The gym.
Tell them they're being Terribly Wasteful and UnGreen. Maybe that'll work.
This place is so ridiculous that I'm halfway tempted to request a wipe warmer, just to see if they'd do it.
3) when you bring your own stock of unscented baby wipes.
Of course, instead of fussiness, it could be a hilarious overreaction to potential liability.
Babies smell good. Well, most of the time.
Baby wipes? Don't they contain some sort of oil or lotion so as not to chap the baby's butt? Isn't that going to be awfully slippery for gym equipment?
Outside of these:
Our baby wipes are moistened with natural aloe vera, vitamin E, and water to cleanse and moisturize gently and naturally. Unlike many traditional baby wipes, ours are not bleached with chlorine and do not contain alcohol or synthetic ingredients that can irate baby's skin.
I think they mostly are treated with alcohol; they're essentially a different delivery system for hand sanitizer. Also the gym probably doesn't have "baby wipes" per se, but disinfecting wipes, which are for grownups, doncha know.
They come in quite handy if you happen to be out in the desert with no access to shower facilities for a week or so and would still like to convince somebody to have sex with you.
Or so I hear.
Yargh. Insert </blockquote> between "skin." and "I".
Our gym did that. I figured it was cheaper, or more convenient or something. That they would rather generate huge amounts of garbage than go to the bother of doing laundry.
7: Not really.
Baby wipes are awesome for that last ass wipe after taking a shit. Once you've had them in the house, they're on the "staples" list.
Staples are terrible for that last ass wipe after taking a shit.
12: Totally. If I were wealthy and earth-hating, I would keep them on hand all the time. But because I love the earth and the Japanese, I guess I'll just get a washlet.
(Teacher Tweety, are you watching this game?)
I was going to weigh in with the gym being terribly fussy but then I realized that I would love it if someone, anyone, insisted that people wipe down the equipment at our Castro branch of Gold's Gym with ANYTHING. Baby wipes, paper towels, the silky tresses of the boys behind the check-in counter... just wipe it down. It's icky.
And I ditto 12.
12: Yes, they are evil.
14: As I'm wealthy and earth-hating, I use them to wipe my ass, to sponge bathe *before* getting into the shower, and to wipe down my bike after a ride. Sometimes I even open a whole package and THROW IT AWAY immediately. Just for fun.
8: Never turn your back on an irate baby skin.
14: now I am. Yikes! Couldn't we just blow 'em out on occasion?
The Yoga Studio I go to makes people who rent mats wipe them down afterwards. They don't use baby wipes; they have some special yoga mat sanitizing wipe.
Bring a dirty diaper and say "In for a penny, in for a pound."
Anywhere! But since I don't belong to a gym, perhaps one in my apartment would be more convenient.
My confidence in LaTroy Hawkins is slightly higher than in Kyle Farnsworth, but that ain't saying much.
JP used to blog about something called a "biffy".
So by all accounts this Obama vs Clinton debate was a global showcase of idiot Americans and their idiot media with their idiot questions. Did anyone see it?
They come in quite handy if you happen to be out in the desert with no access to shower facilities for a week or so and would still like to convince somebody to have sex with you.
A ho-bath: pits, tits, and ass. As I've heard it derogitorily called. But probably just because they're talking about Sifu.
One of the major TP makers started advertising butt wipes for grownups, but I haven't seen em in the stores yet. That's fine - we have a preschooler, so Cottonelle Kids wipes are totally acceptable to have on hand.
They go in the toilet, so they're no more problematic than TP (more resource intensive, but also a lot more effective - you're using them in place of at least some TP). But now I hate shitting in public restrooms - no final wipe!
27: I turned it off after about thirty minutes because the questions were so pointless and stupid (Jeremiah Wright! Pennsylvanians are bitter! Sniper fire in Bosnia! You said he's not electable! blahblahblahblah...).
27: Ah, that's why I returned to my computer after 4 evening hours away to find a chock-full RSS.
