I would bet good money that both door handles are equally filthy, by nature of it being a school. Kids are walking talking germ incubators. We all are, but kids especially.
Interesting. It's a constant reminder
Submitted 5 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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archonet@lemy.lol 5 months ago
kryptonidas@lemmings.world 5 months ago
The bottom one might be dirtier, with kids specifically wanting to “soil” it because that is “so funny”. And the group that does wash their hands don’t want to touch “the dirty one”.
WraithGear@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I would argue that the bottom would be dirtier, not because of kids reflex to be contrarian, but because human nature pushes people to prioritize themselves even at the cost of society. They may not wash THEIR hands, but they are not going to touch other dirty peoples handle.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
I’d put good money on your take.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Poo-casso
This got me.
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
Here’s an idea:
The sinks should be outside the bathroom.
That way, you can wash your hands after touching the dirty door, and everyone in the hallway can see if you don’t wash your hands.kandoh@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Are the doors even necessary? Just put a sharp left turn tiny hallway for privacy, blocks out everything but sound - most public bathrooms have them already
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
blocks out everything but sound
You’ve never heard the sounds my coworker makes on the toilet.
Verserk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
The sound is the worst part, I wish the bathroom in my office had music or something so I don’t have to hear every detail of whomever is disemboweling themselves in the next stall over.
Shapillon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The smell tho.
Plus school bathrooms tend to be dirty.
pool_spray_098@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I still don’t want to touch a handle where it’s guaranteed that people who just took a shit without washing their hands have touched, even if I’m about to wash my hands right after.
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
Cause they trap disabled people inside the bathroom.
JenTheWyvern@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That…makes sense to me. Not only would you need one set of sinks, you wouldn’t need to go into the shit and piss room if you just want to wash your hands.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If they’re going to break the rule about washing hands they’re not going to follow the door handle one either.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ll just lick both handles to be safe
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months ago
⬆️ Found patient zero, everyone.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 months ago
I recall there was a story from Predictably Irrational where the experimenters were trying to figure out how to get participants to avoid double-dipping tortilla chips.
Along with a control condition, they tried setting up a sign that said “NO DOUBLE DIPPING”, and I think they also tried paying people or getting them to promise not to double dip, stuff like that.
The thing they found most successful was to set up two bowls of dip: One labeled “For double-dipping”, and one “Not for double-dipping”.
They supposed that once they had to do a physical action where they sorted themselves according to “what kind of person they are”, they wanted all of their visible actions to be consistent with that.
Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Interesting experiment but who the fuck doesn’t just eat the whole chip at once?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Restaurant style” chips are enormous. Far too big to shove in your mouth at once.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Double dippers, apparently.
nieminen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I like a big salsa to chip ratio, so I break the chip into smaller pieces (usually 2) and dip/scoop each one. No double dip, good salsa to chip ratio.
psivchaz@reddthat.com 5 months ago
It’s been a long time but I recall a study featured on Freakonomics where a national park tried different signs to get people to not steal rocks. Signs like, “Taking rocks hurts the ecosystem” and “Taking rocks is a crime.”
The only effective one was something along the lines of, “A million people visit this park every year and leave things alone.” Suggesting that telling people to do the right thing is less effective than peer pressure.
kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 months ago
On the one hand, it’s depressing because people seem to care more about fitting in than being rational.
But on the other hand, it’s reassuring that we’re so eager to solve things collaboratively that we’re willing to set aside our own personal opinions.
Our relentless obsession with social connection will either be the thing that kills us or the thing that saves us. And I honestly have NO idea which.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I still wouldn’t trust either handle. People are assholes.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There are some folk who I went to school with I can see rubbing their assholes on the handles because “fuck you, you’re a sign not a cop”. I’m sure there’s a name for that disorder.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Oppositional Defiance Disorder, I have a coworker like this. It’s exhausting.
8000gnat@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Literally scrolling while pooping at work and someone came in, did their thing and left without hand washing. These idiots walk among us.
aiden@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I see it happen all too often. People suck.
affiliate@lemmy.world 5 months ago
there should be a guy in every bathroom who body slams you into the pavement if you don’t wash your hands for 20 seconds with warm soap and water
Sea_pop@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Per the CDC
Use your preferred water temperature – cold or warm – to wash your hands. Warm and cold water remove the same number of germs from your hands. The water helps create soap lather that removes germs from your skin when you wash your hands. Water itself does not usually kill germs; to kill germs, water would need to be hot enough to scald your hands.
affiliate@lemmy.world 5 months ago
this whole time i had no idea… thank you. i’ll update the suggestion in light of this new information
IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
This problem is solved by having paper towels (air dryers suck) and placing the paper towel trash bin next to the door so that you can use your hand-full of towels as a barrier between the handle and throw the towels away as you leave.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Or motorized door, or no door at all, this clearly isn’t a house, just have an S shaped passage. Voila, way fewer sick people on your building. It quickly pays for itself.
jdeath@lemm.ee 5 months ago
it seems like a good idea to me, but my question is would it lead to more poop particles circulating more widely throughout the building than without a door? ig airports, etc seem fine with it so it must not be a big problem?
