The Book of Ashes

The 8 Ball and of washing your hands. 2:49AM

I have just posted something up on another ""columist"" site. Their idea is similar to the diary entries idea but they post less regularly and just write up interesting thoughts rather than what they're up to all the time. This makes for a more interesting read and they also have the ability to post comments against an entry. The site is 8 ball if you're interested. Its quite a cool NZ site. Anyway one of the guys wrote about how he didn't wash his hands after going to the toilet and didn't care for it. Quite an interesting topic. Heres what I had to say about it...

Isn't the whole idea of washing your hands a bit of a farce anyway? I mean you shower every day (hopefully) and your hands get washed then. I'm sure you could last day by day without washing your hands everytime you go to the toilet without compromising your hygeine that much. This is of course assuming that you're a clean wiper and not one of these people that somehow ends up with brown crayon on their hands instead of the toilet paper or ends up pissing all over their hands while doing their thing. Assuming your a clean wiper and your cock is also maintained at a reasonable level of hygeine then its not really the germs you're concerned about is it? Its all a big act, played out to put other peoples minds at ease (as well as your own). Like you say, you don't want to know that you've touched the door handle that your flatmates hand has touched that has touched his cock. Thats only 1 degree of seperation, you're practically holding his cock in your hand as you think this. But we do this all the time, think about pub toilets, think about the food thats prepared (by hand) in many resturants, think about many horrible things and you end up not touching anything or eating anything. But if you don't think about this then you're sweet. If you always wash your hands then you can live life in your little happy place and believe that everyone else must always wash their hands as well, that no one ever pisses in the shower before you stand in it and that when you smell a fart its not really the shit particles from someone elses arse that are getting up your nose but just a bad smell. We wash our hands because it puts others at ease and makes us feel like everyone else also washes their hands and then we don't have to think about it anymore and we NEVER, EVER, EVER admit to not doing it, else everyone else throws a spaz and you never meet girls again.

Crispy is right its a fucking spectacular day and I'm inside on the computer. Back to my old self I guess, just now I have a tan and I'm inside :