You Wanta To See All The Invisible, Grease, Dirt, Oil, Germs and Bacteria On Circulated Coins?

OAKSTAR

Look at your cell phones.

OAKSTAR

P.S. Don't use acetone on your phone! 🤣 😂

DCW

Calling @emeraldATV

BLUEJAYWAY

Paper currency just as bad.

JimTyler

Pretty much anything humans consistently come in contact with. We are festering pustules. I saw on a talk show awhile ago a woman had her keyboard tested. She went on and on about her strict hygienic process letting no one else touch her keyboard, constantly cleaning with Lysol wipes, cleaning her hands until they were nearly raw, on and on making it clear that when the keyboard came back with 💩 on it she and her alone was the guilty party. The look on her face at that moment was priceless.
Moral of this story is those long finger nails some women love so much are essentially (💩) scoops.

emeraldATV

Summer colds suck.

70* in my office... 120* everywhere else, plus no rainfall or thunder storms all week long.
Germofobes are Goofy. I'm immuned to their systems is all I have to say.

coastaljerseyguy

Isn't that why coinage was originally made of silver and copper, to kill the bacteria & germs.

PerryHall

@coastaljerseyguy said:
Isn't that why coinage was originally made of silver and copper, to kill the bacteria & germs.

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans even know what a germ was?

TwoSides2aCoin

In Nebraska we say " go warsh yer hands" .

NewEnglandNotes

@BLUEJAYWAY said:
Paper currency just as bad.

I'd guess paper is worse. Ever seen the interaction between a cashier and customer who pulls wet sweaty dollar bills from their shoe to buy a pack of smokes?

lkenefic

A hot area of research in my field over the past decade has been the Microbiome... I see MDs bringing their cellphones everywhere, si I've often wondered what the microbiome of a phone is...

Mr_Spud

Like emerald said in his almost Haiku-like style, letting your immune system handle germs is better than trying to avoid them like a germaphobe. Constant low level exposure to germs as they evolve allows your immune system to recognize pathogens. Isolating yourself from germs prevents your immune system from being able to recognize pathogens as they evolve and you can end up getting really sick.

JimTyler

Use to work at off track betting in my confused early years and I had women usually large breasted women pull their bet money out from between their boobs, the money was wet. I use to say that was the only job I had where I had to wash my hands before I went to the bathroom. I guess you live long enough you get plenty of stories.

CRHer700

@coastaljerseyguy said:
Isn't that why coinage was originally made of silver and copper, to kill the bacteria & germs.

This isn't necessarily true, as cents are about tied with nickels in my experience as the dirtiest coins based on how black my fingers get after going through a full box. They are followed by quarters, dollars, halves, and cleanest of all, dimes.

Namvet69

Which is why I don't pick my nose! 😷

coastaljerseyguy

@PerryHall

Appears so from the National Library of Medicine.

privatecoin

The immune system. Use it or lose it.

crazyhounddog

@TwoSides2aCoin said:
In Nebraska we say " go warsh yer hands" .

Kansas too

HoneyMarket

@JimTyler said:
Use to work at off track betting in my confused early years and I had women usually large breasted women pull their bet money out from between their boobs, the money was wet. I use to say that was the only job I had where I had to wash my hands before I went to the bathroom. I guess you live long enough you get plenty of stories.

I have to say that I never heard of "Boob Money", but I guess it's a thing...
Or maybe that's a mid-west thing?

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Video Story Link is below - above is just a screen grab from the NBCNews story.

Store Refuses to Accept Cash From Bras or Socks - As temperatures heat up, one Kentucky store has instituted a "no boob or sock money" policy.

OAKSTAR

Well, it's official. My thread has been christened and blessed by @emeraldATV

Thanks @DCW ! 🤣 😂

Cranium_Basher73

Gotta be vigilant
https://youtu.be/A83EzapOz_w?si=_tnd0VJSC9um_faO

BLUEJAYWAY

@CRHer700 said:

@coastaljerseyguy said:
Isn't that why coinage was originally made of silver and copper, to kill the bacteria & germs.

