Stop Licking Your Fingers!

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April 7, 2008
SortKwik Saved My Life
So, I love sortkwik. Have you ever used it? It's this pink waxy-jelly-sticky stuff you can put on your fingers to sort through paper with out having to lick your thumb every 5 seconds and taste whatever was on the paper that you just flipped through. It's awesome.

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Comments from Asylum2777 regarding "People who lick their fingers to turn pages of magazines"

Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17423422.700-dirty-money.html

From New Scientist Print Edition.

Don't lick your fingers while counting your cash in India. Soiled rupee banknotes are breeding grounds for the bugs that cause tonsillitis, pneumonia and tuberculosis, say scientists at the Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Centre in Shillong. "The risk is serious. Many notes in India are soiled and held together with bits of sticky tape. These notes are potential killers," says researcher Sudip Dey. The problem is worst in north-eastern India, he says, where notes tend to stay in circulation longer. The central Reserve Bank of India says it is working hard to replace old notes with new ones as quickly as possible.

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The National Archives of the U.K. instructs users how to handle documents:

Everyone at The National Archives – both staff and readers – has a responsibility and duty to preserve all types of documents in our care for users like yourself, now and in the future.

There are some general practices that should be followed by everyone:

- Wash your hands before you start working and avoid using hand cream.

- Try not to lick your fingers when turning pages.

- Avoid leaning on or touching the document, use a paper marker to the text.

- Use cotton gloves when handling photographs, and hold them by the edges.

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mmanhart lists the Things We as a Society Should Stop Tolerating from Ourselves:

10. Licking your fingers. You know those people who apparently can only turn pages of paper by first licking their fingers. This is a disgusting and, most likely, unnecessary habit. Who would even think to do this in the first place? When needing to handle a piece of paper, my first instinct is not to lick my finger. My first instinct is never to lick my finger when doing anything.

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Tish Jones writes in NurseWeek News:

One day a supervisor came into the ICU, sat down at a desk, and started leafing through one of my patient’s charts, licking her fingers each time she turned a page.

I told her to stop licking her fingers because she was exposing herself to hospital germs. Plus, I knew that I would be handling the chart, and I didn’t know what kind of germs she had in her mouth — not to mention where she had been before her visit to our unit.

She told me to wash my hands after I handled the chart.

Her suggestion is probably the best solution, because the only person I can control is myself. It’s my responsibility to protect myself. Perhaps we should put charts high on the list of infection transference. In one day, the chart may be touched by many people from many departments — nursing, dietary, physicians, social services, physical therapy, radiology, pharmacy, respiratory, and more.

So the moral of the story is this: You have not given anyone permission to put you at risk. Yet you are at risk. So to all the finger-lickin’ chart page turners, you have a deadly habit. One day this habit may make you pay for the risk that you take. Hopefully you may recognize that you also share in the responsibility for putting the charts high up on the infectious list. Think about it, when was the last time the charts were cleaned on your unit? Were they ever?

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From the band Arcade Fire, lyrics below:

Neon Bible Lyrics
Artist(Band):The Arcade Fire

A vial of hope and a vial of pain
In the light they both looked the same
Poured them out on into the world
On every boy and every girl

It's in the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is right

Take the poison of your age
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
What I know is what you know is right
In the city it's the only light
It's the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is right

Oh God! Well look at you now!
Oh! You lost it, but you don't know how!
In the light of a golden calf
Oh God! I had to laugh!

Take the poison of your age
Don't lick your fingers when you turn the page
It was wrong but you said it was right
In the future I will read at night

It's the Neon Bible, the Neon Bible
Not much chance for survival
If the Neon Bible is true

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Duane Alan Hahn writes:

Most people would feel silly going around licking everything around them, but they basically do the same thing when they lick their fingers to turn pages or count money. It's a nasty habit that can also make a person sick.

People who lick their fingers to turn pages because they haven't learned the simple skill of turning pages correctly are bad enough, but people who lick their fingers while counting money must be lacking any kind of common sense. Do they have any idea where that money has been?

The money being counted could have been shoved down a stripper's G-string, stuffed in the crevices of a diseased prostitute, used to snort drugs, dropped on the ground, stepped on, sneezed on, and any number of other things and these people wonder why they always get sick.

It's hard enough to stay well in a world where the equivalent of millions of petri dish experiments cover almost everything around us, so to constantly stick your dirty fingers into your eyes, nose, or mouth is insane.

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A post in PassiveAgressive.com writes:

no, you can’t — at least not at erin’s office in indianapolis. explains erin, “my co-worker got tired of people separating pages on the printer by licking their fingers so she helpfully taped this box of sortkwik to it.”

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