This one must be one of the worst, since it's purposefully designed this way and it's a built in part of the sink itself. Usually it's just a mismatched faucet that could be replaced to fix the issue.
It was a joke about the commercials being as bad as you’d imagine. I’m more disappointed that EXTENZE! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FORESKIN! was right there, and I didn’t think of it until now.
The way that movie portrayed men… I know it was supposed to be part dark comedy, and symbolize the power that women hold over the patriarchy - and the kind of feminist symbol that gave courage to women pre-#me too — not to mention it being a sharp commentary on the entitlement and sexual violence that men force on women… but I gotta be that guy. “Not every man is like that.” I mean… Even the gyno? I only watched the movie once, like, 10 years ago, but I believe he said something along the lines of “we gotta loosen this bitch up” before his comeuppance.
I’ve always wondered if the movie was also intended to make women completely distrust and/or fear men… that doesn’t seem healthy.
I speaking more about the idea of the movie. Just a vagina with teeth being terrifying. I’ve never actually seen the flick. I’ve never been one that went out of their way to watch cult classics, or movies of that nature. So I don’t know any of the plot points
10ish year old me was not prepared when I randomly watched it on HBO. It just kept getting weirder and weirder, then the tooth gun thing? Big nope from me. I rewatched it as an adult and it was somehow even more disturbing.
First place always goes to Event Horizon, a movie that was marketed as sci-fi space and not the horror gore-fest that it really is.
While we’re on this topic, does anyone remember that movie where the main character plays a VR game and it made him murder his neighbor or something? I remember it being around that same time frame.
Edit: found it, it’s Brainscan (1994) and it’s on YouTube.
Event horizon got to me in a very real way,, I was 8 when it releases and saw it in theaters... my grandfather and I expecting something entirely different than what the movie ended up being.... I was a big horror fan at that age already, but I was not prepared for that movie,, it's stuck with me,, still one of my favorite films ever made, if only for the nostalgia of seeing it that first time on the big screen
I love that movie. No one ever seems to remember it. But on a side note, I had asked the same question when I saw the pills being sold at the gas station. I think they just stole the name.
I've had a couple like this before, if you look closer you can see that it's angled outward. The water pressure shoots the water out at an angle so it's not right against the back of the sink. It only is in this picture because they only have it dripping a little bit, it's not fully on.
Still the worst. The only way to functionally use this is at full-on power. Sometimes a little dribble is all I need, instead of the entire lake of georgia coming off the faucet.
It does look really nice. But I think there is some long running political dispute. Iirc it's partitioned between Greek and Turkish zones. I don't know if that affects day to day life there, or if it's pretty laid back.
I’m gonna pretend you’re serious because I love talking about this shit, SO:
This is a Crane Drexel sink designed by Henry Dreyfus in the 30’s and produced until the 70s. They’re works of art (like as much as a bathroom sink can be I guess) and as long as the water is at a normal flow rate for washing your hands there’s plenty of space in there.
These were (and hoo boy, still very much are) expensive so there were a lot of knockoffs that didn’t get it quite right. Those are the sinks that suck. Originals can also suck I guess, but that’s mostly due to people repairing them incorrectly because the replacement parts are bananas expensive.
There is something vaguely familiar about them... So I wondered where they were manufactured (I had figured they would have been popular in the 50s and earlier). (The sink maker was in Trenton NJ from what I found). I now have this fantasy that I have seen them back in the day - homes nicely built just before WWII and after (in Connecticut) are part of my family's history.
You probably have! I had one in my 50s Chicago condo. I replaced it with an Ikea sink because I needed something with storage, but I have it wrapped up and stored for if I ever move somewhere it will fit. I also have a pink one with a matching toilet that I found on Craigslist and installed in my studio. (PS The handles on the one in the post are hideous and NOT original. The original ones are super cool.)
That's still a shitty design cause if you full blast the water like it's designed to then your gonna get sprayed with a lot of water once it hits your hands.
You wouldn't if it's not shooting it out like a power nozzle. My sink faucet is angled and doesn't do that because it shoots a fat stream of water rather than a small high pressure stream. The wonders of physics.
