I like papertowels. If i need to blow my nose, or open a door and not touch the door, or is bleeding, they work better than air dryers.

@MrSkyl1ne

Жыл бұрын

You could just blow your nose in the airdryer, open the door with your feet and bleed on the floor like a normal person. sheez...

@vyros.3234

Жыл бұрын

But the trees

@panzerveps

Жыл бұрын

What I like about the airblade is that it doubles as a urinal.

@neondemon5137

Жыл бұрын

Not just using your sleeve... ngmi

@SylviaRustyFae

Жыл бұрын

​​@@MrSkyl1ne The air dryer also works for blowin the blood off of the wound while you wrap it with some of your ripped off shirt (accidental double meanin there, but i mean it in both senses of those words xD)

We have Dyson driers at work. They have a fun design feature where all of the water that gets blasted off of your hands falls down onto the curved surface below. It then collects there over time and all sorts of fun things start to grow.

@GilmerJohn

Жыл бұрын

"Seems to me" that Dyson should put a small UV-C LED to kill off the bug in the accumulated moisture. It might also try to sanitize some of the air coming off your hands.

@JonMartinYXD

Жыл бұрын

@@GilmerJohn Except UV-C is sufficiently bad for our skin and eyes that we should not be exposed to it, at all.

@GilmerJohn

Жыл бұрын

@@JonMartinYXD -- That's true. That's why is has to be concealed in a duct through which a fan draws the exhaust air. An "ideal" system would draw in fresh air and head and irradiate it in a duct. The air would be blown on the hands and most of the air would be sucked up into another duct where it would be UV-C treated again.

@sunnohh

Жыл бұрын

@@GilmerJohn dyson only makes garbage products with crippling design flaws so it’s up to their standards as is

@TheFPSPower

Жыл бұрын

I mean... You're supposed to clean them every now and then...

As a designer I come across this in many situations. Paper towels are a nightmare for maintenance in public bathrooms, but useful for bleeding, wiping etc. Hand dryers are useful for drying damp clothes and sometimes hair. It’s really situational but if possible, it’s best to have both

@Herrikias

Жыл бұрын

You're insane with your situational usefulness! I demand an omni-solution or no solution at all!

@xman9354

Жыл бұрын

​@@Herrikias Damn Right. I'm not buying until one of them solves world hunger

@ManabiLT

Жыл бұрын

While a lot of the hand dryers can be used on damp clothes or hair, the Dyson ones can't. They're designed to be used for hands only.

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

TBH, the best option is reusable cloth. We had them in college and there was this extremely long length of cloth that would cycle through over repeated uses. It got the hands very dry, easier than paper towels, and was reasonably sanitary. When all of it had been used, it would be removed, washed and cycled back in again. Any technology is going to have some sort of drawback, but you don't even have to use cotton, you can use the most environmentally friendly fiber you can find and it will likely still work.

@zumabbar

Жыл бұрын

what do you mean towels being so hard to maintain? replacing/keeping it always available? keeping it dry or clean while it's still inside the roller/rack? i mean, i rather do these compared to a piece of tech that's gonna need a specialist if it ever craps out

The coolest kids remember the damp cloth towel on a rotary bar. It was usually placed right next to the pink, granulated soap dispenser in your elementary school bathroom. It's amazing we didn't all die.

@Zuraneve

Жыл бұрын

Ugh. I remember that pink soap. I hated it so much.

@mollusckscramp4124

Жыл бұрын

They still have those at Auckland University! 😄

@twincast2005

Жыл бұрын

Schools, restaurants, gas stations,... I remember them basically everywhere until the mid-1990s.

@fonkbadonk5370

Жыл бұрын

They are actually the best version of public hand drying I can imagine. Well, provided that the rooms they are in are well enough ventilated, the rolls are regularly exchanged for fresh ones, and the pull-mechanism works and users use it. They're an economic compromise, with arguably a similar maintainance cost as paper towels.

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

@@fonkbadonk5370 Yes, the main reason why you don't see more just regular towels is because of the hassle of keeping them stocked. I remember using these in college and I don't remember them ever being wet. They did the job and as long as you advanced the towel enough to get dry towel, there wasn't a real problem.

I'm amazed that Sam and his team found so much stock footage of people using hand dryers and drying their hands. There really is a graphics library for everything.

@T..C..M

Жыл бұрын

Do you ummm, think they might uhhh… 😬 have some footage of…you know..other bathroom activities? 🤔 asking for a friend.

@GBR9794

Жыл бұрын

@@T..C..M cringe

@internet_userr

Жыл бұрын

​@@T..C..M cringe

@jackbequick

Жыл бұрын

The amount of stock footage is beyoung what you could ever imagine, there's tons of photo\video for any activity you can imagine. Also: @@T..C..M cringe

@jackh3242

Жыл бұрын

And that brings us to today's sponsor: StoryBlocks

"Pushing the boundaries of *accepted evidence*" Is not something I want to see on MOST scientists resumes, ESPECIALLY one working for a giant corporation with a money-making agenda.

@haxney

Жыл бұрын

Eh, I don't see that job description as being necessarily bad. Maybe the current regulatory evidence standard really is bad (I don't know, but let's assume for the sake of argument). Maybe the current standards are people wearing latex gloves, no soap, and only measure bacteria by how bad the gloves smell, and he wants to push the standards towards real hands, with soap, and using petri dishes to grow samples. That seems like it would be a good way of "pushing the boundaries of accepted evidence." Of course, if he was pushing the opposite direction, that would be bad. We'd have to know what the current standards are and how he wants to push them in order to know whether he's doing something good or bad.

