What is the point of motion sensitive paper towel dispensers?

[imported_Lucifer]

Are people getting so lazy to the point that we need a machine to dispense our paper towels? Next thing you know, we will have some sort of device in our pants that unzips and unbuttons your pants.

 

[DainBramaged]

It's so you don't have to touch where other people have already touched. Especially in a bathroom.

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

Also cuts down on paper usage.

 

[Goosemaster]

Fecal vapors

 

[HomeAppraiser]

Does anyone else use a paper towel to pull open the public bathroom door when exiting? Or are you just hoping that everyone else washed their hands?

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser
Does anyone else use a paper towel to pull open the public bathroom door when exiting? Or are you just hoping that everyone else washed their hands?

I always do this when I can.

 

[moks78]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
It's so you don't have to touch where other people have already touched. Especially in a bathroom.

Exactly...some peeps don't know how to properly wash their hands.

 

[Howard]

It's possible to insert some types of paper towel dispenser handles into one's anus. Would you want to touch it, knowing that?

(I'm actually not sure)

 

[fire400]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
It's so you don't have to touch where other people have already touched. Especially in a bathroom.

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Also cuts down on paper usage.

technology; brilliant

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: fire400

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
It's so you don't have to touch where other people have already touched. Especially in a bathroom.

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Also cuts down on paper usage.

technology; brilliant

OP, not brilliant.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

i love them... unless they are broken... it really sucks when they are broken. for one you look stupid waving your magic hands in front of it and most of the ones ive seen dont have a manual way of getting paper out.

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: fire400

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
It's so you don't have to touch where other people have already touched. Especially in a bathroom.

Originally posted by: Cdubneeddeal
Also cuts down on paper usage.

technology; brilliant

OP, not brilliant.

Just keep waiving your hand under the sensor and it will keep dispensing. Plus, there are other dirty things in teh restroom that most people end up touching anyways.

 

[moks78]

Originally posted by: HomeAppraiser
Does anyone else use a paper towel to pull open the public bathroom door when exiting? Or are you just hoping that everyone else washed their hands?

"one is more likely to pick-up a disease from a door knob than from paper money" Door knobs are considered as fomites.

A fomite is any inanimate object or substance capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious organisms (from germs to parasites) from one individual to another...Wikepedia linky.

Knowing this...I hate touching them. Of course, you can never be overly cautious.

 

[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: TallBill
OP, not brilliant.

QFT

 

[Shawn]

It's not that hard to figure out. It's so you don't have to touch a dirty handle after you just washed your hands.


I use a paper towel to open the door also.

 

[HomeAppraiser]

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k

Originally posted by: TallBill
OP, not brilliant.

QFT

Where TallBill is at right now they sit on top of 55 gallon drums with the top sawed off to go to the bathroom. Then they burn the sh!t with JP-8 so it don't stink.

 

[HomeAppraiser]

Originally posted by: Howard
It's possible to insert some types of paper towel dispenser handles into one's anus.

It's just scarry that you would know that! Shudder

 

[Wheezer]

It is primarily installed to cut down on the cost of paper towel usage.

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: Lucifer
Next thing you know, we will have some sort of device in our pants that unzips and unbuttons your pants.

Although it doesn't exist in your pants, but have you ever heard of alcohol? :laugh:

 

[0roo0roo]

so u dont have to touch nasty handle , u always see people not really wash or use soap. sometimes the towels are way up in the machien and u gotta claw at it, so thats uncool too and solved with motion detector.

what sucks are motion sensors for faucets. tend to be too quick or just don't work

 

[I Saw OJ]

I miss the days of one big cloth rag that everyone used. Now that was sanitary!

 

[0roo0roo]

heh yea those rag loops were disgusting. the past was certainly not better lol

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
It's so you don't have to touch where other people have already touched. Especially in a bathroom.

 

[natto fire]

Germaphobia will be the death of the geek race.
Remember the George Carlin routine about how he swam in the Hudson River?
I rarely get sick, and don't exhibit near the amount of germophobia as people I know, much less some of you here.

 

[Pepsei]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
It's so you don't have to touch where other people have already touched. Especially in a bathroom.

first answer is a good one