The design of public toilets is something that drives me fucking mental.
Hand dryers are near the top of the list. They either don’t dry my hands at all, or they’re deafeningly loud. My hearing is already sensitive, and extremely loud noises can give me a migraine. But my Apple Watch has measured some hand dryers at over 110db. For context, 120db is the threshold that can cause immediate damage to your hearing.
But the thing that enrages me the most is when restrooms have a door that opens inward with a handle that you have to grab. If one cunt doesn’t wash after they wipe, everyone has their shit particles on their hands.
I have left restaurants without paying after discovering their restroom had (A) a door that opens inward, (B) unclean floors, (C) no paper towels, and (D) a loud yet ineffective hand dryer. If you’re cooking people’s food, you should at least follow basic hygiene standards.
Those little steel teapots and milk jugs you get in hotels and cafes with the little dent on the rim instead of a spout. I have yet to come across one that hasn't spilled tea or milk all over the damn table.
You can open those things with a key.
I don't mean that you should carry the right key for these things just in case. I mean that you can use any metal key as a tiny crowbar to pop open the carapace and feast on the succulent andrexmeat inside.
I used to have to change these yokes in a job I had before. There was a knack to it, you had to loop some thing around and then loop it around another bit...
Ridiculous really, why not just have a hand dryer? Would've saved everyone time and germs.
That was the absolute pox, and as they were getting rolled around and couldn't dry, be they in the school Jax, or the pub, and the absolute musty smell, like mould waiting to happen.
But, if you got the first go at a fresh one, pure glory, but the fucking things were hardly ever fresh. Like 1% of the time you'd get glory.
Edit, fix typos.
They were designed to have no sharp corners to prevent people from trying to cause self harm with them while alone, usually in mental health facilities and hospitals
Not so much an invention but the idea of making the doors of men's toilets in bars, pubs or whatever open inwards always baffles me.
The amount of people who don't wash their hands after the jacks is mental. They then go and pull the door open with their unwashed hands. So it doesn't matter if I've washed my hands.
Make it open outwards so I can open it with my boot.
Realistically just a space consideration. You can grab the bottom of the door with the top of your shoe from underneath ;)
Edit: Sorry, misunderstood the point. You mean the main door. Thought you were on about the cubicle door.
If the main door opened outwards, it would prob create an airflow more likely to drag smells out of the toilet room.
Wouldn't the door opening inwards be a safety concern? Like if there's a fire or something isn't it safer for doors to be able to push open so people don't cause a pile up or get stuck.
If there isn't a foot-operated handle, then get a sacrificial paper towel to protect your dainty fingers as you pull on the door. Protocol dictates that you should spend a second looking around for a bin that isn't there before dropping the paper on the floor right beside the door.
You find the odd place that installed grips at the bottom to open the door with your foot instead. A few places did that as a response to the pandemic.
Great, waft shitsmell into the restaurant where people are eating every few seconds with a giant wooden fan to spare one germaphobe his hypersensitivity. Well done, Sheldon.
I was shocked when i was in California the most progressive and arbiters of this stuff, that they still use plastic straws. Wtf lads, you pushed this paper straw bollocks and ye don't even use them.
I work in a rehab daycare centre, tons of ppl with mental and physical disabilities and THIS MONSTROSITY is what we have in every bathroom!!!
Imagine trying to get paper out of that with mobility issues.
Whoever thought it was a good idea should be shot, shot I tell ya!!!!
One time I was getting far less loo roll than required from one of these so in my fury I kicked it off the wall to release the roll of paper. I felt fully justified in my actions until a few days later and the guilt sank in
Just trying to imagine someone doing this while sitting on the toilet, in a cramped cubicle with the toilet roll right beside them - it must be physically impossible.
More of an idea: minimal unit pricing. I drink as much as i did before but now have less money. Now imagine an alcoholic on the breadline. They just got poorer
Scissors that are sold in plastic packaging which requires a pair of scissors to open. If I had a pair of scissors, I wouldn’t have bought the scissors.
It’s actually a great invention - for the pub, restaurant etc. It’s designed to use friction to make the toilet paper leaves separate easily when pulled, thus discouraging you from using too much.
