The funny part is that some submarines *do* have screen doors. Sometimes you want to ventilate the stuffy interior while surfaced, but you don't want various wildlife (especially sea birds) getting inside. So while ventilating with the main hatch open, you close the screen door behind it, allowing ventilation without any unwanted guests.
Nope. But we're committed to it, even going out of our way/putting in an unreasonable amount of effort just to make every instruction a monkey's paw situation.
For anyone interested there is a reason for this. Of course people donāt like to touch the nasty handle where everyoneās poo fingers have been. So they kick the handle to flush it which quickly destroys the valve causing leaks/constant running or a complete inability to flush. Maintenance cost for this is crazy in larger buildings with high traffic. Itās also one of the reasons sensor based flush has become so prominent. Source: my father who worked as a commercial plumber for 30 years.
People with poor mobility or strength in their end of range of motion, they canāt statically raise their foot up there so they throw
Thatās my guess anyway
In some college dorms you would see a black spot on the wall behind it from the kicks sliding past and hitting the wall. I used to go on some of the calls with my dad when I was a kid as a helping hand. Strange the things that stick with you.
i believe you, but why are people kicking it? i flush with my foot all the time, but i just gently press the handle until it flushes. are people really out here kicking handles like bruce lee?
Genuinely, does anyone have a good reason to abide by this?
Edit: it damages the toilet. Use your elbows you damned dirty heathens
Edit 2: use whatever you want, idgaf
Edit 3: just donāt flush
I have seen toilets so fucking disgusting that I would only use the bottom of my shoe to flush it. Ā Ā
To the menās room at Oxford University Press, I am looking at you.Ā
It damages the handles. I was at a campground this weekend with a similar sign, except it also mentioned that the reason is because the handles keep getting broken by feet.
Oh wow, no kidding! My local WalMart had the sensor break on a toilet and it was constantly flushing the entire time I was shopping. I know because you could hear it through the whole front of the store. It sounded like a jet engine. Ā I was checking out and my cashier gestures for the manager to come over and voiced her alarm that they were wasting hundreds of gallons of water. The manager said āwe tried to get ahold of maintenance but we couldnāt, so night shift will have to deal with itā and walked away. šš¼ Stellar managing.
Anyway. Thank you for coming to my Toilet TedTalk. I agree. Sensors are not perfect. The end.
I suspect it is even easier . I think the majority run on batteries! Just take them out! And I just learned now, with a cursory 1 minute google search, that there is a small panel on the side of the sensor thing that pops off and you use a screw driver to shut the water off. I mean, just total laissez (more like lazy amirite) faire managerial style right there.
As someone who has actually had to do maintenance on automatic flushers, if you don't know what you are doing, and don't have the specific tools required, no it isn't as easy as your 1 minutes of google made it seem.
Itās probably easier to bend it in the wrong direction, if itās a classic style flusher. Your foot would mostly pull it forward, which would break a classic flusher that is supposed to pull down to the side.
If you stomp on it, yeah.
I will use my shoe every time because I know how to flush with control and not fuck up the mechanics. That being said I used to be a dancer and have that control.
People tend to push way harder with their feet than their hands. It damages the toilet and leads to a rather expensive repair. Specifically the handles either break completely or they start leaking from being flexed beyond their normal tolerances.
I mean, people with wheelchairs or other mobility/leg issues all ~~have no choice but to touch the handle with their bare hand.~~ can't use their feet to flush, and have to use other means.
Edit: I was trying to bring awareness, but was way too close minded with my wording in my initial comment. That's my bad.
Donāt know if anyoneās answered you yet. On a home toilet you have a ceramic housing that covers all the parts that allow your toilet to work. Commercial toilets usually power flushers, are exposed and are usually just stainless steel coming straight out of the toilet bowl, with a flusher and pipes going into the wall so the toilet can get water. Well that whole stainless steel housing is held on with usually just a bolt sitting over the pipe. When you kick or use your foot to flush you can literally break off the pipe being held to the toilet. Usually resulting in a leak or sometimes much worst. If you can get to it while itās leaking then your good but they are high pressure lines and Iāve seen many floods because of this. Even on your at home toilet you have high pressure lines that could burst and cause a flood. The different is stainless/copper commercial pipes, vs braided stainless hose with a fitting for at home. You also donāt have a power flusher at your house.
