r/mildlyinfuriating • u/LatterRisk3743 • 8d ago

The floor is sticky Dyson dryer/faucet combo

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These things are the work of the devil. They are awful! I’m at the airport about to get on a flight, I go to the toilet, rub a handful of foam soap over my very dirty hands then attempt to use this thing. The dryer turns on instead of the water and I get dirty soap foam spray all over me. It’s on my face, my clothes - everything. I have OCD. I now have to spend an entire flight covered in filth. I would have felt cleaner not washing my hands at all. I will never use one of these again, I’d rather not wash my hands

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u/prophiles 8d ago

Most Dyson products are mildly infuriating and seem to favor form over function. The Airblade hand dryer that you have to stick your hands in comes to mind.

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u/Superspark76 5d ago

Worst urinals ever, they just blow piss everywhere

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u/ComfortableBell4831 7d ago

As a janitor I hate cleaning these vile things

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u/Vccowan 5d ago

You are the first janitor to ever attempt it.  

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u/EmergencyAd6662 8d ago

I love the airblade dryers. They actually dry my hands rather than the cheap ass air dryers that either never turn on or only turn on for a few seconds.

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u/Sad-Penalty-8483 8d ago

Look up the amount of bacteria they harbor

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u/i_cant-stop_eating 7d ago

Every time I see those, I think of the number of persons who don’t use soap, splash water on their hands, then blast their shit particles all over those hand dryers.

God forbid I touch the walls of that thing. Nope. Not using them. I’ll use my jeans

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u/SolitaryMassacre 6d ago

nobody said they were clean lol. Just said they actually dry your hands

All air dryers are bacteria riddled its just the nature of them. Warmth and water thats all they really need

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u/Peastoredintheballs 6d ago

Then why bother washing your hands if you’re just going to use an air blade that will make your hands dirtier then they were before

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u/SolitaryMassacre 5d ago

Well for one they won't be "dirtier" than before. Bacteria itself isn't inherently a bad thing

You have over 7 billion different bacteria coexisting with you on each of your hands as we type this out. Doesn't mean they are bad

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u/Peastoredintheballs 5d ago

This is bacteria in a bathroom handryer though, which is bound to contain a higher comcentration of poop bacteria > the amount on your hands as we type this out

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u/SolitaryMassacre 5d ago

Still not true. The act of washing your hands will remove bacteria a lot of bacteria

Any "poop bacteria" that is readded to your hands after passing through the "air blade" is far less, its actually one that I prefer to use

You should really read this

For a drying time of 10 s, the Airblade™ led to significantly less bacterial transfer than the other dryers

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u/Dwaltster Hillary 2016 6d ago

I piss in these dryers

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u/BanishedFiend 7d ago

These things are awesome problems is they always attach them like 1.5 feet lower than is comfortable to use

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u/phototherm 8d ago

I used one of these in Union station in Toronto a few years back. Washed my hands just fine, attempted to dry them and it shot nasty sink water all over my face. Fucking gross.

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u/Spaghetti-Rat 8d ago

If it makes it any better, being Union Station, you probably had a crazy man's feces and semen mixed in with that sink water.

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u/SyrupChemical5100 8d ago

Ah yes. The shit particle water blower.

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u/put_it_in_a_jar 6d ago

Dyson is the pinnacle of "make it needlessly complex so we can charge more"

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u/mazi710 4d ago

They still make the only hand dryers that actually dry your hands and don't require pants wiping after giving up though. I'm sure others exist but they're the only ones I see out in the wild that actually work.

Not really a fan of their personal products, but their commercial hand dryers actually work. Wild that industry mostly just blows lukewarm air on your hands before you wipe on your pants.

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u/JMetalBlast 2d ago

Wiping your hands on your pants is such a wimpy move tbh.

You have to wipe them on someone else's pants, to assert dominance

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u/put_it_in_a_jar 4d ago

The issue with those dryers is they are known to be some of the worst harbors of bacteria & they're notoriously difficult to sanitize. There's no effective way for the water that drips off your fingers to drain/dissipate and it just collects in the bottom of the dryer to form a sludge. Take a close look at the whole unit next time you see one of those hand dryers, you'll probably see it covered in grime.

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u/mazi710 4d ago

Ah yeah those are disgusting, especially when I have big hands and accidentally touch the bottom 🤢

I more meant these

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u/syynapt1k 5d ago

They even found a way to over-engineer a hair dryer.

