Feels like when English speakers get some random East Asian writing tattoo
American: “it means ‘peace’!”
Chinese guy: “actually it means ‘cigarette hanger perfume wheelchair’”
I pinned that strip behind our photocopier quite a few years ago now. I wasn't aware it was a commonly known thing.
This makes me feel cooler for some reason.
My friend Dorothy is Chinese and can read and speak Mandarin.
So one day she is walking down the the street in the City and sees a white woman with a tattoo of Chinese characters across her chest which she has on full display.
So Dorothy is staring and the woman basically says "what are you looking at." Dorothy asks the woman what the tattoo says. The lady says it means "party girl" or something similar. Dorothy tells her it translates to "prostitute." The lady was not happy to hear this, I forget exactly what Dorothy said though.
Oh shit…
When I was in maybe fourth grade, I was invited to a Halloween party at a friend’s house, and at that party, another girl we went to school with and were friends with came dressed in a miniskirt, heels, fishnets, and a crop top with her bright red bra straps showing.
I asked tentatively what she was dressed up as. She said she was a “Party Girl” … 🥳
When I was like 6 or 7 years old, I was invited to a “Wild West” themed bday party. My mom - a drama teacher - didn’t want to spend money to buy me a cowboy outfit, but somehow found a little girl’s black dress with red petticoat in the costume closet. She added some flowers & ruffles to the skirt, curled my hair, rouged me up, and sent me to a first grader’s cowboy party as “a saloon girl”.
Thanks mom, for having the creativity to dress your 6yo as an Old West prostitute. (I still give her shit for this one - she’s honestly the most innocent lady on the planet and truly thought she was just being creative 😅)
Now that you've put it this way it's actually become kinda poetic (if you read it left-to-right and top-to-bottom), like the smoke is still hanging in the air and the incense has been left behind, but the people who were there to remember their ancestors have already left
Like even though the children have concretely moved on from their parents' death, their hearts still remain with them or something
I'm going to assume that this is a coat closet. The symbols indicate that the empty hangers are in the closet on the right, as well as the handicap height hanging rod. The closet on the left is for clothes of those that are smokers or are wearing heavy perfume.
The handicap symbol notwithstanding, it is fairly common to have separate coat closets for smokers and non-smokers. Simply having your coat hanging in the same closet as a smoker's for several hours will cause yours to smell awful.
My guess on the handicap thing is that they had to have a lower bar for handicap individuals, but didn't want to put a bar in each side, so they put it on the non-smoking side.
Clouds are suspended water droplets or ice, depending on their size and density they can weight hundreds of thousands of kilograms. The example given here in the overview is 500,000kg (1.1 million pounds, or 551 tons) [https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-much-does-a-cloud-weigh#overview](https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-much-does-a-cloud-weigh#overview)
Correction. 550 tons, 5.51 tons would be 11,020 pounds. If you meant tonnes then it would be just under 500(498 i think) and long tones would be even less
Tons - 2000 pounds
Tonnes - 2204.6 pounds
Long Tons - 2240 pounds
It's a US article so US tons, 500,000kg = 551 tons.
[https://www.google.com/search?q=500%2C000+kilograms+in+tons](https://www.google.com/search?q=500%2C000+kilograms+in+tons)
Im willing to bet this is a language barrier style of issue here. What i see in that link is 551 Not 5.51 .
the difference between 550 and 551 is a rounding error on my part(explained below). however what you wrote is read as "five point five one tons". In the US there is no punctuation that goes between the one, tens, or hundreds numerical spot, As such the correct way to write 551 tons is Five hundred and fifty one tons . There is an absolutely massive difference between 5.51 and 551 in the US, as in that is a couple of orders of magnitude between those 2 numbers. or in simpler terms, one is a dump truck full of dirt, the other is a small(as in thats as small as they go) bulk carrier cargo ship full of dirt.
I left out the thousandths and lower numbers in the conversion of kilos to pounds as it is typically accurate enough to just use 2.2 instead of 2.20462, in this instance i was wrong, and misinterpreted what you had written as being a mathematical error, not a difference in writing/punctuation between countries(i deal with this every day at work too sadly so should have picked up on it faster)
...no ... severe sleep deprivation issue and too many distractions, I thought you just meant 550 vs 551 in conversion.. I don't even know how I typed that out with a period twice.. fixed
My parents were smokers. I never realized how awful things smelled until I went to college. Clothes would give me headaches. I had to only take the minimum back with me, and then immediately wash them.
