I don't wash my hands after using the toilet. I don't get pee or poop on them. If you do wash your hands, that's probably better for you, though I feel like being on the dirty side has made me stronger. I'm one of those who doesn't get very clean, yet I hardly ever get sick. But when I do get sick, I get REALLY sick. Maybe I need to start washing my hands.

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Around here, our women poop, and it stinks too.

"...Double Flush (771) -- 08.27.2006 --'I don't wash my hands after using the toilet.'..."

That's a new level of gross, even for you. Sick. Nasty. Vile. Putrid. Loathsome. Despicable. Pestilent.

I'm out of adjectives, but I'll get back to you.

Your mother will be ashamed. Or maybe your mother should BE ashamed for not teaching you better.

Ugh. Damn.
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I've come to realize that signatures are irritating.

I am a fairly habitual hands washer just for the "ew" affect I most likely psychosomatically feel after having my hands anywhere near the butt area. No, I don't have any diseases (that I know of), but I'm sure others appreciate not sensing that there's any possibility of biological weapons of ass destruction on my fingers or palms in general.

I cook alot. Because of this, washing my hands is a regular occurrence.

No, I do not wear Reynold's Wrap on my head. I just like to wash my hands.
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.....hugging bunnies since 1969
www.daphneszoo.com

I don't wash my hands after peeing at home. I know where my willy has been.
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Sir SamDamnit!
The Emir of Crapistan

GottaGoGirl, you judgemental toad, not everyone is as OCD as you obviously are about the subject of hand-washing. While you are entitled to your opinion, attacking someone's upbringing is totally out of line and contributes nothing to the discussion.

And for what it's worth, I, for one, don't wash my hands after performing ANY bathroom activities, unless I actually manage to get urine or feces on them (via the toilet paper ripping and causing me to drag my fingers across my shit-covered ass, for example). If I can't see anything on my fingers after this happens, I usually perform a finger-sniff to find out if I need to wash or not.

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"Uugggghh...nnnrrrrAAaaaaarrrgg...*splash*...aaaahh."

I always wash my hands after i go to the bathroom, and about 500 other times a day since my job as a CNA puts me in close contact with other people's pee and poo.

Then, when I come home from work, I strip down and throw my scrubs right into the washer and jump into the shower just to be sure I have no trace of others' waste in my home.
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Always looking out for number two!

You just gotta wash your hands after going to the bog. The only time this is excusable is if you're too pissed or if there is nothing to dry your hands on

The real question is: do you wash your hands after touching the steering wheel?

Steering wheels trump toilets in germ test

In theory, you should be more wary of shaking hands with GGG after she's done driving than Double Flush after he's done peeing.

DoubleFlush - Damn it, you're making me look normal. Knock it off, willya?

What would it reflect on, then? Tell me.

"Toad" me all you want, Turd, but if you shit, you wash your hands. This is a basic fundamental of civilized society. Period.
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I've come to realize that signatures are irritating.

P.S.

For what it's worth, part of my job is counting all the tills and making the nightly deposit. Money is pretty dirty, and I usually don't have time to wash at work, getting the bum's rush out the door.

So I keep baby wipes in my car (they're there, anyway, because of GoBoy), and I wipe my hands with one, then wipe the steering wheel, gear knob, turn signal, and door handle. It takes maybe 8 seconds. If that's OCD, I'll embrace it.
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I've come to realize that signatures are irritating.

Being too germ free, is bad for your immune system.
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Sir SamDamnit!
The Emir of Crapistan

Right you are, Sam. I don't have a thing about germ-FREE. I don't have anti-bacterial soap, and we open our windows all the time and we only change the bath towels twice a week and...whatever.

You're right. But SHIT is another issue. It has the capacity to spread disease very quickly. People NOT spreading FECES around after they poop is one of the things that moved us into the modern era.

NOT washing your hands after you SHIT is medieval, if not PRIMEVAL. I will not give on this point.

