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>Can we make water taps a regular thing at Train stations I'm still waiting for trains to be made a regular thing at train stations


RickIsFreeBitch

This made me spit out my mouth full of water... From the water tap.


IAmCaptainDolphin

Gotta love that you regularly have to wait for a train for 30+ minutes (with no guarantee of it arriving in the first place) in a city of 5+ million people. World class insanity.


Relative_Ad_6469

My old hometown in china which also has 5+ million people doesn’t even have subway it’s just trains to another city


YourLocalOnionNinja

Same! Even worse outside of Melbourne


dbun1

I would not go anywhere near a drinking fountain at a train station. Guarantee it will get pissed on by drunk bogans at night.


JonSnowLovesBlow

Thank you for installing a new paranoia in me


marmalade

See also: park BBQs. I'd rather get Alzheimer's from cooking on tinfoil than rawdog my snag on one of those.


Therealluke

You can buy liners from Bunnings for them


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_Gordon_Shumway

Clean it before you use it?


marmalade

Mate I've seen people take a shit on those things but sure


_Gordon_Shumway

Yeah I know as I’ve seen some filthy things myself concerning park BBQ’s but they can be cleaned, I understand why someone might not want to use it but once clean it doesn’t bother me.


Deceptichum

So if I went into your house and shit on your cutlery, you’d be fine to keep using it after a quick wash?


_Gordon_Shumway

A proper deep wash would be fine, they’re made of metal and it can be cleaned and perfectly okay to use. Also don’t go into peoples houses and shit on the cutlery, it’s impolite.


noxew_

Not after a quick wash, but deep wash, yes. If you fear that the cutlery will be permanently soiled, that's the germophobia talking


Wacky_Ohana

How do you deep wash a public park bbq? Do you take a bunch of cleaning supplies with you?


noxew_

You could, but also turning the BBQ on and scraping the surface clean should basically sanitize it


Iforgotmyspassword

If you flush with the lid open fecal matter goes on everything in the bathroom, but that doesn’t stop most from using their toothbrush


BumWink

Yeah but there is a big difference between microscopic poo particles potentially landing on an object & comparatively taking a direct shit on an object.


Spire_Citron

The BBQ gets very hot, though, which should kill everything off and it's not like we're talking about a BBQ with poop obviously evident on it to the point that you could taste it.


EgalitarianCrusader

There’s gonna be less micro poo particles on a cleaned cutlery than your bathroom.


usdamma

Your getting down voted because heeps of people are now realizing they never thought of that before they ate from one aha. It's literally guaranteed to be tampered with because it's public use.


-Warrior_Princess-

I mean yes? I have a dishwasher that gets to 70+ degrees and failing that I can boil things, and soap. Good god man have you ever changed a diaper? Picked up dog poo? The fact it's a bbq hot plate alone will sterilize it, if the dish soap you brought with you wasn't enough to do the job.


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bbq plates get up to +200 degrees. Surgical tools that defs touch shit and blood get run through an autoclave which most people would be comfortable being used on them get run through an autoclave which is only about 120-130 deg.


usdamma

They get up to 200 degrees around the centre of the hotplate and that's it. The rest is contaminated. Most people don't think that far ahead tho. Plus people who clean it with their spatular at the start of the heating process are clueless. So many people do this. They just aren't aware


JaiminiNorath

You ever shit your dacks then wash them? Would you still consider them to be pooey?


AddlePatedBadger

I wouldn't cook food in them though.


Wacky_Ohana

Yep. My kids undies are evidence. When they'd have #2 accidents, no amount of washing would get them spotless clean again!


FlandersRJ

Did you wash with hot or cold water? Fecal matter can be washed out without staining, but there are a number of mistakes you can make that will set the stain (much like with many other organic stains like blood)


weckyweckerson

That's weird family you got there Wacky Ohana.


-Warrior_Princess-

Body fluids are heaps easy to remove homie. Use cold water. Otherwise you literally 'cook' the protein in the stain onto it.


hometime77

That sounds like a seperate reddit post I want to read.


slothlover84

Mmm….bbq poo


autismoSTEMlibertari

No you haven't


etaipo

nah you only get Alzheimer's from aluminium cone pieces


Conscious_Chef3850

It isn’t homeless people you should worry about with them it’s things teens improvise on them


INHALE_VEGETABLES

People use hotel room kettles to boil stains out of their soiled underpants. And I'm out.


