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I generally work from home so don't get an office cleaner sorting my keyboard out from time to time. Plus I can smoke and drink etc in proximity.

 

Just had to unstick the return key which was a pain and makes me wonder what else is in the depths of the keyboard too. Maybe time to spend £30 on a new one!

 

How sanitary are your keyboards?

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I generally work from home so don't get an office cleaner sorting my keyboard out from time to time. Plus I can smoke and drink etc in proximity.

 

Just had to unstick the return key which was a pain and makes me wonder what else is in the depths of the keyboard too. Maybe time to spend £30 on a new one!

 

How sanitary are your keyboards?

 

1. It hasn't been called a 'return' key for many many years now - not since typewriters ;)

 

2. Tescos do keyboards for about a fiver.

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1. It hasn't been called a 'return' key for many many years now - not since typewriters ;)

 

2. Tescos do keyboards for about a fiver.

 

1. Good point but I can't be arsed to change my phrase to enter key.

 

2. The ones from the supermarkets are crap and fall apart quicker than my current Dell one.

 

I will now spill another drink on the current keyboard to make it more sticky.

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Hey Ponty, hope you kept it, have a mate works in Hollywood and they're just working on ideas for the new season of HOUSE.

 

He reckons he can get a whole double episode out of this idea as long as you have the original.

 

Could be worth a few bob as they think it could be a great global search for the person with an

 

ectoanaliogrammardiocardiovascularsyphilliticdriploopershuntingdonscancerbirdflu disease

 

and discover it was Rupes

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Another peril can be added to the hazards of the innocent-looking computer keyboard. Not content with encouraging repetitive strain injury, the type-pads sometimes harbour more filth than the average loo seat and house millions of bacteria which can cause diarrhoea and vomiting, a study has shown.

 

A microbiologist carrying out research published today for Which? Computing magazine examined samples from 33 keyboards and found a variety of bugs including E coli and S aureus, which can cause skin infections and make people ill.

 

The scientist swabbed a loo seat and a toilet door handle in a typical London office for comparison. One of the keyboards in the experiment had to be removed from the office because it was five times dirtier than the lavatory seat and home to 150 times the acceptable limit of bacteria.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/01/computing.health

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