You Know What Really Grinds My Gears....The Sequel!

[CMPunk]

Originally Posted by JonDuke

The word "epic" rgmg.
In the same category as "owned/pwned"

Epic gear grinder brah

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by CMPunk

Epic gear grinder brah

You pwned him!

[Inglewood Jack]

last night I came face to face with Satan himself, also goes by the name of the Dyson Airblade. I like their vacuums but that thing is the most mind blowing stupidly designed contraption on the planet. it's the world's worst game of Operation, where winning (difficult) means semi-dry hands and losing (very easy) means fecal handshakes/fist bumps with anyone else who has ever used it.

anyways I lost again, and it shall be a grim reminder that given the choice, simply wiping on my own clothes will always be the far superior option. never again shall I stare down this cackling, gaping maw and pray that it helps with my washroom hygiene.

[4X4]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

last night I came face to face with Satan himself, also goes by the name of the Dyson Airblade. I like their vacuums but that thing is the most mind blowing stupidly designed contraption on the planet. it's the world's worst game of Operation, where winning (difficult) means semi-dry hands and losing (very easy) means fecal handshakes/fist bumps with anyone else who has ever used it.

anyways I lost again, and it shall be a grim reminder that given the choice, simply wiping on my own clothes will always be the far superior option. never again shall I stare down this cackling, gaping maw and pray that it helps with my washroom hygiene.

Why is it so rare to find the ideal set up of automatic towel dispenser, and garbage can right by the door, so that I can dry my hands, use my towel to open the door, and chuck it in the can on my way out?

[Minnie]

Costco uses those. I hate them so much.

[JonDuke]

My kids won't use a bathroom if there's a Dyson in it. (They're young) Those things are freaking loud and obnoxious.

[BigBrodieFan]

What GMG is my constant memory fail.

In the past week I have:

Used the keypad on my keyboard thinking I was dialing out on my work phone.

Lost my debit card at least 10 times.

Lost my car keys at least 5 times.

Forgot the simplest names of movies and bands while playing drunk trivial pursuit at a New Year's party, but I wasn't even drunk. I couldn't remember the group 'The Monkeys' or Ed Norton's name, or the answer to 'What 12 things are in the song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas?'

Irritating.

[CMPunk]

Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan

What GMG is my constant memory fail.

In the past week I have:

Used the keypad on my keyboard thinking I was dialing out on my work phone.

Lost my debit card at least 10 times.

Lost my car keys at least 5 times.

Forgot the simplest names of movies and bands while playing drunk trivial pursuit at a New Year's party, but I wasn't even drunk. I couldn't remember the group 'The Monkeys' or Ed Norton's name, or the answer to 'What 12 things are in the song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas?'

Irritating.

To be fair, that's not really simple...I know I couldn't do it

[BigBrodieFan]

Originally Posted by CMPunk

To be fair, that's not really simple...I know I couldn't do it

Did you sing in a choir for 12 years and sing that song every year in front of hundreds of people? I did. Thanks for making me feel better though

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Minnie

Costco uses those. I hate them so much.

I prefer them over the quite loud and noisy......

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Dion

I prefer them over the quite loud and noisy......

We have these in our washrooms at work. I bet if you disassembled it, you would find a Pratt and Whitney J58 inside it. I set my glasses down on the sink counter once, and accidentally triggered it's motion sensor, and it blew my glasses into the toilet.

Only frikkin hand dryers equipped with afterburners.

[Methanolic]

This summer at The Kings Head on MacLeod I discovered the hilarity of the hand dryer on the wall and the 3 foot tall waste basket below the hand dryer.

They have a paper towel dispenser beside the sink and the waste basket for the used paper towels right beside the washroom door, below the hand dryer.

When the waste basket gets near capacity and someone decides to use the hand dryer, the wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube man effect is hysterical!

[Table 5]

When it comes to public toilets, the real culprit is not the dryers. It's the effin' stupid motion-activated faucets. Those things never work when you want them, and you always feel like an idiot waving your hand around under the faucet until it goes off. And of course they only dispense water for like 2 seconds, so you have to keep waving like an idiot.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Table 5

When it comes to public toilets, the real culprit is not the dryers. It's the effin' stupid motion-activated faucets. Those things never work when you want them, and you always feel like an idiot waving your hand around under the faucet until it goes off. And of course they only dispense water for like 2 seconds, so you have to keep waving like an idiot.

Even worse is when the water pressure is too high and you end up with water on your jacket or shirt.

[Cuz]

Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack

last night I came face to face with Satan himself, also goes by the name of the Dyson Airblade. I like their vacuums but that thing is the most mind blowing stupidly designed contraption on the planet. it's the world's worst game of Operation, where winning (difficult) means semi-dry hands and losing (very easy) means fecal handshakes/fist bumps with anyone else who has ever used it.

anyways I lost again, and it shall be a grim reminder that given the choice, simply wiping on my own clothes will always be the far superior option. never again shall I stare down this cackling, gaping maw and pray that it helps with my washroom hygiene.

I'm not a fan of air dryers in general, I find they don't ever get your hands as dry as paper towel, but the Dyson is the only one that even comes remotely close to actually drying your hands.

[jeffman]

Originally Posted by jaydorn

Futurshop's insistance that you say "No" to the extended warranty three times before they let you finish your purchase with them.

No, I don't want the extended 9 year warranty, why? Because if you continue pushing such shenanigans on your customers I can assure you won't even be in business in 9 years time, let alone able to honour such warranties, assuming the customer even has the receipt anymore.

You should see Dell.I dread the one year anniversary every time I purchase a computer. Just wow

[Inglewood Jack]

Originally Posted by Cuz

I'm not a fan of air dryers in general, I find they don't ever get your hands as dry as paper towel, but the Dyson is the only one that even comes remotely close to actually drying your hands.

yes, the Airblade actually does work if you manage to somehow use it exactly as intended. I have regular sized hands and normal coordination, I bet I could stick them in the thing and pull them out without touching the sides if it were turned off. the problem is the damn air blasts that force your hands in directions they don't want to go. I guess the idea is that the opposing jets should cancel each other out and keep your hands steady, but in practice I find that never happens, and I either touch the yellow rubber parts or spend so much time trying to make that not happen that the drying action is compromised.

and don't even get me started on that hellish slurry that collects at the bottom of the Airblade. try putting your hands deeper in to dry your wrists, and your fingertips will be coated in stool slurpee.

[GGG]

At least it shouldn't be stool at the bottom of the air blade as the users of it will at least have put some effort into washing their hands. Not like the door handle you are touching next where the guy just wiped his ass and walked out.

For me Bathroom germs were added to the list of things I refuse to care about because there is nothing you can do about them. Use a public washroom get covered in fecal matter. The good news though is bathrooms are cleaner than your average office kitchen. The Coffee maker is where the real germs hang out. Moist warm place, and never cleaned.

[Drummer]

The automatic taps in the bathrooms at Chinook, the one on the main floor north end, hardly ever work properly. Also waterless urinals really grind my gears.

[Wormius]

It is probably much more important to wash your hands before you unzip your pants than after. That's my theory on public washroom best practices.

If you are more worried about the cleanliness of your hands after you touch your private parts than before that is not necessarily a good thing. For instance, the questions really should be, "how do I lock the door to the toilet stall without touching anything?".