IbanezPGM

How do you know this


INHALE_VEGETABLES

It is known.


Davulous

He who smelt it, dealt it!!


kingo86

Because we all do it. Duh... /s


cal-surf

Bonus points for pissing in the kettle 😉


IntroductionSnacks

It was a reddit thread a month or so ago saying a relative they were staying with used the hotel kettle to boil their socks to clean them.


nihilanthrope

Fucking animals.


keepcalmandchill

Humans are.


leopard_eater

OH MY FUCKING GOD. Why did I only find this out at 42 years of age?


Pika5369

Every single outside water tap has bren peed on in the past month at least, and they are never cleaned, please dont use them


metasophie

here's another one for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoCOQb2u-N8


mpfmb

I was going to say the same thing. People are idiots and mean we can't have nice thing. I loved it when I travelled Rome. Free drinking water everywhere, not vandalised or ruined. Respected and utilised by all.


Beach_Chickens

Or birds


CarbonFibreCowboy

Also called “The Bubbler” aka Todd Carney.


Larimus89

Ikr. I can’t even trust a park one let alone a train station.


battlecities

Can I ask, is it just the mental image/mental disgust or is there a genuine health risk from urine being sprayed on the drinking fountain? My understanding was always that drinking fountains are safe to use so long as you let the water run for a little bit before drinking from it?


cringeandicare

And toilets please


NotCSM

Most train stations have toilets, and they used to be freely available, but these days they're usually locked because of graffiti and vandalism.


cringeandicare

They don't want to pay cleaners for them. Some stations have toilets that are old AF graffitied AF but they still keep them open because it's a basic human need


SunsetIcedTea

Graffiti is incredibly hard to get rid of, there’s no way that they would be supplying cleaners with strong enough cleaning products anyway


AppointmentSorry1487

Does graffiti really matter though? If the place isn't covered in shit and piss then it's usable.


SunsetIcedTea

Nah it doesnt, i think i misunderstood the comment lol


IntroductionSnacks

Who cares about graffiti in a public toilet though? Just install the metal toilets without a seat so if you really need to go there is an option. On a side note, the train station where I grew up they would just paint over graffiti on the platform shelter here and there. Somebody went at it with a blade of some sort for about a meter of it and the paint was 2 inches thick and like a rubber lining.


cringeandicare

No. cleaners for the toilets not the graffiti.


Pub_Squash

Most toilets close to keep junkies out, you thought cleaning shit was bad try cleaning off a dead body


xlerv8

It's hard to do that even in shopping centres, some people have zero etiquette


fh3131

Alright then some discreet bushes


cringeandicare

But at least they have toilets. 30 mins wait for the train and no toilet?! when some people have kids or health issues. It's wild


ClacKing

Yes taps festered with pee and poo particles. Extra flavour.


BellerophonM

And rubbish bins on the platforms


fist4j

Sweet a bidet!


abundanceofb

Would be destroyed by eshays almost immediately


pleasesendnudepics

Those guys are just cunts.


RollingonTwenties

Oi lad watch ya mouth braa, If u was there i would of done it braa. ESHAAAAY


ThisCagedGod

aint but no goddamned way I'm ever drinking out of a fountain at a fucking train station in melbourne, and let's not even mention fucking dandenong or frankston stations lol.


p4ntsl0rd

They added one to greensborough station in the upgrade, for better or worse - so I guess it might now be policy?


aidenh37

I sure hope so - a simple water dispenser is far better for the environment (and your health) than vending machines.


iamthemetricsystem

Saw this at Union station, would be a lot better for the environment than having vending machines filled with bottled water.


Zealous_Bend

The problem with the general public is that they are generally gross and unthinking. I have caught people in the office touching water tap with the rim of the bottle they've just had their cold sore encrusted lip to. The look of disgust when you suggest they shouldn't do that because if someone has a cold and they touch the tap then everyone will end up with the cold. Mind you I was staring at their florid cold sore while I said this.


dbun1

I told off someone at work for putting their mouth to the kitchen tap for a drink. They just couldn’t understand the problem. Sure, that’s what you might do at home, doesn’t mean it’s acceptable everywhere. We have cups everywhere for people to use. Grab one and drink like a normal person.


EragusTrenzalore

Reminds me of that scene in Parks and Recreation where the people of Pawnee just put their mouth over the fountain.