@nefariousyawn

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I heard that and had to double-check. What an overtly sleazy job description.

@MarcillaSmith

Жыл бұрын

My concern is that we're missing the bigger picture here, which is - as anyone born before 1980 can tell you: 1) Push butt -on- 2) Rub hands under -w- arm _h_ air 3) Stop -s au- to -mati- call -y- _4) Rub hands on pants_

@pierrecurie

Жыл бұрын

@@haxney Usually, they would phrase it as "improving regulatory evidence standard" instead of "pushing boundary of". The latter is dodgy AF.

@Iconoclasher

Жыл бұрын

It's funny how resumeś are misinterpreted. I'm a retired machinist and mechanical engineer. Long time ago I was assigned one particularly difficult (near impossible) job. I had to remind management the word "magician" was not on my resumé. 🤔

Something I found interesting when I traveled to Japan is that the public bathrooms very rarely have paper towel or hand dryers. The Japanese locals most often would just shake off their hands in the sink (after almost always only washing with water) and continue their business. It felt strange for an otherwise very hygienic culture. Maybe it has something to do with using bidet toilets

@Alexeon

Жыл бұрын

I've seen some salarymen pull out a little personal towel and dry their hands with that while there. I ended up buying a small towel to carry on my person as well for that same reason.

@dantegomez7369

Жыл бұрын

It’s common to carry a handkerchief or hand towel that they will use to dry their hands

@ManabiLT

Жыл бұрын

It's expected you'll have a handkerchief to use to dry your hands. Everyone carries them, even little kids.

@ClorindeASMRWhen

Жыл бұрын

THIS. Any hygienic infrastructure is useless when middle aged white males don’t use them properly. Those are the same people who still don’t cover their coughs well after the COVID pandemic.

@krashd

Жыл бұрын

@@ManabiLT Which makes perfect sense, if you are going to the beach you don't expect to find a bathing suit waiting for you so if you are spending time out of the house you should not expect everywhere to have towels waiting for you. Mind you, with that logic we'd all have to carry toilet paper too.

The thing I do not like about the Dyson Dryer is that the opening is too narrow and when your hands in there, it sort of blows it around so it hits the plastic surfaces. That is a HUGE problem because in a public bathroom, MANY people do not wash their hands properly and therefore, THAT is when you pick up all sorts of gross poop germs, not from the air (since it is filtered) but the wet plastic surface you cant help but touch once you're hands are inserted. Gross. I prefer paper towels. That will always be more sanitary.

@eritain

Ай бұрын

Sometimes the plastic is visibly gungy. Barffff, no thanks. Also, I've never yet been able to put that jet-speed blade of air between my hand and a filthy door handle.

@brianfunt2619

Ай бұрын

I don't see that style of Dyson airblade much these days, most of the time it's the V model which avoids many of the original's flaws

@bahamutbbob

17 күн бұрын

Plus, it's too easy to touch the bottom of the hand area, where the water accumulates. I loathe the air blade.

Honestly paper towels versatility outside of hand washing makes them win every time.

@SuperCatacata

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, air will never be as tasty as paper towel. 🤤

@midtisel4222

Жыл бұрын

​@@SuperCatacata you need air to live I swear I'm not addicted to it i love air

@x--.

Жыл бұрын

Just... expensive.

Жыл бұрын

The air dryers really blow when you've run out of toilet paper. Pun intended.

@Steamrick

Жыл бұрын

Public Restrooms on highways in Germany always have a blower dryer. I guess the main advantage here is that you will inevitably run out of paper towels, but you're unlikely to run out of air.

Jet dryers are fine unless they're like airblade and you have to play Operation to not touch the sides or the grime collecting bottom. It really is a great product in one of the worst designed cases.

@adamdanilowicz4252

Жыл бұрын

Their new models have fixed this flawed design luckily

@SuperCatacata

Жыл бұрын

​@@adamdanilowicz4252 Great, can't wait to see it widely used in 25 years.

@adamdanilowicz4252

Жыл бұрын

@@SuperCatacata In the UK one can see them more and more frequently

@jcam5

Жыл бұрын

I had that epiphany when I first saw that buildup, someone needs to clean that almost as often as to clean a convention toilet.

@rabidfurify

Жыл бұрын

Being someone with pretty small hands (for a guy) I never appreciated how problematic this design could be; I had realised that those surfaces were bound to get filthy, but I'd have to try really hard to actually touch them

I always wondered how that Dyson hand drier was more hygenic because you have to put your hand inside & you often hit the sides, which other people would've also done so the germs just accumulate there & people touch it

@en0n126

Жыл бұрын

you could also be like the little kid shown in this video and put your damn mouth against it while using it. because kids...

@freethebirds3578

Жыл бұрын

I hate the noise of those things. All of them. They are painfully loud and it seems like they take as long as the original hand dryers did because it's so uncomfortable to use them.

I encountered my first AirBlade at Parx Casino. It was quite the novelty back then, and it really _DOES_ do a better job at drying your hands (vs. a regular air dryer). Once they became common though, I'd still prefer the *CHOICE* of paper towels... I mean, how do I blow my nose or wipe my glasses off with an AirBlade, Dyson?!

@NinjaRunningWild

Жыл бұрын

Well, there is toilet paper..

@Terandium

5 ай бұрын

Don’t clean your glasses with paper towels, they will leave scratches. Only use microfibre cloths.

The "Airblade dB" that is prominently featured in this video is no longer manufactured by Dyson because it most definitely did collect and spread germs. Dyson no longer makes any hand-driers with a basin.

