paper towels vs. air dryers

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  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    mlb uses ad's to read your mind.......
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    I just realized that men get to touch their penis many times each day. Lucky bastards! Maybe THIS is the real reason why they rule our planet.
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  • binger
    binger Posts: 179
    First line of defense against disease. Wash your hands.

    Turn on water.
    Wet hands.
    Lather up scrubbing in-between fingers and nails using vigorous friction for 15-20 seconds.
    Place lathered hands/forearms under faucet and hold them up at 45 degree angle rinsing from fingertips to mid-forearm.
    Do not shake off excess water after rinsing. This causes bacteria to move down the arm on the wet surface. Do not tilt arms below 90 degree angle so you dont run bacteria from the forearm down to hands.
    Grab paper towel or 2.
    Wipe off one arm then the other from fingertips to forearm. Be sure not to use already wet area on paper towel on areas that not dry. Get another papertowel, but be sure to maintain that 45 degree pointed up angle until hands are completely dry.
    Once dry grab another paper towel and use it to turn off faucet.
    Grab another paper towel to open bathroom door to get out as many people don't wash after touching their willy and if you just touched the door handle to go out, you need to go back to sink and repeat process.

    That's how they taught us in nursing school. But seriously, does it use more energy to run the hand dryer 1 or 2 cycles to get your hands dry then they use to make 1 paper towel? Anyone know?
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  • Larry Zisstans
    Larry Zisstans Posts: 167
    childhood confession time:

    when we were kids--
    we would turn the hand-dryer nozzle upwards--
    (some of them were like that; still?)--
    turn it on--
    and drop a wad of spit into the airflow.--
    when it hit the airflow--
    it would just go Flying across the bathroom.--
    absolutely hillarious if you're a grade-schooler--
    "you know, for kids."--

    it really Was a simpler time--

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  • bobbyd3
    bobbyd3 Posts: 89
    The air hand dryer things are actually not good at all to use, bacteria actually grows in it and gets on your hands when you are drying them
  • sonicreducer
    sonicreducer Posts: 713
    bobbyd3 wrote:
    The air hand dryer things are actually not good at all to use, bacteria actually grows in it and gets on your hands when you are drying them

    id like to see something tangible to support this, if indeed the air dryer is more susceptible to bacteria growth for any other reason than poor cleaning technique. obviously, if the janitor doesn't do his job, everything has bacteria on it.
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  • Jammin909
    Jammin909 Posts: 888
    blackredyellow wrote:
    I've always said this too... I get up in the morning, take a shower and put pants on. When I go to pee, my willie is a lot cleaner than my hands at that point, it's been in my pants all day. I should wash my hands before I go to the bathroom.

    If I wash my hands in the bathroom, it's almost always before I pee. It is totally backward logic to wash your hands after you piss.

    So you are at the office and you are shaking hands, typing on a dirty keyboard, fumbing through old papers, using a borrowed stapler etc- I think it's disgusting if you dont wash your hands before you piss.

    Like you said, my cock has been hiding all day away from the outside world so why would it be more dirty than the door to your office, keyboard, colleagues hands etc to warrant me washing my hands after I pee rather than before?
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  • wolfbear
    wolfbear Posts: 3,965
    hippiemom wrote:
    There are dryers in the ladies room at my favorite restaurant. The instructions read:

    1. Push button to start.
    2. Rub hands together under air flow.

    Underneath that, someone has written in the last step:

    3. Wipe hands on pants.
    Exactly! :)
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  • *given*to*fly*
    *given*to*fly* Posts: 325
    hippiemom wrote:
    There are dryers in the ladies room at my favorite restaurant. The instructions read:

    1. Push button to start.
    2. Rub hands together under air flow.

    Underneath that, someone has written in the last step:

    3. Wipe hands on pants.



    haha thats awesome ...and exactly what i do ALWAYS! lol
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  • macgyver06
    macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    even flow? wrote:
    If they actually dried your hands I would use them.

    ya and the powerful ones shoot the water all over me :)
  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Jammin909 wrote:
    If I wash my hands in the bathroom, it's almost always before I pee. It is totally backward logic to wash your hands after you piss.