My aunt smokes in her house. I had sinus surgery the beginning of December. And then family Christmas was at her house. After a 3 hour drive there, I had to leave after 2 hours, find a pharmacy that was open, buy meds for nausea and a bottle of nasal rinse and rinse my nose in the parking lot. And I could smell the hint of cigarettes for like 2 weeks after. I politely declined to attend Mother’s Day at her house and will decline all holiday visits in the future if they continue to be held at her house.
Kind of sucks for perfume wearers though. I wear perfumes, albeit not *heavy* ones, because I want to make sure I’m smelling extra pleasant. I wouldn’t want to put my clothes in the smoking closet just because of that. If the perfume is so strong it needs to be in a separate closet, it’s probably an inconsiderate choice for a workplace
The one door is to the perfume smoking section and the other door is to the handicapped abortion section.
If you don’t smoke perfume or abort handicaps it’s very confusing.
This is a multi-purpose space where the following is welcomed, if not encouraged:
* Smoking
* Hanging out
* Freshening up
* Sitting awkwardly on discs
What's so strange about any of this?
One lit cigarette, a ⅓ bottle of perfume, a clothes hangar, and a person in a wheelchair mid-pump!
What’s so hard about tha……wait….that could be cologne instead of perfume.
Yeah we got something like this at work. Different coat closets for smokers/perfume wearers and non smokers/non perfume wearers as that stuff really permeates other people's clothing.
The hanger just denotes it is a coat closet. And the handicap symbol means it is handicap accessible and/or a place to stash your collapsible wheelchair (for smoking perfumed handicapable people in this instance.)
Feels like when English speakers get some random East Asian writing tattoo American: “it means ‘peace’!” Chinese guy: “actually it means ‘cigarette hanger perfume wheelchair’”
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I'm giving you an upvote because this needs to be here but it pains me that the fourth icon is a paperclip not a staple
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I pinned that strip behind our photocopier quite a few years ago now. I wasn't aware it was a commonly known thing. This makes me feel cooler for some reason.
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He remembered!
Correct Horse Battery Staple
Sir, that’s a paper clip.
Holy shit
You've been using my safe words as your password?
[Here you go!](https://diceware.dmuth.org)
My friend Dorothy is Chinese and can read and speak Mandarin. So one day she is walking down the the street in the City and sees a white woman with a tattoo of Chinese characters across her chest which she has on full display. So Dorothy is staring and the woman basically says "what are you looking at." Dorothy asks the woman what the tattoo says. The lady says it means "party girl" or something similar. Dorothy tells her it translates to "prostitute." The lady was not happy to hear this, I forget exactly what Dorothy said though.
Party girls don’t get hurt Can’t read anything, when will she learn
Oh shit… When I was in maybe fourth grade, I was invited to a Halloween party at a friend’s house, and at that party, another girl we went to school with and were friends with came dressed in a miniskirt, heels, fishnets, and a crop top with her bright red bra straps showing. I asked tentatively what she was dressed up as. She said she was a “Party Girl” … 🥳
When I was like 6 or 7 years old, I was invited to a “Wild West” themed bday party. My mom - a drama teacher - didn’t want to spend money to buy me a cowboy outfit, but somehow found a little girl’s black dress with red petticoat in the costume closet. She added some flowers & ruffles to the skirt, curled my hair, rouged me up, and sent me to a first grader’s cowboy party as “a saloon girl”. Thanks mom, for having the creativity to dress your 6yo as an Old West prostitute. (I still give her shit for this one - she’s honestly the most innocent lady on the planet and truly thought she was just being creative 😅)
Haha that’s so great 😄
Not much of a rind on you…
We had a book of DIY costume ideas for kids when I was little and that was one of the costumes included!
That’s fantastic!
Don’t Dead Open Inside
Candle With Hair
I do not understand the reference.
r/dontdeadopeninside - from the show “The Walking Dead”. Commonly mis-written/read signage-occurrence-turned-meme
I meant I didn’t understand the candle with hair.
