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Who's Behind the Shower Curtain?
Roland Piquepaille writes "No, it's not Norman Bates. Instead, hundreds of millions of yellow, pink and white bacteria are hiding on your shower curtain. According to a study by San Diego and Colorado researchers, it should be enough to push you to turn the water off and to make you grab a towel. After analyzing the vinyl shower curtains from their own bathrooms, the scientists found '...about 80 percent of the organisms they found in the flaky scum were in the same genetic families as those known to infect wounds'. Sorry to leave you here, but I also have to go and buy another shower curtain, preferably a disposable one."
I'll stick to bathing in the rainbarrel in front of my trailer.
I always wondered if that funky, non-natural, slimy, stuff-that-didn't-come-from-me, slippery, smelly, discolored stuff on my shower curtain wasn't good for me. Now I know!
these things worry not me, the traditional non-showering geek
vodka, straight up, thank you!
Exactly the reason I don't shower.
They have the Internet on computers now?
I don't take showers you insensitive clod!
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I have an enclosed shower stall. Without a shower curtain, there's no way that I can be exposed to such bacteria!
STOP MISUSING APOSTROPHES, YOU MORONS!!!
How on earth is this news for nerds, stuff that matters.
I've been to the coding department.... and trust me, none of them are in danger of going near a shower.
but seriously, this didnt effect me before, its not going to effect me know. I might hit the curtain with some cleaner next time I scrub the walls, but thats about it.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Wow, jumping right into the Godwin's Law on that reply, ain'tcha?
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Adolph was Austrian... so any studies showing 80% of Germans coming from his country would be equally crap as this one was :)
Hmmm, do bacteria have fingers ?
1. Put a computer in your bathroom
2. Teach your shower curtain to click on pay per click adds
3. ???
4. Profit!
my only complaint was that the shower head was directly over the toilet...
that way, you're doing double duty.
Read aloud. I'll just let that one sink in.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
I've grown quite a tolerance by licking my curtain.
hehe ick.
That's not all! It's only the top of the iceberg! Just see what I found here! All our bodies are COVERED by millions of these little bacteria and fungi - the same bacteria that KILL people every day!
;-)
We're doomed!
The end is near...
Even BSD is dying...
Adolph was Austrian... so any studies showing 80% of Germans coming from his country would be equally crap as this one was :)
:)
Have you ever written up a post, hit "Submit", and then thought... "wait a minute, 'X' isn't quite right!" That's me today. I'm happy to apologise to a non-AC for calling BS on my call of BS.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
While showering one morning, our hero thinks, "This guy got published for looking at dirty workstations? Huh, I wonder if what's on this shower curtain in my hot steamy shower will get press, too?"
Kinetic stupidity has a new brand leader: Allen Zadr.
It's been said that Austria's two greatest achievements were to make Mozart an Austrian and Hitler a German.
I read the internet for the articles.
This is the San Diego Union Tribune, so chances are good that the "staff writer" is nothing but a glorified reformatter of press releases. Their reporting is so bad even my parakeet won't crap on it.
welcome our new infectious shower-curtain overlords.
That is to say, I'll remember not to dress any wounds with strips of my shower curtain.
What a dumb story.
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... Tell me of one case where someone has had to have their leg amputated because it got infected in the shower. Just one, no more.
There's so much paranoia about all this shower curtain crap, and that's exactly what it is... crap
No one with a good sense of hygiene would let all that crap form on the curtains to begin with, let alone shower with it there.
I'm a signature virus. Please copy me to your signature so I can replicate.
if this study/research was sponsored by a large, evil corporation planning to ride the panic buying wave for their all new, shower-curtain cleaner+disinfectant - that they know will be induced after this story is read by the masses?
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I do the same thing in my dorm... only replace shower curtain with toliet and bleach with alcohol.
"The truth suffers from too much analysis"
It's also just like pointing out the ever-present danger of Dihydrogen Monoxide!
Please, for the sake of my self esteem as a man, call it a "power scrubber." Thanks :)
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OMG, that does NOT go with my bathroom's color scheme at ALL.
"I don't understand why some people wash their bath towels. When I get out of the shower I'm the cleanest object in my house. In theory, those towels should be getting cleaner every time they touch me."
"Maybe I could hug you every day so I don't need showers."
"Are towels supposed to bend?"
