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Lifting The Lid On Computer Filth
IainMH writes "There's a story over at BBC News about how work stations contain nearly 400 times as many microbes than lavatories. Gross. 'A desk is capable of supporting 10 million bacteria and the average office contains 20,961 germs per square inch, according to research. ... By contrast, the average toilet seat contains 49 germs per square inch, the survey showed.'"
Does this mean I have to stop using the top of my computer as a food tray? It was so convinient to be able to place a plate and glass on top of the case while I'm working.
"Oh dear, she's stuck in an infinite loop and he's an idiot" -Prof. Farnsworth (Futurama)
Of course they're filthier! Toilets just have people sitting on them. There's no end to the fetishes explored on personal workstations across the globe!
the "lick test"
lick a public toilet seat you'll probably get real sick
lick your desk and your work mates will just think you're a freak.
Here's to finally giving Bush his exit strategy in November
...telephone sanitisers.
Un-news
speak for yourself!
Yeah, but the germs on my desk come from my hands and nose, not other people's asses.
Everything is dirtier than a toilet! It's really that simple. Everyone should start making things out of toilets.
1) Find everything to be dirtier than toilets
2) Make things out of toilets
3) Profit!
There's no missing step! Well, except that these things will not actually be toilets, and thus will be found dirtier than toilets. But why? Because people know that toilets are "dirty", and thus clean them! So many things are assumed to be clean because they are not specifically used in a way that would seem to make them dirty, and so they don't get cleaned. No story here, move along.
Pinkeye (3 times)
Ringworm (once)
two sinus infections (suspected)
and
the herp...
Well, not from the keyboard, from the skank I was emailing, but I'd like to think it counts....
I sometimes use my wireless laptop while I'm IN the lavatory. I think this means I'll probably die earlier than most of you.
What the article doesn't report is that according to the same study, the average toilet seat contains 47% more urine per square inch than the average workstation.
With all the crap that comes across my desk, I'd bet that it could be significantly higher than in the article.
User: My keyboard doesn't work.
Me: Ok I'll go check it out.
Me (later): Ok, keyboard keys are sticky... and there is no software problem... and there are a lot of porn sites in the browser cache........
Me resigns.
The dirtiest part of the computer is really windows. That's where millions of virus exist.
Now if you combined the food rich environment of your keyboard with the poison producing bacteria from your colon, you start to have a real problem.
So what you're saying is that I should not shit on my keyboard. Good to know.
It sounds like someone holds prejudicial opinions regarding keyboard-shitters. To each his/her own, yeah? :-( Granted, my friends have a complete aversion to my keyboard, but that's the way I like it.
In soviet russia, ass sneezes on YOU!
"...a product called "Microban" into their keyboards and mice, to create an environment where bacteria cannot survive and grow."
Darn it! I knew there was a use for that old Russian monitor that glowed even when it was unplugged. Curse modern low-emissions monitors!
You just made sex feel so much less appealing.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Best not to stick the keyboard in your colon either.
Damn microsoft natural keyboard
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Sure blame the "new job" for all of your warts. I think we all know the REAL reasons you got all those warts.
toilet bowl gets cleaned with the really nice smelling (wtf is that, anybody know, mint?) blue stuff every two weeks or so...
If you think the blue piss puck smells like "mint", then I must advise you; what you've been chewing for the past fifteen minutes is probably NOT gum.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
1) I have never had a worm or virus crash my toilet
2) The do not make any of that blue junk that I can install in my computer
3) microsoft doesn't make bathroom fixtures
4) I let people go in my bathroom. Noone is allowed to drive my PC
5) Visitors understand how to use everything in my lavatory.
6) Thankfully, there is no 'undelete' function in the can
7) Seat at workstation is more comfortable. I try to perform as many biofunctions there as I can.
I recall brainstorming a way to actually prevent someone from leaving the restroom without washing their hands. I was at Applebee's of all places, and at least 5 different guys walked out of the bathroom without even a glance at the sink. I went through a million different technical ways and all were easily circumvented. I noticed when I washed my hands in the bathroom, others were more likely to as well.
I finally figured that the best way was to have either a hot chick sit by the door and say, "Did you wash your hands?", or a withered old one-eyed crone point a translucent finger at those who didn't and scream, "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!".
Maybe follow them into the resturant if they refuse. "UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN! Shun him who walks among you - UNCLEAN!"
My solution is to do nothing. Modern society's obsession with disinfecting everything is weakening our immune systems. Your body is meant to be exposed to these kind organisms and such exposure strengthens your resistance.
In that case, may I defecate on your keyboard? It's for your own good you know.
I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
Is the licking of microban safe? Because sometimes I read something funny and coffee squirts out my nose so I have to lick my keyboard.
...when the mods consider "don't pick your asshole and THEN use the keyboard" to be informative. Is slashdot hygiene really this awful?
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