@x--.

Жыл бұрын

Oh, that's good to know.

@JWooden271

Жыл бұрын

I hated the dB model as my hands are long enough that my fingers touch said basin. If I forget to clench my hands when entering, I touch the gross basin and wind up washing my hands twice.

@L4wr3nc3810

Жыл бұрын

But they are widely used, soo

@KevinJDildonik

Жыл бұрын

Almost like Dyson designs are often incredibly flawed because it's just some weirdo marketing things rather than a properly tested product! Like the "bladeless fan" that's literally just a normal fan in a tube for 5x the price. And to this day, people still think Dyson is some kind of wizard who can make air move without using a fan.

@amunak_

Жыл бұрын

Instead they make this amazing dryer that's built into the bathroom faucet, so all the water that you washed off your hands blows right back onto you; and not just your hands but face, shirt, everything. The innovation is incredible!

5:25 Fun fact: The Metro North trains actually do have a hand dryer! The hand dryer, faucet, and soap are all hidden above the sink. You can see the label at 5:25. They work terribly and are very inconvenient - but they do exist!

@darkless60

Жыл бұрын

Damn “Dryer” is right there. Can’t believe the editor didn’t pick that up

@RunaroundAtNight

Жыл бұрын

The rest of the story is always in the comments.

@hannahk1306

Жыл бұрын

I think this person has never used a train toilet before - that's the standard design 😆

@rushdude90

Жыл бұрын

I understand the lack of free space, but those ones suck so much since it's blowing high-velocity air directly into the freshly-used sink of soapy water.

@anormalusername

Жыл бұрын

Looks like you'll be in the next edition of "times HAI was wrong"

“This train avoided choosing sides by having.. nothing “. That’s the best laugh I’ve had in the last week.. classic!

For me, washing hands comes down to two things: water/soap and abrasion. The abrasive nature of paper towels over air makes me believe they're far more effective at removing grease and oil. When presented with an air dryer, I use my pants.

@darkithnamgedrf9495

Жыл бұрын

Bro what. Y’all got issues, using your pants is nasty. I 100% prefer air dryers

@chrishernandez7655

Жыл бұрын

Based.

@isasametturkmen

Жыл бұрын

Based

I certainly prefer the paper towels, they're more useful than just for drying hands. I'm one of those weirdos who actually uses another paper towel to clean up the drops around the sink once I'm done. Once a food service employee, always one, plus it complies with Grandma's rule of "always leave the bathroom cleaner than you went in"

@carter2671

Жыл бұрын

Same dude

@Anish_B

Жыл бұрын

But trying to keep hygiene in a public bathroom that way(talking abt the sinks, not the restroom itself) is a lost cause

@PabloPerroPerro

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a waste of paper to me

@mushu_beardie2556

7 ай бұрын

My school has these in the union. I avoid that bathroom like the plague because I like being able to rinse the soap off my hands.

The best thing is still the Tap/Dryer combo dyson offers. Such a genius design!! First you wash your hands and then when the blower comes on it blows all the water doplets out of the sink directly on your pants!!!

@GnomeEU

Жыл бұрын

Perfect

@4473021

Жыл бұрын

Really love looking like I pissed all over my pants everytime I wash my hands

@iiiiilllllllll

Жыл бұрын

Ditto watching the confused older folks trying to figure out what the fuck they're looking at when in the bathroom

@andrea00001

Жыл бұрын

Yo bro tell your dad to step down from twotter

@BoyProdigyX

Жыл бұрын

There are other brands of these that don't have that problem... It's like one of those washer AND dryers... you go in dirty, and come out fresh and dry!

I love it when Amy shows up for these things. 😂

Another thing to consider that a lot of folks don't think about: I have sensory issues, and the sound that the jet dryers make causes my nervous system to shut down, especially in a small bathroom. If a bathroom is going to have a jet dryer, I'm always grateful if they also have paper towels that I can use, and personally if I see a bathroom with one of the old style dryers instead, I'm actually happy, because they make a much more manageable level of noise!

@fsendventd

10 ай бұрын

I have a similar problem actually! It doesn't trigger anything for me, but the things are really loud and echo around inside the bathroom to the point where it causes physical pain to my ears if I try to use one. It's uncomfortable even if someone else is using it while I'm washing my hands or whatever.

@elephantyarn7378

3 ай бұрын

I think I have a sensory issue with both the noise and touch or air dryers. I can't stand to use them and would rather use my clothes than air dryers.

All our locations changed from paper towels to electric dryers, but it wasn't a budget decision or based on effectiveness. It was a DEMAND by the janitor union because their members didn't want to change the paper towels...and when the electric dryers didn't work the electrician union had to deal with it.

@benjaminfranklin329

Жыл бұрын

The plumbers would have been happy too, less blocked toilets from paper towel being inevitably flushed

@SmallSpoonBrigade

Жыл бұрын

@@benjaminfranklin329 They're plumbers, they would have just been happy not to have to worry about some a-hole flushing the toilet while they were working on it from the floor below and getting it all over them.

@Xnoob545

3 ай бұрын

​@@benjaminfranklin329 if toilet paper is fine to flush so is paper towel

@benjaminfranklin329

3 ай бұрын

@@Xnoob545 put some toilet paper and some paper towel in separate buckets of water and stir them around with a stick... The toilet paper breaks up into small pieces that don't clog up the sewers, the paper towel will hold together and catch other things in the system that causes blocked pipes.