I'm with you, GottaGoGirl. I am not suggesting that any one refrain from washing after a poop. However, people should be aware that they can not avoid eating poop. When ever you smell poop, you are ingesting aerosolized particles of feces, in your nose and mouth. Even if you don't smell it, it is every where. It is in your water and on your food. It is on most every thing that you touch.
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Sir SamDamnit!
The Emir of Crapistan

Wash your hands when you shit
Don't be an uncouth little twit.
Wash with water and some soap,
Don't be a shitty little dope.
When your hand's been near your bum,
Wash it ere you suck your thumb.

Damnit, Sam, I was going for a disgustedless day today, and you ruined it. Now I have to go scrub my mouth and nostils out with Comet and choop off my hands.
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Yes, those are my brown spots. Yes, those are your walls.

A few months ago we debated the dangers of having a toothbrush exposed to the bathroom air. Feces microbes, germs run amok, one would think hysteria took to this forum. Now that same bathroom which houses that horrible toothbrush and exposure to same germs gets a cavalier, devil may care attitude when it comes to hand washing.

"Devil may care" is about right. Like I said, if I can smell it or see it on my hands...

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"Uugggghh...nnnrrrrAAaaaaarrrgg...*splash*...aaaahh."

hand washing should be something that is natural for you to do after you dump or piss. Those of you who say that getting it on your hands is the only excuse for doing so, does it not strike you that because your hand has been near your ass that it might have gotten some sort of feces particle on it?

When I was younger, I wouldn't wash my hands after peeing. But not washing after crapping is just plain out of the question.

Why? Do you make it a habit to crap on your hands?
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"Uugggghh...nnnrrrrAAaaaaarrrgg...*splash*...aaaahh."

You people that don't wash your hands after shitting are just plain fucking gross. By your own twisted logic I assume you don't shower as well until you can see a layer of filth on your skin. I'll take filthy North Americans for $2000. Alex.....Shit covered hands, shit covered bodies and just a filthy countenance in general is most like? Who are DoubleFlush and turd turdgutson? WHoooo EEEEE bring on the tournament of champions!

Oh, and one more thing, Turd. Are you any less of a toad than I for maligning those who actually do suffer from OCD?

I wash my hands of this.

But then, you wouldn't know about that, would you?
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I've come to realize that signatures are irritating.

Bunga Din, you are doing WAAAAAYYY too many drugs. I'll take 'Career Stoner' for $2000, Alex.
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"Uugggghh...nnnrrrrAAaaaaarrrgg...*splash*...aaaahh."

Thanks turd, I take that as a compliment. I haven't done drugs in years (close to a decade) but it's nice to know I can still sound FAR OUT MAN!

P.S. My role model in my younger years was Super Hippy from the Hilarious House of Frightenstein.

Damn, I thought this would be a lame yawner poll, but handwashing is always the subject of a raucous debate. I will say a few things, first being that I'm the opposite of a germophobe and although I keep a moderately clean house I don't get crazy about germs. I've read too many studies about kids raised in superclean households getting all sorts of allergies and asthma and the like because they are never exposed to germs in order for their bodies to manufacture antibodies.

I wash my hands after I poop and pee. A woman gets pee on her hands more than a man. I hardly ever get poop on my hands, but what if, you know, what if that black stuff under my fingernail isn't dirt from when I was in the garden, and then I go to make dinner for guests, I'm not taking the chance.

My husband sometimes doesn't wash his hands after peeing. I'm OK with that because I know where his willy's been too, and I wash down there every day. He does wash his hands after pooping. Those who don't have something wrong with them. Why would you even take the chance of having unseen poop on your hands? You live in a civilized country, and if you can afford to be on the Internet you can afford to buy soap and pay your water bill. There are no excuses not to wash one's hands post defecation. Period.

why do public toilet doors always open inwards ? You have no sooner washed your hands then you have to recontaminate when using the handle ! I make a point of hanging around public toilets for hours until someone opens the door (from outside) and then scurry out with my clean hands intact ......

