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[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

There's no way to get all the panels to match up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Maybe there's a second manhole off screen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

I haven't edited the photo to confirm but I don't think that's true. I think the bottom piece is installed upside down. So to fix it, you'd flip that one around and put it back in that space, then take out the next two moving vertically and switch where they are each placed. Then you have a nice straight line where the bumpy brick sidewalk ends.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

This is just disturbing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Random blind person sues local council for misplaced tactile tiles causing slippage?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

i actually kinda like how offensive this is

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Infinite cobbles trick.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

If I lived there I'd change them from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I was honestly trying to figure out if this was Loss...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Some men just want to see the world burn.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

You found a graphics bug, better report it

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I don't know why but I can immediately tell this is the UK

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

First glance I thought it was Boston, so yea UK likely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Which is why the "y'all" usage here is triggering me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m from Manchester and use y’all all the time. Let’s normalise southern drawl words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I also use yall all the time

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

I know, daddy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago
  • Double yellows
  • The kerb
  • Colour of the asphalt
  • The masonry
  • The foliage (one of them things you don't realise you notice)
  • The knobbles so blind people know where to cross the road
  • The four lids
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can see the yellow line at the edge of the carriageway which is pretty distinctive for the UK plus the dimpled tiles on the pavement are pretty much unique to Britain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Also having carriageways and calling the paths that people walk on "pavement" are pretty much unique to Britain.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As an American who has never been to the UK, somehow I agree

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As a european who has been to the uk, i agree

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

As an American who lived in the UK for a few years. I agree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only downside is that raised bump pattern is for blind people using canes to know where crossing points are. That’s gonna mess with them to go from something to nothing to something again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a pretty awful feature for people with leg and ankle injuries using knee scooters. It jars the shit out of you, and hurts very badly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

IKR, why don't they make those wheels bigger?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

It’s actually more interesting than a plain old boring sidewalk. Yeah I ride with the devil

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I dunno i kinda like it. Like an mc escher drawing in real life

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also find a sort of bizarre satisfaction seeing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Ya I like it too

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What bothers me the most is the little patch of grass on the corner.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

It reminds of the "this cell's formula is different" visible orange tag in Excel!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

This seems like one of those things I would do when I’d want to signal to my future self or someone else that it’s the right location.

“Yeah, you can’t miss it, it’s a the spot that’ll make you irrationally upset.”

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Joke's on you, may day was already pretty ruined. Take that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're on Windows or Linux, in most browsers you can press Ctrl+t and get a new tab. Maybe that would improve your day?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yo, sweet. On Windows, you can do Win+V to access clipboard history (brings up a prompt to enable it first.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice.

Back when I used Windows, the keyboard shortcuts I used the most were probably super+m (minimize everything), +d (show desktop), +r (show run dialog); in browsers, Ctrl+t (new tab), +shift+t (reopen most recently closed tab), +tab (switch between tabs); alt+tab (switch between windows), +space (open window menu, not sure what it's called); shift+F10 (open context menu or, if in the installer process, open command prompt).

In Linux most of these work in most modern desktop environments, but super+r is usually alt+F2. Relatively recently I learned about alt+` which switches between windows of the same type. Don't know if this also works in Windows. Also, I don't know if one would consider it a key shortcut, but alt+click anywhere in a window drags the window so you don't have to move the cursor to the title bar. Middle click usually pastes the last block of text you highlighted. Note that, due to the nature of Linux, none of these are guaranteed to work in every installation.

I have limited experience with OSX, but it seems like many of the shortcuts work if you replace the modifier key with the command key because Apple needs to be special.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Relatively recently I learned about alt+` which switches between windows of the same type. Don’t know if this also works in Windows.

It does not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That's a shame, but I appreciate the edification!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can’t tell if your glass is half full or half empty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

It's empty by now, sorry

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Good for you!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It looks like something you could lift up, like a sewer cover or something. Some madlad probably swapped them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's an access panel. Some of them require a special tool and some require a type of key. Not sure on this one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are they four individual panels? Because you could swap the second and theirs panels and you’d be pretty close.

Maybe this was originally correct and someone doing work later fucked it up. Probably on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Those blocks were individually cut in to match the surrounding pattern, it was 100% done correctly. Those are recessed lids specifically for this, so you can hide manhole covers in block paving. Somebody definitely switched the lids later on. I'd guess the grass is where a block got dislodged and the hole filled with dust. Probably wasn't a terrible job initially.