TED: How To Use One Paper Towel

From TED: You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you're doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk at TEDxConcordiaUPortland, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel technique.

R. P. Joe Smith served as a District Attorney in Umatilla County and nearly won a race for Oregon Attorney General without taking a single contribution over $99.99. He is a former chair of the Oregon Democratic Party and is active with several local nonprofits.
entr0pysays...

This is a good plan if you don't mind flicking water all over your shirt and pants. And if you've gone that far you might as well be a hero, wipe your hands on your clothes and be done with it.

RhesusMonksays...

Progressive thinking at its finest.>> ^entr0py:

This is a good plan if you don't mind flicking water all over your shirt and pants. And if you've gone that far you might as well be a hero, wipe your hands on your clothes and be done with it.

hamsteralliancesays...

>> ^FlowersInHisHair:

Are electric hand-dryers that rare in the US?


They're definitely not rare in California and Colorado; but they're almost always really crappy ones that just make a lot of noise and don't do a thing to dry your hands.

We need more of those crazy Airblade ones. Those dry your hands like the world is going to end if your hands aren't dried immediately.

Unsung_Herosays...

If someone were to have told me yesterday that today I'd be spending nearly 5 minutes watching a video of someone drying their hands over and over again, I would have called them mad.

...Yet, here I am.

Unsung_Herosays...

>> ^Unsung_Hero:

If someone were to have told me yesterday that today I'd be spending nearly 5 minutes watching a video of someone drying their hands over and over again, I would have called them mad.
...Yet, here I am.


I even upvoted. Fancy that.

articiansays...

This is a good idea.

And I'll use paper towels any day before any electric dryer. They never satisfy me, even the airblade ones. That said, I usually justify my use (of my single towel, take that TED), by blowing my nose with it afterwards.

spoco2says...

Add my vote to the amazement that paper towel dispensers are still around. The airblade ones are awesome, and if you can't get 'satisfied' by using one of those, I'm not sure what the hell you want from your hand drying experience?

Porksandwichsays...

Hell if I am wearing crappy clothes, I'll just dry my hands on the back of my shirt after vainly attempting to use an electric drier. I think I've used one electric drier in my life that actually dried my hands in under 30 seconds. After 30-45 seconds I give up and move on, my clothes will probably dry faster if I wipe my hands on them than if I stood there trying to use that machine. And if you shake your hands dry, you end up with water drops all over you....like when you try to use a sink that is screwed up and sprays every which way. Looks like you spent your time pissing all over yourself either way, which is rather annoying.

Only reason I use more than one or two paper towels is because the dispenser is so screwed up you end up pulling out a wad of them instead of one, and feeding them back in is worse than just throwing them away...because no one is going to use them if you lay them out. So take the extra with you, or toss them. I prefer the rolls where you can crank it a couple times and rip off your paper towel. The old cloth rolling "towels" were nasty, would never use those....because you know someone did something to it...people are assholes.

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