How many germs live on your keyboard?

**Mikeus Caesar** · 10-10-2007, 17:52

Originally Posted by KukriKhan

3,640,140

And here I figured that the occasional alcohol spilt on the thing would take care of germs.

Guess I'd better re-think my maintenance plan.

It would appear i've been better, score wise - unless of course the actual description of your keyboard is worse than mine.

Care to describe, Kukri?

**KukriKhan** · 10-10-2007, 18:16

Originally Posted by Mikeus Caesar

It would appear i've been better, score wise - unless of course the actual description of your keyboard is worse than mine.

Care to describe, Kukri?

I use an external USB keyboard for my laptop, backlit, by Deck. This one I have now is in pretty good shape, but when I answered the questionnaire, I was thinking of my previous keyboard, which I eventually managed to short out electrically after about the 6th beer spilt on it.

Before it shorted out, the CAPS, Shift, Ctrl, WASD & X keys were so sticky I couldn't use them for FPS games anymore. And the grunge had turned them from white to a sickly yellowish-brown colour.

I think the "high" score came from the number of humans I work around daily, and the lack of hand-washing facilities nearby where I work - increasing my exposure to germs, generally. But that doesn't scare me much... I'm of the "what doesn't kill me makes me stronger" school of bug and virus exposure.

**Decker** · 10-11-2007, 04:28

I think it is safe to say that we all need, as a "community", to lessen our visits to the babe thread

**spmetla** · 10-11-2007, 05:03

There are about 2,157,120 germs on your keyboard right now!
That's equivalent to the number of germs on 431 toilet seats.

Not too surprised, how often do my butt cheeks hold back a sneeze( I don' think farts count), shake someone hand?, or use a doorknob or handrail.

If it were about the cleansiness of the bowl then I'd expect the bowl to be far worse. There is currently some sort of growth and I'm refusing to clean it in hope that dorm mates do though they are probably hoping for the same thing.

**Ayachuco** · 10-11-2007, 05:21

Originally Posted by spmetla

Not too surprised, how often do my butt cheeks hold back a sneeze( I don' think farts count), shake someone hand?, or use a doorknob or handrail.

If it were about the cleansiness of the bowl then I'd expect the bowl to be far worse. There is currently some sort of growth and I'm refusing to clean it in hope that dorm mates do though they are probably hoping for the same thing.

Just put some baking soda and ammonia/bleach into the bowl and run for your life. Unfortunately you will no longer have a bowl to clean or sit on;now you will have to sit on top of a hole.