#1May 2nd, 2008
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Keyboards dirtier than toilets!!!
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Re: Keyboards dirtier than toilets!!!
May 2nd, 2008
I think my toilet is pretty clean. So does my dog, he drinks from it.
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Re: Keyboards dirtier than toilets!!!
May 2nd, 2008
of course. How often do you clean your keyboard and how often do you clean your toilet? almost everything's dirtier than your toilet because you wash that several taimes a day and bleach it on a weekly basis.
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May 2nd, 2008
I blow the crap out of my keyboard every couple weeks wth compressed air, keeps it looking clean anyways.
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May 2nd, 2008
I have a laptop which means it goes everywhere with me, the screen constantly being adjusted and moved around, and it ends up needing a lot of polishing so I can see. So, whenever I polish the screen, I wipe the keys down too. Simple. But, it's a laptop. If someone dug in between the keys with a swab, I'm sure they could find all sorts of detritus that would grow into something nasty.
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May 2nd, 2008
People need to stop peeing and pooping on their keyboards.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by Walter
I think the problem is too many people sitting around at work with their thumbs up their arses.People need to stop peeing and pooping on their keyboards.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by karrie
Karrie, you can easily pop out the tray that holds the keyboard, allowing you to give it a real cleaning.I have a laptop which means it goes everywhere with me, the screen constantly being adjusted and moved around, and it ends up needing a lot of polishing so I can see. So, whenever I polish the screen, I wipe the keys down too. Simple. But, it's a laptop. If someone dug in between the keys with a swab, I'm sure they could find all sorts of detritus that would grow into something nasty.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by Walter
Keep your scat fetishes elsewhere, Walt.People need to stop peeing and pooping on their keyboards.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by DurkaDurka
oh? how do I go about that?Karrie, you can easily pop out the tray that holds the keyboard, allowing you to give it a real cleaning.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by karrie
Take the model name of your laptop and google "removing keyboard tray from "model name"oh? how do I go about that?
Here is a generic guide:
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May 2nd, 2008Quote:
Well that's accurate considdering Office Toilets usually have cleaners/janitors coming in every night or every second night cleaning them.... a better comparison would have been a toilet at home..... oh but then Keyboards wouldn't be all that dirty.Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office's toilet seats.
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Geez, paranoid much? Better chuck out your telephones, cell phones, car steering wheel and anything else your fingers/hands touch on an everyday basis.During the Which? tests in January this year, a microbiologist deemed one of the office's keyboards to be so dirty he ordered it to be removed, quarantined and cleaned.
This is why they tell people to wash their hands once in a while.
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Now that's impressive, considdering how smelly and dirty male washrooms are on average. Goto a male washroom and it smells like an outhouse at a beach during low tide..... go into a female's washroom and it's got flowers all over the place, fancy wallpaper which hasn't begun to peel from the stink, nice colorful soaps and just seems like a cleaner environment all together.......They also found that, compared to men, on average women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their work area.
Does this mean female washrooms are so clean because they take their dirt with them to their keyboards? :P
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by DurkaDurka
But, that just takes the keyboard out. It doesn't really make it any easier to clean between the keys. I doubt I can go run it under the tap at that point. Take the model name of your laptop and google "removing keyboard tray from "model name"
Here is a generic guide:
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius
Smell and appearance aside, women's washrooms have been found to harbor way more bacteria and nastiness than men's bathrooms. Keep in mind that public women's bathrooms often have diaper changing facilities, women always have to wipe (thus almost always transfer extra bacteria), and, women menstruate, which means inevitably that they're dealing with all sorts of extra disposal containers and chances for bacteria transfer than men's bathrooms.Goto a male washroom and it smells like an outhouse at a beach during low tide..... go into a female's washroom and it's got flowers all over the place, fancy wallpaper which hasn't begun to peel from the stink, nice colorful soaps and just seems like a cleaner environment all together.......
Does this mean female washrooms are so clean because they take their dirt with them to their keyboards? :P
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by karrie
you can clean it with a light solvent without worrying about frying the motherboard though.But, that just takes the keyboard out. It doesn't really make it any easier to clean between the keys. I doubt I can go run it under the tap at that point.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by DurkaDurka
meh. I'll just do the Canadian consumer thing and buy a new one. you can clean it with a light solvent without worrying about frying the motherboard though.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by karrie
you capitist pig. lolmeh. I'll just do the Canadian consumer thing and buy a new one.
