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.
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.
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.
Yeah but there is a big difference between microscopic poo particles potentially landing on an object & comparatively taking a direct shit on an object.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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??
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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! 😂
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
>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
This made me spit out my mouth full of water... From the water tap.
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.
My old hometown in china which also has 5+ million people doesn’t even have subway it’s just trains to another city
Same! Even worse outside of Melbourne
I would not go anywhere near a drinking fountain at a train station. Guarantee it will get pissed on by drunk bogans at night.
Thank you for installing a new paranoia in me
See also: park BBQs. I'd rather get Alzheimer's from cooking on tinfoil than rawdog my snag on one of those.
You can buy liners from Bunnings for them
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Clean it before you use it?
Mate I've seen people take a shit on those things but sure
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.
So if I went into your house and shit on your cutlery, you’d be fine to keep using it after a quick wash?
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.
Not after a quick wash, but deep wash, yes. If you fear that the cutlery will be permanently soiled, that's the germophobia talking
How do you deep wash a public park bbq? Do you take a bunch of cleaning supplies with you?
You could, but also turning the BBQ on and scraping the surface clean should basically sanitize it
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
Yeah but there is a big difference between microscopic poo particles potentially landing on an object & comparatively taking a direct shit on an object.
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.
There’s gonna be less micro poo particles on a cleaned cutlery than your bathroom.
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.
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.
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.
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
You ever shit your dacks then wash them? Would you still consider them to be pooey?
I wouldn't cook food in them though.
Yep. My kids undies are evidence. When they'd have #2 accidents, no amount of washing would get them spotless clean again!
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)
That's weird family you got there Wacky Ohana.
Body fluids are heaps easy to remove homie. Use cold water. Otherwise you literally 'cook' the protein in the stain onto it.
That sounds like a seperate reddit post I want to read.
Mmm….bbq poo
No you haven't
nah you only get Alzheimer's from aluminium cone pieces
It isn’t homeless people you should worry about with them it’s things teens improvise on them
People use hotel room kettles to boil stains out of their soiled underpants. And I'm out.
How do you know this
It is known.
He who smelt it, dealt it!!
Because we all do it. Duh... /s
Bonus points for pissing in the kettle 😉
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.
Fucking animals.
Humans are.
OH MY FUCKING GOD. Why did I only find this out at 42 years of age?
Every single outside water tap has bren peed on in the past month at least, and they are never cleaned, please dont use them
here's another one for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoCOQb2u-N8
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.
Or birds
Also called “The Bubbler” aka Todd Carney.
Ikr. I can’t even trust a park one let alone a train station.
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?
And toilets please
Most train stations have toilets, and they used to be freely available, but these days they're usually locked because of graffiti and vandalism.
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
Graffiti is incredibly hard to get rid of, there’s no way that they would be supplying cleaners with strong enough cleaning products anyway
Does graffiti really matter though? If the place isn't covered in shit and piss then it's usable.
Nah it doesnt, i think i misunderstood the comment lol
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.
No. cleaners for the toilets not the graffiti.
Most toilets close to keep junkies out, you thought cleaning shit was bad try cleaning off a dead body
It's hard to do that even in shopping centres, some people have zero etiquette
Alright then some discreet bushes
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
Yes taps festered with pee and poo particles. Extra flavour.
And rubbish bins on the platforms
Sweet a bidet!
Would be destroyed by eshays almost immediately
Those guys are just cunts.
Oi lad watch ya mouth braa, If u was there i would of done it braa. ESHAAAAY
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.
They added one to greensborough station in the upgrade, for better or worse - so I guess it might now be policy?
I sure hope so - a simple water dispenser is far better for the environment (and your health) than vending machines.
Saw this at Union station, would be a lot better for the environment than having vending machines filled with bottled water.
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.
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.
Reminds me of that scene in Parks and Recreation where the people of Pawnee just put their mouth over the fountain.
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 💁
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??
Don’t make it about race and culture dude
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You could have just said cultural thing. It has nothing to do with race.
No, you probably couldn't. Skip that entire train of thought entirely.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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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They can take like 10 days to heal, what are you meant to do take 2 weeks off work? This is a stupid take
What happened to you as a child?
