Mythbusters did a segment that showed the air dryers are more likely to spread germs. So it’s just awful all around
Environmental Health Officer here… I had a classmate who did a study on this, specifically the Dyson-type where you stick your hands in downwards.
Next time, take a look at what’s there in the 2mm gap on the bottom inside where the water, etc. collects, and where the forced air blows all that material. Remember to not breathe.
There’s a reason why we direct food businesses to use paper towels in the kitchen, not hand dryers. Also, because ain’t nobody got time to properly wash their hands for 30 seconds and then stand there completely drying their hands when they have 20+ chits on the go.
Edit: Forgot to mention, the majority of people don’t know how to wash their hands properly, especially under the nails (both men and women). They’ve just used the hand dryer. Now you use the hand dryer. Multiply that by how many days it is before these things actually get cleaned and sanitised only to be contaminated again by the first user until the next clean and sanitise, if ever. Humans are filthy. 💀
There’s a reason they removed them all in my country during covid and they never came back.
Do you guys still have them?Australia, yes. I especially hate the ones that have a button to turn on and have so little power that if you rubbed your hands together fast enough, they’d dry faster via friction than using the dryer.
Thank goodness we have takeaway towels dangling all over our bodies.
At least in your case it’s the more hygienic option.
Still have them all over the place in the US 🫠
Why am i not surprised…
Hey I’m an athlete but these foot pull doors are still extremely difficult. It strains your calf muscles, your hamstrings, your kegels, and your core. Opening heavy restroom doors with this spiky foot pull is not easy or fun or comfortable at all.
Our office has these and it’s always been p. easy to open them. No idea why there is a discrepancy. Maybe something about the balance of the door?
I second this
I never have a problem and I’m lazy with a large beer belly.
These make more sense, tbh:
Yeah the one where we’re supposed to put our forearm through the hook. But you know people would just use their bare bacteria-ridden hands to pull that. Defeating the purpose of the germ-free handle.
It’s still something you can easily grab with your shirt or (ideally) jacket. That’s almost as good as if you were wearing gloves after washing your hands
I mean unless the air blowing on your hands was freshly filtered and uv sterilized that is going to be an issue to.
i have lost mucho sleep over the fact that even holding my breath while using an air dryer doesn’t prevent poop gems being blasted into my pores 💀
poop gems
At least they’re pretty.
poop gems
The fecal mist lingering around is real. That’s why one should always flush with a closed lid.
You ever seen an airtight toilet lid? That ain’t doing shit against aerosolized fecal particulates. Don’t worry though, no one’s gets sick just breathing the air in a bathroom, most public toilets in America don’t even have lids. If “fecal mist” was an actual health risk, the science would be well in by now, the patterns would be unavoidable and ubiquitous. Maybe if you lick the walls where the bathroom air condensates you might get sick, but most people are reasonable enough not to do that just by instinct.
Thats it-- i’m adding weatherstripping under my toilet seat
Mythbusters tested this. With the lid open or closed, poop particles were detectable in every room of a house after a flush. The lid does nothing.
And eyes and nose and ears.
🎶HEEEEEAD SHOULDERS KNEES AND TOES!🎶
Those Dyson hand dryers are disgusting.
This is why I love those things at the bottom of the door that lets you open the door with your foot.
Yes and I find it funny that I see them in some of the cheapest, bars & restaurants.
Sit at a bar and have $3 beer, there’s a foot grab.
Sit at a sushi bar and get $150 bottle of sake, no foot grab. Bizzaro.
True, except in this picture, you have to pull the door to get out.
I know … and unlock the door too!!! So I would only do that after and before i wash my hands.
Turns out businesses don’t care about cleanliness or your safety beyond the point where it might affect their bottom line and just install touchless sinks and hand dryers to save money on water and paper towels
Using wads of paper towel and leaving the tap open waste resources. This is a prime example where being economical equates to being ecological.
i work in a business with unlimited access to paper towels, it saddens me how much i have to throw away unused ones
Grab the handle with your butt cheeks. it’s a talent/skill you can hone
I use my scrotum like an oven mitt
i didn’t know we had someone blessed by the tanuki in our midst
I personally use my dick to whip it like Indiana Jones.
good thing i’m drop ball world champion then
Touchless sinks are the worst fucking tech ever. Shit never works, and when it does, it never gives you enough water to get a good hand wash
And it never gives you warm water
Oh that part is easy! Just hold the water in your mouth until it’s warm then dribble it onto your hands!
You have to ask nicely!
They’re also terrible at recognition if you happen to have a darker complexion.
How am I supposed to trap a velociraptor in the bathroom with a handle like that?
This is why I always bring two dinosaur grabbers. One for me cock, and one for the door.
Geez I guess some people never go outside into the world of germs
Not to mention if everyone washed their hands properly, that door handle is clean.
Have you met people? There’s stupid fucks out there who take pride in being disgusting assholes who don’t wash their hands.
There were people going maskless during covid because they already caught covid and were only interested in protecting themselves.
There were people that raged at others wearing masks because they felt entitled to see their faces or some stupid shit.
It’s harder to tell a woman she’d be prettier if she smiled if you can’t see her mouth.
If even the doors stop touching me, what will I have left?
There are plenty of ways to make this better. Most of it’s theater because there’s nothing really wrong with touching the door, but some of the ways are not even expensive to make it comfortable for germaphobes.
Single bathroom doors always swing out
Copper-plate the handles
If you have to swing in, add a foot handle.
Plenty of stuff wrong with touching the door, considering how many people don’t wash their hands…
What else do they touch? How many are employees? The door is only gross because you know it’s being touched. EVERYTHING is being touched, and something like 50% of people don’t wash their hands properly or at all.
The only reason touching doorknobs is gross is because people don’t wash their hands.
Unless you’re willing to opt in to some kinda bathroom panopticon that locks the bathroom until everyone trying to leave has properly washed their hands, it’s probably best to just avoid a knobbed door.
Those same people are touching everything else in the store/world. The employees have touched every item on the floor. half of those don’t wash their hands. The door only feels gross because you have no doubt.
That’s why I try not to touch most things with my hands.
I should also order more handkerchiefs
If you simply cut your hands off these petty grievances will become a distant memory.
Meh, 5 second rule applies here.
There is more shit on that handle than a toilet seat.
The bathrooms outside the lobby in my work building take this automatic crap a step further, with automatic soap machines. It’s hit or miss if any given one will have soap at all. (Thankfully, we have another sink inside my work itself that employees can use, but guests are fucked.)
Then when they do dispense soap, it’s the foam shit. So it looks like the sink just spit into my hands. Lovely.
This reminds me of a sign I saw at a restaurant bathroom recently.
