Posts Tagged ‘ew’

Would someone please explain this to me?

So…let’s see. Toilet paper is ‘archaic’ and this is the first ‘improvement’ since the 1880s? This? This is a ‘modern solution’?

They seem to admit that their market is made up of:

• People who are too ‘big’ to reach around and take care of the deed themselves (and the answer isn’t to lose weight, but, naturally, buy more stuff.)
• People with arthritis who can’t grip or turn properly (If they can’t grip the paper, how on earth would they be able to grip this, turn, push the weird button thingie, etc?)
• People in need of serious therapy who don’t want to go anywhere near their own body.

Everything else aside, from a purely practical point of view, um…ew. Really? If you think toilet paper is ‘disgusting?’ just wait until you have to clean that plastic thing up. Plus, from a purely editorial POV, the woman at 0:41 is hysterical- she starts out serious, then is all flirty about maintaining her dignity- I think it has to do with suddenly letting her native New Yawk accent come out. There’s a Freudian bathroom joke in there somewhere, but I’m going to take her message about dignity maintenance to heart and leave it alone.

Unfortunately, I think they’re right- this is a ‘modern solution.’ Have a problem? Even better, can we invent a problem so we can sell you some crap (har har) you don’t really need?