Fascinating Facts…

Not fascinating in a nice way….

> HANDBAGS-you gotta read this
>
>
> Here’s an EEO – yuck moment for you – and I must go do some laundry
> immediately. Y
>
>
>
> HANDBAGS
>
> Have you ever noticed girls who set their handbags on
> public toilet floors,
> then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the
> table?
> Happens a lot! It’s not always the
> ‘restaurant food’ that causes stomach
> distress. Sometimes ‘what you don’t know will hurt
> you’!
>
> Read on………….
> Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped
> their handbags
> down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up
> food. She always
> said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they
> have been.
>
> It’s something just about every woman carries with them.
> While we may know
> what’s inside our handbags, do you have any idea what’s on
> the outside?
> Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public
> toilets to the
> floor of the car. Most women won’t be caught without their
> handbags, but
> did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes
> during the day.
>
> ‘I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor
> of the bus a
> lot,’ says one woman. ‘On the floor of my car, and in
> toilets.’
> ‘I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the
> floor of the
> toilet,’ says another woman ‘and of course in my home
> which should be
> clean.’
>
> We decided to find out if handbags harbour a lot of
> bacteria. We learned
> how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake, and
> then we set out
> to test the average woman’s handbag.
>
> Most women told us they didn’t stop to think about what
> was on the bottom
> of their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their
> handbags on top
> of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared.
> Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn’t be
> surprised if their
> handbags were at least a little bit dirty.
>
> It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even
> the microbiologist
> who tested them was shocked.
>
> Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all of
> the handbags
> tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful
> kinds of
> bacteria. Pseudonyms can cause eye infections,
> staphylococcus euros can
> cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coil
> found on the
> handbags could make people very sick.
>
> In one sampling, four out of five handbags tested positive
> for salmonella,
> and that’s not the worst of it. ‘There is focal
> contamination on the
> handbags’ says Amy. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be
> cleaner than
> cloth handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play a role.
> People with kids
> tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with
> one exception.
>
> The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs
> had one of the
> worst contamination’s of all. ‘Some type of feces, or
> possibly vomit’ says
> Amy.
>
> So the moral of this story is that your handbag won’t kill
> you, but it
> does have the potential to make you very sick if you keep
> it on places
> where you eat. Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and
> in toilets, and
> don’t put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your
> kitchen counter
> top.
>
> Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way
> you would a pair
> of shoes. ‘If you think about putting a pair of shoes on
> your counter tops,
> that’s the same thing you’re doing when you put your
> handbag on the
> counter tops.’
>
>
>
> Your handbag has gone where individuals before you have
> walked, sat,
> sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc! Do
> you really want
> to bring that home with you?
>
>
>
> The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag
> will help. Wash
> cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom
> of leather
> handbags.
>
> THIS IS WORTH SHARING!!!
>

@thin ice wrote:

i went for a job on a building site once
and had to under go an aptitude test
the forman said i had to make up a sentance using the word fascinate

so i thought about it for a min
and came up with

ive got nine buttons on me coat
but i can only fasten 8

i got the job :lol:

Yep , it all makes sense now :wink:

And even more fascinating ………… you bit !! :lol: :lol: :lol: