2) Automatic Air Freshener Dispenser. You didn't ask but I've got another one. Have you been in the bathroom lately and it smells like potpourri? It's not because you're in the flower garden. Somebody along the way has decided that it is in your best interest to be ingesting chemicals that are intended to disguise our foul smells and trick you into thinking that the bathroom is actually a garden. This is the same place that we have the germ-o-phobic sinks and now they're putting something in to try and entice me to stay longer. Good grief. I haven't even touched on the toxicity level that is coming out of these things. I'm no expert but a quick look at the MSDS sheet tells me that this stuff contains hazardous materials. I wonder what hexylene glycol, ethanol, and propanone do to one's body over a series of years inhaling this stuff? Is it worse than the regular smelly bathroom? I also notice that "deliberate excessive inhalation of concentrated vapours can cause respitory tract irritation and central nervous system effects, including death" (http://www.airdelights.com/msds.html - Metered Aerosol Products 30% VOC - All Fragrances). My question that naturally follows is: isn't that exactly what these things will do to me over a lifetime? If I'm 25 years old now, and these things are in a bathroom shooting down on me for the next X number of years, is that not deliberate, excessive inhalation of concentrated vapours; that is what is in the can after all. To be fair, they specify that this is for acute exposure - well, we all remember what a few CFC's did to the ozone, or how about a little DDT for the birds of prey. Good idea folks. Lets see how the shareholders respond when they start paying out the medical bills on that one. Can't somebody just light a match or something?
3) There's one that I really want, but think that I'll be able to do without anyhow.
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Can't we just go back to the outhouse?
I'd like to take this opportunity to call for the universal acceptance and use of the squat tiolet.
I've come to love them, and now I can proudly and honestly advocate them.
It just makes sense.
I don't know if I can handle the burn in my quads!
Actually, you just need practice.
Once you develop the flexibility and muscles in your shins, you will find that squatting is a totally neutral position.
You use no effort at all.
I gained my skills while squatting in India - often for ten or fifteen minutes at a time.
I know a restaurant in Delhi that will help get you started.
You can take the burn in the quads. There are still places in Europe that squat. Mostly, basement restaurants in Paris, but they still exist. Call me a bathroom ludite, but I'm with aaron.
Not just restaraunts in Paris my friend~ the whole of China is crazy on the idea. I'm with the sqatters, as long as you get your heels out of the way I think it's a totally acceptable way to take care of your business. At first I had to completely remove one leg from my pants but as Aaron says, practice makes perfect!
I've done my share of squatting in the woods, and there prefer the grab a sapling and lean back method. I admit, with practice the chore may become more delightful.
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