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"Crappy Design" (previously here, here, and here) is back, and it's the crappiest pile of crap that has ever been crapped. Alright, maybe that was a little harsh, but after you take a look at some of these "accidents," you'll definitely wonder how on earth can anyone greenlight and produce them. Putting the light switch right next to the fire alarm control? Yep. Designing a toilet that looks like it has just endured a large dose of diarrhoea? You bet. Scroll down to check out some of the biggest design disasters and upvote your (least) favorite ones.
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#1
Probably Not The Best Color For A Bike Saddle
BusLady 7 years ago
Brought to you by the same person who designed the lady's Olympic uniforms.
movie maven 7 years ago
Him not so much but that pink fleshy like thing certainly seems to be so!
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#2
When Your Security Gate Is A Ladder
Molly Block 7 years ago
I'm wondering if this might be in Japan....the only country where crime is so lacking, that a gate like this could work. I love Japan!
#3
I Didn’t Qualify For This Paid Survey After Selecting “No”
Larry XK 7 years ago
Cats are way smarter than the person who masterminded that question
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MISS BROWN 7 years ago
Ask this question...AND WHICH SIDE OFTHE BRICK DID YOU HIT YOUR HEAD ON TODAY???
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Zenozenobee 7 years ago
Well, that's obviouly a survey that need a ghost/spirit/spook panel... "on a rate of 0 to ten, how would you qualify our after death divices?"
MISS BROWN 7 years ago
I am a CHRISTIAN COMEDIAN AND..your really really funny want my agents NUMBER???
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#4
Seriously?
ania kasprzak 7 years ago
Yeah.. We saw something familiar at Germany.. Kinda wierd.. 46414697_2...3edca1.jpg 
Master Markus 7 years ago
WHY IS HE FINGERING THAT DUCK!? And why is he so happy about it!?
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Gerry Higgins 7 years ago
I want to know what's going on, but I'm afraid what my search history would look like if I google "why put a finger in a chickens a*s"
#5
We All Party Down Here
Corbin Terry 6 years ago
me too, doesn't seem that bad, seems like a generally good party service
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Well Hello There 7 years ago
ME! It's just a mistake, the website looks fine...But is it really fine?
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This Ad Placement
Kiahna 7 years ago
I don't think he's going to be living there anymore anyway.
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George Beckingham 7 years ago
I wonder if print publications have context-based ad suggestions in their layout software. You see this kind of thing in online papers all the time, but in this case someone had to approve the final layout.
#7
Noted
Matt Richardson 7 years ago
Well... if it this isn't the sneakiest murder for hire ad I've ever seen.
Maria Kudryavtseva Year 9 3 years ago
so you mean you need to kill your wife with electricity?
#8
Light Switch In Kids Room
Marta Puig 7 years ago
the poor kids are going to suffer from lack of sleep for the rest of their lives
Linda Davis 7 years ago
Oh HELL NO! That's horrible... it scares the hell outta me! Poor kids will need therapy for the rest of their lives... or an exorcism!
Iseeyourshadow 7 years ago
I know! Can we talk about the creepy creature to the left of the light??
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#9
Smh
Casey C 7 years ago
He was killed with a shot to the head, and the lines look like a gun scope.
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#10
Forever 21 Does Not Know How To Use Photoshop Or What Women Actually Look Like
Molly Block 7 years ago
"Our bras will separate and raise your boobs to never before reached positions!"
Moo Moo Futch 7 years ago
I get the feeling that the (obviously) males who photoshopped these breasts have never laid eyes on a real pair of knockers before.
Debster 7 years ago
I'm laughing because I haven't heard the word knockers since I was a kid around my uncles.
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The 'Bathroom' In My Airbnb Will 100% Result In Shitty Encounters With The Host
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
I'd really like to talk to the person that decided to install toilets in this place to understand what in his/her life made this idea acceptable...and to anyone who accept to live here if it's not the same person (not the airbnb client who obviously didn't know)..
Pan Narrans 7 years ago
Cliënt: "Come on, get out of your comfort zone, become creatieve, think out of the box. I'm sure you'll find a solution, the sky is the limit." Builder: "Ok, I think I see a solution"
Laura Zaini 7 years ago
it can't be... I can't believe it, it must be fake, it must be photoshop, IT CAN'T BE REAL!!!! 😱
morgan jeffries 7 years ago
Nno one would do that. There has to be a door at the bottom of the stairs
#12
The Clock Hands Don’t Glow...
Ryo Bakura 7 years ago
"What time is it?" "Time to buy a new clock!" "Dammit, Dad, stop with the jokes, and fix it. Please."
Mishka Katira 4 years ago
you could just paint the hands with glow paint... really not that hard
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#13
Perfect Design
DE Ray 7 years ago
I think it's genius: What better way to keep it clean than to make nobody want to use it?
ZombieGirl5591 7 years ago
I think its a floral design...when the lid is down, its long stemmed "wild flowers" and small seashells. lol...looks gross though!
