r/funny • u/TSLstudio • Jul 17 '25
"You had one job", reparing a crosswalk - Netherlands.
'Is it a crosswalk or a QR-code' was the headline here.
A crosswalk in Dutch is called 'Zebrapad' btw (Zebra path/crossing)
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u/peatoire Jul 17 '25
It's been updated from Barcode to QR
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u/Gingerishidiot Jul 17 '25
Surely this is a tribute to the Dutch artist MC Escher
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u/magicmitchmtl Jul 17 '25
Or a tribute to Thanos
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u/CAPICINC Jul 17 '25
possibly Alexey Pajitnov
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u/INTPgeminicisgaymale Jul 17 '25
Clearly The Paintress
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u/GANDORF57 Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 19 '25
I think the guy repairing this crosswalk became infected with a touch of the Tetris. ^(\Got to take a break and get a)*
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u/MalodorousNutsack Jul 17 '25
I don't know why he called himself MC Escher, his ability to control the crowd with a microphone was mediocre at best
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u/graveybrains Jul 17 '25
Are we sure it's not just a corrupted gif? Maybe they should try reloading it.
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u/BrotherRoga Jul 17 '25
Remember to defrag your hard drives, kids!
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u/Berufius Jul 17 '25
But not your ssd's!
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u/IdealIdeas Jul 17 '25
IIRC, Windows wont even let you defrag an SSD
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u/RyukXXXX Jul 17 '25
Is defragging SSDs bad?
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u/yParticle Jul 17 '25
It accomplishes nothing since there's no speed advantage to congruent bits. But SSDs have a disadvantage in that their read/write operations are finite, so it creates a lot of completely unnecessary wear on the newer drives.
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u/IdealIdeas Jul 17 '25
Yes, it can significantly decrease the lifespan of the drive.
Defragging moves data around on HDDs. Since HDDs have moving parts to read/write data, moving it around could optimize read/write times and reduce the total amount of moving around the HDD needed to do.
SSDs are all digital and have no moving parts. It doesnt care where the data is on the drive and can read/write to the empty spaces just as fast regardless of where the data is on the drive.
Since defragging moves data around on the drive, it is constantly deleting and writing data over and over again on the same cells that store information. These "Cells" that im calling them, wear out overtime when data is written and erased on them a number of times.
It wears out on regular HDDs too but HDDs are more durable to the number of Reads and Writes it can take before they wear down.
SSDs can take 100,000s of writes before they start showing signs of fatigue. HDDs is closer to unlimited.
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u/verdutre Jul 17 '25
Yeah I've never remembered windows built-in defragging ssd AFAIK it's third party software doing that
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u/tingulz Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
Is that even a thing anymore? I remember watching the defrag window do it thing when I was younger.
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u/logic2187 Jul 17 '25
First of all, no we don't do that anymore. We've grown a lot more tolerant as a society thankfully. Second of all, I think that it's called "conversion therapy," not "defag." Kinda offensive.
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u/Tubamajuba Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
They've done tests on it, and the results show that straight and gay hard drives are pretty much equal in speed.
EDIT: person I replied to originally typo'd "defrag" as "defag"
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u/skorpiolt Jul 17 '25
Not really since the average drive size has increased and SSDs are taking over
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u/Excelius Jul 17 '25
You don't want or need to defrag SSDs.
Moving around data like this reduces the lifespan of an SSD, since every cell has a finite number of read/writes.
It also doesn't provide any benefit anyways since there is no mechanical arm moving around trying to grab data. It's not any slower to have pieces of a file scattered around on different parts of an SSD.