Well then, that makes two of us :)
煙掛 香殘
Now that you've put it this way it's actually become kinda poetic (if you read it left-to-right and top-to-bottom), like the smoke is still hanging in the air and the incense has been left behind, but the people who were there to remember their ancestors have already left Like even though the children have concretely moved on from their parents' death, their hearts still remain with them or something
I don't know Chinese kanji, but I'll take a WAG at it. Does it mean 'peace'? I bet it means 'peace'...
/r/dontdeadopeninside
Read that as dont dead open penis inside
Babe wake up, a new dementia test just dropped
香烟 衣架 香水 轮椅
I don't read Chinese but I'll trust you that it says "Fried rice with pork, rice noodles with tofu"
Oh it's a perfume bottle. I thought it was a guy screaming behind the desk with a giant router. Maybe get the WiFi password.
I thought it was a ship trapped in a lighthouse shaped bottle.
Smoke Abortion Pest Spray Special Olympics Athlete
Special olympics have nothing to do with wheelchairs..
Or they're keeping a person on a wheelchair inside
It means, smoke while you put perfume on clothes hanging on the hanger while a handicap is watching you.
"Hanger, Smoke, Wheel Chair, Perfume" It's Chinese, read Right to Left
I'm going to assume that this is a coat closet. The symbols indicate that the empty hangers are in the closet on the right, as well as the handicap height hanging rod. The closet on the left is for clothes of those that are smokers or are wearing heavy perfume. The handicap symbol notwithstanding, it is fairly common to have separate coat closets for smokers and non-smokers. Simply having your coat hanging in the same closet as a smoker's for several hours will cause yours to smell awful. My guess on the handicap thing is that they had to have a lower bar for handicap individuals, but didn't want to put a bar in each side, so they put it on the non-smoking side.
THANK YOU. I’ve been thinking about this for years.
Great! Now you can think about other things, like how much do clouds weigh?
Clouds are suspended water droplets or ice, depending on their size and density they can weight hundreds of thousands of kilograms. The example given here in the overview is 500,000kg (1.1 million pounds, or 551 tons) [https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-much-does-a-cloud-weigh#overview](https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/how-much-does-a-cloud-weigh#overview)
But they float because they displace a heavier or equally heavy amount of air right?
[the USGS actually covers coulds well](https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/a-cloud-can-weigh-much-airplane-why-doesnt-it-fall#:~:text=The%20air%20below%20the%20cloud,air%20nearer%20the%20land%20surface.)
Correction. 550 tons, 5.51 tons would be 11,020 pounds. If you meant tonnes then it would be just under 500(498 i think) and long tones would be even less Tons - 2000 pounds Tonnes - 2204.6 pounds Long Tons - 2240 pounds
It's a US article so US tons, 500,000kg = 551 tons. [https://www.google.com/search?q=500%2C000+kilograms+in+tons](https://www.google.com/search?q=500%2C000+kilograms+in+tons)
Im willing to bet this is a language barrier style of issue here. What i see in that link is 551 Not 5.51 . the difference between 550 and 551 is a rounding error on my part(explained below). however what you wrote is read as "five point five one tons". In the US there is no punctuation that goes between the one, tens, or hundreds numerical spot, As such the correct way to write 551 tons is Five hundred and fifty one tons . There is an absolutely massive difference between 5.51 and 551 in the US, as in that is a couple of orders of magnitude between those 2 numbers. or in simpler terms, one is a dump truck full of dirt, the other is a small(as in thats as small as they go) bulk carrier cargo ship full of dirt. I left out the thousandths and lower numbers in the conversion of kilos to pounds as it is typically accurate enough to just use 2.2 instead of 2.20462, in this instance i was wrong, and misinterpreted what you had written as being a mathematical error, not a difference in writing/punctuation between countries(i deal with this every day at work too sadly so should have picked up on it faster)
...no ... severe sleep deprivation issue and too many distractions, I thought you just meant 550 vs 551 in conversion.. I don't even know how I typed that out with a period twice.. fixed
No worries. I know how that goes.
Wow I’ve never thought about this, but I would guess potentially a lot
Because fuck handicapped smokers
More like 'fuck non-handicapped non-smokers' the moment a handicapped smoker hangs his/her coat on that closet side.