Fun fact: The Mythbusters did an episode on air-dryers vs paper

@bryce1361

Жыл бұрын

I was amazed he didn't mention it

@jordonfreeman166

Жыл бұрын

And they found that paper towels cleaned better than air dryers. They used Petri dishes to incubate the bacteria.

@EustachyKonik

Жыл бұрын

Was about to comment that

@iainballas

Жыл бұрын

I doubt either the research or the scriptwriting for this series now. Either they don't know about it... or they did, and actively choose not to mention mythbusters.

@UrbanAgent423

Жыл бұрын

That Mythbusters episode is still why I never use air dryers of any type to this day. Even if there are no paper towels I'll just dry my hands on my shirt and pants

While living in Japan I was surprised to find that there is often neither paper towels or hand dryers in bathrooms. Instead, it is common for people to carry a small cloth towel with them. However, this can be rather inconvenient and I frequently saw people choose not to wash their hands in favor of walking around with wet hands because they did not have a towel.

Oh my GOD as someone who works in health care and has to wash their hands multiple times a day, this debate is one of the few hills that I will die on! I'm so happy that Sam's done a video on it 😂😂 For the record I am team towel - I have no trust that a jet dryer has the friction power to clean bacteria off your hands that paper towels do. None at all. Didn't realise that there was a Big Air Dryer vs Big Paper battle going on though! Props for sending Amy to get a sample for bathrooms... But going into some hospitals would have been an interesting inclusion. Here in Australia, I have *never* seen a jet dryer in a hospital - only ever paper towels... And with the amount of emphasis we have on hand washing in hospitals (ref: Google the "5 moments of hand hygiene" and organisations exist like "Hand Hygiene Australia") I feel like they're going to be doing something right...

@RyanTosh

Жыл бұрын

Wait is the drying step _supposed_ to remove bacteria? I'd assumed that was the role of like...the washing part, and the drying was just to dry them.

@InventorZahran

Жыл бұрын

⁠@@RyanTosh As far as I know, the drying step is supposed to remove excess moisture *before* any new bacteria has a chance to start growing in it. Existing bacteria should've been removed by soap and abrasion in the washing step.

I vote for paper towels. One of the germiest places in a restroom is the door handle, so you need to use your paper towel to grasp it on the way out. Doesn't matter how clean your hands are if you just collect everyone's filth when you leave.

@aliensinnoh1

Жыл бұрын

@@ayaya-ayaya I've seen a couple places with little things on the bottom of the door so you can open it with your feet. Everywhere should have those.

@travisscavoni369

Жыл бұрын

@@aliensinnoh1 The Lowe's where I live have those on their bathroom doors.

@travisscavoni369

Жыл бұрын

Yep. And I'm one of those people who, if there is no trash can near the door, will throw the paper towel on the floor.

@thecryingsoul

Жыл бұрын

@@travisscavoni369 You ever considered you may be the reason they are shifting to dryers?

@vibaj16

Жыл бұрын

@@travisscavoni369 You're the reason we can't have nice things

Even if they're not as dirty as the "studies" claimed, I'm still on team paper towels. 1) The Dyson fans in particular require sticking your hand in and inevitably touching a nasty surface. 2) It still takes a lot longer than just paper drying, and often this causes a line to form. 3) It doesn't get into the cracks and crevices as well unless you hang out for a while. 4) It's annoyingly loud. 5) I have nothing to open the nasty door with, and I don't want to touch the handle right after washing my hands. 6) Maybe it's cleaner than we think, but it's still blowing around all the farts and whatnot and just feels more gross. 7) Sometimes a paper towel is just more useful for other things, not just drying hands. So if you're an establishment with a public bathroom and don't provide paper towels, I judge you and hate your bathrooms.

@remkirkthegamer1157

Жыл бұрын

I use air dryers, since I'm usually the guy that has to take out the trash.

@Hexagonaldonut

Жыл бұрын

Point 5 is why foot door openers really should be more common in bathrooms! It's a 10 buck piece of metal and instantly makes leaving the bathroom infinitely more hygienic, assuming people actually use it. (I for one habitually will open basically any door that allows it with my foot, *especially* bathrooms. That's why the kickplate is there!)

@darkwoodmovies

Жыл бұрын

@@Hexagonaldonut Agreed, I love those. Unfortunately they're still pretty uncommon :(

@hannahk1306

Жыл бұрын

1 - I've personally never touched the actual hand dryer - maybe you have big hands? Seems like more of an argument for a redesign. 2 - I've rarely seen a queue for these dryers, unless there's not enough installed for the number of toilets/sinks available. 3 - I personally find my hands are always slightly damp even after 3 or 4 paper towels (so not quicker or better). 4 - yes they can be loud, but no more so than the other appliances in the room and again just an argument for improved design. 5 - why would the door be "nasty" if people are washing and trying their hands? Just carry hand sanitiser if you think your fellow humans are incapable of basic hygiene or use toilet roll if you have that much of an issue with touching that specific surface. 6 - what? That's not really a reason, other than "I don't like it" which just sounds childish. 7 - what are you using paper towels for that toilet roll or a tissue couldn't be used for instead? Hygiene and function are the only real arguments here. Hygiene seems inconclusive and in terms of function I'd say badly designed hand dryer is worst, then paper towel, then well designed hand dryer.

@doggfite

Жыл бұрын

Hate to break it to you, but basically every indoor space in the modern world has some sort of system that circulates air, either passively or actively. The farts are already being blown all around and homogenized with the rest of the air, regardless of an air dryer.

