Perplexed...

[jbsegal]

Why on earth does the world need - or did someone FEEL that the earth needs This

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[anna-phylaxis.livejournal.com]

Why, for an unnatural act, of course!

to use an *entirely* hypothetical situation...

[cthulhia]

imagine that you have a bloody nose, at work. you don't want to use both hands to get your towel, or, both hands are just bloody enough (from holding the bloodsoaked napkin you accidentally blew your into because you forgot about yesterday's bloody nose) that you don't want to touch *anything

[theory-girl.livejournal.com]

To prevent transmission of disease. It's why you have the touchless blowers as well, more sanitary.

Various knobs in bathrooms are a major transition point for disease...

I think only people who are really concerned about sterility would care about this.

[theory-girl.livejournal.com]

Meep. i am trysha i should pay attention to see if someone has used my browser.

[eeblet.livejournal.com]

what's scarier is that this is one of the site's many hygenic towel-dispensing options. Hee!

[kahoki.livejournal.com]

GERMans, Faulty! There has been a creepy indulgence in personal hygene products, giving many an obsesive compulsive cart blanche to say "I told you so". After the hygeine wave of the turn of the century, we don't have polio (small pox may be making a comeback though), leaving us *less* immune to mother natures whims, should some odd bug like the AIDs virus make it out of the jungle and into the population centers.

- Steps off of soapbox and into the decontamination chamber.

[boymeat.livejournal.com]

I actually got to use one of these at an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. I... um... er... thought it was actually pretty nifty. *sheepish grin* OK... so I'm a dork.

[awfief.livejournal.com]

hrm. personally I've been squicked by enough wet paper towel thingies -- anything wet in a bathroom is icky, *especially* the doorknob/handle, to me -- that I appreciate these when I've seen them.

[xlii.livejournal.com]

Would anyone else just keep waving their hand infront of the sensor too see how many paper towels it would dispense until big brother came to get you?

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

They feel they need it because they think they might get COOTIES from an touching something that wasn't appropriately disinfected.

Good grief! This might have some use in circumstances where an unusually high level of sanitation obtains -- the scrub area for an operating room, for example -- but anywhere that someone's likely to touch just about anything that anyone else has touched -- a dollar bill, for example -- this is just plain overkill. Have I run my sentence on long enough yet?

Ye gods. This is institutionalized health-paranoia at its most expensive. Why does this object exist? Because its manufacturers see a chance to make some money; no other reason.

[avacon.livejournal.com]

Eh, an automated towl dispenser doesn't really bother me.
However, the movie theater today had an auto-sensing
and automated soap dispenser. Now that's just wrong...
(Although I guess it saves them soap.)

[oonh.livejournal.com]

I wonder if their target market is Japan.