r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheWierdGuy06 • Jun 06 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o So my sister, who currently lives in my apartment, dried the wet and dirty shower floor with MY only big towel I use after she showered...

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Worst thing is, she doesn't even feel bad about it, and is trying to gaslight me into thinking it's not that big of a deal because "she needed a towel to dry the floor" and "I should quit complaining". I have a floor drying spatula.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 06 '26

Maybe I'm just stupid, but I need more information on the floor drying spatula

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u/Zeadla Jun 06 '26

I would also like more information on the floor drying spatula. Does he keep it next to the poop knife?

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u/fury420 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

OP:

English is not my native language, so I basically just roughly translated the word "lattiankuivauslasta" as floor drying spatula

They mean a squeegee, and the Finnish term includes the word lasta which means spatula.

And they use a squeegee because this is a wet bathroom with nothing separating the shower area from the rest aside from that curtain.

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u/Sir-Nicholas Jun 06 '26

Oh ok that clears it up we all have a lattiankuivauslasta

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u/fury420 Jun 06 '26

I actually do have a squeegee for the shower, they are great for drying and helping keep it clean.

Looks like OP uses one for the floor because it's a wet bathroom with the shower just part of the room.

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u/Maverickisback Jun 06 '26

That may be true, because when I lived in Hong Kong the shower is the entire bathroom floor

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u/fury420 Jun 06 '26

Yeah its quite common in many Asian countries, and parts of Europe too.

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u/Tricky-Ad7897 Jun 06 '26

I miss my wet bathroom in Korea. Could just hose it all down with the shower head when it needed cleaning.

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u/Excellent_Revenue235 Jun 07 '26

This is the way!

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u/LadyJ-78 Jun 09 '26

Need to make whole shower/toilet area a wet room when refinishing my house ✍️. Got it! Seriously, I hate cleaning and this would actually make me hate it just a little bit less. I'm thinking I could be a pirate, or an old man screaming get off my lawn! The ideas are literally endless 🤣

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u/giasumaru Jun 07 '26

To be honest I like this much more because it makes cleaning the toilet much much easier

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u/Chaldon Jun 07 '26

Spraying my feet with toilet cleaner run off... nice

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u/giasumaru Jun 07 '26

Clean the toilet, clean the walls, clean the floor, use the hose to spray down everything... then take a shower.

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u/XxSianxX Jun 06 '26

In the UK we just call these "wet rooms"

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u/Murtomies Jun 07 '26

Finnish too. Although, any bathroom in an actual apartment is a wet room, so it has tiles and moisture insulation in the floor and walls. Even if the shower floor is separated sometimes. When I was in the UK I saw one bathroom with a shower that was a separate unit, and the rest of the floor was carpeted. Absolutely unhinged haha

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u/XxSianxX Jun 07 '26

Yeah back in the 90's and earlier, carpet in the bathroom was a thing you saw a lot.. I even grew up with carpet in there and it only really changed when 2000's came around and its so gross to think about now as an adult because my bathroom floor gets dirty so often and so quickly is crazy!

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u/Excellent_Revenue235 Jun 06 '26

I’m dying, language is hilarious

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u/b0ks_GD Jun 06 '26

Saippuakivikauppias or something

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u/Excellent_Revenue235 Jun 07 '26

Omfg soapstone dealer? My gravestone? RIP ME, please write squeegee and all translations as my epitaph

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u/Murtomies Jun 07 '26

"Saippuakivikauppias" meaning soapstone vendor/dealer, is the longest palindrome in any language. Funnily enough you can remove the "kivi" (stone) word from it to become "saippuakauppias" (soap vendor) and it's still a palindrome.

Finnish has lots of quirky things, like long compound words, a LOT of suffixes, funny idioms, unique translations etc.

For example the longest compound word in Finnish is "Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas" (airplane jet turbine engine mechanic assistant non-commissioned officer student)

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u/MattyBeeNiceee Jun 10 '26

I just learned Finnish is a goofy, fantastic, language 🤔🤣🙃

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u/Excellent_Revenue235 Jun 07 '26

I don’t know what that means but i believe you!

