We’ve seen plenty of reports on how innocent things you touch every day are filthy and germ-infested. And here’s another one, to keep you on your toes.

According to a study by a company called Initial Washroom Hygiene, the average computer mouse is three times filthier than a toilet seat.

They also found the average keyboard, office chair, desk, phone, and elevator button are more germ-covered than a toilet too.

Four out of 10 desks had at least one item with extremely high levels of bacteria.

The germs can include things like staph and E. coli . . . so wash your hands before you eat.

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You might think your grandparents are clueless because they can’t program the DVR or video chat. But they know how to do a lot of stuff that you don’t. Here’s a list of seven skills most people don’t have anymore.

1. Cooking from scratch. Not following a recipe, but actually improvising with food. Before microwaves and TV dinners, people just had to know how to work with what they had, and make it taste good.

2. Sewing. Also crocheting, quilting, darning, needlepoint, and all that related stuff. If we have holes in our socks, we throw them away. Your grandparents actually sat down and fixed them. Men too . . . they had to do it by themselves in the Army.

3. Canning. A couple people do it now if they’re really into home gardening. But fifty years ago, just about everybody did it.

4. Ironing. It used to be that you would iron everything off the clothesline. Now we just iron dress clothes, and most of the time we don’t even do it right.

5. Meeting people in person . . . by talking. A lot of us meet new people online nowadays. When we’re out in public, face to face with real people, we IGNORE them . . . so we can stay online instead.

6. Haggling. Before everything was sold in chain superstores, people used to haggle a lot. Now you never even get to try, except on Craigslist and at the car dealership.

7. Writing letters. Your grandparents used to write beautiful letters all the time, with pen and paper, and mail them in envelopes. The writing you do on Facebook and Twitter . . . your grandparents would have called that being illiterate.

And they’d be right. A recent study found that 67.3% of Facebook posts are written at a fifth grade reading level or lower.

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A doctor in the UK who does tattoo removals made a list of the top ten tattoos people ask him to laser off. And lower back tattoos . . . a.k.a. “tramp stamps” . . . are number one. Here are the ten tattoos he says people regret the most.

1. Tramp stamps.

2. A tattoo of something around your bicep, like barbed wire.

3. An ex’s name.

4. Any tattoo you got while you were drunk.

5. Any tattoo that got distorted because you gained weight. Which is a reminder that you probably shouldn’t get one on your hip or your stomach.

6. Cheap tattoos. Which you regret immediately if they don’t look good.

7. Any tattoo that you can’t hide. Like a tattoo on your wrist or your neck, which could prevent you from getting a job. Or a tattoo on your face.

8. A tattoo of a band name. Because there’s a good chance you’ll get sick of them, or they’ll break up.

9. Permanent eyebrows. Because you eventually realize what everyone else knew immediately. That they don’t look like real eyebrows.

10. A tattoo of anything involving a fad. Like that “Twerk or Die” tattoo you’re thinking about getting? Yeah, don’t do that.

As you know, almost everyone in the world is an idiot . . . except for you, of course. And me. So what’s the best way to spot the idiots?

Here are the eight most popular red flags that signal someone’s stupid . . .

1. They honk in a traffic jam.

2. They post long Facebook status updates ranting about the things other people do.

3. They always hop on whatever bandwagon is popular.

4. They’ve tried to tell you you’re stupid . . . but written it “y-o-u-r” stupid.

5. They confuse a story on “The Onion” for something real, and post it on Facebook along with a sentence about how outraged they are.

6. They eat gluten free because they think it’s healthy, not because they have celiac disease.

7. They like an Adam Sandler movie from the past five years.

8. They tell stories about how much smarter they are than other people.

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Here’s something you might relate to. A group called The Snake Oil Willie Band put out a music video that’s getting a bunch of hits online. And not because the music is all that good, but because it’s called “I Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore”.

The lead singer is an old, chubby guy with a grey beard . . . who almost definitely does not look good naked anymore.

Abi’s Cafe in Minneapolis will be racking in the good karma after the owner gave a homeless man a job instead of a hand out.

Twenty-five-year-old Cesia Abigail, who owns the cafe, said she asked the man why he didn’t have a job and that nothing was given to her for free. He said he had a lot of felonies and therefore couldn’t get a job.

She immediately gave him a job washing dishes and doing work around the place. He’s been employed for two weeks.

To help turn his life around, they take 10% of his paycheck to set aside for a life savings.

She posted to Facebook a photo of the man with the following story:

Here’s an interesting dilemma: Would you be willing to get your company’s logo tattooed on your body to get a big raise?

There’s a real estate company in New York City called Rapid Realty that’s offering its employees that deal. Get our logo tattooed . . . and get a 15% raise.

There’s no rule on how big the tattoo has to be, or where you have to put it on your body. As long as you get one, you get the raise.

Anthony Lolli is the owner of Rapid Realty. He says he got the idea from an employee who got the logo tattooed just out of loyalty. Anthony wanted to repay his loyalty, so he thought of the raise idea.

So far, forty of his employees have taken the deal, and gotten Rapid Realty tattoos. Anthony is also covering the cost of the tattoo itself.