Little Differences - Showers and Legalities

I finally took a bath figuring the steam might help my congestion. Standing under a hot shower isn't an option here. There's nowhere to hang the shower head - you have to hold it the whole time. Quite frankly, it sucks if you're used to washing your hair with two hands. On top of that, you really have to have good aim with the water, because there's no shower curtain. And, for the grand finale, there's a mirror right across from the shower. (I've talked to a number of other students who said they have the same setup here...) Do the French just like to watch themselves in the shower? Anyway, it all results in showers being a somewhat dreaded, and cold, experience. However, if they got the shower wrong, they got the bath right. The tub is incredibly deep and long - and there must be less surface area on top because it doesn't cool off nearly as quickly as the bath at home. I attribute all of this not as much to the tub itself, but to the emergency drain - that convenient little hole under the faucet that keeps the whole thing from overflowing. Now, I'm all for not having water all over the bathroom floor if I somehow manage to tune out the very loud sound of the running water and lose track of time in some other task. However, I'm convinced that tub manufacturers are putting those things lower and lower in the States, because they're afraid of letting the bath be too deep - oh no, we might not realize we've put in too much water and accidentally go under! Apparently the French aren't as concerned about possible lawsuits from people getting their hair wet because I'm actually able to take a bath that covers my knees here. It's fabulous.

Actually, as we all know, Americans are far more lawsuit-prone than other people so it's been a nice break not to be reminded that I need to be careful because the hot coffee I ordered is really hot. In fact, I've only seen two types of legal warnings here. The first makes sense to me - warning labels on food that inform people with allergies that said food was manufactured in a plant with or may contain nuts, eggs, soy, etc. The second is along those lines, but almost more stupid than the Americans. Of course, it was on a MacDonald's coupon so maybe that makes it American but anyway... on a coupon for a free sundae, it says, "Dessert lacté à base de lait." Dairy dessert based in milk. Well, yes, dairy desserts are based in milk. And quite frankly, the French don't do fake food so if it's a dessert that resembles ice cream in any way - you can be sure it has milk in it. Am I missing something here? Was there a point to telling me that a Sundae is a dairy dessert that is actually dairy?