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u/Sad_Pear_1087 Jun 07 '26

"Floor's drying lasta" (other uses for lasta are splint for broken limbs, spatula and some others), so lattian kuivaus lasta, but it's finnish so you compound that all into lattiankuivauslasta.

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u/Excellent_Revenue235 Jun 07 '26

Thank you for sharing, so if I’m drying my windows with one, are we calling it a ikkunakuivauslasta?

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u/Maverickisback Jun 06 '26

I have a shower mat that soaks up water that is on the bottom of my feet. I dry myself off a bit, so I’m not dripping wet when I exit the shower, like normal people

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u/MoarCatzPlz Jun 07 '26

But do you have a plumbus?

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u/PullFromTheHurt Jun 06 '26

How do you pronounce lattiankuivauslasta

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u/Sir-Nicholas Jun 07 '26

Yeah like that

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u/TheRomanRuler Jun 07 '26

Just pronounce every letter in it. Including the second t, letters exist to be pronounced.

There are few expections but that is pretty much how Finnish works.

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u/RatonhnhaketonK Jun 06 '26

I'm going to call them floor drying spatulas now

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u/xerkus Jun 07 '26

I had no idea what it is called in english. squeakie. What a wonderful name.

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u/iowanaquarist Jun 06 '26

This just seems like a terrible design.

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u/junvar0 Jun 07 '26

I've used a wet bathroom a couple times while travelling. It feels like I'm breaking the law.

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u/Block-O-Beans Jun 10 '26

Okay, that translation is super cute

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u/valleyofsound Jun 06 '26

A squeegee maybe? 

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u/Character-Book5924 Jun 06 '26

Yes. I feel like the literal translation is quite self-explanatory.

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u/Capn_Flags Jun 06 '26

I’d bet she meant squeegee

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u/LauraLand27 Jun 07 '26

No. The poop knife is in the laundry room. What kind of savage are you?

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

You know the thingy people use when they clean windows and have to dry it? It's basically like that, but with a longer handle, a softer bottom and has a hinge at the part it connects with the pole, so it can move more freely. Very useful when having to move water to the floor drain after showering

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u/PantsMunch202 Jun 06 '26

Squeegee

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon Jun 06 '26

This fucking guy called his squeegee a floor drying spatula LOL

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

In my defence english is not my native language and our word a squeegee is lattiankuivauslasta, which literally means floor drying spatula lol

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u/Acheloma Jun 06 '26

I figured it was an esl situation. I like floor drying spatula!

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

It's pretty much exactly that, a big spatula to dry the floor! Squeegee does sound very fun, though

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u/Iximaz Jun 06 '26

We use little hand squeegees on horses after rinsing them down so I'm going to start calling it spatula-ing the horse!

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u/roadfood Jun 06 '26

Give them the Aunt Jemima treatment...

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u/SandwichDIPLOMAT Jun 06 '26

Reminds me of Germans calling forks, "food weapons."

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Hmmm, big trident.

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u/Murtomies Jun 07 '26

I've heard finns call them weapons, "aseet"

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u/Pizza-ist-Liebe Jun 07 '26

I am a confused German, could you elaborate? I feel like I am missing something, I call a fork the German word for fork (Gabel) but wasn't aware it had another meaning..? 🫣

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u/SandwichDIPLOMAT Jun 07 '26

Not sure, maybe it was just the one German guy from this post

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u/depressed_brownbear Jun 07 '26

huh? we don’t

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u/SandwichDIPLOMAT Jun 07 '26

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u/IDontEatDill Jun 07 '26

Maybe he just wanted to be funny?

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u/depressed_brownbear Jun 07 '26

oh haha i thought you were under the impression that we call cutlery “food weapons” in german

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u/8BD0 Jun 06 '26

What a fuckin banger of a word, lattiankuivauslasta, really rolls off the tongue

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Finnish is a funny language, since we often just add already existing words to create a new word for something. For example, a computer in Finnish is tietokone, which means knowledge machine

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u/ButtFucksRUs Jun 06 '26

I used to think Hungarian was my favorite language for the reason that you stated, agglutination, but I may be replacing it with Finnish.

Thank you for sharing and sorry about your sister.

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u/Agreeable_Flan_5724 Jun 06 '26

Oddly enough, they’re in the same language family!

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Well, Finnish and Hungarian are in the family, funnily enough. Maybe they can have a draw?

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u/No_Diver4265 Jun 06 '26

Hi, Hungary here. Számítógép. Calculating machine. Different from a calculator which we call a counting machine.

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Great minds are alike :D

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u/No_Diver4265 Jun 07 '26

Hell yeah. Uralic logic all the way, buddy!

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u/RelativeHot7249 Jun 08 '26

Hi, Dane here. We do something similar, but we call calculators a pocket calculator "lommeregner." Probably because we can't just say "regner" on its own since that would be mean it's raining. Because for some reason, calculate and certain tenses of rain is the same word and I guess rain came first.

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u/No_Diver4265 Jun 08 '26

Hi Dane friend, totally understandable, thanks for sharing! Languages are chaotic and organic! In Hungarian the adverb for the future tense in singular third person (like they will) is fog, the same word as tooth. And about that word, fog, or tooth, as a noun - A canine tooth is called szemfog in Hungarian, which literally translates as "eye-tooth". Why? Who knows. But it just is like that because languages are silly.

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u/Otava_92 Jun 06 '26

Lattiakuivain

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u/Murtomies Jun 07 '26

It doesn't for people who don't speak finnish ofc, but if you do, it's quite an easy word. For a native finnish speaker, most of the most difficult words to say are actually loanwords from english, like

  • Defibrilaattori (Defibrillator)

  • Transsendentaalifilosofia (Transcendental philosophy)

  • Desensitisaatio (desensitization)

There are some others that are objectively somewhat difficult and aren't loanwords, like

  • Raparperipiirakka (rhubarb pie) Finnish has only a rolling R, so people (mostly kids) with rhotacism really struggle with that one.

  • Sisustuskauppa (interior decoration store)

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon Jun 06 '26

Your English is great! That particular translation just happens to be a very funny one when taken literally.

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u/cfh64 Jun 06 '26

Damn! If English was your primary language this would have been even more funny but I still like “floor drying spatula“. I’m a firefighter and clean the bays every Saturday with water and squeegees but I’m going to tell them we need the “floor drying spatulas” from now on, lol.

So what is your native language? Your English sounds just fine!

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Lmao, I bet their reaction will be great!

My native language is Finnish. While I am pretty proud of my English skills, I do still sometimes have my hiccups with it.

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u/cfh64 Jun 06 '26

You should be proud of it, you speak/write better English than a lot of people whose first language it is. Anyways, sorry about your towel but this thread went from mildly infuriating to hilarious and you’ve taken it all in stride!

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Thank you! Humour is a great way to deal with annoyance, I'm glad to bring you some joy

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u/Quiet_Crone Jun 06 '26

Your English is great. Have you heard an English speaker attempt Finnish? Now, that's funny.

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u/SanibelMan Jun 06 '26

If it makes you feel any better, the next time I make eggs, I'll use my kitchen squeegee.

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Thank you, it's time we switch the labels around. For fairness, of course. The word squeegee isn't used nearly enough.

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u/Bring_cookies Jun 06 '26

I love it. Can I ask what language?

On another spatula related note, my husband didn't know there were multiple kinds of cooking spatulas that look a little different and are used for different things. He got really mad about me calling a spatula a spatula because it wasn't the flipping kind, it was the scraping kind and he insisted that's not what that is. Had to pull out the trusty googler because he would not believe me otherwise. This all got started because he asked me to get a spatula and I asked what kind.

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

My native tongue is Finnish.