This isn't necessarily true, as cents are about tied with nickels in my experience as the dirtiest coins based on how black my fingers get after going through a full box. They are followed by quarters, dollars, halves, and cleanest of all, dimes.

Dimes may be cleanest of all as they have the smallest amount of area to be contaminated. Being the smallest of the coins you mentioned.

emeraldATV

Mr_Spud said :
Constant low level exposure to germs as they evolve allows your immune system to recognize pathogens. Isolating yourself from germs prevents your immune system from being able to recognize pathogens as they evolve and you can end up getting really sick.

Apples, Asprin and @Mr_Spud.

Mr_Spud

Yep, I’ll keep the doctor away. Just don’t call me in the morning 😉

emeraldATV

No drama here.
My cold is gone as the heatwave continues on 24/7.

tcollects

@emeraldATV said:
Mr_Spud said :
Constant low level exposure to germs as they evolve allows your immune system to recognize pathogens. Isolating yourself from germs prevents your immune system from being able to recognize pathogens as they evolve and you can end up getting really sick.

Apples, Asprin and @Mr_Spud.

I never thought about the role coins might play in the development of our immune systems, that's interesting. I think I might start licking my coins, or carrying around a few in my mouth like a wad of chaw.

emeraldATV

Their great as ice cubes also.

Sapyx

@PerryHall said:

@coastaljerseyguy said:
Isn't that why coinage was originally made of silver and copper, to kill the bacteria & germs.

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans even know what a germ was?

Coins were made from silver and copper because they were two metals that the ancients actually knew how to make, which also had the properties you need for coinage: hard-wearing, corrosion-resistant and not too common.

The antimicrobial properties of copper and silver are a happy coincidence, discovered much later once microbes were discovered. Prior to the discovery of microbes as disease-causing agents, the conventional wisdom held that disease was caused by miasma, or bad smells. Copper and silver aren't known for their odour-removing powers, so would have had no traditional involvement in disease prevention.

Mr_Spud

@emeraldATV said:

I never thought about the role coins might play in the development of our immune systems, that's interesting. I think I might start licking my coins, or carrying around a few in my mouth like a wad of chaw.

Just touching the coins is more than enough. Everybody was washing doorknobs, but not everybody thinks of their change and who recently touched it.

Barbercoin

@JimTyler said:
Use to work at off track betting in my confused early years and I had women usually large breasted women pull their bet money out from between their boobs, the money was wet. I use to say that was the only job I had where I had to wash my hands before I went to the bathroom. I guess you live long enough you get plenty of stories.

Ewe! I’m so glad I learned something new today! This, I could have done without. 🤮

emeraldATV

Ahh.....The first ATM.
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@Barbercoin said:

@JimTyler said:
Use to work at off track betting in my confused early years and I had women usually large breasted women pull their bet money out from between their boobs, the money was wet. I use to say that was the only job I had where I had to wash my hands before I went to the bathroom. I guess you live long enough you get plenty of stories.

Ewe! I’m so glad I learned something new today! This, I could have done without. 🤮

CRHer700

@emeraldATV said:
Ahh.....The first ATM.
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@Barbercoin said:

@JimTyler said:
Use to work at off track betting in my confused early years and I had women usually large breasted women pull their bet money out from between their boobs, the money was wet. I use to say that was the only job I had where I had to wash my hands before I went to the bathroom. I guess you live long enough you get plenty of stories.

Ewe! I’m so glad I learned something new today! This, I could have done without. 🤮

How does your brain work?

emeraldATV

jacrispies

@JimTyler said:
Use to work at off track betting in my confused early years and I had women usually large breasted women pull their bet money out from between their boobs, the money was wet. I use to say that was the only job I had where I had to wash my hands before I went to the bathroom. I guess you live long enough you get plenty of stories.

Did a craigslist coin deal a few years ago in which the woman pulled the el cazador eight reales from her bra. Had to wipe my hands thoroughly on my jeans before touching my steering wheel. Should've put "Ex Woman's Bra" on the ebay listing, probably would have made more.