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The Dirty Truth About What’s In Your Socks: Bacteria, Fungi And Whatever Lives Between Your Toes
Study Finds ^ | August 03, 2025 | Primrose Freestone, University of Leicester

Posted on 08/04/2025 9:54:13 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

These stories are everyday common now but they used to be hidden away in the parts of the newspaper that women read (there was a woman’s section), and in women’s magazines.

In our feminized society today, men are exposed everyday to these deadly/healthful eggs and deadly/healthful coffee, dirty socks, sleeping positions, Taylor Swift, microwave your sponge, Brad Pitt dating, Kardashians do something, Kanye West, stay out of the sun stories, while the public remains ignorant of the dry national news and world news that was almost the entire information world for men until the breakdown of post 1970 America.

No wonder younger males seem so infantile and trivial and angry, ignorant, passion has replace thoughtfulness and knowledge, and being informed.


21 posted on 08/04/2025 10:40:31 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Red Badger

quite shocking...dirt and whatever else getting on close that you wear...

I guess that means we better start washing our clothes?


22 posted on 08/04/2025 10:47:15 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Red Badger
Drying socks in direct sunlight can also help: UV light has known antimicrobial effects.

I hang our laundry out and since I've been doing that, we've had no problem with foot odor.

23 posted on 08/04/2025 10:53:11 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Red Badger

What are ‘socks’?..................😏


¡Eso si que es!


24 posted on 08/04/2025 10:56:17 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

and its only getting worse with global warming!!


25 posted on 08/04/2025 10:56:45 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: metmom

Or using laundry disinfectant or good old chlorine bleach.


26 posted on 08/04/2025 11:08:33 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: Leaning Right

Ditto I wonder if the homeless shop at laundromats when nobody is looking?.


27 posted on 08/04/2025 11:38:47 AM PDT by Vaduz
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28 posted on 08/04/2025 12:18:26 PM PDT by fso301
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To: Vaduz

Likely.


29 posted on 08/04/2025 12:43:44 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: jimtorr
Just put on clean socks when they get dirty or start to smell.

Washing the feet from time to time is also something to consider.

30 posted on 08/04/2025 1:10:30 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: z3n
Your socks pick up microbes from every surface you step foot on.

They probably deposit as much as they pick up.

31 posted on 08/04/2025 1:11:51 PM PDT by GingisK
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I live in Florida. What are ‘socks’?..................😏

No kidding. I'm barefoot and ventilated round the clock. I love it here.

32 posted on 08/04/2025 1:29:49 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Red Badger

This is why wearing flip flops is awesome. Except in Minnesota in the winter.


33 posted on 08/04/2025 1:49:46 PM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable, garbage me. Trump is a threat to bureaucracy.)
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To: Red Badger

Seems you have describe James Carville.


34 posted on 08/04/2025 2:07:11 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: Red Badger

“we trap that moisture in a warm, humid cocoon that’s ideal for microbial growth”

Kind of like wearing a mask, but without skin to act as a barrier


35 posted on 08/04/2025 8:57:13 PM PDT by Tymesup
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To: Red Badger

Mmmmmm. Toe cheese.


36 posted on 08/07/2025 4:24:03 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Leaning Right

lol. So true.


37 posted on 08/07/2025 4:25:07 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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