    So you are at the office and you are shaking hands, typing on a dirty keyboard, fumbing through old papers, using a borrowed stapler etc- I think it's disgusting if you dont wash your hands before you piss.

    Like you said, my cock has been hiding all day away from the outside world so why would it be more dirty than the door to your office, keyboard, colleagues hands etc to warrant me washing my hands after I pee rather than before?

    He He He... In best Beavis voice... "you said cock".

    Seriously though. I had a great biology teacher once who told me, "If it doesn't kill ya, who cares."

    The energy question is a good one. So I sometimes dry my hands by running them through my hair. At my enviro-friendly workplace, we recycle the "hand paper only" wastebin and offer cloth washable hand towels... which leads into a third energy question... the wash and dry hand towel energy factor...
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  • sonicreducer
    sonicreducer Posts: 713
    point is to reduce paper towel waste.

    energy required to run that air dryer is worth saving trees.

    less trees being killed, more carbon dioxide absorbed.

    yes, fun topic to pick at, but seriously,... use 'em
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  • even flow?
    even flow? Posts: 8,066
    sonicreducer wrote:
    point is to reduce paper towel waste.

    energy required to run that air dryer is worth saving trees.

    less trees being killed, more carbon dioxide absorbed.

    yes, fun topic to pick at, but seriously,... use 'em


    Was there really anything wrong with the old towel machines that when you needed a clean piece you either cranked it up or pulled it down?
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    That's why God invented shirt tails.
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  • sonicreducer
    sonicreducer Posts: 713
    even flow? wrote:
    Was there really anything wrong with the old towel machines that when you needed a clean piece you either cranked it up or pulled it down?

    no. but with an increase in population, and an increase in people going out for leisure and such,... it seems only logical to try and reduce the amount of waste product. i think paper towel waste is a matter of convenience and in some cases, laziness.

    Cosmo wrote:
    That's why God invented shirt tails.

    if there isn't an air dryer, i use my shirt. that is, unless im blowing my nose or something,...
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  • brainofPJ
    brainofPJ Posts: 2,361
    even flow? wrote:
    But don't people worry about touching the dirty door to get into the bathroom before they touch themselves? ;) Nobody and I mean nobody ever discusses that. Something to think of the next time you wash your hands before you go to the bathroom and then after.

    Some people are terrified of germs.

    Seriously......................if you go to the bathroom, unzip your pants, grab your willie, enjoy a pee, tuck your willie back into your pants, zip up and haven't dripped on yourself. Why do you have to wash up? Is your penis that dirty an object? Not you in general but I would like to hear from some people on that thought.


    that's because you don't have to pull the door open, you just simply lean into it.

    i don't have to touch my willie when i pee, he just hangs and does his business.


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  • gremmiev
    gremmiev Posts: 22
    sonicreducer wrote:
    id like to see something tangible to support this, if indeed the air dryer is more susceptible to bacteria growth for any other reason than poor cleaning technique. obviously, if the janitor doesn't do his job, everything has bacteria on it.

    Apparently there are still bacteria on your hands even after washing and the air dryer APPARENTLY blows it around the room...

    ... the worst thing is, and as a guy I hate to say this, when you see people not even bothering to wash their hands!!! they don't even get as far as the dryer/towel situation... they just walk out... BLAH!!!
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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    even flow? wrote:
    Was there really anything wrong with the old towel machines that when you needed a clean piece you either cranked it up or pulled it down?

    Kids were hanging themselves with those.
    I was swimming in the Great Barrier Reef 
    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    tish wrote:
    Kids were hanging themselves with those.
    ...
    Man, those kids are desperate... I mean, choosing the stench of a McDonald's restroom over the comfort of your own bedroom... that's a tough life.
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  • hailhailkc
    hailhailkc Posts: 582
    I prefer to employ a blind black man to follow me into the bathroom when I need to do my business. Afterwards, he's waiting with a fluffy hand towel, a fresh mint, a dash of cologne, a shoe shine...and some form of witty advice on living life to it's fullest, followed up by a dirty joke.

    And yes...he has to be black...or it just isn't the same.
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