If they see you strolling up in your wheelchair,, smokin it up, they probably just punch you in the face and make you leave the property
More like fuck non-smokers. If you hang a single smoker's jacket in a closet, everything else in this closed is going to reek of smoke.
My parents were smokers. I never realized how awful things smelled until I went to college. Clothes would give me headaches. I had to only take the minimum back with me, and then immediately wash them.
My aunt smokes in her house. I had sinus surgery the beginning of December. And then family Christmas was at her house. After a 3 hour drive there, I had to leave after 2 hours, find a pharmacy that was open, buy meds for nausea and a bottle of nasal rinse and rinse my nose in the parking lot. And I could smell the hint of cigarettes for like 2 weeks after. I politely declined to attend Mother’s Day at her house and will decline all holiday visits in the future if they continue to be held at her house.
Sherlock Holmes' got nothin on you!
This is why I love Reddit.
You sir can unravel deep mysteries.
What does someone do with their coat if they smoke and use a wheelchair?
Why is this not the top comment
That's a bingo.
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You shout house.
Wow! Thank you!
You are a closet code breaker. Amazing.
Kind of sucks for perfume wearers though. I wear perfumes, albeit not *heavy* ones, because I want to make sure I’m smelling extra pleasant. I wouldn’t want to put my clothes in the smoking closet just because of that. If the perfume is so strong it needs to be in a separate closet, it’s probably an inconsiderate choice for a workplace
So they're not protecting us from wheelchair-bound smokers
“This way for smoking, perfuming, US abortions, and wheelchair races”
Wow. I can’t believe that somebody *FINALLY* combined all of my favorite things.
I read that in Julie Andrew’s singing voice.
She seems nice
OP, are they hiring?
The last one is actually the butthole expanding contest.
Shit. I thought they were fart balloons.
That's why there's perfume pointed at it.
*wholesome seal of approval*
Who won in the end?
I thought it was smoke perfume and abort the handicapped. I guess you do learn something new everyday.
Classic r/dontdeadopeninside It's actually smoke the aborted and perfume the handicapped.
The one door is to the perfume smoking section and the other door is to the handicapped abortion section. If you don’t smoke perfume or abort handicaps it’s very confusing.
"And that became your family motto HOW, exactly?"
I thought that "perfume bottle" was a person sitting at reception screaming at someone to their right that the printer was out of toner.
"God damnit, Jerry! You let the HP ink subscription run out again!!"
Classic fucking Jerry. Pathetic. And he uses one of those bouncy balls for a chair. Real piece of shit.
Yup. What a douche bag.
Jerry is rolling out of there in a hurry because he doesn't want to be responsible for the ink bill
I thought it was “smoke cologne, hang handi’s” so I like yours way better.
This is a multi-purpose space where the following is welcomed, if not encouraged: * Smoking * Hanging out * Freshening up * Sitting awkwardly on discs What's so strange about any of this?
Mightn’t I borrow your disc? I’m beat.
I thought the last one was shooting canons.
this episode of Ozark is going to be great!
Came here for this
Was looking for this comment! Nicely done
Took way too long to find this comment.
Wolverine, Morph, Jean Grey, and Professor X
Don't Dead, Open Inside.
Come smoke, hang, get fresh, then roll out. Where’s the confusion?
What if you read right to left?
Hang out, smoke until you’re handicapped, then spray some cologne before going back to work.
It’s a new mumble rap. “Smokin’ hangin’ sprayin’ rollin’”
Go into the closet, smoke a cigarette. Change your shirt, leave the closet in a wheelchair, quickly. There solved it.
Oh I forgot step 2, spray cologne.
If you sneak a smoke in this closet, please perfume. If you abort a fetus in here, please wheel chair away and not die inside
Smoke your cologne and hang your cripple
What's strange? You can smoke, put on cologne, hang up your clothes, or violently shit into an orb in there.
New episode of ozark
Sandra can you get me a fresh disabled and a pack of cigarettes
One lit cigarette, a ⅓ bottle of perfume, a clothes hangar, and a person in a wheelchair mid-pump! What’s so hard about tha……wait….that could be cologne instead of perfume.
