They were ok, but could never get my arse really clean.
I once met a guy that went blind from drying his face with one of these at a truck stop.
These were a feature up into the mid 80’s in some places around here. They were for the most part pretty hygienic on the first pass. It was the asshole who would rewind them that made them bad.
Not true. My 2 year old just started daycare a few months back and the missus and I have been sick constantly. We’ve had all kinds of weird viruses, sores, ulcers, cough and rash.
My God. Daycares are biological warfare.
Don’t look up threadworms…
This was a problem when my daughter was in a private dayhome, but a licensed dayhome has been a much better experience. Seems like they actually prioritize hand-washing and other hygiene practices. My kid gets sick at about a tenth of the previous rate.
Just wait until they start kindergarten.
Hopefully your toilet is close enough to the tub or sink so you can puke out of both ends.
Parenting is just wonderful.
I’ve only seen these used in the movie 12 Angry Men. That movie feels so modern in many ways that when there’s a scene in the washroom and one of the character uses these, I’m reminded that the movie came out in 1957
Only if you’re out of toilet paper.
I’m pushing 40 and I’ve only ever seen these in movies. I feel like they haven’t been in use since the 60s.
I did see them around as a child millenial. Not totally uncommon in older and public buildings until early 2000’s. The airblade dryers seemed to come in right as the last of these were phased out.
I’m 38 and the racetrack near my childhood home had these, they were always damp
I’m a millennial that has seen them in Sweden, but probably at least for not a decade or more by now.
No I’m 50 and I’ve seen them, definitely wasn’t alive in the 60s.
OK, so it sounds like they died out in the 70s?
I’m 30, and I’ve seen them twice in my life in-person. However, I believe that they were in very old buildings. Can’t remember exactly where, though, since they were both over ten years ago.
30s checking in, local gas station had one up until 10 or 15 years ago. I moved, haven’t been back since to check if it’s still there 🤷♂️
Is that some kind of joke I’m too living-in-a-third-world-country to understand?
(Honestly, no idea what that is. Is it some kind of towel?)
Yes. It’s a reusable towel system for drying hands in a public bathroom. It’s basically a really long roll of cloth that is supposed to get pulled down as its used and goes down into another rolld and washed and put back. I haven’t seen one in a really long time.
Ah, gotcha.
Sounds totally hygienic /s
In theory, if it worked correctly, it should be hygenic and better for the environment. But as other commenters have mentioned, in reality they get jammed alot and so the same wet section gets used over and over. Or the owners don’t actually wash the roll and it just gets respooled and put back when dry.
You could do something clever with UV light possibly, but still. There’s going to be plenty of traces of crap on them even if all bacteria is dead
For some reason this made me think of a parking ticket machine
The key to a healthy immune system is to give it lots of exercise.
I hate those “dryers” who just blow it all straight into your face much more
the best driers just blow a large volume of slow moving hot air at your hands, so there’s no splashing and the moisture actually evaporates rather than being physically blown off the skin.
Did you think about the part where left over germs are now being evaporated into the air and ready to be breath in?
But not inwards like the not so hygienic Dyson ones.
and they dry my hands too much, i need my hands moist but not dripping, and there’s no such option
Just don’t hold it under for so long…
i have no idea how to explain it but drying my hands with a towel vs a hand dryer is a completely different experience for me. and the dryer just makes me feel weird
(i do have some slight OCD around washing my hands though so that might be it)
I think the hardness of the water might also play a role… At least I know that it feels way different to dry off after a shower in soft water vs. hard.
And I thought I was the only person who had this problem! I have large hands, so lots of water splashes in my fave when using of these (•_•)
They are soooooo noisy as well.
Netherlands is the place where I’ve experienced these. I believe they are awesome.
I recently talked to someone who’s small family business was in their 3rd generation of making these. What they said is that there was a big market in south east Asia.
Like we learned early covid, a lot of hygienic paper goods are made locally (not worth enough to ship), and they said that there just aren’t as many trees to make paper from there, so despite being very far away, this little family shop made and shipped these.
The person I talked to wasn’t involved in the business directly, so they/I might have some of that wrong but I thought that was interesting. Like I guess it’s enough to keep them in business but probably not enough to attract new comers?
Interesting. I’ve mostly seen them in the Nordic countries. (But then I haven’t had an opportunity to travel to SE Asia yet.)
I only time I wash my hands in a public bathroom is if I get a substantial amount of shit on them.
Which is what? Only 2-3 times a week? Tops? 🤷🏻♂️
I really expected better of you, SatansMaggotyCumFart.
You’re not the first person I’ve disappointed today.
Better than almost every other option.
I’m learning from this thread that people have had bad experiences more from shit maintenance than anything else
but really, maintenance is a very key part of the design and if it’s ass to maintain then it’s just not good…
What i generally see is stuff from companies whose whole business is selling “solutions”, you buy a container that is mounted on the wall and then you buy their bundles of tissue that you just slot into the container and close it back up.When i was working at a theme park they used a system that was fascinatingly well engineered, with tissue bundles that have packaging optimized to be trivial to open, containers that hold like 2-3 bundles at once so there’s a buffer between refills, and best of all the bundles have little velcro pads on the top and bottom so you just place it on top of the previous one and then when people pull out the last bit it automatically pulls out the start of the next bundle!
