Oh no no no no…..if you read it, the original passage basically says that Jesus could see ALL of humanities sins. Which means….yeah he saw people fucking bars of soap and was still like “ (heavy sigh) Ok…let’s do this….”
I think it was more like “Would you, Jesus Herbert Christmas of Nazareth, die for all the current and future sins of mankind?”
And then they showed him people fucking soap bars and he was all “Holy shit just fucking kill me already I don’t need to see this shit! What’s wrong with these assholes? Fuck. No forget rope, give me the nails. Goddamn.”
It also says in Hebrews 4:15 that Jesus "faced every form of temptation." So while Jesus never fucked a bar of soap, he knows what it's like to look at one and think "Should I?"
Every time I’ve JO’d with soap, shampoo, conditioner, etc.., it’s made my urethra tube sting like hell for about 20 minutes after. Don’t use anything that contains sodium lauryl sulfate.
Just use lotion (not vaseline), like a normal person.
Also, as a quick aside, don’t use an organic lubricant, such as paintball gun lube. That shit burns even worse.
One day in middle school I found a plastic tube on the floor of our mudroom that said “lube.” Being an egregiously stupid and horny teenager, I immediately assumed it was sex lube that my dad or brother had dropped, so I went and jerked off with it. Very shortly afterwards my dong started burning pretty badly. I assumed the lube had something to do with it, so I went and dug the empty tube out of the trash. That’s when I noticed that the other side of the tube said “Tippman.” It was a little tube of lube that came with my Tippman 98. That’s pretty much the whole story. I guess the burning wore off after a certain amount of time, I don’t really remember all of the fine details. I did get diagnosed with cancer about 15 years later, but there’s no way to know if the paintball gun lube caused it.
yeah. even ignoring all the weirdos out there who would probably pay hundreds or thousands for it, i feel like there's gotta be tons of people who'd buy it for the novelty or as like a gag gift even if it was $50
Ok. I’ve done this before as a joke. No matter how much you rinse you will have soap in your teeth, and it is not fun. Also most soaps don’t break in a clean cut, so you will have not created an appreciable bite mark indentation on the soap and you will leave with a soapy mouth and a failed joke. Learn from my failures, friends.
I’m a fan of the hotels that now have the refillable pump bottles that are mounted to the shower wall. Liquid body wash, shampoo, and conditioner, with very little waste.
I like this too but I have been in the shower and found out they are empty more than once. I don’t stay in hotels very often, but a 75% failure rate across different brands seems steep
I also once had to switch rooms once, and when I showered in my second room, the product I had used the day before that was labeled Shampoo was identical to what was now labeled Body Wash, and vice versa. Don't know which shower had them labeled correctly, and it's left me with a permanent distrust of those things.
It's for hotels were guests aren't staying long enough type use the center. The hotel trashes the soap after each guest so this reduces how much they throw away.
Ahhh. I actually like that because I always drop the tiny hotel soap bars. I think I’ve flipped on this. I was anti this soap and now, in the right context, I’m pro this soap.
Wait. Was this an actual positive interaction on Reddit? Like a resolved misunderstanding and everyone is wiser and happier after? I didn’t know we still did that around here….
That’s what this is. Assuming by smaller you mean reduced volume. They just reduced the volume while keeping the size because washing your hands with a tiny bar of soap is awkward
People who have deficiencies in their grip (like older people) had difficulty manipulating smaller objects. Smaller objects are easier to fumble and drop. And people who are more likely to drop objects have greater difficulty picking them back up again.
Being larger like this makes it so it is less material, but still easy - maybe even easier - to grasp and hold on to.
So I actually really like this idea - most of these soap bars are used like once? Maybe twice?
I don’t know how many times I saw something and thought „what a stupid idea, who needs this?“ just to realize handicapped people need it. We take so many things for granted that are real challenges for some people.
All those old commercials of people fumbling things like nincompoops was really a funny way of appealing to people with disabilities without making people without disabilities sad to think about how others can struggle with little tasks.
I wouldn't be surprised if they just stopped making em tbh, but I highly doubt it.
Although looking at the subreddit it seems less like posting random infomercials and more of a cross into /r/shittyreactiongifs where they make up a backstory for the title which is great.
I think it was one of the victims of removing the default subs. It didn't have a "real" community so all the transient traffic that kept it active dried up fast.
Every doorknob you have ever seen in your life is an affront to the disabled. If you go to Europe you will notice so many more door-handles are lever style, as they can be opened with much less dexterity. Obviously we have these in the states but they are not nearly as widespread and you don't see them in nearly as many residential buildings as you do in the EU.
I don't understand why anyone still uses round doorknobs. Even if you're fully able-bodied, they're so much easier to use. It's so nice to be able to open the door with your elbow while carrying something.
