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Paper money is gross.
- Thread starter Tiberius Jim
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I wonder how feasable it would be to implement some-kind-of money irradating/sterilizing machine or device into banks or processing plants to sterilize bills?
Thespeckledkiwi
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We should really use a more sanitary material for our bills, like some sort of flexible polymer, or maybe we can just strictly use coins. That paper/linen blend is way too porous and absorbent...because you never know where that fiver you're using to pay your bridge toll has been.
Coins are a) heavy b) use metal, which isn't always in abundance and c)...well look at pennies.
We should really use a more sanitary material for our bills, like some sort of flexible polymer, or maybe we can just strictly use coins. That paper/linen blend is way too porous and absorbent...because you never know where that fiver you're using to pay your bridge toll has been.
Fuck it, let's just have chips implanted in the backs of our hands. We'll never need to use or touch cash again.
Implanted chips? To hell with that. Just have your thumbprint registered. Cash registers will be replace with thumbprint scanning devices which automatically deduct from your account based upon your unique thumbprint.
I do hope that doesn't hold true while you're behind a bar, otherwise you're violating every health code in existence in the State of Illinois.
I do hope that doesn't hold true while you're behind a bar, otherwise you're violating every health code in existence in the State of Illinois.
This idea is gross beyond the power of imagination.
I do hope that doesn't hold true while you're behind a bar, otherwise you're violating every health code in existence in the State of Illinois.
In an effort to save toilet paper, I wipe my ass with my bar towel.
Yeah, and watch while criminals start chopping people's fingers off...
Me, I'll stick with my VISA debit card, which I use for pretty much every purchase I make.
As an accountant for a hotel, I count money every day I am at work and I have to agree that it is disgusting. I can't help but wonder where all those grubby bills have been. So I have a big bottle of hand sanitizer to get me through it and after I go scrub down in the bathroom. For a week, I tried using latex gloves but you can't speed count with them on.
And I know it is a little much but I am a tiny bit OCD.
And I know it is a little much but I am a tiny bit OCD.
I know that you're a Wannabe Mythbuster and all, but I'm gonna go ahead and take the word of the Swiss virologists who conducted the study over you, mmkay?
I wonder if anyone has considered this one for Mythbusters, actually. They could take random banknotes and test them for foreign substances. Though, I suppose that being a family show they'd probably come up with a euphemism or two. When they tested various ways of keeping the needles from falling off of Christmas trees they referred to Viagra as "Daddy's Little Helper".
Yeah, an episode of testing myths relating to banknotes and coins would be interesting. Someone should submit the idea.
^Looks like someone beat me to it.
Don't forget about those millions of people around you exhaling god-knows-what.
And all those filthy hands touching bathroom faucets, paper towel distributors, flush handles and stall door locks.
At some point, just accept the fact it's a dirty world and that much of it won't harm you in the least!
So stop worrying and get on with life. Important things ... like making sure Rove and Cheney serve some hard time before they die.
--Ted
I can "get on with life" just fine, thanks. I don't obsess or lose sleep over it. I wash my hands on a regular but pretty normal basis. It's not like I'm trying to be a bubble boy or something. I simply noticed that the paper bills are just really, really gross. That's all.
We should really use a more sanitary material for our bills, like some sort of flexible polymer, or maybe we can just strictly use coins. That paper/linen blend is way too porous and absorbent...because you never know where that fiver you're using to pay your bridge toll has been.
Coins are a) heavy b) use metal, which isn't always in abundance and c)...well look at pennies.
Which is why we need space money:
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
Well that's a bit daft, the UK uses Quids already.
£1 = a quid.
This is going to cause confusion.
They should call them SQUIDS, the S standing for space.... Space QUIDS.
I know that you're a Wannabe Mythbuster and all, but I'm gonna go ahead and take the word of the Swiss virologists who conducted the study over you, mmkay?
Viruses cannot survive outside of a host cell.
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I know that you're a Wannabe Mythbuster and all, but I'm gonna go ahead and take the word of the Swiss virologists who conducted the study over you, mmkay?
Viruses cannot survive outside of a host cell.
LINK
This doesn't mean what you think it means.
Many viruses are inactive outside a host cell but do not degrade or decompose. They just sit around, waiting for a suitable host to pick them up.
Some survive just fine in the open air. Some survive best in water. Some must remain in living blood or they break down. But many viruses don't simply "die" when they're outside a host cell.
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