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  • 104 points humor_charlotte99

    Oh look, a lawsuit rail

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    31 points Adorable-Response-75

    The medieval torture handrail. For when your elderly aunt doesn’t want to give up the information.

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  • 58 points Bobd1964

    That is absolutely brutal. I can just imagine grabbing that when slipping and the pain in the hand would almost make you want to let go again. Terrible.

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  • 28 points john_wallcroft

    skating isn’t a crime!

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  • 10 points crudomore2

    That's absolutely crazy. Definitely a safety violation.

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  • 35 points JoshuaPearce

    This is psychotic.

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    27 points The-Speechless-One

    This is evil, despicable, heartless, but not psychotic or related to psychosis. Please don't use that as an insult.

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    2 points JoshuaPearce

    No, I think I used the right word. This is irrational and indicative of a mental disorder.

    Also, seriously, are you really white-knighting for psychotic people?

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    14 points jlozada24

    This is not indicative of psychosis...

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    7 points [deleted]

    You say that like psychotic people have done something wrong. Kinda weird

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    2 points GenderqueerPapaya

    I experience psychosis and I personally appreciate when people ask others not to use it as an insult or a synonym for "bad/bad person" 🤷 ain't white-knighting if it's appreciated

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    1 points not-Duex

    Ditto

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    7 points Adorable-Response-75

    Heartless? You realize that some people get heart transplants, right? Please don’t use that as an insult. 

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    1 points Mr24601

    Also, despicable has its roots in physically looking down at something. Its discrimination against short people.

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    2 points Mr24601

    Please dont language police common words.

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    12 points The-Speechless-One

    Idk, I just don't think we should shit on ppl with psychosis

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    -2 points Mr24601

    It is a very painful condition, my wife suffers from it sometimes. But arbitrarily banning words is not the solution. 

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    13 points The-Speechless-One

    We don't need to ban the word. Just don't use it as an insult. You can still say "my wife is psychotic" or smth like that, because that isn't an insult

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    -5 points JoshuaPearce

    You're still assuming I used it as an insult, and not a description.

    Also, as not-a-doctor not-making-a-diagnosis, I'm allowed to use the word in the common way.

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    6 points First_Rip3444

    Nobody's arbitrarily banning anything, they're just asking you not to use medical terms for unrelated situations

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    -1 points JoshuaPearce

    Like dumb? Or idiotic? Brainless? Myopic? Crazy?

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    2 points not-Duex

    None of those are medical terms that are still used maybe they were used in the 70s but you’d be hard pressed to find a professional still using them today

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    -1 points JoshuaPearce

    Oh, and my favorite: Lame.

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  • 4 points Wareve

    I have seen these put on rails that people were leaning on that were not structurally secure enough to be leaned on.

    This seems pretty substantially built so it would be a little surprising if that was the reason for this, but it seems plausible.

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  • 8 points bimyingmokerel

    I trip and try and stop myself from falling with the handrail, I puncture my hand in 12 places and fall anyway

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  • 2 points ScharlieScheen

    It's not a handrail, it's fencing so you don't walk into the bushes.

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  • 4 points TheClungerOfPhunts

    Can someone explain the purpose of this to me? My first thought would be to dissuade skateboarding but you can just use grind caps for that. Why this?

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    3 points metisdesigns

    To be clear, I am not defending this.

    I suspect that the intent of this poorly concieved fiasco is not as a hand rail, but rather as a guard rail or fence of some sort to keep things like carts out of the shrubbery. They didn't want folks using it as a railing for some reason, possibly it's not sturdy enough to support a person leaning, but enough to keep a cart on the path.

    There is some reason that should not be used as a hand rail. It might be a good reason, but that's almost certainly the wrong solution.

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    2 points ScandinavianMan9

    Is it to prevent loitering?

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  • 1 points PangolinNo4595

    Beautiful. Finally a handrail that discourages dependence, promotes balance training, and doubles as medieval decor.

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  • 1 points ichbinkasecatze

    what is this doing for a n y o n e

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  • 0 points [deleted]

    [removed]

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    -3 points crudomore2

    Yeah, I read that too and apparently also against homeless people.

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    9 points bluffstrider

    God damn homeless people sleeping on my handrails.

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    1 points crudomore2

    lol. That's what it said or use it to rest. 😅

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    [removed]

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    4 points HairyBeardman

    This was never a handrail

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    2 points Nerdy_Valkyrie

    Handrain't

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  • 0 points LowOne11

    Someone’s new kink unlocked.

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