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This fred takes the bizkit
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Shoehorn for IAWN please.
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Tim Vine said....... “I’ve decided to sell my Hoover … well, it was just collecting dust.”
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Most household dust is dead skin shed by the occupants.
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^ that's an urban myth
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I remember when I was about 12, a teacher said dust was dead skin but I've often thought since that it is an urban myth.
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It keeps women occupied.
Each of us gets a completely new layer of skin every month, so all that old skin must go somewhere. |
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It's all sorts of things; dust mite poo, bits of plant seed, a little dead skin, ash from burnt things, hair and broken down hair and much much more.
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Most of our dead skin is washed away when we shower or have a bath.
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"Most of our dead skin is washed away when we shower or have a bath."
Maybe so aka, but what happens to it in the case of Glaswegians then? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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It's amazing how quickly dust can build up though.
It's kind of dangerous as well. How many forumites I wonder have laptops or PCs and they've never tried to clear the dust from the fan / heatsink, so they are liable to overheating? |
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The romans used to oil then scrape their skin with a scraping tool to clean it, so I'm guessing their homes were relatively dust free ..
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.. too soon?
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Dust is there so that women can see where they've cleaned. It saves dusting the same bit twice.
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The best thing about dust is what lives in it:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/House_Dust_Mite.jpg I'm sure there are a few around here, I wonder how big something has to be before you can call them pets? |
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The feckers back on the TV Stand again, just lying there, mocking me to fetch a cloth and try to remove it.
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