Bunga,
"You people that don't wash your hands after shitting are just plain fucking gross." How do you really feel about this?

I used to wash just after shitting (or unless I got pee on my hands!). But I have a young son now that is just beginning potty training so I'd better do things right. Then he can make the choice to not wash, like Daddy does (or does NOT as the case may be!). I agree with those who feel that exposing yourself to some germs is good for the immunity.

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Brown tidings I bring
to you
from my ring

You're a good man, Witty!

WOW, one hellofa debate. I wash after pooping, but not peeint unless I get a dribble on my hand. Seems rather wierd someone wouldn't wash after wiping yer arse, even if there is a barrier of micro-thin paper between your fingers and the brown puckered starfish. geeshie people, be clean.

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Regional Power Pooping Champion 1995-2006
Poop Shooter!

I always wash after crapping, and usually wash if its not my house. Yeah there'es germs on the steering wheel, but hey, i haven't gotten sick in 2 years so i don't care. I have a pretty strong immune system.

Yeah im back after a month or so. I know I said I would give Dave KOC@Tacobell at least a month ago and @Outback Steakhouse proably 3 months ago, but I was being a procrastinator.

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"KOC -- the Cool Crapper" - Rat Droppings

Only after taking a dump for me and no soap.

It's odd that I bother really when I often put my hands in bird feces when out training (vaulting walls, climbing trees and such).Then without washing eat something using my hands.

I guess the reason I wash after pooping is only out of habbit really.

I'm perfectly healthy btw. Not been ill since I was a young child and only occasionly then. Just starting my 20's and I can be a right filthy bugger, still eat food that's been dropped on the floor etc. I probably take things a bit too far but many people seem to be a bit ott as far as hygeine is concerned.

Mr. Turdgutson, I understand fully why you do not wash your hands after taking a shit. It is because you, sir, ARE a piece of shit, so if you did, there would be nothing left. In fact, if anyone ever gave you an enema, they clearly could fit what was left of you into a matchbox.

To call GGG, who is one of the wittiest, most engaging, polite members of this site, a "judgmental toad" simply for expressing an opinion about basic personal hygeine that is shared by every mentally healthy, intelligent individual in all civilized societies demonstrates that you are neither one of the former nor fit for inclusion in the latter.

Further, you are a rank hypocrite, because what can be more "judgmental" than your own sanctimonious, asinine remarks? I would call you an asshole, but that would be an insult to assholes everywhere.

Thank you ever so much for that fantastic rant, Dumpster. I love getting a rise out of folks. It's precisely why I make the comments that I do. Every time you wig out and go ape-shit and rant about what a [fill in the blank] you think I am, you give me [I]exactly[/I] what I want. The only thing more entertaining than reading your comments is thinking about how much time you wasted writing them up in the first place. So again - [I]thank you[/I]. Please keep it up. Folks like you give me a reason to jeep coming back for more.'points.'
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"Uugggghh...nnnrrrrAAaaaaarrrgg...*splash*...aaaahh."

Dave, do I hear a "ban" warming up somewhere? I hope so.

Wow, I almost forgot what I was voting about, oh yeah washing hands. I voted for option nuemero uno. I always wash my hands after peeing or pooping.
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Jammin' lo'flo's since 1977.

I never wash my hands after peeing and hardly ever after pooping. I have never got any diseases or been sick badly.

Why hello there my fellow poopers. I have to addmit i dont always wash my hands after pooping or peeing, but i hate getting ill so i try to, plus my mother gets on to me. But if you are trying to "help the world be a better place", it would help if you washed your hands for once, you may not realize how much that would mean to the person sitting next to you. and I know others would appreciate not sensing that there's any possibility of biological weapons of ass destruction on your fingers or palms in general. And some people don't like people simply because they smell. So if you are wondering why you have no friends, your answer may lie in your water, soap, sink, and/or shower. And for those of you lacking intelligence, add them together, and you get cleanlines! So good luck and please stay clean, [for your pride at least].

