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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."
And little did they know that it was I who was hiding behind the shower curtain. When they came closer, I lurched out, breathing my AIDS-agitating bacteria in their faces. "Take that!" exclaimed I. But it was too late, they had already brought my replacement in.
-- Dedicated to Shower Curtains everywhere.
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Don't use shower curtains?
Got a nice and clean door-like system. Very easy to clean, all parts are reachable and if they aren't, they are detachable so you can reach over and clean anyways. The whole system is lovely and when properly sealed up around the edges it's pretty much clean and not a biohazard.
Hate me!
Theres nothing quite like a hitchhikers guide reference to gaurentee your ascent into karma heaven.
"Im so cool, you can keep a side of beef in me for a month. Im so hip I have trouble seeing over my pelvis. Now will you move it before I blow?!"
no
In Soviet Russia, you infect the germs on the curtain.
Godwin, not Goodwin you dumbass. And the point is that when the conversation degrades to arguing about Nazis (not merely mentioning Hitler) that any meaningful conversation is no longer possible.
And it's a "law" as much as Murphy's is.
In Soviet Russia, the Curtain is behind you.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
But 80 percent of the germans agree to that Austria is a part of Germany!
just slap the bitch
The Shower curtain is made of iron.
You realize that all you are doing is making them evolve into stronger forms that are resistant to bleach. don't you?
Your best be is to just make sure your shower curtain dries completely and then replace it when you see it start to get funky looking.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Probably because of the Turkish, and the different dialects.
God that is what I love about slashdot- you learn something new everyday....
Shower curtain Iron's you!