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kurogane wrote:Bending over in a public washroom, eh!?................................
kurogane wrote:Bending over in a public washroom, eh!?................................
Samurai_Jerk wrote:kurogane wrote:Bending over in a public washroom, eh!?................................
Bending over the in the men's room is probably right up choko's alley. Any guy who brags that much about getting pussy must be keeping something closeted.
chokonen888 wrote:Samurai_Jerk wrote:chokonen888 wrote:Ahhhh, could be a west coast thing. They were all over Las Vegas as well. Anyhow, they totally own the Toto hand dryers.
You know what works really well? Paper towels.
How often do you see those anymore?
The worst are those never ending loop towels...those are probably more bacteria filled than the catch tank of the hand dryers.
Ever finished washing your hands and thought, 'Hmm, I wonder what's more hygienic, using the warm air dryer or the towel?' and then thought 'Hmm I really need to start having more interesting thoughts'? Well, you're not alone!
Researchers tested the amount of bacteria left on the skin after hands were dried using both methods, and the results might surprise you.
Washing hands and using paper towels or continuous-loop cotton towels reduced the bacterial count by 45-60 per cent, while using a warm air dryer in fact increased the bacterial count by an average of 255 per cent.
"It turned out the bacteria were already inside the warm air dryers thanks to the moist environment," Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki (yes, that's a real doctor) wrote in his book Curious and Curiouser.
"Every single warm air dryer had high bacterial counts on the air inlet, while 97 per cent had them on the outlet nozzle surface, too."
Air-based dryers in fact spread bacteria and other germs in tiny droplets, like a really disgusting aerosol.
Kruszelnicki notes that our bodies are resilient enough to keep most of these bacteria at bay, but suggests you also go for towels (preferably recyclable) over driers anyway as they dry your hands quicker and give the friction needed to shift bacteria that you don't get from a pathetic gust of air.
He said that jet air dryers e.g the Dyson Airblade do about as good a job as towels [...]
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Russell wrote:Hand towel or hand air dryer? Finally, an answer... Washing hands and using paper towels or continuous-loop cotton towels reduced the bacterial count by 45-60 per cent, while using a warm air dryer in fact increased the bacterial count by an average of 255 per cent.
"It turned out the bacteria were already inside the warm air dryers thanks to the moist environment," Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki (yes, that's a real doctor) wrote in his book Curious and Curiouser.
"Every single warm air dryer had high bacterial counts on the air inlet, while 97 per cent had them on the outlet nozzle surface, too."
Air-based dryers in fact spread bacteria and other germs in tiny droplets, like a really disgusting aerosol.
kurogane wrote:Like most technology lately. So are you eagerly awaiting the deluge of silly electronic conveniences in the runup to 2020? Like the hyper expensive solar powered composting garbage bins?
I know you're not, btw
kurogane wrote:Like most technology lately. So are you eagerly awaiting the deluge of silly electronic conveniences in the runup to 2020? Like the hyper expensive solar powered composting garbage bins?
Yokohammer wrote:kurogane wrote:Like most technology lately. So are you eagerly awaiting the deluge of silly electronic conveniences in the runup to 2020? Like the hyper expensive solar powered composting garbage bins?
I know you're not, btw
You're right on both counts: (1) a lot of technology exists purely for its own sake, and (2) nope.
I'm a bit of a techie myself, and I do appreciate it when the state of the art actually offers some kind of improvement, but so much of it is just there to sell something or overload the senses. Sometimes low-tech -- a piece of paper and a pencil, for example -- is just better.
I will admit to being a bit surprised by the towels-are-better-than-blowers verdict though.
Russell wrote:But the Dyson Airblade is as good as towels, according to the last sentence.
Don't know why Dysons are evaluated so well. Are the high winds too much for them germs?
Yokohammer wrote:Russell wrote:But the Dyson Airblade is as good as towels, according to the last sentence.
Don't know why Dysons are evaluated so well. Are the high winds too much for them germs?
Apparently it has a built-in HEPA filter.
But I haven't seen these anywhere so the point is kinda moot in my world.
chokonen888 wrote:They're also deeper and designed to not give you a face blast full of bacteria, despite the power. I have a Dyson Handheld and have to say, I got nothing but love for them.
Organizers of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics got the go-ahead Friday from the IOC executive board to change three venue locations, with more changes expected in the next few months as the Japanese try to cuts costs.
Toshiro Muto, chief executive officer, said that basketball, equestrian and canoe-slalom would be moved. He said the executive board approved plans for 17 venues to stay the same. Muto said about 10 remained, and said some might be changed.
“For these three changes we already had a consensus from the international federations,” Muto said.
Basketball goes to the Saitama Super Arena north of central Tokyo. It was the site of the 2006 world basketball championship.
Equestrian moves to Baji Park, a venue from the city’s 1964 Olympics. Canoe-slalom goes from Kasai Rinkai Park to a spot outside the park.
“We are working on some others, and there’s potential for some other changes all with the view to sustainability and addressing some cost savings,” said John Coates, head of the IOC inspection team for Tokyo.
He listed several sports that could see venue changes, which the IOC could approve in June. Among them: taekwondo, badminton, sailing, velodrome cycling, and fencing.
Christophe Dubi, Olympic Games Executive Director, said the changes so far would save Tokyo about $1 billion.
“It’s a very substantial figure, and it will continue to grow,” Dubi said.
The IOC awarded Tokyo the games partly because it was compact with 85 percent of the venues within an 8-kilometer radius.
Coates said the changes lowered that number to 66%. But he said Tokyo was now using 50% existing venues, up from 33%.
He said a decision on new sports for the Tokyo Games would not be made until 2016. Baseball and softball are widely expected to be added. Other candidates include karate and squash.
Tokyo has been quick to line up domestic sponsors, including camera maker Canon and the brewer Ashai. It has almost moved rapidly on the IOC’s Olympic Agenda 2020, which is designed to cut the cost of the games and give organizers flexibility.
“The IOC applauded the Tokyo presentation,” Coates said. “They are very, very pleased with the support already; the commercial support, the corporate structure. It was a very good presentation.”
http://www.japantoday.com/category/spor ... 0-olympics
With time running out, Japan to scale back stadium for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
JAPAN TODAY -- May 19, 2015
Japan plans to scale back the main stadium for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as the government runs short of money and time, the country's sports minister said Monday.
Hakubun Shimomura said a planned retractable roof wouldn't be built in time for the games, and some of the 80,000 seats would be temporary ones, according to Japanese media reports.
Shimomura, whose ministry oversees sports, education and science, made the remarks in an exchange of views with Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe. He asked if the city of Tokyo could shoulder 50 billion yen ($418 million) of the 169 billion yen construction cost. Masuzoe was non-committal...more...
Takechanpoo wrote:you want it to be preserved for nostalgia of you gaijin oldtimers?
j-peepoos wouldnt give a fuk about it, i think
Takechanpoo wrote:you want it to be preserved for nostalgia of you gaijin oldtimers?
j-peepoos wouldnt give a fuk about it, i think
Wage Slave wrote:especially for a country that prides itself on its industrial prowess.
kurogane wrote:So, the Olympic Boondoggle......rofl......and to think you guys were all for it at first ........
kurogane wrote:I do hope they go off well, though, of course.
To borrow the example of another quadrennial athletic extravaganza, there's a reason why no one but autocrats want to host the Olympics anymore. As Timothy McGrath of Global Post has written, "Hosting the games has become such a massive, expensive, and unpopular chore that it's getting harder to convince anybody to do it." Except, of course, the regimes that use such events to disburse taxpayer funds to their henchmen and that need the prestige of sport to boost their tainted international reputations.
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