bathtubs

Electricity has certainly revolutionised society, but not by using it to cure constipation or zap innocent bathtubs.

The same amount of hype could have us ripping out bathtubs, or being screened for hammer purchases.

Meanwhile, figures for 1990–2010 show that only 9.7% of accidental drowning deaths occurred in bathtubs [3].

Hell, just look at bathtubs: generally considered benign, but potential deathtraps for hypothetical elderly visitors.

If you subtract out deaths due to drunkenness, cars kill less people than bathtubs.

If they wanted to save lives, we'd have a war on bathtubs, not a war on terrorism.

Or a nationwide ban on bathtubs to end the risk of bathtub drownings?

Better to declare global perpetual war against pools, bathtubs, or uncooked food.

More people died in bathtubs that year than on September 11th.

> The same amount of hype could have us ripping out bathtubs, or being screened for hammer purchases.

Considering your example, are there any automatable bathtubs yet?

You ignore the two [bathtubs, aspirin] Why not fifty?

By the way "bidet" is a french word in the first place and it has nothing to do with washing your arse:) Bidets are small bathtubs-shaped vessels where you actually wash your feet.

(I qualify for both...) the "More people die from [insert ridiculous thing like bee stings]!" argument doesn't work for me because there's not much you can do about bees/lightning/the existence of bathtubs but there's plenty to be done about bombs/guns/jihadists/etc.

You ignore the two [bathtubs, aspirin] that don't fit the pattern you want to make up (one for three isn't very good), where said pattern is "vaccines preventable, accidents not", and you further ignore that being struck by lightning is obviously preventable by, e.g., staying indoors, and while this isn't perfect the vast majority of lightning strikes do in fact occur outside.

Bathtubs claim about 80 fatal and 100 non-fatal drownings per year.