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Poo, it's getting everywhere. Faecal bacteria is present on 26% of hands in the UK, 14% of bank notes and 10% of credit cards, according to new research carried out by hygiene experts from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). It has been published to promote the UN's Global Handwashing Day.
They say one of the biggest shocks is the level of germs. Findings suggest 11% of our hands are so "grossly contaminated" they are carrying as many germs as a dirty toilet bowl. It's the same for 8% of cards and 6% of notes. We already know faecal matter can be found on one in six mobile phones.
Makes you proud to be British, eh.
Can't help but feel that there's a brown elephant in this article. I wonder how many people wash themselves "down there" after going in the back door?
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Unnessesarily extravegant word of the week award goes to jcress410 for this:
jcress wrote:Seem super off topic to complain about epistemology on a thread about tactics.
Faecal bacteria are ubiquitous, to be honest I'm suprised that these numbers aren't higher.
The majority of them won't do you any harm at all though.
RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
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Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
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Poo, it's getting everywhere. Faecal bacteria is present on 26% of hands in the UK, 14% of bank notes and 10% of credit cards, according to new research carried out by hygiene experts from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). It has been published to promote the UN's Global Handwashing Day.
They say one of the biggest shocks is the level of germs. Findings suggest 11% of our hands are so "grossly contaminated" they are carrying as many germs as a dirty toilet bowl. It's the same for 8% of cards and 6% of notes. We already know faecal matter can be found on one in six mobile phones.
Makes you proud to be British, eh.
Can't help but feel that there's a brown elephant in this article. I wonder how many people wash themselves "down there" after going in the back door?
Perhaps the trouble is that they're doing so with banknotes?
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This is fairly normal.
The only concern is what a person does when they are sick. And as Mythbusters has shown, if you even take basic precautions such as avoiding handshakes or touching what other people will be touching you can almost eliminate contamination.
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As long as you wash your hands before eating/putting your hands near your mouth you will be perfectly fine.
RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
Warzone Plog
The only concern is what a person does when they are sick. And as Mythbusters has shown, if you even take basic precautions such as avoiding handshakes or touching what other people will be touching you can almost eliminate contamination.
But then herd immunity doesn't develop. If I get ill, I want to make sure everyone I know gets ill too keep them strong.
Unnessesarily extravegant word of the week award goes to jcress410 for this:
jcress wrote:Seem super off topic to complain about epistemology on a thread about tactics.
Testify wrote: If I get ill, I want to make sure everyone I know gets ill too keep them strong.
The Hygiene hypotheosis in action
RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
Warzone Plog
I saw that Mythbusters about where you leave your toothbrush.. there was gak on it no matter where you kept it, even in the garden shed or the kitchen!
Humans are disgusting on a microscopic level, there is probably ball sweat and piss and goo and gak all over pretty much everything when you come right down to it.
We are arming Syrian rebels who support ISIS, who is fighting Iran, who is fighting Iraq who we also support against ISIS, while fighting Kurds who we support while they are fighting Syrian rebels.
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And as I read this my nose is blocked up with phlegm...
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And as I read this my nose is blocked up with phlegm...
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Even made it into a music video...
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Candida albicans which smells absolutely gorgeous, like fresh baked bread but much nicer. In pure growth obviously
RegalPhantom wrote: If your fluff doesn't fit, change your fluff until it does
The prefect example of someone missing the point.
Do not underestimate the Squats. They survived for millenia cut off from the Imperium and assailed on all sides. Their determination and resilience is an example to us all.
-Leman Russ, Meditations on Imperial Command book XVI (AKA the RT era White Dwarf Commpendium).
Its just a shame that they couldn't fight off Andy Chambers.
Warzone Plog
mattyrm wrote: I saw that Mythbusters about where you leave your toothbrush.. there was gak on it no matter where you kept it, even in the garden shed or the kitchen!
Humans are disgusting on a microscopic level, there is probably ball sweat and piss and goo and gak all over pretty much everything when you come right down to it.
