Doorknobs are the work of the devil, designed only to make people suffer. "Yes, I would like to apply inordinate force on a small slippery sphere" -- statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
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I hear you. We have door knobs at home too and I detest them. Have been meaning to change them for 21 years! 😄😅🤦♀️
On the one hand, some people can't operate them, and that blows
On the other hand neither can dogs and cats and that's honestly a relief
The best doorknobs I have ever "handled" are at the #gevangenismuseum in #veenhuizen in the #netherlands . These handles look and feel like the handle of an expensive knife. They installed them all over the building, and they are a joy to use. Obviously they are not knobs as such. But indeed why, oh why, would anyone choose a knob instead of a perfectly normal handle? What knobhead would do that?
@Gargron My Aunt's house in the UK has a doorknob in the bathroom that has been successfully trapping small children inside for at least 26 years and counting at this point.
@Gargron Joking aside, however, I've long suspected that modern-style smooth doorknobs are at least partly conceived with small children in mind, to promote their safety. Small kids and some pets can understand their principle, but have a hard time operating them.
@Gargron Through most of history, most doorknobs were textured in some way to make them easier to manipulate. Check out the knurled metal jobs in great old buildings, or the decorative 'crystal' designs in many older homes. Some of the oldest ones aren't even knobs, but rotating levers. Modern smooth ones are only about a hundred years old, if that, and are apparently the product of 'modernist' sensibilities by psychos.
You're making Aunt Clara cry! 
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Just wait until you bang your thigh into one. Leaves a real mark!
@Gargron
Yes! And:
Toilet doors should never require pulling open when leaving; that just concentrates dirty/wet hands touching the same places.
Pull to get in, push to get out.
@Gargron I replaced front exterior door hardware with a lockset that has a knob on the outside for safety and lever on the inside for accessibility - yes, you can buy them with that configuration. Back door has a number pad deadbolt and non-locking lever. If I need help (I'm disabled) and can't get to a door, trusted folks can get in the back door with their programmed personal code. No need to hand out keys. Also good for when my husband locks himself out of the house.
@Gargron so you’re saying, Eugen 0 Doorknob 1?
our house came with these:
they're pretty great when your arms are loaded, you can still fumble your way in
one closet hides behind it a giant bag of dry cat food
our cat watches intently from down the hall when we refill their bowl from this closet
the cat is perfectly physically capable of operating the handle
but it hasn't figured it out yet (or it knows we exist to serve it)
@Gargron Doorknobs are made of brass for it's antibacterial properties, and designed to maximise contact before anyone has to shake hands. Levers are easier to operate, but should only be used if your visitors will have already been thoroughly scrubbed.
@wibble Handles can be made of brass too, in fact at my old place they were.
@Gargron Taking a smug look at my door handles.
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Doorknobs should only be used on the kind of latch that's basically a roller on a spring so pulls to open without turning...
