I like the Schick Intuition Razors. Their combination of blade and shave cream in one tool means one less container that will be knocked to the shower floor a half-dozen times every morning as I fumble around in the shower.
What I do not like is the fuckwitted case the local CVS displays the refills in. I say displays because this case is constructed in such a way that you cannot get to them even while it encourages you with helpful instructions that indicate you can, in fact, get to them. This is the second iteration of the “display case” and I hate this one more than the first, and I hated the first one with the fiery intensity of a thousand suns.
The refills are tantalizing close to you behind a piece of plastic that, after this morning’s rage-filled consumer experience shopping, I think I can—and will—just break next time around. There is also this inexplicable motorized …thing … that is supposed to, when you push the big red button that says “PUSH” force the refill case forward so that you can tip open the plastic wall/drawer and get the refill. What actually happens is that you “PUSH” the big red button and the motor wheezes for about 30 seconds while it moves the refill box not quite far enough to tip into the drawer.
Because I have no patience with this sort of thing, I decided to push all the buttons and take my chances. After about 15 minutes, I managed to get two boxes of refills out. It says to ask a store employee for assistance but I’ll be damned if I’ll resort to that since they all—at the slightest indication a customer needs help—vanish, no doubt because they also don’t want wrestle with this piece of shit marvel of engineering.
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Back in the distant past there were paper towel dispensers in public restrooms that carried the following instructions:
Pull Down
Tear Up
I was always tempted to pull these dispensers down – and tear them up…
just like the sign said
Ogre: And who could blame you? Honest to God, I’d love to know who designs these shitty contraptions.
Simon Newcomb designed all of them.
Ogre: Why do I know that name?
“Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.”
– Simon Newcomb, 1902
In 1903 (the year of the Wright Brothers first flight) Newcomb explained in a newspaper article that he only meant, “…not with present day technology. In fact, I have no doubt that someday we may fly across the oceans even faster than birds can fly.”
Apparently a lot happened to “present day technology” between
’02 and ’03
Also: ‘Disappointment, relief’.
Apparently, your system still thinks of me as Diogenes. This comment is to correct that.
Ah yes, Simon Newcomb. One of many names that floats around my brain completely untethered to anything except the vaguest thought of an idea of some context.
sgazzetti: *I* think of you as Diogenes.