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I was a Dyson fan boy for years. Then bought a 1/3 price Miele vacuum cleaner which was less noisy and more effective. The Dyson looked nicer though with the designer colors.
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Unless I'm at the library or a Starbucks, I generally don't wear the kind of clothes in public that one wipes hands on.
I had to read this comment like 3 times to parse it... and I'm still not sure I get it Wiping your hands on your pants when there's towels or something is kind of silly, but how on earth does the article of clothing define if you can wipe your hands on it? Are you wearing vinyl pants or something?
If I'm wearing $50 jeans, I might wipe my hands on them.
If I'm wearing a $2,000 suit, I won't wipe my hands on it.
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Plenty of people raise their kids this way. When I see parents laugh when their kids fall down instead of panic, I smile. And the best part? The kids smile too, because they're actually looking to their parents for how to react. I'd rather raise daredevils than anxious wrecks. My best friend has a kid who's always climbing on stuff, falling down, getting hurt. That kid is going to grow up to be awesome.
Yeah, if the kid grows up he'll be awesome for sure
No guts no glory.
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Pretty much every Dyson product I've used, from the public bathroom air "blades" to the vacuums, seem like a gimmicky, inferior products with a premium price tag That's interesting to me because I've had the opposite experience. I move a lot. For almost decade I moved twice a year. I don't like taking the dirt from one place to the next, so I buy a new vacuum cleaner every time. So I've been though a lot of vacuum cl…
> I don't like taking the dirt from one place to the next, so I buy a new vacuum cleaner every time. That seems extremely wasteful. Why not just emptying the vacuum cleaner before bringing it to the new place? One person buying 20 new vacuum cleaners in a decade is just one of the reasons this planet is running out of resources.
It is. I'm not afraid to admit that. Old vacuum cleaners give me the heebie jeebies. We all have our quirks.
The cobbled together box fan may work better than a Dyson, but my wife isn't going to let me put a cobbled together box fan in the library. People care about aesthetics. There are entire industries built around this, even in technical areas (industrial design, UX, etc...) So the Dyson wins simply because it will exist in the house and clean a portion of the air, while the Sanford and Son rig won't be in the house and…
So hire a cabinet maker to build a nice box around it.
For that price of a good cabinet maker, I could buy a whole fleet of Dysons.
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The best hand dryers I've user are the really powerful blowers that can peel paint if you need them to. They're extremely loud though.
I wondered how powerful an Xcelerator dryer is compared to an ion thruster a few years back. I'd looked at dryer specfications and realized they're in the same magnitude in terms of mN!
But now, everything they produce is a nice looking pile of barely functional junk, with a ridiculous price tag.
All the smoke uses up a lot of filter material, and this alternative has 10x cheaper filter replacement. It also moves a lot more air through a lot more filter, cleaning everything up more quickly. And the lack of aesthetics is fine for a few weeks. It's worth doing even if you rock a normal filter most of the year.
For an upgrade use a few silent computer case fans instead and you can have a super quiet setup to run all day.
But if you go with a Merv 14 filter (which is amazing by the way), you will spend some serious money. Merv 12 is affordable. Merv 11 is an insult to air filters.