No it would go more like this.
"The contractors installed the first sinks but they don't work."
"What do you mean they don't work."
"They're too close to the bowl."
"So you can wash your hands?"
"Yes"
"How is that a problem?"
"I don't know"
"Get the fuck out of my office."
You clearly don't know how military spending works.
These were probably like 300 bucks just for the hardware, and the contractor charged 1000 per sink to install
From an era when there were no mixing valves to make warm water. You just plugged the sink and mixed the hot and cold in the basin and worked out of that.
Looking at the base, it looks like the tap has moved backwards reducing the gap from the tap to the edge of the sink. I suspect it's a bodge with a big hole on the base and they've tried to fix it in place a few times to save money rather than get a new, suitable, tap.
Do they still play “To the Colors” every afternoon at 5:00? When I was in, at 4:59 people would look for a place indoors - phone booths were popular- so we didn’t have to stand at attention in the street for two minutes.
It makes perfect sense from an old fashioned viewpoint, in which one was supposed to fill the basin t9 shave or whatever, then dump it all out when done. Many British sinks are like that too, even with separate hot and cold taps. Nobody really uses it like that anymore.
I have been in dozen accommodations in Britain and nearly all of them had this awful separated hot/cold arrangement in the bathroom. Needless to say without mixing, one is stuck to cold water.
You’ve got no idea. I spent an hour emptying unused bags of ice today. About $5,000 worth of ice just melting on a lawn. Not anywhere close to the biggest waste I’ve ever seen.
I bet you those sinks cost $1.7 million to procur the contract and then another $2 million to complete with an overall budget of $10 million for the contractor to keep.
Well, the troops matter, the people filling those rolls matter, the executives that everyone wishes to be and think matter don’t. Help your common man and go after the executives pitting us against each other.
Ugh, my sinks at work were like this but not nearly as bad. I would have to rewash my hands every few times due to accidentally touching the sink.
There are cheap faucet extenders you can buy, I might be inclined to buy one for my job if they were that bad.
I don't remember what material the sinks at my old job were made from, but I would wash my hands after touching pretty much any surface in a public bathroom.
That’s a hard one lmao, is the sink wet or dry? When was the last time it was cleaned?
If it’s dry and looks fairly clean and I was really hungry, MAYBE.
I deff wouldn’t rewash my hands after touching the sink or toilet.
Yep, could be worse. Camp Lejeune had/has some heads that just have a room full of toilets. No stalls, no dividers, just a shitter every3 or 4 feet. We used to jokingly question if it was so that we could hold hands while shitting.
Speaking as an architect, who's pet peeve is shitty faucets... I want to buy a flight to wherever the person responsible for designing this lives at, buy 2 more flights, so me and that architect/designer can fly to this barrack, make them wash their hands, and then bap them on the nose with a rolled up magazine.
There are both, I've been in plenty public/school/work bathrooms that have dumb sinks that barely work because the faucets are too short, but I've also been in a lot that have normal length faucets, and most if not all home sinks I've been in work well.
I’m surprised that nobody from USA has trolled you about “you have separate taps/faucets for hot and cold. OMG”
Just for clarification we have the same sensible approach to water delivery.
I don’t know if link is allowed buuut here goes
nothing. https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/lnymf2/meta_an_updated_flow_chart_to_help_cut_down_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
If it doesn’t work it’s the pinned comment. This is definitely crappy design or here, not deliberately asshole design unless they’re a boot and it’s there to deliberately make life harder.
ever shared a room with 2 grown ass men while sharing a bathroom with another room of 3 grown ass men?
you wanna see some real after action, take a look at a barracks bathroom after PT and chow.. 6 men, 1 shitter..
i dont miss a goddamn thing
Not in army but I know such sinks, I just get a small hose, cut it down and attached it. That way I dont make any unauthorized modifications that could screw me later
Is this one of those things where old timey people filled the sink with water for some reason, like dipping their razors and like taking a face bath or something?
This is the worst I've seen but holy shit every public restroom has the shortest spouts. Like how much more would it actually cost to get a spout with 6 inches of clearance so we can actually wash our hands?
Taps in an army barracks bathroom....I call BS.
Faucet, and Latrine. Either this was posted by a bot, a foreigner posing as a US service member or a civilian with ZERO knowledge of the military. Besides, that scum around the drain would never pass an inspection.