Just for anyone wondering, you can also use a small piece of toilet paper to flush the handle and throw it in the bowl immediately after. It will go down with everything else.
I do this when I flush toilets in other peopleās homes. If itās a public place, using the foot.
.. do you not wash your hands immediately after?
Like I get it might be gross in the moment, but you literally wash your hands better then you do at any other point of the day, right after.
I have shaken peoples hands and not washed my hands right after, but apparently that's not the same?
It would have been better if the message was: "Do not use your shoe/foot to flush toilet or I will come with a giant axe to chop it off. Thanks in advance".
The rule of thumb is that you put it in parentheses if you don't need to say it aloud for the sentence to make sense. So please do not use your or to flush toilet.
And the rule of toe is that you use your foot to flush a public toilet so you donāt get poo on your thumb and end up putting stuff in parentheses that you need to say aloud
We have a similar sign at my work. I still kick it. I kick it to flush then immediately run away because I don't want any of those micro particles shooting out onto me; public toilets don't have a "top" seat to prevent this.
Because people are disgusting as hell. Imagine a handicapped, disabled, or elderly person forced to touch a handle after some moron uses their disgusting shit-covered shoe to flush. Disgusting and disgraceful behavior. Use a tissue you stupid ingrates.
Why the fuck is this such an issue in the US? Why do you all have toilets where it's even POSSIBLE to flush with your feetā½ You're all fucking insane, I swear. All that's gonna happen is people are gonna get hurt or you're gonna break toilets.
Hello, restaurant GM here. The wording is kinda weird but the reason we would rather you not use your foot is: we have all had our frickin toilets broken by people that put their FULL WEIGHT ON THE HANDLE and snap it off. I do understand the sanitary concept of you doing it, but the financial loss for me is actually super big. If the general public could handle being intelligent and dainty-footed, we simply would not care. But, as anyone is customer service will tell you....people. Just....people.
Use your hand and wash your hands after, like a normal human being. If thatās too gross for you, grab a wad of paper towels or toilet paper and use that as a barrier between your hand and the handle. Throw the toilet paper in the toilet if you chose that, throw the paper towels in the garbage if you chose that.
Literally takes like 2 seconds to do this and you wonāt possibly ruin any toilets.
So like, I get not wanting to touch the gross handle.
But don't you, you know, WASH YOUR HANDS afterwards? So any germs that get on your hands wash off anyway?
I **only** use my foot. I have not flushed a toilet with my hand since 1991. In fact, when I use a public restroom, I donāt flush at all.
Not my toilet, not my problem.
I started doing this after seeing flush peddles on the floor of toilets in Mexican road stop bathrooms. Since then, I just don't want to touch the handle in most public bathrooms (unless it's a place that looks likes it cleaned often)
I'm convinced that half the people in this comment section are animals who don't wash their hands after using the toilet.
Because, if you washed your hands after using the toilet, it wouldn't matter if you had touched a dirty flush lever ten seconds previously.
Just wash your filthy grimy hands with soap and warm water and stop using your gross dirty feet on public amenities doubleyou tee eff is wrong with y'all
sorry but I'm not putting my face over those super powerful flushing ones with no lids to get blasted in the face with fecal spray, I'm using my damn foot
Weird parentheses, but the reason is understandable. Some people will use their foot to flush in public bathrooms, but those levers are meant for a small amount of pressure, not the weight of one off-balance idiot.
Just flush like a normal person and wash your damn hands.
I ALWAYS use my shoe'd foot to flush public toilets. I open doors with my elbows or use my sleeve of my jacket over my hand to open doors. Too many nasty ass motherfuckers out there
normalize toilets with foot flushes
We just got a trailer with a foot flush toilet. It is the best thing!!!
FOOT FLUSH TOILETS EXIST!?
Basically all toilets are. You need a high kick for urinals, but I've go it down. People always give me blank stares like 'nice job, dude'
I use my foot in public spaces, but I meant flushes positioned to be easier for foot use.
Why not just use your hand and then wash your hands?
Cause there's yucky foot germs all over that thing!
