What Has Made You Laugh Today ?

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Doors ................

Toilet doors, in particular.
Why do loo doors from shops/pubs/etc open with a push?
So, when you've done your business in there and washed your hands, do the door to get out have to be pulled inwards using the handle?
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Mick F wrote: 19 Jan 2022, 7:48pm Doors ................

Toilet doors, in particular.
Why do loo doors from shops/pubs/etc open with a push?
So, when you've done your business in there and washed your hands, do the door to get out have to be pulled inwards using the handle?
I have always ( even pre covid ) avoided the hand dryers after washing in favor of toilet paper or similar if available cos you can use it as a barrier between your hand and the door handle so you don't have to touch someone else's pish. ( after you've dried your hands with same of course -- reuse recycle )

( as a side note covid was spread by hand dryers -- I told this to the boss and all dryers in the factory have been disconnected for two years now )
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oneglove wrote: 19 Jan 2022, 6:03pm Here On Windermere, I saw two ducks coordinate their mating ritual and Seal the good deed after 4 seconds. The glory of life and a quarter of whole meal crust for subsistence and preen.
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Mick F wrote: 19 Jan 2022, 7:48pm Doors ................

Toilet doors, in particular.
Why do loo doors from shops/pubs/etc open with a push?
So, when you've done your business in there and washed your hands, do the door to get out have to be pulled inwards using the handle?
The same reason almost all doors into rooms and buildings open inwards,external doors open inward so a wind can't get a hold of them and cause damage either to people or the door itself,it's then carried through internally,push to enter pull to exit.Corridors are a classic example,doors opening onto a corridor are potentially unsafe as someone could be passing carrying food hot drinks,etc when someone else is exiting a room off the corridor.
Obviously there are exceptions of course,there always is.
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Cowsham wrote: 19 Jan 2022, 8:01pm ........( as a side note covid was spread by hand dryers -- I told this to the boss and all dryers in the factory have been disconnected for two years now )
Something that hadn't heard of bfore and hadn't occured to me but logical when you think about it.
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Why do germs in lavatories make anybody laugh?
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thirdcrank wrote: 20 Jan 2022, 9:33am Why do germs in lavatories make anybody laugh?
Do they?
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I suppose they may have mistakenly thought they were on the "What does your head in?" thread
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reohn2 wrote: 20 Jan 2022, 8:55am
Mick F wrote: 19 Jan 2022, 7:48pm Doors ................

Toilet doors, in particular.
Why do loo doors from shops/pubs/etc open with a push?
So, when you've done your business in there and washed your hands, do the door to get out have to be pulled inwards using the handle?
The same reason almost all doors into rooms and buildings open inwards,external doors open inward so a wind can't get a hold of them and cause damage either to people or the door itself,it's then carried through internally,push to enter pull to exit.Corridors are a classic example,doors opening onto a corridor are potentially unsafe as someone could be passing carrying food hot drinks,etc when someone else is exiting a room off the corridor.
Obviously there are exceptions of course,there always is.
Why can't loo doors open both ways with a push?

The Queens Head up the road from here has recently been modernised. New loos for one thing.
Leave the bar area and push the door into the corridor leading to the ladies and gents.
The gents door is pulled to open, and after doing your business and washing and drying hands, you can push the door open to get out ....................... but to enter the bar area, you have to get hold of the handle to open the door.
Goodness knows who the unwashed - man or woman - last held that handle! :shock:

I can understand to a degree, because a pushed-open door could hit someone in the bar drinking!
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reohn2 wrote: 20 Jan 2022, 8:55am The same reason almost all doors into rooms and buildings open inwards,external doors open inward so a wind can't get a hold of them and cause damage either to people or the door itself,it's then carried through internally,push to enter pull to exit.Corridors are a classic example,doors opening onto a corridor are potentially unsafe as someone could be passing carrying food hot drinks,etc when someone else is exiting a room off the corridor.
Obviously there are exceptions of course,there always is.
I used to work in a set of buildings that had been designed the other way: all the doors, internal and external, opened 'out' towards the nearest route out. The idea was to shave off a few seconds when the building needed to be evacuated. (Several of the buildings were full of chemists so evacuations were presumably considered likely.)

Back on topic, what made me laugh today was seeing yet another YouTwitFace ad for a certain brand of waterproof sock. Clearly it has been noted that I visited their site last week; they don't cater for my size, but the not-quite-well-enough-targeted ads still soldier on in all their synthetic optimism. :)
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Re germs in pubs, Mrs thirdcrank used to work as a trainer for Age Concern, in the days when that charity's concerns included providing a really high standard of training. She obtained several qualifications including the highest standard in food hygiene. Needless to say, I learned quite a bit from her homework and one factoid was that snacks on pub bars - eg bowls of salted peanuts to make patrons even thirstier - were known to be breeding grounds for bacteria. It's not made me laugh, today or when I first heard it, but I don't seem to see them anymore. Perhaps it's something to do with pubs now displaying food hygiene certificates.
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thirdcrank wrote: 20 Jan 2022, 4:44pm Re germs in pubs, Mrs thirdcrank used to work as a trainer for Age Concern, in the days when that charity's concerns included providing a really high standard of training. She obtained several qualifications including the highest standard in food hygiene. Needless to say, I learned quite a bit from her homework and one factoid was that snacks on pub bars - eg bowls of salted peanuts to make patrons even thirstier - were known to be breeding grounds for bacteria. It's not made me laugh, today or when I first heard it, but I don't seem to see them anymore. Perhaps it's something to do with pubs now displaying food hygiene certificates.
It's not so much that they're breeding grounds, it's that several/ many people put their hands into them. One person's contaminated hands can then affect many other consumers.

It's often connected to poor hand hygiene after using toilets. It's not the average that matters... it's the worst.

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Mick F wrote: 19 Jan 2022, 7:48pmToilet doors, in particular.
Why do loo doors from shops/pubs/etc open with a push?
So, when you've done your business in there and washed your hands, do the door to get out have to be pulled inwards using the handle?
Yes, it's a problem

Much better to have automated doors or no doors at all, as in most motorway service stations and airports.

Of course we're now used to hand sanitising stuff being available just after you leave the area. It will be interesting to see if that persists.

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I fear I'm increasingly failing to make myself clear. As the discussion was about people emerging from pub lavatories, I wrongly assumed that people would make the connection with dirty mitts and bar snacks without spelling it out.
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Our GP is off on long term sick leave, or so we all thought. I told Swmbo that he would have been the ideal volunteer at the village coffee shop. Xtra cream with your coffee madam, no problem.
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