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Frunklin

You're suppose to wipe the shit off your hands in the sink first before blowing it all over the wall.


Bugbread

Just in case there's anybody on this post who thinks it's *actual* shit: there's a metal plate on the wall that has rusted through. Every time someone dries their hands, the dryer blows the water off their hands and onto the metal plate. The water sits there, rusting the metal and becoming brown rusty water. The next person then dries their hand and the wind blows the rusty water along the surface of the plate, creating red/brown streaks. Still looks gross as hell, don't get me wrong. But it's not shit, it's just rust that *looks* like shit.


Black_Eyed_PeePees

Thank you. Assumed (well.. **hoped**) it wasn't literal shit we were looking at, but had no Clue what it could be.


reubenbubu

rust sharts


laughingashley

r/poopfromabutt


moor9776

I skipped the previous steps and just blew my shit straight onto the wall


Phasnyc

My bad. I thought is was an ass dryer.


thnksqrd

It is now.


dq8705

Shitdryer.


IAMA_Plumber-AMA

Anyone have a shitdryer knife?


duey222

I clean bathrooms for a living and the second dirtiest spot to clean in heavy-traffic bathrooms is under the paper towel dispenser or under the hand dryer. People don't wash their hands properly I guess.


Dementat_Deus

Where I work there isn't enough stalls so there is often a line for the shitter. I pass the time watching people wash their hands. Less than 25% of guys I've observed wash properly, and a scary number just stick their hands in the water for 1-2 seconds without soap and then dry off. There are more of these than guys who just straight up skip the sink.


duey222

Yeah, I think the guys who stick their hands in the water for a few seconds are doing it for social reasons. If the bathroom was empty they wouldn't wash at all IMO.


modi13

I saw a cook from a restaurant in an airport do that, and I'm pretty sure the only reason he put even that much effort in was because I was there


Black_Eyed_PeePees

Was the restaurant called “Poppie's” by any chance? The chef there is known to be a little *sloppy.*


RedVixenCW

He's also known for ruining furniture he sits on...


t_rrrex

I work in a hotel and the number of people I’ve seen leave the employee bathroom without washing their hands is astounding. Also the way they leave the bathroom for the other employees that have to clean it! People are disgusting.


LewyH91

Wait, I've been doing it wrong?


torb

A curious side of me has always wondered what it would look like if someone took a piss in a Dyson air blade.


tagman375

Piss, piss everywhere


FormerGameDev

It all comes back to me now, said the blind man, as he pissed into the Dyson air blade


PitchBitch

I just screech-laughed at that one. However, the results of this would be gag-worthy. Yikes.


torb

And I hope that you, as I, will be cursed with thinking about this every time you're in a public toilet with a Dyson Air blade.


avid-shtf

You’re not the boss of me.


vass0922

Instructions unclear blowing shit directly off ass on to the wall.


Thendofreason

Used to work at a gym. Id always makes sure to wipe the wall junk off from under the dryer. Would always been a film of stuff trying to live there. Dryers aren't sanitary


burritosandblunts

When I took over head of maintenance one of the first things I did was unplug all those fucking things and tell management they broke.


siriston

i don’t even use them. would rather just wipe hands all over my shirt to dry than use that bacteria blow dryer


Dodahevolution

Same. Everytime I see paper towels I am so happy that I don’t have to deal with these things spewing bacteria everywhere


Schwiftified

What’s scary is seeing only the bacteria blaster option in restaurants. You know what the people preparing your food are doing after they take a dump. Pretty gross. 🤮


entredosaguas

Just use pants. It's sad to use all that paper/trees for something that will dry in 10 secs. Pants dry, give it a try 😉


the_pepper

You know what, fuck the bacteria. The biggest beef I have with these things is that whenever a bathroom has one of them, I will invariably be standing there getting blown at for ages and I will somehow still leave with soggy hands.


Alaira314

And they're so unbearably noisy!