I'm on the side of paper towels. They also have other hygiene uses than drying your hands, and I can dry my hands better than any hand dryer. Sometimes I need 2 towels but that absorbs the water off very efficiently. Yes it costs more but I'm 99% sure it's way more hygienic, and I don't like using dryers anyway + they make a ton of noise.

Paper towels are my preferred hand-drying method for one specific reason. In public places, I've seen too many people either not washing their hands or just using water. Coupling this with a Mythbusters episode about the amount of bacteria before and after hand-washing, I'm happy to have my washed hands on a piece of new and clean paper rather than having droplets of water being flung everywhere around me by a jet-drier... You never know how many hands were just wet in the sink and not washed before you came there.

The real answer is the automatic cotton towel dispenser. Anyone who's ever used one knows what I'm talking about, the Lindström ones are quite common in Finland. You pull on the towel, dry your hands, and the towel automatically recedes back into the machine to be washed - no trash, no germs, no hot air.

@mr.paperbag771

Жыл бұрын

Preach! Reusable toilet paper is the spawn of satan but reusable hand towels are brilliant and will save the world.

@-xirx-

Жыл бұрын

The only trouble is, in other countries (including mine), inventive degeneratives would desecrate those towels in ways we can't even imagine yet. And this is why we can't have nice things these days

@Herdatec

Жыл бұрын

unless you are at the end ow the towel and only have a damp rag left to dry your hands. These never get changed enough.

@the-digital-idiot

Жыл бұрын

@@-xirx- Not if we install laser turrets on the roof...

@FanOfNoob

Жыл бұрын

i think i used those when i was in germany. feels kinda yucky

They installed one of those Dyson air blade dryers that just blows downward in the bathroom at our office building. When you think of what it might be flinging off someone’s hands that maybe they didn’t wash completely, it’s really disconcerting when someone goes to dry their hands and you’re sitting on the toilet in a stall on the other side of the room, and the air is so powerful that, to put it delicately, you feel the breeze on your Nethers.

@RunaroundAtNight

Жыл бұрын

That's an interesting point. I wonder how much of the water blown off ends up in the air of the restroom and is then breathed in.

@jamesphillips2285

Жыл бұрын

@@RunaroundAtNight Another reason to keep wear N95-class respirators!

@RobinTheBot

Жыл бұрын

If they washed their hands it's clean water!

@ManabiLT

Жыл бұрын

@@RobinTheBot Not if they didn't wash them properly. Then it's clean-ish water with germs from what was on/is still on their hands in it.

@myoak108

2 ай бұрын

What is your immune system for? There's so much more bacteria in the air besides the water particles off of someones hands. I'd be more concerned with the air kicking up fecal or urine matter from the floors.

The big problem with jet dryers is that they are just way too loud. And as someone with anxiety and audio sensitivity issues, doublely so.

Mythbusters tested this and said they both work fine as long as you actually wash your hands. If you just rinse them, then air dryers are worse and spread more bacteria.

Paper towels are the way to go cause they don't destroy my eardrums. I can't dry my hands if I need to use them to cover my ears at the same time. I never use air driers and I hate when someone else uses them when I'm in the room. If a washroom doesn't have paper towels I just walk out and look for napkins or something to dry my hands on.

@vibaj16

Жыл бұрын

They've never been uncomfortably loud for me

@LRM12o8

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you have sensory issues, maybe you're on the spectrum or simply have unusually sensitive ears. I'd recommend you see an ENT physician specialized in Otology and get checked for autism/sensory issues. One of those two can certainly help you solve this problem. Or you just put in earplugs and see if it's still an issue. I'd recommend the reusable silicon plugs used by soldiers/sports shooters and musicians as they still allow you to have a conversation while reducing the volume significantly. If those don't solve the problem, it's probably not the volume, but a sensory issue triggered by specific frequencies that makes you uncomfortable. There are special earplugs for that as well, to my knowledge.

@mjc0961

Жыл бұрын

@@LRM12o8 Yeah, because it's super reasonable to put in earplugs before going to the bathroom. And also super sanitary to remove the earplugs after you just got done washing your hands. 🙄 Maybe these terrible air dryers that don't work and give some people issues with the noise can just piss off and we can use paper towel, that seems like a much better solution.

@allisonseamiller

Жыл бұрын

@@LRM12o8 Better we just stop putting jet engines on washroom walls.

@Kromiball

2 ай бұрын

I just vibrate my hands above the sink

Paper towels are compostable, and they can be used for a variety of needs outside of drying your hands.

@Fister-kw5un

Жыл бұрын

Nobody composts paper towels, you are spreading misinformation.

@heidirabenau511

Жыл бұрын

Like wiping my bum!

@tw7321

Жыл бұрын

Lighting a grill 👌👌

@jamaicanskeleton

Жыл бұрын

but realistically no public bathroom has a compost bin

@turkia6148

Жыл бұрын

True, for example, eating it

One of the few positive things to come from the pandemic was every public bathroom here ripping out the airdryers or at least disconnecting them and relaxing them with paper

The worst part of air dryers is having to wait for someone to enter the bathroom so you can then leave without touching the nasty door handle.

5:27 "It's an inspiring level of conflict aversion: to leave your hands dirty to keep theirs clean." Brilliant

I think the real problem with airblade and it's ilk is that they're absurdly loud, and have a significant high frequency component to the noise. I find it really uncomfortable to be in a bathroom with one operating if i'm not wearing earplugs.

@emberthecatgirl8796

Жыл бұрын

Yup! Accessibility is the biggest problem IMO

@bleflar9183

Жыл бұрын

I always refuse to use them becouse i have this weird feeling that im inconviniancing everyone with the loud sound.