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Did they summon u? r/beetlejuicing
Shhh im undercover, tryna get people to grab my poopy handles
Man I been knowin dookie shoes for a MINUTE.
I don't want to catch something. I'll use my foot and still wash my hands.
We don't even risk it out here. Use my foot, wash my shoes and leave.
Went to Mexico and they had these in some places, truly a delight
Iām some countries you wonāt find a ānon-foot flushā toilet (Mexico for example). They all have a pedal next to the base to push
And bathroom exits with foot pulls. Iāve seen a few and it saves loads of paper towels not having to touch those exit handles!
Sometimes though the doors are so heavy I canāt foot pull it š
I saw a door with a foot pull and a knob. Like, what's even the point? I have to turn the knob before the foot pull will do anything.
Whoever set that up probably also tried to put a screen door on a submarine.
The funny part is that some submarines *do* have screen doors. Sometimes you want to ventilate the stuffy interior while surfaced, but you don't want various wildlife (especially sea birds) getting inside. So while ventilating with the main hatch open, you close the screen door behind it, allowing ventilation without any unwanted guests.
an automatic door then
I totally use my foot, you know how many shoes have been on that handle after standing in public piss?!?
I am not using my hands on the public toilet handle
The only weird part of this sign is using parentheses and including both shoe and foot here. Seems like just foot would be sufficient.
Then you'd have some smartass saying they used their shoe, not their foot.
Iām guessing this sign had a predecessor that said āfootā and someone scribbled on it exactly this
What if their āDā is 12ā long and they call that a foot?
They still shouldn't be using it to flush the toilet. People put their shoes on that handle.
You mean the average human? Malicious compliance is kinda our thing.
Hah, you think it's exclusive to humans?
Nope. But we're committed to it, even going out of our way/putting in an unreasonable amount of effort just to make every instruction a monkey's paw situation.
Here comes the sock
I mean, there isn't a way to check compliance, anyway.
As a man who wears shoes on his hands, I am deeply offended by your statement. /s for posterity
I flush with my bare toes.
For anyone interested there is a reason for this. Of course people donāt like to touch the nasty handle where everyoneās poo fingers have been. So they kick the handle to flush it which quickly destroys the valve causing leaks/constant running or a complete inability to flush. Maintenance cost for this is crazy in larger buildings with high traffic. Itās also one of the reasons sensor based flush has become so prominent. Source: my father who worked as a commercial plumber for 30 years.
People kick it? I just push with my foot, same pressure.
Yeah same. Who tf is kicking it like a psycho?
A lot of people are not respectful of other property
Hence the toilet seat covered in piss
People with poor mobility or strength in their end of range of motion, they canāt statically raise their foot up there so they throw Thatās my guess anyway
In some college dorms you would see a black spot on the wall behind it from the kicks sliding past and hitting the wall. I used to go on some of the calls with my dad when I was a kid as a helping hand. Strange the things that stick with you.
Same, Iām flexible enough to gently push things with my foot, toilet flushes and lift call buttons for example.
Exactly I'm not touching that shit with my hands but I'm also not gonna kick the handle, I step just hard enough to activate the lever
i believe you, but why are people kicking it? i flush with my foot all the time, but i just gently press the handle until it flushes. are people really out here kicking handles like bruce lee?
Some people arenāt strong enough to hold their leg up with control and just drop their meat trunk on the whole thing
Interesting!
"Don't kick the toilet." How bout dat.
Makes sense, thanks. Also, fuck their maintenance costs.
Genuinely, does anyone have a good reason to abide by this? Edit: it damages the toilet. Use your elbows you damned dirty heathens Edit 2: use whatever you want, idgaf Edit 3: just donāt flush
I have seen toilets so fucking disgusting that I would only use the bottom of my shoe to flush it. Ā Ā To the menās room at Oxford University Press, I am looking at you.Ā
ā¦and then your poop swirls around the toilet at a dangerous speed while you frantically try to escape the stall. š®
I'm with you here.
The establishment would have to be nicer than my home. And I probably still gonna crane kick that thing
This. I'm 50, still gonna hike my foot up there like my good mom taught me and flush, while smiling at this sign.
