Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 29, 2015

Yep. That’s how this great new ‘anti-germ’ technology works, all right. Not when you need it. You have to wait until it decides to operate…

I think I’ve been in that restroom. Several times in several different buildings.

Amen! Next – We will soon see cars coming at us with no driver…

LOL!!!

I just want to comment that I love seeing Toni and Shannon, and I hope this means a lot of the arc development will include those two, and of course Bwad. I think it will, and I have a feeling we will be getting a lot of surprises over the next year.

….and guess what happened while I was at a Chevron trying to wash with one of those sinks recently? Power outage. No light, no water, no towels.

I go to a store that puts out a bottle of hand soap and sanitizers as a backuip.– Too bad there even has to be a situation that stuff doesn’t work right, and you need the backups. – And even worse, too bad some bathrooms have to also experience backups…

I like the meme where someone expresses their disappointment over the “wavy red lines” pictogram on the air dryer instructions, which is of course used to display the effect of pushing the button on the air dryer. In their “estimation”, they expect the thick, red “wavy lines” to be something else…they are “disappointed” that the effect of pushing said button does not lead to the dispensing of bacon"….

I’ve been to bathrooms where one sink doesn’t work, so you try another. Then you discover that the next sink doesn’t work. And the next. Being “smart” technology, they must’ve learned this prank from some parking meters….

“A Smart Chip On Your Shoulder”“That Sinking Feeling”“Dueling El Baños”“A No Go On The Lavado”“HAL On Strike”‘“A Washed Up Washroom”“How To Handle A Handle”“Soapless And Hopeless”“All Kraftwerk, And No Play”“Going Green, Seeing Red”’When Electric Eyes Go Blind"“A Handle On The Situation”“Sink, Not In Sync”“No Rest For The Wicket”“Say Pretty Please”“It’s A Dirty Job, So No One’s Gonna Do It"or“Come Out With Your Hands Up!”

I’m sure that’s one reason you won’t find them at quite a few Sport Clips…especially the ones between Philly, Baltimore and DC…. – And be sure not to talk about the cuts to the roster in the preseason (or the way things have been going, even the regular season)…you might find you said “the secret word”…

whoever invented those damned things should be flogged

(Captain’s Log:) LOL, the Romulan version is known as a “Disruptor”…

The well-documented Perversity of the Inanimate Object! In this case, feeble sensors that do not sense, contacts that do not contact, TSF (total systems failure)!

Now THAT’S Odd.

THOSE Gadgets ALWAYS Work in the “Men’s Room.”

And now they are advertising them for home bathrooms. I can get them to work about one time out of 10!

“In Star Trek, you never got to see the toilets”

I remember that quick scene in “2001: A Space Odyssey” in which a govt man, on his way to the Moon aboard a futuristic airliner, is nervously reading the instructions for the zero-gravity toilet! He is practically biting his lip, trying to make sure he understands the instructions!

Love it. I was trying to apply one of those “neat seats”, but every time I turned around it caused the auto flush to activate and pull the thing down the bowl.

A sadistic bathroom.

But such bathrooms can be tamed!

I’ve even developed a technique for getting a longer paper towel from those auto dispensers that cut just one short sheet. When the first sheet appears, don’t pull/tear if off. Just gently tug on it an let it go, which usually resets the electronic eye mechanism. Then swipe to get another length of sheet, and just tug again. Repeat until you get the desired length of towel (usually 3 sheets for me). It makes no difference in re: how much towel is used, since I’d probably swipe and tear off 3 sheets anyway. it’s just more efficient drying to have them all in one long sheet.

I’m glad to see Toni back, maybe she’ll be in the arcs for several weeks while Pru does whatever as Luann & Bernice stew in their thoughts!

What gets me are the sink IR sensors that react to the heat of your hands to turn on – cold water – which cools down your hands enough so that the sensor turns the water off!

Actually, I did not know! Wow!

But the salesman said those things would work….

In Star Trek, you never got to see the toilets. I didn’t really want to look in the toilet and see the Captain’s log, anyway… :P

GROAN!

I think that joke belongs inside Mr; Jock;’s Sculpture! ;-PPP

(Sugar Babies:) Was that ever on an episode of “Unwrapped”, before? In seeing the picture, I vaguely recall something about an episode featuring candies and “Fluff”, but didn’t remember if “Sugar Babies” was on there. – On a distantly related note, there was a show on the Travel Channel that showed some of the most unique McDonald’s in the world, including one that featured a “sit down diner” menu (with items like chicken fried steak and potatoes), and one designed to reflect the elegance of the Biltmore Manshion, in Asheville NC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4KxfG_suSk)

I realize that there are a lot of mechanical/electrical/engineer types on this blog, who are also science fiction nerds; I am the nerd on science fiction as well. Don’t get me started! -:). I do want to comment on the bathrooms. Those automatic sensor do-hickeys probably cause more infectious assimilation, if I can use those words to express this thought, than the old-fashioned wash your hands, use paper towels, throw away bathrooms do. If they don’t work consistently, for whatever reason, what good are they? Maybe it all evens out because I can say as a guy only a percentage (about 50%) actually wash their hands after they use the facilities. And a couple of comments on those autoflush toilets. I hate those. Maybe they are meant to be like those French bidots? If so flushing while one is still in the middle of voiding does not do the trick, in fact it’s disgusting. Ewww!!

Still love to see Toni and Shannon though. Reminds me back in the day when I had to take my daughter to a public bathroom and my wife, or a female relative or friend was not with me. URRRRRRRRRRRRP!!!

Yup, that’s about right ..

Then you touch the doorknob and it’s back to the soap,sinkand towel again. Repeat as often as required. ;-p

Shannon is waaaay too young to be using that. Lol!

