Bad designs make me furious

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Ohnonotme: Jul 23, 2007; Yay!

Cats LOVE Cigars! posted:

This loving urinal. It's like, hello, maybe try putting it in the actual privacy of a restroom next time. Also good luck with the upward pee arc unless you happen to be 7 feet tall.

Isn't that a handwash? And that's why it isn't private? Have you been pissing in the washbasin that other people wash their hands in?

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Robo Reagan: Feb 12, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

lol top level businessmen are probably the biggest perverts on the loving planet you have no idea until youve seen a 60 year old self made mutlimillionaire pay a girl in her 20s to call him daddy and wear a diaper

# ? Nov 8, 2015 00:15

The Grimace: Sep 18, 2005; Are you a BigMac of imbeciles!?

Ohnonotme posted:

Isn't that a handwash? And that's why it isn't private? Have you been pissing in the washbasin that other people wash their hands in?

pretty sure it's a urinal for basketball players. that's a locker room, probably

# ? Nov 8, 2015 01:39

Node: May 20, 2001; KICKED IN THE COOTER; Taco Defender

Ohnonotme posted:

Isn't that a handwash? And that's why it isn't private? Have you been pissing in the washbasin that other people wash their hands in?

no, it is a urinal

# ? Nov 8, 2015 01:48

Three-Phase: Aug 5, 2006; by zen death robot

netally posted:

We've got a similar terrible roundabout near my town. Luckily, someone made this simple image showing how to get around it:

I actually decided not to apply for a job recently because the commute would have involved driving around that loving thing. At rush hour, it's insane.

There are two Roundabouts in Cleveland, Ohio. One's way out on the east side near Eaton Place, and the other is on a hill near Steelyard Commons. The Steelyard Commons one terrifies me. I think the first time I was in it I made several confused rotations in the innermost section of the roundabout.

Frankly this is the only roundabout I ever really liked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tdu4uKSZ3M

# ? Nov 8, 2015 03:12

Improbable Lobster: Jan 6, 2012; "From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.; Buglord

Voltage posted:

On the topic of poo poo sinks, why are most faucets so loving close to the edge of the sink?? Materials cost savings?? I'm so sick of smashing my big fat retard ape hands against the edge of the sink every time I go to wash them.

Yeah, I hate that

# ? Nov 8, 2015 03:17

Analytic Engine: May 18, 2009; not the analytical engine

This is a cool and good book from the 70s about the shittiness of American product design, "How Things Don't Work"

http://www.amazon.com/Things-Dont-Work-Victor-Papanek/dp/039473324X
http://www.diemer.ca/Docs/Diemer-HowThingsDontWork-Review.htm

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Ballistic Anomaly: Dec 29, 2008

Cooking while drunk or tired might be dangerous...

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Romes128: Dec 28, 2008; Fun Shoe

Ballistic Anomaly posted:

Cooking while drunk or tired might be dangerous...

its to weed out the retards and illiterates

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boom boom boom: Jun 28, 2012; by Shine

Romes128 posted:

its to weed out the retards and illiterates

and children and people who don't read English

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Drifter: Oct 22, 2000; Belated Bear Witness; Soiled Meat

boom boom boom posted:

and retards and illiterates

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peanut: Sep 9, 2007

Uhh I'm not an insect or a table so it's not like anything bad will happen to me

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criscodisco: Feb 18, 2004; do it

Ballistic Anomaly posted:

Cooking while drunk or tired might be dangerous...

I posted in a different thread recently about an idiot co-worker who told about making a casserole for her kids and it being terrible, and discovering after dinner that she had used pledge instead of pam for the baking dish. Now it doesn't seem so stupid on her part.

# ? Nov 10, 2015 00:18

Minimum Syntaxing: Oct 29, 2008; He looks white, but he's the son of a black man!

There really should be some sort of standardized coloring for aerosol cans of cleaning products, bug repellent, varnishes, etc. and cooking products

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Romes128: Dec 28, 2008; Fun Shoe

criscodisco posted:

I posted in a different thread recently about an idiot co-worker who told about making a casserole for her kids and it being terrible, and discovering after dinner that she had used pledge instead of pam for the baking dish. Now it doesn't seem so stupid on her part.

Romes128 posted:

its to weed out the retards and illiterates

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u fink u hard Percy: Sep 14, 2007

Fartmaster posted:

There really should be some sort of standardized coloring for aerosol cans of cleaning products, bug repellent, varnishes, etc. and cooking products

That sounds like communist thinking, friend.

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Nathilus: Apr 4, 2002; I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.

Daimo posted:

That sounds like communist thinking, friend.

Perhaps it is, comrade?

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glowstick party tonight: Oct 4, 2003; by zen death robot

nomadologique posted:

i am not a fascist, but a very strong believer that traffic rules and regulations and their enforcement is the ideal expression of our inevitable fascist urges

it's the ideal civil society really

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Tubesock: Apr 20, 2002

What kind of a maniac would want to mix hot and cold water anyway?

# ? Nov 10, 2015 10:48

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

Tubesock posted:

What kind of a maniac would want to mix hot and cold water anyway?

These are surprisingly common in the UK. Drives me nuts. You can have scorching hot or freezing cold, but not together unless you out the plug in and mix them (see OP for issues in this regard). I heard tell it was initially because there weren't valves that prevented hot water from storage tanks going into the cold water supply, but who knows.

