Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo
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Flat design. Not just for the Web anymore! Now making everything horrible everywhere!
Seriously. Here is a blurry, off-angle shot of the local mall's "anchor stores" sign. It's from Google Maps. It's the angle and distance you're likely to see when driving past it on the roadway. It's also from a year ago, before their "redesign"
https://i.imgur.com/JHlx3Mm.png
Just for the halibut, just by glancing at this low-quality image, try to name as many of those stores as you can. I know one or two might be Canadian-specific, but give it a shot. I bet at least three of them will jump right out at you. Four if you're Canadian. Five if you also live in the Toronto area. They all have distinct shapes and colors, which distinguish them and make them recognizable.
Now here's the redesigned sign. All I did was move the "timeline" slider in Google. This is the same sign, at the same angle, under the same weather conditions, as you would see it as someone passing the mall:
https://i.imgur.com/gIzeYuC.png
At a glance, how many can you name name? How many after staring at it for a long time to try to distinguish the writing? (Note: You probably also just got into a car accident because the drivers in this area are fucking awful and you better have your eyes on the road!)
In the interest of having a "flat" design, they've destroyed the usability of the sign. They've removed the colors and logos from all these brands. The distinguishing shapes are gone. The old sign make each stand out and unique with:
- Color
- Font
- Size
- Shape
- Layout
In the new design, they color is the same. The fonts are nigh the same. The size is the same. The shapes are the same. The layout is the same. The only thing that's really different is the TEXT, which requires you to stop and reach each and every one of those. I can't, and I drive by that sign nearly every single day. What the fuck is that upper left one? It's so easy to read 3 point font while doing 70KMPH.
And as a bonus, here's the same first image, but with the same sort of cropping the street sign did on the second image:
https://i.imgur.com/msXbpy2.png
I bet even with that obscuring, you can still make out the Toys'R'Us logo.
Fuck flat design.
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Could you make the pictures smaller? Right now, all I can make out of that sign on all of them is confusing blur, and whether the blur is multicoloured or not matters very little…
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Fuck flat design.
This looks more like "We hate Clown Vomit!" than flat design. But yeah. Both suck.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
In the new design, they color is the same. The fonts are nigh the same. The size is the same. The shapes are the same.
Shut up, citizen, everyone's equal under Socialism.
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@thegoryone said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
rather the signage firm here are just a bunch of morons.
That's kinda the point. They took "flat design" as "this is what we do because Apple did it", applied an unhealthy coat of cargo-cult, ignored all the reasons why one should or shouldn't use flat design-- and SIGN!
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@Lorne-Kates It's a brainworm that's crawled out of the web design world, and is starting to infect designers everywhere.
You don't get it. If you go flat in the web, you go flat IN REAL LIFE!
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I can't tell shit from any image. Is that good or bad?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
If you go flat in the web, you go flat IN REAL LIFE!
Have you mentioned this to your wife yet?
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@Lorne-Kates You should change the title : Flat Design can go fuck itself with an non-flat dildo
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@NeighborhoodButcher Depends what your opinion on being Canadian is I guess :P
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates It's a brainworm that's crawled out of the web design world, and is starting to infect designers everywhere.
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@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
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@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
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@blakeyrat Made in China, I guess
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It can go even worse, when you remove not only color, but also anything apart from a few random lines.
http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2016/4/12/do-almost-anything
http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2016/4/20/do-almost-anything-iiIf that trend continues, all logos will be QR codes - at least they will be easy to read by machines.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Note: There was already a flat stop light...
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Is anyone else super distracted by that street sign? Way to fail, Google Maps.
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@CHUDbert said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Note: There was already a flat stop light...
You but think about the stoplight design. Each light is differentiated by:
- color
- size
- position
- duration
Plus the color, size and position are all consistent across all traffic lights. Even if people weren't trained on their use (which they are-- hello driver's license), the interaction clues are still significant.
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@Adynathos said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
If that trend continues, all logos will be QR codes
No, that's the fun part! The trend will continue for a few years, until everyone is sick and tired of flat meaningless lines everywhere. Then some big company, probably Apple or Google, will add some shiny reflections to one of their systems, and everyone will be like "wow, this looks so nice!". Then the trend will reverse and people will slowly rediscover colors and shadows, until everything is unbearably shiny and detailed again.
So, in 2040 HP will probably unveil their new ultra-futuristic logo:
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Fuck flat design.
I could not agree more. Somehow current trendy web "designers" seem to have found the worst way of combining two opposing adjectives: "monochrome" and "colorful".
It seems what is "hip" these days is to make icons monochrome and backgrounds clown vomit. The exact opposite of what it should be!
Bonus points for using thin serif-less fonts. Screw people with poor eyesight!
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@Yamikuronue said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Is anyone else super distracted by that street sign?
No, just the random blurred part of the sign Lorne is whining about.
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What was your reaction when you found out the Dwarf Fortress logo has more colors than the logo for @Lorne-Kates's shopping mall stores?
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@thegoryone said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
I'd argue this isn't so much a flat design failure as much as a designer failure for not understanding that color is part of branding.
It's not a failure to understand color. It's intentional grey-washing. They don't want the signs to stand out. If they had their way, they'd probably remove that sign too. Many community planners are going for uniformity for aesthetic reasons, and it's not that they don't understand the ease and use of color and logo, it's that they don't care.
