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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I could tell you some of the things I have to do in my jobbut I suspect most of you are having your lunch, so I doubt I'd be thanked for it. Emptying autoclave buckets when the samples have leaked in to them is probably the worst - scooping out a delightful mix of superheated stinking shit, urine, blood, agar and melted plastic whilst trying not to retch so hard you actually vomit your own insides up?
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You mentioned this yesterday as wellanyone would think you had something on your mind. I have to wear a labcoat, if that helps?
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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Autoclaves leaking shit off the shoulder of Orion. I watched western blots glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like a poorly-stained gel.
Time to die
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:09,
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fucks sakewhy did they have to label the things in the picture?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-18719962
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To help Nakers understand what is going on.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:18,
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It is a large pressure vesseldesigned to be heated either electrically or with steam to around 121 degrees to sterilise materials and equipment.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:17,
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Because we're working with typhoid samplesyou have to work with them in a special containment lab to prevent people (lab workers, general public etc) from becoming contaminated with the bacteria and spreading the infection. We generate a lot of infectious waste which has to be autoclaved, ie, the bacteria have to be killed (by a combination of high temperature and pressure) before it can leave the lab.
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just spray bit with some Domestos, it kills 99.9% of germs DEAD(
Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:24,
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and even the 99.9% bit is just them being cautiousit's probably 100%
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berk works with the 0.1%(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:26,
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It's cheaper to use an autoclave than cover everything with bleach.(, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:28, Reply)
spraying with your own piss would kill at least 99.9% of germs dead.However, since your average square metre of surface has hundreds of millions, if not hundreds of billions of bacteria on it, killing 99.9% of them is a bit like pissing into a hurricane. Killing 99.9% of a billion germs still leaves a million quite happy. And those million are probably quite resistant to domestos, so they'll grow up in a day or two to another billion bacteria, only these ones are hardier.
Don't mean to worry you, of course. But you are going to die.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:28,
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sometime. probably when you least expect it.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:32,
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haha, nice(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:32,
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Because we have to sterile kill any samples that may contain live cellsbefore we dispose of them. So generally we autoclave pretty much everything before we chuck it. Sometimes bags burst if they haven't been set up properly.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:24,
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Woah. Steady Q. Didn't see that there.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:21,
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After being forced to do that sort of thing, I'd imagine having Tennis Fella's face baring down on you...... With the exact same expssion on his face as he got when trying to re-enter the the vents in facility on goldeneye......wouldn't be so bad.
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G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩€, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 14:37,
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