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Brits ‘too busy’ to wash hands after using loo while 58% of men skip daily shower

June 19th, 2012 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

  • 58 per cent of men regularly go to work without washing
  • One in 20 adults go over a month without cleaning toilet
  • Quarter of Brits change sheets just once a month
  • Over half rarely wash hands before cooking or eating

By
Deborah Arthurs


PUBLISHED:

06:15 EST, 18 June 2012

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UPDATED:

06:15 EST, 18 June 2012

Millions of Britons neglect a string of basic personal hygiene tasks – because they are too busy or too lazy, a survey found today.

Researchers found barely half of adults always wash their hands with soap after visiting the toilet.

And shockingly 27 per cent of workers claim to be too rushed at work to wash and dry their hands properly after visiting the toilet.

Additionally, 58 per cent of men regularly skip the morning shower – with one quarter admitting they would rather have the extra time in bed.

Dirty habits: Researchers found barely half of adults always wash their hands with soap after visiting the toilet

Dirty habits: Researchers found barely half of adults always wash their hands with soap after visiting the toilet

One in three said they simply couldn’t be bothered.

And it’s not just personal hygiene standards which are slipping. A host of household jobs also fall by the wayside as a result of our hectic lifestyles, the report by the ‘The Global Hygiene Council’ found.

One in twenty of the 2,000 adults polled in the Dettol HABIT (Hygiene, Attitudes, Behaviour, Insight Traits) study said the last time they cleaned their toilet was a month ago and 10 per cent said it was two weeks ago.

Incredibly, one quarter of lazy Brits change their bed sheets just once a month.

Professor John Oxford, Chairman of the Hygiene Council and Professor of Virology at Queen Mary College, University of London, said: ‘We all live extremely busy lives and 21st century living is much faster paced than it was say 20 years ago.

‘However, there is no excuse as to why people are neglecting basic tasks like washing hands with soap after visiting the toilet and cleaning their home to a standard that is healthy for people to inhabit.

‘There is a stark difference between a tidy home and hygienically clean home – if people do not want to make the bed and put clothes away then so be it, but it’s important to target the hygiene hotspots and properly clean and disinfect the areas which matter like kitchen surfaces, sinks and of course the toilet.

Wash out: 58 per cent of men say they would rather have a longer lie-in than have a daily shower

Wash out: 58 per cent of men say they would rather have a longer lie-in than have a daily shower

‘Naturally we all want to have a lie-in but skipping a morning wash is both anti-social for the people who have to sit next to us at work and unhealthy.

‘A morning shower not only wakes you up, but washing regularly can help to limit the transmission of germs and pathogens.’

More than two thirds of those polled said their house was tidy but not necessarily clean. And an honest 11 per cent people admitted their home was in fact ‘quite dirty’.

The study also revealed one in five haven’t cleaned or disinfected their fridge in over a year and one in twenty have never cleaned their fridge despite it being a breeding ground for bacteria, some of which thrive at cooler temperatures.

Half of those polled said they often leave work surfaces in their kitchen to get ‘really bad’ before cleaning them even after preparing raw meat and vegetables on them.

More than half say they rarely wash their hands before eating or preparing a meal.

Naively 16 per cent of those polled said ‘a bit of dirt and germs is good for you’ and 10 per cent believe it takes too long to make sure everything is clean and germ free.

Professor John Oxford added: ‘We’re not suggesting you live in a sterile environment – that would be impossible – but we are suggesting you make time in your busy day to wash hands with soap at key times and target the areas of your home which are responsible for causing infection to spread around the household.’

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My wife must be in a minority…she has 2 baths and 1 shower each day! She has a bath on waking, a shower after she has been to the gym and then another bath before bed. In 30 years of marriage, i have never known her to have anything less.

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I was in a club the other day where 2/4 loos had no paper. I waited until one of the other two was free for over ten minutes, and saw over ten girls go into these toilets and nine of which walked out after using them without washing their hands. It was absolutely disgusting.

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I can’t imagine not showering. My day doesn’t start without a shower!!

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Whoever invents a body spray that smells like soapwater will make a fortune.

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This is no surprise to me. We know what it’s like to stand behind the stinky Europeans in the lines at Disneyworld

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No one has mentioned climate. Try not showering daily in Canada and the US from April until October, you wake up sweaty, air/con or not. Again, fixed head showers take only 2/3 minutes to use, wakes you up, bang, bang, bang. As for the person who said dirt flakes off, yes it does, right on to your smelly disgusting clothes, which daily, should go into the dirty clothes hamper. As I’m semi-retired, there are times in the late spring/summer when I don’t shower, the weak chlorine solution in the pool takes care of that! Yes, I was born and bred in the UK, but in general. with I will admit, many exceptions, the level of personal hygiene in the UK is nothing short of disgusting.

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A lot of ignorant people here. Get a grip. Like others have said, Germs are everywhere… There’s no… I repeat NO way of escaping them. Wash your hands one minute, next thing you know… Or don’t germs will find their way back. Not saying people shouldn’t, but seriously all this fuss.

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How can you expect people to wash their hands after using toilet if all the belongings are on the floor in public toilet.Handbags,shopping bags, jackets .Disgusting.And in so many kids play areas parents letting kids to go to toilet without shoes.Yack.

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58% of British men head to work in the morning without showering and 27% don’t wash hands after using the toilet? Red arrow me for this but I think everyone has the time to take a 5 minute shower and spend 20 seconds washing their hands.

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I don’t think we can be dicatated to by Americans about hygene, America is the only place i’ve been in the world where i’ve suffered food poisoning, it’s the only place I’ve ever been where on entry to the country I got insulted by a customs official who decided he would integrate with the public by insulting them with his dinner down the front of his shirt and tie, don’t get me started on people who DON’T wash their hands after going to the toilet in America either.

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