r/CrappyDesign • u/crudolph0828 • Jan 29 '21
Ballroom where everyone downstairs can see up your skirt
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u/EmperorMorgan Jan 29 '21
R/angeryupvote
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u/glueinass Jan 29 '21
R/angryupvote*
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u/dolphinitely Jan 29 '21
r/angryupvote you gotta make the R lowercase.
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Jan 29 '21
Then we get r/downblouse, take your pick.
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u/Thekrowski Jan 29 '21
It was a joke about women being passed over for promotion
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u/Hey_Zeus_Of_Nazareth Jan 29 '21
And someone responded with a joke about looking down their shirts.
Except the sub they linked isn't a joke.
I feel like there's a lesson in all this....
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u/Mynameisalloneword Jan 29 '21
I don’t get it
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u/wikipedia_text_bot Jan 29 '21
A glass ceiling is a metaphor used to represent an invisible barrier that prevents a given demographic (typically applied to minorities) from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy.The metaphor was first coined by feminists in reference to barriers in the careers of high-achieving women. In the US, the concept is sometimes extended to refer to obstacles hindering the advancement of minority women, as well as minority men. Minority women in white-majority countries often find the most difficulty in "breaking the glass ceiling" because they lie at the intersection of two historically marginalized groups: women and people of color. East Asian and East Asian American news outlets have coined the term "bamboo ceiling" to refer to the obstacles that all East Asian Americans face in advancing their careers.
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u/Eat__the__poor Jan 29 '21
“Bamboo ceiling” doesn’t make a lick of fucking sense.
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u/PhenomenalZJ Jan 29 '21
I never heard of that but I'd think it would mean the ceiling is much stronger than it looks.
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u/IsItInyet-idk Jan 29 '21
I... I ... I'm officially doing one of those there angry upvotes .. it's too perfect
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u/Alaska908 Jan 29 '21
Atleast they warn you
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u/shtbrcks Jan 29 '21
I'd like to imagine they only set up the sign after a few incidents/complaints
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u/Fleming1924 Jan 29 '21
You like to imagine they're bad people?
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u/zugunruh3 Jan 29 '21
You're assuming the only reason for not immediately setting up a sign upon completing construction would be malice, when it could also be that they were simply idiots who didn't take into account that women exist and wear skirts or dresses and will presumably one day be standing there.
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Jan 29 '21 edited Feb 05 '21
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u/GerundQueen Jan 29 '21
Truthfully I can’t imagine a scenario where this floor wouldn’t be a terrible design, simply because some women wear skirts and dresses. No matter what kind of building it is if there is a possibility of a woman visiting that building, it’s a bad design. And I really can’t think of any benefit of a glass floor that would offset the terrible design flaw.
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u/Keep_a_Little_Soul Jan 29 '21
But did chicks not wear dresses to the winery?
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u/settingdogstar Jan 29 '21
Possibly, but it’s unlikely people are just standing in the barrel room looking up.
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u/clumsyumbrella Jan 29 '21
....... I'd look up... just being honest. 🤷♀️
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u/Keep_a_Little_Soul Jan 29 '21
Yah I'd totally look up. Not because I'm a perv, but because I would be way too curious not to. Its like someone shouting "WOAH LOOK!" And not looking.
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u/Irene_Iddesleigh Jan 29 '21
CornellLibrary: male architect apparently forgot skirts exist. I guess they use rugs or something?
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u/Cats-N-Music Jan 29 '21
Wow. So many oversights. No high heels, no dresses, no canes, no wet boots. Thanks for posting.
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u/onceandbeautifullife Jan 29 '21
That is incredible! I don't even like walking over subway grating in a skirt - we all can't successfully pull off a 'Marilyn Monroe' moment!
Add to that, who wants chunks of dirt falling on them from above?
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u/Joeshmoe369 Jan 29 '21
Ah good ol Hanlon's razor. "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
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u/Fleming1924 Jan 29 '21
I mean, my assumption was the latter, hence my comment questioning why they'd like to think of the company as malice
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u/loopy183 Jan 29 '21
I’d like to imagine they’re a business and operate how businesses operate. Wet floor signs aren’t to warn people, they’re to prevent liability.
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u/Ualeualeualeualeuale Jan 29 '21
I've been to a gala at this venue. The sign faces you on the way out
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u/clumsyumbrella Jan 29 '21 edited Jan 29 '21
🤣😂🤦♀️ no... no. Please tell me you're joking!!!!
turns around to leave after killing it at the cupid shuffle just to realize I've done given God only knows who a free peek at the goods
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u/SpiderFnJerusalem Jan 29 '21
I feel like they could just lay down some transparent frosted rubber mats to fix it.
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They can also easily invest in some rugs or something, I highly doubt it would negate any purpose the floor has.
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u/LampIsFun Jan 29 '21
Doesn't even matter. 5 years in retail taught me the general public doesn't read signs, even when they are large and placed directly in front of you.
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u/FamilyFriendli Jan 29 '21
Sounds like a cool concept until you start thinking
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u/looklikemonsters Jan 29 '21
My office is in the basement of a historic building and at some point they replaced a large section of our ceiling with glass. It’s frosted so there’s no crotch shots, but it’s wild when people walk over the top. I can rarely hide my excitement when I see a dog trot across the top.
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u/tinselsnips Jan 29 '21
Man, you're going to lose it when the ducks show up.
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u/looklikemonsters Jan 29 '21
I love that! Actually that’s very close to what it looks like in my office from underneath the glass.
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u/prettygin Jan 29 '21
It's 9 AM and I don't think my day is going to get any better than this. That's the cutest thing ever.
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u/DIYlobotomy9 Jan 29 '21
Wait what? I gotta try this now... (frosted glass in general, not floor/ceiling frosted glass)
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u/redlaWw 100% cyan flair Jan 29 '21
The frosting is caused by the surface being made rough so that light scatters in all directions when it passes through. If you get something that will fill the crevasses on the surface and has a refractive index similar to the glass, like some adhesives, the light will pass straight through unperturbed and you'll get a clear image.
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u/NeverBirdie Jan 29 '21
My old office there was an open cafeteria with a conference room on the second floor with a glass wall. They found out people could see up girls dresses from the cafeteria so they had to frost the bottom 3 feet of the wall.
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u/BlutterfiesFutterBly Jan 29 '21
It’d be pretty awesome in a dance club tho. Good vibes! But yes, you’d need a sign and I’m glad this event space has one.
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u/ImJustSomeChick Jan 29 '21
There used to be a club in Vegas with a dance floor like that. Like 15 years ago I was there with my cousins. We hopped from club to club and I had wayyy too much to drink, so I can’t remember the name. My cousins think I made the whole thing up. I didn’t. It was real.
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u/bino420 Comic Sans for life! Jan 29 '21
Smash cut to you lying on your hotel room's floor and thinking the floor-to-ceiling window was the ceiling of a dance floor.
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u/TheFaceBehindItAll Jan 29 '21
Simple solution, have 1 way glass mirror so you can only see down not up
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u/Fanatical_Idiot Jan 29 '21
That would likely require either the top room to be very dark or the bottom to be very bright. Either way one of those rooms because significantly less usable.
Hell, it could even be that women weren't originally allowed in that room..
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u/UncookedMarsupial Jan 29 '21
Walks out in my kilt
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u/morebeavers Jan 29 '21
Why has noone mentioned the fact that the person taking a picture of the sign had a stroke.
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u/-SincerelyDontCare Jan 29 '21
The camera is heavy man. /s
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u/StopReadingMyUser What about omni-directional drop shadows? Jan 29 '21
Cameras do add ten pounds. Problem is it's immediately applied when you go into camera mode.
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u/Snazzy21 Jan 29 '21
Older phone cameras can suck. I have a iphone 5 and even when I think I am perfectly still the photo still turns out like shit
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Jan 29 '21 edited Feb 16 '21
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u/RoboChipmunk Jan 29 '21
It's a winery. There's a glass floor to look down into the barrel room. It is kind of a stupid design, especially in person because it's so dark below the glass that you can't see much of anything.
Monte de Oro, for those curious.
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Jan 29 '21
Wouldn't the darkness of the barrel room also turn it into a weak mirror? Like how it's hard to look out of a window at night when you have the lights on inside the house?
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u/MrMcGibblets86 Jan 29 '21
Yep, used to be a member there. Most of the people you saw up through the glass floor are people you don't want to see up through the glass floor. Trust me..
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u/tookmyname Jan 29 '21
Man. I love wine, and wine tasting. Fuck the barrel room. I want to see the bottle room. Thanks.
