rockhound: If my immune system can't handle floor germs, I may as well just give up.

What about parasites?

/cue Mythbusters

As long as its not sticky or on a dirty carpet, I'll eat

I normally go thru restaurants and eat the things other people drop and also finish the drinks that have not been cleared from the table.

/Saving a TON on my food bill....

I have co-workers that are obsessed with spraying alcohol on everything to clean it.

They are alot more sickly than myself.

StoPPeRmobile: rockhound: If my immune system can't handle floor germs, I may as well just give up.

What about parasites?

/cue Mythbusters

The parasites can handle the floor germs just fine.

Come at me bro!

So personally I never take any precautions against germs. I don't shy away from people who sneeze and cough. I don't wipe off the telephone, I don't cover the toilet seat, and if I drop food on the floor I pick it up and eat it!Even if I'm at side walk cafe! IN CALCUTTA! THE POOR SECTION! ON NEW YEARS MORNING DURING A SOCCER RIOT!

-George Carlin

When I do this, I tell my wife that I'm exercising my immune system.

eh just throw some pills at em

Disapproves.

"I prepared it as I bathed."

St_Francis_P: Wait...no mention of the five-second rule for dropped food?

Five seconds? You've gotta give me at least ten. I mean, how can anyone expect me to get my soup up off the floor in only five seconds?

I read that as "German Porn"

Nein, danke. Ich hasse scheisseporn.

This is true. Your immune system is like an army. Slight skirmishes with the enemy (germs, viruses, bacteria) once in a while will keep the army in fighting shape. When they have nothing to defend against (because you are a maniac about anti bacterial soap, hand gel, cleaning products), they get weak and flabby. Then when an invading germ does get into your system the army is not prepared and you get sick

Back in the day the next door neighbor used anti bacterial everything, her kids always had a sore throat or cold. Myself, not the rabid housekeeper, and my son was never sick as a child. Coincidence? I think not.

Just dropped my hotdog on a carpet and picked it right up after 2 seconds, so I am getting a kick....

This is why I always advocate eating one's boogers. I don't do it myself but I advocate the hell out of it.

FREEMASONS RUN THE COUNTRY!

i take baths in purell three times a day. should i not be doing this?

Five seconds rule.

Yeah right, like I am going to let myself catch autism because of some stupid dropped hoagie.

jackandwater: This is true. Your immune system is like an army. Slight skirmishes with the enemy (germs, viruses, bacteria) once in a while will keep the army in fighting shape. When they have nothing to defend against (because you are a maniac about anti bacterial soap, hand gel, cleaning products), they get weak and flabby. Then when an invading germ does get into your system the army is not prepared and you get sick

Back in the day the next door neighbor used anti bacterial everything, her kids always had a sore throat or cold. Myself, not the rabid housekeeper, and my son was never sick as a child. Coincidence? I think not.

And never mind ordinary germs. What are you going to do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid shiat? I'll tell you what you're going to do...you're going to point and laugh when your neighbor gets sick and dies and she's gonna deserve it because she's WEAK and has a WEAK immune system.
--Modified Carlin

Way ahead of you. Burritos taste better after a night on the floor anyway.

As someone who is on immnosuppressants because her immune system thinks she's a fair target, I'm really getting a cough...cough..cough...kick.
/Grew up playing in the dirt and always had pets...no hyper-clean hypothesis for me!

At home I generally apply the five hour rule (sometimes I might drop something and not find it until later). Elsewhere I get a little more picky.

I do my part to strengthen my immune system by not washing my hands and licking doorknobs at work when nobody's around.

PanicMan: Way ahead of you. Burritos taste better after a night on the floor anyway.

You or the burrito?

Hand sanitizers, febreeze, etc can trigger allergies, migraines and asthma. The people that use all that sh*t are usually sick and neurotic and so are their kids.
Mr and I were in ER last year and the girl in the tent next to us was having asthmatic reactions. Her mother told the docotor that they had spent the day at WalMart, eaten lunch at McD's and sanitized the carpets, etc. The Dr. told them her reaction was due to them smoking outside the house. LOL.

Moosecakes: As long as its not sticky or on a dirty carpet, I'll eat

dirty carpet...heh heh heh. Some things should be washed regularly.

Likely.

Not appetizing, perhaps, but likely.

If y'all came out of your plastic bubble coated with Purell once in a while, you might know this.

The Zulus were amazed at the British who refused to chew on thorns the Brits removed from their bodies.

The Zulus knew about antibodies. The Brits didn't.

nightlyraider: I have co-workers that are obsessed with spraying alcohol on everything to clean it.

They are alot more sickly than myself.

Mine insist on bleach. And anti-biotics every time they get a sniffle. Supposedly intelligent human beings. Spoiled white suburban zombies.

"Kills 99.9% of all germs!"

You think the surviving 0.1% are going to take the hint? Not bloody likely.

"More for us! YAY!"

sanitizing everything is like preparing for a prizefight by spending 6 months bedridden while eating ice cream.

You know another reason why not obsessively sanitizing everything will help you live longer? Because constantly worrying about all kinds of small shiat like that will farking kill you, that's why.

I'm convinced that I am healthier than other people (never get colds or anything) because I am a habitual nail biter. I'm probably taking in all sorts of germs that way that are generating antibodies and boosting my immune system.

Mr_Fabulous: You know another reason why not obsessively sanitizing everything will help you live longer? Because constantly worrying about all kinds of small shiat like that will farking kill you, that's why.

Yep.

George Carlin had an awesome bit on this. Great stuff.

Sticky Hands: nightlyraider: I have co-workers that are obsessed with spraying alcohol on everything to clean it.

They are alot more sickly than myself.

From this moment forth, the reason I put alcohol on everything is to clean it.

I'm NOT a drunk, I'm a germaphobe dammit!



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