OT: Am I missing something?

[Jim K]

but what do you wash it all (sp) with if not your hands?

Jim K

[dennis]

He licks.

[ARWadsworth]

Thats all cats do to keep clean. And they survive without hand wash.

Adam

[Jim K]

you ever been bitten by a pussy tho Adam?......

Jim K

[Bob Eager]

[e-mail]...

He's probably had his hand in one...

(Sorry....I'll get me coat...)

[ARWadsworth]

Yes. I needed to visit casualty that day. Not much fun trying to remove a ferel cat from your thigh.

Adam

[Jim K]

what were you trying to do to it?!?

Jim K

[whisky-dave]

Yep, don't wash your hands, it ain;t rocket science you know ;-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

But that's only once a day.

I wash hands BEFORE doing stuff. Like BEFORE cooking, or food prep, not AFTER dong stuff like taking a piss.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Actually your gut and arse are the major source of potential infections, not your hands.

wash your arse, not your hands.

[The Natural Philosopher]

he thought it was a pussy.

[ARWadsworth]

Rescue it from a snare. One of the more unpleasant jobs I get to volunteer for.

Adam

[ARWadsworth]

I work in a lot of unhyghenic places. I carry a set of wipes to try to clean my hands before eating after working in such places.

Adam

[Jim K]

entry and exit points from the alimentary canal are both bacterially bad news - I think you'll find.

A medical colleague assures me human bites are far more injurious than animal bites in terms of microbial load (as all of the bugs in the human bite are commensals)

Is the practice of not washing your hands after going to the toilet "normal for Norfolk" perchance?

Cheers (but no handshake) Jim K

[The Natural Philosopher]

Suffolk mate.

Where we can aim straight and not pee on our hands.

Although IIRC urine is relatively disinfectant..

[Jim K]

local customs die hard eh?

mmmm

tho not enough to help the "communal free pub peanut" sufferers...

Jim K

[Tim Streater]

Mmmm again. Urine is sterile at the point of exit from the body. Loaded as it is, though, with yummy organic compounds, it doesn't stay that way for long.

[dennis]

Well that's something else you have got wrong. Its not going to harm you but it may well harm others.

[dennis]

Tell that to someone with a bladder infection.

[Tim Streater]

That's the obvious exception.