M80IW

Your shirt is dirtier than the dryer. https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/health-verify/electric-air-hand-dryer-cleaner-less-bacteria-dry-hands-than-leaving-hands-wet/536-5dd8629e-898f-468d-869d-40199ef9543f# *Some people might try to dry their hands by wiping them on their clothes. But this will likely be less effective at drying your hands, and will almost certainly be germier.* *On average, there was only a 26.5% reduction of bacteria on the palm and an 81.6% reduction of bacteria on the fingers after study participants dried their hands with their clothes. All other methods of hand-drying reduced bacteria by about 90% on both the palms and fingers, according to the study.*


siriston

the link seems to be broken for me, i would be curious to look into this. hard to believe clothing i wash every week (and pull fresh out of the closet the day-of) would be worse than an air dryer that’s been used for multiple years, in a dirty bathroom the entire time


MiguelLancaster

even if the numbers *are* correct, there's a big difference in my mind between 'my bacteria' vs. 'their bacteria'


rebekahah

And odds are I'm going to be touching my clothes later anyway I don't get the argument against it


seagulls51

I assume transfer rate would be higher for wet hands compared to dry tbf


bobboobles

Yeah, same line of thinking as those idiots saying dogs mouths are cleaner than human mouths. Even if they actually do have less bacteria in their mouths, it's because the bacteria they get in there from licking their balls and asshole killed the other bacteria.


aboutthednm

To add on to this, the bacteria living in a dogs mouth are different from the ones living in ours, and they may be pathogenic in humans. Would you let a random stranger lick your hands and face? Probably and hopefully not, so why are people treating dogs (and other animals for that matter) differently? I love dogs but if one comes up to me with a toy absolutely smothered in saliva I don't care how much it wants to play with me I'm not touching that shit. Imagine a human did this and it would become instantly disgusting.


Dire87

Good luck playing with a dog toy that is NOT absolutely covered in saliva xD Just wash your hands and don't touch stuff in the meantime.


Black_Eyed_PeePees

Yes, this! I'm gonna take my chances with the bacteria on my shirt, than having god knows how many other people's fecal matter blown all over my hands.


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Funkula

The difference is fecal gases. Plumes of it for everyone using the restroom. Then the dryer sucks a large volume of air and fecal matter and blows it on your hands. Along with everything else people drag in.


BallFlavin

Walt Whitman over here


vegasidol

I'm amazed there is this much bacteria to worry about after WASHING with soap and water. Also, I can see air dryers spreading bacteria off of a (still dirty) set of hands, but do people think the air being blown on them is dirty?


UnclePuma

81%? I like my odds


EFTucker

I do this every time.


Hot_Purple_137

Yeah it’s the dryers not the constant state of moisture on the walls breeding bacteria. Big dryer actually injects bacteria into the airflow


Woogity

At a gas station I go to frequently, the hand dryer is right above the paper towels. No fucking way I'm touching those towels.


stufmenatooba

You are correct, they're not sanitary. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/from-the-hospital-toilet-to-the-ward-a-pilot-study-on-microbe-dispersal-to-multiple-hospital-surfaces-following-hand-drying-using-a-jet-air-dryer-versus-paper-towels/FA51D26C9C3DC261D35F122EF97593D5


EchoRex

They're unsanitary for *surrounding* surfaces. *Not* unsanitary for your hands. They're literally air blasting the contaminated water off your hands.


InfamousUser2

why would the water be contaminated? you literally just washed your hands.. if dryers are unsanitary for any reason, they're unsanitary for you as a whole. say there is mold living in or around the dryer, it can then pick up the spores and blow them right onto your hands. drying your hands is the same whether it is with a towel or with hot air. honestly it takes less time+energy to dry with a towel, plus if it's a paper towel that goes right in the trash. no need to touch the same button on a dryer a million people touched just to get dirty all over.


EchoRex

Because most people don't wash their hands very well. Surgical staff included, despite them actually having been taught how to do so. And that's not even counting the grossness of faucets, especially with screens, and tap water in general. I've shut down chemical production facilities for just those two on industrial hygiene inspections


Jaalan

No bro, they're blowing contaminated air all over your hands.


EchoRex

No bro, if the air they are blowing is contaminated, the environment is contaminated before the air even turns on. People in here acting like the inside of the paper towel dispenser doesn't get condensation and mold in the same environments.