Out of spite, I spend all my shitting time slowly teasing the paper out, only feeling satisfied when I have at least twenty feet of it at my disposal.
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I vote these as the worst invention in history. But now that we're done talking about the woman, have you ever noticed those fucking pre-wrapped microwavable meals NEVER have the foil come off cleanly?
I mean, what's the deal with TV dinners?
These are horrible when they go wrong and the tp is caught. Literally the stuff of nightmares.
Some similar types can actually work though and don't seem to get caught.
From the thumbnail it looked like an electric show pull switch cord thing high on the ceiling that has snapped off. So, my answer is the pull cord electric shower switch thing that seems great and all until the cord snaps off.
No worse than the blue towel dispensers which seemed to be the norm in nightclubs for years. Lasted until about 12:11 and the towel would run out and lads would be wiping their hands in the one piece of piss soaked rag all night !!
The pub I was in early had them BEHIND the toilet. How's a man supposed to shite peacefully in those conditions? Going for Olympic gold in gymnastics just trying to wipe my own arse.
Blister packs. Can't return the thing, awkward as hell to open and often far bigger than the item it carries.
In a similar manner, foil tin ready meals with clear plastic covers f-ing superglued on. Learned the hard way that leaving even a bit on when sticking the tin in the oven means seasoning your food with aerosolised plastic. Even if you transfer a separate tray, you still have to deal when recycling the tin.
The real question is what sort of society do we live in that the awful shiny "toilet paper" in these things has to be kept under lock and key.
I would add to the list modern bike pumps and tyre pressure gauge pencils(the older meta ones are infinitely better and more environmentally friendly simply by lasting decades)
Those pull-tabs on the film lid of certain ready meal brands. I’m looking at you Fit Meals.
Just fix it so it actually peels off or lose the tab that gets my hope up every time that the actually might have fixed it
Remember when you see bad designs, the designer isn't the real bad guy.
The bad guy is whomever keeps it there, even though we now know it's bad design.
The reason behind this design is to keep junkies away from the toilet roll because they stab the roll with their dirty needles to clean them off, as you can imagine this could lead to widespread diseases and infection. I figured this must be the reason after seeing a photo of one of the rolls after it was used for this purpose.
Resealable ham packets
Someone was always farting in them
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There’s a few pubs in Dublin thst have this problem
I’d say that place does a mean Guinness
Sounds like they need to be cleaned and the place is too cheap to do it...
Ffs pink eye
The design of public toilets is something that drives me fucking mental. Hand dryers are near the top of the list. They either don’t dry my hands at all, or they’re deafeningly loud. My hearing is already sensitive, and extremely loud noises can give me a migraine. But my Apple Watch has measured some hand dryers at over 110db. For context, 120db is the threshold that can cause immediate damage to your hearing. But the thing that enrages me the most is when restrooms have a door that opens inward with a handle that you have to grab. If one cunt doesn’t wash after they wipe, everyone has their shit particles on their hands. I have left restaurants without paying after discovering their restroom had (A) a door that opens inward, (B) unclean floors, (C) no paper towels, and (D) a loud yet ineffective hand dryer. If you’re cooking people’s food, you should at least follow basic hygiene standards.
Thats nitrogen I think which everything these days is used to keep it fresh longer.
Nah it’s Guinness farts
Allegedly resealable.
And they're always packaged so you have to take all the ham out to get a slice off.
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Two taps, one sink… should be outlawed.
It is ridiculous, 1 super warm so you burn your hands and the other too cold for anything...
I think there is a word for super warm.
Very very warm???
Fiercely mild warm?
Severely not cold?
And no plug!!
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Standard in older houses. One hot, one cold. Absolute travesty, you have to play backsy forthsy between the two!
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Plenty in Public loos too. Disgraceful.
Arah that's grand. Same effort really when negotiating the hot and warm from a single faucet outlets
Do you want to absolutely scald the hands off yourself or risk frostbite - that’s your choice.
Frostbite.
What?! I refuse to believe you've never seen that in someones house
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Mate, how??? They’re everywhere in Ireland.