@specialopsdave

Жыл бұрын

The new ones are better, 10× better than those Xcelerator dryers

@vibaj16

Жыл бұрын

I thought I had sensitive ears, but I've never had any problems with hand dryer noise

@4AlokR

Жыл бұрын

Those xcelerator ones were shown to be much louder than the manufacturer claimed

I like the idea of air dryers. In practical practice though, paper towels are far better so long as they're not those cheap kind that disintegrate upon contact with wet hands. They have a lot more uses, namely, giving you something to open the door with that keeps you from defeating the entire purpose of washing your hands to begin with. There are few things worse than finishing drying your hands with an air dryer, only to realize the door only opens inward so you're not getting out without touching what is often the most germ filled object in the entire bathroom.

The problem with not having paper towels is you have to touch the door handle, and there are plenty of people who don’t wash their hands for some reason.

I like paper towel because I don't need hearing protection to use it. Most hand dryers are extremely loud, but those Dyson dryers leave my ears ringing. It's fucked, I don't know how people can stand to use them. Also paper towel can be used for more than just drying your hands. Like if there's no toilet paper for some reason and you just need to blow your nose, or if you need to get water of your shirt because the bathroom has one of those shitty sink that lets water run off the counter and onto your shirt. Oh and you have to slide your hands into that narrow slot that everyone else touches and that's pretty gross. Paper towel is just fine with me.

@vibaj16

Жыл бұрын

Most people don't have such sensitive ears.

@joshjlmgproductions3313

Жыл бұрын

@@vibaj16 Because they've already gone deaf after listening to the air dryers so often.

@robertdurn2320

Жыл бұрын

Our granddaughter aged 3 gets very upset as the sound is extremely loud and the machine is set at about the height of a child.

@vibaj16

Жыл бұрын

@@joshjlmgproductions3313 I have what I'd consider to be sensitive ears, yet air dryers aren't uncomfortable at all to me

@joshjlmgproductions3313

Жыл бұрын

@@vibaj16 Sounds like you may be from Europe where the air dryers are both much more effective and much quieter than most of the ones in North America.

Commercial property manager here. We'll stick with the paper towels because the dryers are too loud to be acceptable in an office building and nobody likes being trapped staring at a wall just to dry your hands. It's just more convenient to tear off the paper towel that has automatically dispensed from the touch-less dispenser and keep moving.

@bendrui

Жыл бұрын

Hi, GTOger! I'm glad to see you're ok. Spouse and I miss your parking lot videos. Of course, you owe us nothing. I hope you continue to be well.

@ManabiLT

Жыл бұрын

The touch-less dispensers are nice. I despite the ones that require you to grab the paper towel on both corners and pull down. Inevitably it tears because your hands are damp, then you have to turn the thing on the side... and then you need to wash your hands again.

@MonkeyJedi99

Жыл бұрын

@@bendrui Same well wished for GTOger from me. Just last week I was checking the channel only to see nothing new had been posted for SO long. I was worried.

@mjc0961

Жыл бұрын

Ugh, not the automatic paper dispensers. They never give enough paper to dry one's hands, you have to sit there and get it to spit out 4 or 5 pieces of paper before you can actually get dry. Just give me a manually operated one so I can get all the paper I need quickly.

@gtoger

Жыл бұрын

@@mjc0961 Our dispensers are set to my satisfaction, and I'm a picky customer. You only need 2 sheets to get your hands completely dry. If you need more paper towels, then you need them for some other purpose rather than drying your hands, and that's not what I'm in the business of providing.

The best part about hand dryers is washing your hands, attempting to dry them, giving up, then using your wet hands to open the door which was previously opened by a crack head 10 minutes ago that scratched his balls and walked out the door without washing.

My workplace uses paper towels. There's also an air dryer but anyone who uses that would be blocking the door and you don't know when someone might come into the bathroom in a big hurry.

I love the model A cause whenever I worked outside during the winter and had a break I would go to the bathroom use a paper towel to dry off my mask that got wet from dew from my breath and use the model A as a hand warmer for my nearly frozen/numb figures for a couple minutes before going back outside again.

I like jet dryers, but I NEED paper towels. I have a genetic disorder (HHT) which causes frequent nosebleeds. I hate going into a bathroom with no paper towels and have to start digging around the toilets for bath tissue to clean my face and whatever else I dripped blood on. Can't we just have both?

@russianyoutube

Жыл бұрын

Just hold your nose above the cleaner thing and see it become a bloody mess while your nose is also getting hotter making it bleed even more.

Regardless of what the outside world uses, schools need air dryers. Most public bathrooms with paper towels I've been in have been fairly tidy. However, there were always soaked paper towels on the sinks when I was in grade school. I had to pick up after my classmates because I just couldn't stand to see it.

The thing is, mythbusters tested the differences between towl and dryer, so they find while Towle uses trees and stuff, you have to understand that towls are way better to get rid of bacteria off of you than dryers not surprising

Paper towels are always a win for me. I’m autistic and the loud sound of air dryers makes them extremely uncomfortable to use, especially since I can’t use my hand to plug my ears. They are definitely better for the environment, however. If no towels are available, you can do this crazy thing called wipe your hands on your clothes!

@TheGrinningViking

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, same. But I really don't want to touch those door handles on the way out - they need to university make them the kind that push out and just have a panel on the inside so I can kick it open.

@horse14t

Жыл бұрын

I'm not on the spectrum myself but I have sensitive ears. Air dryers always irritate me, I hate them!