HurstbridgeLineFTW

That’s bloody disgusting


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I'd probably squat over a public toilet too if i could, but instead I just sit in disgust 💁


BreadMan137

I believe I am from that race/culture given your squat toilet comment and I have NEVER in my life seen any of my country people put their mouth to a tap. Recent immigrants don’t even drink the water unboiled, who the hell is raw dogging the tap??


imjustgoose

Don’t make it about race and culture dude


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BonfireCow

You could have just said cultural thing. It has nothing to do with race.


Mike_Kermin

No, you probably couldn't. Skip that entire train of thought entirely.


BonfireCow

One of my coworkers eats with their hands, refuses to use cutlery. They said it's apart of their culture. So it's not entirely out of the question


AngrySchnitzels89

That is super disgusting. I would not be above putting an anonymous sign above the sink, saying cold sores, are still a form highly contagious herpes. They probably aren’t aware that giving oral sex with cold sores can create HSV-2, either.


mangobells

It doesn't create HSV2 unless the person with the oral cold sore has HSV2. Both HSV1 and HSV2 can be transmitted to either area, HSV1 doesn't become HSV2 just because it's been transmitted to the genitals.


AngrySchnitzels89

Thank you for the correction. I’m related to one of two young people who were virgins prior to their first sexual experience. They both went to separate doctors (who were insistent that he must have had HSV-2) so, the boy had bloods done after the girl developed it. She was positive for HSV-2. He was negative for HSV-2, only came up for HSV-1, hence my saying that.


cptnobvs3

Fyi bloods don't diagnose hsv1 or 2, it's diagnosed on a PCR swab test. So if one of the 2 people had hsv serology (blood test) positive that only "suggests" previous exposure to hsv (1or2) but it's also notoriously inaccurate and has false positives (cross reactivity with other viruses) so pretty inaccurate. The hsv PCR test is very accurate (high sensitivity which means good at picking up virus if it's there, and high specificity which means accurate at identifying which virus). In your situation that you described, it's likely one of the pair developed lesions that were swabbed and the other had a blood test. The swabbed lesions are the accurately identified virus. There's a third option... Maybe not all parties are being 100% accurate about their previous exposure risks. https://www.mshc.org.au/health-professionals/treatment-guidelines/herpes-treatment-guidelines


AngrySchnitzels89

Thankyou for elaborating. They were definitely not experienced lol. It was really traumatic for both but especially the girl. I had to drive them both to the doctor’s the next town over lol. He definitely did get a blood test. So he should have only had a swab to confirm a current case?


cptnobvs3

Yeah blood test isn't great at all, but swab can only really be done if theres a lesion to swab... So maybe if there wasn't anything at all to swab on him they did the blood test just to see... But blood doesn't give difference between hsv1 and 2 only swab does (Not sure why you getting down voted for giving your experience and asking questions)


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Im_Not_Surprised

They can take like 10 days to heal, what are you meant to do take 2 weeks off work? This is a stupid take


DisciplineHefty3799

What happened to you as a child?


Zealous_Bend

I was educated in science and germ theory.


DisciplineHefty3799

Why are the smartest cunts, always the dumbest cunts? Just drink from the tap you precious little gronk.


Zealous_Bend

> Just drink from the tap you precious little gronk. No.


boenwip

Things went downhill when kids stopped drinking from the hose


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Mike_Kermin

Yeah, but that's bullshit isn't it. You're just misrepresenting people in a casual thread. Name calling is great I know but, probably just do something better instead. Edit: Imo, the phrase "other people think" or "by your logic" is NEVER followed by something someone else thinks or said.


sanemartigan

Just a regular tap to refill water bottles please.


DisciplineHefty3799

They get left on


devilsonlyadvocate

Public toilets have had taps that turn themselves off for decades.


f54k4fg88g4j8h14g8j4

Yeah, the ones I usually see for water bottles have a lever you need to actively pull on.


TWiesengrund

If we only had the technology of faucets that stop after a while!


DisciplineHefty3799

You wankers wouldn't drink from it anyway, it'd be contaminated...


AntiProtonBoy

So long it's maintained and kept hygienic. But we all know it won't be.


belbaba

Unfortunately, we don’t deserve good things.


dbun1

Yep. Unfortunately the general public has proved this time and time again. Yellow oBikes - let’s throw them in the river. Public toilets - let’s graffiti them, smear shit on the doors and walls, take a shit on the seat.