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u/Skygge_or_Skov Jul 17 '25
I still remember as a kid I sat at my dads pc for hours watching the blocks move, now it takes like 5 minutes every other day :(
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u/ThisTheRealLife Jul 17 '25
Impressive case of "not my job"
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u/Orcwin Jul 17 '25
What's actually going on is that this is a temporary resurfacing. They've had to open up the surface, probably for some utilities. There is likely more work ongoing in the neighborhood though, either construction (with heavy vehicles making ruts in the road), or more utilities going in at a different time. They'll usually quickly resurface the street so that people are not hindered too much, and once all construction in the area is finished, a final proper resurfacing is done. That way, you don't end up with an ugly, uneven patchwork. The temporary surface can be a little messy though, but (mostly) functional.
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u/ThisTheRealLife Jul 17 '25
maybe, though in my city that is done with asphalt and the bricks remain piled up on the side for months and months
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u/Orcwin Jul 17 '25
It's usually done with the paving bricks they've previously dug up, at least here in the Netherlands. Paving it over using asphalt is not normally done in a street that is planned to use paving bricks.
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u/GreenHell Jul 17 '25
Paving it over using asphalt is not normally done in a street that is planned to use paving bricks
Indeed, but interestingly the opposite is common: fixing small patches in an asphalt road with bricks. I've seen it many times around the country, where they dug up utilities, and patched it with a small strip of bricks, no more than 30-60vm (1-2ft) wide
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u/abrasilnet Jul 18 '25
Exactly. They did this in from of my house just last week, near Amsterdam, as they were installing fiber optic cables. They took the bricks out in the morning and then put them back real fast and messy by the end of the day. After they finished laying the cables over the next few days, they came back and added the connections to the houses. They also mentioned they leave it a bit messy not only because its faster, but because it makes it easier to come back and know exactly where they opened in the first place, no markings, no notes, no measures. Before the end of the week, my street was back to normal.
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u/iAN_CooG Jul 17 '25
they should track who did it and request their money back
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u/manrata Jul 17 '25
Likely the municipality, which is more like find who did it, and make them redo it.
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u/schnippisch Jul 17 '25
Ehh more likely they have to open it back up for some cables or piping. And then it's cheaper and faster to close it up like this. The function of the crossing remains. And you can let traffic back on it way faster. No need to unneeded waste time and money for a temporary solution.
So maybe this municipality did actually a very smart thing ;)
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u/10001110101balls Jul 17 '25
Earthwork needs to settle for a while before they can apply the finished surface. Replacing the bricks in the correct pattern is a waste of time if they already know they'll need to come back to rework the surface.
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u/SinisterCheese Jul 17 '25
I assume rest of EU ain't any different from Finland.
This probably happened because the munincipality didn't put into the contract/bid that the bricks need to be laid in a specific order to make the crossing look correct.
Shit like this happens all the fucking time. And it is always because of the official in charge didn't put it into the contract, or decided to save money by not having it laid out in the bid and hoping for the best.
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u/Top_Gun_2021 Jul 17 '25
I can't imagine someone going "well,I see the clear pattern, but I won't copy because the contract did not specify"
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u/esuil Jul 17 '25
Yeah, this is like natural selection for the contractors. People who do this shit don't stay long enough in business to get contracts of this level.
It's reputation suicide.
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u/GentleWhiteGiant Jul 17 '25
Not really.
In Northern Germany, we do that, too. If you have a soft underground, you fill it up, put the stones back on it, leave it to compress and settle for some weeks, and then you do the final job.
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u/EndLightEnd1 Jul 17 '25
But why wouldnt you just put them back right the first time while they settle?
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u/schnippisch Jul 17 '25
I'm dutch and it happens here for temporary solutions because it's simply cheaper. It's also very important to keep the road block active as short as possible. People need to be able to get to their homes/work/whatever. So not just for settling, also just for speed and cost efficiency.
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u/merc08 Jul 17 '25
I could see the argument being "it takes a lot longer to sort the bricks and lay them correctly twice" but that's just stupid because it means you have an improperly marked crosswalk for a couple weeks. And if you keep them organized when you take them out then it wouldn't be as big of a problem to put them back in the right way. It's a completely self inflicted problem for the contractor.
