Thanks, guys.Well, as you probably know, the words "testament" and "testify" derive from the word "testes", meaning "testicles".El Hombre Invisible said:
And you wash with holy water? (Or is that your sister's name?)honestrosewater said:Yes, for strength - and to the germ god for mercy. Doesn't everyone?selfAdjoint said:And do you pray to the soap god then?honestrosewater said:I wash my hands religiously.
No, for some reason holy water burns my skin. I use lye water, which does happen to be my sister's name.Danger said:
Moonbear said:
What I really hate about advice like that is that the bathroom wouldn't be nearly as dirty for everyone else if people like that didn't put their feet on the handles that you're supposed to touch with your hands or grab the handle on the paper towel dispenser BEFORE washing their hands rather than after when their hands are clean. Now the next person to get a paper towel AFTER washing their hands is going to pick up whatever germs that other person left behind.Gabrielle said:
Moonbear said:
I don't know a huge number of people who are germ-phobic to that degree, but the few that I have run into, I notice seem to be the ones who are sick all the time anyway. I could speculate many things based on that observation; 1) maybe they're germ-phobic because they get sick often and are desperately trying to do anything possible to avoid more illnesses, 2) maybe they have always been excessively clean/germ-phobic, and that has left them with too little exposure to common germs to build up normal immunity, 3) maybe their obsession focuses on only specific sources of germs, such as paper towel dispensers in public bathrooms and leaves them with a false sense of security so they are not as cautious about things like rubbing their eyes or putting their hands to their mouth and transferring germs from sources they don't think about, like handrails on stair cases, or walking through a crowded mall.Gabrielle said:
Didn't the tradition of shaking hands come about, like saluting, as a way to show you were not carrying a weapon.arildno said:
revelator said:I wonder if it was actually a shaking of the next guys weapon, or just a good grasping. The idea of shaking it seems ludicrous.
So, why are so many men here trying to defend not washing their hands rather than demonstrating that they are not as dirty as the article suggests?The_Professional said:
I think the title was meant to get a reaction, so I was actually a little surprised that there were so many responsese actually trying to defend NOT washing hands rather than jumping up and pointing out that of course they wash their hands every time, or complaining that you have to skip it because there aren't enough sinks, or something to contradict the article. Those annoy me too. There was one commercial for one of those flsuhable toilet cleaning products that had a group of men sitting around watching a football game and talking as if they were at a tea party about how nicely the toilet sparkles and how easy it was to use that product. It was done totally tongue-in-cheek though, so still didn't break the stereotype, it just used the stereotype to be humorous. I actually wrote to one department store and complained about their ads that portrayed men as totally incompetent to take care of children and portrayed the women as shop-a-holics. I was more bothered by the way they portrayed the men in that one, mostly because they were trying to advertise a sale, so of course you're going to show someone loving shopping, but there was no need to show the men at home in the midst of a child-created disaster area crying, "Where's your mother?!" It's like those who call it babysitting when a father stays home to watch his children...um...no...it's parenting.
