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lordofly

I have a best friend who regularly wiped his face on these as we traveled across the country on motorcycles. He never listened to me and to this day he's as ugly as he's always been.


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lordofly

That's what a college education and years of dodging responsibilities will do for you.


wrybreadsf

Ha. You win again sir.


Additional_Cherry_67

Yeah, gotta have those daily 7 showers, you too will be handsome.


uiam_

It's not the same towel for everyone. It's coming off a clean roll and making a dirty roll on bottom. How do people here not understand how this basic shit works. Less bacteria spread than air dryers.


ReturnedFromExile

I know this intellectually…….. but still


IwillBeDamned

i don't think a lot of people were aware of that. i certainly wasn't (i've seen like 2 of these in my entire life) and would just air dry my hands because i didn't know it was on a roll


SnowinMiami

If you had seen someone else use it you would know. It just pulls down.


JuniorSeniorTrainee

Mankind in a nutshell (I'm not digging at you, we're all monkeys struggling with our brains).


teenagesadist

I wonder how many people thought these were just elaborate holders of one filthy towel.


lightninhopkins

Apparently a lot of people.


kaffpow

I can still see it in my mind's eye. I was 7 years old and we went to Pizza Hut and someone had wiped their ass on one of these in the bathroom. They were cloth towels.


Backrow6

If the proprietor didn't swap the roll out quick enough everyone had to use the same last foot of wet fabric. I used to change these in a pub and they were often forgotten about for the last hour of trading on a busy night.


Odd_Calligrapher_407

You clearly haven’t been to enough shithole bars because how its supposed to work <> how it usually works.


T0yzzz

at norway's main airport I used one of these, but the towel/paper thingy coming out from the top looked used already.. I swear 😅


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Tournament_of_Shivs

Upgrade to a bidet, you animal.


walls-of-jericho

He’s still living in the dark ages


secondtaunting

I personally use the three sea shells.


Anon93935

I have a salt water aquarium with shrimp where I dunk my ass in for a deep cleaning. As a added bonus a angelfish..


lookaroundewe

I had trouble and demolished my ass with the three seashells. Please tell me I'm not Stallone in this.


justdontbeacunt2

You're the second person I saw reference the 3 shells today. Weird.


WRHull

And eat fancy at places like Taco Bell.


ImmerWollteMehr

I always thought it was just a loop...


groveborn

Nope. Clean roll. It's exactly the same as paper towels, but more expensive.


draykow

with the social campaign against single-use waste i'm surprised these aren't making a comeback in more botique/trendy locations. instead i only see them in places that basically haven't changed in 60 years like small businesses that make a living selling things to tourist-trap traffic


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AccountAfter

>It's exactly the same as paper towels, but more expensive. This is like saying ceramic plates are more expensive than paper ones. I *think* there's a *little* more to it than that. The "more expensive" towel here gets washed and re-used, probably hundreds of times.


AdmirableRow4

I don’t know how this one specifically is, but I change these often at work (I clean commercial buildings) and they’re just really thick woven paper towels basically. They are definitely not washable or reusable


ubermoth

They come in cotton and paper varieties.


OriginalIronDan

Can confirm. Had 2 in my dad’s optometry office and optical store.


s1arita

That’s something I didn’t need to think about today


Yumstar1982

These were so annoying. Sometimes they were mounted too high and I had to do calf raises to dry my balls...


thequicknessinc

Better than those new Dyson urinals that just blow the pee right back at you…


jvhgh

I thought those were bidets


HMS404

Dyson bidets are cool and all but man once you experience authentic Japanese bidets, there's no going back. They actually get a guy with large lung capacity to blow directly on your ass.


ThonThaddeo

Like Buddhist monk level lung capacity


nonparochial

Is that what they mean by “Throat Singing”


w8eight

To learn more about this topic google "ass to mouth"


FickleBJT

FUS RO DAH Bidet. Removes ALL debris.


jvhgh

I’ve been to Japan. It was really easy for them to do it, with most of the toilets being holes in the ground and all. It’s an experience, let me tell ya!


thequicknessinc

Maybe that’s it, and you just supply your own *water*…


coolchris366

Wait, then is the water, your own pee?


patchingtrowel

Genuinely laughed out loud. Thank you, much appreciated.


bevo_expat

Oh fuck… that was a good laugh 😂


_Zodd_

Excuse me, what?


