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Submitted By: Jan V
Favorite Comment: Fixer Thomas Westgard says, “Is that a plug-in hand dryer? I don’t know what’s crazier, a cord going through a tile wall or a hand dryer designed to be unplugged.”
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Crazy thing is – there’s no switch box hacked onto the plug!
Is that a plug-in hand dryer? I don’t know what’s crazier, a cord going through a tile wall or a hand dryer designed to be unplugged.
I’ve seen plenty of plug-in hand dryers. The advantage is they can be installed by any idiot, whereas, a hard-wired unit has to be installed by an electrician. If you can really call that an advantage in this case …
That’s where they’re hiding the body.
That’s an obvious photoshop job — if this were real:
1) there should be short (diagonal) segments of shadow connecting from the sidewalls up to where the cord supposedly enters and exits the column.
2) Given that the power plug is larger than the cord, the tiles where the cord enters and exits the column should have a notch to allow sliding the tile around the cord for placement and a corresponding grout line / fill.
The photo was actually taken inside the tomb of Tutankhamun (this was the pharaoh’s personal pyramid dehumidifier).
Craig, I disagree.
1) The expected shadows could be mostly washed out by directional lighting; I think my eyes detect very faint shadows where you’re describing them, and that would be in line with the differences in how the walls are being lit.
2) Maybe they did a very smooth patch job on the notches; the photo is hardly high enough resolution to be able to tell. Also, for that matter, you don’t know what’s behind the wall… maybe they CUT the power cord, fed each end through the holes in the tile, and then spliced it behind the wall.
Sometimes I get tired of everybody crying “photoshop!”
You’re probably right which make the thing not funny anymore. @Craig
I prefer act like it’s genuine so why do people assume that, with a job that stupid, the cord really powers the hand dryer? My bet is that is’t actually the power cord for the water heater from the previous pic whereas the hand drying is connected to the basement outlet where the water heater is!@Craig
I think it’s real, the cord shadows are correct, taken with a flash. The plug probably isn’t molded but has terminal screws. May not be in the USA by looks of the plug and wall plate. If those are ceramic tiles they had to be drilled for the cord.
@Craig
At least you gave some coherent reasons for your buzzkill “photoshop” claim. My question is, with all the crazy cool stuff you can do with Photoshop, why would anyone choose to fake this particular photo?
@Craig
I agree with Evan- to Photoshop this seems like a waste of time (he says, while posting to TIFI). However,
1)When I zoom in I can see those shadows.
2)The opposite end of the cord is wired to the unit. Very easy to undo the connection and feed that end through a hole.
@Demetrius: The switch is probably in the corner. They save money by not being able to turn it on.
“This looks shopped” is the new “FIRST POST.”
Replacing the unit will be a major feat.
Apparently the tile guild works for less money than the electrician’s union.
*shouts*: USA! USA! USA! USA!…
That might be a replicator…and this might be the result of a teleporter accident.
LOL!
Maybe if the wall was built first the cord would not reach. This way it reaches.
(Asuming that was not a joke) I really don’t think so, I even think it would be shorter to put it around the wall.
). And maybe to prevent robbery, though they could just cut the wire.
Bur nobody looked a little down? the wall is empty, I think they just drilled two holes and somehow put the wire through them for aesthetics reasons (sorry if that wasn’t the correct word, I’m not native english speaker
It is too bad they were not standing a little further back or pointing a little further down… I really want to see why they cut out the bottom of the ‘pillar’.
The water heater in the previous post is behind the pillar…
Taken in east europe OR any muslim country. They knock off 5 times a day for prayer and forget what they were doing when they come bac.
@oldfagodad
You have obviously never been outside of your redneck shack. For if you had been you would know that
a) Eastern European countries have no need for any “god” whatsoever and therefore their people don’t pray;
b) Muslim countries do not have crappy Amerikkan appliances as shown in the picture above.
Have a nice day.
A carbide bit would easily do the trick, right through tile and durock. Notice the holes are past where the stud would fasten to the wall, and easy access from underneath. 30 min job tops.
Krischn,
oldlegodad is obviously out of line. But, if YOU knew anything, you’d realize this is not an Amerikkan (very clever, you are–berate someone for being a redneck and then be culturally backward yourself) appliance. First (and most importantly), we do not use power outlets like that in the US. Second, hand dryers like this do not “plug-in” (generally…I suppose it’s possible somewhere, but I have NEVER seen a plug-in (forget the TIFI part) hand dryer). My guess (and only a guess) is this is India. The plug and the outlet look similar to what I saw when I was there.
Is this M. C. Escher’s bathroom?
“I really want to see why they cut out the bottom of the ‘pillar’.”
Why, so they could reach up and feed the wire through the holes, of course!
Its a communication cord.
We did something similar to this when we hung our cordless kitchen phone one time. The outlet was over the counter, and the phone was on the outside of the pantry. We drilled a hole on either side of the pantry and spliced the wire for the phone power cord because it was too short to go over, and no way to run an extension cord. You wouldn’t know unless you looked in the back of the pantry. What I don’t understand is why they didn’t just mount the hand dryer on the “pillar” since it was built? I’ve been in enough restrooms where they seem to make you walk a distance between the sink and hand dryers/towels.
@Craig
I’m glad someone was on my side, I saw that instantly.
do people steal hand dryers in your country?
Hi i am the sender of this picture
for those who claim this to be shopped i will gladly bring a better cam and do a closeup next time i go there 
what i have been told is that i am not the first visitor to this office who took a picture of this and most likely not the last either..
This is a genuine picture taken with a a crappy mobile phone, hence bad quality
Anyhow this is in a office building in Kiev (Ukraine), the hole for the cord has been drilled into the tiles on both sides of the canal for the water tubes going between the floors, therefore the cutout in the bottom of the picture.
I owe to say that even the locals are amused about this installation as it is rarely seen done like this
I doubt this is Photoshopped as I have seen this type of thing in India a lot. They have some very weird construction practices, especially when it comes to electricity.
@ ben there…..doesn’t surprise me that this was done in india….
and i think weird is an understatement.
He did say this was taken in Kiev, which is in the Ukraine. It is not in India.
PHOTO-SHOPPED OR NOT…ITS FUNNY AS HECKK. LOL
LMAO…
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Strange shadows… looks like a fake :/
I am looking at it every day
Electric Toilet Paper Dispenser! It’s all the rage.
The cord is threaded through the wall to prevent the theft otherwise easily stolen plug-in appliances.
HEAD!!!!!!!!!
Their love is separated by a wall. Yet both the plug & the dryer still reach for each other.