Whats dirtier than your toilet seat

irishejit

http://uk.health.lifestyle.yahoo.net/dirtier-than-your-toilet-seat.htm

Is anyone else fed up of this type of article?

To be fair this isn't one of the worst ones, like the type you get in the Daily Mail were you can't do anything cos it'll either A) kill you or make you a terrorist.

At the same time I think this puts across the wrong message, we're meant to get dirty, even bad germs are good. It's no coincidence that since this epidemic of "kills 99.9% of germs" people as a whole tend to get sicker more often.

Any thoughts?

OutlawPete

My mind.

BornToBe?

Mythbusters did it!

recylingbin

I have been using my


Toothbrush


my
Kitchen sink

my
Computer keyboard

my
Mobile phone

my
laundry

slept in my
bed


and often had excursions into the
Wider world

and I'm not dying. Maybe I'm special.

Or maybe dirty is a subjective word and what they really mean is covered in germs - which everything that hasn't been disinfected is.
However, because I don't have AIDS, I am not in danger of dying from these common germs anytime soon.

If I get AIDS, I'll live in a bath of domestos

Mrmoe

I think it all looks fairly sensible to me. Just be caustious about things that you put in your mouth. I think most people follow those rules generally. I don't see too many people going around licking toilet seats and the like.

mikom

My two girls...... oh, and my one cup.

Kimono-Girl

Edit: Damn born2be got there first

chin_grin

irishejit wrote: »

Any thoughts?

Yeah. You know that ad with the automatic soap dispenser? Well you've pumped the old fashioned soap thingy and washed your hands. Your hands are now clean. You don't need this automatic dispenser crap.

F*ckin' scare-keting sucks. Hate it.

Terry

Fairly sick of these scare stories myself.

Kids, when your friends dare you to eat chewing gum off the ground, or drink water from a puddle, don't be afraid to do it.
When you get stung by a nettle, don't be a little bitch and go crying to mammy. Get a dock leaf and rub it onto the sting.
When you skin your knee, don't put any of that anti-septic crap on it. You'll be grand. You won't lose your leg from a cut with a few small pebbles in it. They'll come out when you pick the scab.
Tell your mother that you want to walk to school, and that you shouldn't suffer because she is too lazy to walk 500 yards.
You won't catch a cold or the flu from the rain. The common cold and the flu are viruses which are transmitted from person to person, and are not a product of rain.

In short, stop allowing your parents to turn you into complete pussies.

questionmark?

Who really cares we cant live without bacteria so why in the name of fcuk are people so afraid of them?






AH answer : Am ur ma's Kebab!

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Terry wrote: »

Fairly sick of these scare stories myself.

Kids, when your friends dare you to eat chewing gum off the ground, or drink water from a puddle, don't be afraid to do it.
When you get stung by a nettle, don't be a little bitch and go crying to mammy. Get a dock leaf and rub it onto the sting.
When you skin your knee, don't put any of that anti-septic crap on it. You'll be grand. You won't lose your leg from a cut with a few small pebbles in it. They'll come out when you pick the scab.
Tell your mother that you want to walk to school, and that you shouldn't suffer because she is too lazy to walk 500 yards.
You won't catch a cold or the flu from the rain. The common cold and the flu are viruses which are transmitted from person to person, and are not a product of rain.

In short, stop allowing your parents to turn you into complete pussies.

Oh stop generalising about parents and their children, ffs. :mad:

It gets more than a bit tedious after a while. :rolleyes:

Sea Sharp

licking your toilet seat has less bacteria than biting your finger nails.

Terry

up for anything wrote: »

Oh stop generalising about parents and their children, ffs. :mad:

No.

It gets more than a bit tedious after a while. :rolleyes:

Do you allow your children to drink from puddles and eat chewing gum off the road?
Do you use one of the hundreds of anti-bacterial thingies on your children when they skin their knee?
Do you tell your children that they will catch a cold from being out in the rain?

If you answer yes to any of the above, then you are, in my opinion, over-protective.

