I really don't get....
The new automatic hand wash dispensers. Every time the advert comes on TV I end up arguing with my mother as she can't understand how I think they are a waste of time and money.
You are going to wash your hands and need soap, if you are pushing the dispenser with your hand, any bacteria that is transferred will be washed off while soaping your hands!
What about those people who soap first, then turn the tap on? What about the germs on the tap????

Baffles me why people think this product is great and they must have it in their lives!!!!
(VodkaMargarine When there is no Brandy Butter..., Sat 15 Oct 2011, 21:42, 13 replies)

because they're fucking idiots
it's one of the stupidest things i've ever seen
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 21:52, closed)

Hear, hear.
Yet there must be some numpty muppets somewhere buying these things 'cause I'm pretty sure there are factories in China still churning these things out on a daily basis.
My manager @ work wanted to get them in (we've got fairly full-on infection control systems in place) took the RN, me & the clinical nurse about 1/2hr. to convince him of the utter pointlessness.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 15 Oct 2011, 22:21, closed)

They are shit.
Instructions.
Put hand under dispenser.
Waggle hand under dispenser.
Remove hand and look quizzically at dispenser.
Watch dispenser dispense little girly dribble of soap onto windowsill.
Put hand back under dispenser.
Wait for little girly dribble of soap to be dispensed onto hand.
Attempt to wash hands with pathetically small amount of soap.
Wash hands with washing up liquid.
( TheMattInAHat has a particular... odour..., Sat 15 Oct 2011, 22:22, closed)

I bought one
because I think it's a little funky gadget thing and I'm a sucker for gimmicks.
( Bats, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 22:54, closed)

Numpty Chinese Factory supporting Muppet.

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 15 Oct 2011, 23:53, closed)

Ah, bacteria
the soap manufacturer's best friend
(roysin, Sat 15 Oct 2011, 23:20, closed)

I had a similar "discussion" with my girlfriend.
But this was about hands-free bins (ones for the kitchen). I tried to explain that most bins are hands-free as they have a FOOT-pedal to open them and that having an electronic part to them, which requires batteries, is just wasteful and pointless in so many ways.

She also bought me an electric pepper grinder and was confused why I didn't want it (for similar reasons as above).
(anonymousreality tickled your fancy on, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 0:42, closed)

Marketing
Depends on gimmicks to keep the QVC viewers spending, rousing them from their torpor to fight the good fight against imagined "germs". This is the most useless one so far, but I bet they are selling like hot pastries to those who don't think through the logic expressed on these pages.
(Classic Ray, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 3:50, closed)

Why are people so afraid of germs?
We've had them since the dawn of time and managed quite adequately. Granted washing your hands when you've had a poo is advisable but we've been made to think that we'll drop down dead if we don't have bodies or kitchens akin to a highly sterile dangerous infections medical laboratory.
( girlinthehole, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 8:55, closed)

Would'nt exposure to certain germs help to improve our immune system though?
I'm not talking aids, or the rubber wristband manufacturers wet dream Cancer or anything, but a totally sterile environment would probably be more detrimental to your health, surely?

I call upon the medical expertise of AB to answer this one..
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 17:26, closed)

As a child, I used to eat food I found down the side of the sofa cushions
And make mud pies and eat worms and sweets I dropped in the street
By today's hypochondriac standards, I should be dead.
(Frample Tromwibbler climbs an obstacle like old people fuck, Sun 16 Oct 2011, 21:21, closed)

Agreed..
How is it, that Bear Grylls can eat 4 week old camel shit, random bugs, snakes and reindeer heads and not even get heartburn, yet the mere sight of a dry slice of bread can kill some people?

Not that I'd recommend eating the above of course, but I'm sure you see what I'm getting at.
(danniekavanagh did nothing constructive on, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 12:19, closed)

I may have found a use.

Click for embiggening.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 17 Oct 2011, 0:47, closed)