It would be worse if its the right direction but still the wrong orientation, seeing as the line is not centered.
This manhole placement is more than mildly infuriating
Submitted 6 months ago by Mannivu@feddit.it to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/5d2cffe7-4cbe-4f9a-bb8a-bae8170d0bb7.webp
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RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 6 months ago
CSS noob vs CSS grandmaster
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
We need to edit the CSS of reality
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
sygnius@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is no one else going to talk about how weird it is to see a square manhole cover? Now there’s a risk of dropping the cover down the hole due to the shape.
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
It’s not a manhole, it’s way too small. But yeah not sure why it’s square. Could be European, they do weird stuff like that all the time.
sygnius@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re right. OP called it a manhole, so I assumed. But looking at the size compared to the foot, it’s too small to be a manhole cover.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 months ago
Square covers like this are common globally, including in the US.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
I see small square junction box things like this all the time in California. Mostly in-between where two homes’ lawns meet.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For a while in the programming world “why are manhole covers round?” was a common question to be asked in interviews. I had no fucking clue the first time I was asked, but subsequently I would put on my deep pondering face and reason through it out loud and arrive at the correct answer, which never failed to impress the interviewer. After a few years I started owning up to the fact that I (and everyone else) had already heard that question.
hOrni@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Knowing that I never saw a manhole cover with a stripe facing the right direction, I’m pretty sure, they do it intentionally.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They don’t make enough and they want to spread pain
wjrii@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I choose to believe this one was done specifically to fuck with OP and ruin their day.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 months ago
My expectation is maintenance workers, who have to get in there for some reason, do it to mark the ones they have already done.
If you look at the top one, the hook to remove it is oriented the same way.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
That’s close to what I’ve read on reddit years ago - that they do it on purpose do that it’s easier to find the cover the next time it needs service.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 months ago
Or they don't give much of a fuck.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 months ago
Don't be lazy.
Get a cable tie or some tongs, pull it out, rotate 90 degrees, done.
qwertilliopasd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
easy peasy. just lift the 100 kilo chunk of iron with some tongs. /s
- manhole covers are heavy af
- if improperly handled they can take your finger in an instant
- that square cover might be able to fall into whatever it is covering.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
- No
- No
- No
zephr_c@lemm.ee 6 months ago
If that were an actual manhole you’d be right, but its obviously not.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 months ago
- Manhole covers are not heavy as fuck. They're meant to be able to lift out. I've lifted far larger ones than this no problem.
- This manhole cover is at most 30x30cm judging by OP's foot, so weights at most a few kilos.
- This is a small cover, probably covering a drain, not a hole to the centre of the earth. I have a few around the house. Cable tie, piece of string, lift it out no problem. You lift and slide it aside, it's not going to fall in unless you're a complete moron.
- If you're worried that this would take your finger off, you're the kind of person who should hire an electrician to change a light bulb. The electricity will kill you in an instant, don't ya know.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Because 10lb is so heavy
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
They really aren’t that heavy. When I was little, maybe 5 or 6, me and my best friend went to a construction site (excavators and cranes, so cool), snuck around on there during off hours (probably super dangerous, but here I am) and took some metal hooks, made from that metal grid stuff they use often in construction.
We then went and opened the actual manhole covers in my backyard with them, and even climbed down there (not that interesting, basically a few meters deep, with a small open sewage line running at the bottom).
Long story short, two pre school boys could open them by themselves in the 90s
Cosmos7349@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The twist: OP is actually the one who twisted this into the wrong orientation in the first place
lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
🤣
sygnius@lemmy.world 6 months ago
There’s a risk that if you try to turn the square cover that the cover will fall into the hole. It’s really strange that it’s square and not round.
Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 months ago
It’s really strange that it’s square and not round.
It's not even slightly strange. These are incredibly common all across Europe and presumably the world.
The chance of it falling in the hole is zero unless you're trying to do it on purpose. Lift and slide, done.
zephr_c@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m pretty sure the reason is that the hole isn’t deep enough for it to matter. That’s nowhere near big enough to be a manhole.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
That’s not how geometry works
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 6 months ago
Or do it to post a picture
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 6 months ago
But that wouldn’t be /c/mildlyinfuriating
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The summoning circle is broken! You’re free!
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 6 months ago
Is it now..? Then go ahead and fix it if it is really "more than mildly infuriating".
Kyatto@leminal.space 6 months ago
Came here to say something but everyone already said it.
You do in fact exist in the world, you aren’t a bystander, you can actually do things like turning the manhole cover.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 6 months ago
They did. Then they took a picture and posted it here to outage everyone.
Etterra@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They probably did it on purpose - i would have lol
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Square holes are asinine, so easy for them to get dropped in.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Someone deffo turned it after it was already put down to get this
The line looks like it’d fit if the square was rotated, so that means someone picked up the cover and either intentionally or unintentionally put it back down with the line going in the other directions instead of back in line with how it was painted
Audrey0nne@leminal.space 6 months ago
Common sense is way too much for people. I too think it’s likely for someone to have placed it incorrectly so that a glance they would know if they had already accessed what was inside.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I am genuinely confused if people are down voting because they want to believe it was painted wrong or if they think what I said was so obvious that it’s stupid to write it out
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fixed:
Image
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Dude… That’s even worse
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Not perfect, but I did it on my phone, so she me ;-)
joe_cool@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Yeah now the handles point in different directions.