Technology - and a Prime Minister - gone mad?

Now it has to be said that I have more than a passing interest in the latest hi-tec gizmos, but I cannot quite understand some of the digital and wireless technology available in 2008.

Apparently, Geotherm Wireless showers are "...remote-controlled from anywhere in the house".

Excuse me?

Why, if you're in the shower would you want to control it from anywhere other than "IN" the shower.

I accept that if you have unwelcome guests staying with you, it might be fun to send them on their way to "freshen up" with a nice hot shower, wait downstairs until you hear them singing the theme tune from Disney's 'Enchanted' (a very good film by the way!) and then zap the remote temperature control down to minus 5 degrees, turning on (presumably by another remote control) the radio to a volume sufficient to mask their cries of pain.

Other than for this type of "high jinx" I can think of no other reason for the existence of this shower.

The previous 13 words also come to mind in relation to Gordon Brown's Cabinet whose latest offering of "health checks for everyone", at a time when you can wait up to 4 weeks in A&E just to see a hospital porter; when a visit to hospital usually results in you leaving in a less healthy state than when you went in, and when junior doctors still work on average for 32 hours per day.

(Please note that these statistics have been provided by the usual experts!)

The only people who actually go to their doctors are people wealthy enough in that they have a job and because they have a job are (sadly) deluded enough to think that they might be suffering from "...work-related stress" - that is to say, the "wealthy, worried, (but actually) well" - whereas those who are genuinely sick often can't either afford the prescription or afford to be able to take time off to see the doctor in the first place - even assuming they can get an appointment!!

Nice one Gordon!