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May 2nd, 2008
I read somewhere that most keyboards can withstand being washed in a dishwasher
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by DurkaDurka
Thanks for that great idea! I could take my keyboard to the gas station and use their air hose!!!!I blow the crap out of my keyboard every couple weeks with compressed air, keeps it looking clean anyways.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by hermanntrude
Oh I'm sure. I read somewhere that most keyboards can withstand being washed in a dishwasher
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by eh1eh
I guess so could you, IF you wanted to, eh?I think my toilet is pretty clean. So does my dog, he drinks from it.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by Walter
Tell them, Walter!!People need to stop peeing and pooping on their keyboards.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by DurkaDurka
Oh, now you are telling me!!! I have a laptop, too.Karrie, you can easily pop out the tray that holds the keyboard, allowing you to give it a real cleaning.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by hermanntrude
They can, I have done it with a few different one's I have owned.]I read somewhere that most keyboards can withstand being washed in a dishwasher
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by karrie
Yeah well Men have hairy ass cracks Smell and appearance aside, women's washrooms have been found to harbor way more bacteria and nastiness than men's bathrooms. Keep in mind that public women's bathrooms often have diaper changing facilities, women always have to wipe (thus almost always transfer extra bacteria), and, women menstruate, which means inevitably that they're dealing with all sorts of extra disposal containers and chances for bacteria transfer than men's bathrooms.
But I've also seen the changing tables in the male washrooms as well.... there are those fathers who do that, and trying to do it in a woman's washroom usually causes some problems.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by hermanntrude
Errr... maybe if you take it apart and just throw in the plastic keys and the rubber padding under them, but shoving the whole thing under hot water with detergent doesn't sound like a good idea.I read somewhere that most keyboards can withstand being washed in a dishwasher
I have saved a few keyboards from the dumpster after getting fluids on them, but one that I remember was when my dad spilt his home brew on one of my older keyboards..... it was toasted.
If you get a little bit of water inside a keyboard it will screw up how it works, where your "P" key can start shooting out a coupld of L, M, ; and a few other keys it's not supposed to, etc. When that occurs many would just go out and buy another one, but you can take them apart and wipe off the water screwing up the signals, and if there are some dry stains from older spills still causing issues, those too can be wiped off. Usually you can get the keyboard back to normal after that..... if you can put it back together right and remember where all your keys go.
I'm no expert on them, but the water seems to refract the signals of which keys are hit and the signal goes arse backwards to the system.... shoving them in a dishwasher to me sounds like it'd fill the whole thing up with water, and then how do you dry it?
What occurs to the electronics inside the keyboard?
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May 2nd, 2008
I read an article on it. They tested a few different kinds. The important thing was that the keyboards were unplugged when the water hit them and they were TOTALLY dry when they were plugged back in. I know it sounds like a bad idea, and I'm sure they're not designed to withstand that treatment, but I know it has been done with success.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by hermanntrude
well, I guess if hubby's cell phone could survive a trip into the kitchen sink, then a keyboard could probably survive a dishwasher on gentle. But, I'm not about to try it for everyday detritus. If it's a choice between buying a new keyboard or trying to wash the old one, then perhaps I'd do it, as a last ditch effort.I read an article on it. They tested a few different kinds. The important thing was that the keyboards were unplugged when the water hit them and they were TOTALLY dry when they were plugged back in. I know it sounds like a bad idea, and I'm sure they're not designed to withstand that treatment, but I know it has been done with success.
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May 2nd, 2008Quote: Originally Posted by hermanntrude
I can guarantee you to that it works, I have done it.I read an article on it. They tested a few different kinds. The important thing was that the keyboards were unplugged when the water hit them and they were TOTALLY dry when they were plugged back in. I know it sounds like a bad idea, and I'm sure they're not designed to withstand that treatment, but I know it has been done with success.
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I also rescued my cell phone after it went through a full cycle in the washing machine.
-I took the aparts the chasis as soon as I found it,
-Seperated the lcd panels from the chip
-Used compressed air to thoroughly blow any moisture out of ridges on the cirquit board
- Left the various pieces drying over night
-Put it back to together the next day and it is still working today
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