The 5 second rule is simply an excuse for people who don't care about the germs:) A convenient myth so they (we) don't get quite so sour looks when we let some good food not waste.
Testing the 20 second rule.
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Tom7
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· Score: 3, Funny
The 20 second rule on slashdot says that any post you can write in 20 seconds must not be worth posting (unless you reload a few times until the time is up!)
Slashdot 5 second rule
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phamlen
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· Score: 2, Funny
Slashdot shall not post a duplicate of a story until at least 5 seconds has passed?
The *original* article
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menscher
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· Score: 4, Informative
The real reason for the duplicates
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narratorDan
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· Score: 4, Funny
The reason is, and this is the real scary part, that each duplicate story contains a secret message for a anti-US geek terrorist cell bent on destroying the Christian capitalist imperialism of the infidel west. To read the messages you compare the two (somtimes three) duplicate stories and ROT13 the output. This is from the two five second rule articles:
The countdown to the next Windows web worm outbreak has begun. SoBig.G ready in 5 days. Praise Allah
'Course, the repeat stories are between repetitive stories of SCO 0wnz-u x.x, MS Evil 1.4beta, RIAA molests little girl, etc, etc.
-- "If you're not confused by quantum mechanics, you really don't understand it." - Niels Bohr
Who the hell thought the 5 sec rule was science?
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RevAaron
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Who the hell thought that the 5 second rule was somehow proven scientifically before this? (The submitter/poster mentioned having his life shattered)
I mean, I will "use" the 5-sec rule. Plenty of folks do. But for most people, it's just a damned excuse to eat food that has fallen on the ground. I mean, why waste whatever it is as long as there isn't hair, sand, gravel, dust, toenail clippings or something else sick that happened to be where it landed? Did some of you schmucks really think this was something they "discovered" in the 50s or something, and just now disproved? C'mon! It's just an way to prevent waste.:P
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Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
With all these dupes, it could well be called Slashslashdotdot
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- Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, find / -name '*base*' |xargs chown -R us && mv zig greatjustice
This rule is made for children
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Arkhan
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· Score: 2, Insightful
I'm pretty sure this rule was "invented" by parents for children.
You know, children. Those small, humanoid-looking things that are incapable of holding ANYTHING in their hands without banging, dropping, or throwing it on the floor at least once a minute.
If a parent threw away every piece of a child's food that touched the floor, the food bill would triple. It ALL goes on the floor at some point.
I honestly believe this rule was made up for one reason. When your kids drop their food on the floor for the umpteenth time, you want to make them eat it anyway. So you say "five-second rule" and shove it in their slobbering little faces.
Re:This rule is made for children
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Saige
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· Score: 2, Insightful
It also makes sense to use this for children, in a way. Considering your floor, if you keep it clean and don't have a dog stepping in their urine and feces and walking across it all the time, doesn't exactly have tons of dangerous germs on it. It still has plenty though - but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
I've seen a lot of studies done that suggest that children need their immune systems worked a bit more when they're younger to let them develop properly. That perhaps kids whose parents keep things too clean never have their immune systems worked properly, thus they can become hypersensitive, and cause issues with asthma and allergies.
The immune system evolved in an environment when it was constantly being used. If it doesn't get used, it probably goes overboard.
As a single data point, I remember reading an article talking about Crohn's Disease (inflammation and ulceration of the intestines and bowels) being treated by having patients drink a solution containing eggs of parasites that live in that area of the body. The immune system fights off the parasites, instead of being busy fighting the body. The parasites don't stay - they get killed, so the patients have to drink the solution every few weeks or so - but all the symptoms disappear.
Regardless, when I am a parent, the five-second rule will definitely stay, and if the kids play in the sand or dirt and get a little dirty, I'm not going to freak out - it's good for their body in the long run.
-- "You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
And if you think they transfer fast from the floor, think about that next time you take a bite or drink after someone else. Guh. *shudder* I don't even like to eat food someone else has touched.
/bacillophobe
If you want karma points and weren't worried about plagiarism, you could just search through this dupe's original story's discussion for the highest rated comments, and then repost them here and pretend they are your own. Unless all the moderators are on crack and hand out mods randomly.
-- "I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
An appropriate place to mention the "official" definition of disconfection - the practive of blowing on candy that has been dropped on the floor to remove the germs.
since the first time
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epine
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I read an article on Science Daily, IIRC, about the concept of hormesis: that low level exposure to pathogenic forces improves the health of the organism.
A few years ago I read an article about the spread of bacteria when handling raw chicken. They asked a number of people to prepare a roast chicken starting with a sanitary kitchen, and then they went around afterwards looking for salmonella bacteria. The woman in the study who cleaned most compulsively proved best as smearing the bacteria onto every kitchen surface. Unless you clean with bleach, the average soapy rag is just an efficient distribution system.
Compared to kitchens and door handles, the average floor is a dose of penicillian. Hormensis from fallen gummy bears prepares my body for food that has contacted the kitchen counter for more than a few seconds.
