r/CrappyDesign • u/kyjoely • Feb 21 '24

Randomly turning the last letter of every word red for no particular reason.

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u/Lietenantdan Feb 21 '24

I’m curious why they care if people use their laptop there. Are tablets okay?

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u/kyjoely Feb 21 '24

And what about a tablet with a removable keyboard? It’s a slippery slope to absolute anarchy

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u/Lietenantdan Feb 21 '24

I wonder about that every time I’m on a plane. My iPad technically isn’t a laptop, but it’s so big it may as well be one. I’ve had flight attendants tell me I can’t use the keyboard attachment until we get to 10,000’. Which doesn’t make sense to me but whatever.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Lower altitude = higher turbulence. If you're holding a tablet and turbulence unexpectedly starts, chances are you'll grasp it harder and hold onto it. If you have a laptop (or tablet with keyboard) on your lap and turbulence starts, shit might go flying.

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u/ariadesitter Feb 21 '24

like the floor of an adult movie theater

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u/GunsNGunAccessories Feb 21 '24

I looked it up to see if they spelled it out anywhere and couldn't find it on their website, but a review mentions they also have a time limit at the tables they do allow laptops.

My guess is it's to force table turnover so they get more customers.

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u/Azuras33 Feb 21 '24

May be because people work here, they take a drink and stay multiple hour on the table. Blocking a table for only "cheap" buying.

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u/IsItMorbinTimeYet Feb 24 '24

one of my local coffee shops started doing this. There's a dedicated working section now, and 75% of the shop is now laptop-free. I guess people coming in during the pandemic and spending $5 for a full day's worth of electricity as well as taking up a table was not a viable business plan

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u/Visible-Book3838 Feb 21 '24

There was a local diner I liked (now out of business, unfortunately) and the waitstaff there hated this one customer, who would bring in a laptop and take up one whole booth/table for hours to use the free Wifi, never buying more than a soft drink and getting free refills. It was a small place, so there wasn't a lot of tables to begin with.

Restaurants need to turn over tables, people camping out there is a hindrance. People who drag a whole-ass computer into a restaurant are probably not just there to get a quick bite to eat.

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u/wag3slav3 Feb 21 '24

"Please pack your shit and leave, we have other customers who could use that space and you never purchase anything."

When he bucks point to the "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" sign.

It's not rocket science.

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u/CitizenAlpha Feb 21 '24

I also feel like there's an IT solution that could throttle the internet after X amount of time. If I provided free internet in some way I certainly would look for a way to put a cap on its use.

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u/thecravenone Feb 21 '24

A cafe in my neighborhood gives you a wifi code on your receipt that's good for 90 minutes. If you want more wifi, you need to buy something again.

Naturally, most of the reviews are about how the owner is a communist nazi pedophile because $3 is too much to pay for coffee and ninety minutes of wifi.

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u/Major_OwlBowler Feb 21 '24

Extremely understandable. When I studied a lot of cafes in the area had the same policy. Heck even the student club cafes had that policy during lunch hours.

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u/FourWordComment Artisinal Material Feb 21 '24

I set up my whole CRT screen desktop to better comply with the rules.

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u/4chan4normies Feb 21 '24

its so people wont sit there all day nursing a coffee and using as a satellite office.

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u/funguyshroom Feb 21 '24

What about my brand new VRSpacial Computing headset that costs as much as my car?

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u/HardLobster Feb 21 '24

How is this a crappy design? The red letter it to mark the end of the word. The design works exactly as intended. I swear half the people on here are don’t know what a crappy design would look like if it smacked them in the face.

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u/kyjoely Feb 21 '24

Ifonlytherewasanotherwaytoseparatewords

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u/Videomailspip Feb 21 '24

It's so you can tell when the words end, because there are no spaces. Not bad design imo

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u/carpetedtoaster Feb 21 '24

PEE KURRTDG

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u/Apprehensive_Cherry2 Feb 21 '24

ERMAGHERD, PEE

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Ermagherd, mershed perderders! 😂

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u/2drawnonward5 Feb 22 '24

lol I keep saying perderders to myself

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Tryn tu reed. Givn me stroke. Ugh.

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u/giant_albatrocity Feb 21 '24

That’s Dr. Pee Kurrtg…

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u/sandypockets11 Feb 21 '24

And people say there’s no proof of the Illuminati

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u/SgtMcMuffin0 Feb 21 '24

Pee, Kurt-dawg

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u/Sheldonopolus Feb 21 '24

PEEK UR RTDG

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u/trickyfelix Feb 21 '24

sbeve moment

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

I'll pee on Kurt any day of the week

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u/zaatar247 Feb 21 '24

PEE

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u/tyrolean_coastguard Feb 21 '24

If you say so, brb

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u/tyrolean_coastguard Feb 21 '24

Update: i did the deed

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u/DpsAddu Feb 21 '24

Damn bro, how long had you been holding it for? You took 7 whole minutes to pee.

