A Tax on the Stupid
A few years ago, I ran a poll on these pages to discover the most hateful invention of the modern age.
Despite such monstrosities as mini-roundabouts, hand-mutilating toilet roll holders and the Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker, we came to the conclusion that the worst thing ever to fall out of mankind's fetid imagination was, in fact, James Blunt.
To quote Tomorrow's World: "That is, until now."
All of this awfulness has been trumped. Trumped by the Dettol No Touch Soap Dispenser, the planet's most paranoid invention.
What, I ask, is the point?
What, I continue to ask, is the first thing you do after touching an allegedly germ-ridden soap dispenser?
You WASH YOUR HANDS with their soap that kills "99.9 per cent of germs."
Twenty quid a shot. A tax on the stupid.
If we banned our great scientific minds from working crap like this, we'd be living on Mars by now.
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And who doesn't want to live on Mars?
Also: Insomniac furst!
Germs are good for us anyway in some small measure. If we never came into contact with germs we would never build up an immunity to anything.
Thank you. I'm so glad you agreed. This makes me shout like a mad every time I see it.
I think it's the best invention ever.
I'll be laughing when the rest of you are wiped out by the 0.1%. left to breed unchecked and spread by unexpectedly dirty soap dispensers.
And then pick your nose on the way out of the bogs.
Over here it's branded under Lysol. And if Lysol had their way, we'd be living in a completely inhuman, sterile world.
...I'll just go back to building up my immunity, shall I?
SD, going on what you said yesterday, I had a look at Julian's twitter-feed & I think I know what you mean.
While he's not about to be the next Twitter sensation, he is at least easier to cope with in doses of less than 141 characters...
Somewhere, out there in Inventorland, there is a man saying "This is the year, Rodders! We don't need to wait anymore!"
isolator, unfortunately for Julian, it's the 141st that gives the game away in real life.
My ex has just posted several nice pictures of owls on her facebook. I may borrow some.
What's wrong with soap? Pick up a bar of soap and life threatening germs are obliterated instantly. Genius. And cheap.
It's not a soap dispenser, it's a *hand wash system*.
All these companies trump their own inventions. Their adverts talk about the GERM HORROR that is a handwash system... which they made. What ARE YOU, Dettol? It's like the Toilet Duck (it's still toilet, even if they tried to get rid of it) Fresh Disks, that have no cage, no hanger etc etc etc so THE GERMS CANNOT ESCAPE.
My mother let me eat mud. My immune system kicks ass. Take that, Dettol.
I had a fling with a woman a while back and sex with her was like that. Kills "99.9 per cent of mojo."
It cannot succeed as a matter of fact, that's what I suppose.
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