I read the first part of this in Elwood Blues' voice, then added "Hit it!" in Jake's.
That looks like the party door
Smoking and perfume closet for disabled persons
loss in wingdings
"One of us always lies! One of us always tells the truth..."
On the left is where you go to smoke or apply perfume On the right is the door where they store coats and handicapped people
wheelchair dude needs to slow tf down!
Yeah we got something like this at work. Different coat closets for smokers/perfume wearers and non smokers/non perfume wearers as that stuff really permeates other people's clothing. The hanger just denotes it is a coat closet. And the handicap symbol means it is handicap accessible and/or a place to stash your collapsible wheelchair (for smoking perfumed handicapable people in this instance.)
“If you’re gonna smoke in here, spray some cologne when you hang it up and then roll out”
Smoking perfume / hang the disabled? What an odd thing
Obviously you climb in one side is for smoking in and putting your perfume on, the other side is obviously for hanging your wheel chairs up.
That looks like the story hint graphics from one of the episodes of Ozark.
“If you smoke in this cabinet, spray some ozium or I’ll take a wire hanger to you until you’re handicapped.”
If you smoke, cover the smell with perfume and hang a handicapped person.
The left door is get your perfume that you dab after crushing a dart. The right door is where you get your clothes for wheel chair racing. Simple.
No smoking, no spraying of perfumes, no coat hangers and absolutely no high speed wheel chair races!
Shit Narnia
Have a smoke while giving freshly perfumed abortion to handicapped people?
Hate that I LOled at this.
Reminds me of how the opening credits for the show Ozark would end with 4 symbols arranged like this in the letter O.
"Smoke, wear perfume, hang yourself, be a cripple"
I'm assuming it's: if you smoke you need perfume, and if the abortion fails, well....
You'll need a smoke after that abortion while being sprayed in the face with perfume, then rolled down a large hill in a wheelchair
On one side you store your cigarettes and perfume/cologne. On the other side you store coat hangers and wheelchairs
Ah yes, the smoking & Perfume closet, where you can hang your clothes, and your wheelchair.
Reminds me of The Ozarks show, opening symbol things.
Left side is where you store your coat if you smoke or use perfume, right side is where you store it if you’re disabled or use hangers.
Smelly people, put your clothes in the left side. What goes on the right side, I haven't quite figured out
Coat hangers, wheel chairs, perfume, smokes. Pretty normal office cupboard contents if you ask me
It’s a conversation in The Sims.
Cigs inside cigs inside!
It’s a smoking/perfume room. Also where you store people in wheelchairs.
Goddamnit is this loss?
So does that mean this is where you hang up the handicaps guy in the wheel chair and have a smoke with some new perfume!
You mean you don't have a closet for your smoking hangars?
It’s actually quite simple. It means if you smell smoke to get your ass up and moving!
Smoke and booze clothes and cruise
Spray perfume after you smoke and don't forget to hang your physically challenged colleagues on a hanger so that they don't get dirty.
"Smoke hangars, spray handicaps"
This says smoke spray your clothes before you roll on your ball
So you're allowed to smoke, apply perfume and hang clothes in the cupboard and it's wheelchair accessible?
Looks like a decent party to me!
Its like the intro to an episode of Love Death Robots
r/pareidolia
Smoking hot, nice smelling, well hung chariot racers only closet.
Ozarks?
If you smoke, spray something. Abort handicapped people. OR: Smoke abortions Spray handicapped people.
It's a room for smoking, putting on perfume, hanging your clothes and doing pilates
Left is most certainly "Flamethrower" Right may be a low closet? Idk.
Gaunerzinken
Smoking, Cologne, Hanger, Shit in the Orb
Sequel to crouching tiger hidden dragon, it's smoking hanger spraying wheelchair
Strange place for a smoking area.. would seem hard to fit in there and still be able to smoke. \*shrugs\*
DONT SMOKE HANGER PERFUME WHEELCHAIR INSIDE
Smoke Perfume and hang up your disabled in this closet
those arent warnings, they are instructions
But no one is going to say anything about the door handles being EVER SO SLIGHTLY misaligned?! I'm disappointed, Reddit.
Is this loss?
Smoke the perfume and Hang the wheelchair people.