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  I don't
  Pretty normal to have separate toilets here, or at least the toilet has a door so it's not actually visible from the bathroom sink itself
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  The Mythbusters did a test to see how much contamination might get onto a toothbrush in various places in a bathroom. They basically just left them in different spot for a few days and then had them tested for Fecal coliform bacteria, usually associated with the intestines of warm blooded animals. They also had a couple control brushes under a glass on a table in the middle of the shop.
  When they got the results back every single brush tested positive. Including the controls. >
  
  Wait, so what were the controls then? >
  
  Even packaged toothbrushes straight from the factory were tested and found to have fecal matter on them. >
  
  Part of the manufacturing process requires each brush to be carefully swabbed around a butthole before packaging. >
  
  The more you learn. >
  
  Close your toilet lid before you flush and stop dunking your toothbrush in your toilet >
  
  Legit that’s all you have to do. I saw a pic of some research teams findings and… yep that was enough. >
  
  Mythbusters did a segment on this. Got my ex to start putting the lid down to flush after seeing it. >
  
  Wait but they found that no matter what it still sprays poo particles everywhere. Doesn't matter lid up or down. >
  
  so does a fart, its not killed you yet. 
  Honestly this way madness lies. >
  
  My farts are a thing of madness, the subtle whistling of two buttholes in tandem softly into a cotton damper.
  It's like the song of some alien bird, it feels so familiar and strange at the same time. >
  
  Why do you have 2 buttholes? >
  
  Because Crohn's is a bitch and surgery is not fun. >
  
  Sorry to hear that, but your previous post was an enlightened display of perversely beautiful poetry. Thanks for that! :) >
  
  Well hopefully this is a short lived bizarre nightmare, doc says he can plaster over at least one in a couple months. >
  
  What are you talking about? I brush my shit in a separate room >
  
  And I clean my teeth in the bathroom! >
  
  r/yourjokebutworse >
  
  In France it's highly common to have separate rooms for toilets and baths+sinks >
  
  Same here in Australia >
  
  And England >
  
  And Japan >
  
  And Belgium >
  
  I believe MythBusters concluded you’re screwed no matter which room you keep your toothbrush. Poop particles find a way. >
  
  "Poop particles find a way." - facsimile_ >
  
  Thanks Goldblum >
  
  When I was growing up in Australia it was very common for the toilet to be a tiny little separate room from the bathroom but with an adjoining door. >
  
  Yeah it still is like that here >
  
  I think this is more common in the US than it is in many other places in the world. >
  
  It's common in Norway too >
  
  The UK too. >
  
  Ooooh! They did a Myth Busters about this and it turns out that there's fecal matter everywhere! Even thr "control" toothbrush they put in an air tight case had fecal matter.
  Turns out a little bit won't kill you. >
  
  Sometimes I even eat while pooping so I can imagine it’s turning to poop in real time. >
  
  This is poetry. This is art. Someone could learn something from such words. >
  
  This is poetry. This is art. Someone could learn something from a fart. >
  
  you’re hilarious bro >
  
  Why didn't you upvote than? Sadistic bastard! >
  
  Guys put your toothbrush in a cabinet or drawer when you are done using it. >
  
  So mold instead of poop. Honestly not the worst trade off >
  
  I find that mine dries off so no mold, plus I get new tooth brushes probably more often than the average bear. >
  
  My sink and toothbrush are in a separate room. I can close of my shower and toilet if I want >
  
  No, what's gross is people who have cats and put the litter tray in the kitchen. >
  
  I once helped a guy remove virus from his PC and in the entrance he had 2 very large full to the brim of poops litter trays. I asked him how many cats he had, he said just the one. >
  
  I toured a house a few years ago, and saw that they had a huge bathroom, with the toilet inside a smaller room, with its own door, completely enclosed by the bathroom.  I thought it was funny that the bathroom had its own bathroom, but I guess this is a reason why it might be a good feature. >
  
  Maybe a privacy thing, like if someone is taking a crap, but you need to wash your hands or brush your teeth. So in that sense it's smart to have the toilet in a seperate room. >
  
  Do people not have rooms thats just the toilet and then a room thats the real bathroom >
  