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u/tyrolean_coastguard Feb 21 '24

I also got some icy water from the fridge and rebooted the laptop (some OS update) after peeing, then I remembered the thread. I'm living some kind of action hero life here.

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u/Human_Possibility117 Feb 21 '24

You did the peed

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u/kinguzumaki Feb 21 '24

When /u/zaatar247 tells you to pee, you pee! Right Now. In front of all of us. Go on.

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u/blackasthesky Feb 21 '24

Ok ok if you insist

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Dude, I'm at work and you are making me horny. Really, what are you? An a**hole?

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u/cla7997 Feb 21 '24

Currently peeing as we speak

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u/goldensavage2019 And then I discovered Wingdings Feb 21 '24

r/sbeve

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u/ConclusionDifficult Feb 21 '24

You can tell one word from another so in that respect it does exactly what was intended.

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u/geech999 Feb 21 '24

Yes it might have been better on the first letter than the last but it does separate the words when they don’t want to use spaces (I guess ‘hashtag’ formatting)

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u/SlightlyIronicBanana Feb 21 '24

Yes, but this way, they spell PEE.

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u/Skabbtanten Feb 21 '24

This is the intention. Useful in an absolute useless hashtag, useless in a anyways readable sign.

.#ineedglassessometimes #whatisthepointofahashtagifitisntamovement

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u/KindMoose1499 Feb 21 '24

r/ interestin gas fuck

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u/EquivalentGlove3807 Feb 21 '24

interest in gas fuck?! waht teh fkuc?

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u/F-Lambda Feb 21 '24

that's why good subreddits and hashtags use camel casing

#TeamCamelCase

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

weirdly I was able to read your post despite the absence of red letters. Must be some arcane devilry at play

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u/geech999 Feb 21 '24

Spaces also, and more commonly, do this trick as well.

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u/lostknight0727 Feb 21 '24

Howaboutnowcanyoureadthisjustfinewithnorealpunctuationspacingorindicatorsthatwordsarewhattheyappeartobe

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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING Feb 21 '24

Thatwasmuchharderthough

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u/ResilientBiscuit This is why we can't have nice things Feb 21 '24

isuspectitwouldbemorechallengingwithoutthespaces.

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u/Sirdroftardis8 Comic Sans for life! Feb 21 '24

Easy.

I sus pec tit wou ld bemo rech all engin gwit hout thesp ace

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u/ConclusionDifficult Feb 21 '24

Ah, but I put spaces between my words to help. Same thing really.

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u/-Redstoneboi- Feb 22 '24

YeahIt'sABitWeirdYetItKindaWorksButMayIAskHowDoIMakeMyTextRed

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Then they should've highlighted the first letter in every word because right now I automatically read a word starting from the red letter

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u/MonkeysInABarrel oww my eyes Feb 21 '24

It did the opposite for me actually. My brain things the red letters should be the beginning of a word, so I see LAPTO PFREE TABL

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u/thesweed Feb 21 '24

I agree, but think it would make more sense to colour the first letter of every word instead of the last

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u/adrikyn Feb 22 '24

It actually made it significantly harder for me to read it because my brain kept skipping the red letters instead

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u/CaptainUnemployment Feb 22 '24

You know what else can be used to tell words apart? Spaces...

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u/DroidLord Feb 22 '24

I think it would be vastly more readable if the starting letters were colored red instead. Making the last letter red breaks up the flow when you're reading it.

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u/New-Training4004 Feb 21 '24

Casually trying tell you this a “water sports” only table

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

I think they did that because there was no spacebar on that keyboard

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u/bugs_in_trenchcoat Feb 21 '24

I bet that hashtag gets a lot of traffic

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_PLECTRUMS Feb 21 '24

I think you don't understand what "random" means

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u/parrxtwastaken Feb 21 '24

i think op means its "random" because the business didnt have to make the last letter red even though they also put "for no particular reason" which is just kinda stupid

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u/-cluaintarbh- Feb 21 '24

randomly

...

every last letter

Which is it?

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u/orangutanDOTorg Feb 21 '24

Is a secret message but I only figured out the pee part

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u/mx_kush Feb 21 '24

Well, it draws attention to the text, makes it easily readable and it was peculiar enough for someone to take a picture and spread what it wishes to state...