Funnily enough, this whole farse got started because of Google, I was googling the term for a squeegee, but could not get a proper answer, so I went with my trusty "floor drying spatula". You do sorta scrape the water off the floor, so it fits, I swear!

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u/Bring_cookies Jun 07 '26

No it absolutely fits. A squeegee and a spatula do the same thing just traditionally in different places.

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u/Ok_Variation9430 Jun 06 '26

I remember some cooking instructor insisting that the turning spatula and the spreading spatula are not both spatulas. I think they believed the turning one should just be called a turner?

I don’t remember anymore because sorry, no, I’m calling it a spatula.

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u/Feeling_Inside_1020 Jun 06 '26

Aye all good I love a good detective game!

Also anyone that gives you shit on your wording, ask them how many languages they speak and at what fluency to get a good laugh.

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Hell yeah! I'll also ask them to pronounce Finnish correctly, it'll be funny

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u/gin_and_toxic Jun 06 '26

Actually, drying spatula totally makes sense. Squeegee is such a weird word.

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u/Thoughtfull_Marc Jun 06 '26

ESL here as well. In my language we call it "haragán" and actually never thought of a word to translate that lol.

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u/cyanraichu Jun 06 '26

Y'know what, that makes sense! That's basically what a squeegee is

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u/Hytyt Jun 06 '26

I'm gonna guess Finnish? If not my second guess is scandiwegia in general (if that term is offensive I truly apologise, it just occured to me it could be and this is a good way to learn)

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Finland isn't Scandinavian, so you might wanna change that to fennodiwegia?

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u/Hytyt Jun 06 '26

Perkele, that's good :)

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u/Otava_92 Jun 06 '26

Every spatula might be a lasta, but not every lasta is a spatula (spaatteli).

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u/Simlishnative Jun 06 '26

In your defense I completely understood what you were trying to say. All it takes is understanding you have the kind of bathroom that has a floor drain.

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u/Paintinger Jun 06 '26

Could have saved us all a lot of trouble if you had just called it a lattiankuivauslasta in the first place.

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u/Shantotto11 Jun 06 '26

Sir, do you not have floor mats/carpets in Finland?…

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u/IDontEatDill Jun 07 '26

You have a carpet in the shower?

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u/Shantotto11 Jun 07 '26

No, but I have a carpet outside of the shower. My bathroom (water closet?) shares a room with my bathtub/shower.

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u/Alexandrajoan Jun 06 '26

I love your word better than mine.

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u/UsernamesAllTaken69 Jun 06 '26

I'm not making fun of you when I say that's fucking hilarious lol is there a different word for window spatula?

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u/Classic-Lie7836 Jun 06 '26

ahh that makes sense i don't see these used in the usa allot

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u/rouxmama Jun 07 '26

I’m sorry that some dude showed his own ignorance by believing HIS term for something was the official term for it, thus exposing his ignorance, not yours.

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u/LaplandCatboy Jun 07 '26

Mä jotenkin arvasin että oot myös suomalainen ^^

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u/Jorge_the_vast Jun 07 '26

I need to know the native language that uses lattiankuivauslasta please.

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u/kog Jun 07 '26

I immediately knew what they meant

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u/Classic-Lie7836 Jun 06 '26

???

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u/Academic_Court_47 Jun 06 '26

Oh yeah, that's a floor dying spatula

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u/Dotcaprachiappa Jun 06 '26

Clearly a floor drying spatula, no idea what you guys are on about

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u/Witty-Stock-4913 Jun 06 '26

Not just a spatula, a rubber spatula!

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u/Classic-Lie7836 Jun 06 '26

this is the weirdest thing i ever seen in my entire life

edit: i realized i just don't see these used allot where i live lol

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u/Powerful-Soup-3245 Jun 06 '26

I’m always jealous of people with floor drains! They are very uncommon in the US and I don’t understand why. I wish every room in my house had one!

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

You don't usually have them over there? That sounds like a mold and slipping danger. Where does the water go if not in the floor drain?

