PSA: If you use the toilet at McDonalds

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alkemyst

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The poo goes in the toilet, not on the handle, floor, walls and toilet seat. I stopped at a McDonalds to use the restroom, they only have those stupid hand dryers, no paper. So i go into the stall to get some toilet paper to dry my hands after washing them and it looked like the toilet shot the waste straight up like a volcano erupted, it was everywhere.

There was even poop on the toilet paper, freaking disgusting. I told the manager, they sent this poor kid in there with a mop and bucket to neutralize the threat.

If the person made a mess like this at a public restroom, can only imagine what his house looks like.

Nice cover up, doubt the manager or kid post here though to get your confirmation ;).
 

zinfamous

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Jul 12, 2006
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This is common in public bathrooms. You often have homeless people and drunken/whoknowswhat people out late dashing into the bathroom to take care of something nasty.

Hell, I certainly prefer to use the public restroom if something terrible is about to happen. Not that it often happens, but I do try to be polite about it....
 

SlickSnake

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I like those things that give you a blow job. You can even put one in your home.

The normal hand drier units work just fine, the nozzle is even adjustable, and the units blow air DOWNWARDS.

The Dyson design is utterly incomprehensible. It would work fine if you put both hands in each opening on the sides, with the top of it completely sealed, DUH!, and then blowing (or sucking) the air through an opening DOWNWARDS, not up into your face.

And a kid trying to use one placed at an adult level is utter failure, the thing blows straight in a kids face. I even saw a kid get his hat blown off by one. Was it funny? Yes, it was. Was the kid LOL about it? No, he wasn't. It probably scared him for life, the poor dear. And the kid in this pic? I doubt the thing is even working, otherwise his shirts arms would be full of air and the hat would definitely be lying on the floor.
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zinfamous

No Lifer
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^so if it's sucking the water, where is that water supposed to go? I can imagine no design for a such a device would ever see the public domain--as these require little to no maintenance to even be viable.
 

JulesMaximus

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Jul 3, 2003
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Honestly, I have no idea why someone would be so stupid as to not use the air dryer and instead go looking for toilet paper to dry his hands... and I say his because no woman would be this stupid.
 

natto fire

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I guess you never used an overpowered Dyson hand drier where you put both of your hands in a cramped space and the machine then blows all the water off your hands and straight onto your face. Sometimes over designing something is just as bad as under designing it is.

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If he was actually using his contraption, his hair would be blowing up, his sleeves would be full of air and even his shirt tail would be blown up. You can only use these while stretching your arms out as far as they can go, and bending your back as far away from it as possible, then it still gets water spots all over your glasses and face, even if your heads turned to the side.

Actually, I have very rarely. Usually it is a world dryer unit.

I never had a problem with the Dyson unit, but my gut is flush with my rib cage, which I don't think is very common at a McDonalds. I acknowledge that airblade is somewhat of a gimmick and even old school driers are just as good if using proper technique, but that skill is lost. That said, every air blade unit I have used is just fine, nothing amazing, nothing terrible. The best is when my atmospheric space was 10% humidity or less. For a multitude of reasons I have hated swamp air ever since, but I still get by with a dryer up to 90% humidity.
 

alkemyst

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Actually, I have very rarely. Usually it is a world dryer unit.

I never had a problem with the Dyson unit, but my gut is flush with my rib cage, which I don't think is very common at a McDonalds. I acknowledge that airblade is somewhat of a gimmick and even old school driers are just as good if using proper technique, but that skill is lost. That said, every air blade unit I have used is just fine, nothing amazing, nothing terrible. The best is when my atmospheric space was 10% humidity or less. For a multitude of reasons I have hated swamp air ever since, but I still get by with a dryer up to 90% humidity.

QFT...shake your hands off first that is most of the problem.
 

alkemyst

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Honestly, I have no idea why someone would be so stupid as to not use the air dryer and instead go looking for toilet paper to dry his hands... and I say his because no woman would be this stupid.

Thanks for giving us the female approach to things. We don't have that many women here.
 

Pray To Jesus

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90% of time u don't even need to wash your hands.

90% of time after washing hands, don't need to dry it.
 

John Connor

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I was in Office Depot and had to use the toilet and someone exploded all over the damn thing. I seen this in a Kmart too. Fucking disgusting makes you want to vomit as soon as you see it.

As far as hand dryers go, screw that shit! I like to use a paper towel to open the door with because a majority of the filty cock suckers out there (and you know who you are) don't wash their hands! :colbert:
 

tynopik

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we need that classic ms paint image of the guy who goes to Shoneys(?) and gets caught not quite in position when the urge hits . . .
 
