Contrary to popular belief, these don't recycle the same length of cloth over and over. It goes from end to end l.
That's true, but they just end up completely unwound on the ground. It also gets progressively more brown
There was a bar near me that still had one of these things until quite recently, and yeah it was always on the ground and gross and stuff. I just used a napkin the few times I went there.
But then they had a fire and got rid of them. Now they have a freestanding roll of paper towel that’s always wet and falling on the floor which is much better…
The problem with them is that it’s up to the owner of the facility to make sure they are removed and cleaned in a timely manner, not simply re-rolled dirty towel, and the machine was in good repair and didn’t jam.
Quite often that wasn’t the case, so you’d wind up with dirty towel recycling or stuck.
Yes, this absolutely contributed to the spread of disease. No way it couldn’t. I had a family member in the medical field and said that the reason we didn’t see them anymore much past the ‘80s is because they were unhygienic thanks to the aforementioned issues.
So it’s not really the fault of the towel, it’s the fact that people are cheap bastards and don’t keep things serviced, clean, and maintained. It’s better to grumble and shake your hands dry rather than continue to use a jammed, soiled towel machine.
Who believes thar?
Every bathroom in my high school had them... The worst was when they were jammed and you tried to dry your hands on the already sopping wet stuck section 🤢
That was the end of the roll. It wasn't a continuous loop, just 100-ish feet of towel that they needed to wash periodically.
Oh, there was that part, but there were also times when you could see that there was more but it just wouldn't come out 😔
That's why God invented clothes.
Better than almost every other option.
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.
But not inwards like the not so hygienic Dyson ones.
Did you think about the part where left over germs are now being evaporated into the air and ready to be breath in?
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.
The key to a healthy immune system is to give it lots of exercise.
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'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'm a millennial that has seen them in Sweden, but probably at least for not a decade or more by now.
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 Dutch and I'be seem plenty of these over the years. I can't remember where tho, probably university and maybe highschool. I feel like they're (or were) quite common
I'd see them very rarely, and wipe my hands on the back of my trousers if they were in use.
They were ok, but could never get my arse really clean.
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.
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.
For some reason this made me think of a parking ticket machine
I once met a guy that went blind from drying his face with one of these at a truck stop.
