You've all heard about the story of bar snacks being ridden with germs common to urine?
At a town we briefly drank at, the customers acquired the habit of throwing any copper change into the ceramic trough in the old fashioned urinal, as some sort of bonus for the cleaners. Towards the end of the night, there'd often be a fair few quids worth of small change.

Worryingly, some nights, there used to be almost nothing. Which lead us to believe that someone had delved into this stinking pit and scooped up the change with their bare hands to pay for their taxi, a burger on the way home or to buy their last pint

We stopped going there fairly quickly when someone remembered the story about the bar snacks and wondered whether the change had ended up in the till or if the staff washed their hands after every translation before pouring our pints.

It was taken over a few years ago and refurbished. They've got nice new, modern urinals nowadays, but there's still change at the bottom. The memories came flooding back and I couldn't finish my pint.
(Unit, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 11:32, 15 replies)

Urine is sterile.
And toilet blocks are mostly bleach. And coins contain copper which kills most things on its surface in any case. The coins from the bogs will have fewer germs than the coins in your pocket. Or your own fingers. Or the beer in a barrel.

You fucking nancy.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 11:40, closed)

I was about to point that out.
As well as the fact that cotton-based paper is not, in general, antiseptic. Imagine how many people handled that fiver before you and didn't wash their hands after a wank, or a shit, or wiping the blood from thier most recent track mark.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 12:23, closed)

*Fresh* urine is sterile -
assuming the provider is healthy, and the trough drains freely. Couple of assumptions I wouldn't risk for a handful of copper.
(sarcastic fringehead feet of clay, buns of steel, head of lettuce, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 13:36, closed)

Feel free to stand over in the fucking nancy corner then.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 17:07, closed)

Urine is neither sterile, or
particularly germ laden. Once it leaves the bladder, it can easily be contaminated before it exits.

It is as likely to carry bacteria as saliva or snot. The sterile thing is an urban legend.

As is the piss-infested peanut story. It has been paraded in various forms (mints at restaurant checkout, etc). There's no doubt some contamination occurs, but nobody seems to have actually ever made any tests.
(username failed moderation, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 11:11, closed)

Urine is only sterile in the bladder
the moment it's heading down your urethra into the outside world it's full of fucking bacteria.
( Bazongaloid, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 15:46, closed)

Did you learn biology from Aristotle?
Or do you just have a horribly diseased cock?
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 17:07, closed)

Fucking hell Shambles, I think this prick is one of our junior doctors at the moment.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 18:31, closed)

To be fair
if you've got all the way through medical school without catching cockrot then you've done something very very wrong.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 19:13, closed)

Ahahahaha 'very very wrong'

( FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 17 Apr 2011, 0:35, closed)

Citation needed.

( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 18 Apr 2011, 1:06, closed)

Try the internet.
Or school.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 8:55, closed)

According to the internet
the previous poster is correct- it picks up germs as it exits the body. It's relatively sterile, but not really.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 18 Apr 2011, 11:20, closed)

The key word here is 'exits'.
Not 'in the urethra' as one prick has suggested here.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 18 Apr 2011, 11:31, closed)

Bless their hearts...
The patrons of that pub must have had hearts as big as all outdoors, making the cleaners scrabble around in a trough of foetid piss for a handful of change. I bet that did their self esteem a power of good.

Cunts.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Sun 17 Apr 2011, 8:44, closed)