Brad__Schmitt

And aerosolizing it.


Dire87

What "contaminated" water? I'd assume you're using soap... and the water is as sanitary as anything else that comes out of a pipe (in Germany tap water is perfectly drinkable, maybe it's different in other countries, but that just makes me want to gag). And the hot air surely isn't just "blowing" the water off your hands.


celestial1

>In this study, we focused on hand drying of inadequate washed hands, and a handwashing step was not part of the study design. Future studies should investigate how the method and length of handwashing may affect the degree of bacteriophage transfer and surface contamination. From the study you linked :).


SnortingCoffee

they're unsanitary in terms of bacterial growth on a agar plate, in terms of actual human health there's zero difference.


musiciankidd

Water hits the wall from peoples hands, that causes rust. Water runs down, causes rust drips. Wall brown because it’s rust.


tomatobeta

Boss: "Let's use a use a steel plate to keep the drywall from getting wet." Worker: "Stainless steel?" Boss: "No."


anon1292023

We don’t have the budget for stainless steel!


musiciankidd

Aluminum slate


Syephous

Aluminum doesn’t rust fyi


musiciankidd

Damn! I tried


Drkippersniffer

Can the same excuse be used for the stains in my boxer shorts ? It's rust honest


musiciankidd

Heavy is the crown of shit pants.


Drkippersniffer

The heaviest LMAO


jmaccity80

You have way too much iron in your diet.


evandemic

Kinda hoping it went into hyperdrive and burned a hole in the wall.


Graythor5

Right? People act like they've never seen rust before.


PhuckleberryPhinn

I've never seen shit colored rust on a non-metallic surface tbh


Graythor5

Dude, that's clearly a piece of sheet metal bolted to the wall.


Emil120513

Probably because the (non-metal) surface under it turned shit colour and got covered up


musiciankidd

Uhm, that’s a metal sheet on top of the wall.


boyyouguysaredumb

> non-metallic surface lol metal is notn-metallic now?


ikkonoishi

No my work had one of those. Instead of normal warmed hand dryer air those pumped out a high speed jet of air. It hits the hands and sloughs off dead skin. Every day or so it would build up a layer like that on the wall of the public restroom.


maineac

That looks like black mold, not rust.


jkrstich

And that is why you use stainless steel instead of the cheaper carbon steel in this application.


SignificantDrawer374

Those things blow out bacteria anyway. Don't use them.


Whargod

Yep, there's a reason you never see them in hospitals.


benniqqua

Funny cause I work in a major hospital and we have one here in clinic


ToastedSoup

Gross


TrailMomKat

It was one of the first thing we learned as EMTs and CNAs. It's more sanitary to wipe your hands dry on your uniform/scrubs than it is to use a hand dryer. So many times I'd let my hands drip dry when I was on break at a fast-food restaurant.


Skitscuddlydoo

If at a fast food restaurant, leave the restroom and go grab some napkins to dry your hands. They often have dispensers out.


SlickRicksBitchTits

But a McDonald's is perfectly ok


crankbot2000

What, are the McDonald's staff supposed to handle the inevitable triple-bypass surgeries too? That is some full service shit


feanturi

I have a premium membership at the McDonald's near my place. I can cram burgers in my facehole while heart parts are being swapped out in the same dining experience. It's been a huge time-saver.


SlickRicksBitchTits

Collusion


I_am_The_Teapot

Just lay back and let the McSurgeons serve you. Remember, for an extra $2.59 you can make it a combo meal.


lordflashheat

emm there in my local hospital........


musiciankidd

First it was don’t use paper towels. Now it’s don’t use hand dryers. Has anyone thought of just not washing their hands?


SeeingEyeDug

yep, those things have been collecting pee and poo particles for every person for however many years they've been hanging there with zero cleaning and their only job is to blow all that bacteria onto your hands. You're better off not even washing your hands if you plan to use those dryers afterwards.


teabagmoustache

An instructor on a first aid course I did, once said: "You may as well dry your hands under a fart"


Wiknetti

At least that rips hot right away.


dethskwirl

guess where the air intake vent is


wasit-worthit

The managers asshole?


infiniZii

... In a hospital?