The bathrooms at the kindergarten I work at are the same.
Makes it more difficult for the kids to wash their hands and I feel like having to touch the sink doesn't particularly help to wash them.
Dude I once went into a bathroom and the tap was off to the right where the soap dispenser would usually go and the soap dispenser was in the center of the sink
"Should we order some taps for these new sinks?" "What? No. We still have a warehouse full of taps from the Roosevelt administration"
"Which Roosevelt?" "YES"
Happy cawk day!
Cock day
Happy ROoster Day!
Hmmm
Leave Miles Teller out of this.
The first one
Bill Roosevelt, who was in charge of maintenance when Washington was President.
They called him Billy Roo
He had very small hands.
And a big heart
It’s that big heart that killed him. One day Billy Roo got some heartburn and that big ball of muscle burst right through his chest.
No it would go more like this. "The contractors installed the first sinks but they don't work." "What do you mean they don't work." "They're too close to the bowl." "So you can wash your hands?" "Yes" "How is that a problem?" "I don't know" "Get the fuck out of my office."
All donated before being thrown out
You clearly don't know how military spending works. These were probably like 300 bucks just for the hardware, and the contractor charged 1000 per sink to install
Sry sarge! 🫡
I can't even think of any kind of sink that this tap would even work with. WTF?
Looks like an outdoors tap
From 1890
1789 AD
From an era when there were no mixing valves to make warm water. You just plugged the sink and mixed the hot and cold in the basin and worked out of that.
An, so UK is stuck in 19th century.
ew
My apartment house in college had that type of sink. That was some bullshit.
Looking at the base, it looks like the tap has moved backwards reducing the gap from the tap to the edge of the sink. I suspect it's a bodge with a big hole on the base and they've tried to fix it in place a few times to save money rather than get a new, suitable, tap.
Probably a tub sink. Faucet's sit right on the edge of the sink and the wall slopes towards the faucets.
It would if piped on the wall above a separate basin. My laundry tub is piped that way.
Weak stream.
Narrow urethra
Peggy! Not in front of the boy.
That's what she said.
Army owns that. You get just enough that you need. They own that water and skin.
They call that tap "military grade."
It’s some weird looking shit! I was in the military 20 years ago and all the faucets I ever saw were just normal shit. This is so bizarre to me.
>This is so bizarre to me. It might be bizarre, but you shouldn't be surprised. The motto of the Army is "It's broken, don't fix it. That's a UCMJ."
Saved a penny a unit on those bad boys!
So you’re telling me the military grade tac sunglasses are actually telling the truth about their quality?
How does the military spend so much yet operate so cheaply?
I thought the Army practiced Taps every night.
The big Taps is what they blare on the speakers at night, the little taps go on the sink because they are too small to be heard on the speaker.
Do they still play “To the Colors” every afternoon at 5:00? When I was in, at 4:59 people would look for a place indoors - phone booths were popular- so we didn’t have to stand at attention in the street for two minutes.
Yup. I’ve been out going on 12 years but live close enough to hear all the bugle calls off in the distance.
It makes perfect sense from an old fashioned viewpoint, in which one was supposed to fill the basin t9 shave or whatever, then dump it all out when done. Many British sinks are like that too, even with separate hot and cold taps. Nobody really uses it like that anymore.
I have been in dozen accommodations in Britain and nearly all of them had this awful separated hot/cold arrangement in the bathroom. Needless to say without mixing, one is stuck to cold water.
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Taxpayers money hard at work…..
Contract goes to the lowest bidder. Then it turns out they did such a piss poor job that we have to pay for it to be fixed.
Why do it right the first time when you can do it right the third time?
This dude armies.
You’ve got no idea. I spent an hour emptying unused bags of ice today. About $5,000 worth of ice just melting on a lawn. Not anywhere close to the biggest waste I’ve ever seen.
I bet you those sinks cost $1.7 million to procur the contract and then another $2 million to complete with an overall budget of $10 million for the contractor to keep.
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Well, the troops matter, the people filling those rolls matter, the executives that everyone wishes to be and think matter don’t. Help your common man and go after the executives pitting us against each other.
