Europe needs to get real on defence; Britain needs to get real on Europe
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You are so right, Al. The EU conspiracy to slaughter us wealthy,older, visually challenged wrinklies who can afford to stay in Hotels, by installation of unreadable directions and non standard showers, must be exposed.
Why should they expect us to buy a pair of £3 reading glasses and leave them permanently in our sponge bags, so we can continue to read, even when we have lost our £500 Chanel prescription pair.
Very New Labour: we should legislate for £x billion worth of works to standardise Hotel showers as well as shampoo and conditioner bottles.
This should have been given some of the 700 hours Parliamentary time wasted on the Foster Hunting Bill. Why did you not arrange it?
Alastair,
you might be on to something there.
I’d love to see you pitch the idea on Dragons Den.
Just to see the Dragons face when you appear at the top of the stairs would be worth my annual licence fee.
Maybe the shows producers could do a celeb charity version.
People actually use that junk? I tend to take my own good stuff with me and then steal the crap hotel stuff for bathroom ornaments if the bottles are posh and pretty enough.
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On behalf of the colour-enhanced, please don’t outlaw conditioner! Feel your pain regarding unfathomable controls and tiny print on the bottles though, colour coding might be a great idea – blue for soap, green for shampoo and specially for you, RED for conditioner! Anyhoo, as I’m freezing my posterior off in Scotia right now, feel my resentment that you’re in Sunny Italia you jammy swine! PS Kindly desist from blogging about being in the shower, it creates deeply distracting mental pictures for some of us… 🙂
Thank you for your interest. But, as you know, Berlusconi doesn’t actually have any shampoo-able hair. It’s actually a coloured acrylic weave plastered firmly to the scalp. For technical support, please contact “Ruby” at the usual location.
Aaaaaargh – please not colour coding!!!!
10% or thereabouts of us do not distinguish some greens, reds, browns, turquoises, greys, blues, pinks, yellows and a whole range of subtle yucky poo coloured colours on sale at DIY stores everywhere. They all look rather similar. No way can we do more than hazard a guess as to what they might be.
Protans, Deutans and Tritans, “–anomalists” and “–anopians ” alike, are voters too. Colour-blind to the politically incorrect.
Surely a cartoon face disappearing in bubbles for shampoo, a slick haired head for conditioner and bubbly hands for soap – problem solved?
Pictograms rule!
Innovation in Italian politics — there’s a thought. If they “innovated” the Italian parliament, 75% or more of the deputies would be out on their ears, starting with Berlusconi.
Meanwhile, before you get in the shower, put your specs on, look for the bottle labelled “balsamo” and bin it, that’s the conditioner.
-and so you try to open the shampoo with your teeth and then-
Could.t agree with you more. I have a visual impairment, so doubly frustrating. Good idea to take your own – I pinch bottles (although they are paid for as part of my bill) and then put em in my washbag for next time & know in advance which is which. Not sure about a directive, but application of common sense (ha ha – you may say, that’ll be the day) would be welcome. Don’t get me started on those dim energy saving bulbs or “mood lighting” in hotel rooms!