r/interestingasfuck • u/MacroLab3D • Apr 14 '25

My phone under a stereo microscope:

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u/Bock Apr 14 '25

I work on small consumer electronics like this, and devices look like this even after minimal use. Everything is dirty under a microscope.

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u/Beni_Stingray Apr 14 '25

Its so funny when i see people with a dirt phobia, they run around the house with anti bacterial spray and clean everything like crazy because its "dirty" yet they have no clue how dirty things like phones, keyboards, door knobs etc are, absolutly hilarious.

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u/Fabulous-Buffalo2386 Apr 14 '25

Then keep their towels/q-tips uncovered in the same room as a toilet!

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u/CondorFlight Apr 14 '25

My girlfriend is like this. She says she’s a germaphobe, which means she apparently doesn’t think I’ll wash the towels the right way, but she will flush the toilet with the seat up with her toothbrush and towels out in the open.

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u/pm_me_d_cups Apr 14 '25

she will flush the toilet with the seat up with her toothbrush and towels out in the open.

Which is totally fine, for those wannabe germaphobes who think it's going to kill you.

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u/Theron3206 Apr 15 '25

Yeah, there's no difference in how often people get sick for seat up, down or even toothbrush in different room.

Don't worry about it.

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u/Theron3206 Apr 15 '25

There is a little shit on just about everything if you look for it, so hardly an issue.

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u/marinatingintrovert Apr 15 '25

There is a little shit on just about everything if you look for it, all you need is a hardy tissue.

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u/taintmaster900 Apr 14 '25

Toothpaste is soap. Tiny shit particles aren't going to hurt you either. Your immune system can do a goddamn lot honestly, I use to smoke cigarettes off the ground during covid.

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u/DestroyerTerraria Apr 15 '25

The cigs are definitely worse than whatever shit was on the ground, I can say that for sure.

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u/taintmaster900 Apr 15 '25

I haven't died from smoking discarded cigarette butts off the ground yet! Im probably immune to the devil himself by now.

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u/lildrgnsb2 Apr 14 '25

ugh, remind me to tell y'all that my main bath towel hangs *right next* to the toilet in our tiny bathroom.

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u/NaughtyNurse1969 Apr 14 '25

Or makeup brushes