Traveling? Don't Drink From That Hotel Glass

[SharkTums]

Ha!

 

This was posted on my cruise ship board a few days ago and I didn't even think to post it here!

 

Seriously though, there is so much dirt and germs in the world, just be glad that the human body is very resistant to most crap!

[Goliath513]

^ Good point. Most of us are just lucky to not get sick every time we leave our houses.

 

With seeing this, this explains why I got sick when I was down at SFMM this summer after staying at the Best Western Valencia. I wouldn't doubt that this hotel fails the standards. Heck, there was a spider in the bed my mom slept in, so it's not just humans that contaminate those rooms.

[Disney Dood]

...New marketing slogan: "McDonald's: At least we have clean bathrooms!"

Hah, my local McDonalds has holes in the bathroom walls, half a mirror and the walls are covered floor to cieling with graffiti.

[Pufferfish]

I want to throw up after seeing this. I have used those cups a million times over the years and never thought twice that something like this was happening to them. Thankfully nothing bad has happened to me from doing so, but just to be sure it never happens, I'm not ever going to use those glasses again.

[exit english]

Here's what you do:

 

1.) Fill glass with ice.

2.) Pour Vodka or whatever 80+ proof liquor you prefer over said ice.

3.) Swish alcohol around to kill all germs.

4.) Enjoy a tasty beverage.

5.) Repeat with all remaining glasses, and then carry on.

 

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[ParkTrips]

haha, they did a report like that on the news down here a few weeks ago. copycats!

 

edit: whoops, that is the report I was talking about. PS - larrygator stayed in that Embassy for the Final 4. He said he didn't feel too well after the Saturday night games. He blamed it on the intoxicated condition he may have been in the night before. I think he just stayed in his room all night eating water and watching swedish porn

[IceDragon]

You think that was bad? Take a look at this:

 

http://divinecaroline.com/article/22250/39755-video--hotel-hazzards

[ginzo]

^Apart from the information about bed bugs (a real, growing problem), that clip is mostly senseless fear mongering. Most hotel rooms are cleaner than my apartment. As long as you follow basic hygiene, like frequent hand washing, you should be fine. I always crack up at the paranoid guys at my work who spray everything down with Lysol every day.

 

The hotel glasses story was of interest to me because you actually ingest stuff into your body out of glasses.

[exit english]

One would think that keeping your socks on would do nothing but keep the "germs" hanging around your feet longer than if you went barefoot, anyway.

 

A sock is absorbent, and doesn't seem to be very protective. Then again, what do I know?

[Adrenaline_Rush]

Can someone tell me what this whole story is about, my computer is out of sound and this looks interesting.

[larrygator]

PS - larrygator stayed in that Embassy for the Final 4. He said he didn't feel too well after the Saturday night games. He blamed it on the intoxicated condition he may have been in the night before. I think he just stayed in his room all night eating water and watching swedish porn

 

Thanks Joe, I thought that was my Embassy Suites. I've stayed there twice and am still alive, yet this disturbs me. The intoxicated condition lead me to drink a lot of water throughout the night. In the future I will just reuse my Souvenir Coke cup for late night water.

 

And the porn wasn't Swedish in Atlanta.

[IceDragon]

^Apart from the information about bed bugs (a real, growing problem), that clip is mostly senseless fear mongering. Most hotel rooms are cleaner than my apartment. As long as you follow basic hygiene, like frequent hand washing, you should be fine. I always crack up at the paranoid guys at my work who spray everything down with Lysol every day.

 

The hotel glasses story was of interest to me because you actually ingest stuff into your body out of glasses.

 

I know it was more scare-mongering, but 150 bites in one night? That must be a pain in the ass! (assuming she got bitten there )

[bigjohnson51]

Well that's great. I wish I would have watched this video before I stayed in a hotel Thanksgiving night! That's just disgusting.

[Kevin Long]

modern man emerged roughly 100,000 years ago,

 

he used to drink water from mud puddles and eat raw meat and poultry and bugs and all manner of things we find disgusting now.

 

we learned better over the millennia, but are we too soft now?

 

I say man up, pitch the disinfectant and get ready for the coming apocalypse when everything will be unsanitary compared to now.

 

just a thought

 

Kevin Long

Fat old Guy