this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2025
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

If you didn't read "Job's done" in a Orc peon's voice, then are you really living life?

Edit: Fools! It wasn't an Orc peon, it was a Human Peasant! You feel for my trap!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Yes, milord.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

I'm ready master I'M NOT READY

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I feel like it's more likely that the door hinges got moved to the other side

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The numbers would go the wrong way if that was true. It would be 180 when closed and 0 when fully open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I think they did that because we read left to right. It still gets the point across if you open the door then close it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Or it was malicious compliance

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Maybe but if so it's a shame, so someone still failed.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I was looking at the numbers, expecting to see them out of order or something like that. Then I saw it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hehe, we've all been hyperfocused on the difficult part of a task and missed the simple part before. The part you didn't have to think about because it was so simple comparatively...

I've had plenty of times where I was part way through putting all the parts into a computer case only to realise I hadn't moved out the old case and brought in the new case yet... was just so focused on the main puzzle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

You ever see someone take a door off the hinges, measure meticulously, make a perfect cut, mount the doggy door exactly centered and level the perfect height from the doors edge... only to realise its in the wrong end of the door when they go to re-mount it?

No you havent, because I made sure nobody saw.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Idea vs Execution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I am willing to bet this was a student project and an ongoing point of derision for the students who got a C for at least measuring the angles correctly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Modern arrowslit with built in reticle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like that the assumption is that this is an error, that the protractor was meant to be centered on the door so that the door could be used to show angles.

But it doesn't have to be a mistake. It isn't like the door is going to be useful for measuring much. This could just be decorative, a way to say "here's the geometry classroom"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If decorative, why not center it on the doorway?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

Why not have it on a wall?

We'll never know, unless the person that did it comes to public awareness with a story :j

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago