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Taking Showers Can Be Harmful To Your Health
TheClockworkSoul writes "According to both the BBC and NewScientist, showering may be bad for your health. Apparently, dirty shower heads can be an ideal breeding ground for Mycobacterium avium, a bug responsible for a type of pulmonary disease more prevalent than tuberculosis in developed countries, cases of which have risen in parallel with the rise in showering. Tests revealed nearly a third of devices harbor significant levels of the critter."
I guess a couple of co-workers are actually just taking good care of their health. I'm pretty sure one of them doesn't come anywhere near this bacterium more than twice a year.
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Secretly, some geeks knew this all along, hiding from the masses the real reasons they didn't shower. Now their cover is blown!
now there will be more smelly IT nerds walking around. Wait.... nevermind
If it ain't broke, DON'T fix it.
Finally the medical community is backing my position on showers ... and I know it's just a matter of time before some new study proves I'm right about the Doritos and climbing the basement stairs.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
sponge baths, given by sexy barely legal nurses in underwear, now that's healthy, in more than one sense of the word.
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The telcos are way ahead in this field, they've had telephone sanitisers for years.
Why bother with CLR? That's a lot of effort to keep your showerheads clean and safe.
What I've done to protect myself against this terrifying bacteria is to actively encourage the growth of black mold in my shower, which suppresses bacteria growth.
This has a lot of benefits:
1. Chinks in the grout between tiles are filled automagically with an attractive black growth.
2. I never have to clean hard-to-reach areas, since this is where the mold grows best.
3. My shower is now cute and cuddly due to the "furry" coating on exposed surfaces. It's like a panda bear, except without the bamboo and pointy teeth!
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
You must be single. Back in the day I had to choose between my friends in the shower or my ability to keep getting laid. It wasn't a hard decision ;)
...the mistake here is not having your girlfriend be one of the "friends in the shower". If you find one that's into "group activities" you won't have this issue.
I put on my robe and wizard hat..
Friends don't let friends use the CLR, excessive usage can leave you infected with Mono!
See you simply don't care to keep yourself or your family healthy. I change my shower heads, shower pipes, tile, grout, and wetboard once/week. The bathroom manufacturers who came out with this study....err who have HEARD of this study think it is a good idea.
I do not support "The Man". I also do not support your irrational stupidity
Between red wine for the health of it and no showers no wonder the worlds oldest person in recent history was that 121 year old French woman.
Back in the day I had to choose between my friends in the shower or my ability to keep getting laid. It wasn't a hard decision ;)
So, enough suspense already! Which one did you pick?
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As the wonderful Daily Mash points out;
"Nevertheless it is better to carry the heady stench of the Gaul than expose yourself to the sort of tiny risks that generate gigantic headlines."
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This is all based on a study out of CU Boulder. As a Denver resident, I can attest that the dirty hippies at CU Boulder are on a never-ending quest to justify their poor hygiene. Don't be fooled! Shower every day!
-Peter
sponges are also full of germs. better stick to a good hand-rubbing. ;-)
A post a day keeps productivity at bay.
I declare this a victory for Open Source. Now - on to making beards, sandals with black socks, and red suspenders fashionable again!
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
(lifelong acme sufferer)
Ah, but how often do coyotes normally shower?
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Yes, these bacteria produce goto-linum toxin which is very dangerous.
Ezekiel 23:20
He's posting on Slashdot. Is it really a mystery?
So, enough suspense already! Which one did you pick?
I think it's obvious; he's on slashdot, after all.
Yeah with the same toothbrush he uses to clean the toilets.
Or is that the Army approach?
No, my outdoor faucets are from the irrigation ditch coming from the river.
In order for many slashdotters to cease bathing, they would first have to start bathing.
Sorry, I saw a nit and had to pick it! ;)
The Christian Right is Neither (Christian nor right). See: Matthew 23, Matthew 25, Ezekiel 16:48-50
Jerry: Hey, you're not giving it to me, man. What's wrong?
Kramer: I just took a bath, Jerry. A bath?
Jerry: No good?
Kramer: It's disgusting. I'm sitting there in a tepid pool of my own filth.
All kinds of microscopic parasites and organisms having sex all around me.
http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheShowerhead.htm
and the article glosses over that MOST water supplies in the USA are so heavily chlorinated, that the chance of this happening are nearly ZERO.
So if you have well water, you're hosed.
And if you shower in hose water, your welled.
I highly doubt that you use soap + hot water + friction inside your lungs (but if you do, you're more of a man than I).
Weed kills these bugs and prevents lung cancer. I read it on www.good-skunk-is-a-humanright.co.uk
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The Dept of Health and Human Services has released guidelines to prevent this phenomenon.
The General Order Lessening Dirty Elevated Nozzles is now in effect and mandatory for all.
Everyone will be required to take G.O.L.D.E.N showers henceforth.
I HAVE CUBIC WISDOM THAT TRANSCENDS AND CONTRADICTS ONE DAY GODS
Fatal deaths are a worry. I'm not too concerned about the other types though.
I hate printers.
Every time someone mistakenly adds the t to sterilization regimen, I picture the US Cavalry riding at breakneck speeds toward me with giant alcohol swabs.
On the other hand, it kinda defeats the purpose of taking a shower to use a dirty shower head. Except if you take someone else there with you.
spray alcohol through the nozzels after every shower
Forget after, how about during?
Hippies take showers?
Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
Sure, but once your shower evolves the ability to speak, it's just nag, nag, nag:
You're fat.
Wash behind your ears.
Having you been getting enough sleep?
Where have you been?
Have you been showering in another bathroom?
It's better to just apply a regular scrubbing and avoid the headaches altogether.
This problem of the dirty shower head is easily solved by my approach. Instead of hooking up to a city water tap, I just had a giant tank of bactine installed that I use instead. Best part: no soap required, just a wire brush and a brillo pad and you're in and out as fast as you can say, Where'd all my skin go?
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
Girlfriends may be cute, but ideally they're not terribly furry. Unless you're into that. I'm not.
Or suffer from the chronic purchasing of bogus, yet name-brand, gimmicks?
Stop making fun of Macs. That's mean!
"I zero-index my hamsters" - Willtor (147206)
No doubt. Forget how dirty the shower head is. Try swabbing a human. Yucky people.
If you think that the above is flamebait then you are a hippie who needs to take a shower. I am from Santa Cruz and may use the word hippie as much as I want because people all over the world automatically think I am one. I do exhibit many of the characteristics; I do, however, shower.
If you were offended by my frequent overuse of the word hippie, you'll hate these jokes even more:
Q: How do you hide money from a hippie?
A: Hide it under the soap.
Q: How do you know a hippie has been on your couch?
A: They're still there!
Now grow up, and allow your sense of humor to drop out of the cavity it's hiding in.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"