[Laminar]

Originally Posted by Jawbone54 

maybe I should scratch the "down-low" part

Do that around your other friends, but feel free not to do that around me.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

My sister-in-law carries a bottle of hand sanitizer in her purse and obsessively uses it whenever she feels she might've been exposed to anything in particular

Nurses

[analogika]

Originally Posted by NeverTriedApple 

Ewe?!.. I'd rather stay at home.

You have sheep at home?

I'd rather pick up a *girl*, but to each his own.


Wait, what was this thread about?

[hyteckit]

That's why I never kiss a girl until I have her rinse her mouth with listerine. You never know where their mouths have been and what nasty bacteria they are cultivating in their mouths.

[BlueSky]

That's why I always keep listerine in my mouth before the first kiss and blast it into her mouth upon kissing her. So far most have found it oddly...well, nm. Well, except for one where it backed up and came out her nose, that was just gross.

[turtle777]

That's way I let girls only shake my...

Nevermind.

-t

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton 

My sister-in-law carries a bottle of hand sanitizer in her purse and obsessively uses it whenever she feels she might've been exposed to anything in particular

Nurses

That's actually for her patient's safety, not hers.

[Jawbone54]

Had to edit my previous post. Poor choice of phrasing...

[Atomic Rooster]

I guess I should start using toilet paper and washing my hands.

Gets worse the further north you go? What of the Scotchies?

[residentEvil]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

That's way I let girls only shake my...

Nevermind.

-t

shaking is fine; tapping on the other hand...

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - 

Have you any idea how much fecal matter is sprayed into the air when you flush the toilet? You probably have more fecal matter on your toothbrush than on your hands after a week without washing.

I think that was proven wrong on Mythbusters. In the same test, they concluded one of the cleanest places in your home is the top of your toilet seat.

[vmarks]

Originally Posted by hayesk 

I think that was proven wrong on Mythbusters. In the same test, they concluded one of the cleanest places in your home is the top of your toilet seat.

You need to re-watch that episode. They concluded that not only is fecal matter sprayed everywhere in the bathroom, that it also made it onto the toothbrush that was placed in the next room over at the kitchen sink. IIRC, the lab where they tested for fecal coliform(sp) was at Duke Univ.

On a separate note, Doofy, you're going to have to not only stop shaking hands, you're going to have to stop breathing.

Whenever you can smell something, you're inhaling it. Smell something unpleasant? That something is now in your nose, in very tiny particulates. It gets better: your nasal passages connect with your mouth. Smell fresh droppings somewhere? It's now in your mouth.

[ShortcutToMoncton]

Haha after that post he and Jawbone are gonna be stuck in their own supersanitized houses forever....

greg

[torsoboy]

Originally Posted by ShortcutToMoncton 

Haha after that post he and Jawbone are gonna be stuck in their own supersanitized houses forever....

greg

... with tubes stuck in their bums so that when they use the bathroom it wont get the airborne fecal matter anywhere.

[Jawbone54]

Originally Posted by torsoboy 

... with tubes stuck in their bums so that when they use the bathroom it wont get the airborne fecal matter anywhere.

No tubes of any kind coming anywhere near my bum.

[ghporter]

I am currently a student at a major health care university, which includes a nursing school, a medical school and a dental school. I find it saddening and a bit disgusting how few other men I see washing their hands when they finish in the rest room both at school and "on the job." Of course a surgeon washes the be-gee-zus out of his/her hands all the way up to the elbows before doing anything "on the job," and the rest of us wash thoroughly between patients, and often between procedures on the same patient.

Now the good news. e coli is everywhere, especially HUMAN e coli. Our skin is a huge barrier to any problems from that and most other bacteria. And yes, washing your hands before you get them near your mouth, or near something that will go in your mouth, is more than adequate to control just about all bacteria and even most viri.

And Peter, it's interesting to note that human genitalia are actually cleaner than human mouths (assuming nothing "out of the ordinary" has been done with said genitalia, that is). Healthy "naughty bits" don't need brushing or flossing, but one's mouth needs both and frequently... In and of themselves, one's genitals are benign when it comes to germs. And unpleasant though it may be, urine is sterile when it is expressed, so as long as you don't urinate all over yourself, you're fine there.

[Tiresias]

I once read a study in the New Scientist about bacteria and fecal, urinary and even sperm vestiges in bar-top peanut and pretzel bowls and restaurant mints. Long and the short of it is, I stay well away from all of the above. Ew.