Paradigm Shit

First, a couple apologies...

1) Sorry for the language in the title, but I absolutely could not resist the play on words!
2) Sorry for the subject matter. I generally avoid such topics, but I can no longer remain silent on this!

One definition of Paradigm Shift is "A complete change in thinking or belief systems that allows the creation of a new condition previously thought impossible or unacceptable". It's time for such a change in the bathroom.

First is the question of privacy. Some of us go out of our way to only "tinkle" at work. I'm not saying you're a terrible person if for some reason you have to drop a deuce at the office. However, I shouldn't have to smell it just because I need to quickly relieve myself or wash my hands. I DEMAND separate bathrooms for #1 and #2. I don't even know how you would go about making such a change. I believe during the days of segregation they had separate bathrooms for black people. Where did they go??? I work in a hospital, if any place in the world could pull off this change, it would be the hospital. There are already hundreds and hundreds of bathrooms. Just some slight remodeling, and voilà, you have Men #1, Men #2 and Ladies (Everyone knows ladies don't defecate). I'm not sure of all the logistics, but I am 100% serious that this needs to happen. There are some NASTY people in this world and I don't want to smell them.

The second issue is much more simply stated... IT IS THE YEAR 2008, WHY ARE WE STILL POOPING IN A BOWL OF WATER?!?!?! Technology makes absolutely amazing advances in certain areas--just today I read about a LAZER that puts out like 200 billion times more energy than the sun--while some areas completely lack. For instance, why do most computers still come with Floppy drives? Why can't elevators be air conditioned? Why is my coffee maker sitting over there flashing 12:00 repeatedly? And why, for the love of all things holy, are we still dropping the kids off at the pool??? This process can be traced back as far as the 1590's and as we know it today was patented in the 1850's. I'm no inventor, but if you are, get off the pot and go figure this out!!!

It's disgusting.