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tcsenter

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Sometimes when you bend over after holding it a while, pressure plus gravity equals explosive decompression while bending over, much like in the pic.
I was going to say, this (plus sphincter fatigue from holding it). In my middle-age, I occasionally have something like an IBS episode where my bowels are very forcefully trying to move things along without much advanced notice. Of course, in these situations, when you're not near a toilet, it seems to get worse the nearer you get to a toilet (say, while driving). I've had a couple times where my sphincter gave-out just as I was squatting down, not quite squarely over the bowl yet.
 

Ben90

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Who the fuck washes their hands after they pee? I keep my hands clear of the opening in my penis so nothing gets on them.

I guess if someone else is in there and you need to be polite, you could rinse and then use your permanently attached paper towels - your pants - to dry if you had no other options.
 

Raizinman

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Went to lunch with some friends at a local restaurant. Service and food quality was just poor. A friend got up to use the restroom. After a few minutes he came back. I then went to the restroom. When I came back I mentioned that the restroom was just as poor as the service and food quality. The guy who was in the restroom before me commented that whenever he gets terrible service or food quality, he will go into the restroom and make a mess. Sort of like paying the restaurant back. I wish he would have told me that before I sent in.
 

gorcorps

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Jul 18, 2004
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The normal hand drier units work just fine, the nozzle is even adjustable, and the units blow air DOWNWARDS.

The Dyson design is utterly incomprehensible. It would work fine if you put both hands in each opening on the sides, with the top of it completely sealed, DUH!, and then blowing (or sucking) the air through an opening DOWNWARDS, not up into your face.

And a kid trying to use one placed at an adult level is utter failure, the thing blows straight in a kids face. I even saw a kid get his hat blown off by one. Was it funny? Yes, it was. Was the kid LOL about it? No, he wasn't. It probably scared him for life, the poor dear. And the kid in this pic? I doubt the thing is even working, otherwise his shirts arms would be full of air and the hat would definitely be lying on the floor.
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Sounds like the one you used was fucked up. I've used a few and they all did an okay job of "scraping" the water off your hands and into the trough below. No air went upwards, or if it did not enough to make it memorable.
 

alkemyst

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Sounds like the one you used was fucked up. I've used a few and they all did an okay job of "scraping" the water off your hands and into the trough below. No air went upwards, or if it did not enough to make it memorable.

He lost credibility when he mentioned the kid being scarred for life.
 

sourn

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I'm thinking that this is a peculiarly American thing. I've never seen a public toilet like that. I've seen stinky, or unclean or even some with discarded needles in, but never some where someone has made an effort to make them shitty.


Go to afghan. LOL! You will see shit every where, but in the toilet.
 

natto fire

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Went to lunch with some friends at a local restaurant. Service and food quality was just poor. A friend got up to use the restroom. After a few minutes he came back. I then went to the restroom. When I came back I mentioned that the restroom was just as poor as the service and food quality. The guy who was in the restroom before me commented that whenever he gets terrible service or food quality, he will go into the restroom and make a mess. Sort of like paying the restaurant back. I wish he would have told me that before I sent in.

So you hang out with high schoolers? Or just adults with the maturity of one?
 

NetWareHead

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Aug 10, 2002
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I have large hands, no doubt a lot larger than yours are, and they barely even fit in the damn contraption and they blow water all over the damn place. Maybe they can be adjusted somehow, I don't know, but when I see one now, I do not use it. You can enjoy it with all the other lady fingers out there to your hearts content.

If it wasn't a failed contraption, it would suck the water off your hands, using suction, like his vacuums, imagine that, and not blow the water out all the openings like it does.

I have oven mitts for hands and I don't like to use the Dyson dryer because I feel like I have less than a quarter inch of clearance between my hands and the dryer. After washing my hands and getting them clean, why would I want to touch the insides of the dryer? Even with my size hands, I have never experienced anything like you describe with water spraying and the air messing up my hair/shirt etc...
 

Murloc

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Jun 24, 2008
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doesn't McDonald's have single ply paper? That would exacerbate the problem even more, at least with thick 3ply you have a chance of drying your hands.
no because cheap recycled toilet paper is more like paper towels, it's hard. Just use lots of it.
Thick toilet paper just disintegrates when wet instead.

Also you can limit yourself to drying up by tamponing with the paper so it doesn't break into pieces, then use the air dryer for the finishing touch.
Or just dry the hands on your pants.

Anyway the dyson airblades work just fine, but I prefer the traditional ones (with sensor though) as they don't require precision when placing the hands. I don't know why they got replaced, maybe the airblades use less power.
 
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