Scariest Science News You’ll Read This Morning [Shut Up, Science]
“While daily bathroom showers provide invigorating relief and a good cleansing for millions of Americans, they also can deliver a face full of potentially pathogenic bacteria…” [Science Daily]
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:02:27 PM – Link
User Comments:
@friendlynerd: OMG NOT THE BACTERIA
labyrinthine IS DOING THIS
Everybody panic! The bacteria are coming! (as though people haven’t been taking showers for the last 75 years, and surviving…)
@Nic Fit: So many germs, so many places. I worry more about mold. I think the risk factor is fairly low on that.
Is it better to bath in a pool of your own filth?
A face full. A pant load. Which is worse?
@Nic Fit: Nice. Enviroterrorists tell us 120 is the setting that saves the most cash/energy…what to do?
Keep you water heater set to around 145 degrees if you don’t want to risk Legionnaire’s disease. Srsly.
That’s 15 minutes of daily bliss you just stole from me, science. Here are two significant digits for you, right in the air.
*puts hands over ears* la la la la laaaa…
if you guys could see my bathroom, you would know that a face full of bacteria from the shower should be the least of your concerns.
(kidding!)
everything’s bad for us and will cause cancer and swine flu and DEATH OMG. apparently.
labyrinthine IS DOING THIS