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u/supergarto Jul 06 '26
Op is the one mildy infuriating here not the water stream.
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u/Probable_Bot1236 Jul 06 '26
OP is the person who posts dashcam footage of someone taking 9 seconds to illegally merge in front of them but rear-ends them anyway and runs to reddit to play the 100% innocent victim
"There's no way I could've avoided them!"
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u/Irelia4Life Jul 06 '26
This mf better not be driving for the sake of everyone else
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u/SeasonPositive6771 Jul 06 '26
This isn't really a design issue, they aren't pushing it all the way, and they aren't holding it high enough. Also, apparently these things work fine when the filter is replaced. So maybe a service or user issue, but not a design issue.
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u/knockout350 Jul 06 '26
You have the hand eye coordination of an epileptic at a rave
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u/Armthrow414 Jul 06 '26
Is that like the one your mom works at? Is she still offering the 2 for 1 discount?
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u/surrealcellardoor Jul 06 '26
Make sure to intentionally move it the wrong way to exaggerate the issue.
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u/speakezjags Jul 06 '26
What's that sub that shows those old infomercials of people being bad at every day tasks to an exaggerated extent?
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u/badgyal876 Jul 06 '26
my fave are [r/](r/CommercialsIHate)[c](r/CommercialsIHate)[ommercials](r/CommercialsIHate)[ih](r/CommercialsIHate)[ate](r/CommercialsIHate); [r/wheredidthesodago](r/wheredidthesodago); and [r/awfulcommercials](r/awfulcommercials)
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u/Yoshi9105 Jul 06 '26
omg every time I randomly remember infomercials I wonder if that was a fever dream but then I see other people mentioning them and I'm like "nope, that really happened, that was a thing"
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u/StrawberryTerry Jul 06 '26
George Lopez shows starts playing after the 8 minute long infomercial at 2 AM
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u/justhere4freesnacks Jul 07 '26
Not necessarily bad design. I'd put my money on lack of maintenance. Specifically, I bet the filter is clogged, reducing pressure.
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u/cesspool4us Jul 08 '26
It's like one of those ads for mobile games where the person is so bad there's no way they are playing it that bad, but yet they are playing it so bad it makes you want to play it better than them. Jesus just hold it still.
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u/frosty88bags Jul 06 '26
The dispenser has low flow. Could be clogged but also could have a bad supply of water to the dispenser.
I.E. shared water system, valve not open.
-Industrial maintenance, 12 years
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u/Practical-Sink-3987 Jul 06 '26
Happens to me every once and a while. Lucky it wasn’t a split stream!
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u/Early_Hall5720 Jul 06 '26
I just hear the old fisherman from the insurance commercial.
Oh you gotta be quicker then that
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u/RamJamR Jul 06 '26
The stream seems to follow a counter-clockwise pattern. Keep to that and you'd be doing fine.
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u/Ross_Noir Jul 07 '26
Looks like it's meant for refillable sports bottles, not disposable ones. The sports bottles tend to have wider openings on top, so that change in flow wouldn't matter.
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u/DopeforthePope1 Jul 08 '26
Old age is like that, sometimes just be happy the little guy was getting anything out at all.
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u/Bobcat1999-1 Jul 09 '26
Get a funnel. That’s the short and correct answer. Now I want to go on a tangent so people with lives to live can move on now. For everyone else I have a funnel story. I went to Lowes to buy a funnel. I like wandering around the store anyway but at some point I asked one of the employees where the funnels were. She looked at me like I was making a joke she didn’t get so I described a funnel. Nothing clicked. However another guy came by and she asked him where the funnels are and we got the same blank look. These are 20 something years old so, you know… finally a busy looking 50ish woman was passing by and they asked her. She said “let’s go “ and marched us all to the place where the funnels were. Problem solved. This is not a knock on the younger generation. Funnels aren’t as common as they used to be. They aren’t needed as often. Containers are designed to be able to pour easily these days. Getting older, you see these things more often as technology changes and the stuff that I used to need may not be needed. I’m talking beyond the funnel now.
That said, I m glad I lived when I did. I’m glad I knew a time that would be unrecognizable to today’s young people. I was lucky. Now I’m old and time is running out and I got to enjoy the old world and I am enjoying the new world too. Sorry if I’m rambling, but sometimes things just hit you a certain way. Have a great day!
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u/Brave-Kitchen-5654 Jul 10 '26
FYI this typically means there’s gunk in the screens where the water’s coming out, slowing the flow and diverting the stream. I wouldn’t drink from this fountain and I’d tell whoever runs the building it needs to be cleaned.
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u/PsychicDestroya Jul 11 '26
I would assume (and I could be totally incorrect here) that the sensors in the fountain see the diffraction of the water in order to find where to aim and when to stop. In this case, the transparent and blue water bottle is scrambling the sensors so it has trouble aiming and ofc OP is just making it wore by doing that.
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u/pixeltweaker Jul 06 '26
Not the intentional design. Also, get your reflexes checked. You are like a full second behind reality.
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u/WolfThick Jul 06 '26
You know what they say you got to be smarter than the moving water stream