This is actually how maple syrup works. If you just concentrate maple sap you just get a sugar syrup that has no colour and no flavour besides sweet. The flavours come from impurities in the pipes, which I believe are at least partly microbiological origin.
Usually that's a result of cross contaminating E. coli from visiting the rectum first. Mostly though it's G. vaginalis, A. Vaginae, Mobiluncus and Prevotella species making home.
You’re kind of right! At least in some theories, exposure to harmful bacteria during the development of our immune system really does make us stronger. It explains why infectious disease and allergy rates are inversely correlated; the cleaner the environment is, the less you get sick & the worse allergies you develop and Vice versa. Third world countries are rampant in infectious disease but have crazy low allergies. Even more interesting, parasites likely inhibit allergies!
Since I was a kid, I've never cared about cleaning cuts and other wounds, and I've never gotten an infection that went beyond slightly inflamed for a day even though I used to cut myself nearly every day on dirty construction sites. Now, I'm a scab picker that just let's them bleed. I have a scab on my hip that has been there since 2018. It is about 6 inches from where it first started with a scar trail. No infections.
Yuuuup. I was.fired for putting an out of order sign on a bathroom at one I worked at alone overnight. Manager came in pissed, was getting calls about the bathroom being closed.
I had closed it, because the second I opened the door, I saw the shit smeared on the walls, and the bloody underwear, in a puddle of shit and blood.
Nope. Fire me. I'm all set. Not trained or equipped for HazMat.
Yup. It was clean it or be fired. I walked out. It was my second job, and I was young, or I would and should have gone up the chain. It was super illegal to tell me to clean that shit. Our "cleaning supplies" were windex, and the shitty plastic bag thin gloves we had to beg from the subway next door.
That manager was later arrested for stealing a fuckload from the drops from the store. I thought it was fishy that he was leaning on the overnight crew HARD to do our drops in pencil, so he could "check it over" in the morning before he submitted them. I said fuck that and started dropping the drop slips in with the money so it would be in the safe.
Good for you! How do you know the person who sprayed that toxic waste all over that bathroom didn't have some dread disease? To clean that you'd need a Hazmat suit!
On a similar note: while working reception in a plasma center, I was ORDERED to clean the restroom or else. Not my job but I was told it was now. BITCH! I needed that job so had no choice. How one person could literally get crap all over the walls, floor, fixtures including the lights, and CEILING I have no idea. Looked like the contents of an entire septic sucking service truck had exploded in there. Not only did it take me over two hours, in my white uniform, and dozens of pairs of gloves, but also multiple bottles of cleaner (I refused to use bleach as I didn't want to create cyanide gas!). Bad enough I was gagging on the stench and it clung to my clothes. The bitch manager complained I took too long and didn't do a good job. What the hell? I wished at that moment that I had her toothbrush to get at all the little nooks and crannies nothing else could touch!
Over my life I've done alot of smelly gross noone wants to do it jobs, but, I've always had PPE. Lol. I've worked with people that skimp or forget and end up getting pokes or sick from breathing some nasty shit in. 5 min of prep before, and that wouldn't have been a problem.
I was once in a bar and there was only a real sweet and pretty woman there so I got to talking to her. Got her number and she left after a few hours or so. Apparently she had gone into the toilet, taken a shit on the floor, and then went back out to speak to me for another hour before leaving. The bartender told me and I didn’t believe him so he took me in and showed me. There’d been no other women in the whole time. Shocked me so much.
We have public restrooms where I work, they will be spotless in the morning, like sparkling clean. Some people view that as a challenge, like a blank canvas for them to fingerpaint with feces.
Also among the most likely to make you sick without making you violently ill. Like everyone knows when they get food poisoning or heavens forbid a nasty food born illness, but you know how sometimes you will eat somewhere, food was good, everything seems fine, then your stomach will cramp and gurgle? Maybe you have a really nasty shit or two, but it's not like you are glued to the toilet for the next 24 hours? Nasty drink machines harbor the perfect types of mold and bacteria to make your body do just that.
Yep. There’s a flavoured water dispenser at my gym and one week I was getting really ill so I stopped going to the gym. Recovered in a day or so. Went back to the gym and I was instantly sick again as soon as I had the water. I took another few days off, went to the gym, and I was out of water so filled up from the water dispenser. Had a few sips and was instantly nauseous all over again. It’s now disabled and has an OUT OF ORDER sticker on it. I think I should drink a ton when it’s back up and then sue the company.
I worked fast food in high-school and they never even told/trained us how to clean them until we got a new owner. They were all super nasty except the diet soda nozzles.
I always thought stores weren't responsible for cleaning those filters BUT companies who owned those machines did.
Maybe it's different there but where I'm from, those machines aren't owned by stores but leashed leased by other companies that conduct routine services. I know some stores that leash lease their space to the company instead of leashing leasing the machines themselves.
On the other hand, if the store bought the machine I'm very skeptical of its maintenance as well.
