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.

Comments

A Test to Verify the Numbers

[eldavojohn]

More specific it contained 33,000 bacteria per square centimeter ...

*licks his keyboard*

That's funny, it doesn't taste like McDonalds ...

Re:A Test to Verify the Numbers

[Elvis Parsley]

Remember: if you lick somebody else's keyboard, you're also licking all the other keyboards they've typed on.

Ew.

toilet

[genbitter]

so who's been wiping their ass with my keyboard?!

assistants

[dlc3007]

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!

Re:Maybe it is a good thing

[NFNNMIDATA]

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."

Lesser of Two Evils

[Rhoon]

Tell you what, I'll lick my keyboard. Who wants to lick their toilet?

Re:Maybe it is a good thing

[Rude Turnip]

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 :)