To f*cking HATE the 'no touch' soap dispenser product that they are constantly advertising at the moment?

[GreenGenie]

Your hands are dirty...then you touch your soap dispenser. Did you know your soap dispenser is covered in hundreds of bacteria ? (implication... that could destroy your health/children's health etc) - use our no touch dispenser or you don't really love your family.

So let me get this straight, in my house it goes like this:

1. hands get dirty
2. touch soap dispenser (with dirty hands)
3. wash hands
4. dry hands

Why would you be touching the soap dispenser unless you were about to wash your hands anyway?
Just another wretched product to make us paranoid about the filth that lurks, ready to strike at any time,in any corner of our homes. Isn't there enough of this crap on the market already? Obviously I won't be buying one but no doubt many already paranoid people will. What a waste of money.

Couldn't agree with you more - you are JUST ABOUT TO WASH YOUR HANDS!!!! There must be an awful lot of gullable fools out there

I totally aggree- I hate this advert too!

yanbu - winds me up too. More battery powered crap for no good reason (see also automatic air fresheners!)

If you think about it, it's actually the taps that should be 'no touch' as you have to touch them again after you've washed your hands. However, we all seem to have survived so far with our germ infested ones.

Oh yadnbu!

I hate the one about antibacterial washing powder.

It makes no sense at all I hate the bloody advert.

So what if you touch the top you are about to wash your hands anyway and if it bugs you that much give the top of your soap pump a bit of a wipe over when you clean the kitchen! FFS.

It is as bad as when everyone started going down with swine flu and Dettol tried to sell their product by claiming it killed SF bacteria .

agree - the product is for the totally paranoid. they would do best to flog it to those petting farms not to health-conscious mums

I hate the antibac washing powder one too ArseHolio.

Mind you, I'd like a magic door opener for public loos so I wouldn't have to touch the handle after all these peopel who don't wash their hands.

Richard Herring did a really funny 2 minutes on this!

I bought one of these this morning.

Nothing to do with the germ scenario I hasten to add but because it looked small and neat and would, hopefully, do away with the god-awful pump dispenser we use at the moment which leaks soap everywhere.

Just the job i thought, huh!

A. it's not as small as it looks and it won't fit on the sink side.

B. the damn thing dispenses soap if you look sideways at it.

I swear I was sitting on the loo at least 2 feet away from it and it chucked soap out.

Oh it's pants isn't it? They must have really struggled to come up with that seed of worry to plant in our already overcrowded subconcious

It's just the sort of gizmo my mother will buy though.

She already has one of those battery operated squirty air freshners which scare the life out of me.

It randomly puffs air freshner out like some flowery scented Phantom Raspberry Blower.

Thank you ladies. This thread is making me laugh

YADNBU

YY seeker, I deploy the sleeve over hand to open door if Pull and shoulder open if Push.

and at BendyBob's far more eloquent expression of what I was ranting about!

I used to have one of those Bendy, due to Dh's liking for curry

First time it went off I jumped so high I peed on the seat

Agree totally what a load of rubbish. Maybe we should all get those lab/hospital touch with your elbows taps, oh and whilst we are at it surgical masks as well!?

Also detest the new Dettol "some bacteria can live in lava" thing "yes some can but not food poisoning enteric bacteria"

and the new Oxy hygienic washing powder, so normal washing still leaves your clothes dirty so buy some of this from us at £4 a pop and put that in as well.

I'm a microbiologist BTW so want to throw things at the TV

Got to love the marketing men

Lol!

I just cant' get used to my mum's one. I jump a mile when it fires off.

I think it lurks in wait for me. I'm starting to take it personally now; wondering if it's commenting on my deodorant

There will come a point, very soon, when the ludicrous paranoia about perfectly normal germs results in full chemical hazard suits being normal going out clothes.

I thought exactly this when watching the ad for the first time the other evening (I don't watch too much telly unfortunately)

What a waste of time effort and money for thos buying - glad to hear it doesn't work!!

I hate these prodcuts and the ads even more so - I especially hate the Ad about "Paul's Toilet"

YANBU- I thought just the same as you- only stupid people would buy into this. LOL

One of my friends who is into gadgets has one of these.
He had a party -not a huge one mind you, and at the end of the night it was completely empty. everyone kept ging into the loo to use the soap dispenser!

YADNBU

I really hate the sinsiter tone used for '...never touch a dirty soap dispenser again'

The DC were fascinated with this ad when it 1st came out, theyknow now that if they mention it they will get a long rant from me about the fact that it doesn't matter if it is dirty because you then WASH YOUR HANDS!!

oh pah! sinister

I nloody hate these adverts and the whole "everything must be antibacterial or you might as well be wiping your surfaces down with raw chicken!" attitude. If we were completely free of bacteria, we'd be in so much trouble healthwise - we need our bacteria (commensal flora) to stay healthy.
Antibacterial everything is such shit "science".

YADNBU

I am so bored of all the ads trying to convince us that we can and should try to make the world germ free.

First, you'll never eradicate most germs, second, if you did you and your children would have no immune system.

I am loving the mites that live on my eyelashes

I know, Dettol ads really wind me up. Especially the one about allergens getting in when you open a window - DH has bad hayfever so I do sympathise, but the impression they give it 'oh no! fresh air! kill it! kill it!'

You know how at the end of War of the Worlds, the Martians are all killed by the common cold because they have no bacteria and therefore no immune responses? I swear that's what Dettol wants to happen to the human race.