I'll give you the walking to school one because I'm assuming that you do not drive your kids there due to your obvious anger.

If you see the attached image, you will see the small area I live in.
The roads and car parks are jammed every day by women driving their kids to school. Yes, women. These children are rarely dropped off by men.
How do I know? Because I live right beside the schools, and a morning stroll see women driving these cars. I'm not being sexist here. Just pointing out a fact. Not saying women are lazy either. Just these particular women.

Take a look at the scale on the map and tell me that these people are not lazy.
Take a drive up the R149 any morning and see how bad it is.

Edit: Image updated to show the catchment area of the schools.

KevinVonSpiel

Terry wrote: »

No.



Do you allow your children to drink from puddles and eat chewing gum off the road?
Do you use one of the hundreds of anti-bacterial thingies on your children when they skin their knee?
Do you tell your children that they will catch a cold from being out in the rain?

If you answer yes to any of the above, then you are, in my opinion, over-protective.

I'll give you the walking to school one because I'm assuming that you do not drive your kids there due to your obvious anger.

If you see the attached image, you will see the small area I live in.
The roads and car parks are jammed every day by women driving their kids to school. Yes, women. These children are rarely dropped off by men.
How do I know? Because I live right beside the schools, and a morning stroll see women driving these cars. I'm not being sexist here. Just pointing out a fact. Not saying women are lazy either. Just these particular women.

Take a look at the scale on the map and tell me that these people are not lazy.

How is allowing your children to drink from puddles overprotective?

Terry

KevinVonSpiel wrote: »

How is allowing your children to drink from puddles overprotective?

It's not really. I was just making the point that it won't kill you. I'm still alive 30 years after drinking from a puddle.

dan185

Terry wrote: »

It's not really. I was just making the point that it won't kill you. I'm still alive 30 years after drinking from a puddle.

yeah but that was a puddle that was drawn from deep inside the lush, green ancient volcanoes of the Auvergne in France.:pac:


And Captains Hill is an awful fecker of a hill to be walking

nuttytart

Are you a parent Terry?

karlog

It's better to live in filth. Keeps your immune system strong.

At least that's my excuse

Daisy Steiner

nuttytart wrote: »

Are you a parent Terry?

*gets popcorn*

Dravokivich

nuttytart wrote: »

Are you a parent Terry?

Speaking as a son...

Lab_Mouse

nuttytart wrote: »

Are you a parent Terry?

Wow terry's annoyed someone enough to register on boards.
Welcome to boards nuttytart!:D

BluesBerry

I agree 100% with Terry kids nowadays are too wrapped up in cotton wool
Things I was allowed to do as a child would be frowned upon now

These days kids are sicker than ever always coming down with colds runny noses etc they are not allowed to be kids because parents are scaring the sh1t out of them about germs instead of being able to run carefree and happy

I played with a kid that was never allowed sweets because they rotted your teeth and she used to peel the chewing gum of the ground and chew it she never died or came down with a germ related illness (I told her mother years after and she was horrified) :pac:

We used to make stink bombs in old jam jars which involved using white dog poo and lift the drains cover and collect the slime and muck from it thats just an example and Im not that old im in my 20's this germ frenzy seems to be a new thing

I know a woman that wont even let her kids drink tap water she boils it first its gotten out of hand

Chorcai

chin_grin wrote: »

Yeah. You know that ad with the automatic soap dispenser? Well you've pumped the old fashioned soap thingy and washed your hands. Your hands are now clean. You don't need this automatic dispenser crap.

F*ckin' scare-keting sucks. Hate it.

FACT !

stovelid

I always lick the bus pole in the mornings to build up my immunity to germs.

It works a treat and is cheaper than that Actimel stuff.