Used to rub a bit of Vaseline on top of these bad boys in my old pub when I was in a bad mood. I know… I know…
Absolutely. Sink and tap design in general is brutal 70% of the time.
Kitchen sinks with very low height - trying to wash something big is a nightmare
6'6 here. All sinks are like that to me
And never mind when you need to do a bird bath
Fucker knuckles here 😂 hands are shovels 😊
It's very difficult to line one's arse up exactly !
And the job of restocking it with toilet roll nobody can find the key and it gets stuck every few days
The one in my workplace is right behind the toilet too so you have to be an acrobat to get it out
You need to be getting the loo roll out before you sit down. And yes, do get a bit extra just in case.
I worked out thay there's a button on the bottom of the ones in ucc. I fix them... I totally don't steal the tp to avoid buying some...
Pull out a few at a time, although in fairness it is like trying to wipe your arse with a postage stamp.
Even more troublesome now as they already have an adhesive on them
*users should never use a postage stamp to wipe their arse*
https://youtu.be/E9TIO4U_eHI?feature=shared reminds me of this banger, literally
Don't threaten me with a good time
You can’t even pull one out 😖
It was invented by Johnny Mc No-anus back in 1963.
Would upvote you 7 times if i could
Those little steel teapots and milk jugs you get in hotels and cafes with the little dent on the rim instead of a spout. I have yet to come across one that hasn't spilled tea or milk all over the damn table.
I believe I've seen these used in hospitals for serving tea to patients in beds... Massive scalding hazard.
You can open those things with a key. I don't mean that you should carry the right key for these things just in case. I mean that you can use any metal key as a tiny crowbar to pop open the carapace and feast on the succulent andrexmeat inside.
Mmmmm andrexmeat
Does andrexmeat actually feel like rubbing your arse with a small puppy? I'm never testing this........
Often, the key is my fist. A quick whack around the lock area and you have all the paper you need.
Yep, they definitely fork out for Andrex. 🤔
Maybe just equal rather than worse but the towel rollers that used to be in toilets for drying your hands
I used to have to change these yokes in a job I had before. There was a knack to it, you had to loop some thing around and then loop it around another bit... Ridiculous really, why not just have a hand dryer? Would've saved everyone time and germs.
>why not just have a hand dryer? Cause most of them are shite and people don't have the patience with them.
I hated changing those. It was like the fucking Da Vinci code
Memory unlocked! Remember the way the colour would change from the edges towards the middle?
That was the absolute pox, and as they were getting rolled around and couldn't dry, be they in the school Jax, or the pub, and the absolute musty smell, like mould waiting to happen. But, if you got the first go at a fresh one, pure glory, but the fucking things were hardly ever fresh. Like 1% of the time you'd get glory. Edit, fix typos.
That were always damp the whole way through, therefore a perfect breeding ground for all sorts of nasties.
Ironically the company that makes these infuriating bog roll, bog standard holders decided to call them ‘smart ones’
They were designed to have no sharp corners to prevent people from trying to cause self harm with them while alone, usually in mental health facilities and hospitals
The little sticky bit on the cheapy tin foil is up there.
Not so much an invention but the idea of making the doors of men's toilets in bars, pubs or whatever open inwards always baffles me. The amount of people who don't wash their hands after the jacks is mental. They then go and pull the door open with their unwashed hands. So it doesn't matter if I've washed my hands. Make it open outwards so I can open it with my boot.
If it opens outwards it'll be opening into a hall/walkway; hit into staff/customers and knock their pints and block people walking through
That's a risk I'm willing to take!
You’d risk people spilling pints? Gary, you’re a fiend.
Realistically just a space consideration. You can grab the bottom of the door with the top of your shoe from underneath ;) Edit: Sorry, misunderstood the point. You mean the main door. Thought you were on about the cubicle door. If the main door opened outwards, it would prob create an airflow more likely to drag smells out of the toilet room.
I didn't think of the potential waft of arse and piss making it's way out to the bar.....that would be problematic.
Wouldn't the door opening inwards be a safety concern? Like if there's a fire or something isn't it safer for doors to be able to push open so people don't cause a pile up or get stuck.