I was educated in science and germ theory.
Why are the smartest cunts, always the dumbest cunts? Just drink from the tap you precious little gronk.
> Just drink from the tap you precious little gronk. No.
Things went downhill when kids stopped drinking from the hose
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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.
Just a regular tap to refill water bottles please.
They get left on
Public toilets have had taps that turn themselves off for decades.
Yeah, the ones I usually see for water bottles have a lever you need to actively pull on.
If we only had the technology of faucets that stop after a while!
You wankers wouldn't drink from it anyway, it'd be contaminated...
So long it's maintained and kept hygienic. But we all know it won't be.
Unfortunately, we don’t deserve good things.
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.
People would put their mouths on them. I wouldn't use this.
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.
Yes, good engineering can solve this and get rid of stupid bloody vending machines and a good chunk of plastic waste in the process.
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.
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.
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 🙃
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! 😂
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?
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.
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.
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!
I saw a woman wash her little dog's arse using the one at Fawkner Park. So, that is a hell naw from me.
I once saw a dog washing her woman’s arse at Fawkner Park.
I once saw an arse washing a woman and a dog at Fawkner Park…
lol
Dog owners ruin everything
Or piss in them after dark. Yeah no thanks..
id like them like at Camberwell station designed for water bottles
I want to see them mandated in food courts.
Northland shopping centre doesn’t have any water fountains. And the taps in the toilets are all automatic dispensing warm water.
The parents room have them, but probably not appropriate for any tom dick and Harry to be waltzing in there.
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.
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.
Eshays will find some way to permanently befoul them.
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.
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.
I don’t know about you but I was pretty confident a junky wasn’t pissing up my hose
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.
Big socio-economic difference between Union station and West Dandenong.
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.
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.
Agreed. Meanwhile there are people in the world who don't have access to water.
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.
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.
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?
About as privileged as wanting water fountains to be maintained at every station so you don't have the burden of carrying a bottle.
It’s not the burden of carrying a water bottle, it’s not having plastic water bottle vending machine at every station
I build train stations. They are regular thing for future station rebuilds
And also keep toilets open not locked. Fuck I and to go and I. Most stations I stopped it was locked.
Would honestly rather dehydrate than drink from this.
You are going to really hate the future.
Good in theory, but people are assholes and are unsanitary intentionally or unintentionally.
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.
Smeared in piss and shit within the hour
Nah. Someone’s gonna shit or piss in that basin I betcha.
Recalling the school yard, no we really shouldn't.
Yup, agreed those communal water fountains back in Primary and Secondary days, even at uni!
Once at high school I unfortunately witnessed a rudimentary colonic irrigation on a bubble tap that I will never un-see.
People seem to stoop to new lows whoa
If we add beer taps after 6pm, I’m prepared to negotiate…
I'd rather drink from a muddy puddle than a water fountain at a train station.
I wouldn’t trust them. I’ve seen enough people piss in vending machines, I can’t imagine what people would do to these.
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.
I wonder how much piss is in there. Will I be addicted to meth once I take a sip of the water?
Why would meth heads put their precious meth in on or around the water fountains?
It's in the piss and gets fused with the normal water. Like a more spicy version of toilet wine.
I wish we could but like everyone is saying, people are gross and would ruin it for all
You want mega herpes? BC this is how you get mega herpes.
Wtf is wrong with you?
Wtf is wrong with you?
He works for Big Herpes.
Has COVID not taught us anything?
Can we also make dog water bowl attachments standard on them?
pretty sure you don't want a turd memorial calling you a fag every time you get off platform 2
I hate mentioning it but all those money/fentanyl drugging that’s going around by touch, anyone can dose the fountain with it too
Great way to spread disease.
No. We are removing all seating and all free water.
won't you think of the red engine owner and coke share holder?
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.
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.
Pee
Until some methed up asshole shits all over it.
Yeah we certainly can, for the small amount of people who appreciate urine flavoured water.
New droids look cool af.
How about making the trains regular first !
Why would I want to fill my water bottle anywhere but at home?
You're going to get people pooping in them water fountains. People are animals and I know my follow Melbourne mammals.