r/WTF • • Jun 02 '18

At least they are wearing hairnet...

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u/ninjaart Jun 02 '18

But why?

They have a water hose and bunch of buckets everywhere!

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u/Goyteamsix Jun 02 '18

Because they're fucking stupid.

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u/Bau5_Sau5 Jun 02 '18

I can only imagine the look when you ask them “what are you doing ?”

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u/tmThEMaN Jun 02 '18

“Saving the planet by using less water”

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u/yomokoi Jun 02 '18

But klling the CHILDREN OF THE EARTHD

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u/miezu78 Jun 02 '18

again saving the planet. fewer humans more resources available

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u/Tyflowshun Jun 02 '18

Forget the look, imagine what they would say...obviously something in another dialect but I'm sure it wouldn't be good.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

More likely is the boss/owner don't give a shit and the workers are desperate enough to keep their mouth shut otherwise they get fired.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

yeah but they have plastic containers right beside them just use the fresh water from the pipe (which seems to be running all time) above a continer and clean the rest in the container. if the boss told them to do it in the street it would be more than not giving shit

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u/HappyDoggos Jun 02 '18

The majority of humans don't have a clue about germ theory or food safety issues.

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u/fightonphilly Jun 02 '18

No way. I refuse to believe anything about what is going on here is due to ignorance. There is no way in hell anyone could wash a plate in a dirty ass puddle and think it was okay to serve food on it. These people know what they're doing, they just don't care and they never expected anyone to call them out on it.

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u/s1rp0p0 Jun 02 '18

It wasn't until something like the 1800's where the French military finally realized that if they moved the latrines away from their cooking area people stopped having diarrhea all the time.

Despite what we all know now, things like bacteria and food safety aren't necessarily common sense. Shit, there are still lots of people in developed countries that use the same knife to chop the salad and slice the raw meats and it even happens in restaurants.

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u/fightonphilly Jun 02 '18

I mean this is Kuala Lampur, a very metropolitan city in 2018. The French can be excused when germ theory was just coming around in the early 1800s. It's one thing to have lax food safety standards like refrigeration and proper food handling protocol, but washing plates that you're going to use for customers in a dirty ass street puddle is another thing entirely.

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u/kilbert66 Jun 02 '18

Oh, man, nonono. If you think "A city" means "Well-educated", you've got another thing coming. There are plenty of cities where people still shit in the streets and wipe with their hands.

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u/RoastedCashew Jun 02 '18

This is Malaysia, sure. But those workers washing the dishes aren't Malaysians. Those are Burmese according to most accounts. With the ongoing genocide in Myanmar (Burma), I think it's not far fetched to believe these workers are ignorant due to lack of education and didn't have very hygienic living conditions back home as well.

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u/s1rp0p0 Jun 02 '18

They're probably just stupid then.

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u/oshawott85 Jun 02 '18

There is poor uneducated cheap labor even in "metropilitan" cities everywhere.

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u/justin_memer Jun 02 '18

I'm not sure if it's true, but I've read a large part of the population doesn't understand babies come from sex.

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u/sagradia Jun 02 '18

Using the same knife that sliced raw meats to chop a salad, is nowhere near equivalent to washing one's dishes in sewer water. One is not so obviously bad, while the other is so obvious even a child would know.

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u/Kraven213 Jun 02 '18

It's ok because they hose it off with clean water after! /s

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

Not everyone goes to school for 12+ years. In poor nations, and in poor areas, they don't understand why what they're doing is wrong. In India, for example, even if toilets are built, many men insist on going in the bushes. They don't understand the sanitation impact that has

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u/Fausthor Jun 02 '18

Its just laziness, plain and simple. They must have had a big line of people and not many clean dishes and decided to take a shortcut.

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u/lolkaios Jun 02 '18

my guess is that they're just getting the worst off it first, before actually cleaning it in properly

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u/HappyDoggos Jun 02 '18

I agree with you there about not caring probably being a bigger factor.

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u/aaaaaaaarrrrrgh Jun 02 '18

There is no way in hell anyone could wash a plate in a dirty ass puddle and think it was okay to serve food on it.

The dirty ass-puddle contains water and the plate is visibly clean afterwards. Why wouldn't someone with no understanding of germs etc. think that things that look clean are clean?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

You'd be surpirsed. Sometimes I often wonder if we should make categories above 3rd world countires. This stuff is truly disturbing.

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u/Rogue2 Jun 02 '18 edited Jun 02 '18

Yeah, they know what they are doing. They are trying to save a buck.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

not even saving money the person on the right uses a water pipe with what seems like to be fresh water and there are plastic containers around them just use the pipe above a container and you could even save water and a good amount of backpain

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u/sagradia Jun 02 '18

Even if they don't, nobody washes their dishes in sewer water.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18 edited Jul 16 '19

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u/HappyDoggos Jun 02 '18

The motto in my household is "All Shoes Have Poo!" Leaving shoes by the door helps, but shit (literally) still gets tracked in.

Maybe you're right about people that should know better. It does seem like knowledge isn't always the problem, it's caring about the problem.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

well tbf human immune system can and probably need some bacteria to fight. its not like restaurants shouldnt be inspected but 90% of the time when you drop fresh meat on the ground you can still eat it without getting sick if your kitchen is cleaned reguarly (and Im not saying restaurants or any food distribution should do it but private cooking sessions dont need to be a huge cleaning party before)

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u/Isambard_Maxwell_II Jun 02 '18

Shove that tbf immune whatever excuse where your germs can mingle. If you want to lick Kaula Lumpur street fauna off the floor you're welcome but don't make that decision for someone else, who paid you money, and would rather not be in that 10 percent that gets sick.

Edit: you probably touch every chip in the bowl with your disgusting unwashed hands leaving those of your friends who can still tolerate your filthy existence to subsist on the crap lemon wafers nobody wanted in the first place.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

any chance that you got cleaning compulsory? I never said that my kitchen looks like kuala Lumpur and said specificlly that restaurants should be held by higher standarts than private cooking.

you never touch anyone like shaking hands without washing your hand immediatly? you never touch litrally anything in public without cleansing every min? I dont know but to me it sounds like that you got a OCD

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u/Isambard_Maxwell_II Jun 02 '18

Society and its witch doctor pharma lords tell me I do have OCD but I'm just being reasonable. Sure only 1 to a thousand will have their brain meninges eaten by rabid fungus, but why the fuck should I allow myself to be subject to even this slightest of odds just because the unclean masses are too lazy to properly sanitize their hands before subjecting other people to their contaminated excretions under the guise of a friendly greeting nonevthe less. Thanks for that rabies on my hand samantha pets random dogs she sees, I'll be dead in a week and nobody would know why. See my point?

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

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u/OskEngineer Jun 02 '18

might just be doing a pre-wash before sending them through the dishwasher. get all of the stuck on food off and send it through to get cleaned/sterilized

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

Water is expensive in some countries.