What should replace handshakes to stop Swine-Flu?

[The Peepmaster]

Just found a poll. http://pollpigeon.com/what-should-replace-the-handshake-to-stop-swine-flu/t/36942/

It annoys me when I meticulously wash my hands after having a... er... after visiting the gents, and then have to open the door inwardly by holding a handle that millions of blokes who don't bother washing the crap off their hands have been using all day.

[Diane CBPFC]

You could use a paper towel to open the door then toss it into the basket on the way out.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

It annoys me when I meticulously wash my hands after having a... er... after visiting the gents, and then have to open the door inwardly by holding a handle that millions of blokes who don't bother washing the crap off their hands have been using all day.

This is one we share, Peepsie (though not physically, of course). I will occasionally go to the lengths of timing my exit just right so as to be able to hold the door open with my foot, after the person in front of me has exited, and follow through that way. Sam reckons I'm erring on the side of OCD, but I once heard that after analysis, a small bowl of salted peanuts left on a bar for customers was found to contain traces of fourteen different urines. Must've been a very bored scientist drinking there that day, but I am indebted to him.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

You could use a paper towel to open the door then toss it into the basket on the way out.

Great idea, Diane, if you can find a public loo with paper towels these days. Alternatively, you could rip the electric hand drier off the wall, and use it to break the door down.

[Malc]

...or do as I do, and always use the cubicle, keeping a little piece of toilet paper to negotiate the door handle on the way out.

[The Peepmaster]

Even if everyone does wash their hands, they still have to turn the tap on with their crud-encrusted donny, so that when they eventually do go back to turn it off again, they re-contaminate the aforementioned bodypart with the the tap-handle's coating.

[Roger Kettle]

I'm never going out again.

[Malc]

That's the danger, innit? We all get so paranoid about touching anything that we stay indoors, like Howard Hughes who wandered around with kleenex boxes on his feet.
I haven't got to the stage where I keep hand sanitizer everywhere, but I'm getting there...

[Diane CBPFC]

I've got a cold. but still I came on the Beau Peep forum - hope you aren't all spraying your screens with Lysol. 

[Vulture]

I think there's an point when all this 'over-kill' will kill you.
I was brought up on the principle that 'a little dirt wouldn't harm you'. These days, most germs are sterilised out of existance so when a new one comes along, all you younger ones drop like flies!