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This manhole placement is more than mildly infuriating

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mannivu@feddit.it⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

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  • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fixed:

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    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dude… That’s even worse

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      • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not perfect, but I did it on my phone, so she me ;-)

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      • joe_cool@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah now the handles point in different directions.

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It would be worse if its the right direction but still the wrong orientation, seeing as the line is not centered.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      CSS noob vs CSS grandmaster

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We need to edit the CSS of reality

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    • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Correct:

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  • sygnius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Kiosade@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • sygnius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Square covers like this are common globally, including in the US.

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I see small square junction box things like this all the time in California. Mostly in-between where two homes’ lawns meet.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Knowing that I never saw a manhole cover with a stripe facing the right direction, I’m pretty sure, they do it intentionally.

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    • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They don’t make enough and they want to spread pain

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I choose to believe this one was done specifically to fuck with OP and ruin their day.

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQGx…

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Or they don't give much of a fuck.

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  • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don't be lazy.

    Get a cable tie or some tongs, pull it out, rotate 90 degrees, done.

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    • qwertilliopasd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      easy peasy. just lift the 100 kilo chunk of iron with some tongs. /s

      1. manhole covers are heavy af
      2. if improperly handled they can take your finger in an instant
      3. that square cover might be able to fall into whatever it is covering.
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      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
        1. No
        2. No
        3. No
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      • zephr_c@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If that were an actual manhole you’d be right, but its obviously not.

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      • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
        1. 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.
        2. This manhole cover is at most 30x30cm judging by OP's foot, so weights at most a few kilos.
        3. 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.
        4. 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.
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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because 10lb is so heavy

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      • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Cosmos7349@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The twist: OP is actually the one who twisted this into the wrong orientation in the first place

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      • lemmyreader@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        🤣

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    • sygnius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • zephr_c@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s not how geometry works

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    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Or do it to post a picture

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      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But that wouldn’t be /c/mildlyinfuriating

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The summoning circle is broken! You’re free!

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  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is it now..? Then go ahead and fix it if it is really "more than mildly infuriating".

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  • Kyatto@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They did. Then they took a picture and posted it here to outage everyone.

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  • Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They probably did it on purpose - i would have lol

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Square holes are asinine, so easy for them to get dropped in.

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • Audrey0nne@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • XEAL@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OP, is that Spain?

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    • Mannivu@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Italy

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