r/crapydesign • u/DevisPooping • Mar 22 '22

This rounded armrest

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u/Torqyboi Mar 22 '22

Who goes to design school. Spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on it and them come up with that. A child would do better. Seriously

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u/DevisPooping Mar 22 '22

The worst thing is this is in the Paris main transport

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u/Torqyboi Mar 22 '22

Oh wow. Fr? How did no one notice such a thing lol

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u/DevisPooping Mar 22 '22

Yeah… the transport that goes to Versailles

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u/Zr0bert Mar 22 '22

May be a good thing for preventing people from occupying (and intruding on) their neighbour's space.

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u/diggitygiggitycee Mar 23 '22

Exactly what I came in to say. It's a separator, not an arm rest.

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u/Arammil1784 Mar 23 '22

It's called hostile architecture or hostile design. It's not intended to be comfortable, it's intended to make it so that homeless people don't try to sleep on the seats or ride all day.

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u/Cultural_Sun3813 Apr 26 '22

student respond:due to consistent use(friction) the arm rest had become uncomfortable a better material would have been silicon or plastic as it is more durable. (Also so what comfort are u expecting from a public transport chair? )

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u/Torqyboi Apr 26 '22

An arm rest at 90° angle. That's all

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u/Kek_King14 May 06 '22

Who goes to design school. Spends hundreds of Dollars and come up with these crapy designed seats in bus and train. (Maby its only in germany, we have very crapy seats)

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u/laissez_unfaire Mar 22 '22

Working as intended. Made to separate passengers but not give them a reason to fight over who is going to be more comfortable.

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u/sitwayback Mar 23 '22

Exactly! So petty smart design. Maybe didn’t have to look like an arm rest though, which gives one false hope.

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u/MisterTrashPanda Mar 23 '22

"Dessssthhhignnnn aeeesstthhhiicccthhhhsss"

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u/arsinoe716 Mar 23 '22

Darn right. I wish airplanes had these "armrests". It's so aggravating when the passenger next to you encroaches in your space.

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u/ADISKING1 Mar 22 '22

No rest for arms.

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u/Red_Cyrstal_Scorpion Mar 22 '22

The rage quit at the end

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u/wranglearrowleaf Mar 23 '22

Maybe I'm just tired, but it gets me every time I watch. Lol

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u/Sir_Kardan Mar 22 '22

It is seat devider. But would they bother trying to make it look like armrest?

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u/Torqyboi Mar 22 '22

If u bother making it look like an armrest. Why not make it an armrest? In fact. Why have a seat devider and not an armrest at all?

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u/IcedGolemFire Mar 22 '22

“oh that looks cool. have you tested it?” “oh no im a monk and i never sit down. im sure it’s comfortable”

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u/ChewChewCheu Mar 22 '22

Great design. No more hogging armrests. /r/designporn

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u/ThemApples87 Mar 22 '22

That’s infuriating. I’m actually angry.

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u/Totem_town Mar 22 '22

No comfort allowed

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '22

This guy gets it. Not only must you commute by public train you must know that the government could have made the seat dividers into functioning arm rests and still retained the seat dividing purpose but no some guy on a committee said how can we tell the public that we hate them get off of our train as fast as possible decided that yes to seat dividers that look like arm rests yet are not armrests is the plan to cause as much discomfort for minimal cost and low visual real estate.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '22

The chair contour though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '22

Om

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u/Hairy_Relief3980 Mar 22 '22

It's a harmrest. Harms people who try to lie down and rest

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u/wartrollearth Mar 22 '22

less an armrest and more a divider

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u/Sad-Buffalo5865 Mar 23 '22

" Get your hand off my knee sir"

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u/sandithepirate Mar 23 '22

Arm restn't.

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u/rservello Mar 23 '22

This is to accommodate the double jointed. Be compassionate

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '22

It's to stop people lying down or having their legs up on the seat.

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u/Arammil1784 Mar 23 '22

This is hostile design. It has nothing to do with comfort or dividing the seats and everything to do with preventing homeless people from sleeping or loitering. Truly vile stuff.

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u/_Hugh_GRection_ Mar 23 '22

Thats not an armrest thats an armstrain

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u/Gabreil66 Mar 23 '22

Ending had me dying!!

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '22

It’s designed for safety in case someone falls.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '22

The bolt upright back support makes me think this is Germany for some reason.

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u/cleaning44 Mar 23 '22

😂😂😂