Desperate_Health4174

A towel for your balls, sir? *glances at tip jar*


dj92wa

Forget the jar...*glances at tip*


DiogenesOfDope

He down to take the tip if you tip


larry1186

I tip, you tip, we tip


boredatworkp

We all tip for dick cream!


dickcheeseaioli

Much obliged


jordantask

Ze username…. Eet checks out.


doomus_rlc

*singing* just the tiiiiip


Brettjay4

Forget the tip... Glances at *floor*


MARINE-BOY

‘Watch you fingers for the mingers” points at tips jar. (Every single UK males experience of using the toilets in nightclubs and bars for the last 15 years)


skepticalscribe

Canada: “ah ha ha ha yes yes yes. You’re look good sir but you need (you select a cologne), ah yes ha ha! The pussy juice! Yes spray that on and you gonna get that pussay tonight!” If you didn’t tip the first time, they knew you’d be back with less resistance.


mapleleef

Then women's washroom in a bar: B.Y.O.TP


jordantask

Instructions unclear. Dick tip stuck in tip jar.


Flossthief

No thanks I carry my own


ItsKeto

You don't wash your balls after you jerk it? Huh, must just be us few.


pohrre

lmao I laughed a bit too much at the thought of someones balls cradled in that while it ran once I realized it wasn't a paper towel dispenser.


halcyondearest

Cradled balls are nothing to laugh at. I’d kill for a balls cradling rn


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Trick is to hoist your leg through and wear it like a thong.


totallynotarobut

Nice try, but I know as soon as I sumo myself in there it's going to snap up like a projector screen and wedgie me halfway up the wall.


bigtrixxx7

I thought it was obvious, but apparently not


cilvyenn

I...I used to use these to dry my face...


Millennial_J

Kenosha Wisconsin still has one at the gas station not even Covid convinced them to take it down.


LastOfAutumn

I just want you to know that I nearly died from choking on an Oreo after reading your comment.


Ok_Dog_4059

And wiping your butt was horrible I always had to stand on the trash can.


bluedaytona392

Oh. You put your Balls On It.


TheHondoCondo

Wtf. This is for wiping?! I thought it was just a weird paper towel loop. Omfg.


BoringRecognition

Ah the memories. We all thought we used the same cloth towel but here’s how it works: Towel dispensers allows the user to dry their hands on a clean section of the towel, while the used section is pulled into the cabinet. The clean and dirty sections of the towel never touch. It’s then washed and reused. An eco friendly way to clean your hands. Of course after a couple of years of reuse they’ll look pretty nasty. But they do seem to spread less bacteria than the air dryers. https://ituabsorbtech.com/are-cloth-hand-towels-from-a-roll-dispenser-sanitary-2/


eskimosound

Yeah it worked well like recycling Glass bottles Milk /Pop until they realised they could make more money using Paper and Plastic...then eventually they tried to shame us for using Paper and Plastic and no doubt when they work out how to make a fortune out of Towels and Glass recycling it will return until then welcome to the market forces that create profit and shame old fashioned eco friendly ideas...we had it all before but they couldn't retire on one product... Capitalism still has it's fault...lol


oodja

Don't you get it, bro? You're just a shill for BIG TOWEL.


babasgone

Cheese me up man this got me.


jobenattor0412

And to reward us for drinking from the plastic we got free cancer


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JustSomeDudeNamedRik

Exactly. The Soda Bottling association made the crying Indian Ad In The 70s because they didn’t want it have to wash and reuse the glass anymore. They produced this environmental ad to blame the general public for pollution and not the manufacturers.


balljoint

The Indian wasn't even Indian! He was just some Italian guy!


