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Quote: MathExtremist

As another poster suggested, I wouldn't want to eat food after playing a slot machine without washing my hands first.

You could carry around a small container of alcohol gel. It's a handy thing to have on trips anyway.

Quote: Nareed

You could carry around a small container of alcohol gel. It's a handy thing to have on trips anyway.

I have used that stuff a bunch, but I need some clarification that maybe someone here can provide. I understand that the alcohol might sanitize my hands, but as for washing them, where does the dirt go? Yes, it may be dissolved, but I doubt that it is vaporized; without something to wipe it off with, I tend to think that the dirt is perhaps just spread very uniformly around on my hands, with maybe some bacteria being killed. I just don't feel "clean". Can anyone tell me how this stuff really works to wash your hands?

Quote: Nareed

You could carry around a small container of alcohol gel. It's a handy thing to have on trips anyway.

I always carry hand sanitizer in the casino. The next time you go to a buffet, notice the amount of people that put food in their mouths while going through the lines, lick their fingers and then touch the serving utensils that you have to use. Ick!

Quote: Doc

I have used that stuff a bunch, but I need some clarification that maybe someone here can provide. I understand that the alcohol might sanitize my hands, but as for washing them, where does the dirt go?

Nowhere. It stays right on your hands.

What alcohol does is kill bacteria and viruses.

So, no, it doesn't wash your hands, it sanitizes them. Not the same thing.

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Nareed's spot on. If you have poop on your hands, and add 'sanitizer', the sanitizer kills the bacteria that makes poop smell, but the poop's still on your hand. Sanitizer kills germs, but does not clean whatsoever. I for one cannot believe how sanitizer has gained such a crazy following and widespread usage. If only I had been forward thinking enough to have invented it ><.

Quote: gofaster87

Every time I wash my hands after a vp session water going into the sink is brownish. Sanitizer doesn't do any cleaning. The machines are just nasty.

It's like this: dirt is mostly harmless.

Household dirt and dust is made up mostly of dead human skin cells (I know, that surprised me too), plus detritus from the wear and tear of whatever's in your house. Street dirt is more complex. Walk any city street any lenght of time and then wash your hands. You'll likely see gray or brown in the soapy water. A large public place like a casino probably has a mix of both kinds.

Anyway, dirt is mostly innert. It may contain assorted poisons, but in amounts too small to worry about (with exceptions of course at sites fo major chemical spills, voclanic eruptions, radioactive accidents and such).

The reason to wash your hands isn't dirt, but the free-floating bacteria and viruses that stick to your hands when you touch any surface. Biologically speaking, the dirtiest parts of the human body are the hands (and yet we shake hands without a second thought). Soap and water kill such things, and so does hand sanitizers like alcohol gel (there are other kinds, but most contain alcohol).

So if you want to eat at the slots or VP machines and your hands are not visibly dirty, a hand sanitizer ought to provide enough protection.