Modern Loos
It is rare that I am concerned about the practical things in life. The newly refurbished toilets at our office though have 'solved' a set of problems that really just did not need solving.
There used to be taps. You could get cold water and hot water. These were not the most useful in the world as you could either have cold or very hot but not warm (and nobody puts the plug in even if there were plugs to wash ones hands). The world solved this problem with the mixer tap. You could get hot, cold or warm to your liking. The newly fitted 'hygienic' taps unfortunately take us a step back. They are automatic (good as you no longer have to touch them) but only produce warm water. No choice. No option to have cold (itself a strange climate change option, if you are happy to wash hands in water requiring no energy).
I quite like, after a long grimy day in London, to be able to splash some cold water on ones face to freshen up. No longer an option (perhaps I should buy bottled water instead). This brings me on to the second gripe.
We used to have those blue and white hand towels (you know the ones. they were either tied in so tight you could not get your hands in to dry them or the time between pull downs was so long you had to use the wet bit of the towel from the last guy). But when they worked they worked well. They allowed you to dry your face. The new drier is a cheap copy of the Dyson turbo jet skin remover blaster. You stick your hands in between two high powered jets of air and it blasts the water off rather than dries. They work rather well. However, you try getting your head in one to dry your face! I am not saying that the standard hot air driers are any better (who wants to swivel the nozzle upwards to blast dusty hot air on ones face and look like a dog with its head out of a car window on the M1).
A true modernization that has taken a perfectly workable solution and replaced it with a high tech set that does less than the old solution (albeit faster) at a higher price.
Stop the world I want to get off.
There used to be taps. You could get cold water and hot water. These were not the most useful in the world as you could either have cold or very hot but not warm (and nobody puts the plug in even if there were plugs to wash ones hands). The world solved this problem with the mixer tap. You could get hot, cold or warm to your liking. The newly fitted 'hygienic' taps unfortunately take us a step back. They are automatic (good as you no longer have to touch them) but only produce warm water. No choice. No option to have cold (itself a strange climate change option, if you are happy to wash hands in water requiring no energy).
I quite like, after a long grimy day in London, to be able to splash some cold water on ones face to freshen up. No longer an option (perhaps I should buy bottled water instead). This brings me on to the second gripe.
We used to have those blue and white hand towels (you know the ones. they were either tied in so tight you could not get your hands in to dry them or the time between pull downs was so long you had to use the wet bit of the towel from the last guy). But when they worked they worked well. They allowed you to dry your face. The new drier is a cheap copy of the Dyson turbo jet skin remover blaster. You stick your hands in between two high powered jets of air and it blasts the water off rather than dries. They work rather well. However, you try getting your head in one to dry your face! I am not saying that the standard hot air driers are any better (who wants to swivel the nozzle upwards to blast dusty hot air on ones face and look like a dog with its head out of a car window on the M1).
A true modernization that has taken a perfectly workable solution and replaced it with a high tech set that does less than the old solution (albeit faster) at a higher price.
Stop the world I want to get off.
posted by So long and thanks for all the fish at
8:18 pm
1 Comments:
so completely agree. mind you, the hotel i was in yesterday had a toilet seat warmer. not something i was expecting.
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