what's happening to our borad TMI

"just smell it honest"

I kind of wonder if there's an unwritten etiquette code of what to do with items that are blood/shit/snickers smeared

In a hotel, that is

Wash them?

I think all linens get washed equally harshly tbh. I don't know how commercial laundries do it or what cleaning products they use but they do get things clean.

note on bedstand "Please wash sheets ASAP (I'm sorry)"

or possibly a note with an arrow pointing at the bed that says SUCIO

p sure the etiquette is to scrawl SORRY on the wall, using the same substance with which you have soiled the sheets

That or REDRUM

I think all linens get washed equally harshly tbh. I don't know how commercial laundries do it or what cleaning products they use but they do get things clean.

― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Thursday, March 7, 2013 10:50 AM (1 hour ago)

Using a black light, employees of the television show "ABC News Primetime" investigated 20 hotels in the United States for cleanliness. Results showed traces of semen or urine in every room they checked, even in expensive five-star hotels.

I just wanna know who goes to a five-star hotel room and pisses all over it

yo

well ive been saving up

and before you ask "saving up piss or money?", yes

The places they find urine, semen, etc are things that don't get washed in the laundry. Bedspreads, walls, headboards, whatever. Actually in response to that kind of reporting, some hotels now also commit to washing the outer bedcovers between guests, as I noticed on a recent stay. Which is basically a terrible waste especially when you figure a lot of guests never even TOUCH the second bed in the room.

Oh God, I saw that report. It was mostly the top layers, the comforters, iirc. The sheets get laundered every day but hotels pretty much never wash the comforter. The first thing I do when I get to a hotel is take that thing off. So gross.

x-post ha

cleanliness is such a bougie concept

i remember traveling with my grandmother, who would strip the comforters from the bed upon first entering the hotel room because "that's where all the filth is"

my nan OTM

cleanliness is such a bougie concept

Oh god can I just...my roommate cuts up raw chicken on a dinner plate, cooks the chicken, and then uses the plate to eat off without washing it AT ALL in between. He does this multiple days in a row with the same plate. If I don't SEE him do it I can ignore it (and he has his own plates that I don't use--EVER) but if I'm aware of it I have to wash the counters and sink handles afterward.

just a lil salmonella lets be cool

It goes to show either how rare food-borne illnesses are, or how good the body is at controlling them under normal circs, because he's probably touched the fridge handles, the cupboard handles, the sink handles, and half the utensils in the kitchen with raw chicken hands.

i'm not particularly clean, and am pretty loose about food hygiene but i would never ever ever mix uncooked and cooked meat in any way. just thinking about it makes me queasy.

maybe its all organic free range chicken

im not a food scientist but seems to me most of the fear w/r/t meat is the possibility of contact with fecal matter in the killing process

idk we eat salmon, like the insides of our steak raw

from what i understand the other vector for food poisoning is through the byproduct of bacterial colonization in the form of toxins - and ive heard that those toxins are pretty tough to get rid of once theyre in, like sometimes high heat cooking wont be enough to get rid of it? idk

if the inside of my steak isnt burnt it's going back at speed

im not a food scientist but seems to me most of the fear w/r/t meat is the possibility of contact with fecal matter in the killing process

this. which is why some ppl don't get too antsy about rare meat---not an easy way for surface pathogen to get in there

most ppl probably have ~traces of~ blood, semen, urine and feces on their iphones

this is why everybody overcooks pork, please stop you're not gonna get trichinosis

At one of the restaurants where I used to work, guests were often shocked when we asked them what temp they would like their pork cooked to. Yes, dears, you can have your pork MEDIUM and not bone-dry!

lotsa bacteria discussion i'm running into these days, increasing feeling of doom about my upcoming hyperclean post-hospitalization lifestyle.

Meanwhile: daily retching and heaving of bile not quite as disgusting as full-fledged food vomiting, I guess?

how much are you sleeping?

Just wrestled one out that cured backache

hard to say mook, they interrupt me a lot. prob 5-6 hrs a night.

docs now sunnily saying i can probly leave hospital Tuesday even tho i havent crapped in 4 days. wtf

:( sending new age power energy from my crown chakra for great recovery Morbs

What are they doing letting you out early?? I was going to lose this cough and then come embarrass you. Balloons, you like balloons, right?

no

all but certain i'm decamping to Connecticut tomorrow, perhaps Brooklyn in a week.

The whole "your blood counts are up, now gtfo" vibe is kinda creepy.

morbs I haven't said anything because not really doing much here these days but I'm glad you're doing as well as you are and I hope you poop soon

lord, I have to have another colonoscopy.

man, drinking all of that fluid is a chore. do not choose the pineapple flavor

scheduling it was funny. "do you want to schedule it for the morning or afternoon?" "afternoon." "are you sure? remember that you can't eat or drink anything after midnight." c'mon now; if I can drink at 11:59PM before a colonoscopy at 10:30AM, that means I can drink at 2:29AM before a colonoscopy at 1PM.

ok but if you are not completely clear they will have to do the whole thing again. morning is way better for these imo. I've been to colonoscopies where they're like "sorry, there was a spot we couldn't see, we have to do it again next week." It sucked.

I'd do morning too. Get to eat sooner, get the procedure out of the way, spend the rest of the day shaking off the go-to-sleep drugs...

Also the odds of your doctor being late increases as the day wears on.

Also the odds of your doctor being late increases as the day wears on.

otm

do it in the morning.

I just had one this morning at 8:00 AM. Clear liquids from 6:00 AM yesterday; Dulcolax at 1:00 PM, Miralax in Gatorade at 4:00 PM. My husband had his Monday at 1:00 PM, so clear liquids starting at 5:00 PM Sunday, Dulcolax at 6:00 PM and Miralax at 6:00 AM.
I think I would have preferred his schedule.

I am doing in the morning FWIW, I just thought it was funny the way it was framed.

like "if you do it in the afternoon you'll have to go more hours without drinking any water!"