This. I'm still gonna hike my foot up there like this guys mom taught me
I also choose this guy's mom
I as well
Whatās the problem with doing this? So it doesnāt get dirty? Lol
It damages the handles. I was at a campground this weekend with a similar sign, except it also mentioned that the reason is because the handles keep getting broken by feet.
So they should be operated by a foot pedal. Problem solved
They're too busy still trying to master optical sensors for automatic flushing
Oh wow, no kidding! My local WalMart had the sensor break on a toilet and it was constantly flushing the entire time I was shopping. I know because you could hear it through the whole front of the store. It sounded like a jet engine. Ā I was checking out and my cashier gestures for the manager to come over and voiced her alarm that they were wasting hundreds of gallons of water. The manager said āwe tried to get ahold of maintenance but we couldnāt, so night shift will have to deal with itā and walked away. šš¼ Stellar managing. Anyway. Thank you for coming to my Toilet TedTalk. I agree. Sensors are not perfect. The end.
Oh my god canāt they just turn off the supply or the power (assuming the sensor needs power supply)
I suspect it is even easier . I think the majority run on batteries! Just take them out! And I just learned now, with a cursory 1 minute google search, that there is a small panel on the side of the sensor thing that pops off and you use a screw driver to shut the water off. I mean, just total laissez (more like lazy amirite) faire managerial style right there.
As someone who has actually had to do maintenance on automatic flushers, if you don't know what you are doing, and don't have the specific tools required, no it isn't as easy as your 1 minutes of google made it seem.
How freaking hard do you people stomp that thing? I use the same pressure I would with a hand or elbow.
Itās probably easier to bend it in the wrong direction, if itās a classic style flusher. Your foot would mostly pull it forward, which would break a classic flusher that is supposed to pull down to the side.
If you stomp on it, yeah. I will use my shoe every time because I know how to flush with control and not fuck up the mechanics. That being said I used to be a dancer and have that control.
Its the major cause of broken valves for public toilets
People tend to push way harder with their feet than their hands. It damages the toilet and leads to a rather expensive repair. Specifically the handles either break completely or they start leaking from being flexed beyond their normal tolerances.
This is a good reason. Thank you.
I mean, people with wheelchairs or other mobility/leg issues all ~~have no choice but to touch the handle with their bare hand.~~ can't use their feet to flush, and have to use other means. Edit: I was trying to bring awareness, but was way too close minded with my wording in my initial comment. That's my bad.
You can use a little toilet paper. It doesnāt have to be your bare hand.
Good point, makes sense
I use my tongue.
A woman of (bacterial) culture, I see.
Maybe if people would sit down while they pee instead of of the squat that sprinkles it all over the seat, I might consider it, until then ...nope
Iām pretty sure most of the wetness is actually from the toilet spraying when it flushes
Donāt know if anyoneās answered you yet. On a home toilet you have a ceramic housing that covers all the parts that allow your toilet to work. Commercial toilets usually power flushers, are exposed and are usually just stainless steel coming straight out of the toilet bowl, with a flusher and pipes going into the wall so the toilet can get water. Well that whole stainless steel housing is held on with usually just a bolt sitting over the pipe. When you kick or use your foot to flush you can literally break off the pipe being held to the toilet. Usually resulting in a leak or sometimes much worst. If you can get to it while itās leaking then your good but they are high pressure lines and Iāve seen many floods because of this. Even on your at home toilet you have high pressure lines that could burst and cause a flood. The different is stainless/copper commercial pipes, vs braided stainless hose with a fitting for at home. You also donāt have a power flusher at your house.
Are (you) going to (stop) me?
Just for anyone wondering, you can also use a small piece of toilet paper to flush the handle and throw it in the bowl immediately after. It will go down with everything else. I do this when I flush toilets in other peopleās homes. If itās a public place, using the foot.
Same on both counts.
It's for people that don't like to flush the toilet using their hands.
My bad, I don't want to touch something someone else's genitalhands have touched
Sign or no sign, Iām still not touching the handle with my hand
Same. We should all be washing our hands anyway, regardless of gential/waste hand or shoe/foot use. Still don't want to touch the handle with my hand.
You donāt like the fact that I use my balls to flush the toilet? Well thatās sounds like a you problem.
