Is your keyboard dirtier than a toilet seat?

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Zedtom

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If you want to be like that guy "Monk", you can worry about all those germs on bathroom doors and electric can openers.

Sometimes I wonder how mankind has survived this long with all that nasty stuff everywhere.
 
Throckmorton

Throckmorton

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Originally posted by: Zedtom
If you want to be like that guy "Monk", you can worry about all those germs on bathroom doors and electric can openers.

Sometimes I wonder how mankind has survived this long with all that nasty stuff everywhere.
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A large portion of us didn't survive. Ever heard of the plague? A lot of people are STILL dying in the third word due to lack of hygeine. When you have to choose between a bar of soap or 20 bowls of rice, you choose the rice.

The whole "germs are good, I don't wash my hands after wiping my butt, yarr I'm manly" attitude reeks of priviledged arrogance.
 
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Mr Pickles

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Keyboard is way cleaner, although I'm thinking about getting a new one. This one hurts my butt when I'm taking a dump. I did pick up a toilet with USB and ergonomic shape though. I can tell I've increased my wpm on it.
 
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rasczak

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i usually eat what drops onto my keyboard. oh wait....**thinks about wheter he cleans keyboard after fap session**

ugh, i need to brush my teeth with bleach now. :disgust:
 
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imported_Imp

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Technically: probably.

Psychologically: not even close.

I don't care if my keyboard has the plague/ebola/cancer, I will eat off my keyboard before I touch my toilet seat without washing my hands afterwards.
 
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Zedtom

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Originally posted by: Throckmorton

The whole "germs are good, I don't wash my hands after wiping my butt, yarr I'm manly" attitude reeks of priviledged arrogance.
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...so this guy goes into the bathroom and first washes his hands and then steps over to a urinal and starts peeing. The guy next to him says, "where I come from, we wash our hands after we pee." The first man zips his fly and says, "where I come from, we don't pee all over our hands." :laugh:


 
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imported_Jdo

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Originally posted by: Cogman
I don't know, making the comparison between X and a toilet seat in cleanliness will almost always come out with the toilet seat on top (its a bad comparison). What ever touches a toilet seat, your bum? Most people shower daily so the most that is touching it is clean skin (unless you have kids, then urine spots might appear). Then you make the comparison to something like a keyboard that by its nature will be touched by varying states of cleanliness, of course the keyboard will be ranked dirtier.

I imagine the remote controls, doorknobs, telephones, pianos, or any tool in the house will probably rank lower on the cleanliness scale then a toilet seat.

Conclusion. Toilet seats are bad comparisons for how dirty something is.
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You are a 100% correct but the news agencies have to create a sensation about news in order to sell it. What do you think is more catchy:

1) Did you know that your keyboard is dirtier than your remote control?
2) Did you know that your keyboard is dirtier than your toilet seat? *gasp* :Q

The radio and tv channels have been blabbing about it since the morning and making little corny jokes about it. It happens with all these interesting, random studies that come out.
 
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i clean my office keyboard every week with lysol cause it's a shared computer that often gets food, grease & god knows what else on it
 
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I thought there would be a lot more waterproof keyboards out there right now because of this fact. I just looked on newegg for washable keyboards and it only turned up one out of 1800 or something. My keyboard is filthy and I've needed a new one for a long time, they're pretty dang expensive though, especially the ergonomic ones like I'm used to.
 
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natto fire

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Probably. Good thing I do not have a phobia of germs though. Seems pretty popular these days, even the five second rule is in danger!
 
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Originally posted by: Throckmorton

A large portion of us didn't survive. Ever heard of the plague? A lot of people are STILL dying in the third word due to lack of hygeine. When you have to choose between a bar of soap or 20 bowls of rice, you choose the rice.
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Of course, if you have no rice to eat since there is a rice shortage atm, that bar of soap might look pretty tasty right about now.

The whole "germs are good, I don't wash my hands after wiping my butt, yarr I'm manly" attitude reeks of priviledged arrogance.
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Yea, that hand reeks of something, all right. Care to shake on it?

My computer keyboard is my toilet seat! :shocked:

 
alkemyst

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Originally posted by: ropeadope
I thought there would be a lot more waterproof keyboards out there right now because of this fact. I just looked on newegg for washable keyboards and it only turned up one out of 1800 or something. My keyboard is filthy and I've needed a new one for a long time, they're pretty dang expensive though, especially the ergonomic ones like I'm used to.
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IBM 42H1292 or a 1391401,

http://pckeyboards.stores.yahoo.net/ is selling them...there is another company out there that modifies them with a windows key. Not my thing, but serious writers use these and many would talk about bringing their keyboards with them into the shower for a daily wash down too.
 
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