My "Ponderings for the week" 10/1/2010
1. Why do toilet seat covers have the sliver in the middle that you need to remove before you can use the toilet seat cover?
1A. Why do we use toilet seat covers at all? If the seat was wet the thin cover will not do anything and there is no proof that they help avoid bacteria.
2. Why would anyone who could be a firefighter become a cop? No one likes cops and everybody loves firefighters. Or to be more fair Everybody loves firefighters but people are mixed about cops.
3. Why the hell does February have 28 days? We have 7 months with 31 days, 4 with 30 and 1 with 28. It could have been 7 months with 30 and 5 months with 31. With leap year making 6 months of 30 and 6 months of 31.
4. Why don't busses have seat belts? Is it just so the people standing feel as safe as the people sitting down.
5. Does baseball realize by the time Late July, August, September come around, the time when most people are free, most teams are already out of playoff contention because only 4 teams can make the playoffs per League?
6. Don't people get pissed off when using an automatic sink and the temperature is too hot and you have no idea what to do?
1) It makes it easier for the cover to get flushed, when the rest of the bowl is emptied.
ReplyDelete1A) The seat cover functions to keep your bacteria from spreading to the seat. In theory, if everyone used one, the toilet seat would be clean. There isn't much proof that it prevents you from picking up bacteria, but it does hinder you from spreading yours. The wetness... that's a different story.
2) Some people love guns way too much. And some people would love to have some form of power over others.
3) Good question.
4) If each person that rode a bus, throughout the day, touched a belt buckle even once, the spread of bacteria would be crazy. Bus companies do not have the time or funding for extra maintenance such as cleaning of belt buckles. Also with the amount of homeless people that ride the buses, those belts would become filthy after a month.
5) I don't really follow baseball until late September/ early October, so can't really answer that
6) I hate automatic sinks, sometimes they can't even detect my presence. I'm not a ghost!! But yea, the water gets too hot sometimes. Not poppin.
1. do you propose that the USA moves to the type of system European airports have, where this plastic thing magically rotates onto your seat. Idk im more sketched out about where this plastic is coming from. Technically India has the most sanitary solution of the hole in the ground...
ReplyDelete4. I always thought buses didn't have seat belts because they are bigger than all the other cars. I'm thinking back to HS physics momentum lectures. Upon collision the little object is smashed, and the big object is like "hmm what was that little bump?" The bus basically dominates and everyone inside is safe. Of course this is not true, but I always thought that was the reasoning.
1. Reason why the USA has been unable to mandate all public bathrooms to have seat covers is that there is no proof that they have any health effect. So sanitary wise I don't know if there is a need to worry. And for the sliver in the middle I don't think anyone knows the proper way of using it atleast I don't.
ReplyDelete2. Yea I also looked into it more it is much harder to become a firefighter and right now with shortage of people who want to be cops they almost take anyone.
4. There are like metal parts all over the bus seats so its not worse then that. But yea I think city busses will probably not change but it is still weird that busses like grey hound don't have seat belts.
1. Word to Neal.
ReplyDelete1A. I usually take a wad of toilet paper and run across the surface before I lay the cover down to soak up any wetness.