 Afiag
Posts: 252
Member #242
Aug 12, 2010 22:08 |
Disposable hand towels for your home, because normal hand towels are swimming in germs after people consistently use them to dry their hands post washing.
Soap-pumps are dangerous, we can't touch anything with bacteria on it before we wash our hands!
Apparently cleaning corporations are making people so germ-o-phobic, that the population is too stunned by fear to make any logical leaps. Apart from getting laughs out of ridiculous products like these, I'm excited to see all the children from homes with 99% of all bacteria wiped out step into a school or public restroom and become hospitalized. Pretty sure you are going to have some serious problems in real life if you live a germ-free childhood.
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like "What is my purpose in life?" very quickly lacked both.
Edit: Goddamn s***ty-forum bracket differences. I've been corrupted to the dark side, the box-brackets. Forgive me <>, I have forsaken you.
[Edited by Afiag on Aug 12, 2010 22:10]
[Edited by MintMan on Aug 15, 2010 7:22]
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 Lugiatrainer
Posts: 400
Member #20
Aug 13, 2010 20:04 |
Hell, even if you're wanting bacteria-free hand towels, you can just not use the same one until it's been washed with bleach. Also, is there any reason you linked this thread for the second link?
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 MadGoblin
Posts: 1515
Member #2
Aug 13, 2010 20:06 |
Come to think of it, I think that was the plot of a House episode. The one with the porn star. Good stuff.
And people continue with the super-anti-bacterial what-not despite scientists endlessly saying, "That's only making stronger germs!"
Humanity = Stupidity
"Trapped like a cabbage in a cabbage trap!"
- Geeker, Project G.K.R.
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 Afiag
Posts: 252
Member #242
Aug 14, 2010 11:28 |
Scientists? High school students can tell you that. And we have s***ty schools in America... 
.."Do you know where the wicked go after death?"
"A pit full of fire."
"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for
ever?"
"No, sir."
"What must you do to avoid it?"
"I must keep in good health, and not die."
-Jane Eyre
[Edited by Afiag on Aug 14, 2010 11:28]
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 MintMan
Posts: 4061
Member #1
Aug 15, 2010 7:25 |
1) "Bracket" differences? You mean... the well-established and ancient standard of SGML versus invented garbage 'cause some early bulletin board programmers were too lazy to make only certain tags accepted a la deviantArt and GameFAQs, so they just imposed a two-stage translation of angled-brackets to defanged and then certain squares to angled?
Yeah, how dare we. And do dark-side forums even allow tags in the titles anyway? I could swear they at least swept them under the rug.
2) She "linked" to this topic on the second anchor due to a missing equals sign after the HREF attribute. I could swear A-tags missing HREFs were only supposed to maintain hover-properties and the like and not become valid anchors, although maybe it is just a quirk of Mozilla browsers -- or at least a quirk when the HREF is simply present and entirely unassigned.
3) People are stupid? Shock! 
"If you can't say something bad about a relationship, you shouldn't say it at all." ~ George Costanza
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Afiag
Posts: 252
Member #242
Aug 15, 2010 12:30 |
I didn't see the mistake, looked fine when I did it. :V
Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like "What is my purpose in life?" very quickly lacked both.
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 Cheetarius
Posts: 353
Member #10
Aug 15, 2010 13:13 |
I'd heard of the no-touch soap dispenser before - I've got to say, it just makes me giggle, it seems so pointless. People are just becoming increasingly paranoid about everything... I guess that means it's in fashion. Maybe we should find something new to be paranoid about, and keep the trend rolling?
-Cheetarius
"Don't wake me from the dream..."
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 Battalon127
Posts: 753
Member #25
Aug 15, 2010 14:05 |
Actually, I kind of like the no-touch dispensers. Between them, the auto-flushers, the auto-sinks, and the auto-hand-dryers, we're just one good automatic-fly-unzipper away from a completely hands-free restroom. That said, the whole collective germophobia we have these days drives me freaking nuts. At this rate it's only a matter of time before the germs are smarter than we are.
So I'm on the Golden Gate Bridge, and everyone is telling me to jump! I was just taking a jog! ~Roy, That 70's Show
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Cheetarius
Posts: 353
Member #10
Aug 15, 2010 16:51 |
It works two ways, though, doesn't it? I mean, not only do germs adapt to the "germ-killing" products, but also while those same products are effective, our own immune systems are becoming weaker due to lack of exposure. It's kinda like in addition to throwing ourselves on the sword, we're slitting our throat - self destructive overkill, if you will.
Or maybe I should just stop thinking about it so much.
- Cheetarius, Lurking On A Website Near You...
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 boyachi
Posts: 1161
Member #92
Aug 20, 2010 8:39 |
I'm going to ask this then, because I'm still proud that I follow it:
Who here still lives by the ancient teachings of the five second rule?
Yes, I have heard the scientific proof that as soon as the food item touches the ground, the damage is done, but hey, good food is good food in my book. How many others partake in this arcane ritual?
"To Hell: On Purpose" - MintMan
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Afiag
Posts: 252
Member #242
Aug 20, 2010 15:29 |
I do it, as long as the floor wasn't dirty. Like, I look at it to make sure random dog hair isn't on it.
Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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Dragon_Kirby
Posts: 192
Member #226
Aug 21, 2010 2:40 |
It depends on how delicious the food in question is.
MANGO!
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 Afiag
Posts: 252
Member #242
Aug 21, 2010 19:55 |
The food in question is a cupcake. Not just any cupcake, but one of the sacred Goon Cakes. Or if you're too good for that, than any cupcake will do.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.
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Lugia7777
Posts: 84
Member #79
Aug 22, 2010 7:46 |
Yeah, I don't understand why people need hands-free soap dispensers (any germs you pick up from handing the dispenser will be washed away by the soap anyway). It's nice to have hands-free faucets and paper towel dispensers, though. Public restrooms aren't exactly immaculate.
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 Afiag
Posts: 252
Member #242
Aug 22, 2010 23:35 |
I'd like to have a hands-free faucet in my kitchen, actually. For instance, yesterday I squoze juice out of lemons and limes [I don't have a juicer thing and can't be bothered to go get one] and my hands were covered in the fluids and pulpy flesh of them. Well, turning the faucet on with my wrists is annoying. I didn't want to get citrus guts all over it, and I really needed to rinse my hands because a recent nick on my knuckle was pretty much burning. 
* class changes to Alchemist of Acidic Juices *
.."Do you know where the wicked go after death?"
"A pit full of fire."
"And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for
ever?"
"No, sir."
"What must you do to avoid it?"
"I must keep in good health, and not die."
-Jane Eyre
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 boyachi
Posts: 1161
Member #92
Aug 27, 2010 13:12 |
Speaking of fruits burning older wounds, I found out that peeling a boiled peach would reveal (in a burning pain) every single scratch and cut that was previously invisible. So it is highly recommended to wear latex when handling warm peaches.* plants a virtual BurningFruit tree *
Mintman: god of web -Mai
boyachi plants a virtual BurningFruit tree
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