When using public restrooms l see maybe one in four not wash their hands. Wonder what the odds are on female? I no longer shake hands. Just use sorry I have a cold. Wonder if wife's and girl friends know this.
I take some comfort from the fact that the immune system works on a use it or lose it basis. Germfree afflicts the body with a type of AIDS in the same way that danger-free afflicts the mind with a type of cowardice.
I remember seeing a statistic which said that 72% of men's beards contain 'residue' from their nether regions. Simply because such a high percentage of men don't wash their hands after going to the toilet.
Ladies, remember this next time you kiss a man with a beard ??
mollybaby: I remember seeing a statistic which said that 72% of men's beards contain 'residue' from their nether regions. Simply because such a high percentage of men don't wash their hands after going to the toilet.
Ladies, remember this next time you kiss a man with a beard ??
Not to speak of hippie chicks with dreadlocks!!...
Farmers have the strongest immune systems down to their literal exposure to a pig sty. There's definitely a goldilocks zone in exposure to germs that lies somewhere between modern suburbia and the social conditions of the 19th century industrial working class.
ChesneyChrist: Farmers have the strongest immune systems down to their literal exposure to a pig sty. There's definitely a goldilocks zone in exposure to germs that lies somewhere between modern suburbia and the social conditions of the 19th century industrial working class.
I see a market niche here. People will barricade and caccoon more and more in the future to avoid contamination. To maintain healthy, vigorous immune systems, they could just order deliveries of pig-sty soil by the cup and get exposure in the privacy and safety of your own home.
mollybaby: Nobody is forcing you to kiss them either
But women in the main do wash their hands afterwards, if that is any consolation.
I spent 6 months in a commune in my youth. That was long enough to prove that, when it came to bathrooms, women could be dirtier and messier than men. I'm not kidding, it was gross.
OnlyLiveTwice: I spent 6 months in a commune in my youth. That was long enough to prove that, when it came to bathrooms, women could be dirtier and messier than men. I'm not kidding, it was gross.
I just know from going to public toilets. The amount of women who leave without washing their hands is minimal.
But if you are in a pub or restaurant and see how quickly most men come out, you know they haven't.
Like the chicken pox you will live better by catching it sooner rather than later, but not like tuberculosis where the immune system fails under a relentless assault of smog.
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