Our culture's degrading standards...

Along with the interesting scientific findings in this article is what to means seems a significant personal revelation: I have always, always followed the "three-second rule", and never even heard of a "five-second rule". This I can only attribute to my fastidious upbringing and the fact that society as a whole is surely descending into a bacteria-laden oblivion. Five seconds? Yuck!

Also, I had no idea the rule was targetted primarily at children. I thought it was for us clumsy people.