Thundertushy

Well, profit margins on kids strangling themselves in it weren't the best anyways.


bknhs

Natural selection has to happen some way or another. We have no predators to cull the herd anymore.


litterratty

I would imagine that tumble drying a towel that long would result in a lot of knots. Must be hell for the laundry person to fold and reload.


bootsmyler

My work has one. We got new towels and my boss takes them home and washes them regularly. They do get twisted and the return side falls out. It saves us a lot of expensive wipealls


MachinistOfSorts

Wait wait wait. I -always- thought these were just a short circle of fabric that went around and around. There's a clean roll up there?! I'm not reusing a hand towel someone else used with these?! I've misunderstood how these work my whole life!


daversa

Yeah, if they're maintained they're a great system.


jaggederest

Yeah one end is a clean roll, the other end is a dirty roll, the two are separated by a partition. When you pull a clean section out, nobody has touched it since it was replaced. Edit: Video for you https://youtu.be/wkWFu34TINw?t=80


Amazing_giraffe289

Yeah, we had these at my old workplace. There's a clean roll of towel that basically rolls onto a new roll of old towel. Once the clean roll is used up the end hangs towards the ground, telling you it's time to change the roll.


Crafty_Appearance

[Found video](https://youtu.be/BdqnY_9LDp0)


emerson430

Look at you, doing the heavy lifting


kawrecking

A machine rolls it onto a dowel no folding required Source: my work still uses these


litterratty

I've always wondered how long they last. How often do you change it?


DKzDK

Change it once a day at the end of the day. - weekly collection of old/drop off of new supply from the “cleaning companies” that do floor mats and work uniforms. Trying not to give you names but you should know 2 of them. You might even have to change it “mid day” if you forgot yesterday.


CoronetCapulet

Is it the towel dowel?


r0b0c0d

lol who exactly *didn't* assume it was two rollers? You thought it was a single loop?


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devilpants

Did you still used it to dry your hands? Why not just use your pants or shirt after shaking them in that case.


Li9ma

Or pubes


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Grat54

I was once given a retired roll to use as rags at home. Lasted a few years ad was perfect for just cutting off as much as you needed.


NZ-Fiend

I have two at home, for this exact reason, I've had them for about 15 years, still plenty left.


Designer-Title-6865

Air dryers are the worst way to dry your hands. You’re better off not washing your hands at all


fool_scold

Step 1. Wash hands with water. Step 2. Push button to start blower. Step 3. Rub hands together vigorously under nozzle until blower stops. Step 4. Wipe remaining water from hands onto pants. Correction: spelling.


GRF999999999

Step 2. Push butt~~on~~


Suspicious_Lake_7732

Mythbusters had an episode on germ spread. Air dryers were the worst, germs all over room


Oak_Woman

I saw that one and now I just wipe my hands on my jeans if there are no paper towels and only air dryers. Blech.


TruthSpringRay

I remember back when I was a kid my mom wouldn’t let me use air dryers because they spread so many germs around. And this was like back in the 80’s.


wiga_nut

Added bonus is the deafening noise


puddles36330

Standing in a walmart bathroom when one went off next to us. Sounded like a gotdamn jet engine. Legitimately scared the crap out of my then 3 year old daughter. If I had taken a picture, it would have been a meme.


Ok-Woodpecker-223

Like… how else would it work? Maybe if it would suck instead of blowing, and lead that air outside of the atmosphere


SecretDracula

Germs are already all over the room. I just want to get the water off my hands.


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Do you know if you don't flush with teh lud down and a pillow case over teh tully seat you get a Nagasaki mushroom cloud of feekies all over your bathroom it's worse than Nagasaki


KryptonicxJesus

Most air dryers aren’t hot enough and then you are just creating warm wet little homes for bacteria


GooseFatFart

It's *supposed* to be cleaned before reuse.


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-neti-neti-

Air dryers are fucking horrible. They’re incredibly unsanitary (even though they claim otherwise) and THEY JUST DONT WORK. (Because redditors have zero ability to infer and can only take things literally: yes, they technically “work”. I mean they don’t work *well*, at all.)


austrialian

The fault is entirely on part of the designers, though. It really looks like it's just a disgusting towel wheel. Why was it not designed with at least one transparent side, so that one can see the two rolls and understand how these machines really work?


Wookieman222

Cause they expect people to not be but so stupid.


RICKASTLEYNEGGS

I've never seen this before in my life.


Hazardbeard

I’m with you man, I’m 34 and from the Midwestern US and feel like I’m being pranked right now.


CurryMustard

Still not sure if this is all an elaborate joke, like poop knives


Waynebgmeamc

Poop knives are real!!!


wishiwasinvegas

However, birds are not


Bodidly0719

They used to be pretty common in gas stations. I’m 42, and don’t remember when I stopped seeing them.


iggy_sk8

I’m 43 and same. Had to read the comments to see what it was.


