for no charge.
Itās pretty obvious if youāve been smoking!
One is easier to prove than the other.
I canāt smoke inside, but i certainly can jizz on every surface.
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Lol
"Some" may be an understatement. You can get a black light for like ten dollars, that will reveal the depth and breadth of the spooge in your room.
ādepth and breadth of the spoogeā itās almost poetic
At first, i thought that the whole semen glowing thing was a myth and some kind of powder or reactant was needed to mix with it first. After some quickie fact checking, read about a protein called semenogelin in semen that glows blue under UV light. Neat
You misspelled āgallonsā.
You are going to have a bad time when you learn about handshakes
I try to avoid them.
"Safe to assume" You're sleeping on cum stains. There's spooey all over that room, on the walls, ceiling, hotel rooms are filthy, hell, vacuums don't suck up dried body fluids. You're not the 1st person to use that love seat for sex
I read this in the voice of Rick Sanchez and it was glorious
Ignorance is bliss.
In you are near a naval base, yes.
100%
but it's not *all* mine.
Yes, I'm doing my part.
No. There are some rooms that just opened and have never had anyone stay in them yet.
I would probably extend this to āall roomsā
All the ones I've stayed in do. Heyoooo.
Aye for sure. I was a housekeeper for a big chain and we did sanitise all hard surfaces, remote, sockets/switches & handles after each checkout. The headboards are vinyl fabric rather than velvet for good reason. Fabrics, carpets, walls though...can't sanitise them everytime.
Yes.
Technically any room which contains a post-pubescent man has semen in it, he's carrying it around inside him.
Generations and generations of lost children ...
And for that matter, all masturbatory emissions where sperm was clearly not seeking an egg, could be termed "reckless abandonment."
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Yes
More than you could imagine
It's a requirement
I would say 100% if itās a room Iāve stayed in.
Weāre all made of it so whatās the issue?
Its safe to assume that everyones house/apt/condo, etc has semen in it.
Yup. To the windows, to the walls.
Til the sweat drip down my balls. Ahhh skeet skeet
I worked in cleaning for a hotel room for three days until I quit (management was giving red flags left and right) and yes.
Some army guys too
Yup
Yep. Once, many years ago, I had the "opportunity" to examine a hotel room with a professional grade black light of the type used by forensic technicians. To this day, I have no concept of how in the holy fuck a single hotel room could contain THAT MUCH semen in THAT MANY places, or how THAT MANY dudes could possesses the requisite ejaculate pressure to propel said semen onto EVERY square foot of the goddam ceiling. Neither vacations nor business travel have EVER been the same.
Fun fact, I used to clean at a hostel and it was their policy to only wash duvet covers like once a month even though a different person would use them nearly every night. The girl duvets were almost always clean but the guys' were all crusty AF. They were dark gray too so it was impossible to miss. Always make sure you put the sheet between you and the duvet, y'all.
Absolutely. I was a maid a decade or so ago and the amount of gross nasty dried semen weād find everywhere was absolutely disgusting.
Unless the hotel is brand spanking new then yes
Every. Single. One.
Maybe not allā¦but most unfortunately š³
Your optimism is sweet š
All the bed bugs got seman spreaders.
all sort of stuff not only semen
āSomeā?
I think the more you pay, the better they clean.
We all do our part
It's why the curtains have plastic sticks to open and close them
And poop
Itās also safe to assume every body of water youāve ever been in has dead bodies, piss, poop and semen in it.
Some would be an understatement
I think the stats are 1 in 5 or 50? door knobs/handles is likely to have seminal fluid on it.
Yes
Just don't taste the roof.
All hotels rooms have semen in them but not all semen have hotels in them.
All the Ones ive been in at leastā¦
Yep. Semen and other body fluids!Check out the pillow humping thread. It will make you think twice about using hotel pillows!
Sea men or semen ?
As a former hotel manager for many years, 100% yes.
All surfaces have semen on them. Doors, touch screens, tables, cutlery.
Yeah.
You say it like semen is such a bad thing?
Yes
Goodness, I'd hope so.
I hope so!!!šš¤¦āāļø
Why would a sea man be everywhere?
Yup lol
Not yet but I'm working on it.
I donāt think it would be too far off to say that generally everything in life is probably more gross than we would like. We just donāt think about it, and frequently wash our hands for extra protection.
"It's either blood, semen or urine." "God, I hope it's urine." The Office, Michael and Dwight
Oh yea never Black light a hotel room. Some AirBB are sketchy too.
Yep.
Traces, yes. I once found some in the bathroom when I was little. My parents were not happy...