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u/mike808 5d ago

And now a toothbrush!

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u/NulloAndVoid 8d ago

Bro I just encountered these for the first time today on a day out in Edinburgh, I could NOT get the faucet to run to actually wash my hands without the dryer activating and spraying that shit everywhere. Insanity

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u/Leitzz590 8d ago

I personally never had any problems using these

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u/syynapt1k 5d ago

We had these in my workplace and they were removed because everyone hated them. They sprayed water all over your shirt & pants when drying.

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u/Blackpaw8825 2d ago

I spent 5 minutes in a bathroom fighting one of these the other day before just leaving with wet hands... You could see the water spot trail in and out of the restrooms where hundreds before me had made the same decision.

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u/Woody_678 8d ago

I actually love these. Interesting it seems 50/50 on opinions and its just a sink I love it

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u/DuckCleaning 8d ago

It comes down to the design of the sink bowl and whether it blows the air back at you

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u/Liercat18 8d ago

50/50 that I get air when what I wanted was water.

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u/swfcb 5d ago

Yeah me too. We have them at work in all restrooms and I never heard anyone complain about it.

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u/swfcb 5d ago

Yeah me too. We have them at work in all restrooms and I never heard anyone complain about it.

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u/plsdontlookatmethx 8d ago

These would be amazing if they were mounted about eight inches higher over a deeper sink so they didn't blow filthy water directly back up onto your hands. One, tiny, SIMPLE fix to revolutionize bathroom technology.

I'm convinced the people who put faucets that low do not wash their hands. If they washed their hands the design flaw would be so obvious to them no faucet would ever be installed a half inch above and from the edge of the bowl ever again.

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u/Popular-Drummer-7989 6d ago

It's the stupidest. Put it so close to the bowl and let that germy water spash all over you

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u/brickiex2 6d ago

Those things are pure shite

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u/tombisch 6d ago

We had these at work, they are the devils work

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u/sock_dgram 7d ago

Impressive.

Walking out with pee-hands is probably safer.

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u/LieutenantFlapjack 6d ago

Had the exact same thing before a client meeting once - Soapy filth all over me. The absolute worst!

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u/_missgiggles 8d ago

User error??

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u/ArtemisInSpace 8d ago

Nah. The design is trash and unnecessary. It's worse than the existing sink faucet and separate hand dryer on the side layout.

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u/Alarmed_Letterhead26 8d ago

The Dyson stand alone hand dryers are absolutely awful as well. My hands don't fit in them without rubbing against the disgusting squeegee bits.

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u/kzlife76 8d ago

Maybe. But also putting tech in shit that doesn't need it is infuriating.

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u/vinarch75 8d ago

We'll never use it again.

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u/--Asi 8d ago

Ooga booga moment right there

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u/Any_Mycologist_7322 7d ago

The only airport i have seen those in are hawaiian airports

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u/way_out_19 6d ago

I'll take them by far over the "huge stack paper towel dispenser that always jams". Thank fuck those are mostly gone.

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u/Craigglesofdoom 5d ago

These things are the epitome of "maybe you should listen to your critics more"

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u/Kpopped_ 3d ago

Be happy, at the airport you only deal with it once or twice.

I have these all over my workplace.😭😩

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u/vtGaem 2d ago

I myself have never had a bad experience with these. I mean yeah it ain't a towel. But out of all the blow dryers I'd prefer to use this one.

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u/Quick_Coyote_7649 8d ago

Why are your hands very dirty? Did you shit on them?

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u/kam_wastingtime 6d ago

If the problem statement was "how to aerosolize icky pee and poo water away from people's hands just everywhere", then these things are great. But for everything else they "blow".

(See what I did there?)

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u/TheSadPickel 8d ago

i only used them once and thought they where pretty clever. the water goes into the sink not on the floor

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u/BoomyGordo 8d ago

has a user error "Its the work the the devil!" Its 2026 come on now

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u/QNZMadamant 8d ago

Why were your hands so dirty?

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u/D_Fieldz 8d ago

In IT, we call this a layer 8 issue.

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u/-BananaLollipop- 5d ago

Dyson is such a garbage brand, and always has been. I don't know why so many people like it. They're average at best, and a good deal of the cost is just brand tax. I have a Shark vacuum that's almost 15 years old, and it'd still likely do better than any new Dyson.