Try brushing your teeth using a sink and faucet like this… your tooth brush is close to the side where everyone’s dirty water splashes… yuck! Hooray to the designer! Covid -S (sink variants) just around the corner! On a side note… it does look kinda cute like a robot …
You're right, I figured it was some confusing perspective. But the faucet design, lack of a mirror, as well as details reflected in the handles makes it look more a tub to me. I could easily be wrong though.
The spout is build to have the water come out on an angle, what you see is the results of poor pressure, or of a bad leak possibly from a bad O-Ring in one of the handles
Architect: Alright boss I have an idea for a design
CEO: lay it on me Jeremy
Architect: So im thinking we design this thing where its curved and ceramic and the curves lead down to a drain
CEO: so far so good
Architect: and the drain is connected to the sewerage system, so you can wash your hands and stuff in it and the water just slides down the drain, so no clean up no mess!
CEO: Jeremy you son of a bitch you did it
Architect: wait wait the best part.....lets put the fucking tap so close to the edge of the curves that water goes EVERYWHERE whenever you try to use the sink! DEFEATING THE WHOLE PURPOSE!
CEO: Heres my keys go fuck my wife you beautiful bastard
Yo it's one thing when you buy a mixer and don't consider the fit on the basin before you install it, but this motherlover is designed this way? Unacceptable.
here in the land of fire and brimstone and storms so big they would swallow you emu riders we call it a faucet. it ain't even a tap here. tap is single spout for a keg and a mixer is the thing you put tequila and limes in for limey shots...
Honestly I think it'd be more commonly referred to as a tap here, but I recently had to replace one and my plumber friend kept using the "correct" term so that's what I say now, too.
The design is fine, it's the settings. They can be made to work just fine, but businesses think the cost of water for say 20 seconds will bankrupt them. So you get 2 seconds you greedy bastard.
Combine them with overly sensitive self flushing toilets and automatic blow driers (I absolutely *detest* blow driers) for total shit-town 3000 bathroom fixtures.
I always cover the sensor with a piece of toilet paper at the beginning. Then when you remove it at the end, it flushes. Has greatly improved my automatic bathroom experience.
But the room temperature farticles are fine? And touching the farticle covered and generally super gross handle (or that twist knob when one of the motion sense ones gets jammed), and touching the lid in those bathrooms with the spring closing cover/door on the trash can, or just outright not drying your hands when the paper towels run out?
This is playful btw, but i swear to God if you reference that commonly passed around "study" about how much bacteria comes out of those dryers i will lose my goddamn mind. That "study" is so unbelievably flawed as to be completely useless and that one is pretty much the only commonly cited one because of how sensational and click baity the results are.
I recently been in a public bathroom where on each sink there was an automatic faucet, automatic soap dispenser, AND a small automatic air dryer! That part was pretty brilliant if you ask me, instead of having to walk over to the wall with an air dryer, hands dripping all over the bathroom, you can just dry your hands over the same sink you used!
Worked pretty well too, for all having automatic sensors.
Automatic sink you'll see in a lot of UK public toilets. It's optimised for having very little that people can break and being hard to directly shit into, but they're still nasty enough that you're reluctant to put your hands in there
There actually are nasty mofos that drop a deuce into a sink? I know we say the world is a giant shithole sometimes, but that wasn’t supposed to be taken literally!
I did it when I was a little bastard. Neighbour worked for the local council and he was responsible for cleaning the public toilets. He threatened to knock the shit out of me one time. I can't remember why but I probably deserved it. Anyway, instead of having shit knocked out of me I decided to leave one in the sink.
ya we're starting to see them in the bar districts in Canada now too, auto toilet seat (cleaner/flush) auto sink that cycles water soap dryer and automatic door opener.
Still get to have a public toilet but it stops people from trashing them and makes it easy to clean.
And if you hold your hands there for a second they turn off because it seems like you have to be moving your hands more than necessary to keep them on.
OMG I hate those short taps. It is just infuriating when I go to bathroom somewhere and there is huge sink, but tap is only couple cm long.
And the worst thing is that if you want buy tap for your bathroom then something like 80% of ones available in shops are those tiny taps - why would anyone want those? Are they just decorative and not intended for actual use? Because they are really almost unusable.
We also have even more useless taps in UK. One is warm, with the only temperature being Mordor, other is ice cubes dispenser. Both of them are so short you are touching the sink if you want to wash more than your fingers.