DetectivFoxtrot

Terry! I thought I was the only one who licked puddles as a kid, wow I feel unoriginal now.
I also ate chewing gum off the road. The type that has been mashed in over the course of about 2 years, black and full of stones, it amazed me that it always retained it's mintyness....
there was also a plant I used to eat, had a juicy flavour, on our road we called them Juicies. We used to say 'let's go and eat some juicys'... I'm fairly sure dogs would have pissed on the juicys

oh, nostalgia.........

foxinsox

BluesBerry wrote: »

We used to make stink bombs in old jam jars which involved using white dog poo and lift the drains cover and collect the slime and muck from it

^ ^ Ah memories

Did anyone else play chasing with eh.. sh*t on a stick? Hours of fun!

I remember eating some plant that we called pissy beds! (or "juicies" as called in other parts, pointed out by Detective ^^)

Spending hours sitting on the road picking hot tar from the road with lollipop sticks. Don't know what the point was but a lot of long hot summers were spent doing this.

Drinking the water while trying to catch frogs!

Collecting icepop sticks off the ground because you had to collect them for something? some sort of prize you sent away for?

We spent many a day following "forty coats" homeless tramp guy who used to appear in our town every so often. We were always told never to go near him!!! Hours of fun stalking him... again don't know the reason for this one either.

And many many more germ infested activities, we're all still alive!



EDIT: I would like to point out that I have not played chasing with sh*t on a stick for at least 35 years! Just saying....

Big Nasty

Terry, we've clashed once or twice on these here boards but in this instance I couln't agree with you more!

Most kids these days can't break a sweat without their mother changing their clothes, have their hands washed twenty times a day, etc. Let them out there in the elements, let them get cold and dirty and wet, let them build up their immune system so that when a bug is 'going around' it will be like a breeze to them.

I don't have kids before anyone asks but I was one once (still am!) and did all the above and have never been 'struck down' by any type of illness for more than a couple of days (touch wood!)

When I do have kids they certainly will not be treated with 'kid gloves'!

bluto63

All this has done is confirmed for me that my dirty lifestyle isn't effecting me at all. I'll continue to wallow in my own sh*t thank you very much, I seem to be doing alright

BluesBerry

foxinsox wrote: »

^ ^ Ah memories

Did anyone else play chasing with eh.. sh*t on a stick? Hours of fun!

I remember eating some plant that we called pissy beds!

Spending hours sitting on the road picking hot tar from the road with lollipop sticks. Don't know what the point was but a lot of long hot summers were spent doing this.

Drinking the water while trying to catch frogs!

Collecting icepop sticks off the ground because you had to collect them for something? some sort of prize you sent away for?

We spent many a day following "forty coats" homeless tramp guy who used to appear in our town every so often. We were always told never to go near him!!! Hours of fun stalking him... again don't know the reason for this one either.

And many many more germ infested activities, we're all still alive!

How could I forget that!!!!... we called it gick on a stick

DetectivFoxtrot

foxinsox wrote: »

Drinking the water while trying to catch frogs!

That reminds me, I used to eat frog spawn! (Well my brother made me, seriously!)

foxinsox

DetectivFoxtrot wrote: »

That reminds me, I used to eat frog spawn! (Well my brother made me, seriously!)

As a kid anything was fair game..

And if you were dared.... poor frogs hadn't a chance

As for the juicys/pissy beds I'm pretty sure everything peed on them which is I think where my name for them originated....

storm2811

This might be kinda off topic but..

"New soap sensor, because your soap pump harbours millions of germs!!"

WHAT THE FCUKING FCUK!?
AFTER I TOUCH MY SOAP PUMP I GENERALLY TEND TO WASH MY FCUKING HANDS AFTER!

Seriously..what the fcuk?

Oh and when I was little I used to spend most of my time in dirty sheds and garages, fields full of crap, sandpits and slightly off colour rivers, drank from em too.
It doesn't harm you, children learn from mistakes, if they eat something nasty off the ground then they won't eat it again because they know it's nasty.

Even if you tell them not to, they'll do it anyway. The best way they learn is through experience, touching, tasting and smelling things.

