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March 24, 2005 12:09 AM
Broken: River access and beverages
Dave Lawrence sends us two silly entries:
1) River Access - this sign has always amused me, first time I've actually had a camera with me to immortalize it!
2) Beverage - Do you think then tried "out-of-cup" drinks first? Can't have lasted long :)
"No Access to River" is a common sign in river towns. It is usually refering to the ability to launch boats via a ramp, or road that runs into the water.
I have seen more than a few parks named Riverside that did not access to the river.
Neither thing seems broken to me.
The cups while it might be funny to see, are using an industry standard term. These cups are not sold to the average person. Besides at most it's a little comical along the same lines of parking in a driveway and driving on a parkway.
The riverside sign - just because your have a park, piece of property along side a river, does not mean you necessarily want every yahoo going through it to get to the river. Next thing you know someone is drowning in the river next to your property and their family sues you for not preventing access to the river. It's like when your neighbor's kid climbs in your pool in the middle of the night and dies. He's trespassing, but you're still sued because he was able to access your pool without going through a gate, scaling razor wire etc.
And, both of these examples don't provide a poor user experience, which is what I thought the nature of the site was. Provide better user experiences.
Neither thing seems broken to me.
The cups while it might be funny to see, are using an industry standard term. These cups are not sold to the average person. Besides at most it's a little comical along the same lines of parking in a driveway and driving on a parkway.
The riverside sign - just because your have a park, piece of property along side a river, does not mean you necessarily want every yahoo going through it to get to the river. Next thing you know someone is drowning in the river next to your property and their family sues you for not preventing access to the river. It's like when your neighbor's kid climbs in your pool in the middle of the night and dies. He's trespassing, but you're still sued because he was able to access your pool without going through a gate, scaling razor wire etc.
And, both of these examples don't provide a poor user experience, which is what I thought the nature of the site was. Providing better user experiences.
I believe that Riverside just means that the place is by the river. That doesn't mean that it has to have river access. And no, I am not putting in any errata.
They're not broken, just amusing. A better forum might be on The Tonight Show - I seem to recall Leno does a segment on this sort of thing.
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"In-cup drink" may be amusing, but I don't think it's broken: it's an instant beverage which is shipped, and mixed, in the (plastic) cup. A Google search for the phrase turns up plenty of suppliers.
Posted by: James Kew at March 24, 2005 01:20 AM