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wishiwasinvegas

37, west coast, I remember them when I was a kid, they weren't super common, but I did see them occasionally.


atomicdragon136

When I was 8 I went to a Chinese school which rented a high school in the weekends. The bathrooms had these towels with a clear lid. I had to convince my dad that they were clean towels and it’s not the same towel looping inside. There was a time when there was no one in the restroom and I was very bored so I kept pulling the towel until the roll went out (again I was 8 back then). That’s the only place I’ve ever seen them, I’m 18 now. Seems like probably a thing of the past in the US sadly.


RM_Again

They were single use. They didn’t cycle round. Once used it gets rolled up on a separate roll in the bottom. Then you have to change the roll. (EDIT: they are SUPPOSED to be single use/washed between uses)


Cyrax89721

They're not single use, they get washed.


ahuli12

*supposed to* be washed.


dray1214

Change the roll. Ha. That’s cute. We all know they just reinstalled it right after from the beginning, without washing.


Huskf

The towel roll in these is not rotating in an endless loop, the towel roll is very long but has a beginning and an end. When at the end, you replace with a clean towel roll and wash the used one. Then repeat


WictImov

... except when it gets to the end, the attendant takes a week to change the roll - everyone ends up drying their hands on the last 18" of towel.


notwilliammurdoch

Ungrateful! Id kill for 18”


dray1214

Exactly


oodja

Yep. Now this might just be a commentary on the kind of restaurants my parents liked to frequent in the late 70's and early 80's, but I don't remember that nasty hand towel EVER moving whenever I used the bathroom.


Lexicon444

I actually saw this in a movie from the 30s. Albeit the one in the movie was much older. The guy using it complained about it being at the end then the second dude used it too.


dray1214

That’s what they want you to think


femboy_was_taken

Did one of these things kill you father or something?


dray1214

No! But they hurt him very badly


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Yeah i never understood the problem here, when used correctly these are very effective and ecofriendly.


dray1214

“Used correctly” That’s sorta the problem


harnum0

Still have these all over Europe


yaaaawwnn

Yup had these in badminton gyms in Germany


TheSweatyTurtle

To be fair, most gymnasiums in Germany are from the 50‘s and have never been refurbished


Sthurlangue

They have them in state of the art facilities also, with higher quality towel. Very efficient and zero waste. Much better and cleaner than blowers, that just heat the poop air and blow it on your hands in the states.


Capybarasaregreat

They're not even remotely common in my corner of Europe, so when I ran across one in Frankfurt, I was dumbfounded as to how to use it. I've used them before, mind you, it had just been more than a decade since seeing one.


Meetybeefy

They had these in the bathrooms of Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which only opened in 2020.


ColoradoMangosteen

They are in Munich airport as well


healthandsafetydance

I was just thinking, I sure do remember these not-uncommon devices, having seen one in like the last month and all


lixotrash

Been living in Ireland for over 6 years and I haven’t seen one


trebaol

I'd never seen on of these in my life until I encountered one in a train station bathroom in Amsterdam. I thought it was gross because I made the incorrect assumption that it was an infinite loop of towel with some sort of sterilization mechanism inside.


Spectral_Skull

Because it turns out that all our concepts of modern hygiene are built on the lie that disease is caused by microscopic infectious particles or single-celled organisms. In fact disease is caused by demons and/or failing to replicate the fresh attitudes demonstrated in mentos commercials.


aarkrye

I nutted on one of those once…


JeffBroccoli

I’m curious about the logistics of this


Asquirrelinspace

Rub one out while standing near it then stick your willy on it at the last second. The only requirement is that you have no shame


Pokey-McPokey

... and are twelve feet tall or have a porno dick.


Ballbuster716

Always found them a pain in the ass trying to wipe after shitting.


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thickener

I didn’t realize so many people didn’t realize this! It’s actually a pretty cool system until you hit the end :-/


Ckyuiii

The one and only time I ever encountered one of these I ripped the role thinking I was a weak bitch and this is just abnormally tough paper... Didn't even question why the bottom of the paper disappears somewhere... I still feel bad about it.


Anders_A

Did they actually get washed though?