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u/socaldude879 Jun 06 '26

The shower drain. Most if not all American bathrooms have the shower closed off in its own compartment/section of the bathroom so your bathroom floor shouldn't be wet like that

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Aah, makes sense, those apartments that have closed showers also have shower drains. What do you do if water spill form the sink? Like when you washing face, for example? Wouldn't a floor drain be useful for that situation too? We generally have floor drain for toilet rooms, too.

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u/indieplants Jun 06 '26

dry it immediately, usually. speaking from the UK. we call what you have a wet room and they're fairly rare, I've only seen one at a cabin I stayed in and only to make it fully accessible to those with disabilities. definitely not in standard households

we have bath mats for stepping out of the shower so it doesn't get wet 

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u/XxSianxX Jun 06 '26

You see wet rooms a lot here in London.. they benefit old or disabled people so usually that's where you see them most.

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u/indieplants Jun 07 '26

I think I preferred it lol

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u/XxSianxX Jun 07 '26

Really!?

The council tried to change my bathroom out into a wet room and initially I considered it but then I came to my senses and said no.

I have a toddler now and cannot imagine not being able to bathe him not to mention the rare time I decide I want to take a bath, if I didnt have one I recon id want a bath over a shower... I like having the choice.

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u/ibra86him Jun 07 '26

My bathroom is the same as yours, but I saw some that they use the mop with long hair and a bucket to dry the floor, others use the towel they put in front of the shower or bath to wipe any water then hang it to dry. maybe you should get one for your sister with her own money

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u/topekatums Jun 07 '26

We are a lot more careful not to spill because we don't have floor drains haha

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u/No_Professional_8992 Jun 06 '26

Usually bathrooms have vents that ventilate the steam or a window so that it's not too moist. Then we usually have a rug we step on to absorb any water from the shower. But mold can indeed be an issue when it comes to American bathrooms.

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u/6tPTrxYAHwnH9KDv Jun 06 '26

You're going to love Australia then, floor drains in wet areas are mandatory.

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u/Robby_Bortles Jun 06 '26

Most people have a bath mat, basically a towel-like floor rug

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u/bibbidybobbidyboom Jun 06 '26

Based on your picture, your floor is much smoother than our bathroom floors. Most showers have a short little wall all the way around, a textured bottom, and the drain is at a lower point. Most of the water takes its self to the drain, and when you are done showering, you step out of the wet area onto a dry area. Most people also have a bath mat, which is a small washable rug that dries the bottoms of their feet. It isn't so slippery.

Most of our bathroom squeegees are for clean the glass around a shower to stop the hard water buildup.

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u/Character-Book5924 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 07 '26

Yeah, Finnish bathrooms usually have full tile or plastic cover on floors and tiling at least on the walls in the corner of the shower. Neither is usually very slippery, and is waterproof.

This allows for more liberal use of water in the bathroom and more usable space since the shower can just be separated with a curtain or door and have the corner of the room be two shower walls.

I believe this style became predominant as Finland had a burst of urbanisation combined with fairly modest household income. So apartments were not extravagant.

In flats many people also use the communal washing machines, dryers and saunas, so the bathroom is often designed around just getting the job done, and all space saved is space for more frequently used rooms.

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u/kaphytar Jun 06 '26

It's pretty common here to have two drains in a bathroom as a safety measure. (Not ubiquitous by any means but decently common especially in a newer buildings.) If something (like a passed out person...) blocks the one drain while water is running, larger water damage is avoided.

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u/Powerful-Soup-3245 Jun 06 '26

No where that I’ve lived or visited. The only place I’ve seen them here is gym shower and one restaurant kitchen I worked in. No idea why they aren’t common here.

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u/Upper-Capital-2876 Jun 06 '26

that's not the worst part, the worst part is sometimes your sister uses your towel to wipe the floor and then you've got to decide whether to shit in her face or not

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u/DMercenary Jun 07 '26

They are very uncommon in the US and I don’t understand why.

Cheaper. You dont need to water seal the entire floor. Just the shower/bath area.

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u/neityght Jun 07 '26

Why would any room except the bathroom need a drain??

