Wrote this up for the toilets at work today.

**James Deuce** · 18th December 2006, 16:04

I wasn't arguing with any of that RIB, however Hutt Hospital and Wellington Hospital both have massive MRSA issues because of the building materials. They are pourous, damp, and warm. If you don't stay clean in those environments you can get VERY sick if your immune system is compromised, up to and including necrotising facieitis.

You'll note that they've knocked down Wellington Hospital's old buildings and are planning the same for the Hutt.

The bugs in horse dung are unlikely to cause you any issues however ruminants can carry a variety of spirochetes in their urine that can be very bad for humans.

If I'm not vigilant with my cleanliness at work I end up in hospital. I'm going to stick to being "anal" about my hand-wringing, err washing.

**Motu** · 18th December 2006, 16:11

Just so long as you keep all the tea towels colour coded and hanging perfectly straight I don't think there will be a problem...

**Rossi Gal** · 18th December 2006, 16:23

Originally Posted by Deano

I have steri gel on my desk at work - I use it after shaking some 'customers' hands....

Umm...i thought you told us it was a tube of KY gel you kept at work??

**RiderInBlack** · 18th December 2006, 17:45

All good Jim. I'll hug ya after I've had my shower.

Tetanus is 1 disease that concerns me as a Farrier, but keep my anti-tet jabs regular.

Yep, it makes me laugh is I have worked as an RN (Nurse) as well as a Farrier. I may look dirtier as a Farrier but my health (and others in contact with me) was more at risk Nursing even with regular hand-washing (a must if ya nursing because the most common transference of diseases in Hospitals is due to poor hand-washing techniques by health worker). Hospitals harbour some nasty bugs.

**Hitcher** · 18th December 2006, 19:10

I'd be more worried about the horse standing on my foot, biting me or kicking me in the head that from any bug or zoonoses I may contract from said evel animal.

**yungatart** · 18th December 2006, 19:19

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I'd be more worried about the horse standing on my foot, biting me or kicking me in the head that from any bug or zoonoses I may contract from said evel animal.

Evel? Surely, you mean evil?
Is one exempt from one's own rules?
Or is one merely showing the plebs that one is fallible?

**Hitcher** · 18th December 2006, 19:29

Originally Posted by yungatart

Evel? Surely, you mean evil?

Have you never watched Austin Powers? Wait for the Official Kiwi Biker Wiki...

**yungatart** · 18th December 2006, 19:32

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Have you never watched Austin Powers? Wait for the Official Kiwi Biker Wiki...

So.... the answer is...drum roll.. fallible, then.
Glad to hear it, can't have mortals posing as gods around here, it just wouldn't do...

**Colapop** · 18th December 2006, 19:41

It is well I do not pose as what I am.

(modest too)

**RiderInBlack** · 19th December 2006, 07:53

Originally Posted by Hitcher

I'd be more worried about the horse standing on my foot, biting me or kicking me in the head that from any bug or zoonoses I may contract from said evel animal.

Yep agree with ya there, but the evel Homo Sapiens are far more dangerous. Funny thing is that "Homo Sapien" translates as "Wise Man". Think the Scientist need to reclassify that species.

**Citroenjunkie** · 19th December 2006, 08:24

To quote a line from some book about a doctor I read once," Blessed are those who wash their hands after wiping their arse, they shall live forever!"

**James Deuce** · 19th December 2006, 10:28

Originally Posted by RiderInBlack

Yep agree with ya there, but the evel Homo Sapiens are far more dangerous. Funny thing is that "Homo Sapien" translates as "Wise Man". Think the Scientist need to reclassify that species.

I wonder what the Latin for Fuck Head is?

**McJim** · 19th December 2006, 10:43

Originally Posted by Jim2

I wonder what the Latin for Fuck Head is?

There are no Romans left so it doesn't matter. Most of the people you meet can be abused satisfactorily in a variety of modern languages. It's only the pretentious and those that study etymology that really require a working knowledge of Latin.