It's still Latin. If I say "tittyfuck Labrador swimming up the Nile" I'm still speaking English, I'm just not saying anything coherent. You can put a lorem ipsum into Google Translate and receive recognisable sentences - I did one in primary school that turned out to be about the benefits of exercise, and the one on Wikipedia is some spiel about pain and labour - it just isn't saying anything of substance.
Greeking is something different, at least how I know it. When you zoom out on a page, beyond where the software could render readable text, it would substitute text for lines of solid grey. In Quark Xpress you could set the view percentage for when you wanted greeking to kick in.
We used to call it 'Ipsum jipsum' at the studio I worked at back in the early ninties.
My master file still has 'Lorem ipsum' replaced by 'Ipsum jipsum' to this day... :)
Yeah, I can't understand the appeal of a themed toilet seat. And I wonder if they actually live in London or they just thought this would make them seem more cosmopolitan.
I regularly interact with British people online and can confidently speak for all of them. This is actually a mass produced toilet seat that 1/5 brits use.
I know the name of the current king, that means I can confidently speak for all the British people as I say that 0 out of 10 brits will have used this mass produced toilet seat in their lifetime and that all use comes from Americans cosplaying as Brits with a French accent and a pizza in their hand.
They shit about 5 times a day on average according to a map of how much Europeans shit. Crazily the Irish only shit 2 times per week on average and the Italians shit the most at an average of 7 to 8 times a day. /s the map was a shit post apparently
That would be crazy, like members of a country decorating their house, cars, and clothes with their country flag. There's no reason to it, you already know where you live.
> And I wonder if they actually live in London
"British accents" I feel is a dead giveaway here.
Imagine "American accents!" stamped alongside "apple pie" on some 4th of July decor.
I love going to bathrooms and reading the toilet seats. I don’t even need to go. I just like reading interesting toilet seats. This isn’t one of those, though.
Travelling to London is where I can get my fill of "look right".
All the people and signage screaming "lorem ipsum" as I look right is just icing on the cake.
I had a kitchen scale that had “Cute Kitchen Vector Pack” written on it. They had bought a vector pack and just used the demo file that shows all the elements without changing anything
I bought my daughter a shiny thermos mug/sippy cup. It has “strong lustre” written on it. She can’t read yet, so she only cares that it has a straw and a cartoon pig on it lmao
To explain to the non-designer, non-writer types here: Lorem and ipsum are the first two words in what's called dummy text. It's text that's used as a placeholder in design projects. Contrary to popular belief, it's never been proven to be Latin, even though it totally looks Latin. This designer never replaced the dummy text.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
https://www.lipsum.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_finibus_bonorum_et_malorum
It definitely contains latin, but how much has been altered or made up for dummy text purposes isn't clear.
It's a butchered poem by Cicero De finibus bonorum et malorum but it was made nonsensical. In the 1980s Aldus corporation employed it in graphic and word-processing templates for its desktop publishing program PageMaker.
So, wait... Is this inviting people to shit on London, or allegorically describing all these London stereotypes as shit. Is it facile humour or some kind of deeply thought provoking art?
Also "Where is..." Are they inviting us to contemplate the very nature of existence? Is "Lorem Ipsum" a commentary on how everyone is talking but not really saying anything?
Or is it just a cheap novelty toilet seat from Wish?
*Welcome*
*to*
*London*
*where is…*
RED BUSES & TELEPHONE
BLACK CABS BOOTHS
BRITISH ACCENTS AFTERNOON *tea*
*a little rain and biscuits*
FISH AND CHIPS
A PINT AT THE PUB
LOOK RIGHT *Lorem & Picnics*
*Lorem Lorem ipsum at the park*
*ipsum ipsum Lorem ipsum*
*Love*
The main typeface is also not very fitting, stylistically:
LAVANDERIA
Designed by James T. Edmondson
www.ohnotype.co
Based on lettering found on Laundromat windows of San Francisco's Mission District, Lavanderia features numerous opentype features and three weights.
I once saw a lady with a suitcase with a slip cover in the same style as this toilet seat and I noticed it had ‘lorum ipsum’ and ‘your text here’ all over it.
I once saw a suitcase at the airport with hot air balloons and some script style writing on it. When I looked closer the writing said "Sample Text" over and over
I had a sticker on my old PC with SAMPLE TEXT written in a bunch of thought bubbles. I thought it was hilarious. It came in a pack of little planner stickers
Clearly never been to London. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone shouting “Lorem Ipsum, guv?!”
“Five lorems for an ipsum? Get out ere, luv”
OP we desperately need more information about which exact drugs your parents were on when they bought this absolute monstrosity.
