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Honestly — how is this not just simple stealth product placement?

These things and kitchen sink blenders are the two most mysterious things for an European child watching US-Shows.

I’ll never forget the day in elementary school where I saw a kid casually put his mouth directly on the spout. Then it dawned on me: “There are probably others like him.”

We had something like the first one when I was in high school. When I was a freshmen, I saw another student drop his pants, hop up on top of it, lower into the spout so it went ALL the way up his ass, reached around and turned the water on for a second, then lifted off and shot a wave of shit-water all over the basin/wall behind it, then hopped down and ran off giggling.

Yeah...

Haven't used a water fountain since.

LMABF8 had the coldest water. I'm all for the EZH20 because I carry a bottle around with me and it's less likely to spread germs and causes less waste, but I feel like the water coming out of them is barely chilled. I like my water to be so cold it is borderline painful when I am drinking it.

Nothing hit as hard as coming out of gym class in high school and getting some fresh gulps of ice cold water from the LMABF8. Peak refreshment.

I work in the industry and I have no idea why anyone would use anything other than the EZH2O for indoors. The other ones aren't even any cheaper.

a class a few years ahead of me got one of the ezh2os as their senior gift. probably the most used senior gift I've ever seen, we were a small school and everyone used it every day. I think it hit 500,000 uses by the time I graduated a few years later

Do people ever install these in their house? That might be cool actually lol

Fuck those top three germ spreaders.

Bottle filler is life.

I actually hate the EZH2O. When you go to drink it activates the bottle stream in the back and reduces the water pressure so you have to go down further to drink. Well when you do that the bottle stream turns off and the water pressure goes back to normal and you get blasted in the face full force. Reminds me of my college days.

I dunno what they put in those newer buttons, but they feel so satisfying XD

it's funny that I've seen all of these in real life, though I rarely ever used them due to the obvious hygiene issues

The germaphobia in me really want a version that is activated by a pedal that you step on.

But then, I'd probably be too afraid of shared water fountains to begin with.

Anytime I see memes like that, I am thankful I live in a country where I can just drink tap water.

Unless you are stuck in an all-day meeting with hundreds of stressed out, immunocompromised, most likely sick people all wanting to drink from the EZH2O/EZS8L pair next to the closet bathroom and there is a pair of VRCHDTL8SC down the hall and you are going on a two week Christmas vacation at the end of the meeting.

Then the VRCHDTL8SC is the boss.

The second one reminds me of elementary school because we had exactly that model.

Is this a sponsorred post?

If so @The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world what's the takeaway?

The C in the first model name stands for "Colored"

The first 3 pictures are the same

The top 3 are all this.

Yeah, as long as they change the filter. (Most places don't, and don't even know how to.)

Kind of interesting that these have been a thing in Europe. It's all just regular taps and the few ones I have seen weren't very popular.

EZH20 sensors suck ass. Maybe I'm just going full boomer, but they waste a lot more water than the rest.
I have a 20% chance of getting no water out, 20% chance of it running for 3 minutes straight after I walked away, remaining% chance of it prematurely cutting off midway thru filling for 0 apparent reason at all.

Really what's the difference between the top 3? Other than buttons.

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