OVER OR UNDER? PAPER TOWELS AND TOILET PAPER
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Don't you wish that the brilliant minds and vast computer aids of our time, that have sent men to the moon, cured diseases of all types could come up with something a little less primitive than wiping your bum with sheets of thin, soft paper? I mean think about it. You kidding me? Huh?
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...I bet you grew up with an outhouse!aTOMiC wrote:Don't you wish that the brilliant minds and vast computer aids of our time, that have sent men to the moon, cured diseases of all types could come up with something a little less primitive than wiping your bum with sheets of thin, soft paper? I mean think about it. You kidding me? Huh?
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
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Oh come on. Surely someone is working on a device that will do the job with lasers or microwaves or a nice shot of ice cold compressed air. Maybe a mechanical arm that rises out of the bottom of the lew and scrubs everything clean and pure as the wind driven snow. Of course you run the risk of losing your junk if the bloody thing malfunctions. Maybe I'm expecting too much from science. But then again...
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
"There is tic and toc in atomic" - Neil Peart
Oh god. And of course, it'll come out of Japan and thank you kindly in broken engrish for allowing it the honor of cleansing you.aTOMiC wrote:Oh come on. Surely someone is working on a device that will do the job with lasers or microwaves or a nice shot of ice cold compressed air. Maybe a mechanical arm that rises out of the bottom of the lew and scrubs everything clean and pure as the wind driven snow. Of course you run the risk of losing your junk if the bloody thing malfunctions. Maybe I'm expecting too much from science. But then again...
*shudder*
That is scarier than all of the hostile robot take-over sci-fi I've read.
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
aTOMiC wrote:BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!Balon wrote: Oh god. And of course, it'll come out of Japan and thank you kindly in broken engrish for allowing it the honor of cleansing you.
Oh god.Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
I nominate this for Post of the Week!Balon wrote: Oh god. And of course, it'll come out of Japan and thank you kindly in broken engrish for allowing it the honor of cleansing you.
*shudder*
That is scarier than all of the hostile robot take-over sci-fi I've read.
(And I compliment aTOMiC for inspiring Balon to such heights of eloquence in the first place.
)Matrixman wrote:I nominate this for Post of the Week!Balon wrote: Oh god. And of course, it'll come out of Japan and thank you kindly in broken engrish for allowing it the honor of cleansing you.
*shudder*
That is scarier than all of the hostile robot take-over sci-fi I've read.
(And I compliment aTOMiC for inspiring Balon to such heights of eloquence in the first place.
I second! 
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
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It was another group of anal-minded people that made me take a stand on the eternal toilet paper question. I seriously hadn't thought of it until two people that I worked with while I was in college brought this discussion up. Until that time, bathroom life was easy, and I didn't have to start shunning people like a star-bellied Sneech. I could go into a bathroom and not be annoyed that someone put the roll the "wrong way." After all, the "right way" is over rather than under.
And I had never thought of how the paper towels should go. Thanks for making me conscious of that now.
:le sigh:
And I had never thought of how the paper towels should go. Thanks for making me conscious of that now.
:le sigh:
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I'm an overhander.
When the kids were little, I got so frustrated with them not changing the empty TP rolls that I paid 'em to do it. "You get an extra dime in your allowance every time you put in a new roll of toilet paper." It worked, too! They're beautifully trained now!
And btw, guys, somebody's already invented that "gentle cleansing" apparatus you're talking about. It's called a bidet. I've never experienced one, but I understand it can be quite a shock the first time, if you're not expecting it....
When the kids were little, I got so frustrated with them not changing the empty TP rolls that I paid 'em to do it. "You get an extra dime in your allowance every time you put in a new roll of toilet paper." It worked, too! They're beautifully trained now!
And btw, guys, somebody's already invented that "gentle cleansing" apparatus you're talking about. It's called a bidet. I've never experienced one, but I understand it can be quite a shock the first time, if you're not expecting it....
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And it thanks you in japanese!?aliantha wrote:And btw, guys, somebody's already invented that "gentle cleansing" apparatus you're talking about. It's called a bidet. I've never experienced one, but I understand it can be quite a shock the first time, if you're not expecting it....
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BidetBalon wrote:And it thanks you in japanese!?aliantha wrote:And btw, guys, somebody's already invented that "gentle cleansing" apparatus you're talking about. It's called a bidet. I've never experienced one, but I understand it can be quite a shock the first time, if you're not expecting it....
I was aware of the bidet but a jet of water isnt exactly what I had in mind. I was thinking of something more...proactive.
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We don't have 'em in the US. Picture Bubba and Myrtle on their first European vacation: "Myrtle, what is that thing? Oh, well, gotta go... WHOA!!!"CovenantJr wrote:How is it possible to use a bidet and not be expecting what comes next?aliantha wrote:...I understand it can be quite a shock the first time, if you're not expecting it....
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The one pictured has a nozzel that fires outward but the one's I've seen spray upward from below. Hmmm. If there isn't a bum hovering over it does it reach the ceiling?
Um...so you have this jet of water spray upward...hmmm...I've never used one but couldn't that be potentially messy? I bet kids have a ball with 'em. Mom comes in to find 3" of water on the floor. I guess I'm just ignorant.
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So wait, that wasn't a drinking fountain?
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