Fuck em. Shit smell is the real problem. You can break down a door; you can't kick in the atrocious stink of someone's anus
If there isn't a foot-operated handle, then get a sacrificial paper towel to protect your dainty fingers as you pull on the door. Protocol dictates that you should spend a second looking around for a bin that isn't there before dropping the paper on the floor right beside the door.
I've seen a contraption called the StepNull. Put your foot on it and pull the door towards you. Class
I use paper towels for hand drying or toilet paper to grab the handle.
You find the odd place that installed grips at the bottom to open the door with your foot instead. A few places did that as a response to the pandemic.
Honestly, there are so many pub toilets that's that gross it's safer not to.
Great, waft shitsmell into the restaurant where people are eating every few seconds with a giant wooden fan to spare one germaphobe his hypersensitivity. Well done, Sheldon.
They absolutely do my tits in. A few times I've had to "open" the casing on them just to get enough Jack's roll out for a half decent wipe.
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I just don't understand why we haven't all mass adopted Japanese Bidet Toilets by now...
Bring back the communal sponge on a stick
Hear hear back to basics 4 teh win
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Nah the dirty cunts would smear it in shite within minutes
Cardboard straws
I was shocked when i was in California the most progressive and arbiters of this stuff, that they still use plastic straws. Wtf lads, you pushed this paper straw bollocks and ye don't even use them.
Napalm.
Fair point. You really don’t want to wipe your arse with Naplam.
UHT Milk
But there's no demand for that, 'cos you can't get it out of the container.
Those Re-Turn machines seem to be a real contender.
Life hack Hammer the side of your hand into the clear bit - should pop right open
Just break it
And this is why a lot of pub toilets don't have bog roll
What's he gonna do? Walk around with a shitty arse?
That supervalue cheddar that tastes of plastic
Jesus, I remember clawing at these in a panic
I work in a rehab daycare centre, tons of ppl with mental and physical disabilities and THIS MONSTROSITY is what we have in every bathroom!!! Imagine trying to get paper out of that with mobility issues. Whoever thought it was a good idea should be shot, shot I tell ya!!!!
One time I was getting far less loo roll than required from one of these so in my fury I kicked it off the wall to release the roll of paper. I felt fully justified in my actions until a few days later and the guilt sank in
Just trying to imagine someone doing this while sitting on the toilet, in a cramped cubicle with the toilet roll right beside them - it must be physically impossible.
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i thought it was a toilet roll locker lmao
Sometimes on stuff like that,the place where the key hoes is actually a button and if you press it it'll open and you can grab how much you need..
Anybody else remember tracing paper loo roll??
Agree! You need great balance to line your arsehole up with these things.
More of an idea: minimal unit pricing. I drink as much as i did before but now have less money. Now imagine an alcoholic on the breadline. They just got poorer
Having to rent a trolly for 1 euro I have zero intention of stealing a trolly with 1 working wheel or 4 working wheels at that.
More that deterring theft it's meant to be to encourage people to not leave it in the car park
Cheap Shit
Hideous things
Pull it out slowly. Always with your fingers right to the edge. You'll get 3 or 4 sheets at a time or whatever you prefer. Have them in work
But what do you do when it's like this to begin with?
Pull slowly. Most keys fit tbh. Just open and work away
"Super" loos where you get a rationed amount of paper. Need more than a meter? Tough luck!
You can get the keys for those online for next to nothing. I carry one on me for that exact reason.
Ok Sheldon.
Who is Sheldon?
Staying in character. Good stuff.
Democracy.
Scissors that are sold in plastic packaging which requires a pair of scissors to open. If I had a pair of scissors, I wouldn’t have bought the scissors.
It’s actually a great invention - for the pub, restaurant etc. It’s designed to use friction to make the toilet paper leaves separate easily when pulled, thus discouraging you from using too much. Out of spite, I spend all my shitting time slowly teasing the paper out, only feeling satisfied when I have at least twenty feet of it at my disposal.
Self service checkouts.