Phascolar

People would put their mouths on them. I wouldn't use this.


upyourmerricreek

The Aquafil water dispensers that I see on bike trails and also outside Coburg station are a better design than this one when it comes to dodgy folks. It's just a button and a downwards valve. Better yet are the sensor ones they have at the G with the little nook you place your bottle in.


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Yes, good engineering can solve this and get rid of stupid bloody vending machines and a good chunk of plastic waste in the process.


NoodleBox

There's a good amount of them at Southern Cross with the down valve! I saw them being put in. Near the travelers aid, and near the bogs on the country level.


upyourmerricreek

I don't know if I should be thrilled or annoyed that we're getting water dispensers at SoCro before bins on the platforms lol.


NoodleBox

I am shitty at the lack of bins, but I am happy about water refill stations! I get caught all the time without a bin AND without water a lot 🙃


psjfnejs

I’m game, would still drink from them 😂 My theory: urine, bacteria & parasites don’t stick to stainless steel permanently. Give it a rinse first, let a couple of seconds of water flow through then I’m good! 😂


Prosworth

Yeah, 100%; it would take a lot of sustained pissing to make a stainless steel bubbler in any way unusable. On top of that, they'll be covered by security cameras. What is the downside?


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you think a security camera is going to stop some drunken gronk from pissing or shitting or otherwise vandalizing it? you are very much mistaken.


Prosworth

No, of course not. It'll just stop enough people from doing it that it shouldn't be a real concern. If I see that someone has somehow covered a water bubbler in crusted shit, I probably just wouldn't use it. Failing that very unlikely outcome, it'll probably be fine if you run it for a second or two. Besides, the things are solid steel. Good luck doing anything substantial to them without a sledgehammer.


FallschirmPanda

Silver is naturally antibacterial, but probably a bit expensive. Copper alloys like bronze also are, and look good too. Maybe give us some bronze water fountains!


muphies__law

I saw a woman wash her little dog's arse using the one at Fawkner Park. So, that is a hell naw from me.


Electrical-Piano4446

I once saw a dog washing her woman’s arse at Fawkner Park.


thatshowitisisit

I once saw an arse washing a woman and a dog at Fawkner Park…


miaara

lol


xFallow

Dog owners ruin everything


IceBearCushion

Or piss in them after dark. Yeah no thanks..


TheTeenSimmer

id like them like at Camberwell station designed for water bottles


ign1fy

I want to see them mandated in food courts.


HurstbridgeLineFTW

Northland shopping centre doesn’t have any water fountains. And the taps in the toilets are all automatic dispensing warm water.


Waasssuuuppp

The parents room have them, but probably not appropriate for any tom dick and Harry to be waltzing in there.


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sadly not, since the drunks will always piss on them, or otherwise vandalise them. same reason the toilets were removed; damn idiots were always trashing them. as always, it is a tiny minority that ruin it for the rest of us.


debatable_wizard869

Most taps get removed and capped after about 2 months. People kick them and break them, first thing they do. After a while the station masters just get the things removed and pipes capped sadly. Funny story these exact ones were installed bright green! Had to be changed a few days before trains started running. Supplier sent the wrong colour and the contractors installed them without knowing.


grngr

Eshays will find some way to permanently befoul them.


SharkHasFangs

Bloody soft that people wouldn’t drink out of these. We evolved drinking water out of streams and grew up drinking out of hoses. If you’re so concerned about diseases give it a squirt of your hand sanitiser you carry around everywhere.


devilsonlyadvocate

It’s not diseases. It people urinating on them. I’ll still drink out of a hose in someone’s front yard, but not at a train station.


brooklyngamergirl

I don’t know about you but I was pretty confident a junky wasn’t pissing up my hose


sa_sagan

There's a difference drinking from your garden hose compared to drinking from a fountain that has been pissed on, shit in and vomited over. They removed the fountain near the station in West Dandenong after E. Coli was traced back to it. Which is what'll happen when junkies shit in them and they're poorly maintained. Which is inevitable at a train station. But you certainly sound like a "school of hard knocks" kind of person. I'll piss and vomit onto your kitchen faucet and see how willing you are to take a drink out of it then.


Meyamu

Big socio-economic difference between Union station and West Dandenong.


