Americans' Dirty Secret Revealed

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Americans' Dirty Secret Revealed

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By Bjorn Carey
LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 21 September 2005
05:27 pm ET

Washing hands after such actions may seem like the good idea, but humans need a strong Immune system. All this anti-bacterial attitudes will onyl cripple the human immune system. Overall it's a bad idea.

Not that I'm saying that you shouldn't wash your hands after you use the toilet

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Apparently some people don't even wash their hands after masturbating...

People waste their time studing this, whats next???

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Do they wash their hands after studying though?

Tsk tsk tsk. This is when infectious disease can really spread. I wouldn't be surpised if there was some sort of epidemic of some disease that spread through America that could have been prevented by people taking a few minutes to wash their hands after using the restroom. And anyways, I thought that this was the reason they always have the signs in the restrooms telling people to wash their hands in several different languages, as well as in clear pictures.

So in America only the blind have an excuse not to wash their hands eh?

I don't know too many restrooms here that have signs saying to wash your hands. Well I don't notice them, anyway.

And how would they know to read it? I mean, how do they know there's any braille to feel? You'd need a reminder to tell them to read the reminder!

Aaugh! I didn't mean to cause a pandemonium when I said that. Getting straight back to the point, I think *most* Americans would have enough common sense to wash their hands...

Most Scots in pubs here dont wash their hands anyway. In fact lots of them dont have soap or a handdryer that works.

I suppose it doesn't help that I have a nervous habit of touching my mouth. And I'm mostly nervous in public.

Is it just me or are people getting so germophobic they rival "Monk" in worrying about being infected? First of all, urine is sterile so even if you do get trace amounts on your hands, you should be okay. Second, with all this hand-washing, anti-bacterial everything and such, why aren't diseases getting any less easier to catch and at the same time, getting harder to treat? As for colds and many such pathogens, they're also airborne so all the washing in the world isn't going to prevent the breathing in of someone elses germs. I catch, maybe, one cold a year and that's only around September because children are starting school and suddenly bringing germs back home to their parents.....who spread it to everyone else.

There's a reason why toddlers catch more illnesses than at any time in their life, because their immune systems are new to fighting pathogens and have to build up resistance over time by getting sick more often. Our systems lack this germ "weight training" when we over do germ protection so it gets easier to get sick when one invades the weakened immune system. It's okay to wash our hands at appropriate times and keep clean but trying to avoid every single germ is futile.

Once there was a sailor and a Marine walking to the head to take a piss. So, they go in and take care of buisness. When they come out, the sailor gets indignant and says, "In the Navy, they teach us to wash our hands". The Marine just laughs at him and replies, "In the Marines, they teach us not to piss on our hands".