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5 second rule, awesome or gross?

dgs095dgs095 Registered User regular
edited June 2008 in Social Entropy++
So,
which is it people? Food hits the floor, do you eat it or trash it?

If I'm at home and the place is clean enough (most of the time), the 5 second rule applies, food gets ate!
If buttered toast, pizza etc lands face Down, into trash bin it goes, face up, into my face it goes.

For me, the 5 second rule is null and void in public, with one exception so far:

I was traveling overseas, I'd gotten off a long flight (canada>>>New Zealand) and crashed in a hostel. I woke up and I was Hungry and still clumsy tired, the only thing I had to eat was a snickers bar and in my haste I fumbled it onto the floor after opening it.

I picked it up, thought about all the horrible germs now probably coating it, felt my hunger and decided, fuck it!

I ate that snickers, I didn't get sick from it, and I don't regret it.

I'm now living with my girlfriend, and she isn't so keen on the 5 second rule, and since I do not want kisses withheld because -you just ate something off the floor ewe!- I must myself be converted or convert her!

note: I'm not some hapless fellow constantly dropping food on the ground and eating it, but it happens now and then. Surely I'm not alone here, share your stories people!

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  • UrianUrian __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    this is a bad thread

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  • Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Urian wrote: »
    this is a bad thread

    so's yo face

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  • Red ZoneRed Zone Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    poo poo

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Urian wrote: »
    this is a bad thread

    so's yo face

    oh snap

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  • UrianUrian __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    Red Zone wrote: »
    poo poo

    i will fuck you up

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  • KrunkMcGrunkKrunkMcGrunk Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I drop every meal on the ground before I eat it.

    It just tastes better that way.

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  • BoredGamerBoredGamer Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Depends.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    mostly I err on the side of testing my immune system

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  • dgs095dgs095 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Seriously, aren't people over paranoid with disinfecting everything that might come into contact with their food? Your stomach is full of acid....

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  • Red ZoneRed Zone Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    pish pish

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Urian wrote: »
    this is a bad thread

    so's yo face

    man, someone report this shit for awesome

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  • vsovevsove ....also yes. Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    dgs095 wrote: »
    Seriously, aren't people over paranoid with disinfecting everything that might come into contact with their food? Your stomach is full of acid....

    that's a terrible rationalization of why you can eat food off the floor.

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  • SlickShughesSlickShughes Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I drop every meal on the ground before I eat it.

    It just tastes better that way.

    Floor spice makes everything nice

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  • dgs095dgs095 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    BoredGamer wrote: »
    Depends.

    yeah, clearly there are circumstances, but what are your limits? Or does it depend mostly on the food? Orange hit the floor, you gonna peel it anyways so who cares?

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  • seizureorbsseizureorbs Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    5 second rule applies always and everywhere unless the food is wet

    exceptions can be made if the food is especially delicious since I have a great immune system

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  • redfenixredfenix Aka'd as rfix Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    unless you're in a mall food court or something

    gotta just let that shit go

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  • JPatrickJPatrick Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Pubes and dirt dont wait 5 seconds to get on whatever lands on the floor.
    Not that my floors are covered in pubes and dirt, Im just sayin'

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  • KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2008
    what about on carpets

    does this shit fly if food lands on carpet?

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  • MeizMeiz Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    It depends on the food and it depends on the surface.

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  • NORNOR Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Is this going to be one of those threads that everyone shits on until the topic changes or it gets locked?

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  • dgs095dgs095 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    JPatrick wrote: »
    Pubes and dirt dont wait 5 seconds to get on whatever lands on the floor.
    Not that my floors are covered in pubes and dirt, Im just sayin'

    yeah, I realize its just as dirty the instant it hits the floor as it is 5 minutes later, but I can't change the nature of 5 second rule, I'm a mere mortal!

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    NOR wrote: »
    Is this going to be one of those threads that everyone shits on until the topic changes or it gets locked?

    a shitty one?

    yes

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  • Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    NOR wrote: »
    Is this going to be one of those threads that everyone shits on until the topic changes or it gets locked?

    duh

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  • mcpmcp Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    in calcutta

    the poor section

    on new years morning during a soccer riot

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    NOR wrote: »
    Is this going to be one of those threads that everyone shits on until the topic changes or it gets locked?