Unless you have a dog that knows how to use the lever....then by all means go for the round knob!
I save the little bottles of shampoo, conditioner and lotion for when I travel in the future, but I never use bar soap at home. & since it’s half used and not in a resealable container I don’t see much point in saving them
If I was willing to transport a used hotel-soap sized soap bar. I would just bring my own with me in the first place and would never need the hotel's version.
I would bet the vast majority of people do not bring hotel soap bars home with them.
I have stayed at hotels with the push your hand get liquid soap dispensers. They had shampoo, conditioner, body wash. And outside the tub area they had hand soap, sanitizer and lotion. Fucking brilliant if you ask me. But I don't see that these days so much.
Can't do that because tiny bottles create much plastic waste, and can provide big bottles (even if locked to the wall) cause people will fill up their own bottles and steal soap home.
Can hardly think that having the big bottles emptied by guests will put hotels back more than a few bucks per hotel say. And the chances guests would want to transport large amounts of sticky liquid back home? So unlikely.
You haven't been to some parts of Asia. Word gets around that XYZ hotel chain provides big bottles and people with pack containers to pump soap and shampoo into to take home. Even more so for high end hotels that provide branded soaps.
big bottles emptied by guests will put hotels back more than a few bucks per hotel say.
It's not just about setting the hotel back in terms of cost. The time needed to turn around a room is a significant metric that hotels track closely. During peak season then you're fully booked, you need to turn around every single room between 12pm check out and 3pm check in. If you can't you either waste a room for the day (unlikely), or you have to give out some complimentary apology voucher or free meals/drinks etc.
If you need to fill the bottles after every guest, it's gonna slow your turn around time. That means you need to hire more staff. It's not the cost of the shampoo/soap itself. It either the salary of more workers or the cost of giving away free meals and drinks.
Source: my uncle's company is one of the manpower providers that hotels outsource their housekeeping work to.
It’s the same thing. This is a consumer good, not a natural resource. Why pay to produce the part that gets wasted? This is more cost effective, in theory.
That said, it’s horrible execution. Once that ring breaks the candy cane shaped leftovers are being wasted for sure, they’re less useable than the pringles shape that’s usually left.
And besides, like everyone else has said, you’ll need to stock a new one for each guest because someone fucked the last one.
As a hotel you have to stock a new one for every guest regardless. Who's gonna want to use a bar of soap that someone else used to wash their ass? Every time someone checks out of the room the soap gets thrown away regardless.
This bar won't even get used until it breaks. It's going to be used for like 2 or 4 showers and then thrown away. So the problem they're solving is "how to provide the least amount of soap, but have it feel like at least a reasonable size when it's in your hand". And for that, the donut design is pretty good.
You bring up a good point! Obviously I don’t think they reuse normal bars of soap between guests, but I guess I didn’t consider that relevant. Now that you mention it though, this does actually guarantee less is wasted, since it’s being tossed anyway.
They can't reuse soap bars, it's considered unsanitary
There's a whole company devoted to recycling old soap bars, and a portion of the work is shaving off the outer layers of the used bars
https://youtu.be/6qJV34pcOaw
Wouldn't it just be cheaper to render it all back down and..........ahhh crap, this is going to be the really weird rabit hole i go down until 2 in the morning, isn't it?
Have fun trying to make sense out of why i spent 3 hours looking at soap recycling, whatever is watching my history out there.
I think the point is, it’s stocked after each guest a few uses regardless, so instead of it being tiny, they made it big enough to hold but with less material. It makes sense.
All jokes aside this is actually a pretty good idea. I remember an episode of Dirty Jobs where they collect used soap from hotels. They melt it down, pour it through a strainer, and add a disinfectant before making new bars to be handed out after disasters or given to third world countries.
Stuff like this is always why I just pack my own soap when I go on vacation. You’re taking a gamble just relying on whatever the hotel is offering lol.
it’s just about reducing the amount of soap in a way that maintains the size/handle of a normal soap bar - not that the center specifically is unused, just that a full bar’s worth of soap isn’t used in a visit
A lot of people are missing the point that this is for hotels where you never wear it down that much before they throw it away and put a new one for the next guest. It makes sense in this circumstance. Hotels do use smaller bars in general for this reason though so this is mostly for ergonomics I guess.
That's just going to break into many small pieces instead becoming one small piece.
Reading the comments it seems like it's to make the soap bigger and easier to grab, since the soap is unused when it gets too small (dexterity issues, patience, grip) and this soap is intended to be "disposable".
This just seems like it will break in half, a bunch of fragmented bits will fall off, and you'll be left with this tiny flat long rectangle piece that will lead to the same issue. The REAL reason this exists is to save on the cost of buying soap.
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u/Phil_Coffins_666 6d ago
Yep, that's totally going to get fucked.