Don't know how much truth there is to this and I haven't checked out the usual debunking websites, but I thought I'd share... 10 THINGS YOU'LL WISH YOU DIDN'T KNOW 1. During an hour swimming at a municipal pool you will ingest 1/2 litre of urine. 2. In an average day your hands will have come into indirect contact with 15 penises (touching door handles etc.) 3. An average person's yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs. 4. In a year you will have swallowed 14 insects-while you slept! 5. Annually you will shake hands with 11 women who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands. 6. Annually you will shake hands with 6 men who have recently masturbated and failed to wash their hands. 7. In a lifetime 22 workmen will have examined the contents of your dirty linen basket. 8. At an average wedding reception you have a 1/100 of a chance of getting a cold sore from one of the guests. 9. Daily you will breath in 1 litre of other peoples' anal gases. 10. Sharing a bag of chips with a friend gives you a 10% chance of ingesting a small amount of their feces.
So men are better at the art of "cleanup" eh? I guess that makes sense... with practice comes perfection.
1. Thank God I don't go to public swimming pools! 2. I need to remember to keep my hands out of my mouth. 3. Ixnay on the fast oodfay! 4. I swallowed that many mosquitos this morning going to my car! 5. COOOL!!! 6. No more shaking hands with guys! I think a manly "How's it hanging" will suffice 7. Let them handle my dirty underwear...as long as they don't want to shake my hand! 8. No more weddings for me! 9. ANAL GASSES!!! Where's my gas mask? 10. Too many carbs in chips...Yet another reason to do the Atkins diet!
I don't buy this. I'm drinking a .591 liter bottle of Canada Dry right now. I can see that I might ingest this much pool water during a 1 hour swim. For the sake of argument, let's say I ingest 2 liters of pool water during a 1 hour swim. That means that 1/4 of the pool is urine if I were to ingest as much as the list suggests. I don't think that this is possible but if it were, then the municipal pools must save a lot of money on water.
maybe they mean by osmosis? oh and btw, I wouldn't take these things too literally... it's just an email funny...
I just had to read this thread while eating my lunch from Taco Bell. Thanks, HEAD Now, I think I understand why fadeaway is so obsessed with hand washing!
if all of this is true...then i still don't care... (that's a line from newsradio i find extremely appropriate here!)... i mean we all shake hands with people...we all eat junk food from time to time...but we're all living right?? in fact, life expectancy is on the way up... what i don't know won't hurt me!
From Columbia University: Many women masturbate, but they haven't matched men when it comes to solo sex frequency. Statistically speaking, various studies of the sexual behavior of men and women detailed connections between gender and self-stimulation. The authors of The Social Organization of Sexuality (Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels; University of Chicago Press, 1994) gathered information about masturbatory practices from face-to-face interviews and self-administered questionnaires of 2,969 men and women ranging in age from 18 to 59 years. The researchers found that 41.7 percent of women and 63.3 percent of men masturbated during the year studied. According to The Janus Report on Sexual Behavior (Samuel S. Janus and Cynthia L. Janus; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993), based on a large-scale, nationwide survey of adult Americans ages 18 and up conducted between 1983 and 1992, 10 percent of women reported masturbating frequently (several times weekly or daily) vs. 25 percent of men. Similarly, 38 percent of women reported masturbating on a regular basis (monthly to daily) in comparison to 55 percent of men. The Kinsey Institute also published statistics about gender differences in masturbation. They were compiled from renowned sex researcher Alfred Kinsey's studies on the sexual behavior of men and women. According to Dr. Kinsey's 1948 and 1953 studies, based on detailed interviews with white American adults, 92 percent of men and 62 percent of women reported that they had masturbated. From washup.org (a hand-washing campaign from the American Society for Microbiology): Women surveyed were significantly more likely than men to wash their hands after various activities or events. For instance, 40 percent of women reported washing after sneezing or coughing, compared to 22 percent of men; 54 percent of women say they wash after petting a dog or cat, while only 36 percent of men say they do so; and 86 percent of women, compared to 70 percent of men, say they wash their hands after handling a diaper. Hmmmmm....so could facts #5 and #6 be ...oh I don't know ... FAKE??? Could be.
Show me a report that indicates women wash their hands more often than men after masturbation and then maybe I will believe you.
Why does everyone have the impression that I'm some sort of obsessive compulsive hand-washer? All I did was support the idea of washing up after using the bathroom, which is something everybody should do anyway. If simply advocating post bathroom hand-washing puts me in the minority, well, that's just scary.
