Why do people use handkerchiefs instead of just wiping their hands on their pant legs?

Mar 27, 2010 by scorpionc53 | Posted in Other - Society & Culture

I've been seeing a lot of people using handkerchiefs lately. They blow their nose into it, then fold it once, blow again, then flip it around in their hand to touch all their buggers, then put it back in their pocket. Not even 10 minutes later they

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Because it would be a tricky if you weren't wearing any pants.

That is all.

Handkerchiefs-All The Rage

I have been slightly busy, i have made a short video about HANDKERCHIEFS! mainly because i have been blowing my nose a LOT!

Suppose it were true?

Governments are talking about reducing spending – some are even doing it. Naturally most people are sceptical. Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas, vested interests are well entrenched,  in the past reductions have been short lived - strong arguments that the current efforts will eventually run into the sand.

But what if it were true? With hindsight it is clear that the first salvo in the war on inflation was fired at the FOMC meeting of September 1979. Markets then spent years refusing to believe that Volcker was serious or that he had a strong enough mandate. Gorbachev’s “Perestroikaâ€�  told the world that the Soviet Union had ceased exporting revolution. The future was clear to see if one chose to see it. Sometimes the catch is that things actually are as they appear to be.

Everyone knows that governments do a lot of things that their citizens would be happy for them to stop doing. They do even more things which are, in theory, desirable but do them extremely badly and expensively. Everyone knows what food or clothing would be like if it was supplied by the State. Every developed country is on a journey of discovery about the privileges and work practises of their public servants. Their citizens will not like what they see.

Globalisation has transformed work practises and productivity in the private sector. To a large extent the public sector has been insulated. The disinflationary trend enjoyed by the developed world has largely consisted of falling prices in internationally traded goods and services combined with inflation in administered prices and state provided services. There is no good reason why this should have been the case. A large part of what governments do is data processing. In the private sector, data processing dependent  businesses, retail banking for example, have seen a big fall in headcount and a step change in productivity over the last fifteen years. Nor is it universally true that the public sector has seen poor productivity growth. The German state sector has seen headcount fall by 20% and has lowered prices of a number of State provided services.

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