Vending machine wtf
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Oh shiz. And with google's love of TDWTF, we may become the top link for ISIS searches by the end of the day.
Just hope no one helps that along by mentioning ISIL.
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I hope nobody mentions dirty bombs or plane hijacking. We wouldn't want to add to the NSA's workload by adding keywords like terrorist plots, Islamic extremism, Jihad, assassination, illegal arms trading, and the like, now would we? We've already discussed ISIS, vending machine fraud, and counterfeit currency.
Perhaps someone should register @NSABot?
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@mott555 Is Doing It Wrongâ„¢<t3363p53>
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@Antiquarian is screwed now for liking the ISIS post....
And there needs to be a way to "reply to like"
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We all expected the sample from the lunch meat someone had stuck to a window that didn't get cleaned off for weeks to do as well as the toilet sample, but they were both underwhelming.
My related story is that in a biology class in college they had us do a similar experiment, but instead of sampling objects, you had to press your finger into the petri dish, then wash your hand casually with water and again press into a petri dish with the same finger, and then wash thoroughly with soap and — I think — a brush, and touch another petri dish. Do I have to add that the dish everybody expected to grow the most bacteria, didn’t?
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I'm betting that the one after washing with just water grew the most, since wet hands transfer bacteria much better than dry hands.
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Not sure if that love extends to the Discourse forum...
Nope. Not yet at least:
ISIS, vending machine fraud, and counterfeit currency
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The one after using the brush. Since the brush likely has storages of all the bacteria ever.
Washed hands > unwashed > washed but touched something
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The one after using the brush. Since the brush likely has storages of all the bacteria ever.
<code> Washed hands > unwashed > washed but touched somethingI guess that depends: was the brush only used for washing with soap? And did @Gurth correctly remember about the brush?
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I'm betting that the one after washing with just water grew the most, since wet hands transfer bacteria much better than dry hands.
That’s indeed what we found. The reason, we were told when it surprised everyone, was that just a quick wash with water removes the secretions of the bacteria, but not the bacteria themselves — and thus exposes the bacteria. Thorough washing with soap (now that I think about it, I doubt a brush was used, as that would probably have skewed the experiment) produced the least growth.Conclusion: if someone just washed their hands for about three seconds, don’t let them touch you.
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Hand-warm water, then soap, and don't touch the tap with your clean hands. Or so I've been told.
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Conclusion: if someone just washed their hands for about three seconds, don’t let them touch you.
Make sure you FREAK OUT if they do. Because that stuff you've never seen but are now aware of will destroy your life.
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Hand-warm water
Recent studies (I'll have to ask my wife for the references) have shown that, within human tolerable limits, the temperature of the water has negligible impact on the efficacy of hand washing. So If you want to cool off, go ahead and use cold water. If you're feeling chilly, hot water all the way.
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Mythbusters did a similar experiment with the towel drying vs air drying.
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Make sure you FREAK OUT if they do. Because that stuff you've never seen but are now aware of will destroy your life.
I agree completely, and I am not a germophobe, but one thing truly bothers me about public restrooms: Most people do not wash their hands, they just had their hands on their junk and then they have to touch the door handle on the way out. All public restrooms should have doors that open out so I can nudge it open with my shoe.
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@Intercourse said:
All public restrooms should have doors that open out so I can nudge it open with my shoe.
In the last few months I have seen a surge in public restrooms that put a paper towel dispenser and a trash can right next to the door. A bit wasteful, but nice.
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Recent studies (I'll have to ask my wife for the references) have shown that, within human tolerable limits, the temperature of the water has negligible impact on the efficacy of hand washing.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1471-5740.2002.00043.x/pdf
Uninoculated, sterile menstrua (tryptic soy broth or hamburger meat) was used tostudy the effects of treatment temperatures (4.4°C, 12.8°C, 21.1°C, 35°C or 48.9°C) on the reduction of resident microflora, while Serratia marcescens inoculated menstrua was used to evaluate treatment effects on the reduction of transient contamination. Results of this first study indicated that water temperature exhibits no effect on transient or resident bacterial reduction during normal handwashing with bland soap. The follow-up study examined the efficacy and skin irritation potential involv-ing water temperatures with antimicrobial soaps. Hands of participants were conta-minated with Escherichia coliinoculated ground beef, washed at one of two water temperatures (29°C or 43°C) using one of four highly active (USDA E2 equivalency)antibacterial soaps having different active ingredients (PCMX, Iodophor, Quat or Triclosan). Skin condition was recorded visually and with specialized instrumentation before and after repeated washing (12 times daily), measuring total moisturecontent, transepidermal water loss and erythema. Overall, the four soap products produced similar efficacy results.
Carrico said, "It's certainly true that heat kills bacteria, but if you were going to use hot water to kill them it would have to be way too hot for you to tolerate."
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Carrico said that after a review of the scientific literature, her team found "no evidence that using hot water that a person could stand would have any benefit in killing bacteria." Even water as cold as 40°F (4.4°C) appeared to reduce bacteria as well as hotter water, if hands were scrubbed, rinsed, and dried properly.
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I've heard about that, too. Gonna be hard to trace a printer that was paid for in cash. Or, for that matter, finding the yellow dots on a monochrome printer, assuming you could find a scanner willing to take black money instead of green.