Terry

dan185 wrote: »

And Captains Hill is an awful fecker of a hill to be walking

All the water flows down from here.

nuttytart wrote: »

Are you a parent Terry?

Yes. I have six kids for Three different mothers.

A son for Jane. He's 15.
Two Girls for Mary. !3 and 11.
Rita and I have Three kids. A boy and two girls. We're happy together.

nuttytart

Thanks lab_mouse I'm a more of a lurker to be honest, speaking as a person who studied micro biology and a parent I agree with Terry ( to a certain extent) that there is a strong element of scaremongering and too much fear in some parents leading to to much sterilising which in turn leading to kids getting sick as they are not exposed to bacteria. This is where superbugs along with the over prescription of anti-antibiotic's came from such as MRSA.
However being a parent you do your best do protect you children no matter how misguided it is. Walk a mile and you have someone's shoes ect... I personally try to let me child be exposed to some things ( not pedantic about yucky dirty) but not let her drink out of puddles there's a happy medium. The trouble is finding it!

IvySlayer

You need to be exposed to bacteria to build up an immune system. I hate when people panic over anything, a sneeze, a cough.

I also hate when people take aspirin when they have a cold, because it just get rids of the symptoms.

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503 sickness!

strobe

DetectivFoxtrot wrote: »

there was also a plant I used to eat, had a juicy flavour, on our road we called them Juicies. We used to say 'let's go and eat some juicys'... I'm fairly sure dogs would have pissed on the juicys

:eek: I never met anyone that wasn't from my road who knew about Juicies as a kid. Little guys with long thin green stems? I think purple flowers used to grow outta them sometimes?

Daisy Steiner

up for anything wrote: »

Have you ever wondered why the children are rarely dropped off to school by men?

I used to live about 150 yards from my children's primary school. There were mornings that I was unabashedly thankful to drive them there in the car. Each and every car you see at the school holds a story. Not every car is driven by someone who can't wait to get back home to kick the maid and head off to BTs for a browse before lunching with the girls!

Can you show me where on this thread anything like that was said?

up for anything

Terry wrote: »

No.



Do you allow your children to drink from puddles and eat chewing gum off the road? I've never stopped them.
Do you use one of the hundreds of anti-bacterial thingies on your children when they skin their knee? You mean water?
Do you tell your children that they will catch a cold from being out in the rain?
How would they drink from puddles and wash skinned knees if I told them that!
If you answer yes to any of the above, then you are, in my opinion, over-protective.

I'll give you the walking to school one because I'm assuming that you do not drive your kids there due to your obvious anger. Never assume. I do my best road rage during the school run. Raging against the school bus authorities who say we're .2 of a mile out of the three mile limit for secondary school buses. Raging against the education authorities who won't put a limit on homework weight so my children can't walk the 2.8 miles to school because of the weight of books in their school bags.

I don't know why the women in your rant don't walk their kids to school. There are 8 million stories in the naked city and perhaps in the cars of that city. Why don't you put on a hi-viz vest, grab and clipboard and piss off those women by asking them*? Pretend you are doing a survey for the council.

*I'd imagine you might be making a good few of them late for work.

Daisy Steiner

up for anything wrote: »

I don't know why the women in your rant don't walk their kids to school. There are 8 million stories in the naked city and perhaps in the cars of that city. Why don't you put on a hi-viz vest, grab and clipboard and piss off those women by asking them*? Pretend you are doing a survey for the council.

*I'd imagine you might be making a good few of them late for work.

What are you on about?

up for anything

Daisy Steiner wrote: »

Can you show me where on this thread anything like that was said?

No, I can't because it wasn't said. I am just assuming. And this poxy board is driving me mad.

tony1kenobi

Terry wrote: »

Fairly sick of these scare stories myself.