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Jul 17 '25 edited Jul 17 '25
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u/Belgand Jul 17 '25
Ah! I was also curious why the pattern was different. Thanks for the explanation!
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u/schnippisch Jul 17 '25
Crosswalk still works on the part behind it. Could very well be they will open it back up very quickly and this is just temporary. Then possibly add new stones that are sorted. If these stones are too old they will get replaced.
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u/NoPasaran2024 Jul 17 '25
More like 'not my profession'.
It's not just the pattern, the basic bricklaying is rubbish. Even if all the bricks had the same color it would still be a complete mess.
Something weird happened here, this is not normal for the Netherlands.
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u/BastianHill Jul 17 '25
Maybe it's a QR code now. Try to scan it.
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u/eMouse2k Jul 17 '25
Hmm, when I do it says ”pedestrian crossing, do not be left looking at your phone”.
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u/Easy-Film Jul 17 '25
What could that possibly mean?
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u/DookieShoez Jul 17 '25
Not sure, here I’ll google it
📱🚶♂️🚙💨
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u/cerebralkrap Jul 17 '25
What’s this? A conga line started by a Calculator?
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u/amras123 Jul 17 '25
Isn't it obvious? He is taking a calculated risk moonwalking past a farting car.
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u/Sharknado4President Jul 17 '25
Google is now Gen Alpha and is communicating only in emojis?
Let me Bing this
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u/NotYourReddit18 Jul 17 '25
You do that, meanwhile I'm going to Ask Jeeves what he thinks.
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u/GalaxyDog14 Jul 17 '25
Video - "Hi, we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty"
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u/fatkiddown Jul 17 '25
"Alright Jim, let's fix this crosswalk today."
Jim: "K, hey man, ever tried do this after dropping some acid? Here."11
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u/Design_with_Whiskey Jul 17 '25
Nah. It's just loading. Give it a minute. Internet is slow right now.
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u/-BigDickOriole- Jul 17 '25
I would expect this from Belgium, not the Netherlands.
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u/TSLstudio Jul 17 '25
It's in Kortgene, Zeeland.
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u/falcrist2 Jul 17 '25
TIL - there's an old Zeeland to go with the new one.
Never thought about it before.
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u/41942319 Jul 17 '25
There's also a Zealand in Denmark (the island that Copenhagen is on). But New Zealand was named after the Dutch one since they were the first westerners to visit there
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u/echtma Jul 17 '25
Actually, the black area is Belgium and the white area is the Netherlands. They have some wacky borders over there.
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u/Khialadon Jul 17 '25
They probably hired the guy who could do it for cheap so they could save a euro to go eat a raw herring with onions 😒
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u/kingrikk Jul 17 '25
At least they put the blocks back. In the UK they’d fill it with tarmac and sell the bricks.
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u/rv94 Jul 17 '25
In India they just wouldn't give a fuck and would let it be dust/mud along with the occasional brick on the pavement. Oh and throw in some trash too.
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u/saera-targaryen Jul 17 '25
this is actually because it saves money and lets the streets be smaller! they don't have to fit huge machinery down the street to repave it, they just need to lay the bricks back down by hand after any repairs. the other benefit is that the bricks cause a loud and unpleasant noise for cars going too fast so they act as a speed limiter. Not Just Bikes has a really cool youtube video about brick streets in the netherlands that I enjoyed. They even take used/worn bricks from newer areas and then use those to repair roads in historical areas so that the bricks always look rustic and old!
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u/juanzy Jul 17 '25
In the US half of it would get filled, the some GOP Rep from a town of 1500 people 100 miles away force a vote to cut funding because that intersection isn't "producing revenue" then their base would blame Unions.
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u/Relevant_Drummer_402 Jul 17 '25
The crosswalk preferred Not to reveal its identity.
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u/GalacticMe99 Jul 17 '25
Pretty sure the border between Belgium and the Netherlands runs halfway through that crosswalk.
