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Last night I was watching the news and an advert came on that started off with a mother and young daughter at a table, the girl was hand painting. The voice over comes on and says. Some things in life are easy. It then moves to a young boy trying to do up his shoe laces. The voice over then moves on to say, some things are hard. The voice over then proceeds to announce, "this is why we have made a hands free hand washing system".

What the Feth?!!?

Are they now telling us that picking up a bar of soap or pushing down on the pump of a soap dispenser is rocket science, that the process is some complex that they have to make it idiot proof?!! What the hell is going on with the world?!!!!

LOL, started a thread on this in another forum a few months back.

I took it more about fighting germs and "protecting your precious little ones" than making it easier to use.

Talk about kid gloving the World. Watch out peeps those nasty old germs will get you all.

I think it is because theoretically, the push handle thing on a soap dispenser is the dirtiest place in any given house, because that is the last thing you touch before you wash your hands and you never touch it when you have clean hands. Presumably, making a hands free system means you don't have to spread whatever crap you have on your hands that you are trying to wash off.

filbert wrote:I think it is because theoretically, the push handle thing on a soap dispenser is the dirtiest place in any given house, because that is the last thing you touch before you wash your hands and you never touch it when you have clean hands. Presumably, making a hands free system means you don't have to spread whatever crap you have on your hands that you are trying to wash off.

But you could argue that it makes no difference as you touch the "dirty" pump to put the soap in you hand... then wash them both! So unless a. you don't wash the hand you used or b. the soap doesn't do what is says it does, it's a scare mongering tactic?!

This is why we have an immune system, no?

Damn right thats why we have immune systems! Thats how we stuck it to those fething aliens in War of the Worlds.

Castiel wrote:This is why we have an immune system, no?

Lol!

Dang right about that! In my house (I live on a sort of "farm") well, no one seems to ever get very badly sick. I wonder why? Since we've probably been exposed to so much more than our average Joe, we've got quite the immune systems.

IR operated taps are a good advance for saving water.

susejo239 wrote:

Castiel wrote:This is why we have an immune system, no?

Lol!

Dang right about that! In my house (I live on a sort of "farm") well, no one seems to ever get very badly sick. I wonder why? Since we've probably been exposed to so much more than our average Joe, we've got quite the immune systems.

Yeh...I'm knid of glad they don't employ that policy in hospitals however.

Kilkrazy wrote:IR operated taps are a good advance for saving water.

No better that percussion taps and more likely to fail. Waste of money in many cases.

That said I'm outta here. I'm not having another fight over taps, i'm just not!