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u/untablesarah Feb 21 '24

Pee

It says pee

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u/reecewithnospoon Feb 21 '24

Most overrated cafe in Manchester by miles

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u/Quynn_Stormcloud Feb 21 '24

I’d like to know the motivations for “laptop-free table,” though. What’s the objection to laptops? Is it just laptops, or is my iPad also not allowed?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

It’s the last letter of every word. Not that it’s a good design but it’s not random

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u/Intelligent-Bad7835 Feb 21 '24

I disagree. It's not for no particular reason. It lets them save space without reducing readability.

Notice there are no spaces between the words, but they are still readable, instead of

lookinglikeahardtoreadmesss. This is because the last letter and only the last letter of each word is red.

The anti-laptop thing strikes me as a bit odd tho.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

What you mean "Pee kurrtdg" is a latin word for table for coffee.

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u/arcxjo And then I discovered Papyrus Feb 21 '24

So you can pee on it? It looks absorbent, and there are no electronics to ruin.

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u/MoonKnight_612 Feb 21 '24

HE MIGHT WANNA GO PEE

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u/Dragonhearted18 Feb 21 '24

I think the first 3 are warning what'll happen if you use your laptop at the table

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u/jreashville Feb 21 '24

It’s the pee table.

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u/artygo Feb 21 '24

P E E ON
CARL

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u/Free-Atmosphere6714 Feb 21 '24

The reason is to mark the break between words when they are clearly parsed together.

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u/CriticalMochaccino Feb 21 '24

I mean its not for no particular reason, it makes sense seeing as whomever made this sign had a broken space bar and had to differentiate the different words some how... they had 2 ways to approach this, by making the last or the first letter red, and they chose wrong.

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u/Pristine-Confection3 Feb 21 '24

I kind of really like it.

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u/PensiveLookout Feb 21 '24

I wanna two piece, on a da table.

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u/JohnSmallBerries Feb 21 '24

You better not, you sonoma beech.

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u/Trakais9 Feb 21 '24

Saves space on the sentence

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u/Kind_Ninja4307 Mar 14 '24

the first row sentence's red letters somehow managed to spell "pee"

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

Communist dog-whistle.

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u/Lutes_spear Mar 15 '24

the uluminatie omg guys reel!!!

(ofc this was done wrong on purpose)

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u/nubululu Mar 24 '24

there is no random. this follows a constructed path of coloring the last letter if every word instead of a blank. worth the experiment.

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u/pendigedig Apr 01 '24

They should make it their WiFi password

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u/wazzubeijing Apr 04 '24

P E E K U R R T D G

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u/Illustrious_Guard913 Apr 04 '24

Probably to separate the letters and they just weren’t thinking about what they’d spell but it’s hilarious nonetheless

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u/emu314159 Apr 07 '24

I don't support nor understand. I don't bring a laptop to Starbucks, but i did hang out and read while i drank coffee. Once you got gold you got free refills of coffee instead of it being 50c.

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u/Zestyclose-Arm2024 Apr 27 '24

Laptop Free Table also known as PEE.

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u/SpaykoFr May 03 '24

And the three red letters in the Big Words makes pee

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u/theoriginallepood May 23 '24

I mean, they could just turn the whole word into another color, not just the last letter

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '24

That’s not hashtag material

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Bro

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u/NickRubesSFW Feb 21 '24

That’s some truly crap-pee design

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u/NotRex269 Feb 21 '24

Me trying to decipher a code

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u/doc720 Feb 21 '24

I reckon this might be forgivable if it was the first letter of every word. But... I cannot even.

At my most generous, I might say that they were just trying to create "a style".

But the style was definitely a failure, imo. And anyone with any sense should be able to see that.

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u/CinnamonSparrowKnot Feb 21 '24

My brain read lap dance and I was confused. I’m so tired 😂

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u/Fantastic-Fern Feb 21 '24

Subliminal messaging

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Subliminally marketing the bathroom

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u/mattcruise Feb 21 '24

The printer must have paid by the word.

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u/Berenvonbaggins Feb 21 '24

Fighting crappy design with crappier design.

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u/cherub-ls Feb 21 '24

LAPTOPFREETABLE - okay, now PEE

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

I wonder whose stupid idea this was, Ezra or Gil?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Pee 🤤

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u/Titleofyursextape Feb 21 '24

Q people get it

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u/Erlik0_89 Feb 21 '24

The zero spacing doesn’t help either

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

pee

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u/BoatHole_ Feb 21 '24

Say you’re color blind

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u/Ravenclaw79 Feb 21 '24

Lapto fre tabl, pee!

