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.
@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 It's not cavalier, it's science! I wash my hands because I don't want to get sick or make people sick, but it's not the pee which would make people sick. It's the bacteria. I'm not saying folk shouldn't be careful about hygeine but your refusal to understand the science of WHY we wash our hands is getting on my nerves.
@stueytheround it's not that i don't get the science. where did i dispute the science.
disgust is a mental thing. it is disgusting to have pee around my food. it's why i don't eat in my bathroom. i eat in places that are not my bathroom.
i'm not sure why you don't understand disgust. or why it might be disgusting to people. if someone changed their babies diaper on my kitchen table, i would have a similar reaction. i'm practical about babies - i had one. but damn.
@singlemaltgirl That's a *you* thing. Don't call other people disgusting because they're less disgusted by things than you.
If someone changed their baby's daiper on *my* dining table, I'd be sure to clean it but I wouldn't be disgusted or call them disgusting for doing it.
@Xponent_Rob
i am disgusted by other peeps. can i say that? or would you like to censor how i feel about things, too?
@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.
@stueytheround @singlemaltgirl @Xponent_Rob
Frankly, I’d be way more concerned about cats walking on the kitchen counters.
@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.
@Xponent_Rob