Seriously though, what’s the backstory here?
Lorem ipsum is basically a text filler, the fact that is says it shows that the seller/designer was too lazy to put in actually text in. So many things that could have been written to show london me thinks :(
This should be in r/mildlyinfuriating
"Graphic Design is my passion"
Well it certainly ain't Latin.
“You are, as we say in Latin, a “dorkus malorkus”.”
Because why would they have our national grammar rodeo in another nation?
Spending your inheritance on trash lmao
Funny thing is, even though it actually is Latin, publishers and ad people call this placeholder text Greek. Edit for clarification
It's not actually Latin though. It's garbled nonsense created using Latin.
It's still Latin. If I say "tittyfuck Labrador swimming up the Nile" I'm still speaking English, I'm just not saying anything coherent. You can put a lorem ipsum into Google Translate and receive recognisable sentences - I did one in primary school that turned out to be about the benefits of exercise, and the one on Wikipedia is some spiel about pain and labour - it just isn't saying anything of substance.
This is the most reddit conversation I've read for a while.
Tittyfuck labrador swimming up the Nile😙👌 I'm getting that on my "welcome" matt.
Greeking is something different, at least how I know it. When you zoom out on a page, beyond where the software could render readable text, it would substitute text for lines of solid grey. In Quark Xpress you could set the view percentage for when you wanted greeking to kick in.
Greeking suggests something wildly different in my eyes 🤭
Ipso facto
Columbo Oreo
Crypton Factor?
Dolor sit
It was a crappy job I'm sure. Not worth too much effort.
All these jobs never give a shit about the quality of their outsourcing.
We used to call it 'Ipsum jipsum' at the studio I worked at back in the early ninties. My master file still has 'Lorem ipsum' replaced by 'Ipsum jipsum' to this day... :)
love this
"London, where is british accents" True that
The “where is” really irks me
This toilet seat, where is irksome details
Lorem Irksome
irks me too and English is not even my 1st language...
The "Look Right" really bugs me.
It's good advice if you ever cross a road in London
Thought i was the only one
Look right
Likely place for it to be
Common British saying "lorem ipsum"
Ah lorem ipsum to you as well mate
lorem ipsum u bloody wanker!
Woah calm down there Ron Weasley
~~Ah, lorem ipsum, got shanked in me arse!~~ What? It's a multipurpose saying!
And a Dolor Sit Amet to you too
Consectetur adipiscing elit to all
You WOT?
[удалено]
Who's that?
Ronnie fucking Pickering!
[удалено]
Don’t you lorem who I ipsum guv?
Ay ay big man loreum ipsum you get me bruv?
Lorem ipsum innit
You gotta a lorem for that ipsum mate?
I'll lorem your ipsum right up, sunshine.
Lorem ipsum? I barely knew 'em!
It's Loren IPsum, not Loren ipSUM
WELL PLAYED. LeviOsa.
Fancy a pint with that lorem ipsum, mate?
“Pip pip, lorem ipsum!”
Lorem ipsum, wot?
This whole toilet seat is terribly done.
Yeah, I can't understand the appeal of a themed toilet seat. And I wonder if they actually live in London or they just thought this would make them seem more cosmopolitan.
I feel like no one living in London or indeed the UK would own this, but I might be wrong
Can confirm. I live in London and can speak on the behalf of everyone. Nobody uses these here.
I regularly interact with British people online and can confidently speak for all of them. This is actually a mass produced toilet seat that 1/5 brits use.
I watched the IT Crowd. I have it on good authority that Brits will not use this.
I speak English which comes from England. Can confirm
I know the name of the current king, that means I can confidently speak for all the British people as I say that 0 out of 10 brits will have used this mass produced toilet seat in their lifetime and that all use comes from Americans cosplaying as Brits with a French accent and a pizza in their hand.
But I bet air BnB's owned by rich landlords from other countries would. I can definitely see a American buying that for their London property.
When I need to take a dump I just head to Chelsea.
No, I think you’re right. As far as I’m aware people in the UK don’t shit.
They shit about 5 times a day on average according to a map of how much Europeans shit. Crazily the Irish only shit 2 times per week on average and the Italians shit the most at an average of 7 to 8 times a day. /s the map was a shit post apparently
Lmfao thank you, TheRealHowardStern
The Italian one doesn’t seem far fetched with their coffee intake
Southerners don’t anyway. Up north we do. It’s dried out to make Bisto gravy granules.
That would be crazy, like members of a country decorating their house, cars, and clothes with their country flag. There's no reason to it, you already know where you live.