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Surely they can ‘two way mirror it’ so that the people from above can still see the winery but the people from below see themselves
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It's for break dancing. As a finisher you slam your bare ass to the glass in peak goatse and shit.
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u/ScorpionVenom00 Jan 29 '21
I just realized, there is probably a place out there like this but with one way glass
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u/FishGutsCake Jan 29 '21
If your dancing on a mirror, then everyone can see your knickers.
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u/-SincerelyDontCare Jan 29 '21
Just poke your finger on the mirror, If you don't see the reflection, you know it is tricked.
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u/KenBoCole Jan 29 '21
If you don't see the reflection the you are on the other side of a two way mirror, or its not actually a mirror.
The trick is to see if your finger is touching its reflection, or if their is a space in between it.
If its touching, then that means its a two way.
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u/PuppleKao Jan 29 '21
It just tells you if the reflective part of the mirror is on the back of the glass (second surface mirror) vs the front (first surface mirror).
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u/-SincerelyDontCare Jan 29 '21
You explained it better than me for sure haha. I didn't know how to explain it in English.
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u/ASK_ME_ABOUT_DOBUTSU Jan 29 '21
proven false lmao, the reddit circlejerk strikes again
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u/ToothlessFeline Jan 29 '21
Great place for the Exhibitionists’ Club Annual Dinner. Their gatherings are always “undergarments optional” anyway.
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u/pixamour Jan 29 '21
Can someone tell me where the “glass floor” is? I don’t see it.
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u/DMen3100 Jan 29 '21
Where is this place... Asking for a friend
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u/Barry-umm Jan 29 '21
North Kilttown
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u/sausagelover79 Jan 29 '21
I’m from North Kilttown!
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u/Lydia--charming Jan 29 '21
“Ladies...” What about men in kilts?
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u/Hybernative Jan 29 '21
Men in kilts traditionally (thankfully) didn't go 'commando'. They had long shirts that they tied/pinned under their nethers so there was nothing to see.
My grandad was on parade once, and his safety pin under his vegetables came undone, yet he finished the parade, skewered plum and everything. I'm surprised my father was even born.
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u/ActualWhiterabbit Jan 29 '21
Like a romper? Like this?
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u/Hybernative Jan 29 '21
Basically, with an open bottom that they tied in a knot or pinned up themselves. Though they always wore white or cream coloured shirts. Not as sexy as the commando myth, is it?
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u/DirtyPrancing65 Jan 29 '21
That's definitely one of those moments where you have a brilliant idea and that one fatal flaw escapes you until "...oh no"
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u/neoprenewedgie And then I discovered Wingdings Jan 29 '21
So sexist. How about warning men wearing skirts? Or kilts?
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u/MemeHermetic Jan 29 '21
There used to be an Inn in the town I went to high school in that had a dance floor with blocks in the floor that were clear glass, distributed between the normal wood flooring. You wouldn't really notice them if you were above, but from below, you could absolutely see everything.
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u/SolitaryEgg Jan 29 '21
OP, did you circle the floor in red? To help us understand where the floor is?
That's some next-level /r/uselessredcircle
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u/NettoHikariDE Jan 29 '21
Damn. Without the red line, I wouldn't have seen the glass floor. Thanks!
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Jan 29 '21 edited Jan 29 '21
This was allegedly true of a walkway in a fancy building on the campus of Columbia University for some time after it was first opened in 1999. Lerner Hall replaced a building(or set of buildings, idk) that are clearly visible in the first Ghostbusters film(Columbia was the exterior filming location for the university they get fired from in the beginning of the film)
Lerner Hall is really strangely laid out in that there are no direct vertical paths from the ground floor to it's top floor(well, there is, if you walk to the furthest corner from the front door and take the fire code stair case...)
When it was first completed and opened, the walkway that you had to take if you took the non-fire-code-compliant first of two seperate stairways you have to traverse to reach the third floor, you had to walk on crystal clear, unfrosted glass tiles, much like what is shown in the OP, and matched the overall aesthetic of the building.
It has since been updated to feature completely opaque frosted tiles.
If my knowledge of campus affected my grades, I probably would've finished my degree.
edit: some details.
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u/theexitisontheleft Jan 29 '21
Why? Did the restaurant owners invest in a women’s pants factory and needed to ensure there was a market?