But the sign doesn’t say what to do if the door opens. Nor does it explain whether the door will open by itself, or whether you have to open it manually. So you have to try it. Then suppose it does open? You are left standing outside an open door not knowing whether you are allowed to go in or not. This is a classic stress-inducing situation. Especially if you boss has told you you have to go in.
Well, the door could be unlocked, and still closed…. You might need another sign saying, “Knock before entering” to go with it. Hang as many signs as you can that all mean different things, to confuse those that come to the door
It’s some kind of entry control panel. One of the controls is a multi-position keyswitch and I’d guess at another one being a bell or a push-to-talk intercom signal.
Ok, so if the door is not open you can’t enter, but have other options.
A. Push button to ring bell and hope someone will open.
B. Push the talk intercom signal and yell that you want to come in.
C. Turn the key switch and wait to see what happens.
D. Go home, why would you want to come in, in the first place.
It’s the manual override/disable controls for a Laserwash 5000 automatic car wash. Which really makes me wonder why it appears to be mounted outdoors. You do need a key to operate it, but there’s also that emergency stop button… why would that be outside, rather than near the operator?
I’m really hoping this is just a stupidly-placed sign and superfluous enclosure, and not a really stupidly-placed control panel.
(Two posts in a row I’ve managed to use “superfluous”!)
Anything else? Socks without mates? That little teeny arrowhead I found and can’t remember where I put? How about that ten years of my life I have no memory of? Is it in there? What the heck was I doing?
But, but, but, I brought my sledgehammer with me, just in case the door wasn’t open! Are you telling me I carted this thing all the way here, and now I’m not allowed to use it? Right. Your letter-box is about to die.
I once used a 10-foot bar wrapped around a 17″ socket wrench with a friend who, like me, was over six feet and 200 pounds. We pushed and pulled, but it still wouldn’t break loose! We took it to a service station, where at first I could tell the mechanics thought we were just wusses. But they tried the biggest wrenches and pipe extensions they had, three or four of them pushing at once, and it still didn’t come loose. They finally had to cut it off with a blow torch.
Never let anybody nicknamed “Tiny” tension the chain of your bike for you – I did once, and he did the jesus nut up so tightly that next time the chain needed adjustment, I ended up jumping up and down on the end of a very long spanner (much to the amusement of the two small children next door, who asked if they could have a go too).
Perhaps you could help me… I’m not familiar with the British words for all of the tools, and I was wondering what a spanner is. Can you translate that to American for me?
Sounds like it would have been easier to remove the wheel and brake drum/disk as a unit. They were probably both bent out of shape.
Personally, I’ve never found it necessary to tighten a wheel nut any tighter than I can manage from a crouching position, and I’m not built like a wrestler. I’ve never had one come loose.
I once had my left rear wheel come off of a pickup truck while I was driving, albeit slowly and on the shoulder because the truck had been making horrendous noises for some time. I watched the wheel sail down the highway, fortunately not hitting anyone. When I got out to check the damage done to the hub, I was stunned to see all five wheel nuts still attached! It turned out that the forces involved in the destruction of my rear axle had ground the holes in the wheel large enough to fit over the nuts.
Hey man that was really a fantastic link that you share with us, it’s really nice and very helpful for us and for all who read this blog to be subjected to yet another strictly commercial ad, since we don’t get nearly enough of them on TV, the radio, newspapers, magazines, and of course on the net.
Obvious! I have known some of the reminders and instructions which are pretty obvious as well! … Anybody has seen an instruction like this one below?:
instruction seen in the chocolate wrapper–
“To eat chocolates please open the wrapper”
For me it’s funny because the instruction should come from the words of educated and respected chocolate company or/and the like as seen in the picture here.
When you buy a packet of some foodstuff, for example noodles or rice, and there’s a picture of it on the packet – it’s clearly a bowl of plain noodles or just rice, yet the picture is *always* marked “serving suggestion”. What did they think we were going to do with it, stuff it up our noses one piece/grain at a time?
so much fail,
Maybe it’s meant to adress the girl in X-Men that walks through walls…
You know… If no one opens the door she shouldn’t go inside…
I was thinking of Jackie Phantom from Alan Moore’s Top 10, but we’re working on similar lines.
