Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

[willawake]

Some computer keyboards harbour more harmful bacteria than a toilet seat, research has suggested. full article



They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.

[pentium]

Re: Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

Cooties!!!

[kc8adu]

Re: Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

wait till you get a laptop with a whitish fluid in it.
used gloves to clean that one up!
looking at the history,cookies,ect left no doubt what that was!

[gdement]

Re: Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

They say the same thing about cutting boards. Seems everything dirty gets compared to toilet seats.

Keyboards are safe to wash, but you have to be able to give them several days to dry afterwards.

Just don't try to put a Model M in the dishwasher. I got lazy and tried washing it that way, and the top cover got warped. I had a Microsoft Natural Keyboard in the same wash and it came out fine.

[i4004]

Re: Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.

yes, they should cut their finger-nails and hair more often!
hehe...

[3991vhtes]

Re: Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

@ kc8adu

oh my...

he could of at least cleaned it himself!!

[willawake]

Re: Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

good job it wasnt this guys laptop......

A Japanese civil servant has been demoted for viewing pornographic websites more than 780,000 times during office hours over a nine-month period.

Kinokawa official Tomiko Waki says the man, an employee of the Kinokawa government in western Japan, visited porn sites from June last year to February 2008. He says that the man, whose name was withheld, accessed porn sites 170,000 times in July alone.

Despite his frequent porn viewing, none of his colleagues noticed his activities.

The man's superiors discovered his extensive porn site visits after his computer became infected with a virus, prompting officials to examine his web browser's history.

Along with the demotion, he received a $190 monthly pay cut.

[i4004]

Re: Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

virus?
aids?
hehe...

[acstech]

Re: Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

wait till you get a laptop with a whitish fluid in it.
used gloves to clean that one up!
looking at the history,cookies,ect left no doubt what that was!

Ewwww....

I'd be breaking out this stuff for that, along with the gloves:



Contains Perchloroethylene and Trichloroethylene. Even then, I'd probably go over it thoroughly with Lysol.

[Paul S]

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COOL

Blain's Farm & Fleet. They are only in Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa. You must be a closet midwesterner, acstech.

There's one of their stores down the street from me.

[acstech]

Re: Keyboards 'dirtier than a toilet'

Yep, somewhere in that region.