27: I took a look at the debate, listened to some question about gun control, wondered when it became the early 1990s again, and watched something else.
27: Zowie; the debate is so bad that it just resulted in "what the fuck" going up on the front page of Crooked Timber. They're usually a bit more circumspect over there.
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If this game lasts five hours I'm going to be mad. If it lasts five hours and the sox don't win I'm going to be either homicidal or suicidally depressed at having watched this for so many hours.
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8: I was sending them by the Costco-load to my cousin when he was in Iraq, but I don't think he'd found anyone there to convince to have sex with him. Just dust-removal, mostly.
35: yeah I mean they're useful for general hygiene, too. Write what you know, isn't that what they say?
34: Dude. I took my pre-schooler to Opening Day. After 90 minutes - and 2-1/2 innings - we were down 7-0. I gritted my teeth and stayed. Comeback. Tie. 12 innings. 4:45. Our last pitcher - a Rule 5 guy - comes in and walks 4 (plus a hit and sac fly).
The only good news was the gorgeous bike ride home.
So what you're saying is that you can't honestly describe yourself as a dirty hippie?
Oh, boo, I haven't seen the devate yet, since obviously it got pushed back on this coast. Mr. B. is watching Wheel of Fortune in the meantime.
Shoot me now.
38: certainly not!
I can honestly describe myself as dirty, baby wipes or no baby wipes, but I'm hardly a hippie.
The Yoga Studio I go to makes people who rent mats wipe them down afterwards.
As well they should; not cleaning a mat after use is a really good way for the next person who uses it to get ring worm. It's relatively common for wrestlers to get it.
41: Ain't no "quasi" about it. I mean, have you seen his shoes?
Dude no way I'm a cyberpunk!
(It's true! Rudy Rucker said so!)
(Is that word more or less dated than "flapper"? I vote more.)
Yes, but have you ever hacked the planet?
Hah! Two pieces of trivia from the making of that movie: they took pictures of people at this hacker con in New York (HOPE) for costuming ideas. Unfortunately everybody there was dressed in black t-shirts and tevas with socks except for two of my friends, who had on the one hand blue hair and on the other a computer chip glued to his forehead and a jumpsuit with flames on it. So if you saw that movie and thought "why do the hackers look like idiot ravers instead of, you know, computer nerds?" you can partly blame my friends. Second piece of trivia: this schlubby, acne-ridden hacker kid who hung around Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 magazine got invited, along with most of the 2600 crew, to the premiere and afterparty, at which party he picked up Angelina Jolie and went home with her. No lie.
Heh, I have a feeling this is my gym. If so, they get lots of complaints about the wastefulness of the gym wipes (the target demographic of this place is extremely green), but so far they're sticking to it. If it makes you feel any better, people generally only use them for the aerobic machines that they're on for a while/sweat all over, not for every weight machine they sit on for a couple minutes. (Not that the distinction makes a whole lot of sense.)
Also, they are not, and do not smell to me much like, baby wipes. More like those disposable Clorox-type wipes, though not as bleachy.
Baby wipes are awesome for that last ass wipe after taking a shit. Once you've had them in the house, they're on the "staples" list.
I wish I had a bidet.
My new house came with water-squirting toilets. They have changed my life. My ass is clean in a way it never could have been before. Plus, we spend less on toilet paper because we now use it mainly for patting dry rather than actually wiping clean.
You either have vastly more detailed budgeting than I do, GB, or toilet paper is prohibitively expensive in Japan.
I mean "use less", that I can see. But "spend less"? What do you buy with the money you save? An eighth of a candy bar?
Maybe I'm revealing my financial ignorance and toilet paper really is expensive.
Well, the problem is not so much the cost of TP, but rather the unsightly and awkward spectacle of carring a huge pack of it home from the store. Now, we do that less often.