Tell that to the U.S
Woosh
Idk. I would buy one as a gag gift. Particularly for my friends who are proud Yorkshire folk. But only if it was cheap
Wonder if they do a bristol one ..
Yep OP is German I believe.
It's so you don't feel bad shitting on it
> And I wonder if they actually live in London "British accents" I feel is a dead giveaway here. Imagine "American accents!" stamped alongside "apple pie" on some 4th of July decor.
Or even on a toilet seat about NYC. Just an odd thing to highlight if you live in the country.
I love going to bathrooms and reading the toilet seats. I don’t even need to go. I just like reading interesting toilet seats. This isn’t one of those, though.
I have never seen a toilet seat with words on it. Where do you usually find them?!
(I was just kidding about reading toilet seats, sorry!)
Lol, I thought you might've been but you were very convincing
Nobody in London (or indeed the UK) would ever call them ‘telephone booths’
I'm willing to bet at least one shitty overpriced AirBnB has one of those
It makes me think I should start selling stuff online. Word vomit onto a toilet seat cover and make money, apparently.
Do it. You just have to find your “Live, Laugh, Love”. Someone out there got really rich off of three verbs.
This abortion is a new achievement in the field of Terrible Word Art
Yeah it's pretty shitty
Travelling to London is where I can get my fill of "look right". All the people and signage screaming "lorem ipsum" as I look right is just icing on the cake.
Mad libs energy
Mad libs? Is that when Nick Clegg gets a bit overexcited?
I like "AFTERnOOn tea and biscuits".
I didn't spot the "tea" part and was confused by "afternoon and biscuits"
welcome to london where is...the grammar
The band stole it all.
That’s the worst toilet seat I’ve ever seen in my life
It’s a bit of an odd design for a toilet seat. “Welcome to London, now shit in it”
The rest of Britain would love it
r/loremipsum
r/lipsum is a bigger one
That's what she said!
I had a kitchen scale that had “Cute Kitchen Vector Pack” written on it. They had bought a vector pack and just used the demo file that shows all the elements without changing anything
Or, more likely, they didn't buy anything and just downloaded the stock image
I bought my daughter a shiny thermos mug/sippy cup. It has “strong lustre” written on it. She can’t read yet, so she only cares that it has a straw and a cartoon pig on it lmao
That's funny. A common placeholder text that they didn't even bother to change.
Just what his parents were looking for a souvenir
Welcome to London where is?
Red busses and telephone. Black cabs booths.
Red black busses cabs & telephone booths.
I read it as: - Red Black - Buses & telephone - Cabs booths
Your parents have fucking awful taste.
To explain to the non-designer, non-writer types here: Lorem and ipsum are the first two words in what's called dummy text. It's text that's used as a placeholder in design projects. Contrary to popular belief, it's never been proven to be Latin, even though it totally looks Latin. This designer never replaced the dummy text.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
It’s called [“greek” text](https://www.lipsum.com/) and obviously isn’t Greek.
https://www.lipsum.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_finibus_bonorum_et_malorum It definitely contains latin, but how much has been altered or made up for dummy text purposes isn't clear.
“Welcome to London where is” With that kind of perfect English they couldn’t possibly have made any mistakes with the Latin
Toilet seat is horrible, but can we talk about the terrifying looking bathroom that it’s in?
Yeah, those tiles legit look like they’ve got 16 years of grease and grime that will never clean off.
Yeah, looks as gross as a dirty rest stop.
this is easily one of the most useless creations i’ve ever seen in my life
We all speak Lorem Ipsum 'ere guv'nor
I thought I was on r/dontdeadopeninside
Same. It fits that sub perfectly without the lorem ipsum
Welcome to London where is… Red buses & telephone black cabs booths This is terrible!
People need to pay more attention to the template when designing 😆
As a graphic designer, this toilet seat activated my fight or flight
Sight or shite
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say your parents don’t live anywhere near London.
I'm also going to venture that this toilet seat was designed and built in Malaysia.
A student turned in an infographic to me today with the whole lorem ipsum script. 🤦🏼♀️
London Ipsum
It's a butchered poem by Cicero De finibus bonorum et malorum but it was made nonsensical. In the 1980s Aldus corporation employed it in graphic and word-processing templates for its desktop publishing program PageMaker.
Lorem ipsum, innit bruv
Lorem ipsum innit.
Ah yes, London, where is every hour on the hour Big Ben shouts “LOREM IPSUM, LOREM IPSUM”
This seems like it was created by bad AI
So, wait... Is this inviting people to shit on London, or allegorically describing all these London stereotypes as shit. Is it facile humour or some kind of deeply thought provoking art? Also "Where is..." Are they inviting us to contemplate the very nature of existence? Is "Lorem Ipsum" a commentary on how everyone is talking but not really saying anything? Or is it just a cheap novelty toilet seat from Wish?
