April 17, 2002
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So. You ever see something on TV and tell yourself 'Hey, that's a good idea!'..but then other companies begin to do it and pretty soon you start thinking that perhaps if that many companies are doing it that, to be blunt, it probably sucks?
There is a reason for the way our bodies react to the environment around us. It's hot, we sweat. It's cold, our teeth chatter, we stomp our feet, put our hands in our armpits..you get the idea. Well the same is true with gag reflexes and nose wrinkling when it comes to smells. It's our body's way of telling us:
"I don't like it and it's bad"
Our bodies don't have to give excuses, submit action items, fashion feasibility reports, or submit financial approvals to committee. Your body's reaction is "Fuck that, I'm puking!". Well, maybe not THAT reaction, but it does what it does because it has to.
Now, having said that, will corporate America quit with the Martha-friggin-Stewart-don't-offend-my-senses cleaning products already for flying monkies sake! I mean, it only goes to reason that what stank before stank for a reason...it had toxic stuff in it...probably vaporous and easily absorbed through breathing enough of it. So does it make ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER to make it smell good so we take an even BIGGER wiff and exclaim 'Gee, your oven smells terrific!' when the same toxic fumes that were a product of the cleaner doing it's job are, reasonably speaking, still in the damn stuff and now introduced into a deeper area of our lungs that it would never have seen otherwise because of it's now 'baby-fresh scent'?! I mean, this is like disguising nuclear waste by making it look like Grape Nuts™ and then patting yourself on the back and sprinkling it over the landscape like lawn fertilizer.
Don't get me wrong, I like the 'herbal scented' Windex™ that doesn't give me that acid taste in the back of my throat when I use it, or the lemon-scented oven cleaner. It just seems to me that we are, in our own 'in too damn much of a hurry' Amercian way, covering up the symptoms and not fashioning a new solution. Like an oven cleaner that WON'T strip the paint of a battleship or the skin off your child. And I don't believe that we *can't* do this...I mean we have a hair growing pill and a boner pill (but still no cure for AIDS, go figure), I'm sure we can clean our kitchens/bathrooms/lives without chemicals that will eat the lining out of an iron smelting crucible or poison the planet to the point where the cockroaches develop thumbs and start telling US what to do.
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lol
too true!!!
I have never heard of a 'and a boner pill' . . . but the hair growing thing I have and to think that the same people who created AIDS can't cure it is quite irronic I think.
Of course they can create safer products . . . but then that would take more money . . . or should I say that would not increase theri bottom line . . . and it is just so much eisier to let us believe its better by making it smell better!
Jerks.
And speaking of thum growing Roaches . . . I just saw this spider that . . .
~ torri
Adding toxic chemicals that smell good to toxic chemicals to clean your house is a rather silly thing, dontchaknow.
To the rescue: Citrusolve, SimpleGreen, and plain old vinegar and water!
Never heard of a boner pill, torri? Well, that's probably a good thing since it means you don't watch NASCAR races or late-night infommercials; it's called Viagra and it's all the rage in Japan now...but get this, it's also ILLEGAL there as well. So they have these cruises where they sail out into international waters, distribute the Viagra, and then (I can only suppose) retire to the cabins for attempts at wrecking the Ikea furniture. A social event..no, scratch that, and INDUSTRY created from a pill...kind of like the magic beans that Jack..errr...no pun intended.
and sometimes when I'm nervous I put my hands in my armpits, like this, and I pull them out and I SNIFF them, like this...
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