Don't recall exactly where I read about the salmonella study, but it was around the time that The Sciences was still good, so it was a while ago.
How much cleaner the average countertop is in comparison to the floors these are tested on, and how long the food spends on those.
I try to keep my counters clean, but often they will have a small spot of leaked juice, or a fleck of this-or-that. Do you always wipe your counter down before preparing food, even with a quick snack?
Another nasty to focus on would be how short it takes a dishcloth to become truly smelly and unpleasant... dirty rags don't make clean dishes... which is why I prefer the short-use disposible variety
Slashdot Mirror
Must every thing be duplicated 5 times?
I knew I wasn't the only who whoseen this story on /. before
sigh... why can't they bother to check
"WebTV: bringing the Internet into the shallow end of the gene pool since 1995" - Martin Bishop
... the 5-second-rule is that the dog has 5 seconds to eat dropped food before I pick it up and eat it myself.
He knows this, and usually manages to snatch the morsel before it even hits the floor.
...of who posts more dupes? Would be interesting statistics to see :)
--AP
The 5 second rule is simply an excuse for people who don't care about the germs :) A convenient myth so they (we) don't get quite so sour looks when we let some good food not waste.
The 20 second rule on slashdot says that any post you can write in 20 seconds must not be worth posting (unless you reload a few times until the time is up!)
Slashdot shall not post a duplicate of a story until at least 5 seconds has passed?
From Sep 2: If You Drop It, Should You Eat It? Scientists Weigh In on the 5-Second Rule.
To read the messages you compare the two (somtimes three) duplicate stories and ROT13 the output. This is from the two five second rule articles:'Course, the repeat stories are between repetitive stories of SCO 0wnz-u x.x, MS Evil 1.4beta, RIAA molests little girl, etc, etc.
"If you're not confused by quantum mechanics, you really don't understand it." - Niels Bohr
Who the hell thought that the 5 second rule was somehow proven scientifically before this? (The submitter/poster mentioned having his life shattered)
:P
I mean, I will "use" the 5-sec rule. Plenty of folks do. But for most people, it's just a damned excuse to eat food that has fallen on the ground. I mean, why waste whatever it is as long as there isn't hair, sand, gravel, dust, toenail clippings or something else sick that happened to be where it landed? Did some of you schmucks really think this was something they "discovered" in the 50s or something, and just now disproved? C'mon! It's just an way to prevent waste.
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
I'm still awaiting scientific analysis of the "he who smelt it dealt it" rule.
that we all have immune systems.
With all these dupes, it could well be called Slashslashdotdot
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Roses are #FF0000, Violets are #0000FF, find / -name '*base*' |xargs chown -R us && mv zig greatjustice
I'm pretty sure this rule was "invented" by parents for children.
You know, children. Those small, humanoid-looking things that are incapable of holding ANYTHING in their hands without banging, dropping, or throwing it on the floor at least once a minute.
If a parent threw away every piece of a child's food that touched the floor, the food bill would triple. It ALL goes on the floor at some point.
I honestly believe this rule was made up for one reason. When your kids drop their food on the floor for the umpteenth time, you want to make them eat it anyway. So you say "five-second rule" and shove it in their slobbering little faces.
Last time this story was posted, I got a Score:5, Funny...
:-)
Mods, go to work
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
And if you think they transfer fast from the floor, think about that next time you take a bite or drink after someone else. Guh. *shudder* I don't even like to eat food someone else has touched.
/bacillophobe
If you want karma points and weren't worried about plagiarism, you could just search through this dupe's original story's discussion for the highest rated comments, and then repost them here and pretend they are your own. Unless all the moderators are on crack and hand out mods randomly.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
An appropriate place to mention the "official" definition of disconfection - the practive of blowing on candy that has been dropped on the floor to remove the germs.
I read an article on Science Daily, IIRC, about the concept of hormesis: that low level exposure to pathogenic forces improves the health of the organism.
A few years ago I read an article about the spread of bacteria when handling raw chicken. They asked a number of people to prepare a roast chicken starting with a sanitary kitchen, and then they went around afterwards looking for salmonella bacteria. The woman in the study who cleaned most compulsively proved best as smearing the bacteria onto every kitchen surface. Unless you clean with bleach, the average soapy rag is just an efficient distribution system.
Compared to kitchens and door handles, the average floor is a dose of penicillian. Hormensis from fallen gummy bears prepares my body for food that has contacted the kitchen counter for more than a few seconds.
Don't recall exactly where I read about the salmonella study, but it was around the time that The Sciences was still good, so it was a while ago.
How much cleaner the average countertop is in comparison to the floors these are tested on, and how long the food spends on those.
I try to keep my counters clean, but often they will have a small spot of leaked juice, or a fleck of this-or-that. Do you always wipe your counter down before preparing food, even with a quick snack?
Another nasty to focus on would be how short it takes a dishcloth to become truly smelly and unpleasant... dirty rags don't make clean dishes... which is why I prefer the short-use disposible variety