Whats dirtier than your toilet seat

storm2811 · 27-09-2010 10:30PM

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 · 27-09-2010 10:46PM

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 · 27-09-2010 10:56PM

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 · 27-09-2010 11:32PM

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.

up for anything · 28-09-2010 12:09AM

503 sickness!

strobe · 28-09-2010 12:13AM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:16AM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:20AM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:26AM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:29AM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:30AM

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.

up for anything · 28-09-2010 12:31AM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:39AM

Water from a Sligo tap?

Johro · 28-09-2010 12:47AM

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 · 28-09-2010 12:54AM

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 · 28-09-2010 01:55AM

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.

up for anything · 28-09-2010 02:02AM

medicman2009 wrote: »

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

Who prescribes these antibiotics?

28-09-2010 02:04AM

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 · 28-09-2010 02:01PM

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 · 28-09-2010 03:54PM

up for anything wrote: »

Who prescribes these antibiotics?

Who do you think? Not a difficult one.

seamus · 28-09-2010 03:58PM

I have a pen. It spends most of its time on my desk. Sometimes it's in my hands, even after I've scratched myself or held a door handle.

It often goes into my mouth, then gets placed on the desk and later goes back into my mouth.

I'm still alive.

Irish Guitarist · 28-09-2010 04:27PM

What annoyes me is when they show that advert for the Dettol soap dispenser you don't have to touch, then they advertise Yakult claiming it contains 'healthy' bacteria to help your bodies defences.

foxinsox · 28-09-2010 09:02PM

You lot better be thankful for my research

Description: Wood Sorrel: medium-sized plant with small three-parted leaf and heart-shaped leaflets; flowers yellow (other edible species' flowers have other colors), less than 3/4 inch across, radially-symmetrical; leaves three-parted palmate-compound, less than one inch across, on long, slender stem; slender stalk usually up to 8 inches tall.
They taste lemony. Sorrel comes from a French word for sour, and Oxalis comes from oxys, which means sharp or acidic in Greek.

^^^ AKA pissy beds, juicys or sour bellies....

http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Plants.Folder/Sorrel.html

string of cusswords, I can't figure out how to post pic, after all that effort.. FAIL...

But anyway while googling I found something else kinda yucky!

The great early 20th century New Orleans jazz pianist/composer Jelly Roll Morton recounts how, back in the day, a well-dressed, clean person would suddenly become lousy.

If he entered a cheap, filthy bar called a honky-tonk, one of the habitual customers would become envious. Then, when the victim wasnít looking, heíd pick a louse from his head and toss it onto the other man, "so he'd be lousy too."

storm2811 · 28-09-2010 09:25PM

I thought these were pissy beds/piss the beds?
http://maludan.3dtoast.com/images/Dandelions.jpg

Ah and what about foxgloves?Always used to put them on and run around.
Or putting onion rings/hula hoops/jelly rings on your fingers before you ate them.

foxinsox · 28-09-2010 09:30PM

storm2811 wrote: »

I thought these were pissy beds/piss the beds?
http://maludan.3dtoast.com/images/Dandelions.jpg

Ah and what about foxgloves?Always used to put them on and run around.
Or putting onion rings/hula hoops/jelly rings on your fingers before you ate them.

Did ya not know? Dandelions were for making you pee in the bed, you were never ever supposed to rub them on your knees or you would wet the bed.

There seems to have been several names for the wood sorrel that we used to eat as kids, pissy beds was just the nickname in my area.
The pic in that link isn't great, but I did find good pic.

Foxgloves - we used to do that too...although any part of the foxglove plant is poisonous if ingested... :eek:

I don't know how we survived at all....

Terry · 28-09-2010 09:35PM

nuttytart wrote: »

Are you a parent Terry?

No. However, I have spent what amounts to years helping to bring up children of single parents.

BluesBerry wrote: »

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

Your location says Leixlip.
You know the woods up by the Black Avenue, around what is now known as the Liffey Valley house hotel?
I spent my childhod there climbing cliffs and jumping back down from them. Falling off swings. Running through the stream. Making small fires and cooking sausages over them on manky frying pans*. Trying to avoid traps made by the older kids so that they couldn't catch me and knock the crap out mf me.
****ing brilliant childhood.

Terry wrote: »

All the water flows down from here.

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.

Hah. I'm quite the liar when I'm drunk.

tony1kenobi wrote: »

...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.

Wow. Now I'm a serial killer. What a brilliant analogy.

*a friend's little brother used to rob sausages from the supermarket. The 12 year old me condoned this.

storm2811 · 28-09-2010 09:43PM

foxinsox wrote: »

Did ya not know? Dandelions were for making you pee in the bed, you were never ever supposed to rub them on your knees or you would wet the bed.

There seems to have been several names for the wood sorrel that we used to eat as kids, pissy beds was just the nickname in my area.
The pic in that link isn't great, but I did find good pic.

Foxgloves - we used to do that too...although any part of the foxglove plant is poisonous if ingested... :eek:

I don't know how we survived at all....

Yeah I knew, couldn't resist though.:pac:

Hmm, I dunno, there is some kind of little maroon berries that grow on trees that we used to eat, no idea what they were but I just can't picture what you're talking about..

Seriously?Jesus and my parents never said anything about them, we'd always be messing with foxgloves and eating random plants.
I used to make "salads" out of plants in the garden, there was some weird yellow flower that made me feel like my mouth was on fire, so stupid.:o

Ha,anyone else remember getting tricked by your older brother/sister/friend into eating a sloe...:pac:

foxinsox · 28-09-2010 09:48PM

storm2811 wrote: »

Yeah I knew, couldn't resist though.:pac:

Hmm, I dunno, there is some kind of little maroon berries that grow on trees that we used to eat, no idea what they were but I just can't picture what you're talking about..

Seriously?Jesus and my parents never said anything about them, we'd always be messing with foxgloves and eating random plants.
I used to make "salads" out of plants in the garden, there was some weird yellow flower that made me feel like my mouth was on fire, so stupid.:o

Ha,anyone else remember getting tricked by your older brother/sister/friend into eating a sloe...:pac:

Yeah, the long hot summers of childhood, surviving on one icepop between six, eating everything else in sight to keep us going till home time.

It's only recently I've studied horticulture and been shocked by the amount of really poisonous plants.

pissy beds, sour bellies or juicies!

Sometimes they have pink flowers..

I hate that I can't make pics appear properly!!!!

up for anything · 28-09-2010 10:20PM

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.

Daisy Steiner wrote: »

So are you just stirring or what?

No, just posting based on assumptions like 87% of the posts on AH. As for stirring - the board was driving me mad with it's 503 error and double posting hence my comment.

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.

Daisy Steiner wrote: »

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

Are you sure? I was reacting to something that was posted but I didn't quote in the interests of brevity and assuming, once again, that people might keep hold of the thread of the thread mentally.

CorkMan · 28-09-2010 10:26PM

irishejit wrote: »

What is dirtier than your toilet seat?

A scumbags toothbrush.

Whats dirtier than your toilet seat

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