Pfft 5 second rule applies to anything in life, Germs clearly hover around the dropped item for 5 seconds THEN engross it. It's a fact guys.

That sounds like one of those Jeff Foxworthy "You know you're a redneck if …"

The five second "rule" doesn't apply at all. Anyone who takes a basic biology course (or has some common sense, maybe) would know that. It's just one of those superstitions that people propagate and believe. If you want to eat food off the floor, just do it. You don't have to justify it to yourself.

Agreed, I would have expected him to follow the "if a dog can do it so can I" philosophy.

But the Ten Second Rule does, right? I saw "Waiting". I think it's a law or something……

23, chemistry would also do. There's been a research about that situation and it is said that if the food touched the floor for an insanely small period of time, the bacteria wouldn't have time to touch the food (with a lot of atoms and molecules concepts in the middle of the explanation).

technically there is no 5 second rule. if you watch Vsauce he explains it. in reality, its like a 0.00000001 second rule before bacteria and germs go on it

You are partially incorrect. The amount of time your referring to is so small that it is irrelevant and it also depends on very specific molecular structures of the food and floor to be able to meet the criteria

Sounds like a job for myth busters

@50 they already did an episode on that. It took apparently quite a bit more than five seconds to become covered with enough bacteria to be thought as unsafe. If I remember correctly it took around 1-2minutes.

@54 I'm pretty sure that's false. check it out http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/five-second-rule-minimyth.htm

For anyone too lazy to watch the video, the experiment found significant bacteria on both 2 and 6 second samples, with a size differential too small to notice.

Neither is your comment

wow. you could've at least tried.

4, *know, and you certainly live up to your name :)

Vsauce is awesome! Mythbusters also did an episode on the 5 second rule and proved likewise.

Yep, bacteria will get on food (or in this case, floss) almost immediately after it makes contact with the bacteria-infected area. i honestly hope your husband - or you, for that matter - didn't use the floss, OP. No amount of tooth brushing/flossing/whatever else could remove the thought of cleaning one's teeth with floss that fell into the toilet. FYL.

Well I definitely want what ever it is you been taking :D

Who actually believed the "five second rule" reduced bacteria in the first place? Fucking idiots.

5 second rule doesn't exist?? how am I not dead yet! O.O honestly, it's probably not the greatest thing for your health to eat food that's been dropped on the floor, but it's definitely not going to kill you. and besides, nobody has time to make another sandwich after their first one fell on the floor!

Wait didn't you hear it takes 1-2 minutes for bacteria to infest food enough to be hazardous