It's official, scientific research has shown that:

[Vista]

All you northern monkeys are grubby tykes that don't wash

 

 

 

Northerners have dirtier hands than southerners, according to new research.

 

People from the north of England were up to three times more likely to have hands contaminated with toilet bugs, the study found.

 

The scientists who carried out the test said they were astonished to find that hand hygiene worsened with every step taken further north.

 

Hands were cleanest in London, dirtier in Birmingham and Cardiff, and filthiest in Liverpool and Newcastle.

 

The most likely explanation is that fewer northerners are washing their hands with soap after answering the call of nature, researchers said.

 

It was chiefly men who were responsible for the trend - but in Cardiff and London women were the dirtiest sex.

 

In total, almost 30 per cent of people tested were carrying "faecal" bacteria.

 

People in Newcastle were up to three times more likely to have the bugs on their hands than those in London.

 

The proportion of people found to have contaminated hands was 13 per cent in London, 23 per cent in Cardiff, 24 per cent in Birmingham, 34 per cent in Liverpool and 44 per cent in Newcastle.

 

Among men, the figures increased sharply towards the north. In the same order, they were 6 per cent, 15 per cent, 21 per cent, 36 per cent, and 53 per cent.

 

Women did not show such a strong north - south divide. A total of 21 per cent of women tested in London had dirty hands, 29 per cent in Cardiff, 26 per cent in Birmingham, 31 per cent in Liverpool and 30 per cent in Newcastle.

 

But women in London were around three times more likely than men to have faecal bacteria on their hands.

 

Dr Val Curtis, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who led the study, said: "We were flabbergasted by the finding that so many people had faecal bugs on their hands.

 

"The figures were far higher than we had anticipated, and suggest that there is a real problem with people washing their hands in the UK.

 

"If any of these people had been suffering from diarrhoea disease, the potential for it to be passed around would be greatly increased by their failure to wash their hands after going to the toilet."

 

Dr Curtis's team took random swabs from the hands of 409 commuters waiting at bus stops near London Euston, Birmingham New Street, Cardiff Central, Liverpool Lime Street and Newcastle Central stations on weekday mornings.

 

When they were analysed, 113 of the samples were found to contain bacteria from faeces

 

And for those of you that think I'm making it up:

 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081015/tuk ... a1618.html

 

Get a wash you northern monkeys

[Chris!]

they dont mention nottinham, obviosly all our hand are clean unlike you dirty londoners

[hotrodholty]

surley doing the test's at train stations cant give a true answer. the train station is the most likley place to find people from outside that particular city. so the test does'nt give a true picture. lime street station is always full of southern softies

[Copey]

surley doing the test's at train stations cant give a true answer. the train station is the most likley place to find people from outside that particular city. so the test does'nt give a true picture. lime street station is always full of southern softies

 

thats a very fair point! what a stupid place to do tests!

[Vista]

surley doing the test's at train stations cant give a true answer. the train station is the most likley place to find people from outside that particular city. so the test does'nt give a true picture. lime street station is always full of southern softies

 

Tish and piffle, train stations are predominantly full of local commuters.

 

I'll bring one of these next time I head up North

 

 

 

[4parajon]

Funny how Manchester was'nt in the tests as well....me must be super clean round here

[hotrodholty]

surley doing the test's at train stations cant give a true answer. the train station is the most likley place to find people from outside that particular city. so the test does'nt give a true picture. lime street station is always full of southern softies

 

Tish and piffle, train stations are predominantly full of local commuters.

 

I'll bring one of these next time I head up North

 

 

 

at least the women are all as dirty as each other no matter where you go

i do like a dirty girl, although shitty hand aint what i had in mind.

thats more burns's cup of tea, (or poop in his case)

[ZetecVan 2.0]

It's because we're hard and we don't need to wash.

 

Unlike you perfume smelling shandy drinking southern poofs....

 

[antz]

i found it funny that the text was conducted by a poncy southerner..of course he will say london is cleanest. prob walks round saying his shit dont stink too

[Trevmk3]

they dont mention nottinham, obviosly all our hand are clean unlike you dirty londoners

 

they couldnt get tests from Notts as they all had there hands full of stolen goods

 

fact is us northerners are all to busy to wash our hands for the small wages we get paid as we dont live near the capital

[surfingturnip]

 

I'll bring one of these next time I head up North

 

 

 

 

funny looking gimp suit you've got there vista

[Vista]

 

I'll bring one of these next time I head up North

 

 

 

 

funny looking gimp suit you've got there vista

 

It's to protect me from all them nasty germs you dirty beggars that wipe your arses with your hands are spreading around.

[surfingturnip]

thought it was to save you from the smoggy air you get down south, not like our lovely bracing (fooking cold ) air up here in the north (by which I mean Yorkshire )

[Burns]

thats more burns's cup of tea, (or poop in his case)

 

i've really got a reputation around here aint i?

 

ps. dirty hands shows you're a hard worker...

[Pipster007]

ps. sticky hands shows you're a hard wa*ker...

Really.............I never would have guessed