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
also a foot handle
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Me: grabs both handles
vrek@programming.dev 5 months ago
Schrodinger’s washed hands
Sabata11792@ani.social 5 months ago
I don’t believe there is good in human nature, so I’m going to remain grossed out by both handles.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Embrace the evil, double-dip both handles
Sabata11792@ani.social 5 months ago
Double-dick both handles?
superkret@feddit.org 5 months ago
They should put 110V through the top one.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
first off, the clean handle should be on top. the nasty handle shouldn’t drip onto the clean handle.
second, as you are leaving a public bathroom, reach under your shirt/jacket (hopefully something untucked. ) use the fabric as a barrier for your hand and grab the handle with the front of the shirt/jacket.
original_reader@lemm.ee 5 months ago
But now you have dry urine smeared over your sleeves.
Better than on my hands, but…
Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
i didnt say sleeves. the underside of the bottom of your shirt. or go to a haberdashery and get yourself a hanky.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I just open it with my feet. I helps with keeping by thighs flexible too.
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I almost exclusively flush with my feet in public bathrooms
Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 5 months ago
What is there to drip? Y’all pissing all over your hands or something?
Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Someone who’s too fuckin lazy to wash their hands isn’t gonna take the time to read anything I’m public.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Like a JRPG, the choice is an illusion.
The real answer is to use a paper towel to open the door.
SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Since 2020 I haven’t touched a door handle in public. Because that’s when I realized just how backward some people are (I’d managed to avoid learning that prior). I wrap my sweatshirt around my hand to open them, now. In the summer I have paper towels in my pocket.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Paper towel, always. No paper towels? That’s why you enter the bathroom with a napkin in your pocket.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I use paper towel and also use hand sanitizer to make sure no germs get through. I fucking hate public bathrooms.
Kalkaline@leminal.space 5 months ago
I saw shit smeared on a bathroom door the other day, hand dryers only, no paper towels, it was so gross.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Which handle is for opening the door with my (washed) prehensile pp?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
At least I know the top one is sanitized.
Draegur@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I like public restroom doors that have a handle like protrusion for your foot
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just get the foot door opener thing I love those things
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
My germaphobia is so triggered
🤮
I’d have to use a paper towel all the time, to open doors, and also use hand sanitizer to clean my hands. I’m that germaphobic.
I hate public bathrooms. HATE in bold
FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Based on the differences in color for each handle it makes me wonder if the one for not washing your hands is a different material. Maybe an antimicrobial metal like a copper alloy.
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Instructions unclear, genitalia stuck in the lower door handle. Send HALP
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This could easily be because the top handle is in a more convenient spot so everyone uses it and nobody uses the bottom one, I can’t think of a reason someone would be so inconsiderate as to not wash there hands but so altruistic that they go out of there way to use the inferior objectively worse handle. And human nature would say nobody is going to care about the slightly inconvenient option after it gets boring, don’t believe me? Then why do so many people choose the convenient less boring option of not washing their hands?
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 months ago
The problem with this layout is that the shit from the top handle will drop onto the lower one, thus contaminating it as well.
Aeri@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think the two handles were just put in at different times, or are made of different materials.
If the top handle was “dirty” the discoloration would be localized around the gripping point
undefinedValue@programming.dev 5 months ago
This is a game theory scenario:
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I’m too lazy too lazy to wash my hands or don’t feel it’s necessary. Upon encountering this door I see both handles and decide to follow their instructions and open the door for unwashed hands. My hands are now unspeakably filthy as filthy people following the signs have accumulated a ton of germs on this handle. I get sick.
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I was my hands, follow the signs and use the washed handle. Unbeknownst to me some unwashed game theorists decided that obviously the handle for washed hands would be cleaner so they used it without actually washing their hands first. It’s now also filthy.
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I didn’t wash my hands, I don’t give a fuck about signs, use the one most convenient for me.
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 5 months ago
My hands are now unspeakably filthy as filthy people following the signs have accumulated a ton of germs on this handle. I get sick.
Do you normally get sick when you touch a bathroom door handle? It’s not like people choose not to wash their hands because there’s a separate handle for it.
undefinedValue@programming.dev 5 months ago
Depends what you do next and how much germs or on the handle. Worst case scenario someone shat themselves and tried to clean themselves up and contaminated their hands. Didn’t wash up or didn’t wash enough and left fecal matter on the handle. You then exit the bathroom and go eat a burger or some finger food so as to transfer germs directly to the food entering your system.
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And the reason school bathrooms can’t just have kitchen doors that you can back into to open from either direction?
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 months ago
Newer bathrooms here just don’t have doors. Just to right angles. Can’t see in from the outside, but don’t need to touch a door handle.
It’s perfect.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is probably a weird cropping, but I like to think this doors pushed open since there are no hinges on this side.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Real boomer energy on these signs
lowleveldata@programming.dev 5 months ago
what if I do the opposite
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
You shouldn’t be touching any handles upon exiting a bathroom.
The door should be push to exit, so you can open it by pushing with your elbow.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I prefer airport style bathroom entry and exits … there is no door, just a walkway the gives privacy to the entry so that you can’t see inside from the hallway.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Takes up more space though
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
That might not be up to fire standards demanding doors in the hallway to be opened to the inside of the room.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Is that a thing?
Feels like something door closer makes irrelevant.
You’d think fire could would require exit always be push, because that makes evacuating smoother.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 5 months ago
I’m pretty sure there’s regulations against that, so you’re not pushing a door into a random passer by as you’re exiting the bathroom.
The foot hook handle thing is my preferred method.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
I’m fond of the paper method. Paper barrier to protect me from the gross handle.
danc4498@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think the door opening into a main area is not ideal. Like a restaurant with somebody carrying food having to serve a bathroom door that opened unexpectedly.
boreengreen@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Or foot