Actually, I’m pretty sure I saw that sign in a ghost town.
it’s simple isn’t it? if the door does not open i shouldnt go in.simple as that!
But the sign doesn’t say what to do if the door opens. Nor does it explain whether the door will open by itself, or whether you have to open it manually. So you have to try it. Then suppose it does open? You are left standing outside an open door not knowing whether you are allowed to go in or not. This is a classic stress-inducing situation. Especially if you boss has told you you have to go in.
well that is true,but if it was an automatic door it would probably have a big yellow sign that says:CAUTION AUTOMATIC DOOR
or AUTOMATIC caution DOOR
I would assume that when a door is locked, the point of that is to keep people out.
So, in otherwords, DUH!!!
Where the hell is this? I want to go there with my marker pen and add “Do not read this sign”.
Ignore these instructions.
Where’s the window? I’m going in!
There’s probably another sign on the window that says:
“If window doesn’t open, do not go in.”
No transporter technology allowed.
If door does not close, do not open.
Makes sense. If the door won’t open, they don’t want you inside. Too bad thieves don’t obey the signs more. Otherwise, this just might work.
Well, the door could be unlocked, and still closed…. You might need another sign saying, “Knock before entering” to go with it. Hang as many signs as you can that all mean different things, to confuse those that come to the door
Most people will not be confused anyway, since no matter how many signs you put up they never seem to notice.
The tie is hanging from the control panel.
Must be hump day at the office.
I guess they’ve had a lot of people kicking down the door or crashing through wall…
Sounds like a challenge to me!
What are all those buttons at the bottom of the sign? Is it just to add to the confusion?
It’s some kind of entry control panel. One of the controls is a multi-position keyswitch and I’d guess at another one being a bell or a push-to-talk intercom signal.
Ok, so if the door is not open you can’t enter, but have other options.
A. Push button to ring bell and hope someone will open.
B. Push the talk intercom signal and yell that you want to come in.
C. Turn the key switch and wait to see what happens.
D. Go home, why would you want to come in, in the first place.
E. If you get your Zen right, you’re already inside. Who needs a door?
You can’t see it, but there’s another sign below that reads: “Bell out of order. Please knock.”
(Lets see if the youngsters get the reference)
Can’t see it? It’s clear as the nose on my face!
It’s the manual override/disable controls for a Laserwash 5000 automatic car wash. Which really makes me wonder why it appears to be mounted outdoors. You do need a key to operate it, but there’s also that emergency stop button… why would that be outside, rather than near the operator?
I’m really hoping this is just a stupidly-placed sign and superfluous enclosure, and not a really stupidly-placed control panel.
(Two posts in a row I’ve managed to use “superfluous”!)
Seems more like FailBlog material than Engrish…..o3o
I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in.
I hear you knocking, go back where you been.
Can’t you hear me knockin’ on your window
Can’t you hear me knockin’ on your door
Can’t you hear me knockin’ down your dirty street, yeah
Help me baby, ain’t no stranger
Help me baby, ain’t no stranger
Help me baby, ain’t no stranger
please don’t say that. >:(
No gatecrashers allowed!
Obvious sign is obvious.
Obviously.
Done and done!
It seems so obvious, but when you see all those fail videos of people driving through closed gates…
LOL it links quite well actually.
I’m going to enter through the cat door even if the big door doesn’t open.
Tell us what it’s like in there! What do you see?
I see all of the missing “T”s, “I”s, and “E”s!
Can you bring me back some of those. Some of my older posts seem to be missing some.
hurry b_for_ _ _’s _oo Lat_.
Here you go!
“TTTTTtttTTTttttIIiiiItIIiTIIEeEeeEeieIEIEeeItTtTTtITTtiTitTItTTItQ”
Anything else? Socks without mates? That little teeny arrowhead I found and can’t remember where I put? How about that ten years of my life I have no memory of? Is it in there? What the heck was I doing?
There was a Q in there, too. I gave it to Laconejita.
when getting a Q it is also nice to get A to go with it.
No, you give a Q and hopefully get an A in return!
Ah, but in the end, any A also just leads to another Q.
But the ultimate A leads to a 42.
If one has the forti-tude for it.
* smacks fore-paw to the forehead *
It is true! I just saw a commercial last night for the new book!
waiting four it?
Two bet ya!