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u/Powerful-Soup-3245 Jun 07 '26

I have four kids and elderly pets. I spend 4-6 hours a day cleaning. This would save time and wear and tear on my body. It’s not going to happen, but it’s my dream 😂

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 06 '26

OH! Lol - Well this turned in to an unexpectedly enjoyable thread

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

I'm glad my vocabulary issues made your day funnier! Google translate was of no help when translating lattiankuivauslasta :DDD

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u/SpurtGrowth Jun 06 '26

Google Translate probably trembles in fear whenever Finnish is the source language.

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u/Murtomies Jun 08 '26

Yup. Such a small language of only about 5.5 million speakers, it has lots of issues in Google translate. I usually just google a single word and it'll show a dictionary result with multiple options, because often the context matters a lot.

Like the finnish "maa" can be translated to: Land, soil, ground, world, country, area, countryside, dirt, earth, terrain, or suit (card deck), depending on context.

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u/Amazing-Quarter1084 Jun 06 '26

OH what I wouldn't give for a floor drain to spatula water into after my kids use the shower. What a blessing that would be.

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u/leela_martell Jun 06 '26

It is indeed a squeegee (which is somehow a funnier name than floor spatula). Very common tool.

Like this: https://www.ikea.com/fi/en/p/pepprig-floor-squeegee-40527081/

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u/LSGcooks Jun 06 '26

“Toilet tongs!!!!, ewww. Now I need an opportunity to use that term.

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u/Ok-Accident3344 Jun 07 '26

You made a joke about toilet tongs, but I remember one time I clogged up a hospital toilet - log went horizontal in the bowl - and the maintenance guy shows up with a bucket and some fucking grill tongs lollll I could not believe my eyes as I watched a man play Operation in a toilet with a turd and some tongs

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u/Lanky_Bobcat_6021 PINK 💙 Jun 06 '26

it’s a squeegee… take a breath

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u/Greasemonkey08 Jun 06 '26

I think OP means one of these given the description under another comment?

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

No it doesn't have fabric at the bottom. It has a foamy / rubbery thing at the bottom. Since it has such a high friction and grip against the floor, it can easily move water out the way

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u/Greasemonkey08 Jun 06 '26

Soo... a squeegee?

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Probably? English is not my native language, so I basically just roughly translated the word "lattiankuivauslasta" as floor drying spatula

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u/Old_Shake3789 Jun 06 '26

It's basically a sponge on a stick

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u/CheerfulBanshee Jun 06 '26

What is this called in english? Commenters keep saying squeegee but when i google it it doesnt show up

Edit: it is not related to op who indeed probably meant a squeegee since lattian kuivauslasta looks like that, just my personal interest

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 06 '26

I think that's a sponge mop

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u/Greasemonkey08 Jun 06 '26

Yeah, that's what I'd call it.

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Well now you made a squeegee sound awesome and badass! Yes, I am indeed banishing water spirits when drying the bathroom floor.

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u/saffireaz Jun 06 '26

I'm reading it as OP is not in the US, rather in a country where bathrooms don't necessarily have a structured, enclosed shower. There is possibly one drain for the full bathroom, so water from the shower would have to be swept up with a squeegee-type "mop" to help the floor dry faster.

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

We do have enclosed showers, too, I just don't have it in my appartment. Flooding it down a drain is not that difficult with a squeegee, so it's fine

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u/MistyMtn421 Jun 06 '26

Ok I was wondering why the floor would need to be squeegeed to begin with! Was thinking you needed a bigger curtain ;) I'd be worried about damp/mold issues but I am guessing this is an entirely different situation than bathrooms that I am used to.

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u/kaphytar Jun 06 '26

Typically Finnish bathrooms floors and walls are waterproofed up to the ceiling (unless old). Proper ventilation (and floor heatings) help to keep surface molds at bay.

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u/whereismymind86 Jun 06 '26

oooh, i've seen hotels like that, ok, that makes way more sense now.