Man, I ALWAYS wash my hands no matter what bodily function is taking place.

And to all who don't wash your hands and then touch money, thanks for making me touch your shit too. I work in a place where all I do is touch money and washing your hands will save me the ickiness of touching your icky poo. WASH YOUR HANDS.

For the people who don't was their hands.

Please make an effort to wash your hands. Have some consideration for the poor slob you will be shaking hand with later in the day.

The germs from poop can pass through ten layers of toilet paper.
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"-55F, a new record low? Nope, thermometer went bad. Looks like -50F still stands"

Being a female, I always wash my hands after peeing and pooping. The thought of cooking or eating anything without washing my hands is just plain nasty. My husband does not wash his hands after peeing but he alway's washed them after pooping.

H1: ten layers, you say? Can you back that up?

I'm curious: If you get up in the middle of the night to pee, do you always wash your hands?

Well to answer your question Pucker Up, i don't wash my hands if and when i do get up in the middle of the night to pee, simply because when i wake up & have to pee, i don't want to get up in the first place because i don't fall back to sleep too easily, and if i washed my hands.. it would wake me up. But any other time, OF COURSE :-]

The leading cause of food poisoning is not spoiled food but food with germs (usually from poop or dirt).

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Fart + lit candles on cake = happy birthday!

THANK YOU! I have said this for YEARS! That most "24-hour flus" are from the mishandling of food. Thank you. Someone else believes.

Just wash your hands after using the restroom. It's required hygiene for me, as I don't want to have diseases on my hands and get sick just because I didn't take a few seconds of my time to keep clean.

Just wash up; you won't regret it.

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fred kruega!

I don't wash my hands after a pee but what is the point it will waist my time.

Where was I when this discussion came up?!
There are way too many nasty people out there not washing their hands after using the bathroom. Whether you pee, poop, change a diaper or pick up your pet's poo, you MUST wash your hands.

Some of you guys are going to disagree with me, but I think you should wash your hands after peeing, too. Your junk gets all sweaty and gross, mingling with whatever butt germs hang out in your underwear, then you touch it to pee... getting those germs on your hands.

Eew, eew, eew.

Please, wash your hands after using the bathroom.

I'm so anal, I wash when YOU poop!!!

My God people is there no decency? Please everyone wash your hands for crying out loud! I know I do.
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

why wash your hands after a pee it'll just waist your time

I agree, especially when you could be better spending that time with a dictionary.
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Hey! Don't touch my wenis!

when you wee washing your hands waist ya time.
i'm not one of those dirty fuckers who walk out of the loo after a poo and not putting my hands under the tap but after a wee i see no point because i never wee on my hands and i still don't wash my hands with wee on.

Please, please, please people, DON'T wash your hands after you go to the bathroom especially if you are getting ready to eat or cook or handle your off-spring. We are a species of 6+ billion individuals. We are depleting our resources faster than we can find new ones or clean up the mess from those we've already used. We need a good epidemic to help control the population because we've all but eliminated hunger and predators. So, for shitsake, help preserve humanity: don't wash your hands after the bathroom!
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Deja Poo - Because this shit's so strange, it couldn't ever have happened before.

I never wash my hands after going for a #1. I sometimes wash after a #2. It wastes time when I wash. My girlfriend is the same.

Microbes can not be seen and often not smelled either. There is a man I work with who has a reputation of never washing his hands, the other day he dropped his glasses lens into the urinal, he just cursed, picked up the lens (after using the fixture first) did a quick rinse off (about 2 seconds under the faucet) and left the bathroom. This urinal was the kind that holds a lot of water (almost like a toilet) and he put his hand in it up to his wrist. Needless to say, whenever he brings in food for the group (we work nights so it's a common practice) I never accept his "kind" offer.