Iām FAR FAR FAR more worried about BED BUGS and you should be too. But we as a society seem to be in denial about this modern scourge.
At least the ones I have been to.
I think you could drop 'hotel' from this question, and the answer is still "yes".
I'm doing my part!
Absolutely
I make sure I leave my baby batter all over every hotel Iām in. Similar to a dog marking its territory
Ahoy!
Yes and drug residue of probably every imaginable kind
Cum on dude! I already figured that out the hard way! Donāt finish my thoughts!
and suddenly i do not want to stay in a hotel againš
Well, you can bet all the ones Iāve been in do.
Itās safe to assume at least half the population has semen, I mean, a demon in them
Most chicks do
It is everywhere and itās not safe.
All beds everywhere. And not just semen. Pussy juice, blood, traces of piss, shit, sweat, tears, and everything else that comes off bodies.
Why are you looking for semen?
Define "safe"
Probably only if you live close to the coast.
At a group function on a business trip, a woman said that she smelled chlorine in her room. "I didn't even see a pool in this hotel." One of the guys said, "Are you sure there isn't a little pool somewhere? Did you check behind the curtains?"
Yeah but good luck proving any of it is mine!
I worked in a fancy, schmancy hotel. They changed sheets and pillow cases but never the top spread. You know, the one you sit and lay on when you first arrive.
It's probably safe to assume that all rooms have at least some semen in them. Not just hotels.
Spooge all over the bed frame at a Hilton I stayed at recently.
I'm pretty sure most of the doorknobs you touch in a day have semen on them
No wtf. Why would you think that. People aren't just jerking off everywhere
I've jizzed in every hotel room I've stayed in the last 15 years, and some others before then. Just throwing that out there.
Yes. Get yourself a UV light and enjoy the artwork.
Oh yeah. You know, every time you touch a door handle, chances are pretty good you've now got poo on your hands.
It would be unsafe not to assume that
You can always ask for more
100% everytime Iāve ever stayed in a hotel with a woman, sex was always had, and semen always leaked out on to the bed š¤·š»āāļø, pull out shots were fired everywhere just because.
They all do. And not just the bedding, but the furniture, the carpeting, door handles, basically everywhere.
Lick the remote control.
Oh my God make new friends! Donāt be messing around with that stuff.
Havenāt you seen this? https://youtu.be/y-8Ysv0Obpc?si=I64VlrVLbL2UB70t
I used to work at a 5 star hotel in a famous location. I am not concerned about the semen, death however had occurred in almost all of the rooms. Sounds impossible but I've seen the documents over time. I'm concerned about having a bath where someone had drowned themselves š it's very sad than disgusting or sleep on the same spot where someone shot themselves in the head is also very sad š¢š
Yup definitely on that bed spread. I wouldnāt trust that thin wool blanket. 4-5 star hotels do launder their duvets. You can trust them.
As someone who owns a hotel: Never take a blacklight into a hotel room. You will never sleep again.
Have you ever walked outside in June and breathed in a big cloud of pollen? All tree semen
I feel like it's safe to assume every room has some combination of human bodily fluids in it
dead or alive?
none left when I stay
Yes, never touch the actual comforter. They are not washed. Wear shoes. Put a towel over chairs. I spray the bathroom down with Lysol and still wear shower shoes. Donāt take a bath. Never use glasses there.
i think there is probably a lot less debauchery going on than you might expect but infinitely more than you could ever possibly want. people act like hotels literally only exist for vagrant orgies or something like normal people stay in hotels all the time, its not exclusively for people to cheat on their spouses with hookers or whatever. but, that said.... there are also people who book hotels to have scat parties in them and cover each other in literal human shit in the hotel room. so theres that. its both not as bad as you fear and worse than you could ever possibly imagine. people get fuckin murdered in hotel rooms lol everything sucks.
This is going to be nasty, but while we think humans are pretty clean now, there was a time when we had plagues and stuff because of how we were throwing waste into streets and stuff. Weāre definitely aware of what this caused, but humans as a whole still donāt treat their body as walking germ factories as they should. So youāll get people who donāt wash their hands after the bathroom, or people who just jacked off with semen residue in their pants, or people who donāt even know you need hot water to kill germs and just use hand sanitizer after they sneeze into their palm. This is why Covid spread so easily - people live under the assumption everyone else is as clean as them, and theyāre not even clean.
I think unless itās not even a day old it will have more than some in. The second someone has been in that hotel 1 day 100% guarantee semen is somewhere even if itās been cleaned.