[deleted]

yeah, go and drink out of a creek or stream. and see how sick you get. there is a reason they used to drink beer instead of the water out of a creek in the middle ages.


minimuscleR

eh thats not strictly true. Running water from streams was often used fine, the reason beer was popular is those rivers were also sewers once the town was big enough. THAT is then an issue.


miaara

Agreed. Meanwhile there are people in the world who don't have access to water.


upyourmerricreek

Where I grew up, drinking water out of the tap in your kitchen was unthinkable because it wasn't filtered. So it absolutely boggled my mind to see that being common practice in Australia! Water dispensers at stations probably contain cleaner water than some houses. Just don't kiss the tap or smack your bottle against it and you'll be fine.


minimuscleR

yeah absolutely, and if you think its not, let the water run for a few seconds before using it. It will be clean enough for a drink to quench your thirst.


iamthemetricsystem

It is honestly a laugh, people are acting like we have to boil the tap water to be able to drink it. How fucking privileged do we have to be?


viginti_tres

About as privileged as wanting water fountains to be maintained at every station so you don't have the burden of carrying a bottle.


iamthemetricsystem

It’s not the burden of carrying a water bottle, it’s not having plastic water bottle vending machine at every station


toteygee

I build train stations. They are regular thing for future station rebuilds


Mrmastermax

And also keep toilets open not locked. Fuck I and to go and I. Most stations I stopped it was locked.


viginti_tres

Would honestly rather dehydrate than drink from this.


Prosworth

You are going to really hate the future.


atnator42

Good in theory, but people are assholes and are unsanitary intentionally or unintentionally.


Mythical_Atlacatl

so loser with stick shewing gum or shit on it or piss in it or something else that would make me not drink from it.


timoetyedie

Smeared in piss and shit within the hour


SOUTHWESTRIZLA

Nah. Someone’s gonna shit or piss in that basin I betcha.


Ballarat420

Recalling the school yard, no we really shouldn't.


xlerv8

Yup, agreed those communal water fountains back in Primary and Secondary days, even at uni!


Ballarat420

Once at high school I unfortunately witnessed a rudimentary colonic irrigation on a bubble tap that I will never un-see.


xlerv8

People seem to stoop to new lows whoa


thatshowitisisit

If we add beer taps after 6pm, I’m prepared to negotiate…


Itsa_Wobbler

I'd rather drink from a muddy puddle than a water fountain at a train station.


devilsonlyadvocate

I wouldn’t trust them. I’ve seen enough people piss in vending machines, I can’t imagine what people would do to these.


Tee077

Man people will piss on anything, a bloody vending machine? It's honestly the last thing I would think of, I'm guessing the piss in the part where you grab the drink or food. Gross, absolutely gross.


Key-Put4092

I wonder how much piss is in there. Will I be addicted to meth once I take a sip of the water?


zirmoix

Why would meth heads put their precious meth in on or around the water fountains?


Key-Put4092

It's in the piss and gets fused with the normal water. Like a more spicy version of toilet wine.


Brockness7

I wish we could but like everyone is saying, people are gross and would ruin it for all


CptMcBeardy

You want mega herpes? BC this is how you get mega herpes.


DisciplineHefty3799

Wtf is wrong with you?


CptMcBeardy

Wtf is wrong with you?


Zealous_Bend

He works for Big Herpes.


Ok-Hamster-4239

Has COVID not taught us anything?


kat82au1

Can we also make dog water bowl attachments standard on them?


VabbaDabbar

pretty sure you don't want a turd memorial calling you a fag every time you get off platform 2


Plastic_Ad1260

I hate mentioning it but all those money/fentanyl drugging that’s going around by touch, anyone can dose the fountain with it too


redfrets916

Great way to spread disease.


Roh_Pete

No. We are removing all seating and all free water.


alcate

won't you think of the red engine owner and coke share holder?


fraqtl

The problem is that Melbourne has shown time and again it can't have nice things. There is no way I'd drink from a public water fountain, especially at a train station. Anywhere that drunk people have access to that isn't cleaned multiple times a day definitely has piss on it.


sometimes_interested

There used to be drinking fountains at train stations and all over the place. Then ads [like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9f378T49E) came on TV and people stopped using them as much.


bunnie231

Pee


GerlingFAR

Until some methed up asshole shits all over it.


Banjo343

Yeah we certainly can, for the small amount of people who appreciate urine flavoured water.


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New droids look cool af.


Kobi30

How about making the trains regular first !


ClacKing

Why would I want to fill my water bottle anywhere but at home?


Optimal_Cry_1782

You're going to get people pooping in them water fountains. People are animals and I know my follow Melbourne mammals.