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29th December 2012 03:08
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Engineering / Designing For Dummies: The Bitch List
<sigh> Engineers / designers ... jeez, could there be a more moronic group than these dudes?
I'd like to apologize in advance to any engineer / designer -- mechanical and all -- who may be a part of this forum and who may actually engineer / design very good products / things. If you do good work, then know that your work is appreciated.
But if you do shoddy engineering / design, there's a special place in hell for you!
I have no doubt that many here in this forum have encountered things that were engineered / designed by morons with lower IQs than that idiot shrub who once occupied the White House, so I'm inviting those of you who encounter idiot designs to bitch about them in this thread.
Here's my first item on this Bitch List: handles on beds.
Now, most of you have moved beds before, right? So when you move a bed, do you hold the damn thing(s) horizontally, like it is when you sleep on it, holding the handles on the sides of it?
No, you turn the bed vertically and carry it that way so that you can go through, what ... what's the narrow-assed things that are placed all over the house that are a bit wider than the thread of a needle? Doorways! That's what.
Now, most people sleep on queen-sized beds now...
http://simplystated.realsimple.com/2.../22/bed-sizes/
... do the poll on that site and see that the queen, king and California king bed sized comprise a full 80% of the bed sizes that often need to be moved when one moves.
Memo to engineers / designers: queen beds are around 80 inches wide ... doorways are around 30 inches wide ... bad match!
Moving a twin bed vertically is relatively easy, as one can grip the bottom of the bed with one hand while balancing the bed with the other as one walks through those narrow-assed things called doorways that are generally around 30 inches wide; moving a full-sized bed is more problematic for most people, except strong people.
And moving a heavy, high-quality queen-sized bed or bigger? Eff'n fugetabout it!
And why? When the bed(s) are placed vertically, can you reach those bloody, damn handles that are "conveniently" placed on the sides of the bed? Hell, no!
Are there ever any handles -- like TWO of them -- placed on the ends of the beds where they REALLY are needed when you are moving the bed(s) vertically to get through those narrow-assed doorways?
But noooooooo, those engineers / designers never, ever think of what people deal with in real life when they move beds! There are never any handles on any beds that I've ever moved and I've moved a ton of beds over a bunch of decades -- my own and others -- with nary a handle on the ends of the beds.
I've looked at new beds a few years ago and didn't find a single model that had any bloody handles on the frick'n ends of the beds. WTF? Is there a law that bans handles on the ends of beds? A grand, plus for a bed that is sans handles on the ends? Are you kidding me?
So that's my #1 bitch of the day -- the lack of handles on the ends of beds!
/rant
Feel free to rant with your own observations of things that are designed by morons -- surely there's tons of them out there.
~Mozart
Last edited by Mozart; 29th December 2012 at 03:12.
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29th December 2012 03:29
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Re: Engineering / Designing For Dummies: The Bitch List
LOW FLOW TOILETS- designed to SAVE WATER, BUTT (lol) you have to flush it 4 times to get one turd down, now how much water saving ability is that????ARGGGGGGGGG
Also, cars that LOCK YOU IN, after you're in it for 2 minutes. If the car went over a bridge and into a body of water, you are trapped!!!!!! HATE THAT!!!
Complicated thermostats. need I say more?
So thats 3 bitches in one post, hope i'm not disqualified for that. LOL
p.s. I totally agree with your bed bitch. : )
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29th December 2012 03:37
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