When you gaze long enough into the bork, the bork will gaze back into you
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Spotted by reader and one-time [1]Lester Haines collaborator Neil Barnes during a well earned break from autobahn-based travelling: something has befallen a restroom screen.
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The helpful pointers on washing one's hands (although by this stage of the pandemic, anyone who has not learned the rights and wrongs of appendage cleansing is unlikely to be swayed by a German screen) look a little tipsy to us, speaking of unhappy video hardware or a crashed transition.
The German text is augmented by English words, but sadly the borkage has obscured step 2. We suspect there might be soap involved. Step 3 features a clock, likely indicating the length of time one must rub the soap - rather than warning that handwashing is only permitted at 10 minutes past 10.
The glare of blue speaks of BSODs of old, but this is clearly by design. After all, white on blue is relatively readable, even if the glitch behind the scenes is no respecter of such things.
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We were also quite taken with idea of gazing into a mirror and having a bork gaze back at you.
As for what Nietzschen nightmare is running behind the scenes, we're not entirely sure. Barnes noted the urinals also all featured screens (although modesty forbade him from snapping them.) All said: "Android is waiting to start."
We saw similar horrors [4]last month , although in that case it was Windows that had tumbled down the drain. It is good to know that even a sideways shift to Android is not enough to ward off the curse of the bathroom bork. ®
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It almost looks like the application was being maximised from being minimised, and the animation got stuck ...
"... guy sort of hangs about and hands you paper towels..."
Groom of the Kings Close Stool is not a job to be sniffed at.
And the oddness of cubicle doors in America being either SUPER TINY (I'm 6ft 4) and/or have a massive gap in between each cube so people can see you going for a dump. Not forgetting the massive gap at the base of the door. "Its so people know if a cube is occupied". Well just look at the locked sign or maybe, gentle try the door.
I hated that part of my visit. Way back in 2004, a visit to Northern Kentucky Uni (that was a mistake). Went into the loo in the Uni library. What the fuck was the point of even having cubicles. The door was so low you could stand at the urinal and look over the wall at anyone who was in there. It was awful. Lucky, back in the halls of resistant, the lobby area had a loo with a proper UK door on it. So I only ever used that in my unfortunate 2 weeks there :)
If I remember right, O'Hare airport had tall doors but the weird gap. By that time I was going home so just tried to ignore it. I loved my UK loo when I got back. The need for privacy while doing a dump CANNOT be understated.
For anyone interested, visit St Katherine's docks in London. At the Tower Hotel there is a nice bar. When you need the loo, go out the bar and use the ones on the 1st floor (same floor as the bar). They are heaven. Each cubicle is its own little room, amazing!
I take it that you’re not a Congresscritter with a wide stance... Come back, Larry Craig, all is forgiven!
re: That's a very odd form of bork
I thought it was implied in the article that it's crashed mid-transition. It was doing a fancy animation to slide the columns on and froze.
I wonder if it would be the placing of an electronic screen near a water source. A small ingress at the bottom could easily short out something.
Perhaps the rules were translated from the original developed by the Philospophy Department at the University of Woolamaloo but rule 2 has be photoshopped out as it is no longer considered to be "appropriate" for modern society
Why use a screen?
Glass LCD displays and smartphones can hold the virus up to 28 days... hope no one is touching that thing.
How many times do you need to change the instructions? For something that's basically gonna say the same thing forever a plastic sign not only will last longer, but be more hygienic.
Re: Why use a screen?
Well, the money allocated for the bathrooms has to be spent somehow lest it is lost. I mean, if they're not going to check and/or clean them.....
Re: Why use a screen?
How many times do you need to change the instructions?
The last time I used[0] a public toilet, which was some time about a year ago[1], there were screens between the mirrors over the wash basins[2], espousing the virtues of proper hand washing, the care with which the managing company keeps an eye on having a sufficient amount of bog rolls available and in place, and inviting you to replenish the lost fluids and/or solids at nearby establishments.
[0] Nearly couldn't, as the entrance gate only took coins or contactless payment. I have expressly demanded a bank card that does not possess that option, and I was 10c short on coins until I found one on the floor.
[1] Because Progress they've probably morphed into something more interactive as well as intrusive in the meantime[3]
[2] They were grander than mere sinks. Very much so.
[3] May have been put on hold though due to low visitor numbers recently.
I once abused someone for
Not washing their hands after a poo.
Dirty bastard.
Was in our Tescos as well.
I hoped he would complain so I could shout out the dirty bastards poor hygene.
I saw a sign in a University toilet that said "Please only flush toilet paper down this loo" and someone had written underneath "Where should I put my poos?"
Not related, but I think about it often.
Student toilet had a sign "Please use the brush!".
Some student scribbled "Nope. Paper is much better." below that.
That's a very odd form of bork. Quite curious as to how that would come about. Can't see how it would be a display issue (only part of the screen is slanty) – I can only assume it's an application issue. As an aside, personally, I find the idea of screens in toilets a bit weird. Although not as weird as cameras would be.*
*And certainly not as weird as the thing they do in the US where a guy sort of hangs about and hands you paper towels while expecting you to pay for the privilege. Personally I'd pay money for him not to be there.