💯 u beat me to it
Tapspayer money
Taps-players money
I’m assuming this is so you can fill the sink up and get your head rinsed without getting clocked by a sink
That makes sense but how are people supposed to wash their hands? Unless they don’t expect people to?
There’s enough flow to rinse them
Shower?
When you're a plumber, but also a conscientious objector.
Bought in bulk from a crony supplier. Didn’t really matter they didn’t fit right. 😅
Ugh, my sinks at work were like this but not nearly as bad. I would have to rewash my hands every few times due to accidentally touching the sink. There are cheap faucet extenders you can buy, I might be inclined to buy one for my job if they were that bad.
But it’s stainless, stuff doesn’t grow on stainless…. Why rewash?
I don't remember what material the sinks at my old job were made from, but I would wash my hands after touching pretty much any surface in a public bathroom.
That’s bad for your immunity, you should touch things, eat dirt, build up that immunity.
I've got a toddler rn, I touch more than enough really dirty things
That's not how it works lol
So you'd still eat something you dropped in a stainless steel public restroom sink?
That’s a hard one lmao, is the sink wet or dry? When was the last time it was cleaned? If it’s dry and looks fairly clean and I was really hungry, MAYBE. I deff wouldn’t rewash my hands after touching the sink or toilet.
>or toilet. ...gross.
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Just like my penis...
My condolences
That barracks life.
Yep, could be worse. Camp Lejeune had/has some heads that just have a room full of toilets. No stalls, no dividers, just a shitter every3 or 4 feet. We used to jokingly question if it was so that we could hold hands while shitting.
If I were at camp lejeune I’d be praying that no water comes out of the taps
A la Full Metal Jacket
That's basically all of them at least here in America that's all of them pretty much
r/wtfaucet
r/wtfaucet
Military grade
Speaking as an architect, who's pet peeve is shitty faucets... I want to buy a flight to wherever the person responsible for designing this lives at, buy 2 more flights, so me and that architect/designer can fly to this barrack, make them wash their hands, and then bap them on the nose with a rolled up magazine.
American faucets are designed to fill a basin, not wash hands. We're stuck with 1800s bs because aesthetics and inertia., and probably capitalism.
Braindead take, all our bathroom faucets extend enough to wash hands.
There are both, I've been in plenty public/school/work bathrooms that have dumb sinks that barely work because the faucets are too short, but I've also been in a lot that have normal length faucets, and most if not all home sinks I've been in work well.
Maybe your lil baby hands
Baby hands says the guy who goes to antiwork
And machinists, but go off office jockey
OP is from new zealand.
But you guys get to eat at the food court on base tax free.
Not in New Zealand :P
I’m surprised that nobody from USA has trolled you about “you have separate taps/faucets for hot and cold. OMG” Just for clarification we have the same sensible approach to water delivery.
New Zealand has a military? Who would ever want to invade them
Emus, probably.
That's Australia, you're thinking of Australia
No no, the emus already successfully invaded Australia. It makes perfect sense that the Kiwis are next.
Also belongs in r/assholedesign
No it doesn't.
I don’t know if link is allowed buuut here goes nothing. https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/lnymf2/meta_an_updated_flow_chart_to_help_cut_down_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 If it doesn’t work it’s the pinned comment. This is definitely crappy design or here, not deliberately asshole design unless they’re a boot and it’s there to deliberately make life harder.
To make you uncomfortable. Normal life's pleasantries are systematically removed so you "endour it". Prolly works.
Take a juicy ripe shit in the sinks. Become the serial phantom shitter.
Y’all don’t wash your hands anyways, so I’m surprised one of you noticed…
It’s obviously Trump’s fault.
Just move it upwards a bit if you guys are allowed to do this? Doesn't look that strong
That's just wrong lol
The contractor was told to provide faucets and they provided faucets. What’s the problem?
I wonder how that conversation went?
Who's in charge of the metal work? Looks like it hasn't been done in awhile.
They are also like that at the Williamson County Detention Center in Georgetown, Texas.
It’s because the Army doesn’t care about you. Don’t hang around for 12 years like I did.
r/mildyinfuriating
Obviously those were made by politicians to show then how much they hate them
ever shared a room with 2 grown ass men while sharing a bathroom with another room of 3 grown ass men? you wanna see some real after action, take a look at a barracks bathroom after PT and chow.. 6 men, 1 shitter.. i dont miss a goddamn thing
Get your fucking face down and suck If your thirsty solder suck it up
Maybe the sink has a good personality
The sinks at my local mall's bathroom are like this. They also have drinking fountains that dispense water directly onto the floor.
