Everyone has different habits and different requirements regarding hygiene and cleanliness. A Japanese Web site recently published the results of a survey in which 150 men and the same number of women aged between 20 and 39 named the things that they felt to be the most unhygienic and hardest to stomach. The survey results have been a topic of discussion among Internet users and on Japanese variety shows.
According to the survey results, the dirty things that the 300 Japanese men and women found most unbearable included, counting down from number 10 to number 6, “tram passenger handles,” “bathhouse and swimming pool water,” “bathhouse and swimming pool floors,” “going home and sitting on one’s bed without changing clothes” and “sushi hand-rolled by someone else.”
Fourth equal in the list were “going to bed and falling asleep without bathing” and “someone else lying on one’s bed.” Third in the list was “bidet-style toilet seats other than the one in one’s own home,” second was “drinking from the same bottle or can as someone else,” and first place went to “toilet lids other than the one in one’s own home.” According to the survey results, nearly 70 percent of people feel that toilet seats away from home are unhygienic, and 75 percent of women find them unbearably dirty.
Photo courtesy of the New Taipei City Public Health Department
照片由新北市衛生局提供
Analyzing these results, the Web site said that men and women are rather fussy about toilet hygiene, irrespective of gender. The survey results also indicate that everyone has a greater or lesser secret obsession with cleanliness.
(Liberty Times, translated by Julian Clegg)
每個人的生活習慣不同,對衛生、乾淨的要求程度也不一樣,日本網站近日發表一份調查,由二十到三十九歲男女各一百五十人選出自己心目中覺得不衛生、難以忍受的事物,該調查結果也引發網友和日本綜藝節目討論。
根據調查結果,三百名日本男女最無法忍受的骯髒事物從第十名到第六名分別是「電車拉環」、「澡堂或泳池的水」、「澡堂或泳池地板」、「回家未換衣服就坐在床上」、「他人手做的飯糰」。
Photo: Lin Yao-wen, Taipei Times
照片:自由時報記者林耀文
並列第四名的則是「沒洗澡就上床睡覺」和「別人躺自己的床」,第三名是「非家用的免治馬桶座」、第二名是「和別人共喝飲料」、第一名則是「非家用的馬桶蓋」,根據調查結果,有將近百分之七十的人覺得非自家的馬桶蓋不衛生;更有高達百分之七十五女性覺得很髒無法忍受。
該網站表示由結果分析,男女不分性別都比較要求浴廁衛生,這項調查結果也顯示每個人或多或少都有「隱藏版」的潔癖。
(自由時報)
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