Mav was right all along

[Michael Howard]

My good friend Mav (whom I haven't seen for ages and am seriously overdue a pint and some scoff with) always refused to get public transport on the basis that "he didn't travel with the great unwashed".

 

Now it appears he was right all along . . . . . . .

 

 

(From BBC News)

"More than one in four commuters has bacteria from faeces on their hands, an investigation suggests.

 

Scientists from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine swabbed 409 people at bus and train stations in five major cities in England and Wales.

 

The further north they went, the more often they found commuters with faecal bacteria on their hands - men in Newcastle were the worst offenders.

 

Experts stressed the importance of hand hygiene for preventing illness.

 

The bacteria found suggested people were not washing their hands properly after using the toilet, said the researchers.

 

In Newcastle and Liverpool, men were more likely than women to show contamination - 53% of men compared with 30% of women in Newcastle and 36% of men compared with 31% of women in Liverpool. We were flabbergasted by the finding that so many people had faecal bugs on their hands

 

Dr Val Curtis, director of the Hygiene Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

 

In the other three cities - London, Cardiff and Birmingham - the women's hands were dirtier.

 

People who had used the bus had higher rates of hand contamination than those who had used the train.

 

Manual workers had cleaner hands than other professionals, students, retired people or the unemployed.

 

 

BBC NEWS | Health | Faecal bacteria join the commute

 

Dirty bastards . . . . . .

[Karl_b]

Peasants.

[Guest The Big Green Bastard]

Heard somewhere that it takes 10 sheets of ars roll to stop feacal bacteria getting through to your digits, after hearing that i now use the shit-glove technique for wipies.

[mattyq]

Anybody who doesn't wash their hands after going to the bog is officially a dirty bastard and will catch bad aids if they haven't already got it

[kopitegaz]

Anybody who doesn't wash their hands after going to the bog is officially a dirty bastard and will catch bad aids if they haven't already got it

 

They've already got it. They just dont know it yet. Their time will come.

 

dirty bastards.

 

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[Guest TK-421]

What about those dirty bastard car drivers who stick a finger up their hoop and can't resist a little sniff afterwards? We all know one. A little balance and perspective would be nice.

[RJ Fan club]

I think the answer is to rest your hands on nice boobies instead of hand rails and whatnot. I'm sure if you explained, the said female would be happy to know she is doing her bit to keep infection rates down.

[Scott_M]

Isn't it meant to be cleaner to rub the inside of a toilet than it is to touch the seats on the London Underground?

[RJ Fan club]

Isn't it meant to be cleaner to rub the inside of a toilet than it is to touch the seats on the London Underground?

 

Depends on the shithouse I would guess.

 

My bog at home, yes; the one from Trainspotting, no.

[WaltonRed]

Just wash your hands?

[Mav]

Bumped - for no other reason than I like seeing the phrase Mav was right all along.

I mean I knew that already.

On this topic

On any topic

 

But it's nice to see the rest of you catching up

[theghost]

Yeah let's all drive. Fucking brilliant. Ever heard of hand sanitizer? Get over it you germophobe cunts.

[Section_31]

A late afternoon rush hour bus ride full of schoolkids has been scientifically proven to be all the hell you can be.

[melons]

what, people dont know how to wash thier hands after wiping?

 

whilst seeing the bum finger sniffing.... my ex i will name and shame, smiler (on here) was once sat in the cinema with me, my cousin and his girl friend, waitin ages for the film to start he makes a call on his mobile, totally oblivious, myself, cousin and said g/f. anyway, he got so settled in he started finger clearing with his belly button, then went on to sniff said finger.

[TonyTNT]

what, people dont know how to wash thier hands after wiping?

 

whilst seeing the bum finger sniffing.... my ex i will name and shame, smiler (on here) was once sat in the cinema with me, my cousin and his girl friend, waitin ages for the film to start he makes a call on his mobile, totally oblivious, myself, cousin and said g/f. anyway, he got so settled in he started finger clearing with his belly button, then went on to sniff said finger.

 

We've all got high on belly button fluff at some stage...right??? ....Right???

 

I hate myself

[melons]

We've all got high on belly button fluff at some stage...right??? ....Right???

 

I hate myself

 

yeah while sat on the bog bored shitless - see what i did there?

 

but waiting on a film in the cinema with your wife, mate and mates g/f?

[TonyTNT]

yeah while sat on the bog bored shitless - see what i did there?

 

but waiting on a film in the cinema with your wife, mate and mates g/f?

 

Cinema is the best place, its dark, people are focused on the screen,...it's rummage time.

[Big Ig]

Faecal bacteria? Like the ones you drink in Yakult?

[Fugitive]

Ah bollocks. I've been signed off work for four weeks and was going to go on random trips but due to my wrist being completely fucked I can't change gear, hence I can't drive, so I'd have to take Public Transport.

 

After reading this I'm going to just stay in for four weeks and become a hermit.

[RedKnight]

I don't know who wouldn't take a dump and wash their hands afterwards, these people must have weak bog roll if they keep getting shit fingered.

[kopitegaz]

Faecal bacteria? Like the ones you drink in Yakult?

 

Brewed for a hundred years by Professor Yakult, or something like that.

 

mmmmmm tasty.

[Lurtz]

Buses are grim fucking places. Full of grimy, shitty people with smeg and shit on their hands which gets wiped all over the seats and hand rails. I'd have to wash my hands immediately if I ever went anywhere on a bus. Which is highly fucking unlikely to happen, I might add.

[Guest TK-421]

The thing is people should use busses more instead of killing the planet with 4x4s.

 

Vegetables, rights and peace.

[Guest TK-421]

And the other thing is why is the plural of bus not bi? Like cacti etc.

[kopitegaz]

I love all these superior sounding people who never have to use public transport.

 

 

Must be fascinating delving into the world of us ordinary plebs who dont have much choice but to use the shitty UK public transport network.

 

(By the way, that was partly sarcastic. Probably didnt need to explain that - depends who's reading I suppose. If its someone who's brain has been replaced by too much *F, then I would have to. If its a GF'er, then I wouldnt)