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Lid blown on women's toilet habits
Herald Sun ^ | 28 July 2005

Posted on 07/27/2005 6:42:19 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

IT'S enough to make you wonder why they insist on putting the seat down.

A new survey shows 22 per cent of professional Australian women crouch or squat over the toilets in their workplaces rather than risk contact with the seats. And another 14 per cent - making more than a third of women overall - wipe the seat first, then crouch over the seat just to be safe.

The survey, conducted by Initial Healthcare, gathered the responses of 200 women working in advertising agencies, publishing, finance, pharmaceutical and general business in Australia last month.

Forty-six per cent of respondents wiped down the seat with toilet paper if they thought the seat appeared dirty, while 18 per cent simply refused to use their work toilets if they felt they were unclean.

Only five per cent said their offices provided a bactericide spray or wipe to ensure hygiene.

Eighty per cent of women wanted to have a sanitary bin that opened without the need to touch it.

"The survey reminds us of how important clean facilities are to staff in any office, not to mention clients who may visit," Initial Healthcare said in a statement.


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Here's something you didn't expect to learn when you woke up this morning...
1 posted on 07/27/2005 6:42:20 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
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To: Aussie Dasher

Worst.

Album art.

Ever.

2 posted on 07/27/2005 6:45:12 PM PDT by martin_fierro (MY PRODUCT IS BETTER THAN YOUR PRODUCT!!1!)
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To: Aussie Dasher
I've been peeling like a man at the office from the get-go.
3 posted on 07/27/2005 6:45:20 PM PDT by Raffus (The best sermons are lived, not preached.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Aussie Dasher,

Your countrywomen must be very spry to do some of these things!


4 posted on 07/27/2005 6:45:47 PM PDT by Vor Lady (O, ace, a, omen, eta, usi...)
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To: Aussie Dasher

And I bet 98% of them use their feet to flush. I sure do!


5 posted on 07/27/2005 6:45:54 PM PDT by CO Gal (Liberals should be seen, but not heard..)
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To: Aussie Dasher

You never know where a toilet seat has been.


6 posted on 07/27/2005 6:45:58 PM PDT by wildehunt (follow those hounds..)
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To: Aussie Dasher

Not to worry.

7 posted on 07/27/2005 6:47:21 PM PDT by Cagey (Scrapple is not for vegetarians, those who keep kosher, or those with weak stomachs)
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To: Raffus

Okay - peeling my clothes off to "pee" because I'm so busy. Life at work is hell. Okay I still love my job.


8 posted on 07/27/2005 6:47:50 PM PDT by Raffus (The best sermons are lived, not preached.)
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To: martin_fierro

Lordy. Ha! You're on a roll! (no pun intended)


9 posted on 07/27/2005 6:48:46 PM PDT by LNewman
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LOL me too, I always wonder if people looking under thought I was a man cause I've turned toward the toilet and cocked up my leg to flush.


10 posted on 07/27/2005 6:49:23 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: Raffus
I've been peeling like a man at the office from the get-go.

. Next time, use a good sun block.

11 posted on 07/27/2005 6:50:28 PM PDT by Cagey (Scrapple is not for vegetarians, those who keep kosher, or those with weak stomachs)
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To: martin_fierro

Does holding on of your shoes help? I'll have to try that.


12 posted on 07/27/2005 6:50:37 PM PDT by CO Gal (Liberals should be seen, but not heard..)
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To: CO Gal
I haven't touched a public toilet flushing handle thingy in about 20 years. Why use the hand when the foot will do? LOL!
13 posted on 07/27/2005 6:50:56 PM PDT by asp1
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To: Aussie Dasher; Dashing Dasher

Or you can just wear Depends and change when you get home! ;o)


14 posted on 07/27/2005 6:51:15 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Aussie Dasher

Crouching Matilda?


15 posted on 07/27/2005 6:53:06 PM PDT by mikrofon (Up rode a squatter...)
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To: martin_fierro

Alternately titled ... "I never shoulda ate those habeneros."


16 posted on 07/27/2005 6:54:52 PM PDT by LNewman
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To: pissant

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!


17 posted on 07/27/2005 6:56:03 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Lord, we need a Logan miracle for Simcha7 and Cowboy. Please.)
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To: SouthernFreebird

I was going to ask you about that! ;o)


18 posted on 07/27/2005 6:57:39 PM PDT by pissant
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To: Grannyx4

I prefer baby wipes to toilet yoga, myself...


19 posted on 07/27/2005 7:01:45 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs ("Se habla, MoFo!")
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To: Aussie Dasher

I don't let my biscuits touch a toilet seat ever, esp. in railroad train station.


20 posted on 07/27/2005 7:02:40 PM PDT by cyborg
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