The difference is trivial, but it's not inspired from flat web design. They're trying to make communities look richer than they really are. It's like the public schools in some states making uniforms mandatory, but instead of white collar button down, they go for navy polo.
It's a big new market in Houston, community planning. Not only do they control the uniformity of the houses, but also the surrounding businesses. If you live around here, think Vintage. Sure, it's diverse, but that diversity is the theme, not because each business got to choose its look.
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@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
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@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
"Keep away from children and animals"
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@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
"Keep away from children and animals"
"For medicinal use only"
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@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
"Keep away from children and animals"
"Batteries not included"
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@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
"Keep away from children and animals"
"Batteries not included"
"For external use only."
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@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
"Keep away from children and animals"
"Batteries not included"
Do not eat / Choking hazard.
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@xaade said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
It's a big new market in Houston, community planning. Not only do they control the uniformity of the houses, but also the surrounding businesses. If you live around here, think Vintage. Sure, it's diverse, but that diversity is the theme, not because each business got to choose its look.
Making everything look the same doesn't build real character. Making everything look different does. But getting that sorted long-term requires a completely different approach to development and land ownership, so it's unlikely to happen; you're stuck with lots of large areas of buildings where everything looks at best different from each other in exactly the same way (variation by “pick one of three from my catalogue”).
I'm not sure why they bother with the stand-alone signs as in @Lorne-Kates's initial message. Drivers can't read them either before or after. If someone actually wants the store, they'll use online search and GPS ;) or look for the sign on the actual store (usually a vast parking lot away).
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@dkf Another thing is those signs can be deceptive.
There's a large lot near me with two signs on either end.
Sign A has businesses 1,2,3,4
Sign B has businesses 5,6,7,8
Except, business 4 is on the opposite side, much well past Sign B, on the side of the strip, where you can't see it from the road.
I gave up looking for the business one time,
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@Lorne-Kates All I get from the new sign is the name of the mall. This is a change that undoubtedly pleases the mall's CEO (now everyone will know OUR brand), but does nothing for the tenants. The tenants probably are all locked into 10+ yr contracts and make too much money from the locals (who don't need to be told what stores are in the mall anwyay) to really consider moving. The move to branding the mall over the tenants works for some name-brand malls (e.g. Chadstone in Melbourne, AU, to which tourists - mostly from SE Asia - fly to Melbourne specifically to visit it), but for most malls and mall visitors, the branding of the mall is secondary to the contents thereof. So I'm not sure the trend is "flat design" so much as "corporate over-importance" ;).
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@Adynathos said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
It can go even worse, when you remove not only color, but also anything apart from a few random lines.
http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2016/4/12/do-almost-anything
http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2016/4/20/do-almost-anything-iiIf that trend continues, all logos will be QR codes - at least they will be easy to read by machines.
Not QR codes. Chinese.
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@Adynathos said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QR codes
@Captain said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Not QR codes
QArt codes?
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@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Adynathos said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QR codes
@Captain said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Not QR codes
QArt codes?
Kept on reading that as Q■■■■Art...
But the picture wasn't rainbowy enough...
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@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@ben_lubar said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
QArt codes?
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
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Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Hi @Lorne-Kates, you ctrl+v is stuck ?
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@cabrito said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Dwarf Fortress minimaps ?
Minimap's pretty shit, yo!
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@blakeyrat I think ‘unmarked’ means it's got a plainclothes officer inside.
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@Yamikuronue said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
Is anyone else super distracted by that street sign? Way to fail, Google Maps.
Street sign nothing. I want to know more about that floating power line.
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@Lorne-Kates Derivative. 1/10, and that's a pity point, since you exerted (minimal) effort. It's like the point on a test you get for writing your name at the top.
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@Jaime said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates It's a brainworm that's crawled out of the web design world, and is starting to infect designers everywhere.
Why are the leprechaun's arms emerging from the back of his head instead of where his shoulders should be?
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Man, socialist Canada is at it again.
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@M_Adams said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
"Keep away from children and animals"
"Batteries not included"
Do not eat / Choking hazard.
"Insert longitudinally"
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@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@M_Adams said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
"Keep away from children and animals"
"Batteries not included"
Do not eat / Choking hazard.
"Insert longitudinally"
"Made in China"
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@Deadfast said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@M_Adams said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
"Keep away from children and animals"
"Batteries not included"
Do not eat / Choking hazard.
"Insert longitudinally"
"Made in China"
"Does not contain nuts"
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@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Deadfast said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@M_Adams said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@No_1 said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@coldandtired said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@blakeyrat said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
@Lorne-Kates Are dildos usually marked? What are they marked with?
"This end up"?
"Tapered end toward enemy"
"Keep away from children and animals"
"Batteries not included"
Do not eat / Choking hazard.
"Insert longitudinally"
"Made in China"
"Does not contain nuts"
"May contain traces of nuts"
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@dkf said in Flat Design can go fuck itself with an unmarked dildo:
I'm not sure why they bother with the stand-alone signs as in @Lorne-Kates's initial message. Drivers can't read them either before or after.
Actually, the colored signs are hugely helpful if you're not familiar with the area. When you're familiar with the logo you can see them from a long ways away. Also, there's probably a stop light not far away so you're likely to be stopped at a visible distance where you can figure out where you need to go.