I’ll never forget the day in elementary school where I saw a kid casually put his mouth directly on the spout. Then it dawned on me: “There are probably others like him.”
Did you by chance grow up in Pawnee? relevant Parks and Recreation clip
Sounds like you were lucky then, because I remember elementary school too and probably every 5th kid did this on the regular. And have you ever dealt with the really young kids <6 years old? They'll ask for a boost, suck that spout like a teat, and let everything that they don't swallow run down their neck soaking their shirt, but they'll be hydrated.
No so much lucky - I’m just a kid that grew up with a diagnosed anxiety disorder. Good thing about an anxiety disorder is that you identify risks before everyone else. It’s like a shitty super power.
We had something like the first one when I was in high school. When I was a freshmen, I saw another student drop his pants, hop up on top of it, lower into the spout so it went ALL the way up his ass, reached around and turned the water on for a second, then lifted off and shot a wave of shit-water all over the basin/wall behind it, then hopped down and ran off giggling.
Yeah...
Haven't used a water fountain since.
How do I unlearn to read?
Edit: Solved!
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I'm afraid you actually unlearned to write. Are you sure you really can't read what I'm saying?
Elementary school librarians told me reading would open up my mind to new possibilities. They didn't specify what kind of possibilities.
There's always Reddit for that.:-P
..huh?
..what..?
Public high school in a sketchy area. You'll see some things.
I sincerely wish I didn't believe me either.
Not even remotely the same but in the 90's mcdonalds still had salt and pepper shakers on the tables. I knew a guy who loved throwing them in the bag when he got up from the table along with the ten straws he grabbed and wad of napkins. He really was under some serious financial stress in no way due to anything he had done. I refused to use the salt and pepper shakers at his house and he kept bugging me as to why. I told him he didn't want to know but he insisted. Finally I told him about the time I saw some kids going from table to table licking the tops of the shakers. He immediately threw them all away. Later they started to reappear and it was because he figured out at the first of the month they replaced them and the new one usually had the seal left on them.
Before you trash the guy for doing that. The guy made 80 grand one year and could barely afford food. All that money went to paying his wife's medical bills. She had grown up inside the boundary of a superfund site out in new mexico and had all kinds of tumors and other problems. It was called a pre existing condition and his insurance wouldn't pay for hardly anything. They finally divorced so she could get SSI. That was in the early 2000's. This country sucked then and it still sucks.Yeah no judgement for being frugal at McD's expense. 1) Fuck McD's, and 2) Do what to gotta do. There was a point in my life where I got meals from the condiment station at a college cafeteria. They had free ketchup, and a hot water dispenser thing for making tea, so I'd make 'tomato soup' by making myself a bowl of hot ketchup water. Couple handfuls of a single package saltines, and there's lunch. Life sucks when you can't afford anything, but it does make you become pretty creative when it comes to saving money.
This is a strong argument for bidets on public toilets
Do you like live in a version of Pawnee located in Texas?
I live in the cousin-fuckingly deep south, but prefer not to get more specific than that.
Jesus
Australia rejects your hierarchy.
Like cattle to the trough
And there's always one that some kid shoved a piece of mulch in so it sprays everywhere.
Oh yeah the fucking tanbark.
I work in the industry and I have no idea why anyone would use anything other than the EZH2O for indoors. The other ones aren't even any cheaper.
and at least on the EZH2O you can see the quality of the filter that hasn't been replaced since twas installed
For new construction, sure. There are lots of old units out there from before EZH2O was available and they just don't die quickly. There not cheap to replace if it's nonessential maintenance.
I do MEP design for commercial buildings in the US. If a job ever shows "EWC", I don't ask for specs, I assume the EZH2O until either the job goes out with that spec, or the client directly refuses to use that model.
Anything less, is uncivilized.
These things and kitchen sink blenders are the two most mysterious things for an European child watching US-Shows.
I at least understand the water fountains and experienced them a few times here and there but the sink blender waiting to chop your fingers is a total mystery.
Water fountains are a U.S. thing? Never knew that. Is just filling bottles at sinks more common in other countries? Do people not drink on the go as much?
There are some fountains like this in Airports and where the tapwater is pretty bad, but usually a public water fountain is an old fountain from the medieval times with some ornaments and stuff
This is the one from my home city
But they are only outside because on the inside you just fill your bottle in the bathroom
Unchilled Tab-Water and filling bottles in the bathroom. Some drinking fountains are publicly available but more of a novelty and none usually not inside of buildings.
I don't know about others, but getting hydrated isn't an issue here. It's rarely significant above 30°C even in summer (and if max 2 months) and our water in my city is of such "high quality" they bottle and sell it. (Aqua di Monaco).
Why don’t y’all have water fountains?
a class a few years ahead of me got one of the ezh2os as their senior gift. probably the most used senior gift I've ever seen, we were a small school and everyone used it every day. I think it hit 500,000 uses by the time I graduated a few years later
LMABF8 had the coldest water. I'm all for the EZH20 because I carry a bottle around with me and it's less likely to spread germs and causes less waste, but I feel like the water coming out of them is barely chilled. I like my water to be so cold it is borderline painful when I am drinking it.
