Amazing. The hot new trend for consumer goods — disposable-head toilet brushes. Honest. We’ve seen commercials for two of them over the last week. Yeesh.
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Amazing. The hot new trend for consumer goods — disposable-head toilet brushes. Honest. We’ve seen commercials for two of them over the last week. Yeesh….
Sooo….
Would this be for folks who are reeaaalllyyy attached to their toilet brush handles?
Are there a bunch of decorative toilet brush handles out there that I’m unaware of?
Hyacinth Bucket would be so proud, she’d have to make sure that these went with her periwinkle blue Royal Doultons.
I see this as an extension of an existing trend rather than a new one. It’s the trend toward sanitizing anything and everything, avoiding contact with anything that’s the least bit icky, and quickly disposing of the icky bits so you don’t have to look at them ever again.
Some earlier examples of the same trend: disposable mop pads, disposable dishwipes, nifty devices that transform disposable diapers into anonymous-looking white packages, clumping cat litter with special toxic-waste disposal tools, etc. etc. etc.
It’s almost as if the people who buy this stuff have forgotten that washing your hands with a few pennies worth of soap makes them clean, pretty much regardless of what you’ve been handling.
As a user of both clumping cat litter and a Diaper Genie, I would be loathe to criticize either one.
I see it, instead, as part and parcel of the “use anti-bacterial wipes/spray/pads on everything about you, lest your bodily fluids be contaminated.”
Well, perhaps clumping cat litter and diaper genies are a great boon to mankind. Since I don’t have a cat or a kid, I’m probably not the best judge on those matters.
After I posted, I was thinking about the clumping cat litter, and I guess I can see that it probably doesn’t really fit with the others. But the disposable toilet brush, mop head, and dishwipes are definitely all indicative of a strong need to throw icky things away. An early step in this trend might be the switch to tissues, paper napkins, and paper towels from handkerchiefs, cloth napkins, and real kitchen towels.
Purel hand cleaner may be part of the trend too, in which case perhaps you’re on the right track when you suggest that it’s all about avoiding contamination. I’m reminded of Howard Hughes in his last days, and Asimov’s early Robot stories.