New "Screw The Planet" Products

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As Satan Scrubbed My Toilet
It's a slew of new, disposable products that really scream "Screw the planet, I'm an American!" Life is good

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
May 28, 2004

Pity the poor beleaguered housewife, still struggling like a haggard dog through her array of thankless daily chores.

Just look at her, hair pulled tight and life a-shambles, saddled with all manner of horrible bristly toilet brushes and horrible sponges and horrible cloth towels to wipe down the horrible countertops and then topping it all off with being forced to use one of those horrible old-fashioned bristle brooms to sweep the floor. Horrible!

Thank God, then, for modern ultraconvenience. Thank God for the corporate household-product industry, so thoroughly glutted on excess merchandise and overinvention they can't possibly think of things we actually need anymore. And thank God for our concomitant complete lack of any real environmental conscience. Yay America!

See, now, the happily narcotized, entirely sexless, vaguely bulbous modern housewife in the recent TV commercial as she finally tosses away her angry, growling, animated (!) toilet brush (see how it snaps and snarls at her like a drunken deadbeat dad! See her toss it into the trash can and then plop her butt down on it in satisfied glee!) in favor of -- say it with me -- disposable toilet scrubbers you use once and throw away!

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[Pathwalker]

1. Why not disposable toilets instead?

Then you wouldn't have to clean the things any way. And I love my old-fashioned straw broom - so much better for flying! ;-) Maybe they'll invent food and drink that just disipates in our bodies - then we wouldn't even need toilets.

[Catch22Dem]

2. I've been bitching about these products for years now

Every time I turn around there's a new "disposable" cleaning product. You're right, though, the disposable toilet brush takes the cake...for now.

[Pathwalker]

3. Give them time - they'll come up with something new.

But I will continue to refuse to purchase them, as always.

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5. The entire Sharper Image catalog

is testimony to conspicuous consumption