Grrrrr... Dyson hand dryers

[MantaRayBay]

AIBU to want to ban them all? My case:

1. They don't get your hands dry, you just end up having to wipe them on your jeans anyway.

1. They are unhygienic. They are so powerful they blow droplets of water from other people's hands onto you - and you know most people don't know how to wash their hands properly (proven by microbiologists)

1. They are loud and made my toddler cry .

What's wrong with paper towels that can then be recycled? Probably more eco friendly - uses less electricity.

Rant over.

The Blade ones? I get lovely dry hands from them. DD is over her terror of them as well

I really hate them also. The ones at my old workplace had a stupid sticker on them saying they 'literally wipe the moisture away'.

Nope. They don't. They blow it away. They don't wipe the moisture.

They also freak DS out in a big way. He is autistic and sensitive to noise and it is a real problem when going to toilets in cafes etc. Dyson driers seem to operate at a particular frequency that sends him into an utter meltdown. WE may not use them, but odds on someone is going to the toilet the same time as us and uses them.

They blow the skin on the back of my hands about so it resembles a shaved scrotum

I love them. I coo when I use them.

cheesy why don't you use the disabled toilet? Autism is a disability and you are perfectly entitled to use them to prevent him freaking out over a hand dryer!

I like them, much more effective than the old style ones. Never had any issues with splashing.

I think they are great.

Yes is horrible to see handbacks ruffling like the sea in a long shot by the BBC Nature Outside Broadcast Unit. Almost expect David Attenborough voiceover explaining that just below the surface is a pod of Orca pursuing a humpback whale mama and her baby

I like them. I love the skin ripples.

I LOVE them. I must make sure never to closely observe the skin on my hands as I enjoy the lovely bladey air slicing the water off.

They blow the water from my hands to my cuffs. Plus they get very grubby in the bottom which is gross.

Bring back those rolly towel things. Hygienic and not wasteful and work properly!

Thanks Crohnically . :) TBH it never really occurred to me.We will use the disabled toilet if one is free (mainly at Costa coffee which is one of our few regular spots) but not if there is a radar key as we do not have one.

It would help certainly. I already very carefully strategise and 'manage' our outings in public as DS finds things pretty confronting.

I always ask before using a hand dryer if there are children about - I wish everyone did.

Why do they position them so far from the sinks so there is always a wet patch on the floor ?
And why do we get a ratio of about 5:1 sinks to dryers, when it takes longer to dry hands than to wash them?

YANBU. I say ban hand dryers altogether, they're unhygienic, and the dyson ones are particularly gross - DH says that in the men's loo you often find pubes at the bottom where your hands nearly touch

I get unreasonably cross when I go in a public loo and there isn't a paper towel option

I love them.

I don't mind them as such, they are efficient, but they've put them in at work and taken the paper towels and bins away - if you want to wash your face, or chuck out laddered tights, you're stuffed.

I dislike how old my hands look whilst using them but pretend that they are momentarily sky diving

Good, glad I'm not alone then.

Chuckling at shaved scrotum and skydiving hands!

Staring in horror at the skin on the back of my hands flapping about like washing in a gale is not flattering. But it does get them dry.

Agree with others re the pools of water that lie below them and the rank gunge that gathers at the bottom, I much preferred hand towels. Although it's difficult to recycle them as some people will blow their nose on them which in my workplace means they won't recycle anything in the bag if it's touched a snotty one.

I like them. They get my hands dry and tbh I think that if someone is wiping their arse and getting wee and poo bits on them then they probably won't bother with even a cursory wash!

rank gunk

Faeces. Urine. Bits of blood and vaginal goo. Thrushy bits.

beemybaby how would they know? Surely on that basis you'd never recycle anything because it might have some germs on?

I rather suspect that they never use much mixed recycling because not everyone cleans it first.