OMFG FURRY posted:

good design, just wrong use of it

Germstore posted:

It's a solar furnace. That's just the collector. There are mirrors on surrounding hills reflecting sunlight into it.

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nomadologique posted:

THANKS STEVE JOBS

nomadologique posted:

what ist he spout on the side of the big one?

mostlygray posted:

I worked at a company that had a gap so wide in one of the stalls that I had to use my sport coat to block the gap. It was the worst I've ever seen. The gap at the bottom was so high, that I had to keep my trousers all the way up to the toilet to block my unmentionables. I had a method for hanging my coat on the handle and then wedging part of it into the corner so that I didn't have to see people staring at me.

I've not seen many urinal dividers in the US. We usually just piss in full view. I even remember a urinal trough at a grain elevator that was round and doubled as a hand washing station. There was a foot pedal for water and soap above. It's basically pissing in a sink where everyone can see each-others dicks.

Found a picture of one.
http://i.imgur.com/BGgqEVT.jpeg

wayne curr posted:

http://tinyurl.com/psud84d


loving genius

thathonkey posted:

there are some roundabouts in the US but nobody know to use them so it's usually a massive failure. to be fair they didnt teach roundabouts when i was learning to drive here.

4 way stops suck. if you're lucky, that tiny sign that says "all way" underneath the main octagon but a lot of time they are missing for some reason for another so generally the best way to tell if it's a 4-way is to look at all the ends of the intersection and make sure they appear to have stop signs too

when people arrive at a 4-way stop at the same time, whoever got there first goes first. a lot of times it is ambiguous when you pull up at the same time and in that situation eventually somebody will take the initiative and just go. they're not dangerous, just horribly stupid and cause massive traffic congestion whenever they're used at critical intersections that really should have a light.

thathonkey posted:

i get it. it's really simple. i'm just saying in the US whenever i encounter them (which is rare) usually if there are other people on the roundabout they're doing something wrong. for eg. lots of people stop or slow down in the round when they see someone waiting ahead at one of the entry points in order to let them in.

Germstore posted:

That Swindon roundabout- what the gently caress- has science gone too far?

Modest Mauser posted:

That looks rather fun, quite frankly.

Princess RALPH!! posted:

I honestly think this looks gorgeous, but good lord the traffic clusterfuck!

Edit: What is the faucet on the right for?

tardwrangler posted:

Clevis and Buttplug

boom boom boom posted:

Why does the car have a picture of itself inside itself?

boom boom boom posted:

Is that the key? Is the Tesla key a tiny model of the car it unlocks?

enraged_camel posted:

also, fuckin lol at people who think Tesla has "bad design"

like really lmao, talk about sour grapes

Hobelhouse posted:

Table breaking makes me furious

Farmland Park posted:

I don't have pictures, but when I was looking for an apartment in Shanghai, I saw several where the toilet was inside the kitchen, to save room.

Cold water washing machines which are popular in China (and Asia), like, what's even the point of a cold water washing machine? "Oh I don't want to clean my clothes, I just occasionally make them wet from time to time"

A misanthrope posted:

A misanthrope posted:

you know who else was "efficient"

thathonkey posted:

What is the best designed big city?

Present posted:

Yeah they also didn't account for this many people owning cars and now that situation is all kinds of hosed up.

boom boom boom posted:

Europeans will put up with a lot of stupid terrible bullshit. Half you guys got absorbed by the Nazi empire.

The General posted:

Get a decent podcatcher. Most of them have a rewind by a bunch of seconds buttons. My current one is 10 seconds. Whatever I had on my iPhone was 30 seconds.