  Grew up lower middle class. NO. Lol. One bathroom for four people and no separate room for toilet. >
  
  I always close the toilet when I flush, and I keep my toothbrush in a drawer, rather than on the counter. I feel that it’s cleaner that way. >
  
  Nobody forces you to shit and brush your teeth in the same room . >
  
  Just talk a walk around your house like us normal people do >
  
  It's also gross you lay in one specific spot for over 6 hours every night, building up dead skin cells, probably farting, possibly drooling, losing hair, natural oils and such rubbing off from your skin from the day, and you steam it all like a steambun under a blanket, probably only cleaning the bedding once or twice a month at best.
  That's acceptable but apparently the bathing/washing room isn't appropriate for all types of bodily maintenance? Yall don't like, clean your toothbrush a little bit before you use it? >
  
  Well, washing it with water won't do anything, and cleaning it with any cleaning product will make it worse than what small amount of bacteria goes from the toilet to the toothbrush. >
  
  The word "we" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
  Plenty of people have toilets in different rooms from where they brush their teeth. >
  
  If you think that's gross, wait til you find out that your source of drinking water is the same place your shit gets dumped. >
  
  You mean the tap water? >
  
  You keep you toothbrush in the closed cabinet, not on the back of the toilet. >
  
  Depends how clean you keep that room. For germ and aesthetic reasons I store my toothbrush in my mirror cabinet with everything else. 
  Remember kids, if you’re going to take pride in a clean room….make it the bathroom. >
  
  Just close the toilet lid tho. I know it doesn't entirely solve the problem... But it's my biggest pet peeve to see the toilet lid open. Like gross. >
  
  It's literally not even a problem though. Like no one is getting sick from this. >
  
  Not my household. Toilet and bathroom are two separate rooms - for that very reason. >
  
  You eat shit everyday, it’s everywhere so no big deal. You don’t eat in that room so what’s the issue? Cover the tip of your tooth brush and there is no problem. >
  
  But don't forget, if you need to clean the bowl after, you also brush your shit in there >
  
  The shit doesnt touch the toothbrush.
  At least not the way I brush. >
  
  I moved my toothbrush to my bedroom after THAT episode of Mythbusters (if you know, you know). >
  
  Same >
  
  What's even more gross: your ass is always on the same room as your mouth! >
  
  That’s why I keep my toothbrush covered and close the toilet lid when I flush. >
  
  Always put the seat down before flushing and I don’t leave my toothbrush in the bathroom. >
  
  Same. Just seems reasonable. >
  
  Right? I can easily walk my toothbrush into the bathroom to brush my teeth and then bring it back out. >
  
  It’s kind of gross that you have a stomach full of shit but here we are. Lol this ain’t a shower thought. It’s real life. >
  
  I must be weird because my body stores shit in my intestines, not my stomach. >
  
  True, if there's shit in your stomach, you need medical help. Urgently. >
  
  Keep your toothbrush in the cupboards! Gross to leave it out. Not only poop, but anything else that is floating by. >
  
  It's not an issue, unless someone in your house is sick and literally sneezing on your toothbrush. >
  
  That's why you close the lid before you flush. It ain't hard. >
  
  Speak for yourself! None of this fucking “we” bs. I brush my teeth in the shower. My toilet is in a separate room with just itself and a sink to wash your hands. 
  You’re just nasty my man >
  
  Shower teeth gang >
  
  I pretty much have a no pooping rule in my bathroom. You can use the downstairs toilet for that purpose. >
  
  I only poop upstairs >
  
  I only poop on the stairs >
  
  I only poop >
  
  I only >
  
  I actually brush in the kitchen because I had that shower thought too >
  
  It’s gross we shit, like shouldn’t we be past this disgusting and stupid thing already! God!! >
  
  In old houses, when they first moved the toilet inside from the out house, it was kept separate  from the washroom/bathroom. Shit molecules actually float in the air like tiny fart bubbles... >
  
  Why? Your mouth has the very same stuff that come out from your ass. >
  
  Yeah a lot of stuff happens in the bedroom now that I think about it >
  
  There's a wall with a doorway between the toilet area and the sink/bath/shower area in my bathroom. >
  
