Ah, where would we be without our daily dose of stupidity?

[sparkindarkness]

Been a bit non-contact due to huuuge washes of stuff that needs doing all the damn time at the moment, trying to redress the balance so bear with me. Irritatingly I actually have inspiration for the first time in ages - but it's all in the wrong place. I have infinite (well, not really but you get the idea) fics still hanging but now I have inspiration for:

1) A superhero comic (which is funny, because I can't draw a LINE, but I can picture like issues perfectly in my head already)
2) 2 fics set in Virtue of Steel Land but on a different CONTINENT from the current plot (did I mention there's way too much world building in that fic arc?)
3) A ton of Spark in Darkness world building - including the Arthurian wars (brought on by the sudden muse fed revelation that Camaalis castle was indeed commonly referred to as Camelot before Monty Python and the Holy Grail whereupon the collective Camaalis decided that "It's a silly place" would make a REALLY BAD family motto) and 4 normal humans with magically enhanced life extension who run most of the Camaalis' basic affairs - the Cook, Gardener, Butler and Nanny (they don't have names since actual GENERATIONS of Camaalis have called them by their title for so long that few even remember them). All 4 are incredibly vivid characters with huge stories - and will only ever be background colour.
4) Something weird involving legalised vampirism and lawyers... (bring on the bad lawyer jokes, you KNOW you want to) in a semi-sci-fi environment (I never write sci-fi...)
5) Something else... which I can't quite identify yet, but it's there and I am poking it *pokes*

I may start writing again just to see if I can get back into the habit

Anyway, the stupid.

Our firm, as I have said, is having some refurbishments. I mentioned our precious covered car park. Well, at the same time they were modernising the toilets. This was less noteworthy because it has to be done and we accept the minor inconvenience (especially since they're sensible enough to close only one toilet at a time). However, the first one has been completed

There is a problem

Upon entering today I find that the urinals are at navel height to me. The bottom is slightly above my belly button in fact.

Now, I admit I'm not the tallest guy in the world, but someone would have to pretty damned tall to use these things at all - and big foot to use them in anything like a... hygienic manner


I boggle, I really do. As far as I am aware the designer and builders were all men... so they should KNOW right?

Comments

[kirylyn.livejournal.com]

hey sparky!!

*snickers* ok, I'm sorry, its not like I'm ever going to care what height an urinals are at but that is pretty funny.

unless one of the designers is female??

don't know if you ever saw this linky
http://shop.hollylisle.com/index.php?crn=222&rn=412&action=show_detail

starting to get into creative mood with nanowrimo rapidly approaching

let me know if you need a beta for some of those fics.. (sorry, don't play Warcrack to bounce ideas off of in party :-/)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

LOL, no I didn't expect female sympathy :)


Oooh I didn't see the link - I will have to nosy that it looks shiny



Thankeee :)

[gwailowrite.livejournal.com]

far as I am aware the designer and builders were all men... so they should KNOW right?

Maybe they all have reaaaaaally long penii that they can loop up. If so, I'd like an introduction to them, please.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Ifg there are any extra long bendy penii here they're mine!

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

There are so many fantastic artists it's unreal but most of them do not think like a comic artist. If you lay out a story with good descriptions and can entice them into drawing it *and* you both keep it on schedule (yearly, monthly, pmsly, eh) then you might make something grand.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... I shadll have to plan at least 3 months in advance before I go to that statge../

Damn, i have me a project now

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

re work - I'm not laughing. really.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Surrrrrre

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the designers were unaware that "dickhead" is not a literal term?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

It makes as much sense as any other explanation :)

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

As far as I am aware the designer and builders were all men... so they should KNOW right?

::snigger::

I'm sorry, but my sense of schadenfreude is kicking in, because I've just been bemoaning the fact that overalls (proper one-piece workmen's-type overalls) are all made by men for men, and are sold by CHEST SIZE, which means that mine have about 3 feet of extra fabric on the arms and legs, and don't fit properly round the ... hips. Googling 'women's overalls' gets you something akin to a nurse's uniform. ::sigh::

I'm inmagining your urinal has been installed by a disgruntled female builder whose overalls don't fit.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Frankly if all you got were nurse's uniforms from a google search then you werr very very very lucky :)

[seryan.livejournal.com]

As far as I am aware the designer and builders were all men... so they should KNOW right?
Not necessarily. Also, maybe they were designed by the same people who designed women's urinals?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Those things are just.... wrong. So very wrong

[seryan.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh yeah. Particularly the ones with the (non-disposable) cup that fits over your vulva. Sorry, but that kind of sharing merits at least an introduction, first.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I can't even picture that...

[seryan.livejournal.com]

That's for the best.

[procris.livejournal.com]

If you want an artist who could help you with the comic-book thing, I know an ink artist who A. has published a comic of her own previously, B. understands the artistic sensibility of the comic, and C. does commissions.

You can check out her work at Inksplot Studios.

I suspect you'd also really like her WoWphabet series.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Oooooh.... I think I must now consider this a project :0 Thankee

I'm going to wait until I have enough concepts to keep me going forever more before moving formally - I'd hate to start then stop suddenly

[allthepettylies.livejournal.com]

Ahahahahaha. I'm sorry, but that's just too funny. *happy to be a girl*

Poor you. <3 *hugs*

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

pffft, I'll take too high urinals over having to sit down any day :P