# ? Nov 10, 2015 11:10

I.C.: Jun 10, 2008

Tubesock posted:

What kind of a maniac would want to mix hot and cold water anyway?

Me.

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shut up blegum: Dec 17, 2008; --->Plastic Lawn<---

Ballistic Anomaly posted:

Cooking while drunk or tired might be dangerous...

Wtf is cooking spray?

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Isaac: Aug 3, 2006; Fun Shoe

beedeebee posted:

Wtf is cooking spray?

Vegetable oil aeresol id say

# ? Nov 10, 2015 11:41

twoday: May 4, 2005; C-SPAM Times best-selling author

Tubesock posted:

What kind of a maniac would want to mix hot and cold water anyway?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1034808366965148988

"During a wartime visit to Moscow in 1942, Winston S. Churchill discovered a marvel of modern technology: hot and cold water flowing from the same faucet. The plumbing in the villa where he stayed as a guest of Stalin was unlike the primitive British standard of separate taps for hot and cold. Rather than having to fill up the sink to achieve the right blend, the British leader could wash his hands under gushing water "mingled to exactly the temperature one desired," as he put it in his memoirs."

oi, im bloody gobsmacked over these taps. bein able to control me water tempracha is bloody lovely init? oh well, best be off to bugger the nazis and never speak of this again

twoday fucked around with this message at 11:52 on Nov 10, 2015

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Germstore: Oct 17, 2012; A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Cooking spray is for retards anyway. It's a testament to its foulness that someone could use pledge instead and not realize it.

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Yolomon Wayne: Jun 10, 2014; You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is; Grimey Drawer

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Carlos Lantana: Oct 2, 2003; I'm really sorry, your avatar is giving me a boner and while that is perfectly OK and I don't want to kink shame anyone, its making me feel really weird getting a boner in a Trump thread.

Sincerely,

Jailbrekr

therattle posted:

There are a few everyday designs which absolutely infuriate me because they are poo poo. The classic example is the rod-operated bathroom sink plug mechanism:

Clevis and Buttplug

# ? Nov 10, 2015 13:14

RideTheSpiral: Sep 18, 2005; College Slice

tardwrangler posted:

Clevis and Buttplug

im the pivot rod

# ? Nov 10, 2015 13:21

Carlos Lantana: Oct 2, 2003; I'm really sorry, your avatar is giving me a boner and while that is perfectly OK and I don't want to kink shame anyone, its making me feel really weird getting a boner in a Trump thread.

Sincerely,

Jailbrekr

RideTheSpiral posted:

im the pivot rod

You're getting spit roasted by the look of it.

# ? Nov 10, 2015 13:28

Nutsngum: Oct 9, 2004; I don't think it's nice, you laughing.

Yolomon Wayne posted:

You know, if youre not focusing on this and just scrolling it kind of looks like a spread set of rear end cheeks.

# ? Nov 10, 2015 14:54

Yolomon Wayne: Jun 10, 2014; You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is; Grimey Drawer

Nutsngum posted:

You know, if youre not focusing on this and just scrolling it kind of looks like a spread set of rear end cheeks.

Man resembling an asscrack is pretty failed design imo.

# ? Nov 10, 2015 15:02

criscodisco: Feb 18, 2004; do it

Yolomon Wayne posted:

Man resembling an asscrack is pretty failed design imo.

I don't know, it's been a pretty solid career move for David Boreanaz.

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Machai: Feb 21, 2013

therattle posted:

How many hotels have you stayed at with these stupid plugs which don't work properly?

# ? Nov 10, 2015 15:32

Automatic Retard: Oct 21, 2010; PUT THIS WANKSTAIN ON IGNORE

Ohnonotme posted:

Isn't that a handwash? And that's why it isn't private? Have you been pissing in the washbasin that other people wash their hands in?

I could've sworn it was a drink fountain

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Dave Concepcion: Mar 19, 2012

Ballistic Anomaly posted:

Cooking while drunk or tired might be dangerous...

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you were warned: Jul 12, 2006; (the S is for skeleton)

Tubesock posted:

What kind of a maniac would want to mix hot and cold water anyway?

Ohh, I've seen those. Somewhere, I don't remember where, but in the US. They make me so mad. Guys there's hot water right there why are you making me freeze my hands off :mad:

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Dave Concepcion: Mar 19, 2012

you were warned posted:

Ohh, I've seen those. Somewhere, I don't remember where, but in the US. They make me so mad. Guys there's hot water right there why are you making me freeze my hands off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA

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Germstore: Oct 17, 2012; A Serious Candidate For a Serious Time

Dave Concepcion posted:

yeah, but there's only so many high visibility colors

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criscodisco: Feb 18, 2004; do it

you were warned posted:

Ohh, I've seen those. Somewhere, I don't remember where, but in the US. They make me so mad. Guys there's hot water right there why are you making me freeze my hands off

My first apartment, a WW2-era place, had those. Everything about that place was great (ornate flooring, high ceilings and loads of built-in cabinetry), but those sinks were a nightmare for handwashing, especially since the hot water came from a boiler in the basement, so the hot water was screaming hot.

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