  I used to work with a man who told me his father once said. " it's just wrong for a grown man to shit in the house" >
  
  I think it's way worse we use TP. Smear peanut butter on your fist and try to whipe it off with TP. Bidet is they way and Japan is living in the future. >
  
  *MOST* houses in Australia have separate Toilet to bathroom.  That is unless you live in the CBD and all you can afford for $500,000 is an integrated Lounge, Toilet, Kitchen all in one. >
  
  I'm in housing and my bathroom/toilet is seperate. Although they weren't at my previous house. Either way it doesn't really matter, except that someone can wash their hands/have a shower while you can take a piss/crap. >
  
  It's kinda gross that we do multiple sex acts in the same bed that we sleep in. >
  
  If you can smell the shit that means particles of shit actually have to physically touch you (receptors) in order to smell it. So if you can smell it, you can bet that shit is all over your toothbrush. >
  
  And it's perfectly fine because the amount of bacteria there is so small compared to the crap itself. It's not like it does anything. >
  
  I know, I’m just being me! >
  
  That’s why you keep your toothbrush covered, and you close the damn toilet seat. >
  
  My first apartment in NYC had a toilet, shower and bed in the kitchen. It was just all one room. >
  
  I brush my teeth in the kitchen and I keep a shell clasp over my toothbrush head >
  
  All the shit that comes out of your bottom end is everything that you put in your top end with just a little extra tad of biological chemistry. The strange thing is that even without being taught, our brains register the smell of shit as repulsive. What’s even more interesting is how attractive a nice ass can be to a man. Sometimes vice versa. Just keep a separate brush for your ass and your mouth. 
  Science. >
  
  I have a seperate toilet and will never live in a house where my pee schedule is reliant upon someone else’s shower schedule. >
  
  Why the hell do you brush your teeth at work?
  Why the hell do you brush your teeth at work?
  The bathrooms full of poop and pee and now you've rubbed that on your teeth,
  like you're gonna kiss someone at three. >
  
  Fromer owner was disabled, I shit, shower,shave,brush in the same seat. >
  
  If you can smell it, it's in the air and also in your nose throat and lungs and probably mouth. I'm talking about POO. >
  
  Speak for yourself, most homes in Oz have toilets in their own little room for this very reason. >
  
  Studies of bacteria show the moth and toothbrush are dirtier than the toilet.  That said, i like my toilets in a separate room from the sinks. >
  
  Maybe that’s why there are so many incidents throughout history of people cleaning toilets with toothbrushes instead of toilet brushes. Could be related to a damp brain causing confusion. >
  
  I've always thought it gross that toilets are in the same room as showers as sinks. >
  
  Lol bathroom and toilets are two distinct rooms in developped countries >
  
  Millions of people in this world don’t have access to running water and literally shit in the open. >
  
  I close the toilet lid before flushing, also I brush in the shower >
  
  I would be if it weren't for how powerful toothpaste is. Seriously it's capable of removing even the toughest stains on surfaces. >
  
  Maybe in your country they do! In lots of places, toilets and bathroom sinks are in different rooms. >
  
  Trying to convince my partner we should store the toothbrush in a separate location from the bathroom. Not succeeded in convincing them.
  With that being said we have two bathrooms and the primary toothbrushing room is not the same as the primary number two room. Not ideal but would definetely be worse from a germ perspctive if we lived more cramped. >
  
  I don't know what you do with your shit, but mine goes down the toilet >
  
  I don’t keep my toothbrush and accoutrements in the bathroom. >
  
  I usually walk out and brush outside if I or someone else has shifted in the bathroom earlier. I dont feel comfortable opening my mouth in that space >
  
  This sort of hygiene extremism is why western society has such weak immune systems, while less developed nations don't.
  Y'all really should've played in the mud more as kids. >
  
  Having a separate toilet and bathroom is pretty common here in Lithuania.
  It's how i grew up, so conjoined ones still feel weird to me >
  
  I don't. The toilet is in its own separate room in most houses I've lived in. >
  
  That's why we should always close the toilet seat before flushing.