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- Jazzzzz, on 12/30/2008, -1/+33OCD germaphobes Do not read!
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+27Try telling any of these to Procter & Gamble, with it's Dettol, and marketing boasts of "Kills 99.9% of all Germs".
There's also evidence to suggest that our obsession with sterilisation causes problems as to when we have no choice but to encounter these germs, as our bodies are either unprepared, or overreact, causing allergies. - odouls78, on 12/31/2008, -0/+27Dugg for being one page
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+24The fact that ABC news uses Mythbusters as a reference make it all the better!
- lukemh, on 12/31/2008, -1/+22Dugg for sticking it to the man by using print view.
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+20Interesting, and the single page version was submitted. Dugg!
- KennMac, on 12/31/2008, -0/+16The sponge one is so true. I can remember countless times that my mother would wipe down the table with a sponge, and the table would immediately REEK of dirty ass sponge. Fortunately she eventually learned of the microwave trick which really does work. Zap it for 30 seconds and it comes out smelling brand new.
- akchrs, on 12/31/2008, -2/+14Who's to say germs didn't write this article. I'm not crapping in the toilet in the Mall no matter what they say.
- cuoops, on 12/31/2008, -0/+11As Jamie said on the Mythbusters......There's poo everywhere!
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+11Because its easier to put everything into one room when you're running water and sewer pipes.
- lisaawesome, on 12/31/2008, -0/+10My mom has been and will always be a sponge freak. She will use the same sponge for everything. Just touching it makes my hands smell so bad that I have to scrub them several times to get the smell of death off of me. Don't try to talk her out of sponge usage or tell her to microwave it or even dishwash it. She's absolutely set on dirty sponges.
- deimios, on 12/31/2008, -0/+9He's right - Patrick Smith of Salon's "Ask the Pilot" column debunked this:
http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2007/03/09/ask ...
You're actually breathing a mixture of recirculated and compressed outside air - the air is completely exchanged every 2-3 minutes. - sacramentalist, on 12/31/2008, -0/+9Hooray for one-page articles. digg.
If I could, I'd give another digg for those big-ass jumbo shrimp on the cutting board. Yum yum. - ohokyeah, on 12/31/2008, -0/+8Take that women that stand to pee in public bathrooms! I just hope this makes a few more women use the toilet right so I don't have to see their pee dribble because they're too scared to SIT on the toilet like normal human beings. That's got to be one of the most disgusting and ineffective methods to go to the bathroom as a woman. You end up peeing all over the place (down your leg!), which is far more unsanitary than plopping your rear on the cold plastic seat ever was. Unless you have open sores on your butt, you probably have very little chance to get anything from the toilet and are more likely to get an infection from touching the stall itself.
- deimios, on 12/31/2008, -0/+8Can't speak for everyone else, but I would not want to have to go outside in the winter to take my morning *****.
- ricksite, on 12/31/2008, -1/+8Sometimes you need a bath after using the toilet. :^O
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -1/+8Why not just bury your face in your dogs ass and give his nuts a lick? Skip the middle man!
- lisaawesome, on 12/31/2008, -0/+6I think we consider it polite in America to say we're going to the bathroom/restroom instead of saying we're going to the toilet. We're pretty private about personal matters. Also some nicer bathrooms here will have a separate little room within the bathroom for the toilet but it's not super common at least in middle class homes.
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -1/+7Peggy: "You have a garbage disposal in your bathtub?"
Kramer: "Oh, yeah, and I use it all the time. Yeah, I made this whole meal in
there."
Elaine: "This food was in the shower with you?"
Kramer: "Mm-hmm. I prepared it as I bathed."
Puddy: "Oh, germs. Germs. Germs!" - Kzoo, on 12/31/2008, -0/+5It's not fecal matter necessarily, just the "fecal bacteria," bacteria found in the gut that aid digestion and are commonly found in feces for what I would think are very obvious reasons. This doesn't mean they always come from feces; there are other sources of these bacteria. It wouldn't be difficult to get that many in a sponge just starting with even one if the conditions are right (moist, not too warm/cold, plenty of food) -- less than 24 generations (which can be only hours long).
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -0/+5What about 2legit2quit?
- thayanmarsh, on 12/31/2008, -0/+4Umm, most fecal bacteria will not make you sick or give you an infection. Otherwise all of our guts would be "infected" all the time. Salmonella, ok, but fecal bacteria? I don't think that's something to worry about as much as they think. Its just gross, not dangerous.
