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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe've finally reached the age of telephone sanitizers
Douglas Adams must be rolling in his grave laughing.
Your Cell Phone Is 10 Times Dirtier Than a Toilet Seat. Here's What to Do About It
Abigail Abrams
Aug 23, 2017
http://time.com/4908654/cell-phone-bacteria/
All aboard the B Arc!
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Think about where that infected phone or pad travels in one day. Nasty.
Javaman
(62,561 posts)I really don't want to know how filthy his phone is.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Javaman
(62,561 posts)FLPanhandle
(7,107 posts)If they don't go, remind them of the giant mutant stargoat.
As for bacteria, we now freak out a bit too much about it.
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)I wonder what he'd have to say about our predicament?
muriel_volestrangler
(101,480 posts)In my first job, I found the girl in the office (teenager, like me) cleaning the phones. She didn't understand why I was laughing so much. I suppose at least those were shared phones. But no one was taking them to the bathroom.
Orrex
(63,336 posts)Major Nikon
(36,831 posts)Orrex
(63,336 posts)I'd hate to think I've been doing it wrong all this time.
Major Nikon
(36,831 posts)Orrex
(63,336 posts)It's great for telemarketers, less so when the school is calling to announce a fund raiser.
Major Nikon
(36,831 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)Major Nikon
(36,831 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)progressoid
(50,061 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Then it won't be as dirty as a toilet.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Back around 1980, shortly after people were first allowed to buy landline phones outright, I recall a service becoming available for cleaning them. Local supermarkets contracted with a company that did the cleaning. You'd drop your phone off at the supermarket's customer service desk. The company would pick them up, take them off to their own site, clean and sanitize them inside and out, then return them to the store for customer pick up.
Iggo
(47,644 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Posted on May 2, 2006 by Constantine von Hoffman
https://collateraldamage.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/douglas-adams-right-again-lack-of-phone-sanitizers-will-doom-planet/
Same basic idea. Over ten years ago.