3D Glasses Are Disgusting; Please Bring Your Own
Being a neat freak has allowed me the luxury of living by the five second rule (ten if it rolls away) when in the comfort of my own home. However, semi-clean freak, I won't be going to see a 3D movie until I can find my own 3D glasses.
If you're like us, you probably have a few pairs of 3D glasses stashed away at home, but for the most part you just throw them back in the box like everyone else. Recycling is good, right? They'll clean them off, repackage them and hand them to the next crowd of movie-goers about to find out how overrated Avatar is. Unfortunately, it seems as though there isn't nearly enough cleaning going on.
The fine folks at Good Housekeeping heard that most cinemas clean the glasses after each movie but decided to investigate anyway. They tested glasses at seven theaters in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area and found that not one of them was sterile. Now, we use a lot of things that aren't clean, nevermind sterile: pens at the post office, seats on public transport, ticket machines in car parks. However, if you thought those glasses being cleaned and repacked into plastic meant they were germ-free, you're so, so wrong.
The magazine tested both wrapped and unwrapped glasses and found a number of germs, including those causing conjunctivitis, skin infections, food poisoning, sepsis and pneumonia. They even found Staphylococcus aureus, the most common cause of staph infections.
"We expected to find general bacteria -- nothing is sterile, but staph is not something to take lightly," Carolyn Forte, director of home appliances and cleaning products at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute told ABC News. "We're not saying that these glasses will make you sick, but kids touch the glasses, touch their eyes and mouths -- the potential is there," she added.
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While you're at it, you make them into clip-ons for your real glasses
I'm not a clean freak, so I don't really care. It's not like people will go licking those glasses anyway...
Germs are good for you. Your immune system needs practice. Suck it up.
I buy mine here: http://www.3dstereo.com/
Real plastic framed comfortable glasses of all types
By denying your body acess to standard germs, you kill your immune system. As such, and otherwise innocuouse diesease will make ou wery sick. As a child, I swam in the swamp, with the gators, at night. I havn't been sick, or afraid of the dark in over a decade.
I'm not a clean freak, so I don't really care. It's not like people will go licking those glasses anyway...
You're not licking them but they're on your face, right by your eyes, nose and mouth.
I'm not a clean freak, so I don't really care. It's not like people will go licking those glasses anyway...
Oh really now?
Granted, they taste horrible.
EVERY time I have been to the theater to see a 3D movie I got handed plastic wrapped glasses and took them when I left
*Shrugs*
Do you guys never touch doorknobs? Armrests? Germs are everywhere, no big deal.
*cringe*
I am sooo bringing a travel size Lysol with me next time
I'm not a clean freak, so I don't really care. It's not like people will go licking those glasses anyway...
No, but they are picking them up with their hands, putting them on, and then reaching into that bag of popcorn you're sharing with your friends.
I havn't been sick, or afraid of the dark in over a decade.
"Hey look at me, I'm azconnie, and I'm not afraid of the dark! woohoo!"
J/K though, what you say is true about building up your immune system.
By denying your body acess to standard germs, you kill your immune system. As such, and otherwise innocuouse diesease will make ou wery sick. As a child, I swam in the swamp, with the gators, at night. I havn't been sick, or afraid of the dark in over a decade.
Yes. I think the study that showed this was called, The Anecdotal Evidence of Wishful Wives' Tales
Soon we'd get STD by going to movie theater watching 3D movies.
Soon we'd get STD by going to movie theater watching 3D movies.
My wife is never going to believe that.
OK, getting flak for the gator thing, sometimes I type faster than I think. My point about building an immune system stands though. There is some nasty stuff in th swamp, and I'm now immune to most of it. Don't be a neat freak, it starves your ability to resist diesease.
No, but they are picking them up with their hands, putting them on, and then reaching into that bag of popcorn you're sharing with your friends.
Yet miraculously no one has died from using 3D glasses, funny how that works.... +1 for azconnie, you need normal exposure or you have no defenses. I really don't take special care to maintain absolutely clean hands, never use hand sanitizer, and I'm sick maybe 1-2 times per year. I had mono last year, but that has nothing to do with clean hands...or 3D glasses.
yah and people didnt have all this lysol crap and germ free mania a few decades ago, somehow we all lived just fine
By denying your body acess to standard germs, you kill your immune system. As such, and otherwise innocuouse diesease will make ou wery sick. As a child, I swam in the swamp, with the gators, at night. I havn't been sick, or afraid of the dark in over a decade.
Of course, he's only got 1 arm but he's not sick or afraid of the dark.
Nope, got all my parts. How else could I type faster than I think? We still have that gator, I call hin Jeff. He's aboput 16' long now.
It's not like people will go licking those glasses anyway...
MMMMMmmmmmm. TASTY!
Given the kind of stuff that Alanis Morisette apparently does in theatres, I'd think just sitting down was more of a risk. Then again, maybe she leaves the 3D glasses for that stuff too. Who's reminded of Eugene Levy's SCTV take on 3D by that mental image? I know I am!
both 3D Movies I went to I spent over 20 mins of the movie trying to clean the smear off my glasses. Turned me off of 3D Movies for good.
Okay, considering we're paying an extra $5+ to "rent" glasses, they should be cleaned.
I also agree with the "what doesnt kill you, makes you stronger"... as long as it doesn't kill you
A friend of mine is very CLEAN, etc. He gets sick easily. I'm not talking about a clean house, but just a bit too much. I do use anti-bacterial gel from time to time, its portable and in my car. And its best to wash your hands before eating food in public, after touching money and such. You know those dollars have been in a few G-strings.
So I have a question for this article... how to best clean the glasses for re-use, without damaging them. I have some I kept and would rather keep them clean. Someone from our group did complain about her glasses being dirty - but I was thinking that it was her own fingers which smudged them.
I buy mine here: http://www.3dstereo.com/ Real plastic framed comfortable glasses of all types
Thank you! : )
11.50 for a 3d movie ticket....you dang right I am takin' 'em home.
I'm not a clean freak, but some folks are plain nasty; sinus infection, fecal matter, conjunctivitis, other bodily fluids anyone?
GROSS! D= *sprays the pair he brought home with sterlization liquid*
I got mine at http://www.Get3dGlasses.com
I saw avatar, and my glasses had booger on them. Yuck!
Regardless of germs and whatnot i don't want some sweaty persons gunk all over my face. not to mention I'm sure more then one of those glasses have fallen on the floor. we all know what kinds of horrors live on theater floors. Not something i want on my face either.
Thank you! : )
Your quote makes his link broken
http://www.3dstereo.com/
I figure I run across plenty of nefarious germs in my day to day life by which to exercise my immune system. The thought of putting on the same glasses as someone with a puss spewing eye infection isn't exactly my form of bravado. I'd rather swim the gators.
I'd be the one guy that a staphylococcal infection up my nose or in a tear duct; I'm lucky that way. Maybe I'll check out 3dstereo.com.