Because I’m weird, I’m going to start documenting all the various soap dispensers I encounter. Some of them raise a lot of questions.
This one is on the better side of typical. Close to the sink, full of soap, functional. The only improvement would be if it was touchless.
Another pretty standard one. Also this is at the local VA so technically, we all own this!
Same model but different color way (and this is at another VA, so like...does each facility decide the colors? Different states? I just want to know.)
The Platonic Ideal of soap dispensers — clean, full, and dispenses foamy soap touchlessly.
I encountered one more soap dispenser today but there was another man at the sinks at the same time I was and men’s bathroom etiquette is opaque to me in a lot of ways still, but I’m p sure if I pulled out my phone to take a picture I would be Making It Weird.
The less common push-dispense kind (this one is called Endure...bleak)
I did it, I finally found another example in the wild of the soap dispenser that prompted this thread in the first place!
I have MANY questions. The branding. The “flavor” (??) choice. Even the color tbh. I can’t show you in a photo but it smells almost exactly like that raspberry body mist B&BW sells that all my friends who stripped in college used because they said it made men tip more.
This is a lot for a hand soap.
@courtney I'd just be grateful the gentleperson was washing their hands at all given the horrors I've seen in there
@microwavenby I’ve developed a very specific “dude REALLY??” cough and facial expression to shame cis men into taking the TWENTY EXTRA SECONDS to wash their hands. It only sometimes works, but. Sometimes!
@courtney i had been polishing my scathing looks my whole life and never got a result in that context..
Frankly i never wanted to be in that set of loos in the first place though; it probably detracted a bit 😅
@courtney "DramaCare"
is what I thought it said
@courtney this is a good thread, but the amount that soap dispensers mystify me _utterly pales_ in comparison to the amount that modern paper towel dispensers and hand driers mystify me.
@brennen oooooh that can also be a thread!
@courtney yeah, unsure why 'stale' is a word you'd want to cannote
@courtney hi defend foam
@whoisgina @courtney Defend Foam reminds me of the grocery chain that used to be in my neighborhood, Compare Foods
@courtney AND HE'S BACK
@courtney Still a Deb at heart
@courtney really questioning the matching flesh tones on this one
@hunkychungus did they match the wall to the dispenser, vice versa, or is “very ill white person” just a universally available color? We’ll never know.
@courtney it would be less jarring were it not for the chub-en-scrote form factor
@hunkychungus well now I can’t unsee that
Reviving this thread because I encountered a variety I haven’t seen before