As someone that had scuba dives too it p1ss3s me off when I find wet wipes or disposable nappies in amongst the coral......

washing ones arse is tends to leave cleaner I find most of europe they have bidets for this, most Asians and arab use water in a little hose attached to the side of the loo for washing their rear ends... I have been asked my several non western cultures isn't it better than carefully wiping and smearing a very thin layer of feces across it! :-/ How ever careful washing of the hands is required afterwards...... it not rocket science. Otherwise you can make your self rather ill... anti bacterial hand washes are ace for this!

sometimes how ever circumstances wont allow this so you use bog roll..... (if it is -5°c and gale out side washing is not an option!)

so I think you need to bring some loo roll and be prepared to wash your ares too!

Please do not leave these wet wipes around to stuff up some very fragile environments!

Meths will help with burning the loo roll if appropriate and is much safer than petrol.

What's most likely to get you on your trip to Far Far Away?

Wired Indian trucker? Homicidal Italian hero? Rabid dog? Staring eyed Jihadist?
Albanian kidnapper?

Nah. Nothing so romantic.

Gastro-intestinal unpleasantness passed by the good old faecal oral route. Also known as the Deli Belly, the Mysore Arse, Montezuma's Revenge and so on. The bugs can come from that little old lady from the roadside stall, drinking water. Or your own hands.

Just saying...

Martin, you've just put me off my bacon sandwich! ..
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If it was your own hands, why would you only get it when you were abroad? (Assuming you don't change your hygiene practices).

Poor hygiene is poor hygiene, wherever you are.

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That would piss me off too, but I think that has more to do with substandard sanitation systems though. Plastic everywhere pisses me off even more, but only because the scale of that problem is so big.

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After reading on another thread in the pub about this whole thread being deleted, I have re-read every single post and have to conclude it is one of the funniest threads I have read on here in a long time. It is also useful, I mean if you can't ask this type of question here, where can you ask it?

For any of you really sensitive souls do NOT go googling Hells Angels Red or Brown wings

GM

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while antibacterial hand washes are ok, and better than nothing, running warm water and soap is the gold standard. Not all bugs are killed by the antibacterial handwashes, for example, norovirus isn't killed by alcohol handwash, they are killed by handwashing, assuming you do it correctly.

When I first started my training we did a thing whereby a UV dye was applied to our hands. We then had to wash it off, afterwards we had to put our hands under a UV lamp. It was incredible how much was left. We then put our fingers onto an agar plate. Had some good growths of bacteria going after a few days!!

Correct handwashing techniques cannot be over-emphasised, otherwise it's probably not worth the effort of bothering!

note in particular the finger and thumb pads. these need particular attention, they are one of the more commonly missed areas, but they are the bits in contact with your food (and your bum)!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYwypSLiaTU

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I can't quite believe how long this thread has gone on for! It is quite a laugh, but I suppose it is all my fault.

I am in Marocco now, never caught short with some tissues in my biking jacket. Going to have away the bog roll in my hotel room tonight. I've had some fantastic food out here, and never any upset tummies.

I've got some wet wipes that I use for camp cleanliness more than anything. I wouldn't flush them down the bog.

go poo easy everyone!

dave

Ahhhh doesn't matter dave, we're prepared to blame ya anyway

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Now.......I'm wondering, should I really take a chance and watch that video or is it going to be something I might regret?

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Learning my craft for the big stuff, it won't be long now and it's not that far anyway

So that's what a Bog Roll is

And why is it that when you need one most there is never one there!. Just been caught out at work next time I'll check the supplies first...

Talking about supplies...

A team of sociologists send these three men to a deserted island to carry out an experiment on isolation to see how they adapt:

The three men then decide to split up the tasks amongst themselves:

"I'm an engineer" says the Englishman, "so I'll handle building a shelter".
He turns to the Frenchman and says," You French are pretty good cooks why don't you handle the cooking ?".

The Frenchman agrees, and the Englishman turns to the Japanese man "That just leaves you to organise the supplies" he says. The Japanese man eagerly agrees and they all set about with their tasks.

A year passes, and the sociologists return to see how the men have coped.
They expect to find three desperate men, unhappy with having to live on the island, but instead find a huge wooden house with verandas, porches and a balcony. The Englishman comes to greet them, and when they express their surprise about the house he shrugs and says "yeah well I had a lot of raw materials so I kind of went to town and did the place up".

The team are amazed and are shown into the kitchen where they are greeted with the most amazing smell of delicious food. The Frenchman sees their surprise and shrugs "I had lots to work with" he says, "this island has loads of edible herbs and plant".

The team sit down to eat and are about to start when one of them inquires about the Japanese man.

"Oh we don't know what happened to him", explains the Englishman. He ran off into the woods to sort out the supplies and has not been seen since".

They all agree that they should try to find the man, and a search party is organised. They make it about 100 metres into the woods, when the Japanese man jumps out from behind a tree,.... stark naked with half a coconut on his head, and peacock feathers sticking out of this bum, and shouts

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SUPPLIES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wet wipes could be anything from bleach to multi-purpose cleaner or something akin to carb cleaner. You do not want to use these anywhere near your man bits or woman bits.
Baby wipes are the answer. Easily spotted. Usually have a pic of a baby on the front of them. Or they may be in pink or powder blue or some other nice and soft pastel shade. Mighty useful tip if you don't understand the local language.

for any Rally event I use usually one roll per day.