Automatic hand towel dispensers in public bathrooms that don’t give you quite enough, so then you have to waste paper by getting 2 or 3. Just put out one decent sized piece, and I won’t have to do that.
Some so called “efficiency expert” likely figured out that was saving money. I pointed this out at one job- that yes, they were saving $ in one budget, but costing more in salaries.
I hate it when the public restrooms supply single-ply toilet paper. Do they not realize that means I’m going to use twice as much?
There’s a parking structure in my town named Orange Rd. Deck. It’s on Orange Road, so the name is cool.
They recently (ha!) added another story to the deck and reworked the fascia in a job that took about 5 years to complete. I know this because my son had school across the street and the building was under construction the entire time he was in that school.
That’s not the infuriating part, the infuriating part is the sign they installed. Over the entrance is an arch, and following the curve of the arch is the name of the structure, it looks as follows:
ORANGERDDECK
Only lighted and curved with 5 foot high lettering.
Someone who purports to be a professional sign maker built this monstrosity, installed it, and presumably was paid to do so.
ORANGERDDECK ?? How in the hell that managed to cross anyone’s desk is a befuddlement.
You approved WHAT?
Seems like it’s begging for some strategic redesign, plus a picture of Trump.
Someone doesn’t know how to spell “dreck”?
Lovely, I found a picture of it:
The elementary school kids get to look at it every day.
Ermahgerd!
There are people in this world that approved that name.
It does sound like an obscure Anglo-Saxon or Viking warrior. Or stronghold.
Ah yes, there was a whole saga about the Battle of Orangerddeck, wasn’t there?
People saying “kiLOMeter”, with the accent on the second syllable.
Wait, what?
I guess not only are Americans laughed at for using ancient customary units, but we also say kilometer wrong?
It sounds like it took place in the Boer War.
For that matter, people who pronounce centimeter as “sontimeter.”
GIF should be pronounced like it’s spelled. The G stands for Graphics, not Jraphics.
On that note… I wish the makers of Back to the Future would edit the film to make one minor change: correct the pronunciation of gigawatt. But leave everything else alone!
I’d be cool with that.
But I find it plausible that some crazy inventor scientist guy working in his garage in 1955 could mispronounce the term, like so many words we say incorrectly having only read them.
Do you pronounce JPEG “Jay-feg”? The P stands for “photographic”.
Acronyms have never taken their pronunciation from their component words.