Second piece of trivia: this schlubby, acne-ridden hacker kid who hung around Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 magazine got invited, along with most of the 2600 crew, to the premiere and afterparty, at which party he picked up Angelina Jolie and went home with her. No lie.
Was this kid's name "Jonny Lee Miller"? Or was this before she and Miller got together?
(I always wonder, wrt that movie, if they ignored everything the 2600 guys told them, or if that movie was the 2600 crew's biggest prank ever.)
52: this was before she and Miller got together.
In re: that movie, I think they nodded sagely along to everything the 2600 guys told them, then as soon as they left the room said "oh my god we can't make a movie about those freakshows," hired a bunch of NYC club kids to do the set design and adapted The Bad News Bears with computery jargon and less foul language. Also they cast Angelina Jolie, and then hired somebody brilliant to put together a soundtrack.
But seriously, they were snappin' picture after picture of my friends, and almost none of anybody else (except Wesley Crusher's super-hot girlfriend); we've always wondered how much of the non-hackerness was their fault.
and then hired somebody brilliant to put together a soundtrack
Holy crap. I just looked at the soundtrack listing, and you're right, that's fucking amazing. I'd totally forgotten.
(This is the music I missed out on, going to college in the middle of fucking nowhere. AUGH.)
Sifu, do you know a guy named Ben She/rman? Who doesn't make clothing or tobacco?
Cause there was one who was lately my sysadmin who has some sort of connection to organizing HOPE.
Not sure he'd recognize Beefo Meaty, though; I went by tfish then.
I wish I had a bidet.
The public toilets at the Gulbenkian Institute in Lisbon have a bidet in every cubicle. Even in the men's. In any other context, this would be the most awesome thing in the museum.
So what you're saying is....Blume is Angelina Jolie?
Certainly not. Blume is much cooler than Angelina Jolie.
Blume's much more attractive than Angelina Jolie, come on.
Blume is smarter and funnier than Angelina Jolie!
Blume's much more attractive than Angelina Jolie, come on.
Having seen only one of them naked, I'll have to reserve judgment until I have sufficient evidence to make a fully informed decision. Laydeez.
Tweety is all retro with his cyberpunk chic. He needs to become a forward-thinking fashion plate and adopt steampunk.
57: Hah... I'll avoid saying something cliched about the size of the world and instead just commit to asking him about tfish.
65: also a term invented by a friend!
66: Eggplant either you're in Europe or points east or I'm very impressed with you.
68: Ha. I was thinking, tell me you're in Alaska, Eggplant, and it all makes sense.
Fuck me, Felix, you're moving with some heavyweights there!
68.1 turns out to be a lie; that first recorded use is about three years before the one I'm thinking of. Stupid lying friend.
69: hah! Awesome.
Sifu, what kind of half-assed people do you camp with that they can't manage to assemble a shower? I suggest you trade up for friends with more useful skills.
71: If only it actually existed and wasn't just a leftover April Fool's joke. . .
75: oh, we have a shower now. 97-98 we were pretty half-assed, it's true.
76: you an INFERNOKRUSHER fan, felix?
73: Where do you work? Are they hiring?
74: Thank you. My only regret is that with no political thread, the brilliant plan to save the election I just hallucinated will disappear unheard and unloved. Tragic, really.
79: Mostly at my desk, sometimes the comfy chair at home. I'll ask!
The comfy chair agrees, but the desk resists. It doesn't think you're real.
78: I do like fire, I won't deny it. (Also, crushing).
Blume's much more attractive than Angelina Jolie, come on.
Having seen only one of them naked, I'll have to reserve judgment until I have sufficient evidence to make a fully informed decision. Laydeez.
Unfortunately for you, apo, uDCon III is going to take place on the west coast.
uDCon III is going to take place on the west coast.
HURRAH!!
it is?? shit y'all, inform a sister.
This is a lie. A happy lie, but a lie nonetheless.
(Unless it isn't, in case, whoopee! [But it is. Sorrow.])