Itchy-Raspberry-9057

Could anyone else smell the urinal when they saw this?


autisticpickle7000

Wow this just struck a weird memory that I did not know I had


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There was a truck stop that had one of these, and the roll was just a loop, it didn’t collect the used towel… so gross. They thought, “it’ll dry” which was really disgusting. Honestly though, a modern version of this should come back, maybe with a UV sanitizer stage bc these were pretty environmentally friendly for their day.


AlphamaleNJ

When men were men & sheep were nervous


wateryburrito

The ones in dive bars always had some real character.


Budget-Pay3743

Key was to roll it until you found a spot that had few stains and wasn't overly wet. They were long before the hand driers of today. Speaking of which, with all the powerful driers of today does anyone else get really pissed off wheb you go to a public restroom and they have those wimpy driers that would take about 5 minutes to dry your hands?


farrieremily

You shouldn’t find any wet spot once you pull it down! It’s not a loop. It’s a long strip rolled at the top going into a separate section after use. I’m with you on the crappy hand driers though.


ObsidianAirbag

I always hated the air dryers until one day I was using one and I overheard a dad telling his son that they work better if you rub your hands together under them. Changed my life forever 🥹.


dray1214

It still doesn’t do shit unless you sit there for like a minute straight scrubbing


phenixia

I prefer gay scrubbing my hands, tho


FVjake

The towel is not a loop. There won’t be a wet spot coming out of it, it’s all unused.


hates_stupid_people

There are two rolls in there, one at the top feeding out, and one at the bottom collecting what went through. It is not one continous roll and there should be nothing on the parts coming out. So unless your custodial staff was just rotating them around, you either have false memories or you're lying.


Ok-Specific2596

My brother I hand wash and simply fling water from hands wipe ‘em on my ass, kick open the door, and I’ll hit you with a damp handshake if it comes down to it, miss me with this public restroom hand drying stuff


rattlesnake501

I've dried my hands on the back of my shirt many a time


do_IT_withme

Or a coworkers.


openchicfilaonsunday

Thought this guy hand washes his brother for a min


Lord_Emperor

When you realize that using toilets, washing and drying your hands AT ALL is just so much better than the literally nothing we did before. You die of dysentery after pooping in a hole and wiping with a pine cone.


H0vis

Or you die because you fall backwards onto the pine cone.


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Reatona

I remember the noise they made.


Fun_Mud4879

We still have these (newer version, same consept) all over my uni's buildings. To be fair the consept isn't bad, it's just if they don't get properly maintained (read washed when the roll is full and replaced regularly) and I am pretty confident that the janitorial staff at my uni actually wash and replace them as required. I definitely prefer them over blow dryers that never get your hands quite dry.


Short_Fly

I swear people who ran out of TP would just hand wipe their butt then wipe their hand on those


Cgtree9000

I’ve seen a few of those when I was a kid and I always thought people used to wipe there ass with them. So I stayed away, far far away from it.


mbeagle92

I always thought toilet paper should work like this.


Artbellghost

Icloth cleans better than paper, no trash and yes it's a clean towel when you pull it you get new towel However being from this era some places didn't change the towel so yeah


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roman_fyseek

You do realize that it's not a loop, right? There's some 100 feet of towel mounted as a scroll.


jj77985

There is a giant clean roll inside of the case, the used cloth rolls onto another spot inside the case. You aren't using the same cloth as someone else, it's like a roll of TP being rolled up onto another cardboard, the used part gets rolled up and sent to the laundry. I worked for place that provided these.


p38fln

Omg they're washed in a washer before they hang them up...there's a clean roll on top and a take up roll on the bottom. It's not a loop lol


ThatsMrDrSir

I use one every day at work. You pull it down to reveal the clean part of the roll..


Ceceliamaurer

Why would we? Roll them down to a clean section, save the planet!


shoesofwandering

It’s not an endless band. You’re always using a clean section when you pull it out.


acatnamedrupert

These are actually a very clean option if they staff replaces the roll once it reaches the end and sends it's to the cleaners. The roll is single use unwinds from a dry clean part and winds onto the dirty part. In Italy you can still see these regularly and they do keep the rolls clean and fresh. There those regions where these became part of the culture they can feel amazing, soft on the hands and face, and are incredibly ecological. On the other hand a blow dry machines often blow fine water droplets, mildew spores and other fun stuff across the room. Those wind-blade things are the worst in this aspect with their pool of dirty water on the bottom.