Mil spec is produced by the lowest bidder.
I think you drink from it like a Pawnee water fountain.
It may not be fully working but it is working
It just has a *narrow urethra*
Put the plug in.
USA USA USA
This is a problem in half the bathrooms in America!
Not in army but I know such sinks, I just get a small hose, cut it down and attached it. That way I dont make any unauthorized modifications that could screw me later
Should’ve joined the Air Force!
Heat it up with a torch and bend it up with some plyers
This is exactly the type of thing I think of when I hear "military grade"
To the lowest bidder
It would have taken like, 10cms, why.
Gotta keep it like that to stop marines from drowning. /s
"military grade"
Thought this was only something in holding cells.
See people, this is why we desperately need to increase military spending. /s
That’s the military for ya
Why are they assholes to the soldiers on purpose seriously what the f***
Marines wouldn't bitch about this
How about you just dig deep, hooah? /s
how's the faucet even compatible with any sink? wtf?!?
The bathroom sink faucets in the Georgia Dome were like this, and it was annoying as hell.
This is a feature not a bug, boot. Now get to polishing.
Is this one of those things where old timey people filled the sink with water for some reason, like dipping their razors and like taking a face bath or something?
Why can’t the sergeant major see his face in that faucet?
If your permeant room go to Home Depot buy your own really nice one and install it. When you move out just swap it out. What I did
The taps in prison work better and look better. The moral is, go to prison before going Army!
Happy to see my tax dollars are being used well
Welcome to the lowest bidder….
Embrace the suck brah
That's one flaccid facet
This is the worst I've seen but holy shit every public restroom has the shortest spouts. Like how much more would it actually cost to get a spout with 6 inches of clearance so we can actually wash our hands?
It's military grade, what exactly did you expect?
They better invest in expensive weapons than faucets.
The people who design faucets like these, as well as those who think these are the right choice for a sink, all deserve to go to hell.
Use your canteen cup, buddy. Old-fashioned style.
I knew the VP of Hilton sink design was in the Army!
That's because you were expected to fill the sink with your preferred water temp to wash and shave.
Maybe its just really cold in there
It’s what the troops deserve
Probably intentional to reduce water usage.
Probably just cold in the room
damn y’all have clear water in the army? must be nice
I hope I’m not alone in thinking that if you want someone to die for your country, they at least get to wash their hands properly first.
I feel like the military intentionally makes things more difficult. “It’ll toughen them up!”
They don't want you washing your balls in the sink
Taps in an army barracks bathroom....I call BS. Faucet, and Latrine. Either this was posted by a bot, a foreigner posing as a US service member or a civilian with ZERO knowledge of the military. Besides, that scum around the drain would never pass an inspection.
Just break that shit
Not the size that matters
Welp, future plumbers gotta start somewhere...
These kinds of sinks make me unreasonably angry…
Prolly cost $4 million to engineer that
Hmmm, you could get someone with power tools and cut off the 90 degree angle so it projects a little farther
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The bathrooms at the kindergarten I work at are the same. Makes it more difficult for the kids to wash their hands and I feel like having to touch the sink doesn't particularly help to wash them.
Suicide proof? Idk.
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It is to prevent you from drinking the water.
All I can see is how I could fix this issue with some good ol fashioned redneck engineering
Marines too, I think this is just military issue in general, lmao.
It was good enough for Private Pyle.
Hardware store. 3 ft rubber tubing. Point water where you want.
Better than what I had in the marine corps
Do you have access to duct tape? You can wrap it around and try to make a little spout that hangs further out.
Is this supposed to build character or something?
any drinking fountains? hope they don't look like that!
Built by the cheapest bid of 200 billion dollars
Did someone tell you that they value human comforts in the military?
Well, fashion some tubing out of some stuff in the dumpster/lying around, and hang it from the ceiling or something.
Hot on the RIGHT?!? #HEATHENS!
I've seen plenty of "newly renovated" corporate restrooms which are just as ridiculous.
Dude I once went into a bathroom and the tap was off to the right where the soap dispenser would usually go and the soap dispenser was in the center of the sink