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Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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Thu, 29 Jul 2004 19:05:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
> Dude, you guys are creeping me out. Are you all serious?
Heh.
I've calmed down some since yesterday, so maybe I should cry "hyperbole" as my
defense and leave it at that...
> This isn't about germs and hygiene. It's about the kind of world I want to live
> in. A world where people aren't afraid of being the dying in the mud organisms
> that we really are. I still can't figure out how to really say what I mean but
> I think the trend toward this faux-uber-hygiene is dehumanizing for all of us.
Well, on that I agree completely. I see it as connected to the swifferization
of the culture and its antibacterial obsession, as if that's a fight that can
ever be won.
> And dave, to follow the claim that you're not "fluid-o-phobic" by pointing out
> that you cared enough to list your fixation on your profile and then equate oral
> glove inflation to urinating on your food seems a little um...mistaken. My
> mother, contrary to the advice her alergist has provided has also become
> germ-whacko. Seems a sad path.
Oddly, I'm not really an advocate of gloves in food service because I know that
they become contaminated as fast as hands and in my experience they're cleaned
(well, changed) less often. As long as the hands in question are reasonably
clean, I don't mind, but I can't abide a big exhalation across the surface
that's about to handle my food. I think it's not much different from the
unpleasantness of finding a big hair in your sandwich--it's just a question of
degree.
But all things being equal, I'd *still* rather the guy didn't pee on my
sandwich.
Dave!
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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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| | Re: What's the point of wearing rubber gloves...
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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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