So far the statistical evidence is that the automated systems are safer than those piloted by humans. The accidents tend to be from human error in other cars. So what happens when down the line some do-gooder decides that everyone would be better off and lives saved by letting the automated systems driving the car be mandatory ?

I’m thinking that by the time there’s enough statistical data to make that call, the evidence will have changed by way of there being more “incidents” to study. Furthermore, to make a “non human driver” mandate work, I’d think they’d have to have the cars drive so slow that the public would find it unacceptable, and rebel against it. Mass Transit would be a lot faster!

that’s assuming it is, on average, slower. It might not be. lots of slowdowns on roads occur from little things people do wrong .. rubber-necking for example.

I’m thinking more along the lines of being slowed down in places and at times when traffic is moving, at least at normal (current) speed limits. Not “rush hour,” stop & go, or “bumper to bumper.” but regular speeds. It is there, I’ve noticed, that drivers often will do very risky and dangerous things to get around someone they perceive is driving too slow…. well, too slow for them. One has to be able to react and defend against these things.

My point is … whether it IS slower or faster, a case will be made someday that it is SAFER, and there will be a push ( possibly backed by insurance companies) to, for example, levy a fine if you are caught “self piloting” a vehicle that comes equipped with auto-driving capability.

I think their tune will change considerably when the first lawsuits start flying from people seriously injured (or the survivors of those killed) in collisions from “auto-driven” vehicles. I just don[‘t think it is all that safe, unless it’s done in a way that makes it prohibitive for the public to use it effectively. AFAIC, it’s just a bad idea.

I understand your position, but I’m concerned that the choice may slowly be eroded from our taking by such pressures as I’ve outlined from insurance companies and others.

That’s when we start to get politicians involved and get laws passed. Sadly, I guess it will come down to who has the more effective lobbying effort… drivers or the Insurance companies. I’m hoping the auto manufacturing lobby will side with the drivers, as that might affect sales volumes as well. Certainly the “luxury” and/or “sports” car markets will suffer from this. I think it’s a “Pandora’s box” they haven’t analyzed fully yet. Once they do, I’m hoping my side will prevail.

I usually end up waving my hands up and down to hit the sweet spot to get the water to flow a bit.

Exactly Right! Add on the toilets that are to automatically flush but don’t, and you have to leave a mess behind. Ugh. That’s one thing I do have to give WalMart credit for— their “hands free” toilets have an emergency button we can push manually.

As of today, Shannon is still funner than Pru. Hope that changes this week.

Shannon is such a good reason for not having kids.

This is exactly how the restrooms at work “work.”

Yeah, those sensors don’t work for demons.

I hate bathrooms with electric dryers only, that have the prominent sign employees must wash hands before returning to work. Then they have to open the door that has been handled by the uncounted people who don’t wash their hands after going to the bathroom.

List of instructions on automatic hand dryer:1. Shake excess water from hands2. Press button3. Rub hands together under warm air4. Dry hands on your pants.

“Activate the Internal Effluvium Mechanism now, HAL” “I’m sorry, Brdshtt, but I cannot do that!”“What seems to be the problem, HAL?”“Brdshtt, I think you know what the problem is just as much as I do,!”“I WON’T ARGUE WITH YOU HAL! FLUSH THE DA$#*D IEM NOW!!”“Brdshtt, goodbye!:

“HAL! HAL!….. HAL!!!!”

Whoever came up with air dryers must never wash their face..And a place I went to for an annual event this weekend still has the soap dispenser from hell. Automatically dispenses a dollop of goo into your hands, then when you move over to wash those hands under the water, it unloads an even larger dollop of goo onto the cuff of your left shirt sleeve. This year they’ve discovered that the only way to prevent this from happening is to leave the dispenser tank empty.

I thought the cloaking device was a Romulan feature?

“So what happens when down the line some do-gooder decides that everyone would be better off and lives saved by letting the automated systems driving the car be mandatory ?”^Yes, another aspect to the “boon vs. bane” of developing some kinds of technology…

“Turns out, that was not one of my better attempts at humor…”^LOL, wow… you had the Matre’D and the Mrs. throwing silverware at you….

(flip side:) Ha ha ha!!!

Ha ha ha!!!

(Sarlacc:) Actually, a lot of people probably have that without ordering a thing….

A truthful comic strip! I’ve been wondering in many mens’ rooms recently if my hands have been turning invisible or if the technology is just plain crappy. (But since it’s in a crapper, that sort of stands to reason, doesn’t it?)

The typical (and quite annoying) 20-seconds-delayed sensors.

Lesson of the strip — always keep a pack of Lysol/Clorox/Freshine (last one is Aldi genric) towelettes handy for such situaltions.

And the toilet flushes before you pee and refuses to flush after.

SPOILER ALERT

And we move to another part of the forest…

Fun interpretation!

Try getting those sensors to recognize your’re there if you’re a lefty! They’re all geared towards right-handers. Discrimination!

I am absolutely “sensor-challenged,” I can rarely get the darn things to work. While I also rarely rely on hand sanitizer, I also carry a small one attached to my purse just for these types of bathrooms. The worst are the ones that have the soap, water and hand dryer combined, and somehow you are supposed to figure out how to position your paws for each one, in order. Impossible.

I read that they want to have automatic toilet paper dispensers. i just cringe at the thought of that!

Every one I’ve ever used had a Different “Sweet Spot” necessary to get it to work..I remember one that was the most Unusual ever. It actually responded to your hands being two inches away from the Sink. If you got your hands Too Close to the faucet before the water turned on, you got Nothing..

That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works!

Uh oh!