The three second rule

Picture the scene:

You've just made your favourite sandwich with the due care and attention such an act befits. You're carrying it on a plate to the table, when you drop it. All the contents of the sandwich scatter over the floor like a bombsite. What do you do??

This just happened to me. After like 10 votes I'll reveal what I did.

fucking eat it!

strengthen your immune system anyay.

Depends what state the floor's in.

Eat it! Unless you live with thora probably...

I'd eat it but I can't be arsed with 3 seconds or 5 seconds or whatever, just however long it takes me to pick up. Unless the floor was really filthy or something.

in your bedroom it was more like you had 5 seconds to incinerate it.

Or 5 seconds before some small creature would run out and steal it.

I always thought the service in eateries up north was a little slower, and now I know why.

only so i had a clean part to rest head on.

That's no way to talk about revol.

Apparently so.

shit!

Can't believe that i didn't think of that.

sorry to complicate things, but my rules are thus: three seconds outside, five seconds inside. the logic being that germs travel faster in outdoor settings

I hope Alan didn't decide to wait for the votes to come in before picking up his sandwich.

It depends on the floor and the filling, if its something sticky like humous and it drops onto a carpet then maybe not.

Also depend on how long it would take to make another.

3 second rule? If you pick it up before then it doesn't count?

When I first saw 3 second rule I thought Alan was talking about the guarantee he offers to the ladies.

No I acted instantly. I've already chosen my side on this debate.

Hmm - what was the first thing you pointed out when me and C came round your hovel in Colchester a few years ago Jack?

or "Here are the spunk stains on my carpet"

yeah but what your not mentioning is the fact yuou now have the unwashed pillow case framed.

Someone else vote, I want to know if Alan ate his sandwich.

I voted. Did it have hummous? I had hummous earlier today.

Since there have now been 11 votes, I can now answer this question.

I ate it. First I picked up all the contents (and presumably some other less tasty things too) and put them back in the sandwich. I then found a lot of hairs in it, which I took out manually of course. It tasted OK, more or less.

Yes it had houmous in it but fortunately both pieces of the bread fell buttered side up so there was no stickiness.

to not grab food off the floor is to be a bourgey prick

roll

so called "punks" in mpls are a bunch of preening consumers of a culture that at one time raised a few eyebrows, but has never then or now been anything than somewhat decent music and bad fashion. do something besides your hair, punks!

to stay on topic, if a punk dropped a sandwich on the floor, he would stomp on it, spraypaint it, throw in a couple of clothespins, and run to tell all his friends.

wink

I always thought it was the ten second rule...

Mibby I tricked mysel into thinking that 'cause I'm a manky/greedy bastard. Anyway I would, only wouldn't if I couldn't wipe hairs etc off or it was wet.

If you're in a filthy house and drop a pizza cheese side down is it ok to scoop up the cheese, put it back on the base, and eat it? (I'm looking at you Jack)

As hard as those who've actually met me might find it to believe, I'm obsessively clean. It's not rational and it's a waste of food, but once something's been on the floor, I'm not eating it.

Madashell - You are perfectly rational IMO and I will welcome this at Summer Camp (lot of mostly blokes living together in a close space=not normally good news on hygiene front!) You guys are gross - eating things off the floor! Like Jef said, would prefer it if this "Rule" was sexual! Would never eat anything that had been dropped on the floor unless it was the worlds last ever piece of chocolate cake ever to be produced ever until the end of time - unlikely as the universe and time/space corridor is infinite. 8)

Well the universe may last an infinite amount of time, but after a while all physical matter will most likely decay into a bunch of subatomic particles, and so long after all the stars burn out there'll just be everlasting, expanding, infinite darkness. Happy thought!

Every reaction produces heat, the end of the universe will be a point where everything has been converted into heat and as the universe is infinite it will be no warmer