Two thoughts occur:
When my eye alighted on this thread, initially, I thought it read: "Biden Discussion - the good, the bad and the ugly"..
..and thus, blinking and briefly bewildered, I thought that I had wandered by mistake into the wrong forum, not just the wrong thread.
Okay: In recent years (pre-Covid), I have had occasion to stay (work related) in some seriously good hotels, hotels with intimidatingly over-engineered stuff passed off as service.
The kind of hotels that had airconditioning - I just want a nice, warm, repeat warm, room - that required an advanced degree in some obscure branch of science to understand the remote device which controlled them, let alone get them to work, and showers with impossibly complicated controls.
An aside: Hint to the guys, dudes, gentlemen who usually design such things: When you are standing there naked, wearing nothing but your glasses, especially when you are a woman standing there naked, wearing nothing but your glasses, - you want a shower where you can easily and effortlessly work - and work out everything about - the "On/Off" and "Hot (preferably very hot)/Cold" switches. Anything else - and everything else (other than an exceptionally generous shower head) - is Overkill.
And once, in Russia, in Moscow, at the end of an election observation mission that had lasted a few months, for our final debriefing sessions, - immediately prior to our departure - which lasted a few days, - for some strange inexplicable reason we were booked into a five star hotel; the sort of place that had a show room full of Bentleys, another with Patek Phillippe watches, yet another with Fabergé eggs, - all staffed by lissom ladies and stocky hulking gentlemen in tuxedos which bulged strangely.
Anyway, the bedrooms were magnificent, but I do recall the bathroom - again, magnificent - and the ominous and over-engineered toilet cum bidet, which was frankly such an advanced model that I failed to understand it entirely, and, frustrated, proceeded to query a colleague, by text, whether it was even possible to use - or avail of - the damned thing. After some consideration, (and I daresay, empirical experimentation and observation), he texted me reassuringly, stating that he had happily discovered that "it works the normal way."
