Reading this qotw has got me thinking....
Is the personal care business trying to get more and more people to suffer from bizarre personal hygiene issues? Case in point is the new automatic had wash dispenser being advertised on TV at the moment.

Let's scare everyone into thinking they're going to catch some nasty disease by touching the top of their hand wash dispenser so they will spend a fortune on one they don't have to touch!!!

Surely you only touch the top of your soap pump when you're about to wash your hands and therefore kill off any germs you get on your hands from the top of the pump???!!!!!

Surely creating demand for a problem that doesn't exist.....or maybe gullibility goes with OCD.....
(penrose your dog's got tits, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 11:32, 10 replies)

Yeah, but...
Some bacteria can live in LAVA!

Run for the hills!
( le brian, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 11:41, closed)

Your kitchen surfaces can contain more bacteria than a toilet seat!
RUN!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 12:08, closed)

I would suggest
to stop defecating on the work surfaces.

It upsets mothers and kittens.
(Roddimus_Prime Should be revising, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 12:18, closed)

I'm so glad I'm not the only person baffled by this contraption!

( vix0r was not Matthew on, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 12:10, closed)

On a similar note
has anybody enjoyed the pleasure of the Dyson Airblade hand-dryers?

Fuck they can dry hands. FUCK!!!
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 13:44, closed)

Airblades are ace
Have you encountered the Xcelerator dryers? It's like having your hands dried by a jet engine
( le brian, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 14:02, closed)

Oh Yes
/runs off and sells more insewerance
( The_Commander_of_Skips wears his sunglasses at night, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 18:27, closed)

I tried a Dyson Airblade once
I ended up with very dry hands but a ring of water round each wrist.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 14:37, closed)

I have one of those.
It's not because of germy contacty ew stuff though. It's just a gadgety thing I saw and went "Ooh, tech for the bathroom? Okay!".

I guess I just love the idea of motion sensing technology being so common place the general Asda-shopping populace can buy it.
( Bats, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 14:26, closed)

I've got to admit
I've been tempted to buy one on those grounds
( le brian, Mon 5 Jul 2010, 15:02, closed)