    Do you guys work with MILFs?

    There is a really high percentage of attractive older women at my new job.

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  • dgs095dgs095 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    whatever, if the subject sucks so badly, what other arbitrary rules like the 5 second rule do you live by that make no sense?

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I thought it was three seconds.

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  • Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    NotACrook wrote: »
    NOR wrote: »
    Is this going to be one of those threads that everyone shits on until the topic changes or it gets locked?


    Do you guys work with MILFs?

    There is a really high percentage of attractive older women at my new job.

    Do you hit on them

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  • MeissnerdMeissnerd Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    NotACrook wrote: »
    NOR wrote: »
    Is this going to be one of those threads that everyone shits on until the topic changes or it gets locked?


    Do you guys work with MILFs?

    There is a really high percentage of attractive older women at my new job.

    My dad just started at his new church about a month ago and there is exactly one milf

    there was one or two at the other church

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  • BergyBergy Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I have eaten things from restaurants that I have pulled a hair off of.

    I care not for health standards.

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  • JPatrickJPatrick Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    dgs095 wrote: »
    JPatrick wrote: »
    Pubes and dirt dont wait 5 seconds to get on whatever lands on the floor.
    Not that my floors are covered in pubes and dirt, Im just sayin'

    yeah, I realize its just as dirty the instant it hits the floor as it is 5 minutes later, but I can't change the nature of 5 second rule, I'm a mere mortal!



    What if you were in a busy subway station in say New Jersey and dropped a tasty , delicious nacho covered with industrial grade squirt cheese on the floor? Would you eat that or let the hobos have it?

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  • LarlarLarlar consecutive normal brunches Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited June 2008
    I'm going to start following a four-second rule and note any improvements in my overall health.

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  • NotASenatorNotASenator Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    NotACrook wrote: »
    NOR wrote: »
    Is this going to be one of those threads that everyone shits on until the topic changes or it gets locked?


    Do you guys work with MILFs?

    There is a really high percentage of attractive older women at my new job.

    Do you hit on them

    No, I do not.

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  • AshcroftAshcroft LOL The PayloadRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    dgs095 wrote: »
    whatever, if the subject sucks so badly, what other arbitrary rules like the 5 second rule do you live by that make no sense?

    I always break wind to starboard in the bottom half of the hour.

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  • dgs095dgs095 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    JPatrick wrote: »
    dgs095 wrote: »
    JPatrick wrote: »
    Pubes and dirt dont wait 5 seconds to get on whatever lands on the floor.
    Not that my floors are covered in pubes and dirt, Im just sayin'

    yeah, I realize its just as dirty the instant it hits the floor as it is 5 minutes later, but I can't change the nature of 5 second rule, I'm a mere mortal!



    What if you were in a busy subway station in say New Jersey and dropped a tasty , delicious nacho covered with industrial grade squirt cheese on the floor? Would you eat that or let the hobos have it?

    let the hobo's have it, public place=no 5 second rule

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  • BergyBergy Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Larlar wrote: »
    I'm going to start following a four-second rule and note any improvements in my overall health.

    Well, your health will improve tenfold over the five seconds, because we all know at six seconds thats when the ebola kicks in.

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  • NORNOR Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    dgs095 wrote: »
    whatever, if the subject sucks so badly, what other arbitrary rules like the 5 second rule do you live by that make no sense?

    I'm not a superstitious fuck.

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  • the wookthe wook Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    there is no scientific basis for the 5 second rule. germ transfer is instantaneous.

    scientifically, the 5 second rule is no different from the 10 second rule, the 30 second rule, or even the 15 minute rule.

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  • Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    NotACrook wrote: »
    NotACrook wrote: »
    NOR wrote: »
    Is this going to be one of those threads that everyone shits on until the topic changes or it gets locked?


    Do you guys work with MILFs?

    There is a really high percentage of attractive older women at my new job.

    Do you hit on them

    No, I do not.

    Loser

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  • NORNOR Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    the wook wrote: »
    there is no scientific basis for the 5 second rule. germ transfer is instantaneous.

    scientifically, the 5 second rule is no different from the 10 second rule, the 30 second rule, or even the 15 minute rule.

    I like this.

    lets encourage him to leave his food on the floor longer before he eats it.

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