Stupidest product design you’ve experienced

I worked at a place where they had these types of lights in the bathroom, and you would have to finish up in the stall in the dark if nobody came by when you were dropping the kids off at the pool.

My work restroom has this. If you’re sitting on the toilet and nobody walks in after a couple of minutes the lights turn off, and the motion sensor to bring them back on is outside of the stall so you can’t actually activate it when waving from inside the stall, so you have to poop in complete darkness.

Now that’s the most inventive euphemism I’ve ever heard for defecation.

Flap the stall door, like a fan?

Sure, you could do that, but it’s definitely a stupid design when the sensor looking if the bathroom is occupied is blocked by the stall door. Better just to let the lights stay on indefinitely.

Taking the Browns to the Super Bowl?

We had a thread about defecation euphemisms some years ago where somebody really had a problem with this one.

OMG! Win of the interwebs, at least for this week!

I’m very good at fixing things. Cars, houses, whatever.

Changing a vacuum cleaner belt should not be a two hour task. Take the wheels off first? 7 screws? Turn it over and pry the top ‘lid’ off. YouTube recommended a magnetic screwdriver?

The most common thing to break on any vacuum is the belt.

This design just sucks. I told my wife that if this doesn’t work, it’s gonna have an Expedient Demise - XPD.

My hp laptop has “fn lock” on the left shift key to enable and disable this. It looks like other models have a padlock icon on the escape key for this and yet others have it as a BIOS setting.

Your post suggests this is something new to you? How about often heard in elementary school in 1966?

I never heard it before.

I wasn’t in elementary school in 1966, so I missed some juvenile bons mots. In 1966, I was fighting for my country (hah!) in Vietnam by playing piano (more hah!).

In a whorehouse I hope. Just don’t tell Mom. :wink:

Our brand-new Lenovo laptops at work have the Ctrl and Fn keys reversed. I was fucking up copy & pasting half the day before I realized why. Lenovo provides a way to switch it back, but WHY would they do that in the first place??? And now my keys have ugly labels stuck on them - the last time I tried to pry off a laptop keypad I broke it, so I’m not going to try to swap the keypads.

I heard it as dropping a friend off at the pool about in that era.

Here’s a link to an earlier thread:

On my Macs (macOS Sonoma 14.6.1) it’s in System Settings, in the Keyboard panel, where you need to select “Keyboard Shortcuts,” and then it’s under the “Function Keys” panel.

Apple has gotten very good at hiding settings in non-obvious places. It’s gotten to the point where I rely more and more on the search feature in System Settings—I found this one by searching for “function keys.” I think I remember it being in a more useful place in an earlier OS. I suppose that complaint should go in the “Stupidest software design” thread, though.

I have a feeling (from the employer’s perspective) this is not a bug, but a feature.

On my HP Enterprise ZBook laptop, the function keys behave like this by default. But I can go into “Fn lock” mode by pressing Fn and the left Shift key at the same time (and a little while LED appears on the Fn key). In that mode, things get flipped around: F6 is F6 and Fn+F6 is Volume Down, etc. It’s pretty good, but probably nonstandard.

(Sorry, ninja’d a few times.)