--Wally and Alice, this Dilbert cartoon
SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: The Comic for Dealing with Death
Simple enough - my only complaint was that the shower head was directly over the toilet...
No, the bidet was merely upside down.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
It's true. Or, at least, it was published as the truth.
Makes me wanna lay my shower curtain over my keyboard to type...
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
I heard we have like 3 or 4 pounds of bacteria in our colons. Personally, I plan to have a colectomy just to keep myself further away from this harmful source of bacteria. Mothers who love their children should consider doing this for their children as well!
I see this article covers pink, white and yellow bacteria. Does anyone know where I can find out if the brown gunk on my shower curtain is dangerous or not?
paintball
No more posting of articles that would potentially scare Unix admins from taking thier (weekly, monthly, yearly) bath. Thank you, a concerned citizen.
Anyways, whatever that mold was, it was badass. I first discovered it because some had dropped off the blinds and set up shop on the metal windowsill behind a pile of boxes that blocked my view of the windowsill for a whole winter. When I found it a few months later, the mold had etched marks into stainless steel. Not only was it badass mold, but weird mold. It ate metal (and presumably dust/skin flakes and other spores) all winter long, but it left the huge pile of yummy cellulose cardboard (the boxes) untouched.
Hopefully you kept a sample of that around.. we might need it when the machines try to take over.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Actually, Mozart is Austrian while Beethoven is German. Still many believe Beethoven is as Austrian as Hitler is German.
Look how devious the Austrian's are, they even tricked you when you tried to make a joke about them ;-).
bring it on! --- JFK
As is the current governor of California.
*DUM DUM DUMDUM!!!!!1*
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
or the sound of bacteria, watching waiting, as they draw their plans against us....
My other OS is also FreeBSD
> Once a week? Hell, I'm happy to clean it every other month!
Was I supposed to clean my shower?
Oh well, at least I know it's got 1/7 less dirt than most showers, since I only shower once a week or so...
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Don't forget The Sound of Music, otherwise known as "No, really! We weren't collaborating!"
He seems to be decomposing in Vienna, at this point. Er, not that that's relevant.
The *AUSTRIANS* did that!?
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sheesh...didn't you read the article! These bacteria can cause infections! It's not like our bodies have a defense system against infections, or a way to get rid of them.
since you have to wipe it down with a squeegee to keep the glass visibly clean, it probably stays much clearer than the vinyl.
do you really want your shower door visibly clean? I thought you slashdotters were concerned about privacy!
Peter
And Mozart don't go shoppin' no more,
You'll never meet Liszt or Brahms again,
And Elgar doesn't answer the door.
Schübert and Chopin used to chuckle and laugh,
Whilst composing a long symphony,
But one hundred and fifty years later,
There's very little of them left to see.
They're decomposing composers,
There's nothing much anyone can do,
You can still hear Beethoven,
But Beethoven cannot hear you.
Händel and Haydn and Rachmaninov,
Enjoyed a nice drink with their meal,
But nowadays no-one will serve them,
And their gravy is left to congeal.
Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds,
With their highly original sound,
The pianos they played are still working,
But they're both six feet underground.
They're decomposing composers,
There's less of them every year,
You can say what you like to Debussy,
But there's not much of him left to hear.
Finish: Claude Achille Debussy, died 1918.
Christophe Willebaud Gluck, died 1787.
Carl Maria von Weber, not at all well 1825, died 1826.
Giacomo Meyerbeer, still alive 1863, not still alive 1864.
Modeste Mussorgsky, 1880 going to parties, no fun anymore 1881.
Johan Nepomuck Hummel, chatting away nineteen to the dozen with his mates down the pub every evening 1836, 1837 nothing.
Monty Python: The Decomposing Composers
Godwin himself stated that the law accredited to him is a tongue-in-cheek analysis of statistics, not a method of enforcement, and that it was never intended to be used to stop a thread or declare a "winner". So maybe you should stop doing it, perhaps. You Nazi.
Virg
But when a "study" like this comes out, stating the obvious in "OMFG the sky is falling!" terms, you should follow the money.
Indeed. Just two more researchers in the pockets of the powerful Shower Curtain Industry Association of America (SCIAA).
Exit, pursued by a bear.
No, *that* was the Germans:
From Diebold's About Us - History - The Early Years