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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 hour ago

Ha bacteria! It's not the water you should be worried about.

It's the quart gallon of vodka I wash it down with each night, as I try to blot out my existence.

Fuck you bacteria (and my liver), I WIN!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Who rinses things to remove bacteria? I just want to remove dirt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

Only because you don't like the color, or maybe the texture of dirt? We wash off dirt because it's dirty, and dirty things aren't good for us (because of bacteria...).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago

The level of idiocy needed to think that the reason you rinse it is to kill bacteria is disturbing to imagine.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Err, your immune system can cope with a bit of bacteria. But if you don't wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself, your body will deal with it by extorting everything in your stomach. E.g. you'll puke the entire night. You're welcome.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

When you rinse salad with water you are not cleaning a significant amount of bacteria off it. You're getting soil and bugs.

Unless your salad is contaminated with something, not washing it will at worst be gritty and unpleasant. It won't make you ill. If it does, washing it will make no difference.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

u a science man/woman?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

if you don't wash your salad and get a massive load into yourself

Who spunks on a salad?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 46 minutes ago

Horus for one

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

Men of culture (bacterial)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

a massive load

How about a pile?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

🎶 "All these, microscopically small things, worms shaped, like rings, inside, my gut, shoot-ing, from my butt" 🎶

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

🎶 "Norovirus sucks" 🎶

🎶 "I know" 🎶

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know if this is effective, my wife soak the veggies in baking powder/baking soda, I forgot which. She said it kills bugs. Who am I to argue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 46 minutes ago

Baking soda is sodium bicarbonate. Dissolving it in water will increase its pH. I'm not sure if that works for killing bacteria.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I just don't like the feel of dirt grit and bugs in my teeth.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

Yeah I wash my vegetables for grit. I don't even care that much about bugs, but even the slightest amount of grit is terrible.

[–] [email protected] 224 points 12 hours ago (23 children)

Why would you expect tap water to kill bacteria?

You’re washing bugs and dirt off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

the belief that a quick 3 second rinse will kill off bacteria seems to be consistent with the ways that most people try to wash their hands

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Its also wash out bacteria.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 26 minutes ago

The mechanical action of water running and wiping is what takes out 90% of germs and bacteria already. Soap is only responsible for that next 9%.

There's still 1% unless you autoclave it.

Tldr: You probably don't need soap for dishes if you wash them during initial rinse immediately after use and they aren't super gross.

You still want to wash and soap your hands cause 10% of cold germs is plenty.

Also quit licking your fingers to open the plastic bags for produce at the store you filthy fucks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

No I'm not!

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Bodies are pretty OK with dietary bacteria. Same goes for dirt, bugs, and Will Arnett.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Is ... Is that Will Arnett?? Or am I missing the joke?? It doesn't look like him to me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

It's mark hoppus from blink-182

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Oh damn, you’re right! I skimmed past thinking it was one of these lol

Yeah no idea who that is in OP

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is Mark Hoppus from Blink-182

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Thank you. Guess I'm just missing the joke lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think OP and I just have the same issue with similar looking faces, because I also thought this was Gob from Arrested Development.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

This is Mark Hoppus from blink-182

[–] [email protected] 55 points 12 hours ago (12 children)

You wash because of the pesticides.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You wash it because of the ratlungworm that raw snail and slug can give you.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

Also the bugs, fecal matter, and dirt that can be in the folds and pockets.

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