They don't need to. Google "parallel construction". Some Three-letter-agency will use a whole bunch of surveillance data that they don't officially have (without a warrant), come to the conclusion that you did it, then find some public document that could plausibly be used to incriminate you, get a warrant to search your house, and check the dots on your printer.
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Plus you guys should have seen what that science teacher did in those Petri dishes overnight... Ugh!
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I forgot the other side to the Petri dish experiment...
We had a running gag with an old bologna sandwich in a ziplock bag we'd kept as a joke. It got passed around, hidden in places, and it was pretty gross. I think this started around 8th or 9th grade. Anyway we took Microbiology in 12th grade and one of us still had the sandwich. After the experiment ended, we took some of the material from the sandwich bag and put it in the worst Petri dish (sampled from the vending machine's Mountain Dew button). It actually killed everything. We'd grown some kind of fungal antibiotic!
And then, as if a 4-year-old sandwich wasn't gross enough, this sandwich bag somehow made it into a side pocket on my backpack without my knowledge. I found it years later during my senior year of college and finally threw it away, mainly because it had turned into a very questionable-looking green powder.
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@Intercourse said:
one thing truly bothers me about public restrooms: Most people do not wash their hands, they just had their hands on their junk and then they have to touch the door handle on the way out. All public restrooms should have doors that open out so I can nudge it open with my shoe.
It's you. The biggest influencing factor for bacteria growth isn't the source, it's the environment. Chrome door handles and porcelain toilets are not good places to grow bacteria, that's why they are used in bathrooms.My favorite fact to share with people who are freaked out by "naughty bits germs" is the speed of diffusion. If the concentration of nasties in the urinal is high enough, it's plausible that the speed of diffusion through an incoming urine stream will be faster than the stream itself. The result: germs can "swim upstream".
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The result: germs can "swim upstream".
You need to get ahold of MythBusters for some testing on this.
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Chrome door handles and porcelain toilets are not good places to grow bacteria, that's why they are used in bathrooms.
I get that, and I still don't care. For starters, if someone has shit on their hands, and that shit gets on the handle, that shit ends up on your hands. Also, if we apply the transitive property, you are basically touching a few hundred dicks every time you put you hand on a door knob in a public restroom.
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@Intercourse said:
you are basically touching a few hundred dicks every time you put you hand on a door knob in a public restroom.
http://cdndata.bigfooty.com/2014/03/48311_c1e0f5542defeb6fd4242835ac54247e.jpg
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If this is true, I will start pissing on the floor so the little buggers have farther to travel.
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The result: germs can "swim upstream".
That's why you should stand a couple of feet back from the urinal. Lengthen the stream so the germs don't have enough time.
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Unless the restroom you're in doesn't have dicks in it too often ...
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@Intercourse said:
if we apply the transitive property, you are basically touching a few hundred dicks every time you put you hand on a door knob in a public restroom
If we apply the transitive property more thoroughly, you are made out of a few hundred dicks.
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Touche.
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Fuck those accent marks. I am using a 'merican keyboard and I refuse to type like those furr-iners.
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@abarker said:
Recent studies (I'll have to ask my wife for the references)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1471-5740.2002.00043.x/pdf
Are you vying for my wife's position? If so, I should let you know that the position is not available, and I don't really swing your way.
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That's why you should stand a couple of feet back from the urinal. Lengthen the stream so the germs don't have enough time.
If you're far enough away, the stream breaks into droplets. I buttume most germs are not capable of leaping from droplet to droplet, and any that do would partake in an inelastic collision and lose their momentum.
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You need to get ahold of MythBusters for some testing on this.
Bad idea. Modern society would collapse if it turned out to be true and 10 million people saw it on TV.
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If you're far enough away, the stream breaks into droplets. I buttume most germs are not capable of leaping from droplet to droplet, and any that do would partake in an inelastic collision and lose their momentum.
Which Mythbusters did test in their show about pissing on the third rail.
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FrostCat:
That's why you should stand a couple of feet back from the urinal. Lengthen the stream so the germs don't have enough time.If you're far enough away, the stream breaks into droplets. I buttume most germs are not capable of leaping from droplet to droplet, and any that do would partake in an inelastic collision and lose their momentum.
Another tactic: arc your stream upward so it has farther to travel before landing in (or at least somewhere near) the urinal.
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Unless the restroom you're in doesn't have dicks in it too often ...
I wouldn't count on it ... knowing the state of the male side I sometimes cross over to keep in touch with my female side.
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I still believe that there wouldn't be hundreds of people who interact with dicks and leave without washing their hands between door knob cleaning events.
Filed under: At least I hope so
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The cure for everything found and lost again...
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What happens if you arc your stream into a vending machine?
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What happens if you arc your stream into a vending machine?
Last time he uses that machine?
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Another tactic: arc your stream upward so it has farther to travel before landing in (or at least somewhere near) the urinal.
I would have thought that was implied, under the assumption you're not aiming for the floor.
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What happens if you arc your stream into a vending machine?
Aim for the Pepsi. It'll make it taste better
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I knew a guy once that urinated on an ATM. Of course it had to be the closest ATM to where I lived at the time.
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Hey, what do you have against Pepsi?
Coke is to Pepsi like Toblerone is to Taco Bell-fueled diarrhea.
I like Mountain Dew though. Means if I go out to eat there's always something I can drink regardless of whether it's a Coke place or a Pepsi place.