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Posted : 16/01/2025 2:52 pm
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From an automated block paving machine?

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 2:54 pm
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From an automated block paving machine?

I dunno, your guess is as good as mine. Either that or "you had one job" I suppose.

The pavement round here was replaced a couple of years back, really nice patterned blocks. There's an access panel which was also paved, and at some point it's been removed and replaced put back-to-front so the patter doesn't align. It gives me the gyp every time I walk past it.

My thought for this thread was "things that make you go argh" rather than this specific example.

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 2:58 pm
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I cant decide what's worse, that. Or contactors who dig it up then patch it with tarmac.

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 3:17 pm
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**** the system

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 3:20 pm
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Ha! Yeah, I’m rather OCD about things like that; nearly forty years working in print and publishing where precision is paramount rather enhances it. I was trying to think of an example, and I’ve just remembered one from my last job:

“What letter spacing and kerning…?” [img] [/img]

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 3:20 pm
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A strip of a cobbled street near my office was dug up 6 months ago to put i services to some new flats.  I was convinced they were going to patch it with tarmac when they eventually relaid it.  I was pleasantly surprised when I saw them laying cobbles one day.  BUT... Rather than using the cobbles they took up, they've used different ones which don't match all the others.

Kill... Maim... Destroy...

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 3:39 pm
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I cant decide what’s worse, that. Or contactors who dig it up then patch it with tarmac.

Tarmac patches are worse.

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 3:41 pm
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Tarmac patches are worse.

Yeah, when Chippenham High Street was redone and pedestrianised, the road part was tarmacced, as it would be open to traffic at night, and the footpaths either side laid with York Stone slabs. So what do contractors do when they have to lift the slabs? Put Tarmac in their place! It might be if the slab breaks, but they shouldn’t be breaking the slabs! [img] [/img]

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 3:58 pm
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Not worse than slightly posh housing / business parks where the 'give way' line at junctions is made up a stone kerb.

Looks great when it's new.  Potential to KSI a cyclist or even motorbike once the tarmac has sagged an inch in a few years wen they turn across it in the dark.

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 4:03 pm
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I reckon there is a small cabal of highways maintenance workers around the country who have the the worlds best drives and patios made up from the block pavers and posh slabs they took up and replaced with tarmac.

Could there actually be black marked in them? When an order comes in the just find an unsuspecting high street, pretend to do some work but just replace the pavers with tarmac and sell them on?

I think I may be onto something here...... 😉

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 4:14 pm
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I have a street of all new led street lights near us.
Apart from one orange old school light..

gnnnnnnnnnn

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 4:47 pm
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I like the image in cougar's OP 🙂

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 4:56 pm
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“What letter spacing and kerning…?”

Hang on to your hat

Untitled 5

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:00 pm
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Could there actually be black marked in them?

I once met someone who'd had their whole front drive stolen while they were on holiday

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:04 pm
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Hang on to your hat

^ da fuq is going on there?

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:04 pm

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Another one for CZ. Sorry.

Untitled 5

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:07 pm
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^ da fuq is going on there?

Norman Collier's side hustle as a sign writer. 🙂

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:09 pm
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Worst Tetris player ever

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:18 pm
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I like it.*

*QC inspector for a living.

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:32 pm
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I'm really rooting for the little red square. Will he ever find his way home?

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:35 pm
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Hang on to your hat

Is that a sign originally designed to traverse three windows?

I mean, it'd still be godawful but at least there's a reason for its existence.

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:45 pm
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Is that a sign originally designed to traverse three windows?

Its on a sash window and I expect at some point it had fake Georgian astragals on it so the text was spaced around them and then later the astragals have been removed (or fallen off)

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:49 pm
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Actually - heres a good one.

Have a look at the door of Number 10 Downing Street. It's not a '10' on the door. (in fact when you image search it some images, particularly ones from the Stock Photo agencies have retouched the image and have 'improved' it to  erroneously show it with a '10')

Its a 1 and a capital O

The O isnt even the same height as the 1

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 5:53 pm

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I dunno, your guess is as good as mine. Either that or “you had one job” I suppose.

If that was my job

<long bout of insane laughing....>

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 6:40 pm
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Oh, I would 100% do that on purpose.

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 7:50 pm
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Is it one of those sliding square puzzles, but bigger than normal?

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 9:46 pm
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Loads more from where that one came from

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3725089/You-one-job-Viral-photos-drastic-errors-people-failed-follow-simplest-instructions.html

Personally the "back to school" one is my favourite

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 10:21 pm
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“What letter spacing and kerning…?”

kerning[1]

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 10:29 pm
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Georgian astragals

Was Max Power that old?

I cant decide what’s worse, that. Or contactors who dig it up then patch it with tarmac.

When an order comes in the just find an unsuspecting high street, pretend to do some work but just replace the pavers with tarmac and sell them on?

Hmm, might need to write to The Digger and see how many Glasgow 'Hoods' have Caithness stone driveways...

 
Posted : 16/01/2025 10:31 pm
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@maccruiskeen

Thank you for that!

^ da fuq is going on there?

Was going to be my next question, and

Is that a sign originally designed to traverse three windows?
Its on a sash window and I expect at some point it had fake Georgian astragals on it so the text was spaced around them and then later the astragals have been removed (or fallen off)

Thank you for the answer, which was what I was thinking.

@onewheelgood - yes, exactly! I was very well trained in proper typesetting, but it comes with a cost…

[img] [/img] [img] [/img]

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 1:47 am
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Have a look at the door of Number 10 Downing Street. It’s not a ’10’ on the door.

It is a 10, but the 0 is painted at an angle as a nod to the original door that had a wonky 0 attached to it, see:

https://www.ukaa.com/guides/the-front-door-of-no-10-downing-street-15

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 1:32 pm

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PLANNING DEPARTMEN

T

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 3:39 pm
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It is a 10, but the 0 is painted at an angle as a nod to the original door that had a wonky 0 attached to it, see:

There’s a letter here from the architect who oversaw the restoration of Downing Street in the 60s, including replacement of the door - apologising for the typography on the door being beastly and blaming a contractor ignoring his instructions.

https://typefoundry.blogspot.com/2010/10/number-ten.html?m=1

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 4:30 pm
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The letterbox is inscribed 'First Lord of the Treasury', the title held by every Prime Minister since Sir Robert Walpole.

Interesting I just assumed this was a Blair / Brown thing as didn't they swap so Blair lived in #11 which had a bigger flat with his family and Brown lived in #10?

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 4:31 pm
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Seems like I was taken in by the wonky number tale

ignoring his  instructions.

Interesting that the architect originally wanted numerals half the size, they would have looked weirdly small IMHO..........

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 5:13 pm
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Deliberately putting a misteak in something just to tease people seems a legitimate tactic.  Complete symmetry is boring.

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 5:59 pm
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@ maccruiskeen - thanks for posting the article about Number 10, fascinating stuff, and right in my wheelhouse! Saved it for future reference. [img] [/img]

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 9:03 pm
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PLANNING DEPARTMEN

T

I know what you're referring to here, and I'm 99% certain it was done self-aware intentionally.

 
Posted : 17/01/2025 11:31 pm
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Stop being so pendantic

 
Posted : 18/01/2025 2:49 pm

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Stop being so pendantic

Careful now or you'll be hoist by your own lanyard

 
Posted : 18/01/2025 3:11 pm
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Careful now or you’ll be hoist by your own lanyard

Watch out or you’ll make him hangry…

 
Posted : 20/01/2025 12:28 am
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Posted : 24/01/2025 3:42 pm
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You monster!

 
Posted : 24/01/2025 8:23 pm
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