That's just bad design, not hostile.
Hostile sink design can be found at Frankfurt airport, where only hot water comes out of the tap, to get people to buy water bottles for 5€ if they want to drink it.
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2026
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Yeah, hostile design (or "hostile architecture," which is the more searchable term) is like IRL enshittification: it's not just when it's bad, it's when it's intentionally bad in order to serve some goal other than fulfilling the needs of the user.
The most common example is a bench with an armrest in the middle so that homeless people can't (easily/comfortably) sleep on it.
It's a construction error. That's a tall mixer for above counter basins lol. Some plumber put this on and went not my job laughed and walked away. As much as architects and designers are useless cunts I doubt this is on them.
Most likely the customer or some random person adjusted the valves, which shouldn’t affect anything actually. A job like this wouldn’t be signed off on, even a bad plumber wouldn’t do this… fucking lol.
But it looks like the flow cartridge or aeroater is missing and that’s all. Most fixtures are controlled by flow regulators so messing with valves doesn’t fuck with them. That’s how tradesmen know this isn’t just a bad plumber fyi.
I love hot water tho
I'd argue it's trying to keep people from using the restaurant's water or sth idk
but yeah you're right actually
Wouldn't it be cheaper for them to put up signs saying the water is non-potable?
That is some impressive fuckuppery!
The pressure is just set too high. There should be a valve under the sink that can be adjusted to reduce the flow
Which is something you would think they'd do on installation, no? Test it and make sure it works right?
Nah, just toss a couple more trash cans under it and you'll be fine! Don't worry about fancy stuff like actually fixing it.
Its almost always controlled by flow regulators so messing with the valves doesn’t cause this, someone removed the Aeroter on this one it looks like,
Someone probably removed the flow cartridge since they didn’t like the pressure it had. Now this. They are just a plastic “filter” where the water comes out, easy to remove.
Things that can only happen in commercial buildings, because if it happened in your house you wouldn't tolerate it.
What? It's fine, there's a drain in the floor!
You'd be surprised what idiots will tolerate...
Thank goodness that trashcan is there to help catch all that water, and the drain on the floor as a backup, in case anything is missed.
It's layers of protection: Brilliant!
Just get a different faucet, that sink is criminally small but would be more expensive to replace.
My theory: Someone purchased the sink and faucet separately likely at a discount, and either ignored the issue or wasn’t informed after install.
Seems to have a valve at the wall, they should turn that down so it doesn't do this anymore
yes let's wet our hands with basin splashback water, smear it all over, splash some back down, and let it culture.
Instead of replacing the defective sink, they added a sink to the ground!
they should think about a career in software development ... (/s)
My sink effectively was kind of like this. If you turn the faucet on all the way, which is hard to not do in practice, literally every single time, due to how the drain is oriented, it splashed water out of the sink. I would call that worse than mildly infuriating and it's way better than this situation. I had to turn the water supply valves way down to prevent it. It's not ideal but helps a lot.
I'll never understand how people lived in this house for 15 years before I did and were fine with water splashing out 100 times a day.
yeah actually i wanted to post this to actually_infuriating but for 1. it doesn't affect me personally and 2. that community has barely any exposure, so i posted it here ;D
Maybe they turned the supply valve to restrict the flow.
I just said that's what I did. You think they adjusted to be wide open before they moved out? I'm doubtful
Wow, no shit? Is that what all those funny characters in your comment mean?
Yes, i think that's possible, obviously.
"I've solved the problem. Now, to unsolved it for the next person!"
To be fair, it's plausible. They might not have wanted a home inspector writing up "low water pressure" as a potential problem. 'Course, the inspector might write "water splashes out of the sink" as a problem instead, but that at least is more straightforward to solve, rather than being possibly indicative of a bigger hidden problem.
I don't know why we're assuming I own the place. I don't.
They obviously didn't solve it, since it still exists. In this scenario they put a bandaid on it and then when selling put it back to normal so the next person can do what they please.
Or they could have thought it would be a funny prank.
I think that's much more likely than them completely braindead and suffering the whole time, like you think. That's certainly possible too, though.
Classic internet person response. Instead of recognizing that your half assed guess is uninformed, you think you've done me a favor by admitting the thing that I (the person with actual context and firsthand knowledge) think is true is possible rather than likely...
It's a rental and the house is full of "how the fuck did they not fix this" problems. But who am I to say this. I only live here.
Classic internet person response. You make assunptions about my leanings and motivations when you are clueless.
Whatever dude. You went out of your way to tell me what was more likely which was a weird move even if you didn't sound condescending while doing it
Boy hostile design, though one could be fooled into thinking it, as this is near criminally insane stupid design instead
What’s the problem? It’s just an infinity sink.
It's a feature, not a bug. It cleans the floor as well as ur hand. Neat! /j