I read somewhere that the office candy dish (usually found on some social butterfly's desk) is the most bacteria rife place in the office. M&M's may stand for mucous and microbes.

i think it's so gross when people don't wash their hands after! to me when they don't wash their hands and THEN they go around touching things in stores and/or people, it's as if i've been intimate with them! luckily...i wash my hands so no one has the fear with me!

I always wash my hands after I poop, but never after I pee. First of all, I keep my dick clean, so my hand doesn't get dirty touching it. Secondly, if I did get a miniscule amount of pee on my hand, what's the big deal? Since you can drink urine and it won't hurt you, what possible danger is it to anyone if you have a miniscule trace of it on your hands? Someone please inform me. Thanks,

turdfan, Pee still has germs.Germs are germs wether it's peegerms or poopgerms. So please wash your hands. The rest of us will be grateful.
Producing waste since 1967

Thanks for your comment Simone, but it still doesn't make sense to me.

turdfan, Here's your sign. (If you don't get this I am not splaining it.)
Producing waste since 1967

Let's not regress the species to simian poop flinging please. Didn't we stop that right after knuckle-dragging?

It does no good to hurl insults and judgements at and against one another. Nothing gets solved playing "Palastine & Israel." Everyone just ends up all covered in poo. If you want to change someones mind, speak softly. Reason with them. If they STILL don't respond, stab them in the jugular with a penknife. (Kidding!!!)

The only way the non-washers will accept that their behavior is hazardous is if something tragic happens like a serious staph infection, meningococcal meningitis or something life-threatening. Some people do not or will not change risky behavior until a serious malady befalls them or someone they love.

My point is everyone is on their own individual level of human development and evolutionary journey. The lesser developed require tolerance and understanding, not scorn and contempt.

To the hand washers, THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!! (Yes, I am somewhat a germaphobe and even use those anti-bacterial wipes for the grocery store carts because I know some people don't wash their hands.)

All we are saying...is give peace a chance.

OK...you can now all tell me to fuck off and chuck doo-doo at me. :-)

Laughing my ass-off at PDG!!! You have an awesome sense of humour. I will make sure if I ever meet turdfan I will not shake his hand but I will apologize for my flame.
Producing waste since 1967

GottaGoGirl is right. It is disgusting not to wash one's hands after any sort of evacuation.

I am a habitual hand-washer, probably almost the the point of OCD. I even wash my hands after blowing my nose, something most people don't think twice about. That's all right though. I'd rather be a clean OCD freak than a germy, disgusting cess pool that gives other people all sorts of viruses or infections.

I wash my hands after I blow my nose. Furthermore, if the Kleenex comes out of a shared/public box, I throw away the first one and use the next one that pops up.

Why? Because of non-washing people who probably touched the one that's already popped up.

O.K. the next time I go in for a physical, I'm going to ask my doctor to explain it to me, and I'll let y'all know what he says. (However, I'm not due for that until October)

GGG, we are on the same page. Do you also use a paper towel to open the doors of public restrooms after you've washed your hands? I do. I refuse to touch a germ-infested door after someone who is a non-washer.

I'm guilty Rectal Badger! After washing my hands in a public restroom, I use a paper towel to open the door!

Geez...and I thought I was the only one.

RB and PdG - yes I do that too! And others I know!! It's logical - I've seen men coming out of the shitter and going straight to open the door without washing hands. I don't want their germs, thank you!!

Good to know I'm not alone on personal cleanliness...cheers to all of you!

I am in a public speaking class and was assigned a persuasive speech to do. After reading these comments, I believe I will do my speech on WHY YOU SHOULD WASH YOUR HANDS AFTER USING THE RESTROOM!!! My main points will be...
1. For your personal protection
2. For other's protection
3. It's just plain gross if you don't!

So thank all of you for the insight...
and remember cleanliness is next to...