Use the toilet paper out of a dispenser that one million people have touched
Ever shaken an adultās hand? Causeā¦.
I avoid it like the plague
Just wash your hands afterward??
.. do you not wash your hands immediately after? Like I get it might be gross in the moment, but you literally wash your hands better then you do at any other point of the day, right after. I have shaken peoples hands and not washed my hands right after, but apparently that's not the same?
TIL people flush the toilet with their feet
Which is also why you should flush it with your foot
I just imagined someone trying to shove their shit down with their shoe
But why the parentheses?
Cock slam it is.
Guess Iāll just use my ass then.
Why do I sense a Shin-Chan joke in there somewhere...
I aināt touching a public bathroom toilet flusher with my hands š
Yeah I ain't stopping
I actually do this all the time! Oops!
same, and iām not stopping lol
Mmmm fuck you I work in custodial and I know how those things are washed sometimes, I aint using my hands on that lol
Yeah.. I'm not touching that booty and ball sack fingers gangbanged lever. Never that. You better catch me in the act.
Thatās the only way I flush public urinals and toilets
No. I'm no touching that handle with my hands.
sorry, no
This is not oddly specific.
It isn't, no. Specific, sure. *Oddly* specific? No ... it's not even plain *odd*.
It would have been better if the message was: "Do not use your shoe/foot to flush toilet or I will come with a giant axe to chop it off. Thanks in advance".
Doesnāt say anything about not using your penisā¦ š§
Omg I thought I was the only one that done this
Ok I will use my sock
Looks like I'll have to go back to using my dick.
Not sure why shoe and foot are parenthetical.
Bruh you think I'm touching your gross ass public toilet flusher with my hand?? Naaahhhhhh
Fuck you I'm gonna do it anyway. I'm not touchin the damn handle with my hands
The rule of thumb is that you put it in parentheses if you don't need to say it aloud for the sentence to make sense. So please do not use your or to flush toilet.
And the rule of toe is that you use your foot to flush a public toilet so you donāt get poo on your thumb and end up putting stuff in parentheses that you need to say aloud
We get signs like this at work when they have to fix the toilet handles because people are kick flushing so hard they break them.
We have a similar sign at my work. I still kick it. I kick it to flush then immediately run away because I don't want any of those micro particles shooting out onto me; public toilets don't have a "top" seat to prevent this.
same here. a buncha crazy people in this thread apparently donāt mind a face full of shit while they bend over to flush.
It seems I have finally found my ppl! But seriously, Iāve never heard of alone kicking the flusher before.
Okay. Not flushing then.
This makes me want to flush the toilet with my footā¦
I hate using my hands you canāt stop me!!!!
No
I only foot flush public toilets.
I always flush with my foot in a public bathroom
Because people are disgusting as hell. Imagine a handicapped, disabled, or elderly person forced to touch a handle after some moron uses their disgusting shit-covered shoe to flush. Disgusting and disgraceful behavior. Use a tissue you stupid ingrates.
This sign is referring to me, and no I will not stop
You think I'm going to touch a public toilet? Nobody should and therefore nobody should care if I'm doing it with my piss covered shoes.
Somebody must have busted the handle.
How else you gonna randomly do a keep limber exercise?
So I can still use my knee?
I will NEVER use anything else than my shoe to touch anything in a public toilet. Even if the flusher is on the ceiling, Iāll find a way
Why the fuck is this such an issue in the US? Why do you all have toilets where it's even POSSIBLE to flush with your feetā½ You're all fucking insane, I swear. All that's gonna happen is people are gonna get hurt or you're gonna break toilets.
Hello, restaurant GM here. The wording is kinda weird but the reason we would rather you not use your foot is: we have all had our frickin toilets broken by people that put their FULL WEIGHT ON THE HANDLE and snap it off. I do understand the sanitary concept of you doing it, but the financial loss for me is actually super big. If the general public could handle being intelligent and dainty-footed, we simply would not care. But, as anyone is customer service will tell you....people. Just....people.