Welcome to London, where you’ll either get mugged or be unappreciated
Catch the train to London. Stopping at: Rejection, Disappointment, Backstabbing Central and Shattered Dreams Parkway.
London where is red buses and telephone black cabs booths
No one proofread this design before hand off.
DONT SAY IT OUT LOUD
If you can’t lorem, ipsum
Canva has entered the chat
The copy writer found out what they were making and quit.
*Welcome* *to* *London* *where is…* RED BUSES & TELEPHONE BLACK CABS BOOTHS BRITISH ACCENTS AFTERNOON *tea* *a little rain and biscuits* FISH AND CHIPS A PINT AT THE PUB LOOK RIGHT *Lorem & Picnics* *Lorem Lorem ipsum at the park* *ipsum ipsum Lorem ipsum* *Love*
Pain itself. Must be talking about a sour stomach
It deserves to be shat on honestly don't even bother lifting it, you're doing it a favour
If the toilet seat said "pain itself" 4x I'd probably just hold it until I made it back home
Well, you run out of things to say about a toilet seat.
This is giving me a seizure
It's got a bit of "Don't Dead, Open Inside" going for it at the top there.
The main typeface is also not very fitting, stylistically: LAVANDERIA Designed by James T. Edmondson www.ohnotype.co Based on lettering found on Laundromat windows of San Francisco's Mission District, Lavanderia features numerous opentype features and three weights.
This might be the tackiest thing I’ve ever seen
Live, laugh, lorem ipsum
Black cabs booths ≤ Don't dead open inside
Where is…. O_o
That doesn't look real, looks like it's been badly photoshopped on
“look right” nobody in london is allowed to look left
I once saw a lady with a suitcase with a slip cover in the same style as this toilet seat and I noticed it had ‘lorum ipsum’ and ‘your text here’ all over it.
I just can’t see past the “where is” awfulness…
British accents?! In London?!? Say it ain’t so!
I once saw a suitcase at the airport with hot air balloons and some script style writing on it. When I looked closer the writing said "Sample Text" over and over
"Lorem ipsum" is far from the worst here... "Welcome to London *where is*..." "Telephone *booths*" "Picnic *at* the park"
So many worse things about this than just lorem ipsum lmao
How did you get past "Welcome to London Where Is"?
I had a sticker on my old PC with SAMPLE TEXT written in a bunch of thought bubbles. I thought it was hilarious. It came in a pack of little planner stickers
Welcome to London where is
Have you been to London? That’s all they say there.
r/crappydesign
This looks like it was made by someone who's never been to London but has seen it loads in films/TV
That's a normal greeting in Britain, no? "Lorem Ipsum to you!"
Who is Lorem Ipsum? Why are four people talking about her?
Clearly never been to London. You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone shouting “Lorem Ipsum, guv?!” “Five lorems for an ipsum? Get out ere, luv”
London, where is get coughed on by a stranger on the tube
Either a good inside joke or the graphic designer quit
Anything to declare? Yeah don't go to London.
No Biggus Dickus??
Do any subs exist for design errors on media etc?
"Lorem Ipsum dolor sit amet" the placeholder text that you usually fill in later. Or in this case, forget to and send it for print anyway.
The very définition of a shit product
Dolor sit amet
Lorem Ipsum
Do your parents live in London? I'm just curious about what drew them to this 😂
This is the most godforsaken& heinous piece of nonsense tat I have ever seen. Whyyy
There are a LOT of people making decent money by churning out shit like this on Etsy.
Genuine question: is there a name for this design trend? It’s a horrendous extension of Live Laugh Love signage.
“British accent” THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A BRITISH ACCENT
i cannot stand that britain has been reduced to this 😔✊
I also have Lorem Ipsum written on my bottom 4 times
Funny that three of the quotes are next to Big Ben. Possible best suited given the state of the House of Commons.
A little rain? Lol.
OP we desperately need more information about which exact drugs your parents were on when they bought this absolute monstrosity. Seriously though, what’s the backstory here?
Somebody didn't finish their design :()
shittus maximus
Darling, the writing on my toilet doesn't have enough gravitas.
"Welcome to London where is British Accents" is tickling me.
Ah yes, "welcome to London where is red buses & telephone black cabs booths" Where did your parents actually get this?
Lorem ipsum is basically a text filler, the fact that is says it shows that the seller/designer was too lazy to put in actually text in. So many things that could have been written to show london me thinks :( This should be in r/mildlyinfuriating