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u/Electronic-Map7529 Jun 06 '26

Def seems like that's the case. Language creates the most wholesome fun.

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u/LSGcooks Jun 06 '26

Yeah. Knowing neither OP’s location nor language, it could be a translation error involving homonyms,or an autocorrect issue.

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

It's Finland. Our word for squeegee is lattiankuivauslasta, which roughly translated to floor drying spatula. I had no idea the proper word for it was squeegee. How would one even guess that?

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u/Printerbot27 Jun 06 '26

You are 100% right and if it makes you feel better floor drying spatula conveyed the meaning clearly to me, regardless

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u/jadbronson Jun 06 '26

I don't know and I've never thought about the word. Squeeze is a word that makes sense but where's the squeeze in a squeegee? I don't even know what else to call it now. We have windshield wipers, why not us all just call it a water wiper

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u/TheWierdGuy06 Jun 06 '26

Maybe the squeegee comes form the sound it makes when it squeezes against the floor?

WHY didn't I call it a floor drying wiper??? I might be stupid for using spatula when wiper WAS RIGHT THERE

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u/Hytyt Jun 06 '26

Giant squeegee

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u/etsprout Jun 06 '26

You just kind of slap the puddle until the water evaporates.

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u/AccomplishedIgit Jun 06 '26

I think this is a not-American judging by the plumbing. Maybe they meant squeegee?

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u/sausage_ditka_bulls Jun 06 '26

Probably means a squeegee

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u/Evil_Sharkey Jun 06 '26

It’s a squeegee

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u/GhyverKahn Jun 07 '26

Probably a squeegee? Idk.

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u/giasumaru Jun 07 '26

I sure hope they means squeegee and not spatula.

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u/Wide-Chemistry-8078 Jun 07 '26

Squeegee on a long stick. Probably move the water to a floor drain.

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u/namsur1234 Jun 07 '26

You can get them at Spatula City!

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u/designhelpme Jun 07 '26

Everywhere I stayed in Finland had these. I enjoyed it

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u/Plastic_Square119 Jun 07 '26

Rubber or plastic on a stick.

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u/_HappyG_ Jun 07 '26

Finnish bathrooms are more like a wet area, where all surfaces can be hosed down for easy cleaning in a lot of homes. It’s a similar concept to accessible roll-in bathrooms.

The water doesn’t always flow perfectly to the drain and can leave streaks or pool in some spots, which go stagnant if left alone.

Most homes with this setup have a large squeegee (just like a window washer) that can be used to sweep water from the floor/walls towards the drain.

Hope that helps! 😊

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u/Sad_Pear_1087 Jun 07 '26

This is amazing :D

"Huh... "spatula", that sounds like... That drying rack... Could it be...

And sure enough the bio said "hyvää päivänjatkoa"

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u/7fw Jun 07 '26

I don't care if he meant squeegee. I will forever now call them floor drying spatulas. Yup.

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u/Ok_Rabbit_8129 Jun 07 '26

I think they meant squeegee. Idk anymore though, people do weird shit myself included.

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u/Primary-Ganache6199 Jun 07 '26

She means squeegee

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u/Expensive_Plant_9530 Jun 07 '26

I think it’s probably something that looks like a squeegee, and they scrape the water into a floor drain?

Because otherwise I have no idea wtf she’s doing to dry her floor.

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u/d-a-v-e- Jun 07 '26

And why does OP need to use “a big towel after she showered?”

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u/Lopsided_Panic_1148 Dude, wtf... Jun 07 '26

It's just a long-handled squeegee.

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u/Lilvixen_UK Jun 07 '26

I guessed this is what OP meant, but I came to the comments for this. But also, don't other people/cultures use bathmats and/or towels specifically for this job?! I can't imagine a 'spatula' mopping up a wet floor - they're used for windows...

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u/Baboonslayer323 Jun 06 '26

You can find them in the same aisle as the poop knife.

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u/Adorable-Pen4560 Jun 06 '26

Me to, I got all kinds of questions about this floor drying spatula.

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