@traveller23e

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGrinningViking Eh, as soon as you're outside typically the first thing you do is touch some other surface that's touched constantly by other people, so I'm not sure it really makes a difference.

@internet_userr

Жыл бұрын

The number of people who asked: Never gonna give -

@nahometesfay1112

Жыл бұрын

​@@internet_userrwho are you even replying to?

We got those Dyson dryers at my previous job after using paper towels for a long time and JEZUS ROLLERBLADING CHRIST the FREAKING NOISE of those things. It's one of the things I'm happy for to have left behind there. People have gone postal for less.

I like the cloth towel dispensers. A long almost infinite towel on a roll, that you pull out and then after a couple of seconds vanishes on its own back in the machine. Every now and then a janitor switches the used roll for a new one, and the towel is washed and can be reused. Downside: you can only swap the entire roll and so unless your timing is perfect you always have some unused towel left when you swap, or it runs out.

I live in the town where Xlerator dryers are designed and produced! I always love seeing them in random places around the country/world.

If produced sustainably, paper towels can be more environmentally minded than air dryers. This is due to business psychology where, if there is a demand for paper, forests are maintained to grow said paper. If demand drops, they find that forest more valuable as like another Dollar General or something

@mr.paperbag771

Жыл бұрын

Cellulose! Paper made of that is sturdy, absorbent, cheap and recyclable!

@hedgehog3180

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.paperbag771 All paper is made from cellulose what are you talking about.

@hedgehog3180

Жыл бұрын

That seems like a pretty wild leap in logic when most lumber comes from areas that are sparsely populated and each step is handled by different companies where each company has little knowledge of what happened earlier or later in the chain.

@james4thedoctor482

Жыл бұрын

@@hedgehog3180 Hence the "If". I would have made it a big If, but KZread either won't let me alter font sizes, or I'm just unaware how.

@grassytramtracks

Жыл бұрын

A lot of the emissions come from making paper and then transporting it

Paper towels are so much better. But tbf, the only dryer to ever dry my hands was Dyson's. Although I didn't realise it because the air was so cold I kept thinking my hands were still wet

@mr.paperbag771

Жыл бұрын

Or maybe because your hands were still wet. I have used Dyson airblades at school and they dry nothing.

@hedgehog3180

Жыл бұрын

You have to rub your hands together while using it to get the last bits of water off. It even says so on the front, if you do that they're usually as fast as using paper towels.

@placeholdername0000

Жыл бұрын

Rub the droplets out, dries super quick in hot air.

I worked at my local hospital (I was janitorial, I cleaned the rooms) and our paper towel dispensers ran on 4 D Cell batteries. Those Dyson Airblades were a joke. I used one, after a minute I grabbed a paper towel. Eventually they were all removed from the hospital cause they didn't work. (Note: This was all pre-COVID).

After a bathroom break, I always go take a full bath in ethanol rendering paper tools or jet drier obsolete

I hate the airblade SO much! People inevitably touch the sides so at uni they were visibly covered in gunk. Also, they are the least disability friendly design you can think of. I've seen little kids struggle to use them too

I only use an AirBlade if its the newer V model. The old one definitely seems unhygienic after seeing some revolting ones over the years. I appreciate bathrooms that give you the paper choice too.

@MercedesBenzO303

11 ай бұрын

You should try and find a Dyson Airblade 9kj and give it a try!

There ought to be a simple rule for which bathrooms can use hand dryers and which MUST use paper towels. If I have to grab a handle to get out of the bathroom, then that bathroom MUST use paper towels; if I can get out by just using my body to push the door open, then hand dryers are fine.

I think the hand dryers are a good way to save paper towels but I used to clean bathrooms as part of a job and I think it’s interesting to note that the wall under the Dyson Xlerators would get really dirty. Does that mean they are flinging bacteria everywhere or does it mean they are flinging bacteria safely onto the bathroom wall and on peoples’ shoes? I don’t know but don’t touch the wall under a hand dryer.

@benjaminfranklin329

Жыл бұрын

Or they are keeping the wall wet which then is where dust and bacteria land

15 or so years ago I sold paper towels for unifirst uniform rental. We quoted that research over and over. Even used the term "blowing crystallized urine on your hands". I wonder if they still are saying that. Probably

Whatever happened to the endless cloth wrap? I assume they never need to be replaced and they’re perfectly clean all the time.

@Zentrify

Жыл бұрын

They basically roll from one spool to another, then you just put a fresh one in and wash the old one

@hedgehog3180

Жыл бұрын

Germs can apparently accumulate on them, it's less of a problem when it's a large roll as hopefully by the time you go through a full roll it will have dried, but it's still a risk.

LMAO, yellow tshirt guy on 3:14 had me rollin

My college micro bio prof did an experiment each class 3 times a year where the air blades and hot blowers vs paper towels and just whipping your hands on your cloths and every time the paper towel cultured less bacteria.

The McDonalds in my local High Street had a weird sink/hand drier combo thing called a wall gate in the early 80s. Not sure whether they still have them now, or how long they lasted. They didn't work terribly well though.

@flankerpang

Жыл бұрын

Yeah we still have them in our main train station in Bristol, England. Soap, water, drier all in one hole in the wall.

@memofromessex

Жыл бұрын

They have them on British trains. They're okay when they work.

@nnyz3819

Жыл бұрын

Excuse me “the McDonalds in my local highschool”???? My highschool didn’t even have air conditioning

@SuperCatacata

Жыл бұрын

"Didn't work terribly well" Bless you, sir. That's about the nicest way you could say they were dogshit useless.