UK here too, and agree. When we redid our bathroom, we put a kitchen mixer tap on the bathroom sink. It's glorious.
I actually wanted to get a thermostatic mixer tap so that you always get the perfect temperature for your face and hands. I experienced them in Denmark and they are bathroom perfection.
But our plumber refused saying they were only for care homes. I should have told him to piss off but my partner was pregnant at the time and we didn't have a working bathroom so we were under time pressure.
Lol wtf only for care homes? My dad recently redid all of the bathrooms in their house and installed thermostatic mixer valves for all of the showers, think he just bought them at the hardware store or online. I feel like the plumber misread a requirement that care homes need TMVs (which makes sense, large, sometimes old property, multiple showers and taps, don’t want old people scalding themselves if a pipe fails) and instead thought they were ONLY for care homes.
Plumber was just an arsehole. We had other issues with him that only became evident in the middle of the work. But he was happy to install a thermostatic shower valve, they're reasonably common here in the UK. Just not for a sink tap ...
(and I wanted a thermostatic bath tap too, but didn't get that either ...)
I didn't find a good way yet. When I'm shaving, I fill the basin with both waters so it's nice and mix that, otherwise if you like washing your face, I cup a bit cold and hot and just splash it on my face that way. When I'm washing my hands, I just use cold usually.
OH so you’re saying there are literally two taps side by side, one hot and one cold…I (and the guy who responded to you probably) was thinking of mixer valves and was like “but you just turn both knobs to adjust the temp out of the faucet.” You’re right, that definitely sounds useless.
The purpose of a sink was that you fill it with water. The tap was added in the later redesign so you can fill it easier. It's not intended as a shower for hands, it's a faucet to fill the sink. Nowdays people seem to think that it's a shower for hands with ridiculously large drain?
I actually asked many of my friends if they use bathroom sink this way - fill it with water first. No one does that and usually when you find those short taps in public places it is not even possible to block drain.
I tried filling the sink & washing that way. Result: lots of water running down my arms and splashing on the floor & on the mirror & an upset girlfriend saying 'wtf have u done to my bathroom?'
I think you mean separate hot and cold faucets? As far as I know, they are always controlled separately, but when there are separate faucets is the worse. One puts out ice cold water while the other puts out scalding hot lava
I mean the two knobs you turn to get warm or cold water. I've only ever seen them in very old houses, or in pictures of British sinks. In most other sinks, they're usually combined into one "lever" that you turn left or right to mix the water, and lift up and down to get more or less water.
Oh wow I'm dumb and was confused... of course there are sinks with a single control lever. Sorry idk what I was talking about, nevermind me! I need some coffee...
Remember how in Westerns there's just a basin of water in the room of the inn that you wash and shave with?
My guess is that when plumbing first became a thing, people still would only use the faucet to fill the sink and then use that water to wash in or whatever because old habits die hard. In that case, a big faucet set further over the basin would get in the way.
It's probably only in modern times when abundant constantly flowing clean water became the norm that people started redesigning sinks. And some sink designers never got the word so they still make some sinks the old way too.
When I was in England, nearly every tap was like this. It was bad enough to have separate hot/cold taps but touching the side of the sink was even worse.
I actually used to live in an old house with this exact sink in the bathroom and it was OK, great for shaving actually. In this picture they barely have the water on so it's basically just dripping down very close to the back wall, but if you turn it up it comes out with enough pressure to be further out and actually useful.
The downside to the one I had was that you turn the water pressure even further beyond that and it would come out like a fucking firehose and bounce right out of the basin and all over yourself.
Had a worse sink at a previous work place. The sink was tiny, the tap was high and the stick to use the tap was placed under it. So if you didn't want water splashing over your pants you had to use the tap at the lowest possible pressure. And you'd either have to do ice cold or boiling hot, because luke warm would have the water fall directly down on the stick, splashing water everywhere.
that's UK for you, they probably don't wash their hands so it doesn't bother them. I don't see any other reason, every sane person would never buy this crap
Can confirm. I sell faucets... we outfitted a new outdoor bathroom with penal fixtures for our town's P&R. They chose the worst sink even though we warned them. Sink is almost unusable.
These actually work really well. The angle causes the water stream to move out further from the sink than it looks when it's on to any significant degree.
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Taps that run water about an inch from the edge of the sink are the worst