How Would You Flush This Toilet?
November 26th, 2007 by huphtur under archive, poll, toiletSo I’m talking to this girl from work and she informs me that she flushes the toilet with her feet. Since I never heard of such a absurdity, I immediately started making fun of her. However, after some investigating, it looks like this foot flushing thing is bigger than I thought.
Obviously the main reason for this odd behaviour is the fear of germs, but we all know that this is bullshit. More interestingly, there are articles on how to make your own foot flusher and there’s a whole industry out there selling special Foot Flushers.
Time for a quick online poll…
How would you flush this toilet? With your hands or with your feet? And why? Also please state if you are male or female and if you’re American, Eurotrash or otherwise.
November 27th, 2007 at 12:29 am
teh feets! has nothing to do wit germs. just more efficient if i can be re-buckling my belt *while* flushing. c’mon, dutchman!
November 27th, 2007 at 3:03 am
I’d never even considered that people flush the toilet with anything other than their feet. Male. Irish blood, English heart.
November 27th, 2007 at 3:05 am
That was a joke btw. I forgot to put a smile on it though. Doh!
November 27th, 2007 at 5:03 am
left foot. male nerd. american evangelist.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:39 am
left hand. woman. eurotrash.
(for the record; we don’t have toilets like that in .nl)
November 27th, 2007 at 6:47 am
i’d use the back of my hand (making a fist) if it didn’t look too dirty, but if the restroom wasn’t clean i’d use my foot. i don’t mind touching the door knobs but for some reason i have a problem with the flushers.. you know nobody has washed their hands when they use it..
(american male nerd)
November 27th, 2007 at 7:50 am
left footer…i’m goofy. you’d only find toilets like that in public places where it’s probably gross. so the foot flush would be standard procedure after hovering. male american brapper.
November 27th, 2007 at 8:32 am
I was taught at a very young age to use my foot whenever possible. Sometimes I’ll even high kick the Urinal flushers! USA for life.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:15 am
With my mouth.
Naw seriously, if that toilet was in a public place I’d use my foot. In someone’s house (who wasn’t crusty) my hand.
November 27th, 2007 at 9:19 am
I must admit that I do do that in some of the dirtier clubs that we play in. And only in public restrooms cause they can be pretty bad sometimes. But I always thought it was a guy thing because you know drunk dudes and their aim. Go figure. Hook up the foot flusher and the foot pedal for the pop up toilet seat and you got yourself the first hands free toilet. Yeah baby!
November 27th, 2007 at 9:44 am
I’d be a füter. Love the idea of high kicking the urinals. I’ll have to give that a shot next time. Later. (gotta hit the w.c.). Geek from South Dakota, USA.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:20 am
With the left foot for sure, always! (not in houses, only in public restrooms)… Also because it gives me more distance btwn the toilet and I (i’m pretty short); i also try to leave the stall as soon as i flush (did you know that when you flush an ‘unsanitary’ mist spreads upto six feet out)… Venezuelan lady, living in LA.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:35 am
i pee on the flusher, and then stick my foot in the toilet.
male
united states of america
November 27th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
in someone’s house i wrap a piece of toilet paper around the handle and use my hand. in public: left foot 4 life! I use to use the foot at work until we got the uppercut! http://www.sloanvalve.com/index_3036.htm
i still have to check my habit of using my foot almost everytime at work.
November 27th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
On a side note first time i can remember seeing a ‘foot flusher’ was my boss (brones) using the ‘high kick method’ on the Urinal.
November 27th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
I would use a piece of tissue, fold into quarters, and press the flusher with the tissue between my thumb and index finger. then i would place the used and disease-infested tissue into a fresh plastic ziploc baggy and place in a proper waste receptacle. then i would wash my hands. twice. then i would take another tissue, fold into quarters, and open the restroom door. holding the restroom door open with my foot, i would then take another fresh ziploc bag and place the used and disease-infested tissue inside. then i would place it in the proper waste receptacle. after leaving the restroom i would apply hand-sanitizer like Purell to my hands, face, and penis.
November 27th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
How about the faucets, can you guys turn those on with your feet too? Everybody touches those with their unwashed hands.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:12 am
faucets is a good call. I see dudes in my office using paper towels and then using another paper towel to open the door. I use the foot in sketchy places. That “mist” comment is crazy, I never thought of that, yikes. Germs make you stronger.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
luok/crza: Good points. My immune system is indestructible!