@orangebeagle3068

Жыл бұрын

What’s a local high street?

Just came here to say that paper towels are superior in every way. Fucking everyone is removing them again now that COVID is gone and I really miss them.

The scene in Reservoir Dogs where the character played by Tim Roth uses the air dryer while the police were conversing was really memorable

I once walked into a Greyhound Station bathroom, and encountered what i assumed to be a homeless guy, drying his whole package in an Airblade. I mean, i know that has nothing to do with the actual Airblade, but it definitely made me wary of them.

Fun fact: When I use a hand dryer, the evaporation does most of the work

I will always use paper towels even if I have to bring them myself, which I do when I go to certain stores

Your recent hard turn into empirical microbiology is great. Keep making up things to buy "as a business expense"

I’m a strong believer in “step 4 wipe hands on pants”

Expensing a McFlurry out of the blue for work sounds like a good perk

Air vs paper, is the new pepsi vs coke, and xbox vs playstation. And now im waiting for a 4 part documentary on its history

we've had air dryers that have worked for years now! I hate putting my hands into the narrow crevice of the Dyson air blade, taking care not to bang my clean hands on the plastic that many others have accidentally caressed. It causes so much undue anxiety

"Leave your hands dirty to keep their's clean" 😂

Its a shame airblades don't get my hands dry and create a dangerous slipery floor.

Was kinda weird seeing that U.S. bathrooms had to choose a side. Where I'm from, if a bathroom had a hand dryer available, they'd usually also have paper towels right beside them. Most malls and fast food restaurants in my country would, in fact, have both options available. Most customers also expect to have both options available.

Well most places I visited where they had an airblade dryer, as soon as it started, would spread an absolutely horrible rancid moldy mist all across the room. I'm glad they phased that model out in favor of the triangular one without a bottom drain

Fun fact: those particular airblade Dyson hand dryers have not been made nearly 10 years ago, would be interesting to see how they stack against the latest technology

My university covered over the dyson air dryers when covid hit. Said they were unsanitary

I have yet to encounter an airblade dryer that’s not disgusting to use 😁

In the Long Ago - my first encounter with Dyson’s “drop your hands in “ dryer was at the Las Vegas Airport. I was smitten! I love them! Still do. Don’t find them anywhere, anymore - certainly not in the SouthEastern US!

But, be honest, there is nothing more satisfying than ripping off a 20 yard long piece of paper towel and drying every speck of moisture on your hands

@Fister-kw5un

Жыл бұрын

LMAO

@DownwithEA1

Жыл бұрын

That's interesting I do the opposite & try to reach the same result with 1 sheet. Usually can with some handshaking before drying

@carter2671

Жыл бұрын

True bro lol

I like when they have both so I can dual dry in half the time.

We had a discussion at our office about a handdryer and paper towles. The men have an old blower and the ladies have paper towles. I do prefer towles, just because they dry your hands but then we got told the price of paper towles and where shocked how expensive they are.

You will never convince me that piss blowers are better than paper towels.

I like both. I mainly use air dyer but paper sometimes if i have to blow my nose for example

I'd been pretty unimpressed with air dryers in general for quite a while, but it turns out that's because I live in the United States. Apparently people in the United States just don't know how to install air dryers so they actually work. After a full minute, I just give up and leave with wet hands. On a recent trip the the UK and Iceland, I was stunned by the effectiveness of the air dryers there. They actually did what they're supposed to do: dry hands in a few seconds. It was like magic! Maybe someone from the paper towel lobby is paying off installers to just install air dryers badly in the United States?

@Agtsmirnoff

Жыл бұрын

Dyson is a UK company.....

@hedgehog3180

Жыл бұрын

Might have something to do with the US grid running on a lower voltage? That's also why electric kettles are less popular in the US, because they're quite slow compared to in Europe.

many years ago i worked in a large casino resort as a cleaner, and often had to clean and supply washrooms. they switched from paper towels to dyson air dryers because people kept jamming the toilets up with paper hand towels. its insane how many people pee, or spit into those hand dryers... i am extremely hesitant to put my hands in them, and always inside them first, unless of course paper towels are around.

I love your humor, dude you make my rough day better

So today I learned that air dryers aren't flinging my germs everywhere?

@Thermalions

Жыл бұрын

Correct. If you believe the guy whose job it is to push the bounds of acceptable evidence, and happens to work at a company whose whole product line is built around electric motors and moving air.

I H8 those HAND DRYERS - annoying as Fk - most places Ive been in got rid of them because they were so H8'd .. Worst part is after washing hands to turn water off you have to put your hands back on the filthy knob to turn it off - unless you have a paper towel to turn it off with

i typically use hand dryers whenever possible, but i refuse to use them in a dirty/neglected bathroom or any time i can see discoloration at the bottom of the dryer (specifically for dyson airblades, which have that problem, because all the germs WILL blow straight into your face.) they are very eco-friendly though, so i try to use them whenever the bathroom's been cleaned properly.

Sam is really taking full advantage of the "other duties as assigned" clause with Amy recently.

Paper towels are quicker and easier to dry with. I always go with them.

I recall a Mythbusters episode where they determined that both are effective and sanitary on the hands, but that blowdryers blow germs all over the bathroom.

dyson air dryers and similar ones (I used one at the milan malpensa airport that had a similar surrounding style) are great, but most air dryers I come across are just xlerator styles that feel more like someone's blowing gently on your hands, which makes me just want paper towels.

Amy is my new favorite character

South park was correct with that Bidet toilet Episode. And i thought Simpsons is the only Cartoon predicting the future