do women really wave around their pee sticks and put it all over the place when they're checking if they're pregnant?
i get it might tell you good news or bad. but you still peed on the damn thing. why you gotta wave that thing around outside the bathroom?
and why are men touching it?!??! it's a fucking pee stick. 🙄
tv is written to reflect some sort of reality. is this really the reality?!?!?!
@singlemaltgirl
Well...
it is pee and not plutonium...
@Xponent_Rob I was thinking similar. It's not *that* bad. Not saying it's pleasant, but generally speaking it's relatively harmless. Some folk drink it. 🤷♂️
@stueytheround so what you're saying is if you went over to your friend's place, you would happily eat off the counter that a pee stick had just been on? or casually move a pee stick off a kitchen table before eating?
that's disgusting to me. and i'm not that much of a clean freak. but damn.
@singlemaltgirl I've been a pro cook most of my life and while I wouldn't knowingly serve food with pee, if I saw a used pregnancy test on a table it would not put me off, because I know it's harmless mostly. It's fecal matter and bacteria that's really dangerous and the reason you wash your hands isn't because you might have some pee on your hands, but because you may have *bacteria* or fecal particles on your hands from touching yourself or simply being in a toilet.
@stueytheround oh no, i wash b/c it's pee. just like any other bodily fluid and secretions. i wash to clean them off me. i don't think others would want my snot on them, for instance.
the bacteria is secondary but also a good reason.
but i'm just sayin', ugh.
and i'm not even a clean freak. but damn, peeps.
@singlemaltgirl It's good that you're washing for whatever reason, but trust me, that bacteria is by far the primary reason for washing your hands in all situations. Sneeze, wash off the bacteria. Covid, wash. Dyphtheria, wash. Salmonella? Wash. Typhoid, yep, wash.
Pee? Yes wash because it's not *nice* but it's not particularly going to hurt anyone.
@stueytheround and this is why i don't trust shaking hands w/ peeps. this cavalier attitude about pee. i don't think you're alone in thinking this way. i mean look at the responses to my question.
peeps have cavalier attitudes about shit i don't know to know about. that is why they are disgusting little germ incubators.
@singlemaltgirl @stueytheround
I think my main experience with this kind of disgusting nasty stuff is mainly with having to replace the submersible pump motor in a sewerage ejector pump/sump.
It is concentrated nastiness most times and not very pleasant, but it has to be done and the plumber gets it worse than I do.
So, for me, a matter of perspective.