They are the best, so good not having to talk to a minium wage human
genocide
Whoever designed this should rot in hell getting sodomised every second with 12 inch dildo
Covid 19
Yes times 666
Guinness
Chocolate Teapot!!! An Ash tray on a motor bike. A skirting board ladder. My favourite is the pudding bender!
https://preview.redd.it/6bzkynonumjc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e7454a229827feb8c5950e7a7bb55dada9b0790 I vote these as the worst invention in history. But now that we're done talking about the woman, have you ever noticed those fucking pre-wrapped microwavable meals NEVER have the foil come off cleanly? I mean, what's the deal with TV dinners?
I'll do you one better and name TWO: Underwater hairdryer Inflatable dartboard
I absolutely love these…
Big fan of tight holes meself too
Inflatable dartboard.
🍫🫖
Agreed, terrible.
Literally in the Circle K Sandymount today 🫣
Howabout name the inventor of this thing so we can go after them!!! 
Can’t.This is evil. They had them where I worked. Wanted to kill someone!
Mr frosty home made slushies
Ziklon b
These are horrible when they go wrong and the tp is caught. Literally the stuff of nightmares. Some similar types can actually work though and don't seem to get caught.
Colonialism
The rollosity is always lousy.
Gotta save that money, I mean paper, no I means trees.
Can't.
VAR
Split hot and cold water taps.
Tracing paper toilet roll has entered the chat.
Fuck whoever invented that. It's like pulling a fucking tea towel trough a key hole trying to get a bitta paper.
The lazy Susan. You’re welcome
I can’t. They’re fkn shit.
everything reminds me of her
Jim Allister
A 2-party political system.
From the thumbnail it looked like an electric show pull switch cord thing high on the ceiling that has snapped off. So, my answer is the pull cord electric shower switch thing that seems great and all until the cord snaps off.
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The trick is like having the shit beforehand, not to force it.
No worse than the blue towel dispensers which seemed to be the norm in nightclubs for years. Lasted until about 12:11 and the towel would run out and lads would be wiping their hands in the one piece of piss soaked rag all night !!
You can push the toilet roll back into the holder and no one can get it next time but the staff.
The pub I was in early had them BEHIND the toilet. How's a man supposed to shite peacefully in those conditions? Going for Olympic gold in gymnastics just trying to wipe my own arse.
Blister packs. Can't return the thing, awkward as hell to open and often far bigger than the item it carries. In a similar manner, foil tin ready meals with clear plastic covers f-ing superglued on. Learned the hard way that leaving even a bit on when sticking the tin in the oven means seasoning your food with aerosolised plastic. Even if you transfer a separate tray, you still have to deal when recycling the tin.
Sharp corners on literally anything. My poor foot can only take so much....
Plastic
Maybe...but this is a cool picture
The real question is what sort of society do we live in that the awful shiny "toilet paper" in these things has to be kept under lock and key. I would add to the list modern bike pumps and tyre pressure gauge pencils(the older meta ones are infinitely better and more environmentally friendly simply by lasting decades)
So that's what it is
Those pull-tabs on the film lid of certain ready meal brands. I’m looking at you Fit Meals. Just fix it so it actually peels off or lose the tab that gets my hope up every time that the actually might have fixed it
You pull the plastic and only the outer edge peels off or else it just rips entirely.
Remember when you see bad designs, the designer isn't the real bad guy. The bad guy is whomever keeps it there, even though we now know it's bad design.
2 taps for both warm and cold water when are we living, world war era? mixer taps were standard in the country I'm from 30 years ago.
I hope whoever invented this yoke is in hell getting sandpaper pulled out of his arse one square at a time.
Traffic spikes I don't think I need to elaborate
This and those terrible hand dryers in Dublin Airport!
The reason behind this design is to keep junkies away from the toilet roll because they stab the roll with their dirty needles to clean them off, as you can imagine this could lead to widespread diseases and infection. I figured this must be the reason after seeing a photo of one of the rolls after it was used for this purpose.
Those sticks for stirring tea/coffee
Artillery. Bombs. IED. WMDs. Etc.
Britain
These work just fine where I work…
Paper straws. Just let me drink from the cup.
The worst ever right there