What the...???!!!
By John King
@ison_1 (1240)
October 13, 2015 2:17am CST
After some prodding I have just posted on the 'Blue' site. As many of you know I love a good factoid and that's what I wrote about. But one of the facts had me aghast:
1 in 6 mobile phones in the United Kingdom is contaminated with faecal matter!!
???
How?
Answers on a postcard please. (Or in a comment)
If @toflanigan ever appears and reads this, I am sure he will appreciate it's lavatorial nature :)
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13 responses
@Rollo1 (16679)
• Boston, Massachusetts
13 Oct 15
I think it's simply a failure to wash hands. And all you need is for one in six to touch other surfaces touched by other unwashed hands and then touching phones... It's disgusting really .
By the way, did they WHOSE fecal matter it is?
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
13 Oct 15
Don't ever help yourself to nuts on a bar counter there are some even worse things contaminating them!
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@Dragonairy1 (1722)
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
14 Oct 15
@garymarsh6 and that's another reason I don't like beards, that and my friend has me convinced they have lice 
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
13 Oct 15
They also said that the other week about facial beards are full of faecal matter! YUK Remember that ladies the next time you kiss someone with a beard!
@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
13 Oct 15
unless they explain the sources and means by which such stats were attained they are pretty meaningless. I could say one in a thousand people have been abducted by aliens but without corroborative evidence it's meaningless- not a fact at all. I presume they mean second hand phones or used phones that people handle without washing their hands, etc.
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@toflanigan (26)
• Cape Town, South Africa
14 Oct 15
implying of course my mind is not just at gutter level, but at SEWER level...? Come now young'un... Lol!
I'll stay here in South Africa where cell phone ownership is limited...
strewth - 1 in 6... scary sh!t...
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@LadyDuck (470823)
• Switzerland
13 Oct 15
It is not difficult to understand, people never wash their hands after they go to the toilets. I still cannot understand how they believe that the hands stay "clean". This is disgusting if you think that they do not only touch their phones but also the door handles, lift buttons.... foood 
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@Dragonairy1 (1722)
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
14 Oct 15
That's really disgusting, but I'm guessing of people not washing their hands before using it 
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@petertheo (148)
• South Africa
28 Oct 15
Yuk! How disgusting! Makes me think of the public toilets we frequent at the malls. We usually wash or hands and dry them then we walk out - but we have to open the door. What's on the door handle? Makes me want to wear rubber gloves and a mask when going there!
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