So what you are saying is, when I go out to eat, I'm getting tea-bagged by a few dozen guys?
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Same, currently still recovering from Fresher's Flu approximately 3 weeks later Though I actually do wash my hands regularly, it's the lack of availability of any regular sleep pattern that's done me in.
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
The worst bit is when only one nostril is blocked, which happens quite a lot due to my wonky septum. Ugh.
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buddha wrote: I've decided that these GW is dead/dying threads that pop up every-week must be followers and cultists of nurgle perpetuating the need for decay. I therefore declare that that such threads are heresy and subject to exterminatus. So says the Inquisition!
Typical 'Everything must be clean!' attitude that is afflicting our planet at present, if things continue this way we'll all end up like Howard Hughes (OT: watched 'The Aviator' last night, great film but I was a little disappointed they ended before he went completely guano in his later years...)
Long since lost the info for references, but there are a bunch of epidemologists out there that believe the ridiculous rise in allergies in children is caused by our 'too sterile' homes, because whereas kids sit around in their germ-free homes, where mummy has dusted everything daily and cleaned the whole place with antibacterial agents, they are not exposed to the pathogens that our body usually fights, so instead of developing a normal immune response to pollen or nut particles etc we develop an abnormal allergic reaction, as we never get a change to build a decent immune response to it.
Also, has anyone seen those commericals for the 'hands free' soap dispensers? they have a little sensor to detect when your hand is underneath. The blurb is a standard Unilever scare-mongering 'Think how many germs are on the lid of your soap bottle! you touch that!!!', now, am I the only person who realised, 'yes I'm touching a filthy stinking pathogen infested soap dispenser, but in touching it I am applying soap to my hands which I will use to wash said pathogens off with...'
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Squigsquasher wrote: The worst bit is when only one nostril is blocked, which happens quite a lot due to my wonky septum. Ugh.
Yes that is pretty awful, especially if you sleep on your side, then you roll over and you can feel the one nostril clearing as the other one bungs up...
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And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
Poo, it's getting everywhere. Faecal bacteria is present on 26% of hands in the UK, 14% of bank notes and 10% of credit cards, according to new research carried out by hygiene experts from Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). It has been published to promote the UN's Global Handwashing Day.
They say one of the biggest shocks is the level of germs. Findings suggest 11% of our hands are so "grossly contaminated" they are carrying as many germs as a dirty toilet bowl. It's the same for 8% of cards and 6% of notes. We already know faecal matter can be found on one in six mobile phones.
Makes you proud to be British, eh.
Can't help but feel that there's a brown elephant in this article. I wonder how many people wash themselves "down there" after going in the back door?
I haven't heard of it!!!
http://www.protex.co.th/healthcorner/11 similar scenario also happens here in Thailand, a soap manufacturer marketed its products of 'Handwashing soap' citing that 'each year there are 50% schoolchildren missed the classes due to the flu
rodgers37 wrote: Don't understand how people can't at least keep their hands clean, its not hard...
Because for some of us, not washing our hands after using the turlet is about as close as we get to rebelling against this megalithic conformist society...
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
Phototoxin wrote:Kids go in , they waste tonnes of money on marnus calgar and his landraider, the slaneshi-like GW revel at this lust and short term profit margin pleasure. Meanwhile father time and cunning lord tzeentch whisper 'our games are better AND cheaper' and then players leave for mantic and warmahordes.
daveNYC wrote:The Craftworld guys, who are such stick-in-the-muds that they manage to make the Ultramarines look like an Ibiza nightclub that spiked its Red Bull with LSD.
Ouze wrote: Ah, a press release packaged as a research study. Thank you, Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive & Proctor & Gamble, for sponsoring this interesting research.
Or maybe we should just thank the nanny state.....
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kronk wrote: Also, I'm never letting someone use my cell phone again.
*slaps* We've just been through this : it's "mobile" now, do keep up !
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