Geez, I am so dependent on lotion. My skin is so dry!

where are the nurses putting the contaminated lotion so somebody can get a UTI?

lower respiratory tract infections suck most. they're pretty deathy in a hospital setting.

That's why the say that the most dangerous place for a sick person is the hospital, cause you have all sorts of germs and shit flying all over the place and your defenses are down.

Eeewwwww.

I'm surprised that the EU doesn't require cosmetics to be sterile since their laws are generally stricter than ours on things like this. I heard an interesting theory that this is because most of the countries have universal healthcare and therefore the government has to foot the bill for any health issues.

Well of course severely ill patients are prone to catching the disease.. they're severely ill! Obviously their immune system is comprimised. That said, I'll brb while I go get some Airborne.

In other news: all of your products will kill you.

Abortion drugs, moisturizers, coffee- IS NOTHING SACRED?

(goes, pouts in corner)

@katastic: Seriously, next they are going to tell me that drinking is bad for me.

Oh...wait. Fuck.

@hfree: I like that theory! Lets hope this is an issue here soon.

@katastic: Damn, I always start my day off with all three. Better safe than sorry, is what I say.

This is something I had never worried about before and probably will start to worry about now. Aaaaawesome. Like I don't have enough problems.

@katastic: No one ever died from a UTI, I'm pretty sure.

I'm a hospital volunteer. We're not allowed to wear lotion or perfume.

I love my lotion! I love it! I shall not be scared away! It smells like lemons!

@rhody: According to the NY Times only if it's hot water from the tap. I think alcohol is the safest thing to drink today.

@funnyface:

yeah but peeps die of UTIs that become kidney infections.

also, those aforementioned upper resps can be a real hindrance to life in the very ill.

still! hope the lotion DIDN'T kill anyone (this time).

@katastic: Does seem to be a bad day for pharmaceuticals/health care products, does it not? Any bets on the next article being about the negative effects of diet pills?

@sequined: You shouldn't. Chances are so slim unless you're severely immunocompromised, which, given you are probably typing from work, isn't too likely.

Europeans and their bacteria.
The jokes about B.O. are basically true. Usually B.O. and clouds of rancid cologne.

@AnnoyingFemaleLeadVoiceover: It was the safest thing to drink for centuries. We learned that from a brewery tour in Belgium -- water wasn't potable, but became so through the brewing process, so everyone (including kids) drank beer.

@katastic: No wait! Come to my corner! I've got all my lotion, coffee, wine, cigarettes and abortion pills. Let's use them up before they take them away!

@katastic: That sounds delicious! What kind is it?

@Tanith: So's your face! Your ma! And other childish insults.
I do not smell, yet I am European. Imagine that.

@debbiedoesdamage: Mmmm, it's Avalon Organics. It's AWESOME. It smells really good and my skin is super soft.
@athertonmerriweather: I'll bring the marijuanna and refined sugar!

It was a Burkholderia cepacia infection.
This little critter is inherently resistant to multiple antibiotics, could be used as a biopesticide, and can mutate and adapt rapidly 'cause it has numerous insertion sequences. [www.cdc.gov]

@katastic: I'm going to have to check that out, I love lotions that smell like fruits and foods instead of flowers. My current favorite is chocolate scented lotion. Mmm... I smell like a cup of cocoa.

@debbiedoesdamage: Ooh, try Palmer's Cocoa Butter Lotion! Smells like yum.

@katastic: I've also got Orbit gum, Sweet & Low and Tylenol. Bring some Diet Coke to wash it all down!

@eeva: But you're from Ireland! All you guys do is eat potatoes and drink beer and talk like leprechauns and bomb cars and say, "top o' the mornin!" Right?

Did I get every stereotype?

My boyfriend (from Ireland) always says "Sha sha sha sha sha" in his very best Oirish everytime he sees one of these stereotypes being played out on t.v.

Sadly, he "sha shas" too often.

man, I'm from Barcelona..I didnt know this
and..I'm a compulsive body lotion user!
thanks god I use Palmer's and I think that's from USA or England am I wrong? here they dont even sell it.
anyway all this is kinda scary..

@athertonmerriweather: Nice! We'll eat it all in front of an open-door microwave set to "Cancer/ baked potato".

@katastic:

ohh is it that yummy one from lush that's for cuticles?? cuz that smells like a dream. a delicious dream

@katastic:
nm, just found your post, read comments, then post. got it. :)

@hortense: Sure and I haven't seen a potaytoe for many a long day, not since the badness came upon them in the fields! Yerra, begorrah and begosh 'tis true and all.

That's how I usually talk. No really. Where's your boy from?

@eeva: He grew up in Carlingford, then came to live here for a while, then went back for grad school at DCU. He misses it terribly. Luckily, our Shaw's carries Yorkies and Kimberleys, so that helps.

@hortense: Yorkies make everything better! Though actually Yorkie is one of those words that becomes really strange if you say it aloud a few times.
When I lived abroad I craved Barry's Tea like a motherfucker, but that's quite a bit easier to send by post than the whole of Carlingford Lough!

@hfree: Actually, often the regulations in Europe on these things are less strigent than in the United States. This is why a lot of drugs are released in the EU before they are released in the US.

I heart lotion. That is all.