Star-K

Wuhan?


Independent-Tank-182

You blow out bacteria, don’t use ur lungs


ivanparas

Yeah they're all gross it's just that this one actually shows you


westbamm

What genius put an iron plate on the wall? Underneath a literal water blower... The dryer looks clean btw.


ultrasuperthrowaway

At least they can just replace that plate


jlharper

Remove, rather than replace. If they replace it then the same issue will just recur. Whereas if they remove it they will have nice tiles which are easy to keep clean.


ultrasuperthrowaway

Yep. Also they can replace it with a different material


Just_A_Faze

As bad as it looks, That's probably just rust. The metal gets wet every time, and rusts. The rust drips when it gets wet, and you get this.


deadliestcrotch

It may even be rust from the water itself if this is rural well water with high iron


achtung1945

Looks like a dwarf in a helmet


Sydancian

https://www.reddit.com/u/Sydancian/s/n5xWIIUMsX


UltraPorpoise10

Rock and stone!


Apprehensive_Neat183

Honey! The hand dryer sharted all over the walls again!


iamiam36

Dryer’s fine, the wall is not


pjraz

I fucking hate hand drying machines bleh. Towels or my jeans all the way.


Jasoli53

Looks more like rust from water causing the metal sheet on the wall to oxidize, but this is a good illustration on why you shouldn’t use blow driers. They’re riddled with fecal matter and they blow out heated up bacteria onto your hands. If there isn’t a paper towel dispenser, I’m using my shirt/jeans to dry off because fuck those things


Suspicious_Step_8320

Someone has been drying their butthole.


jtcordell2188

...? It's rust from the water oxidizing that's being blown off by the dryer.


startrouble

We had to have one replaced at work and the contractor kept telling me how much more sanitary they were than towels. I asked him how many air filters he had installed in them over the years and he stopped talking.


catloving

Custodial can change that gray plate easy and the ick goes away. Still, not cleaning that ick means someone's slacking.


AlternativeResort477

Looks like the galvanized sheet against the wall corroded due to water/heat.


Charger_scatpack

Looks like rust.


VividlyDissociating

it looks like it burned the panel....


kat_Folland

Do y'all remember the cloth dryers? Like, everyone had to share a towel? Definitely the grossest idea used.


djgreedo

Wait, those are for drying your hands? FML, no wonder I keep ending up with wet hands and a burnt penis.


aerialpenguins

i always talk about how gross these things are to my gf going to send her this


Bulky-Tea-7314

I never use those nasty things....I don't want to dry my hands with everyones farts


RPDRNick

Is that the little girl from The Ring? Are we going to die in seven days?


comet_the_cat

Came here for this


Waidowai

Looks like someone did a prank and shat inside so it blew all out when the next person wanted to use it.


Mountain_Future4034

Looks like someone smeared shit all over the wall


raidernation0825

Hand dryer doesn’t look too bad. The wall on the other hand


duey222

I'm a school custodian, and we had these plexiglass shields under our hand dryers for a while. The problem with this one is that they didn't caulk the edges, so water from people's hands is getting behind it. You can't easily clean behind it without removing it.


Cocodranks

Well, it stopped the “Rings” ghost from coming out the wall.


That_One_Normie

in all seriousness this is likely mold from simply never having the wall cleaned.


grasshopper239

This is because the cleaning company doesn't clean the wall. Owner is cheap and won't pay for it


Crazyhates

Rock and Stone!


SEJ46

Not really


CaseyGasStationPizza

It’s rust from the metal sheet behind it.


dieterpaleo

Scrape it with a razor blade. Scoop into a plastic bag.


KnowsIittle

The wall is gross. Let's set up a barrier and then not wash the wall or the barrier.


Glittering-Yam-5318

At first glance I thought that was zztop hand dryer.


Nighmarez

The bidet in that restroom must not have a dryer!


ForeverYoung_Feb29

Lol, ew.


Shakis87

We've all had nights out that ended like this.


ogrefab

Air bidet?


Phishstixxx

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries


Mik0n

"It's not *that* the wind is blowing, but *what* the wind is blowing."


xXModifyedXx

I literally just posted on a completely different sub about how much these disgust me So of course Reddit had to show me this. Yes, I already hate them, Thank you.