I like to sit when I piss cause I'm too lazy to stand plus I don't actually touch my willy. As far as poopin goes, it depends how messy the cleanup job is, clean wipe means no hand wash, but definantly if I get poo on my hands. I also believe constant exposure to germs and not taking all kinds of medicines leads to a strong immune system.

This debate reminds me of the old joke:
a guy from Harvard and a guy from Yale happened to be in the same pissoir. After undamming his personal Charles River, the Harvard man went for the door. The Yalie, still draining his Skulls & Bone, sniffed, 'at Yale, we are taught to wash our hands!' Crimson replied, 'at Hahvid, we are taught to not piss on our hands!'

Ahh, those whimsical Ivy Leaguers...

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purveyor of the brown note...

Nice to see you moms out there washing your hands after diaper changes to the kiddos. I may be a Thunderous Crapper but I always wash my hands in any bathroom after a good piss or a dump as well. Not only is it hygenic but in the words of Wilford Brimley Its the right thing to do! I think he said that I know hes the guy that always says You check your sugar and you check it often there isnt a reason NOT to.
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

I wash my hands after using the bathroom, especially at work; I even regret having to touch the spigot to turn off the water afterwards because of whose hands may have been there before me. Nonetheless, I know we must be exposed to microbial life just to build up resistance or tolerance. In my first year of teaching I had an experience with actually touching another person's poop that I'll not soon forget. The bathroom was in an annex, seldom visited by cleaning personnel, and after the last class of the day, one of the girls said something like "Well, I suppose that one toilet will be unusable for a month now." As I was alone in the building, I decided to have a look (normally, of course, I would never be in a women's restroom). Expecting to see a brown diarrheic mess, I was surprised to find a single fairly thick turd sticking up from the hole. It looked flushable, so I simply flushed it. Nothing happened; apparently the donor had flushed away the paper but had no luck with the turd. Both from curiosity and from a perhaps foolish desire to have that place cleaner, I decided to pull out that turd. Just in case, I laid down a layer of toilet paper on the floor. I went to the sink and slathered soap all over my hands, then went back, grabbed that turd, and pulled. Unbelievable! It must have been at least 18" long. I laid it on the toilet paper, somehow getting it on there in one piece, then folded more paper on it, lifted it in both hands, and found a trash receptacle that I knew would be emptied. Then I went to the men's room and washed my hands as thoroughly as I could, though I must say that having soaped them up before the operation helped.

i wash my hand when i go to toilet but if you go for a piss and your a boy you can go for no hands!!!!!

no hand no hands

Sorry AC, I need both hands to keep it off the floor.

I'm quite unusual for a man, in that I always wash my hands after going to the toilet (in either sense), and always use soap if it's available. I also wash my hands before eating, whenever possible. So while I'm not quite as fanatically hygienic as GGG and some of the others who've posted above, I do make a habit of washing my hands.

The only exception is when I'm on a field exercise (I'm an army cadet), in which case there obviously isn't anywhere to wash my hands. (But I tend not to go #2 in the field anyway; it isn't very pleasant.)

As to the comment above, I usually can piss without holding my penis (not all of us are as well-endowed as Mr. "prarie doggin" claims to be). Mine is average sized (about 6 inches when erect). (I'm not embarrassed talking about this here, since thankfully no one on this obscure website knows who I am.)

Herb, I can't believe the Army accepted one whom is so under-equiped, and a freaking candy assed hand washer besides. Canadian Army, maybe, certainly not the United Fucking States of Fucking America, goddam it....

Just kidding, and you aren't unusual at all, if you read more of the comments, a great deal of fellas practice pretty good hygiene. The little dick is another story...ooops, there I go again.

I'm not in the US Army, I'm in the British Army. And I'm only a cadet, not a professional soldier (though I hope to become one when I leave university).

And I don't think it's really that little. Not as bad as the guy who posted above saying that his four-incher was "way bigger than most".

Don't mind me, Herb, just messing with ya. Welcome to PR.

Four inches is not bad, if you're measuring from the floor.

this site is shit you all need to get a life.