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...when you've touched them all over on the outside? I'm watching NYPD 24/7 right now, and they just showed a homicide detective testing a smear on a wall to see if it's blood. Before doing this, he puts on his rubber gloves. Okay, that sounds (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Holey moley, did you just hit a hot-button for me! I'm not fluid-o-phobic, but in most circumstances don't care to have other people's DNA deposited on me or my food or my purchases without my express permission (I even mention this as an "I (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's also funny (maybe not) when sandwich-makers used their gloved hand to take your money and return change, then return to sandwich production. I hate to think what lurks on paper money passed from hand to hand, though in Australia we have (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have, thankfully, never experienced that (at least not that I can recall). The closest I've seen is when they tend the register before removing the gloves, but the gloves ultimately end up being discarded before they get back to the food (...) (20 years ago, 28-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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David, Two points: It is only a TV programme! I expect all DNA tests would be checked against those involved in collecting the sample... likewise for fingerprints etc. Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Have you ever heard the phrase "what does not kill you makes you stronger"? I'm a big fan of food hygeine, but I also feel that germs are a friends too! Scott A (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I once saw a friend (a microbiologist) pick up his ice cream sandwich from where he'd dropped it in the dirt, and he ate it without pause or brushing it off. When a few of us expressed our disgust, he noted that "the dirtiest thing we eat (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Dude, you guys are creeping me out. Are you all serious? Man, I'd much, much prefer to have a human touching my food than some rubber-gloved freak. I've held off on posting until now because I can't find my words. This isn't about germs and (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, this is NYPD 24/7, not NYPD Blue (if it was a fictional show, this would have probably been a major plot point). This is a documentary show of real members of the NYPD. This was a real detective manhandling his latex gloves on a real (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Heh. I've calmed down some since yesterday, so maybe I should cry "hyperbole" as my defense and leave it at that... (...) Well, on that I agree completely. I see it as connected to the swifferization of the culture and its antibacterial (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There certainly IS such a point, sometimes... The gloves are there to protect you from what you are about to touch rather than to protect what you are about to touch from you. That's not the case in this particular example, I suspect, and I (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, urine is sterile. Still not a good idea to ingest it, but not for any bacterial issue. -Evil "full-of-useless-info" Wayne (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey, in my defense, I didn't say it *wasn't* sterile. I just don't want it on my sandwich! My understanding is that, after the initial blast (to clear out the plumbing), the stream is actually a nice anti-bacterial solution, due to its (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'll go farther. Swifferization, overmedication, and anti-bacterial soaps strike me as bad things. We're training (via natural selection) the bacteria to be hardier. Strikes me as a bad long term strategy. (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. (...) Gloves do have the advantage that it's easier to notice when someone didn't change them after hitting the restroom or hauling out a bin full of skanky rotting trash. When I worked (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, I agree on that point. If you're putting on the gloves to keep your skin clean while you're scrubbing out a scum-coated pipe, do whatever you feel is necessary to get the gloves to fit right. (...) No, it kind of got sidetracked by the (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I can't remember for sure if it's completely sterile, but I do remember hearing that it's by far the most sterile bodily fluid. But it doesn't make it any less objectionable when someone drops trou and adds the "special ingredient". (...) (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes and no. There has been some interesting research into this (I think I saw it on Scientific American Frontiers, but I'm not positive about that), and what they've found is that the more hardy germs become in terms of surviving all those (...) (20 years ago, 29-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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