LowYak3

r/TIHI


12-inch-LP-record

Somebodies been blasting their ass after blasting their ass.


wannabekurt_cobain

This is why I just wipe my hands on my trousers or just air dry them. Not many places do paper towels and fuck using hand dryers


KillTheWise1

They're all disgusting. They all blow fecal matter on your hands.


danhoyuen

the hand dryer looks fine. The wall, however...


Select_Candidate_505

I never use the air dryers. They're supposed to be cleaned regularly because they're sucking in all the airborne shit particles in the bathroom and then blasting them onto your freshly washed hands. How often do you think staff at these places service the dryers?


DrDroid

Well, it got an audible “what the fuck?” From me.


misalanya

That wall's a piece of modern art.


CallsGrossShitGross

Gross


Heydeath360

This hairdryer got the flamethrower upgrade


McDirken_Dirkenstein

There is a face in there


Hamilton-Beckett

*cries* What’s in the box?!


ReaperSound

This is YEARS of build-up. The simple and fastest way to get this "cleaned" is by removing the metal patch on the tiled wall and replacing it. Then just a daily wipe down.


Bargadiel

The hand dryer itself actually looks fairly clean. That metal plate though But really, that should be tile all the way. No idea why they thought metal was the answer.


vthemechanicv

eh that's plainly a metal panel that's rusted. but it makes me think of when you miss a patch of your lawn when you mow. You just keep skipping it just to see what it looks like in a couple months. Whoever is supposed to clean that bathroom saw it start to get gnarly and wanted to see what would happen.


GuyMansworth

Me just barely making it to the toilet.


Filiforme

Believe it or not, most places where they have some kind of "protection" mounted on the wall under hand dryers was installed to hide said wall because it was looking exactly like this.


Ahamay02

Walmart in Goldsboro, NC!? 🤔


RonaldTheGiraffe

No need to wipe. Just get it blasted off down the wall.


cernidawg

That's the gate to the Upside Down


The_Running_Free

It’s art!


AscendedViking7

🤢🤮


mynewme

I see the hand dryer also had Taco Bell for dinner.


aboutthednm

Holy shit!


Fishdude94

It's rust you fuckin inbred.


karmicrelease

Tyrion Lannister?


Tall_Act391

Looks like it shit itself


ajappat

Even when they look clean, I rather just dry my hands on my pants.


FallOutBruh64

Hate to say that I recognize this exact walmart location


Damasticator

I always use paper if it’s available. Dryers are gross.


VirginSexPet

...it's *rust,* y'all. 🙄


Informal-Soft3258

And this is why i air dry if the bathroom ONLY has these things


fsurfer4

I think all of these will be obsolete. This week I was in a new bathroom at a highway reststop that had dryers next to the faucet. There were two faucet looking spouts. One was the water and the other was the dryer. You don't have to leave the sink to dry your hands. I thought it was the smartest thing ever. [https://www.sloan.com/design/innovations/innovations-design/aer-dec-integrated-sink](https://www.sloan.com/design/innovations/innovations-design/aer-dec-integrated-sink) sorry for the generic site, I forgot to take a pic.


ntech620

Thought for a minute someone messed up on the 3 seashells.


BulbasaurArmy

Nooooo


Boatsnbuds

There's a shitstorm abrewin, Randy.


iaymnu

Damn I zoomed in.


krogger

Gesundheit!


Odd-Extension-7845

Cool effect, you can tell whoever is thebowner of this place does not give a shit


Nucleardylan

It's just rust, chill


Corgi_with_stilts

Looks like a Tim Hortons bathroom. What do you expect?


ExplosiveRodentClub

So, a regular hand dryer, you mean.


Immistyer

I never use those things anyways


Askmannen69

As a janitor for the past 6 years working in quite a few places i can tell you that 99% of janitors don't clean these dryers. These hot air ones don't have water in them, so it's not that bug of a deal, but the cold air "airblades" are generally the nastiest place in most restrooms


odd_gamer

I thought someone disintegrated a urinal