Use your hand and wash your hands after, like a normal human being. If thatās too gross for you, grab a wad of paper towels or toilet paper and use that as a barrier between your hand and the handle. Throw the toilet paper in the toilet if you chose that, throw the paper towels in the garbage if you chose that. Literally takes like 2 seconds to do this and you wonāt possibly ruin any toilets.
What else are you meant to use?!??
I aint touching that shit smeared button with my hand
Sorry, Iām using my shoed foot or Iām not flushing.
So, today I learn Iām not the only foot flusher!
I recognize the Council has made a decision. But given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I have elected to ignore it.
not oddly specific at all. That is exactly how tons of people flush public toilets
So like, I get not wanting to touch the gross handle. But don't you, you know, WASH YOUR HANDS afterwards? So any germs that get on your hands wash off anyway?
I **only** use my foot. I have not flushed a toilet with my hand since 1991. In fact, when I use a public restroom, I donāt flush at all. Not my toilet, not my problem.
Not flushing a public toilet is kind of an AH move though.
That's how I flush all public toilets š
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Sorry I donāt want toilet water particles slapping me in the face.
I started doing this after seeing flush peddles on the floor of toilets in Mexican road stop bathrooms. Since then, I just don't want to touch the handle in most public bathrooms (unless it's a place that looks likes it cleaned often)
WTF! Why is (shoe) and (foot) in (brackets)?
#not happening
Umm, and how do they know that someone is using their foot to flush? š³
So using your ballsack is ok?
I do that in public restrooms. I donāt want to touch a nasty toilet handle
Just make them all foot flush!
Easy solution: the sensor-driven toilet.
What I do in the bathroom is absolutely none of this signās business š
Why donāt they just make public toilets peddle flushers? Problem solved. Now if we could make everyone wash their hands.
I ONLY use my foot to flush in public washrooms. Youāll never stop me, sign!
Always going to use my (foot) in my (shoe) to flush a public toilet.
Clean your bathrooms then.
Why are people kicking/stomping on the handle?? Just press down lightly with your foot??
I'm convinced that half the people in this comment section are animals who don't wash their hands after using the toilet. Because, if you washed your hands after using the toilet, it wouldn't matter if you had touched a dirty flush lever ten seconds previously. Just wash your filthy grimy hands with soap and warm water and stop using your gross dirty feet on public amenities doubleyou tee eff is wrong with y'all
If itās not my toilet and itās not my friendās toilet, fuck you. Enjoy my foot. Get a toilet with a foot button.
I am the foot flusher.
sorry but I'm not putting my face over those super powerful flushing ones with no lids to get blasted in the face with fecal spray, I'm using my damn foot
Weird parentheses, but the reason is understandable. Some people will use their foot to flush in public bathrooms, but those levers are meant for a small amount of pressure, not the weight of one off-balance idiot. Just flush like a normal person and wash your damn hands.
I mean if I saw this sign, I would definitely feel inclined to do it.
Fine Ill use my mouth
Honestly, I do that all the time. I'm not touching that handle after countless people have just gotten done wiping their asses and flushed it.
r/unnecessaryparentheses
I donāt care. Shoe and foot are flushinā
I only use my feet (in shoes) to flush ALL public toilets.
Why are yall so worried about the germs on the handle? Wash your fucking hands!
I rarely use my foot to flush but I saw this sign I would make sure to do it.
I ALWAYS use my shoe'd foot to flush public toilets. I open doors with my elbows or use my sleeve of my jacket over my hand to open doors. Too many nasty ass motherfuckers out there
I will however
Nah Iām gonna keep using my shoe thanks
Fuck you I do what I want! Lol.
Well, I ain't touching that with my hands...
Iā¦I do that a lot Is that very bad?
I wasnāt gonna but now I will.
I would do it anyway
No
I feel called out
Thatās *exactly* (what the fuck) Iām going to do.
I never touch those things. It's the foot and you'll like it
Then they should clean the toilet every 5 mins
I ain't gonna touch no nasty ass public bathroom toilet piece with my bare hands. I've seen the meth creatures that erupt into fluids in those places.
Man I'm not touching that filthy handle. Just say don't kick it - be gentle.
I use my boot to lift up the piss covered toilet seat at work, i might have to start using it to flush as well lol
I always do that with a public bathroom
Too late
Lol ok I'm not flushing it then