imgcat,

This stuff is illegal in some countries. Do NOT use your sleeve unless you plan to wash your sweater immediately after. Carry an emergency napkin/paper towel with you.

thorbot,

This is why I just wrap my scrotum around the handle to open it, problem solved

VanHalbgott,

Shouldn’t you just grab a paper towel and open the door with it at the end of the comic strip?

6_juniper_6,

That’s what I usually do 😅

Ziglin,

They don’t have paper towels, they have a funny air blower…

sagrotan,
@sagrotan@lemmy.world avatar

At all times, gentlemen, have some old workshop towel or used tissues in the depths of your pockets.

BonesOfTheMoon,

I just use my shirt tail or sleeve, haven’t opened a door with my.bare hand since February 2020. (Yes I do realize COVID isn’t spread by touching really but if it’s one less risk I can take along with masking I will do it).

sagrotan,
@sagrotan@lemmy.world avatar

Ha! Amateur! I haven’t opened a toilet door with bare hands since the time they wrote a “19” at the beginning of the year. Git gud! (I’m not entirely sure, but could actually be true)

Ktheone,

Burn the toilet down

123nope567,

Kick it

AeonFelis,

And if it opens to the other side - just kick it harder.

hOrni,

Don’t know about other countries, but in Poland all public spaces have to have doors opening to the outside.

SilverCode,

That must be fun for people walking past the outside when you swing the door open.

hOrni,

I don’t know what’s Your point. You can get hit by doors no mater which way they open. And it’s not like the doors from a supermarket open straight on to a busy sidewalk. Don’t You have fire safety code, wherever You’re from?

hakunawazo,

Sometimes the toilet god is merciful and someone comes in at just the right moment.

padge,

Yeah, this drives me crazy. Best thing I can do if I have a jacket or long sleeved shirt on, is to put my hand inside the sleeve and open it that way

jcs,
@jcs@lemmy.world avatar

Sometimes a trash bin is located near the door, so I’ll use the same paper towel I used to dry my hands to open the door, hold the door open with my foot, then throw the paper towel in the bin. But these make hygiene so much easier:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/eaab6374-ba89-4e19-8644-faf24b9fbef6.jpeg

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/eb28644c-e03b-4fb3-8ebd-ce60a1913971.jpeg

bmsok,

The Step n’ Pull should be standard.

chicken,

I use my foot

Thanator,

How do you pull with your foot? Toes out?

stratosfear,

When the door has that little foot puller at the bottom 🤌

fox2263,

I was just thinking about that very problem the other day.

platypus_plumba,

Use your dick, it’s dirty. You were washing your hands because you touched it, no?

fox2263,

Ah so use dick to open door. I shall give it a go!

6_juniper_6,

My problem: none available 😄

platypus_plumba,

You need to work on that grip.

… I’m so sorry.

trk,
@trk@aussie.zone avatar

I just stand inside the door until someone else comes in, then escape.

This works poorly in remote areas, but I consider 4 days trapped in a public bathroom worth it to avoid touching the poop handle.

worldsayshi,

A hobby of mine is to get annoyed at hand dryers. 80% of the models I find are eyerollingly useless. Blow a faint breeze for five seconds, stop and refuse to trigger again no matter how much you try to slap the air in front of it.

Then there are those 5% that actually gets it. Blowing a jet stream that makes the water droplets sublimate so fast you forget you even washed.

spfhaar,

the dyson airblade v is good

worldsayshi,

Yup, although it can also have a tendency to stop after a few seconds and refuse to elaborate.

oyo,

They all just blow hot germs around though.

hungryphrog,

Also they are way too fucking loud. Just use paper, people.

worldsayshi,

Paper runs out and can cause a mess in a busy public restroom.

letsgo,

I keep thinking it’d be a good idea to patent a hand dryer that points the detector in one direction and the blower in another, such that to switch it on you have to move your hands out of the air stream, and to switch it off you have to move your hands into it. Your hands get dry not by the blower, but by the action of moving your hands to and fro between the detector and the blower.

Nobody would object or claim prior art because that would put them on record as directly admitting their products are shit.

Then sue everyone whose hand dryers do exactly that. I’d make a killing.

Classy,

Small thing, sublimation occurs when a solid converts immediately to a gas with no liquid state between. This happens with dry ice commonly

niktemadur,

When they have paper towels, what I do is take the last one with which I dried my hands to grab or pinch the door handle and pull.

tslnox,

The shopping mall where I live has the metal stripe at the bottom that’s clearly there to protect the door when you open it with your shoe… But they open inwards to the bathroom.

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