Kids, when your friends dare you to eat chewing gum off the ground, or drink water from a puddle, don't be afraid to do it.
When you get stung by a nettle, don't be a little bitch and go crying to mammy. Get a dock leaf and rub it onto the sting.
When you skin your knee, don't put any of that anti-septic crap on it. You'll be grand. You won't lose your leg from a cut with a few small pebbles in it. They'll come out when you pick the scab.
Tell your mother that you want to walk to school, and that you shouldn't suffer because she is too lazy to walk 500 yards.
You won't catch a cold or the flu from the rain. The common cold and the flu are viruses which are transmitted from person to person, and are not a product of rain.

In short, stop allowing your parents to turn you into complete pussies.

...and if I offer you a sweet,that's ok.....and if I ask you to make sure the puppies in the back of my van are ok... that's ok too.

love....Buffalo Bill.

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Daisy Steiner wrote: »

What are you on about?

Just something that was said in one of the posts but now I see you are probably suffering from 503 double posting.

Professional Griefer

Water from a Sligo tap?

Johro

chin_grin wrote: »

Yeah. You know that ad with the automatic soap dispenser? Well you've pumped the old fashioned soap thingy and washed your hands. Your hands are now clean. You don't need this automatic dispenser crap.

F*ckin' scare-keting sucks. Hate it.

Yeah, totally agree. You mean the Dettol dispenser with the sensor on it? Ya wave your hands under it and it dispenses the soap so you don't have to touch the nasty germ-ridden pump.
As far as I'm concerned you could take a dump on any soap dispenser and it wouldn't matter coz once you pumped it you're gonna wash your hands.
Idiots.

MardiB

DetectivFoxtrot wrote: »

Terry! I thought I was the only one who licked puddles as a kid, wow I feel unoriginal now.
I also ate chewing gum off the road. The type that has been mashed in over the course of about 2 years, black and full of stones, it amazed me that it always retained it's mintyness....
there was also a plant I used to eat, had a juicy flavour, on our road we called them Juicies. We used to say 'let's go and eat some juicys'... I'm fairly sure dogs would have pissed on the juicys

oh, nostalgia.........

We called them sour bellies...

Son Of A Vidic

The development of natural and acquired immunity are very important for a childs health. This sort of anti bacteria hype does more harm than good for the develpoment of a childs immunitity. Of course it's a nice money making marketing ploy, just look at the vast array of products you can purchase today. Childhood asthma and eczema have gone through the roof. Parents over cleaning, perfuming and preening their kids has played a very significant role in this. What's even more worrying though, is these kids have often gone through the full spectrum of antibiotics before they even get near their teens.

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medicman2009 wrote: »

these kids have often gone through the full spectrum of antibiotics before they even get near their teens.

Who prescribes these antibiotics?

medicman2009

medicman2009 wrote: »

The development of natural and acquired immunity are very important for a childs health. This sort of anti bacteria hype does more harm than good for the develpoment of a childs immunitity. Of course it's a nice money making marketing ploy, just look at the vast array of products you can purchase today. Childhood asthma and eczema have gone through the roof. Parents over cleaning, perfuming and preening their kids has played a very significant role in this. What's even more worrying though, is these kids have often gone through the full spectrum of antibiotics before they even get near their teens.

Bored immune systems are like bored teenagers, out creating havoc because they're like rebels without a cause!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAlzg0S51GY

Daisy Steiner

up for anything wrote: »

No, I can't because it wasn't said. I am just assuming. And this poxy board is driving me mad.

So are you just stirring or what?

up for anything wrote: »

Just something that was said in one of the posts but now I see you are probably suffering from 503 double posting.

Nope not "suffering" from anything, just wondering why you're reacting to things that you made up.


On topic, I'm glad to see that my doctor isn't as quick to give out antibiotics as he was, I have two nephews who are happy to be outside messin' with dirt and playing sports and eating blackberries straight from the ditch, they play on computers and use nintendos and are fired into the bath for a scrub every couple of days. Two healthier, robust kids you couldn't hope to meet.

As for the soap dispenser :rolleyes: such a waste of brain-power.

Son Of A Vidic

up for anything wrote: »

Who prescribes these antibiotics?

Who do you think? Not a difficult one.