Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands

quote [ The long read: For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for loo supremacy ]

My hands are dry
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[by ScoobySnacks@8:00amGMT]

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quaint said @ 3:00pm GMT on 1st May [Score:1 Underrated]
The Dyson Airblade needs to die a painful death. In the summer, the ability to be able to stick your head under the hand drier, or dry off the worst of your sweaty barnett with paper towels is very welcome.

You cannot stick your bonce in one of those Brexity-bastard airblades. I hope they all die in fires.
captainstubing said @ 10:09am GMT on 2nd May
^This 1000 times over. It is hot most of the year where I live (because of the climate, not because I live there. I think). The regular hand dryer with the nozzle that can be swiveled into the up position is a Sodsend on some days. You can wash your face and neck with cool water, get a blast of air to dry it all off, and be woken up all at once. Hungover? Sweaty? Feel like you are going to have a technicolor yawn on your desk? Never fear, just pop into the lavvies and get it sorted with some simple water and a blast of refreshing hand dryer air. Also, yes to paper towels. Never-ever to those shared towel arrangements on pulleys. Those are strictly for cunts.

We really are going arse-backwards.
Headlessfriar said @ 10:19am GMT on 2nd May
A communal towel on a roller for cunts sounds like a way to spread yeast infections to everyone.
moriati said @ 5:54pm GMT on 1st May
This article is just a load of hot air.
Hugh E. said @ 7:41pm GMT on 1st May
While it may be a little dry,
it's good for the paper to wel
come this snaps
hot airing of differences as to wet
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It may rub the wrong way
but it doesn't blow.
mechanical contrivance said @ 6:26pm GMT on 1st May
It's just like Opportunity Knocks starring Dana Carvey.
Paracetamol said @ 6:48pm GMT on 1st May
A cloth towel dispenser or continuous cloth towel is a towel manipulated by a series of rollers, used as an alternative to paper towels and hand dryers in public washrooms. These may have a lower environmental impact than paper towels

See: Wikipedia
mechanical contrivance said @ 7:07pm GMT on 1st May
How about putting your hands in a vacuum chamber? That will cause the water to boil off without raising the temperature.
Headlessfriar said @ 7:32pm GMT on 1st May
Will that also give you whole-hand hickies? Now future kids will think you aren't clean if your hands aren't purple after using a public bathroom.
mechavolt said @ 8:35pm GMT on 1st May
I just want to be pure.
stacyswirl said @ 1:07am GMT on 2nd May
I first encountered a high speed hand drier around 2009, in the bathroom of my community college. I was amazed at how it actually dried my hands, as the traditional dryers never worked for me. This new one wasn't an airblade, it just blew downward similar to the old ones, but better. It worked so well I would sometimes take my wet silkscreens in there to dry them off, it worked better than the hair dryers we had in class.
rylex said @ 9:01am GMT on 2nd May
after watching the YPPM videos, I stopped using airdryers to dry my hands.

to much risk involved.

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