Thursday 24 September 2009

Magnum Washroom Super Automatic

It seems apt that whilst reviewing this fat, silver oaf, I noticed that some talented young pen-user [may or may not have] scrawled their latest comedy musing beneath its hefty hull. Here, in front of millions of interweb-lookers, is that message:

"Flop that old tit on my Quavers and call me Cassandra."

Thy will be done.

Can be found: Bar 49, Soho, London, England.
Auto: Sure
Rating: Two firm pats of my left ventricle.

2000 - Initial Automatic Services

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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Fuck, I am sorry, I was thinking about something else. But seriously, this hand dryer wasn't even working.

Can be found: The Chesham Arms, Hackney, London
Auto: Fuck knows, or cares.
Rating: Hand me that needle and I'll tell you.

Newlec (Manual)

I once had a friend called Harold. We've all had a friend like him haven't we, eh? Yeah, we've all had a friend like Harold. You know the ones I mean, don't you? Like Harold? My old mate Harold? We've all had a friend like him. Yeah, you know the one I mean. Mine was Harold. Do you remember? Eh? You remember what your friend used to say to you don't you, eh? Just like my old mate Harold, I bet! Yeah, I remember old Harold. I remember what he used to say. Yours was the same, I don't doubt. Because we've all had one. Like Harold.

Every day he used to say to me (I bet this sounds familiar), every day he would say, "I am an ugly, ignorant cunt and there's absolutely no point to my existence". Classic Harold, that.

The reason I mention Harold is because he's precisely like Newlec, the manufacturer of this hand dryer. We've all had a friend like that at some point though, eh?

Can be found: Costa Coffee, Edinburgh, Scotland
Auto: No
Rating: The sum total of cabbages in the hat, minus the weight of that homeless chap over there.

Typhoon

This cheeky-chappy of a dryer comes complete with instructional descripto-words:

"Move hands and Comfortable hot air will be sent out automatically [sic]"

Ho ho oh, my, congratulations. Really, really wonderful.

Can be found: 'Cave 1', Underbelly (Edinburgh Fringe), Edinburgh, Scotland.
Auto: Why, yes!
Rating: Captain Fuck-Twat's Award for 'Shittest Stuff On A Thing'

Vent-Axia Ultradry

It seems prudent to note, fellow faithful Hand Dryer hunter, that moments after discovering this hand dryer, indeed seconds after taking the photo you see above, the entire unit was covered in blood.

My blood. My blood, and my brains. And bits of my skin and hair and eyes. Blood and brains and skin and hair and eyes and tears. All smashed and pulped up over the plastic exterior, purposefully pushed and rubbed inside the mechanisms and between the tiny cracks and around the fixtures that kept this device hanging so smugly against that toilet wall.

Miniature fragments of bone stuck out of the glooped-up, soggy brain-mess where my skull had finally surrendered to the rhythmic head-punching and fractured itself all-over-the-fucking-place. As I smeared the last of my own sticky lobes over the front and sides of the dryer, I could hear myself weeping, as though it were from a distant dream or memory. I could also discern the haunting echo of laughter, chanting and screaming, and hundreds of fists thumping against a hollow door. Just as the tumultuous hubbub became too much for me to bear, all of a sudden there came a peculiar silence.

Some weeks later I awoke, and it was at that point that I realised just how much I hate this hand dryer.

Can be found: The Eddy, Brighton, England
Auto: Yes
Rating: Two weeks in hospital + six operations

Sunday 5 April 2009

Newlec Electrical

What did I do, mm? What was it that I did to the designer of this hand dryer, eh? Did I smack him in the chops? Hm? Did I find his mother and tell her she was as rough as puke in a sock? Did I? Did I threaten to paint a red mark on his front door and tell his neighbours that he had AIDs? Did I put my flannel in his mouth as a joke? Did I send him a bottle of rare 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux wine, knowing full well that he would have been happy with a £5 bottle of Blossom Hill? Did I sit opposite him on the Tube, intentionally staring at his groin with a smile on my face? Did I go into Waterstones, find a copy of Margeret Thatcher's biography and replace each occurence of the word 'Conservative' with the name of his first born child? Did I visit his house dressed as a doctor and tell him that he would die in a matter of hours because I'd discovered that his DNA was made primarily of plasticene? Did I impregnate his pet chinchilla with some toothpaste I found on the bus? Did I cough in his fucking eye?

NO I FUCKING DIDN'T, SO WHY THE FUCK DID HE FEEL AS THOUGH HE COULD RUIN MY FUCKING DAY WITH HIS SHIT HAND DRYER?

Can be found: London Gate, 72 Dyke Road Drive, Brighton
Auto: Yes
Rating: MINUS-SIX POINTS ON THE SCHLEB SCALE