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- primehifi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+84Mythbusters did it, Mythbusters did it........
- SwissCamel, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50Blah blah blah Mythbusters findings blah blah blah Adam and Jamie blah blah blah cum in Kari's hair
- tolbs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45It's the "three second rule" where I come from, anything longer than three is disgusting....savages :P
- masgrada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44Being in college has to immediately add seconds, perhaps even days when used appropriately.
- cankillar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41...this is a rule? I just picked stuff and ate it anyway.
- MackPrime, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41it' called the Apple section.
- firefoxman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Mythbusters busted this ages ago.
- KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Really? 5 seconds? I use the 2 minutes rule :P Keep's the immune system strong.
- raptordrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26*blink*
- expert01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Of course, the five second rule changes to the two or ten second rule depending on wealth and social status.
- AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24@Darph.Bobo
"Five Second Rule? Should be called the Five Second Fantasy. As if germs, bacteria, etc. use a stopwatch."
As if there weren't more germs, bacteria, etc. on your hands than on the floor. If anything, touching a piece of food and then dropping it is contaminating the floor. Me, I follow the as-long-as-there's-no-visible-debris rule. And if the is visible debris, attempt to brush it off. Only if that fails is the food discarded. - Anrkist, on 10/12/2007, -9/+27No second rule.. I'm not eating anything that hits the floor.
- tolbs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17it really doesn't.
- AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14@Anrkist
"No second rule.. I'm not eating anything that hits the floor."
You think that the floor is, micro-organism-ly speaking, dirtier than your hands? I'd wager otherwise. - Vironex, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14I bet the ladies love you, Mr. Bobo.
- arcooke, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Blog spam.
Direct link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1z6OCRJVks - badfrog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Ok, the film is funny...
But, the five second rule in our house is nonexistant, we have the dog hair guarantee: One 120lb German Shepherd, one 80lb mix. You drop anything on the floor, there's dog hair on it. - D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I think we all know the "five second rule" has many variables:
*Wealth
*Age
*social status
*surface of ground (mud, carpet, poo, or hardwood floors as examples)
*where you are (your house or a friends)
*Surface of food (jello and chips are very different)
*Is the thing you dropped really tasty?
For example:
A poor college student who dropped a handful of their favorite chips in the freshly cleaned floor has plenty of time to pick it up; as opposed to an old rich woman who dumped a bowl of caviar into horse *****... - zephc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Five *SECOND* rule? Oh, crap...
- SolipsismX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Man, digg really needs a poop joke section
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'm going to go with no, seeing as how my mom is dead.....
- blankoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I take it you won't be eating at a restaurant for the rest of your life.
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9My friend once, a long time ago, dropped a mentos into a freshly laid roll of dog poop. Needless to say I reminded him of the 5 second rule and things worked out.
- jgtg32a, on 10/12/2007, -1/+75SR is extremely important to healers in WoW
- rolf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8The dog poop was on the ground for less than 5 seconds and he picked it up?
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Since when was this rule taken so seriously. I always thought it was a joke you said when you were too attached to the food you just dropped to throw it out. Didn't it get started on a TV comercial as a joke? Do people really think this is a biological fact that it takes 5 seconds for germs to stick to food?
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10have some courage cowardly lion... it's how you build your immune system up :P
- pdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Gah! Why is everything always about Kevin Rose?!
- onTheJDAR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5An incomplete list of the embarrassing foods I was proud to eat...
French fries out of a trashcan
(so good I stuffed my pockets)
A cookie found in on a bus
(Grandma's peanut butter, made me famous)
Leaves off of a random tree
(use to intimidate people)
Some weird grape-ish gummy thing found next to a concrete pillar at my college
(slug shaped)
Every candy you can think of found while working as a movie theater cleaner
(who spends $4.50 on butterfinger minis and only eats half of them?)
I tried to eat random dippin' dots offered by a random man who walked into a resturant and asked who would want them
(he was kicked out, and I was left dotless)
This week I have eaten numerous pizza crusts that were thrown towards the trashcan, but missed, a chicken quesadila that was thrown away but was still in its clamshell, and three pieces of bread I found labeled "free garlic bread, not poisoned"
I like to think of myself as the fish that cleans the aquarium.
I leave you with a joke I made up while working as a busboy at Outback Steakhouse. What is the difference between a waiter and a busboy? Your waiter eats food off your plate BEFORE he serves it to you. - russellnation, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5doesn't george carlin have something to say about this.....
- raptordrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's bendable to the situation, don't worry; I've done 5 minute rule (and 5 hour rule) before, haven't died yet, just been maimed
- Kronos6948, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My own food, in my own house...depends on what the food is and where it falls. I'm not eating ice cream off my rugs. But, if I drop a potato chip on my kitchen floor, no problemo.
- bIuebonics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4psshhh.... i eat ice cream off the rug in the bathroom all the time...
- fufubag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Let's try and get to the root of your anger, shall we? I'm guessing as a child you were brutally beaten after picking food up off the floor and eating it....
- LoLaLand, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If something I want really bad, like that last M&M, hits the floor, I'm eating it.. I'm not going to die from it I'm sure. Our bodies have immune systems for a reason, however, I do not advise eating something that fell in poo...get your brother to.
- SolipsismX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@tolbs
hence my sarcasm - neodon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Stop whining!
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Five hour rule? You drop it and just walk away, then come back after the game and pick it up?...Someone's always gotten it before you get back..
- Barlo_Mung, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There is a big difference in how the 5 second rule applies to food you are making for yourself and food that is cooked in a restaurant. The grill/fryer work for flash sanitizing as well as cooking. Happens all the time.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Toilet seat probably has less bacteria but if you bump your food it falls into the water :'( I'd rather go with the table for the conveienience.
- selrahc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It helps strengthen your immune system...
- chingy1788, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2would you eat off a toilet seat? or the dining table?
- dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@fufubag:
>> Here's your site: www.smugdouchebags.com
No fair, not a real site... I was hoping for an ammusing joke. *cries* - Vironex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am imagining some guy running chips and muffins under hot water and eating the soggy results. lawl.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is there a video of this online?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1almost had to use the 10 second rule
- RandomGuySteve, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6The 5 second rule promotes clumsiness and overeating.
Throw it away and lead a more balanced life.
//Seriously though, its not about the microbes. It's about not eating off the freaking floor. - Vironex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uh, ***** yeah the five-second rule applies to the BEST SANDWICH EVER!
- deusdiabolus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you work in a landfill, the five second rule goes right out the window.
- swordedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Very busted. They also proved that one of the cleanest surfaces in your house is the toilet seat
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