Not Sure About This! Actually I Am!
By WorDazza
@WorDazza (15833)
Manchester, England
March 6, 2018 2:56am CST
Throughout my life I have come to realise that, generally speaking, humans aren't as hygienic as they could be!
I have known the incredibly self-sufficient man who, during meetings at work, used to slip his fingers into the gaps between his shirt button to extract navel fluff which he would then surreptitiously eat.
I have also known the man who used the threads from a decaying finger bandage as impromptu dental floss.
And then there was the man who, after leaving the urinal, would dry his hands on the roller towel. WITHOUT WASHING THEM FIRST!!!!!
I avoid the salad bar in our office canteen due to the number of people I've seen prodding, poking and picking stuff up with their fingers before deciding they don't actually want it, and then replacing it!
I keep a bottle of hand sanitiser in my desk drawer because I've lost count of the number of times someone has walked out of a toilet cubicle and walked straight out of the toilets back to the office touching every door handle I have to touch on the way back!!
Generally speaking we are a bunch of mingers!!
So why oh why am I going to be interested in drinking my coffee from a cup that has been manufactured from recycled chewing gum. I'm being asked to press my lips against something that has been in someone else's mouth for a considerable amount of time. Someone else's mouth that could be a mass of STD induced sores or any other manner of foul pustules, boils and ulcers!!
Indeed, one of my less hygienic colleagues could have vacated a toilet cubicle, left the toilets without even acknowledging the presence of soap and water, wrapped their chewing gum around their minging fingers then deposited it into a recycling bin to be used in a cup I will be drinking from. Not. A. Chance!!
I think I'll be giving that particular piece of environmental friendliness a wide berth thank you very much!!
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18 responses
@xFiacre (12593)
• Ireland
6 Mar 18
@wordazza And then there is nasal excavation to contend with too. I try to avoid handrails; shaking hands is also to be avoided. I’d much rather just smile at a distance than touch a hand that might have just touched Big Willie. Or even Little Willie
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@JudyEv (325651)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Mar 18
Coffee cups from recyled chewing gum? Honestly? And who is going to supply the chewing gum pray tell?
When we started converting the bus every seat had loads of chewing gum stuck underneath. Vince was telling my Mum about this and said that if he ever chewed gum as a kid he always swallowed to which her reply was 'is that why you're so stuck up?' She then spent the rest of the visit apologising profusely which was also pretty funny.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
7 Mar 18
Like mother like daughter eh? I'm beginning to feel sorry for Vince 
The scheme is being trialled at a University campus in the UK. They have special chewing gum recycling bins which, incidentally, are made from recycled chewing gum!!
The scheme is being trialled at a University campus in the UK. They have special chewing gum recycling bins which, incidentally, are made from recycled chewing gum!!3 people like this
Thank you, thank you very much. I have prepared a chocolate mousse to recover.
@DaddyEvil (137145)
• United States
8 Mar 18
WOW! I won't be eating an time soon, WorDazza! Not after reading your discussion starter! 
I was just reading about Gumdrop a few days ago. I think it is admirable that they are finding so many ways to use things we have always considered unusable before...
I KNOW they are sterilizing the abc-gum before reusing it, but I think I will make a 
concerted effort not to learn what all they are making from that gum!
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
8 Mar 18
@DaddyEvil We should start a club!! The Blissfully Ignorant Old Farts!! You can be the honorary chairman as you are the oldest fart 
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
6 Mar 18
EWWWWWWW!! That is disgusting @WorDazza . Apparently these folks have no brain cells left.
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@Daljinder (23231)
• Bangalore, India
6 Mar 18
This post need a disclaimer! Like yesterday!!!
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@Jackalyn (7559)
• Oxford, England
6 Mar 18
Oh dear yes they are unhygienic. It makes you wonder how people survive.
My pet hate is the carers who come to look after my doubly incontinent father without an apron and to think that to change him in the clothes that they are now going to go outside is a great idea. I did have to laugh on the day when I want a carer that if she didn't put an apron on she might be sorry. Let's just say she went home very wet and it wasn't water. Given these people have been given training in hygiene one wonders what they were listening to. There are also quite a few who don't understand that you take the rubber gloves off before you write up what you've done. This present agency is better but that's only after we have made quite a few complaints pointing out the hygiene angle.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
7 Mar 18
What you're telling me is worse than anything I've written!!
I'm pretty sure that as soon as these people have finished their training it all just goes out of the window. Hygiene is time consuming and the one thing these people don't have is time!!
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@Jackalyn (7559)
• Oxford, England
8 Mar 18
@WorDazza I actually find it staggering given that these people have done their NVQ 2. They have done hygiene training. The worst was when my mother complained about a woman changing my dad in her coat and she took it off and literally said "OK I'll take it off" and dropped it right where she was standing on the living room floor. Even the better carers seem totally unable to be consistent in using aprons.
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@sofssu (23662)
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3 Mar 19
Yikes, coffee cups from chewing gum? Nope, thank you. Just the one reason that it has been in someones mouth and god knows wherever is enough to keep me away from such eco friendly ideas. I have found gum on the road and consequently under my shoes. No way.
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@RasmaSandra (73368)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Mar 18
For reasons like this I often am glad that I am all alone and there is no one around. I know that in my life I will have to deal with people eventually. My best protection is that I always know to take care of myself when it comes to cleanliness and avoid unsanitary people and conditions like the plague.
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@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
7 Mar 18
@thehousewife The biggest cockroaches I've ever seen were in Cyprus. One year we were plagued by them. Gigantic flying things they were.
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@moffittjc (118427)
• Gainesville, Florida
7 Mar 18
I look at this entire situation a little differently...the more germs, microbes and virus we expose ourselves to, the more our bodies build up our immune systems to fight those germs. Now, with that in mind, it does bother me when people use the restroom and don't wash their hands when they finish!
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Mar 18
People in general are gross.
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@sprite1950 (30453)
• Corsham, England
14 Apr 18
This reminds me of a guy my sister worked with. He was a chef in a pub (and I use the word chef very loosely). She said he used to put his hands down his trousers and have a good scratch and then carry on cooking!
Minger!
@WorDazza (15833)
• Manchester, England
17 Apr 18
@Fleura The plan was to use special bins (made out of recycled chewing gum) that people could put their used gum into. I think they were drawing the line at using stuff that had been trodden on as well as chewed!! Of course this relies on people actually using the bins!!
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@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
1 May 18
That is taking recycling to a ludicrous pinnacle. I do hope you are joking. I am quite fastidious too, using the paper towel I wipe my hands with to open the bathroom door.
