40% of the people in the world use...

Originally posted by latex bishop
I would suggest a car of some form at irst thought, although this might be higher thinking about it, and is not close to a razor in anyway.

Definately not a flushing toilet, I have been to a lot of the developing world countries and ...[text shortened]... n hotels, do not flush, particually not "squatties"!!!

Andrew

Originally posted by skeeter
Thats why it's only 40% bonehead!

skeeter

Originally posted by Cheshire Cat
That's a little rude isn't it? 🙁

~ Cheshire Cat 😀

Originally posted by skeeter
Yep. Hows that then?😉

Could the answer be RHP?

Originally posted by Paul0
Could the answer be RHP?

I`d go for mirror

I think that the clue maybe with Razors as it is mainly men that use them, perhaps the object we are looking for is something which is only used by one sex and then not by all of them.

Electricity ????

Key?

Another couple of people have managed to get through today and made guesses, nobody from my office though. Somebody said disposable razor, which was wrong. All that's been said is that yesterday's guess of 'razor' was the closest yet, but not a "sizzling hot" guess. My initial idea of flush toilet is wrong, or so says Dr. Jamie Batram:
www.abc.net.au/science/news/enviro/EnviroRepublish_809480.htm.
"Only one billion people use flush toilets that are connected to sewage systems". It does say that 2.8 billion people use pit toilets, which is roughly 40%. No reason why razor should be closer to pit toilet than any of the other answers though.

Mind you, the local radio station is typically a pile of pants, so the answer they have is prolly something bizarre.

After mocking our accounts manager for suggesting 'knife' yesterday more than a few people in the office are beginning to come round and saying "it might be a knife y'know". It can't be, can it?

Edit!: Somebody just called in and said "disposable contact lenses". Sigh.

pepper? No real close to razor though. Did pair of scissors already get knocked out?

You know, there's probably a number of things that 40% of the world uses everyday. It's just one specific answer they're looking for. It doesn't mean any of the other guesses that have been given can't be right, either.

Anyway, not sure if this has been said yet, but....soap?

Originally posted by Natural Science
You know, there's probably a number of things that 40% of the world uses everyday. It's just one specific answer they're looking for. It doesn't mean any of the other guesses that have been given can't be right, either.

Originally posted by T1000
Naturally, though when there's the chance to win over £1,000 I'm finding that I start to take the question a little more seriously than I otherwise would 😉

Update: Last person calls in: "I think I've got it, I know the answer, I know it...is it....is it....is it a......hairdryer?".