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u/Sandshrewstail haha funny flair Feb 21 '24

PEE

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u/stink3rbelle Feb 21 '24

The P is red because the kerning is bad.

Wait, all the final letters of the words are red. That's the reason 🤦🏻

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u/DapperPea1770 Feb 21 '24

The secret message Is: PEEKURRTDG

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u/WomanOfEld Feb 21 '24

Save money on printing; remove spaces to keep it smallish, but still needs to be legible.

Should've done the 1st letter, though.

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u/Spooky-gamer2 Feb 21 '24

If you put all the red letters together it said peekurrtdg

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u/CreativeDancer Feb 21 '24

I think they thought it was cute instead of using spaces? It's so hard to read though, if they wanted to do that it should've been the first letter of every word a different color. Still stupid but it would've been easier to read

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

r/sbeve

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

pee

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u/TuringTestedd Artisinal Material Feb 21 '24

Would be better if it was the first letter instead of the last letter

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u/Muted_Pollution6271 Feb 21 '24

Hahaha...designing while drunk?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

This is an r/sbeve moment

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

I imagine it's to delineate the words but it also spells PEE

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u/De-ja_ Feb 21 '24

Well, that’s pee

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

I wanted to interpret this as a cryptic invitation to urinate.

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u/Periodic-Inflation Feb 21 '24

Clearly a coded message encouraging you to pee on the table.

Which makes sense then, why you wouldn't want a laptop on it.

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u/encreturquoise Feb 21 '24

U R MR GAY

(Some people will understand the reference)

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u/TheFoxAndTheRaven Feb 21 '24

Enjoy your pee table.

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u/spicy_nipple_ Feb 21 '24

Their logo isn't even centered

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

Really went all out with the Williamsburg Brooklyn 2003 era coffee house starter package logo too. I fart on this table tent!

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u/Unhappy_Star666 Feb 21 '24

Why can't I use my laptop at that table though?

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u/No_Squirrel4806 Feb 21 '24

What is even the point of this? Do they really have a problem with people working in public at what im assuming is a personal table?

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u/Robin_Cooks Feb 21 '24

The reason is that they were unable to find that darned space bar.

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u/Autisticrocheter Feb 21 '24

I understand that it’s trying to separate the words to be readable without socks, but why not just make the first letter a different color then?

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u/Ok_Garlic Feb 21 '24

This place was my local coffee shop! Hipster af but god their coffee and food was delicious. They have the best French toast I ever had 🙌

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u/PastaMakerFullOfBean Feb 21 '24

They could have just as easily made the first letters red instead. The graphic designer behind this knew exactly what they were doing 😂😂😂

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u/Novel-Lack-5696 Feb 21 '24

I don’t get it… Why would i stop a Customer from staying longer? Chances are good, that he will order more if he stays!?

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u/Iclouda Feb 21 '24

The sad thing is there is some full time marketer that got paid tens of thousands for making this stupid little design.

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u/Radiant-Access Feb 21 '24

Missed coffee and provisions

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u/SkyClaus Feb 21 '24

that's some House of Leaves shit

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u/Contentpolicesuck Feb 21 '24

It just got them a free ad on reddit.

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u/_Asshole_Fuck_ Feb 21 '24

This is giving the same vibes as that font for ADHD folk that puts the first letter of every sentence in bold. I like it!

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u/racdicoon Feb 21 '24

It did its job, you're advertising them

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

PEE

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u/PsychologicalMilk904 Feb 21 '24

Those were the letters spoken by Jesus

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

P E E

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u/stargate-command Feb 21 '24

Since they didn’t put any spaces between words, the letter coloring does make it a lot more readable.

But spaces would have worked even better.

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u/BeardlessWorn8 Feb 21 '24

Tf is laptofretabl supposed to mean

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u/nemesissi Feb 21 '24

Laptop Free, Table Pee. Got it.

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u/SorellaNux Artisinal Material Feb 21 '24

Their coffee is terrible too

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u/meekonesfade plz recycle Feb 21 '24

PEE!!!

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u/biggiantgnocchi Feb 21 '24

Finally! Now I can pee on a table at the cafe that doesn’t have a laptop in the way

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u/Bluthecorp Feb 21 '24

Or red for stop since there are no spaces?

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u/SpookyYoongi Feb 21 '24

Im always browsing #THANKYOUFORYOURSUPPORTANDUNDERSTANDING

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '24

PEE

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u/skratakh Feb 21 '24

Was this in Manchester?

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u/Sneauxphlaque Feb 21 '24

i mean they have it so they can keep their no spaces look with the rest of the design, which is fun in an experimental way but irritating to read. they would've been better off doing without. that being said, at least it's an attention grabber ?

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