Heuston station toilet roll dispenser. What bloody engineer thought these were a good idea?

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  1. my mate came out of the jacks there after they’d done them up and was so confused… I asked if everything was alright… they said the taps where shaped like airplanes for some reason, in a train station… they have a point.

  2. I put these dispensers into work. They are actually more expensive than the regular ones, and the rolls have to be special ones made for it too, so they too are more expensive than most systems.

    They dispense single sheets, and are great at reducing waste. We were having issues with our Victorian plumbing in Dublin City Centre clogging up due to excessive paper usage, and these have sorted that. Heuston could be the same.

    There is one problem with them, and I think that is what has happened here. Cunts push the paper back into the dispenser through the hole just to be a dickhead.

    I solved this by super-glueing the key into the dispenser.

    So there you have it. Happy new year.

  3. Pain in the backside, have learned to bring tissues around with me just in case (not always practical though).

    I need a few sheets to turn sandpaper one ply into cushy 4 ply…

  4. They are so shite. Good news is most of them i see arent locked so you can just press down on the lock and open it when its jammed. And even if they are locked most of the time you can open them with anything that will fit in there since the lock is so worn down from daily use. Even if they are “empty” theyre usually at least 3 sheets still stuck inside. We have these monstrosities at work.

  5. Tork products are outrageous money, I got a hand towel one into the canteen where I work, rolls were like 20 quid each. Holy lord jesus, you wouldnt be paying twenty quid for a roll of kitchen towel at home. I think the dispenser was installed for free, no shit.

  6. They installed these in the workplace recently. They’re worse than the shite being dropped in the jax. The dispenser is forever getting blocked just like in the photo.

  7. Tip for these tork holders.you can open it with any key or leaver you can fit slightly into the key slot on top. My work place has them and the original keys went missing long ago.

  8. I think this must have been done to stop people over using the toilet paper to try save money and scumbag kids messing with all the toilet paper.

  9. Stick a key into the toilet paper hole. With a bit of force you can rip out those front plastic bits.

    Behind them is a decent sized hole which will give multiple sheets.

    Enjoy!

  10. I was actually thinking about these the last day. The guy who invented them and sold the patent was an early redditor, he might still be around and he would share pictures of his penthouse and helicopter and people would call him out as fake (reddit was ultra-uncool at the time without the cross section it has now) and others would provide the background that he invented these things and link to an AMA he did once.

    There were people on there like in this thread who were janitors etc calling him out for inventing a shit product and he agreed that he hated using them also but that it solved a lot of issues that public bathrooms had (people stealing paper, people emptying the whole thing in one go and putting the paper in the jacks, people taking fifty squares when they only need a couple) and they need to be changed far less often.

  11. It’s nice to read lots of people have gripes and negative comments about the toilet paper dispensers.. I thought I was the only one.. I often wonder who signs off on the design and buying if these into company buildings… There is a knack to using them and yes they seem by design to give out only two sheets at a time and the paper is thinner to get through the hole.. while not lowering the tone two much .. for a normal poo they might do the job but for Christmas poos and some people which I will put myself into like my food diverse as it come gives poo if a varing consistency.. find this loo paper on of spirited donations to the sewerage works two wfer sheets of paper at a time just does not cut it…

  12. I’ve come across these in quite a few places (shopping centres/petrol stations). I believe it’s a cost saving measure as I’ve started to bring tissues or toilet paper with me when I travel in case I meet one of these AH devices.

  13. seen this in a mall near ours, funny part is they can be opened with any keys, if you put one in and push down you can turn the whole lock core enough to open it, then just take the roll home or use it

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