I remember those things. They often got stuck, and you couldn’t pull the towel down to reveal a new, clean portion. If this was the case, I avoided using them altogether and just walked out with undried hands.
there was a time these were seen as being more hygienic that the air dryers, i would still rather use one of them than a dryer
How’s anyone supposed to wipe their arse on that!?
This looks new? The old ones were metal, I recall in primary school a kid ran head first right into one and hit the small metal slit. Blood everywhere, needed several stitches.
I now have this in my head thanks.
Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,
And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he
I work in a hotel and the guest toilets still have these. My boss point blank refuses to change to electric hand dryers because electricity costs, forgetting that it costs money to have the rolls sent back to be washed…
I work in manufacturing. You see these things pretty often in some factories. Especially the more old school ones.
The towel forgets everything when it comes back around
I used one of these a couple of hours ago at a Volvo Service Centre in Perth.
Where I work in the Netherlands these are everywhere, and are broken (the dirty towel detached and hanging down on the pissy floor) about 1 in 5 times. I hate them so much. I did see a guy the other day “dry” his hands on what was clearly(?) a used part of the towel, which caused me to wonder whether there was something I’ve misunderstood about them.
I’ve still seen that.
Your son does his dancing in a church?
They are making a comeback.
I always use these or the blue roll dispensers.
They’re still the only hand driers that actually work.
Hand dryers are fine as long as you use the Mitsubishi or Dyson ones with filters inside. The worst thing you can do is not dry your hands!
The company I work for supplies these as part of our washroom range, you’d be surprised how many places still use them. One council area took out a contract not too long ago to actually install a load of these. We call in regularly with clean rolls to swap over with the used dirty rolls which we bring back to our warehouse and are sent off for specialist cleaning (and rewinding I suppose).
‘In the church where my son does his dancing’ sounds like a line from a Morrissey song
It’s weird, I used one earlier today in John Lewis, but I hadn’t seen them for a few years before that. I guess I kind of assumed they’d been phased out.
There was one in each of the toilets at my dad’s restaurants. I never knew how to use them before and didn’t pull down on them to dry my hands. Ew.
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I remember those things. They often got stuck, and you couldn’t pull the towel down to reveal a new, clean portion. If this was the case, I avoided using them altogether and just walked out with undried hands.
there was a time these were seen as being more hygienic that the air dryers, i would still rather use one of them than a dryer
Relic? Still for sale…
[https://www.initial.co.uk/hand-drying/roller-towel-dispensers/](https://www.initial.co.uk/hand-drying/roller-towel-dispensers/)
(they’re not on an infinite loop, BTW)
How’s anyone supposed to wipe their arse on that!?
This looks new? The old ones were metal, I recall in primary school a kid ran head first right into one and hit the small metal slit. Blood everywhere, needed several stitches.
I now have this in my head thanks.
Dance, then, wherever you may be,
I am the Lord of the Dance, said he,
And I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be,
And I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he
I work in a hotel and the guest toilets still have these. My boss point blank refuses to change to electric hand dryers because electricity costs, forgetting that it costs money to have the rolls sent back to be washed…
I work in manufacturing. You see these things pretty often in some factories. Especially the more old school ones.
The towel forgets everything when it comes back around
I used one of these a couple of hours ago at a Volvo Service Centre in Perth.
Where I work in the Netherlands these are everywhere, and are broken (the dirty towel detached and hanging down on the pissy floor) about 1 in 5 times. I hate them so much. I did see a guy the other day “dry” his hands on what was clearly(?) a used part of the towel, which caused me to wonder whether there was something I’ve misunderstood about them.
I’ve still seen that.
Your son does his dancing in a church?
They are making a comeback.
I always use these or the blue roll dispensers.
They’re still the only hand driers that actually work.
Hand dryers are fine as long as you use the Mitsubishi or Dyson ones with filters inside. The worst thing you can do is not dry your hands!
The company I work for supplies these as part of our washroom range, you’d be surprised how many places still use them. One council area took out a contract not too long ago to actually install a load of these. We call in regularly with clean rolls to swap over with the used dirty rolls which we bring back to our warehouse and are sent off for specialist cleaning (and rewinding I suppose).
‘In the church where my son does his dancing’ sounds like a line from a Morrissey song
It’s weird, I used one earlier today in John Lewis, but I hadn’t seen them for a few years before that. I guess I kind of assumed they’d been phased out.
There was one in each of the toilets at my dad’s restaurants. I never knew how to use them before and didn’t pull down on them to dry my hands. Ew.
Still have these at work in some places!
They’re still in the airport in Oslo!