Nothing hit as hard as coming out of gym class in high school and getting some fresh gulps of ice cold water from the LMABF8. Peak refreshment.
Hell yeah - you'd smash that bar & hear a industrial condenser turn on to supply you with artic cold water.
Fuck those top three germ spreaders.
Bottle filler is life.
I've seen the EZS8L with a spout on top for us bottle filling homies. 😎️
Yeah definitely, no pictures on the entire Internet of that though
lol
I dunno what they put in those newer buttons, but they feel so satisfying XD
*Chnk* oh hell ya here comes the water
Honestly — how is this not just simple stealth product placement?
I assume this meme was originally made by some hydro homie with a special interest, since it's not the type of product marketed to individuals.
The germaphobia in me really want a version that is activated by a pedal that you step on.
But then, I'd probably be too afraid of shared water fountains to begin with.
The bottle filler is activated by proximity. I think that's totally doable for the other part, too.
it's funny that I've seen all of these in real life, though I rarely ever used them due to the obvious hygiene issues
Weak.
I glory in my conquest of our communal bacteria.
Hell yeah, I'm a goddamned fortress by now. I shrug off everything but a multi pronged attack, no matter how sustained. Pretty much have to be badly under slept, kept in tight quarters, and exposed to something virulent.
My immune system is like an advanced alien race just crashing through whole galaxies and annihilating weaker species. As it should be.
I actually hate the EZH2O. When you go to drink it activates the bottle stream in the back and reduces the water pressure so you have to go down further to drink. Well when you do that the bottle stream turns off and the water pressure goes back to normal and you get blasted in the face full force. Reminds me of my college days.
Reminds me of my college days.
Getting blasted in the face full force?
Is this a sponsorred post?
If so @[email protected] what's the takeaway?
Big water fountain is targeting Lemmy.
They know their target demo, we're all hydrohomies here.
I'm a be real, I didn't know I needed to know about the models of water fountains I see in public spaces but now its tickled my autism and I just need to know more. Big water fountain got their money's worth I think...
Unless you are stuck in an all-day meeting with hundreds of stressed out, immunocompromised, most likely sick people all wanting to drink from the EZH2O/EZS8L pair next to the closet bathroom and there is a pair of VRCHDTL8SC down the hall and you are going on a two week Christmas vacation at the end of the meeting.
Then the VRCHDTL8SC is the boss.
EZH2O WHEEEEZE
The second one reminds me of elementary school because we had exactly that model.
I think we had the third, but I pretty distinctly remember there being a large metal "kachunk" bar like the ones they put on swinging fire doors. Maybe it wasn't this brand.
Yeah, as long as they change the filter. (Most places don't, and don't even know how to.)
Do people ever install these in their house? That might be cool actually lol
I don't know if there's a name for it, but I'm always fascinated to see people bring "public" stuff into their houses. Like a guy who turns his basement into an old diner, or maybe a mini-arcade with vending machines, etc. I saw one video where the person made their game room bathroom look like a public bathroom with stalls/urinals, multiple sinks, etc. It's eccentric and weird, but creative.
A water fountain would be cool too.
(Edit: how could I forget, AVGN building a mini video rental shop in his basement!)
My in-laws bought a house from a guy who was sort of a germophobe, and he had installed hand dryers in all the bathrooms plus in the kitchen. And not the modem AirBlade (or similar) hand dryers, but the old kind that blew an insultingly lukewarm stream of air in the general direction of your hands for 8 seconds before sputtering to a stop. It was weird and apparently the wiring was a complete fire hazard.
One thing I recommend along those lines: commercial soap dispensers in bathrooms. Doesn't cost that much, they're meant to take some abuse, hangs on the wall, and can go a year between refills.
The top 3 are all this.
The C in the first model name stands for "Colored"
So where do the white people drink from?
Do you have a source for this? I can't find anything confirming it.
edit: I found a spec sheet with a lot of details: https://www.elkayfiles.com/spec-sheets/spec12-59_vrchd(tl)(d-8).pdf
However, my phone, mobile browser and perhaps old eyes are not adequate to read the instances of "19" and "date" in the PDF to determine whether they agree with your claim. I'm very curious.
The first 3 pictures are the same
Ah, you've never used the LMABF8
LMABF8 spits straight ice water. Can't be beat.
Kind of interesting that these have been a thing in Europe. It's all just regular taps and the few ones I have seen weren't very popular.
I think it's probably because people in North America generally really like cold water. Virtually every restaraunt will serve all their drinks with ice cubes. I personally find ice-cold water be rather unpleasant, maybe except when it's 30°C outside. These water fountains will refrigerate the water before it's despensed and they have a solenoid to control the water flow, meaning it takes very little force to activate.
Oh, yeah we do. I love ice water even while shoveling snow.
Really what's the difference between the top 3? Other than buttons.
Model number
EZH20 sensors suck ass. Maybe I'm just going full boomer, but they waste a lot more water than the rest.
I have a 20% chance of getting no water out, 20% chance of it running for 3 minutes straight after I walked away, remaining% chance of it prematurely cutting off midway thru filling for 0 apparent reason at all.Genuinely curious as to how you're struggling with them. I've had them struggle with clear bottles, but putting aligning my hand holding the bottle with the sensor straightens everything out.
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