"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
05/29/2019 at 22:08 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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WilliamsSW
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 22:13 |
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I’m guessing that’s just the exit ramp for complainy customers
Svend
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 22:15 |
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How does this shit even get made.
Surely the person making it knows what it is and something like this is not right.
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ttyymmnn
> Svend
05/29/2019 at 22:18 |
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Looks like it’s in Russia, so there’s that.
My X-type is too a real Jaguar
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 22:23 |
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Delivery ramp easier to get a hand truck up than stairs. Only thing I can think of.
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Svend
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 22:24 |
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Ye', even without the Russian sign, it all screams 1980s, erm, modern day Russia.
wafflesnfalafel
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 22:30 |
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either that or Texas
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 22:43 |
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I’m in Bulgaria often visiting family.
The mine- cart death ramp to the right is what passes for wheelchair access to almost every road underpass and subway station in Sofia.
Merfthemadmauler
> ttyymmnn
05/29/2019 at 22:46 |
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Looking at the grass at the bottom I’d guess somebody uses it.
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ttyymmnn
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05/29/2019 at 23:28 |
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Is somebody in a chair expected to wheel themselves up that “ramp,” or are they meant to be pushed up? People in this country complain about government overreach, but making sure that handicapped people can get into a place doesn’t seem like too much.
Chariotoflove
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05/30/2019 at 00:02 |
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This is better than the access to most subway stations in NYC.
I’d use it. Not that I’d be smart to do so.
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Chariotoflove
> ttyymmnn
05/30/2019 at 00:03 |
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That’s for pushing. And I’ve used worse, believe it or not.
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Chariotoflove
> ttyymmnn
05/30/2019 at 00:05 |
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This is hilarious. You couldn’t even use it for pushing a trolley or cart of stuff. But you can see the grass is worn from someone using it. I’m guessing kids use it as a ramp with wagons or bikes.
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> ttyymmnn
05/30/2019 at 00:08 |
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It’s an affectatious response to a problem. T he country as a whole is run in much the same way, sadly. There is absolutely no way those ramps can be used safely. I n either direction. In fact I think t he only purpose it really serves is to get in the way and render one side handrail useless. And make it more inconvenient for elderly people like my grandparents to get around.
ateamfan42
> ttyymmnn
05/30/2019 at 09:01 |
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ateamfan42
> Svend
05/30/2019 at 09:04 |
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How does this shit even get made.
Cause people is dumb?
shop-teacher
> ttyymmnn
05/30/2019 at 21:47 |
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Story time!
A little background. Both myself and a guy I went to high school with got Ar chitecture degrees before we decided to be teachers. We didn’t really hang out in high school, and we went to architecture school in different states, but in grad school/teacher college we, through sheer coincidence, wer e assigned to share a tiny closet of an office.
Anyways, one day I look over at his computer, and he’s drawing some floor plans. I asked what he was working on. He tells me he’s working on a remodel for his parents’ dry cleaning business. He showed me a few this and that, and pointed to where, “I want to replace the stairs with a ramp, because my mom’s knees are giving her trouble.”
Well, the “ramp” was the same overall length as the stairs. I had taken a deep dive into wheelchair ramps for a particular project in A rchitecture school, so I had become really familiar with just how much space they really consume.
I told him that his ramp was really a slide. He pushed back a bit, so I gave him a mini lesson. “ ADA ramps are supposed to have a pitch of 1" rise for every 12" of run. If you’re going to go up 120 inches to the next floor, you need 120 FEET of ramp. Now, let’s say you double the pitch and build a ramp with a 2:12 pitch, you’d still need 60 feet of ramp. What you’ve drawn is not a ramp. That is a slide.”
“Oh,” he said .... “I guess it will have to stay stairs then.”
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ttyymmnn
> shop-teacher
05/31/2019 at 00:02 |
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Some buildings just can’t be modified. My brass group plays every year for the UT-Austin School of Architecture commencement. It is held in a very old auditorium on campus, built in 1933. They had to install a rather large and noisy wheelchair elevator at the front of the stage. It may be movable. I don’t think I’d seen it before, and there was one graduate this year who was in a wheelchair so they had to lift her up and down from the stage for her to get her diploma.
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shop-teacher
> ttyymmnn
05/31/2019 at 07:14 |
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That's very true, or at least not in a way that's practical. The project I did where I learned about the ramps was one where the initial criteria of the assignment mandated there be no wheelchair lifts. By the time I put the ramp in, and the necessary building around it, fully 1/3 of the entire building was ramp. My professor took a good long look at my model of the building, and said something to the effect of, 'You've done a very thorough job of proving how impractical the ramp is for this project. Put in a wheelchair lift, because this is rediculous.'