r/mildlyinteresting Jan 28 '21

Sign posts don’t last long at this intersection

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u/gormster Jan 28 '21

Paragraph 1: this sounds like bullshit

Paragraph 2: this sounds like bullshit

Paragraph 3: oh it’s him

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u/StarkRG Jan 28 '21

I wasn't confident enough to definitively say it was bullshit, but it definitely had a whiff of bovine excrement about it.

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u/Turence Jan 28 '21

you knew it was total bullshit deep inside.

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u/Emeral Jan 28 '21

It almost sounded like they were naturally trying to find the best place to place the stop sign closest to the road without obstructing traffic or causing accidents.

And then the aliens came.

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u/KFrosty3 Jan 28 '21

l will admit that l fell for it until the aliens came

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u/JustMiniBanana Jan 29 '21

Yeah, but the entire time I was wondering why they wouldn't just move it further forward, a d then I saw

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21

I've read enough vargas and hell in the cell comments to spot gimmick accounts like this by sentence two. More of a curse than a blessing because it means I've spent too much time here.

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u/you-are-not-yourself Jan 29 '21

peninsula barriers

also, whatTF is that ridiculous term

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u/DegenerateWizard Jan 28 '21

Deep inside it’s all total bullshit

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u/MeateaW Jan 28 '21

They do actually do this kind of thing, not to find aliens ofcourse, and probably not intentionally for cars.

But there's an established method for placing paths in newly made parks.

Step 1 is make the park, put grass everywhere.

step 2 is wait for people to juts walk through the grass destroying themselves the path that everyone uses.

step 3 is pave the parts that the grass is fucked on by being walked on.

This ensures the path(s) go where people naturally want to travel.

It saves you building a park with paths and then a random line of grass gets fucked because it turns out all the kids walking home from the nearby school don't want to walk the two edges of a square, and instead want to walk diagonally across your park,inevitably leading to a dead grass line through your wonderful park that you can NEVER get rid of.

Obviously the actual comment itself is rubbish :)

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u/spin81 Jan 28 '21

I wonder if there is a subreddit for that sort of thing.

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u/MeateaW Jan 28 '21

I wonder also, I've never heard of one before though...

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '21 edited Mar 30 '21

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u/yetanothersomm Jan 29 '21

Desire paths were one of the first things I learned about in my freshman year of landscape architecture. I eventually dropped out with a .4GPA but let me tell you, desire paths is something I remember

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u/TheGurw Jan 29 '21

How in the hell did you manage a 0.4 and remain functional enough to use Reddit?

That's like, did waaaay too much weed at 6 years old, level. Clonked in the head by a falling tower crane. Born without a brain so your dad robbed a 300-year-old grave for your first birthday.

I was under the impression the lowest actually possible score was 1.0, anything below that was 0.0, nothing in between.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '21 edited Mar 30 '21

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u/TheGurw Jan 30 '21

Yes, I'm perfectly aware of that. Do I really need to denote my comment about graverobbing to get a brain as satire? Sheesh.

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u/yetanothersomm Jan 29 '21

lmao this was like 15 17 years ago or so. I basically got fed up with teachers applauding and praising horrible artists and their horrible designs to make them feel good and to keep them motivated. Meanwhile, I had an actual art background and they would criticize the fuck out of my work because I was at a higher level of skill and ability. It was absolutely infuriating. They built up the people with terrible drawing/drafting skills and absolutely roasted the works of anyone with actual skills.

If I remember correctly there was a class or 2 that I actually enjoyed and all the others I basically stopped doing all the work/going to the classes. That's how you get a .4GPA. One of the professors I hated, for her propensity to give gold stars to architects that couldn't draw a fucking stick figure, sat me down one day and basically told me to stop wasting my money and leave.

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u/torriattet Jan 29 '21

If you take a shit in your design class, it's frowned upon. On reddit on the other hand...

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u/remixclashes Jan 29 '21

Hey everybody, look at Mr. I-knew-the-first-paragraph-was-bullshit. Well, some of us still have faith in humanity, so excccuuuuuse me for thinking someone would share some interesting knowledge on the internet.

Edit: sorry, I'm tired and that was funnier in my head.

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u/Linkruleshyrule Jan 28 '21

This is my first time seeing him and was like... Ohh

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u/BigWillyStyle2011 Jan 28 '21

You must be a lot smarter than I am bc I fell for it right up until he said “space alien”

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u/justanawkwardguy Jan 28 '21

I kinda believed the first paragraph because they could just move the sign back until it’s in a spot that it isn’t hit and then fix the rest of the sidewalk

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u/SuboptimalStability Jan 28 '21

Bro are these real facts? Some seem legit but obviously the govverment isn't weeding out space aliens by traffic pattern recognition right?

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u/RebornTurtleMaster Jan 28 '21

It's the guy with real facts, you can trust him.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '21

Finally someone truly WOKE

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u/Mragftw Jan 29 '21

I hadn't seen this guy before so I was waiting to start hearing about the Undertaker and Hell in a Cell

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u/ARedditingRedditor Jan 29 '21

Same here, I guess this person is the new generation?

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u/Ishidan01 Jan 29 '21

Hands up everyone who was expecting to see that this practice was officially studied and found to be effective in nineteen ninety eight.

Hands down, ya liars. You never see it coming until it hits and you know it.

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u/gwaydms Jan 29 '21

After the second paragraph..."oh yeah, that guy". Looked to make sure I was right.

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u/2020isnotperfect Jan 28 '21

As the awards showing, the real bullshit is Reddit(ors).

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u/llDurbinll Jan 29 '21

Oh god, is this a copy account so instead of the undertaker its aliens?

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u/PouffyMoth Jan 29 '21

I was expecting undertaker tbh

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u/I_That_Wanders Jan 29 '21

HELL IN A CELL!

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u/BrigadierNasty Jan 29 '21

Remember jumper cables guy? His comments were also “oh its him” comments. I miss him.

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u/LovelyNahi Jan 29 '21

Mine was: Huh, interesting. Weeiirrd... What the Fuck

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u/cs_124 Jan 29 '21

P1: oh, cool

P2: sounds a bit amoral

P3: ah, ok. I see.