Public Toilets & Lie About Age

In a public bathroom do you hover or sit? Dangerous Dave talks about a study that says those little toilet liners don't really help. Plus, if you lie about your age it could come back to bite you.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Steber in the den with dangerous day. So
when you're in a public bathroom, do you sit, hover,
use a toilet seat liner, just pop a squad? What
do you do well? A poll from a few years
back found nine percent avoid public toilets completely, twenty one
percent hover, and sixty three percent just go forward. Half
of people in the go forward group where those using

(00:23):
thin paper liners. Thin is the keyword, and according to
an article in the BBC, those are pointless. They said
the layer of toilet paper where toilet cover will not
protect you from pathogens made of porous material, They cannot
stop germs from seeping through and touching you well. Experts
say hovering isn't great either, because it's harder to fully
empty your bladder for women especially, can create a uti.

(00:45):
What should you do well, keep using the liners to
make you feel better, or just risk it. The risk
is very low. Most STDs cannot survive on a toilet seat.
HPV or pies technically can, but doesn't really happen under
real world conditions. You have to inhale germs in the
bathroom or get sick from touching stuff with your hands.
Definitely wash your hands when you're done, flush to toilet

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and flee. Toilets toss up a plume of tiny droplets
when flushed, and those droplets can have pathogens in them.
A virologist at the University of Arizona said it's what
he does. It's his strategy in public bathrooms to flush
and run deeper in the You know, nobody wants to
get older unless you're getting gray and one year away
from scoring a great senior discount. Some people try to

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fudge the numbers a little bit, and a new poll
thirty eight percent of people admit to lying about their
age when meeting somebody new, and twelve percent said they've
cut more than five years off, whether they were successful
or not, We're not sure. Men twice as likely to
do it than women, but there are risks. Sixty two
percent of people say it's a deal breaker when somebody

(01:49):
lies about their age when they're eventually outed. Eventually, I
guess down the road naturally. It's most common in the
dating sense. Forty four percent of people said they use
old photos on online platforms like social media or LinkedIn.
Twenty one percent of them use images that are ten
years or older, and men more likely to use a

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decade old photo. Forty nine percent of people said they've
been told they're too old to do something they enjoy.
Seventy one percent say society underestimates them because of their age.
Thirty two percent said it happens regularly, but it may
be in your head. Because sixty five percent of people
claim they never dismiss somebody solely due to their age.

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It happens a lot, I know with the people I
work with in radio. When you're looking at these teams calls,
you know, the zoom calls. They're teams for us because
it's the platform, and you see a lot of people
it's just a profile picture if they don't have their
camera on, and then they turn their camera on and I'm like, Eh,
that doesn't look anything like you too. They can't For
another episode of Deeper in the Den with Dangerous Dave,

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play here.