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Keyboards Are Disgusting
fredr1k writes "
A test carried out by Pegasus Lab on account for Swedish magazine PC För alla showed that a normal PC keyboard was infected by more bacteria than a normal toilet seat. More specific it contained 33000 bacteria per square centimeter, compared to 130 on a ordinary toilet seat. The tests also showed occurrence of up to 3100 fungi per square centimeter." Also note that unless you read Swedish, you still have plausible deniability when asked to windex yours.
That's funny, it doesn't taste like McDonalds
My work here is dung.
so who's been wiping their ass with my keyboard?!
While typing this, I contracted no less than 47 different diseases.
So that's why I always feel better after I get a new computer!
I've been carefully cultivating the bacteria on my keyboard for years! They've just started on communication. I'm hoping to have them up to written language in the next year. Then, we'll start on logic. With any luck, I should have my own civilization of microscopic coding assistants by 2011!
Good thing I already modded my keyboard with a toilet seat.
I use my laptop on my toilet. What does this mean for me ?
You obviously haven't used my toliet.
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obligatory George Carlin:
"in my neighborhood no one ever got polio, no one, ever. you know why? cause we swam in the east river. we swam in raw sewage! it strengthened our immune systems, the polio never had a prayer, we were tempered in raw shit."
The parts that touch the toilet seat are mostly shielded from bacteria by two layers of cloth.
But doesn't leaving your pants up when using the toilet seat sort of defeat the purpose going to the toilet in the first place?
underwear?!? *scratches head*
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Tell you what, I'll lick my keyboard. Who wants to lick their toilet?
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Not only that, but it turns out that when little kids eat their boogers, it helps to strengthen their immune systems. They're effectively giving themselves small-dose vaccinations every time they do it. Heh, no wonder I hardly ever missed a day of school as a child :)
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I remember the time the cleaner went round our labs dipping the keyboards in her bucket and giving them a good scrub. Shame the machines were left on overnight.
> Two layers?!?
Consider the butt cheeks. In many cultures these are often covered by an inner layer of
1. underpants or
2. boxer shorts
and an outer layer of
1. trousers or jeans
2. skirt or dress
3. kaftan or burka
In addition, some people also routinely cover their butt cheeks and their upper thighs with an extra layer of
1. panty hose or2. tights or stockings
3. petticoat or slip
In colder climates, a fourth layer of cloth is also provided by
1. coat or
2. blanket
> *scratches head*
Have you considered washing your hands after you do that?That would explain why everything I write is crap!
This is why I bought the Microsoft Self-Sterilizing Keyboard, which contains depleted uranium. Owww. My fingers feel numb. WTF?
Of course you haven't read any such comparisons. "Cutting board cleaner than toilet seat" isn't going to shock anyone. "Cutting board contains more bacteria than toilet seat" will have the general public up in arms, sell newspapers, and make a whole load of money for the researchers - who presumably have shares in cutting board manufacturing companies.
Trousers and underwear?!? *Scratches ass*
Don't blame me, I voted for Cthulhu.
Cool. Now I can tell people I have pets.
I am not a crackpot.
How else would you get back that last bit of donut jelly that dripped down onto the keyboard?
I'm having a really hard time envisioning doing it the other way...
BTW: toilet set tops are often very clean. But less so the undersides where women want men to put their fingers to raise and lower toilet seats! Default=up might be more sanitary.
You shouldn't publicize this, or the wimmenfolk will have us sitting down to pee.
As you chop the vegetables they drop straight into the water !
(Some of the places I've eaten, it would have been a)[slightly]quicker and b)preferable.)