From the ashes will rise a new Hivemind.

[Tinker Gnome]

Multi Track Drifting - Television Tropes & Idioms

 

[Relique du Madde]

Holy crap! The Meme-Singularity has formed!!!!11111!!11!11! We're dooomed!

 

[Relique du Madde]

Here's a random thing I read about. A Japanese designer wants this to be the international exit sign:

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Americans are complaining because we like to use EXIT and EXIT on our exit signs you know, because we read English and understand that the word EXIT in red means "in case of danger, exit here or EXIT here, or your life will be in danger." We also understand that when we use EXIT in green it means "if you need to leave, go here to exist or go here to exist."

Personally, I think that symbol is somewhat confusing since if posted outside, it could read as "Enter Here." If you place that guy reversed and place it on the outside of a building it then reads "You could only exit through this door".

Maybe what that icon needs is something else to make it meaningful.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

???

 

[Tinker Gnome]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql4Ooz95ulU]YouTube - Tarman[/ame]

 

[Blackrat]

Here's a random thing I read about. A Japanese designer wants this to be the international exit sign:

I actually didn't know they use that sign elsewhere, but that's the sign we use here in Finland. If they use it in Japan too, then it already is "international"... It's just that you americans don't want to play with us

 

[Relique du Madde]

The thing about that image is that it's almost the logo of our phonebook lolol.

 

[Dog Moon]

We Americans are different! We LIKE to be different! And what's up with this weird Metric System I occasionally hear about? What kind of people use THAT?

 

[Relique du Madde]

We Americans are different! We LIKE to be different! And what's up with this weird Metric System I occasionally hear about? What kind of people use THAT?

It's a way of inflating one's ego by substituting in a larger number for a smaller number (or a smaller number for a larger one).. if you know what I'm saying.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Here's a random thing I read about. A Japanese designer wants this to be the international exit sign:

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Americans are complaining because we like to use EXIT and EXIT on our exit signs you know, because we read English and understand that the word EXIT in red means "in case of danger, exit here or EXIT here, or your life will be in danger." We also understand that when we use EXIT in green it means "if you need to leave, go here to exist or go here to exist."

Personally, I think that symbol is somewhat confusing since if posted outside, it could read as "Enter Here." If you place that guy reversed and place it on the outside of a building it then reads "You could only exit through this door".

Maybe what that icon needs is something else to make it meaningful.

I don't think that symbol is confusing at all, and I think it's very useful to see if you're a) in a non-English speaking country or b) a non-English speaker in an English-speaking country.

That said, we use it in the UK everywhere.

Also - you wouldn't use that symbol anywhere outside! It's a pictogram for EXIT! You don't EXIT the outside, you ENTER a building and you don't need a pictogram for that.

Anyway, the Cake is a lie.