November 29th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
definitely with my foot. i hate bending over to have to flush the commode. i am always afraid of my clothing, jewelry or worse a part of my flesh will actually touch the toilet. i don’t like the thought of toting around toilet germs. i even have a foot flush on my home toilet. just got it at http://www.comfybath.com for only $20 …….i got the one with the toes and painted the toenails bright red…it looks very cool!!
November 29th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
Flushing? what the hell is flushing?!
why should i even bother to flush if i don’t even piss in the bowl?
I’ve been pissing all over the faucets, door handles, paper towels in each and every public restroom I’ve been in since I was(unsuccessfully)potty-trained by the Illuminati, just to keep all the paranoid hypochondriac muthafuckaz on their toes.
Use the soap?
If you live in the Bay Area you probably washed your hands with my piss at least once
December 5th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
left foot, male, from ohio.
its just easier for me i guess. i never even think about it. i guess it comes from being in filthy places.
December 26th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
right foot roundhouse.
January 28th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Uhhhh, Surely my foot! I wouldn’t think otherwise! I just had this predicament the other day with a friend, and before then I never even realized it was an issue. I assumed that this is what this sort of handle is designed for. Perhaps this originated as a US invention- and is not as common over seas? But regardless, you others are just strange…. didn’t your mother teach you;)
January 28th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Agree. The foot is the only option. (Female, Kentucky.)
January 29th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Depends where I’m at. If I’m at a bar or a restaurant, I’ll flush the toilet with my feet. If I’m at my house or someone else’s house, I’ll use my hands. If I lived in a dorm room, I’d flush it with my feet as well (if it was a communial bathroom)
January 29th, 2008 at 10:00 am
I always flush public toilets with handles like that with my foot. I usually have shopping bags in my hands, my purse and I don’t want to reach over a gross toilet and end up dropping my phone in it or something. (Female, American)
January 29th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Definitely my foot, because the flusher is made for the foot, not the hand. I was taught to use my foot so I don’t get germs or sprayed from the toilet. I’ve only seen this type of flusher at public facilities. You use your hands on toilets with obvious higher knobs that are connected to the back of the toilet. If everyone followed this simple rule–there wouldn’t be such confusion. Low flushers=foot; high connected flushers= hands. There–you have it! (PA–American female for life)
January 29th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Use clean toilet paper with my palm.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:26 am
That is a foot flusher. No question about it.
January 31st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Id flush the public toilets with my foot, like most people have said. And, friends toilets-my hand-depending on the person…no j/k…
February 2nd, 2008 at 10:18 am
Depends on the situation… Am I sober enough to stand on one foot, while pulling my pants up? Is it a common toilet & low enough to flush with the foot?
If so, then yes, it merits foot flushing!
(Cuban-American male)
February 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
ummmmm…. my hand?
March 18th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
my foot. always. I’m a dude. don’t really come from anywhere in particular, I just think it’s common sense.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
never heard of foot flushing, but for everyone who uses their foot to flush, what about the germs you track into your car, workplace, and home with your shoes? or am i missing something.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
and better yet, what happens the next time you need to tie your shoe, or take it off or put it on. arent you touching toilet handle residue?
May 13th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
There is an old fat union worker who hollered at me about two months ago as I was coming out of the stall. She said “the girls” asked her to speak with me about flushing the toilet with my foot (I always do – you don’t know what is on those handles, and I try to turn faucets and open doors with a paper towel) .She YELLED at me and told met was unsanitary and I should take toilet paper and flush with my hand. You wouldn’t believe how angry and horrible she was to me.
Well, today, I heard her come in when I was in the stall. When i came out, she started screaming at me again. I calmly looked at her and asked “Are you some kind of pervert watching people go to the restroom?” She screamed YOU”RE the pervert for flushing with your foot and she kept screaming. (As if flushing a toilet is a perversion – wouldn’t you think watching someone from the hole in the door is slightly sick and perverted) I just washed my hands and left and she was still screaming as the door shut. I am seriously considering filing some kind of complaint against her. I should not be accosted in the restroom… The first time it happened I asked some of the other women and they said WhaT?!Q?! no way we don;t care how you flush the toilet.
January 7th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Hand, always What about people with only one foot, or crutches? They have to flush with hands, right? If you’re fouling the flusher with your filthy shoes you’re pretty selfish.