That’s just life isn’t it? One door closes , another one shuts.
ooooh, life dont talk to me about life…*slow boring sarcastic tone*
But, but, but, I brought my sledgehammer with me, just in case the door wasn’t open! Are you telling me I carted this thing all the way here, and now I’m not allowed to use it? Right. Your letter-box is about to die.
If it’s, say, a nine-pound hammer with a long handle, you can probably get in anywhere you choose!
Y’know, fun and amazing things can be done with 4-5′ of heavy gauge steel pipe…
It makes a really great “breaker bar” for over-torqued wheel nuts.
I once used a 10-foot bar wrapped around a 17″ socket wrench with a friend who, like me, was over six feet and 200 pounds. We pushed and pulled, but it still wouldn’t break loose! We took it to a service station, where at first I could tell the mechanics thought we were just wusses. But they tried the biggest wrenches and pipe extensions they had, three or four of them pushing at once, and it still didn’t come loose. They finally had to cut it off with a blow torch.
Never let anybody nicknamed “Tiny” tension the chain of your bike for you – I did once, and he did the jesus nut up so tightly that next time the chain needed adjustment, I ended up jumping up and down on the end of a very long spanner (much to the amusement of the two small children next door, who asked if they could have a go too).
Perhaps you could help me… I’m not familiar with the British words for all of the tools, and I was wondering what a spanner is. Can you translate that to American for me?
Spanner – wrench.
Ah, I thought it might be something like that. Why do they call a wrench a spanner, then? Does it cross chasms?
No. If you want to cross chasms, you need a cross.
Well, I’m not British, but a spanner is a wrench.
Thank you, number two.
Sounds like it would have been easier to remove the wheel and brake drum/disk as a unit. They were probably both bent out of shape.
Personally, I’ve never found it necessary to tighten a wheel nut any tighter than I can manage from a crouching position, and I’m not built like a wrestler. I’ve never had one come loose.
I once had my left rear wheel come off of a pickup truck while I was driving, albeit slowly and on the shoulder because the truck had been making horrendous noises for some time. I watched the wheel sail down the highway, fortunately not hitting anyone. When I got out to check the damage done to the hub, I was stunned to see all five wheel nuts still attached! It turned out that the forces involved in the destruction of my rear axle had ground the holes in the wheel large enough to fit over the nuts.
Censor Fail.
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*insert “spam” song here*
This poster name’s across several sites now; I think someone’s trying to get free advertising. Check the link properties.
I think it’s you-know-who.
The Great Beast?
Voldemort is running a tourism business now?
Hey man that was really a fantastic link that you share with us, it’s really nice and very helpful for us and for all who read this blog to be subjected to yet another strictly commercial ad, since we don’t get nearly enough of them on TV, the radio, newspapers, magazines, and of course on the net.
Makes sense to me.
A philosopher, Alfred N. whitehead wrote, ” It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.”*
*from Crow Planet
Obvious! I have known some of the reminders and instructions which are pretty obvious as well! … Anybody has seen an instruction like this one below?:
instruction seen in the chocolate wrapper–
“To eat chocolates please open the wrapper”
For me it’s funny because the instruction should come from the words of educated and respected chocolate company or/and the like as seen in the picture here.
When you buy a packet of some foodstuff, for example noodles or rice, and there’s a picture of it on the packet – it’s clearly a bowl of plain noodles or just rice, yet the picture is *always* marked “serving suggestion”. What did they think we were going to do with it, stuff it up our noses one piece/grain at a time?
My favourites are the packets of nuts that come with the warning: “May contain traces of nuts”. Only traces??? What is the main ingredient?
Or the jar of planters that says, “May contain peanuts.” What, were you expecting a giant snake to pop out of it half of the time?
They didn’t want to get sued by someone disappointed there wasn’t a bowl in the box.
Just bowl the box over. That’ll do it.
this looks like it belongs more on failblog.
sorry to resort to all caps, but WHY ON EARTH IS THIS ENGRISH???
because you use engrish so much, you can’t tell the difference between Engrish and English.
WHY CONFINE IT TO EARTH? IF IT’S ENGRISH ANYWHERE IN THE GALAXY, I COUNT IT!!!!!
But how do you enter if it doesn’t open? hmmmm
I wish I had known this before all those concussions.