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Your Computer Keyboard is Equivalent to How Many Toilet Seats?

Topic Categories: Silliness • Your Inner Child
Posted on: July 24, 2008 8:59 AM, by "GrrlScientist"

Okay, according to this quiz, I am having a pet overpopulation problem (equivalent to 27 toilet seats), but really, are you guys doing any better?

1,483,020How Many Germs Live On Your Keyboard?

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#1

1,977,360 germs. 396 toilets. That's not even half way to max germs, I suck at these tests.

Posted by: locksmyth | July 24, 2008 9:21 AM

#2

Supposedly 471. Yeah, but you should see my toilet seat. Do slovenly habits with the keyboard correlate with slovenly habits with toilet seats?

Posted by: natural cynic | July 24, 2008 11:26 AM

#3

I have 2,336,880 germs on my keyboard, according to the quiz. That's 467 toilet seats. I wonder if they mean individuals or species of germs. I think the latter would be scarier.

I noticed the quiz included a question about antibacterial soap. I'm not sure how the quiz handled it, but I'm pretty sure that the commercial antibacterials don't actually kill all the germs, they just improve their resistance. So I may have 2,336,880 germs, but at least they aren't 2,336,880 SUPERGERMS.

Posted by: John | July 24, 2008 11:36 AM

#4

2,247,000 germs, 449 toilet seats.

There was no mention of the disinfecting effect of beer, though.

Posted by: Bob O'H | July 24, 2008 12:21 PM

#5

1,078,560 germs or 216 toilet seats. They really hit you for not using antibacterial soap, which is stupid. The stuff works no better than regular soap. Dumb question.

Posted by: Gindy | July 24, 2008 2:36 PM

#6

There are about 2,606,520 germs on your keyboard right now!
That's equivalent to the number of germs on 521 toilet seats.

I'm the winner so far!

Posted by: Cecile Weekly | July 25, 2008 2:45 AM

#7

1,617,840 (324 toilet seats)

Silly question the one about cleaning the computer, I don't clean it the cleaners do.

Posted by: Chris' Wills | July 25, 2008 3:37 AM

#8

I suspect the numbers are much too low, but it doesn't matter. These numbers are used to scare people and have no real significance. There are, more or less, 10^16 bacteria in and on a person's body, 10,000,000,000 times as many as the numbers given, About 10,000,000,000 of them are in the mouth, including important pathogens that are normally kept under control.

Posted by: leigh | July 25, 2008 10:23 AM

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