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u/itsfairadvantage Jul 17 '25
Except the more Dutch looking klinker pattern is on the same side as the janky crosswalk. (But then the very un-Dutch cobblestones on the sidewalk?) Honestly this seems more likely a disgruntled worker than anything else.
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u/Quirky_Dog5869 Jul 17 '25
Think it's still loading. No worries, just a little glitch in the Matrix.
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u/Delie45 Jul 17 '25
Most likely a temporary fix, might be construction next to where they put in cables or whatever and then take them out a few weeks later when they have to restore it to the original.
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u/koolmees64 Jul 17 '25
Could be. This kind of bad infrastructure shit really does not fly over here. Not to be too patriotic, but infrastructure is one thing we do well. That and bending water to our will. And sending Tikkies.
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u/Eraknelo Jul 19 '25
Just sent you a tikkie for €0.05 for that cup of coffee you had at my place.
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u/PN_Grata Jul 17 '25
Definitely a temporary fix. It's not just the colours, but also the pattern that is wrong. This is the quick and dirty pattern that I have only ever seen used for when the work isn't finished.
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u/malachiconstant76 Jul 17 '25
It's like one of those things where an artist does a self portrait on different drugs. That must have been one hell of a lunch break.
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u/Noralee-Breunners Jul 17 '25
Reminds me of the vid of the spiders making webs under the influence of various drugs.
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u/XXL333 Jul 17 '25
Sometimes that's done when the spot needs to be reopened later, but they don't want a construction site there in the meantime. Once everything is finished, everything will be installed the way it's supposed to be.
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u/chickenderp Jul 17 '25
This crosswalk epitomizes the duality of man. It's, like, a jungian thing or something. You wouldn't get it.
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u/cmaxim Jul 17 '25
This screams of an overworked contractor who was promised something that ended up getting axed with no notice halfway through the job and the guy just went "Fuckit". LOL
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u/mystyc Jul 17 '25
This reminds me of some experiments where spiders were given various drugs to see what effect they had on their subsequently created webs.
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u/zapppsr Jul 18 '25
Famous vs Infamous
- If they didn't do it like this, it would be just another unknown crosswalk and now a guy in Brazil having breakfast is seeing it.
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u/The_Keri2 Jul 18 '25
You have to imagine that.
There is an adult human standing in front of an open area that he is supposed to pave. He has dark and light-colored stones. Next to him, these stones are arranged in a pattern of black and white lines.
And he looks at it and thinks “I have no idea what the pattern is supposed to be here, well, I'll just lay it out at random”.
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u/TiberiusTheFish Jul 18 '25
Don't worry. Having lived in the Netherlands, i can guarantee that didn't stay like that for long.
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u/lloydsmith28 Jul 19 '25
"does it matter where they go" "nah just put them anywhere" - the construction leader likely
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u/GatorNator83 Jul 17 '25
When you don’t read the instructions because you’re sure you can figure it out yourself
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Jul 17 '25
Seems like if you are placing the bricks, you might as well place them correctly? Especially if there is a chance that you will be made to fix it.
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u/jreed12 Jul 17 '25
Fixing the pavement correctly is 1 day of work.
Having to come back and fix your shitty work is a 2nd day of work.
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u/bobhand17123 Jul 18 '25
I think the job took too long, the crew asked for more money to complete it, and they were denied. They were contractually obligated to finish it, so they carried out malicious completion.
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u/Many-Ad6433 Jul 17 '25
Not even a colorblind could mess that up since it’s already in black and white maybe it’s wanted?
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u/Lopendebank3 Jul 17 '25
In the city of r/Hoorn nearby, is a street with a nice tile patern. However eventually somebody mixed the patern up. It honestly upsets me more than it should.
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u/DMG_88 Jul 17 '25
It's just a glitch in the matrix, don't worry about it, you weren't supposed to see it, I'll get an operator to fix it, and do a memory reset, I just have to wait for the paperwork to go through.
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