When you get your hands dirty, you need to wash your hands.
That means you have to touch the top of the soap dispenser with your dirty hands.

Those dirty, dirty hands.

Those hands that have held onto the handrail on the tube that so many hundreds of hands have held onto today already, some of whom didn't wash their hands after going to the toilet.

That toilet where so many people have already gone today, some of whom didn't wash their hands after they went.

So many hundreds of hands with bits of poo and wee on them, that have touched the stuff you touch.

You can get dystentry from poo and wee.

Dysentry is a terrible way to die, and so easily passed from one human to the next human, by touch alone. Even just by touching the same thing that the infected touched.

It would be a terrible way for your baby to die.

They really should invent some sort of soap dispenser that was activated by infra red, so that it would pour soap into your hands without you having to touch it.

They already have taps like that now, after all.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 17:38, 19 replies)

These people are fucktards
Exposure is the only way to build a resistant immune system
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 17:41, closed)

Eat shit, motherfucker.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 17:48, closed)

Right on!
I always lick the door handles on the way out to keep my T-cell count up.
Ain't no immunity like adaptive immunity.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 18:05, closed)

They have a water/soap/dryer setup now
all infrared sensors, you don't have to touch anything.
Well, yer filthy body parts excepted of course.
( Infidel , shit and wrong, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 18:04, closed)

Apart from the door handles....
I've seen loads of infra red soap dispensers. Normally you put your hands under it (after pressing bits of it for a while trying to get the soap out) and nothing happens.
You move your hands away settling for just a rinse in hot water and it dumps a load of soap on the counter.
( thistle, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 20:07, closed)

the more you are kept away from germs and bacteria the less your immune system builds up.

( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 19:48, closed)

I bet you're one of those people
that thinks taking your kids to a chickenpox party is a good idea.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 22:36, closed)

Enzyme.
I take them to aids parties as well.
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 2 Feb 2012, 22:58, closed)

Wish I'd been to one as a kid... I caught it when I was 33 - was bedridden for three days.

It hits adults much harder than it affects children, who seem to shrug it off easily. Fortunately my own children have already had it, so won't suffer as I did in later life.

(Edit: Chicken pox that is, not aids)
(Freakmandu, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 9:26, closed)

Heaven forbid that they should be given the vaccine.
Much better to expose them to a disease in an uncontrolled manner. After all, it's only a third of childhood strokes that are attributable to chickenpox. And who cares if they should pass it on to others?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 4 Feb 2012, 9:54, closed)

My understanding is that it's the overuse of antibiotics
that's caused many of our immune system maladies. & given rise to super-bugs etc.
So - subjecting your kids deliberately to germs, bugs and virii is just silly and mean.
Not dosing them with antibiotics when they get a sniffle, smothering them in steroidal creams cause they get itchy or letting them suck on steroidal puffers is a really good idea.
*Actual results may vary*
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 2 Feb 2012, 23:15, closed)

Ah... No.
You're mixing in immune disorders with superbugs, but the two are not related. MRSA and related infections are almost certainly products of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics. Most people only take antibiotics until they feel better, but if you don't complete the course (which often means taking them for some time after feeling fully recovered) the bacteria which survive can adapt and resist.

The rise of immune conditions (and, I think, some sorts of allergy) has been suggested to be linked to much greater cleanliness in our homes. We need a certain amount of exposure to dust and dirt and germs in order to build a healthy immune system. The parallel is in how vaccines work - a weak or inactive form of the disease is used to train the body's immune system to fight off the stronger types.

Think of the ending of War of the Worlds if you want another example...
( MatJ LOOK, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 8:20, closed)

Infrared soap dispensers are pointless -
you use them before washing your hands so your hands are already covered in greeblys. No-touch taps and air dryers on the other hand (sorry) are a fucking good idea as your hands are now clean and you don't want to touch any germy things. *Except air-driers which just plain don't fucking work - that's what t-shirts are for*

As to the whole "Toughen the fuck up, Immune system" argument - I believe Ignatz Semmelweis solved that problem many years ago.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Thu 2 Feb 2012, 23:02, closed)

Semmelweis
What, by dying of sepsis?
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 2:15, closed)

When you are stuck like this with filthy filthy filth on your hands
just keep your hands away from your eyes, mouth, nose til you can wash again. Don't touch your face and wash your hands BEFORE and after you use the loo. The general exposure is good for your immune system. It's the direct exposure (licking dirty fingers) that gets you.

In addition, clean under your nails. If you knew what grew under your nails, you'd never eat finger food again.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 2:18, closed)

They have them in my local Tesco in backwards, inbred Cornwall.
Guess we're just advanced down here or something.
( Peej, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 8:06, closed)

Why are you using the tube in the first place? That's just filthy.
(MayorBoris, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 12:12, closed)

It's a crazy idea, but it might just work
Have you thought of washing your hands after putting the soap on them?
(ubergeekian, Fri 3 Feb 2012, 12:47, closed)

Ahh I see,
so that is why everyone is dead from dysentry. I mean you hear about the thousands of people in the UK dying from it every day .......
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 4 Feb 2012, 22:56, closed)