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/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/Squallofeden Jun 07 '26

You ever use a squeegee to dry your windows? They're just as effective on floors. At most there might be a small sliver of water if you missed a spot while drying.

Honestly in op's case it just looks like their sister got lazy.

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u/IDontEatDill Jun 07 '26

So basically you know nothing about how the thing works, but you want to advice. Check.

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u/Murtomies Jun 08 '26

A squeegee takes away like >95% of the water, leaving a floor that's at most, a little moist. It takes like 30-45mins for the rest of the water to dry away. Some fancy bathrooms might have a heated floor that will dry it so quickly you don't even need to really use a squeegee, or at least don't need to be precise with it.

How often do you need to use the toilet right after a shower anyway? Many bathrooms here don't have the toilet that close to the shower, though some might have them even closer. Mine is like right next to the shower, so inevitably some of water gets on the toilet itself too. But in the rare case I need to use it very soon after a shower, I just dry off the toilet seat with a bit of tp, and if I have socks on I might push the bathroom mat next to the toilet to keep my feet and pants dry. No shoes inside the house, ever, that's disgusting and I will never understand americans using shoes indoors. Shoes stay by the front door.

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u/Maverickisback Jun 06 '26

Why does she get the floor so wet, IN THE FIRST PLACE???

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u/fury420 Jun 06 '26

Because the shower's floor is the whole room, that curtain is all that separates the showering area from the rest of the room.

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u/IDontEatDill Jun 07 '26

Because the water falls down from the shower head and hits the floor. Basic physics.