- Remelox, on 12/31/2008, -0/+4It's been a long time but didn't they also have unused toothbrushes in the kitchen with as much fecal matter as those in the bathroom right next to the toilet? I thought the findings just pretty much showed, "fecal matter everywhere!"
- Misanthrope, on 12/31/2008, -1/+4It's slang.
Now shut up. - derekmas10, on 12/31/2008, -1/+4until water entering the drains in Australia rotates clockwise, I'll continue to poo in the loo.
- justaddwater, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3eek thanks for the warning!
- erkokite, on 12/31/2008, -1/+4The Mythbusters are special effects guys, not scientists. I would not trust them with anything scientific.
- Lasereth, on 12/31/2008, -1/+4What the hell. Experts? Half the answers are "probably" or "maybe." Or "could happen." This article is crap. If they are experts, where's the data? All I see is could happen or would happen if this happened in this way. I hate ***** like this getting to the front page.
- jster89, on 12/31/2008, -1/+4And you actually need a huge number of salmonella bacteria to cause food poisoning so a few on a sponge, whilst not ideal, is unlikely to cause illness.
- RegalBegal, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3Good morning, Gil. I said, good morning, Gil.
- hasslinthehoff, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3My dog loves eating rabbit poop in the backyard and licking her ass fives times a day... and you mean her mouth isn't clean? Shocking... just shocking.
What about cat's mouths? Dirtier or the same? - borez, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y-yH_Qyipc
- ottodog, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Watching or reading ABC and believing ABC is probably more dangerous to your brain than all those germs!
- jguy584, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2There is a good amount of evidence out there that blames our hygienic obsession for the spike in allergies cases over the last 100 years.
- inactive, on 12/31/2008, -1/+3Well its still a confined space with a lot of people crammed in.
Good info though, thats something I didnt know before. - DeadBabyFloat, on 12/31/2008, -3/+5The last one is bunk, because planes simply don't recirculate air.
- secrity, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2My mom refused to use a sponge; she used a wash cloth that was replaced at least one a day, and they were bleached when they were washed.
- jpop, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Complete air exchange does crap when you're sitting next to Typhoid Mary...
- peroxadic, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Actually, as an OCD person myself, reading this article helps me relax more than make me more anxious. Typical OCD sufferers will believe almost everything on that list to be true and get more anxious and scared anyway. The article actually helps to clear up some of the bs germ myths, its great.
- macslut, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2You're wrong.
Not all planes recirculate air, but some recirculate 50% or so of the air. See this PDF from the Journal of the American Medical Association:
http://jama.amaassn.org/cgi/reprint/288/4/483.pdf
Context:
In recent years, new commercial aircraft have been designed to recirculate approximately 50% of the cabin air to increase fuel efficiency. Some older aircraft use only fresh air. Whether air recirculation increases the transmission of infectious disease is unknown; some studies have demonstrated higher rates of the common cold among persons working in buildings that recirculate air.
[...]
Conclusion:
We found no evidence that aircraft cabin air recirculation increases the risk for URI symptoms in passengers traveling aboard commercial jets. - securitymonkey, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Gotta love the 'related by keyword':
- Germ killing pencil
- Armagedon meteor may be harboring deadly germs!
Who wrote that algorithm? The DHS? - itop10, on 12/31/2008, -1/+2Nice informative article.
- derekmas10, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Dugg you up for the prawns.
- s4g4n, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1I always wondered about trying a toilet ass cleaning sprinkler.
- Eugenis, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1Interesting jewelry myths: http://jewelry-newsline.com/articles/jewelry-arts/ ...
- jpop, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1On Mythbusters, they did some tests and found that their sample dog had a cleaner mouth than a human...
- LordRedSnake, on 01/07/2009, -0/+1Wow thanks for the informative answer. How unexpected.
- frosted, on 12/31/2008, -1/+2Fact or Myth? You can get sick from using the computer too much.
Fact. You are sick. You sick sick monkey you. - Rocksolid89, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1It's nice to feel vindicated regarding the toilet issue, but now it's kind of a drag to realize that nice clean sponge I was using is turning my apartment into a germ cesspool.
- secrity, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1The Japanese make toilets that do that -- and more.
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