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[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 55 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I particularly hate those airblade things even more than regular air dryers. I like that they're faster and typically not as gross and warm but they are designed in a way where you feed your hand in to a narrow gap with powerful air jets in front of and behind your hands in this gap. Your hands are not a completely uniform symmetrical shape, so the jets buffet your hand around and they inevitably touch the parts of the device where the jets are located, right where everyone else has had the same thing happen. It grosses me out.

[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago

And also incredibly loud too.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

And they don't dry as well, and the air moves faster so whatever is living in the water drops on your hands (depending really on how thoroughly you wash your hands) gets flung further, spread better in the space