Health "facts" : Not for the squeamish.

[Zeno]

I recently received the following e-mail from an old friend enlightening me on some common facts. I simply give the “facts” , as presented to me, and you may draw your own conclusions. Enjoy.

1. During an hour's swimming at a municipal pool you will ingest 1/12 liter of
urine.

2. In an average day your hands will have come into indirect contact with 15
penises (touching door handles, etc.) Remote controls in hotels are the worst! (Always carry your Lysol spray!)

3. An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

4. In a year you will have swallowed 14 insects -- while you slept!

5. Annually you will shake hands with 6 women who have recently
masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

6. Annually you will shake hands with 11 men who have recently
masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

7. In a lifetime 22 nosey workmen doing work in your home, will have
examined the contents of your dirty laundry basket. We won't even go into guests
snooping in your medicine cabinet.

8. At an average wedding reception you have a 1/100 chance of getting a
cold sore from one of the guests. Mouth herpes.

9. Daily you will breathe in 1 liter of other peoples' anal gases.


Have a nice day.

[Ray Zee]

except for the insects and farts you can and should eliminate all the others. not that we all have the forethought to.

one thing i always live by is never touch anything in a public restroom that could have been touched before you.

[Wake up CALL]

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one thing i always live by is never touch anything in a public restroom that could have been touched before you.



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Ray does that include your penis?

[slamdunkpro]

Either that or an admission of Virginity /images/graemlins/shocked.gif

[Boris]

I like women who masturbate.

[Ray Zee]

yes. its not hard if its not hard.

[IrishHand]

That list has been floating around the internet as an e-mail forward for years now. As soon as I see some valid research on any one of the items on it, I might attribute some validity to it. Until then, it's cultural fiction - designed for your amusement, not your edification.

[andyfox]

"Annually you will shake hands with 11 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands."

I'm wondering how this information was secured.

Anyway, hopefullly they're all left handers.

I remember on Gary Shandling's old show (before Larry Sanders), he got his hand slammed in a car door and said, "there goes half my sex life."

[Zeno]

I suspected as much, which is why facts is in quotes.

Much of it may be blather or embellishments etc. but it is entertaining. Its main function, I think.

Now, go wash your hands. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

-Zeno

[Rushmore]

1. During an hour's swimming at a municipal pool you will ingest 1/12 liter of urine

I don't think 1/12 of a liter is excessive. Moderation is the key.

2. In an average day your hands will have come into indirect contact with 15 penises

When it's only 15 penises/day, I'll know that the market has dried up and it's time for a new profession.

3. An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.

Ssssssh. Everyone will want some!

4. In a year you will have swallowed 14 insects -- while you slept!

If you were in a hotel in Thailand, this would save you a LOT on room service.

5. Annually you will shake hands with 6 women who have recently masturbated

Sure I will. It'll be early morning, and they'll be the 6 women I picked up in bars and failed to satisfy the night before.

6. Annually you will shake hands with 11 men who have recently masturbated

Don't you mean BEEN masturbated? Because it's true that all transactions end with a handshake.

7. In a lifetime 22 nosey workmen doing work in your home, will have examined the contents of your dirty laundry basket

Laundry? What is this laundry of which you speak?

8. At an average wedding reception you have a 1/100 chance of getting a cold sore from one of the guests. Mouth herpes.

Great. I'll have a matching set.

9. Daily you will breathe in 1 liter of other peoples' anal gases.

So you've been to The Oaks Club in Emeryville too?

[Oski]

The Pinnacle of Conceit:

I was shaving at my gym, and this guy walks in, washes his hands, and goes to the stall to take a crap. When he is done, he just heads right out..without washing up.

[Cyrus]

* Annually you will shake hands with 6 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

* Annually you will shake hands with 11 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands.

I resent that! Either that guy shakes hands mostly with guys, or he doesn't go out much! Or to the right places?

I submit (in fact, I go down as quickly as my back allows) that women masturbate as much as men! And with more dexterity (is that the word, John?) than the average prick's maladroit efforts.

[Cyrus]

"One thing I always live by is never touch anything in a public restroom that could have been touched before you."

Since this is an impossibility by definition, and it is also impossible to enforce when simply playing in a casino, in any game, practically, and especially in games with chips, the golden rule is to wash your hands when you're done. And this is applicable whenever you come home, too. Terrific preventive measure.

GERM HELL (http://poetry.rotten.com/naked-people/)