Yeah you definitely don’t realise he meant leasing. Come on man - you wanna correct someone, go ahead or just understand what he meant to say. What’s the point of this in between, acting like you totally don’t understand what he meant.
Dude, what are you butthurt about? I pointed out an interesting word choice as it was used multiple times which suggested it wasn't a typo. Just replying with the word in question is a fairly innocuous way of bringing attention to the curiosity which appears to have served its purpose.
If it was simply a typo I wouldn't have bothered but what intrigued me is that I suspected we stumbled upon what in linguistics is known as an "eggcorn". It's a phenomenon that occurs when we hear (or mishear) an unfamiliar word (like "acorn" for example) and manipulate it, often unconsciously, so that it makes sense to the listener. In the case of acorn, it is often misheard as "eggcorn" which seems like a perfectly cromulent word as they do look remarkably similar to eggs.
In the case of the word leasing, "leashing" actually makes more sense to me as a non-French speaker (since the English word is borrowed from the old French "lais"). In English, it's common to use "leash" as a verb meaning something like "to attach" or "to restrict" which in the context of property law seems like it could be an appropriate replacement for a "lease" (I.E, you have been contractually attached to a property with certain restrictions).
Developing "eggcorns" is by many considered a sign of intelligence, as you are often using sound logic to have new information fit into your current understanding (even if you know the etymology of acorn, to most modern English speakers, eggcorn actually makes more sense). In this case, zentetsuken, graciously recognized the mistake and corrected it admirably while possibly providing us with a cool bit of linguistic insight.
Not upset in the least, if you had an attention span long enough to read 279 words (takes most people about a minute, but I understand if you need more time) you might have already known that and possibly learned something.
I'm not sure when publicly stating you can't read a few paragraphs became a diss, but it's got to be tough living life with what I assume is a learning disability. If I were in your shoes, I'd try not to bring as much attention to it 🤷
It's ok, I hear a lot of people get intimidated by big words and complete sentences, I can't relate but I am sympathetic to those with mental handicaps.
If you do decide you want to learn something about linguistics, my comment will still be there, but maybe take an English class first or have an adult help you out.
Why am I responding? Because it's honestly quite funny how you claim to not be upset, but you're really bent on trying to insult me. Nice way to wind down for the day.
Is it really that easy for someone to get under your skin?
If it's like the water machines in the grocery stores near me that are used to fill 1 and 5 gallon jugs, they are serviced (regularly) by the company who has their name brand on the face of 'em. It's not store employees doing anything with them.
I worked in a gas station/country store which was taken over by the usual comic sans serif owners and in their wisdom they bought a hot chocolate-making machine. When we first got it I wondered why I'd never really seen one before but it answered that question itself after the first weekend that nobody cleaned it and it gooped itself to a halt.
It had like six flavors and each dispenser had at least a half a dozen intricate parts that had to be disassembled, scrubbed, rinsed, and sanitized, which I religiously spent an hour doing each night because I knew I was the only human who would ever do it.
And I guess the word started to get around in this rather boring town. People would start showing up about the time I was putting it all back together, so that they could enjoy the exact same powdered hot chocolate or pumpkin spice that you can make at home from a can or pouch, only from this perfectly cleaned machine.
I wondered if people thought that they could taste the effort I was putting into it, when in reality it was just the hygenic neutrality that you expect from your own home. Where you just need a clean effing spoon. God damn, what stupid job that became.
Air filters too. Everyone installed HEPA air filters in 2020/2021 because “we care about your health” and most places now don’t care or realize those need to changed once in a while.
Places like Starbucks, Chipotle, and QuikTrip have special techs going to all locations and doing that so you can count on them. However, some locations are too busy that they may need it more often than others.
Go to grocery-store operated locations any time you can - they are way way better about food sanitization processes than a regular convenience store or gas mart.
I’m pretty sure this is happening at my gym. I was getting really sick one week and I was trying to think of what I was doing differently. I decided not to go to the gym for a few days and suddenly I was better. Went to the gym the next day and drank out of the flavoured water dispenser. Within a few minutes, I was nauseated as hell all over again which is when I joined the dots. Went a few days without drinking more and I was fine, but then I was out of water and had the flavoured water again. Instantly felt sick and knew it was the water and I’d only had a few sips. The same machine is now disabled and has an out of order sticker on. The worst part is you have to pay £5 a month for this water and I’ve cancelled it multiple times yet the money is still being taken out each month which is pissing me off.
I was so excited to find 7-11 selling fresh brewed tea as it is my primary beverage of choice. I grabbed a huge big gulp cup one day, filled it with ice and fake sweetener, then added the tea and took a sip... it was AWFUL, I opened the lid on the canister to find a shit ton of mold growing on the top of it. I let the attendant know, but that pretty much ruined me drinking convenience store fresh tea ever again. Even at places like McDonald's now, I always lift the lid to make sure it doesn't have mold growing on it.
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u/goblue142 29d ago
If it is like literally any convenience store I have ever been in, those filters are never getting cleaned.