Freya the Wanderer 7 years ago
How many people saw this toilet and decided to use the bushes outside instead?
Jose Paolo Cruz 7 years ago
Not really too much of a fail. if you think about it, the lighting caused a shift on the color on the design. I can see a bit of green here and there so I would assume it's actually floral in design. (Can't really see it properly on a 3.5 inch screen phone.)
#14
Closer Than You Think
rhyan lumilay 7 years ago
Well. . . it' fine we can clearly see he enjoys it!
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Anna Zabel 7 years ago
This was designed like that on purpose... It's not a "fail".. it's intended to raise awareness about ocean pollution.
Olga Posedaru 7 years ago
This could be an awesome ad for homelessness and eating out of the garbage...
#15
So My Campus Had A Suicide Awareness And Prevention Day
Marta Puig 7 years ago
that actually made me laugh out laud...being an ex-suicidal person I founf it hilarious
#16
It Almost Seems Intentional
ispeak catanese 7 years ago
AAAAAAAURGH!! I'm watching that show right now! Noooo!
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Ninja Kitty 5 years ago
I dont know if anybody knows this but this is a literal doki doki encounter download-2...86a69.jpeg 
#17
Stupidity Level: Human
Hans 7 years ago
This is not a design fail, this is a proof of how a sustainable future is destroyed, one stupid and selfish decision at a time.
meAgan 7 years ago
Cutting down precious trees, that give us oxygen and probably are older than your grandfather, is something that should be banned... Especially for such a meaningless cause as putting up ads.
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Nikki D 7 years ago
Aww, that was no young tree, either. I am currently losing a 60yr old elm and it's breaking my heart. My dad planted it when he was 7 😢
Lenny 7 years ago
Aw, that's sad, especially if your father planted it when he was young...😢
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Bertha Garcia 7 years ago
This is so dumb. They could have place the sign parallel to the side walk in front of the tree. There was no need to cut them.
#18
"We Need To Decorate The Toilet For The Disabled" "Say No More"
Alexandra Davis 7 years ago
I'm a wheelchair user and I can't work out if I'd be offended or find it comical if I used this toilet. I think I'm swaying to offended and in bad taste, they could at least use wheelchair sports!
Sick Boy 7 years ago
(reply to the subpost) - You could also regard every single walking person you see a "cruel reminder" of what you can no longer do, yet you don't do that. What you make of the innocuous pictures is absolutely of your own choosing.
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You can't do any of these things, but at least you can use the toilet on your own! Glass half full!
#19
I Think They Forgot To Photoshop The Other Boob
Wil Vanderheijden 7 years ago
No. This is a fashionmodel with uneven breasts. I couldn't find her name but I've read about her on several websites.
Laura Zaini 7 years ago
I might be wrong but I remember seeing this before, maybe even here on bp, and it actually was the real shape of the model. She had one breast more developed than the other. Not sure 100% it was this girl but it should be
Laily F. Noor 7 years ago
No, I think this underwear is designed for woman who has uneven boobs
Sleep Meister 7 years ago
has the model not stepped forward and actually said that is just her boobage
Sleep Meister 7 years ago
http://www.thegloss.com/beauty/asos-bikini-model-boobs-bad-photoshop-fail/
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TheKnightOwl 7 years ago
Yeah, you might want to remove this one from the list. This is more of a bored panda failing to do their homework thing than a photoshop thing.
#20
Protect Your Ho At Home Depot
Chicago Kitty 7 years ago
I would argue that ho's need MORE protection...
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Jose Baeyens 7 years ago
Nobody's going to attack your ho if she's dressed like that, for sure !
Šimon Špaček 7 years ago
Where is it? Please, somebody stick picture of Don Corleone over the mask.
#21
Still Unsure Of The Answer
rhyan lumilay 7 years ago
I don't know why I'm still under the age of 18. Maybe blame the aging process!?
#22
Don’t Think They Thought This Through
SykesDaMan 7 years ago
I'd say it depends on what you ate! But I'm no doctor!
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Ashley Say Wha?!? 7 years ago
I'm 31, I laughed and then spoke it aloud! So I'll just join your Not Mature club lol
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#23
Putting The Bathroom Lightswitch Right Beside The Fire Alarm Control Switch In An Elderly Persons Home...
Jean van der Merwe 7 years ago
They should get you to caption these things.
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desert29rat 7 years ago
"I can't imagine why there are so many heart attacks in this building."
#24
Must've Been Designed By Orangutans
#25
Love All These Options
Parmeisan 7 years ago
I also have not really experienced discrimination (two *extremely* minor cases in 15 years), but I'm aware that I work in a fantastic place with an unusual degree of forward-thinking people. (I'm at a University, which probably helps.)
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Dian Ella Lillie 7 years ago
I work in STEM, and I couldn't answer this question with the options provided.
#26
How To Break Your Bones
Aaron Kara 7 years ago (edited)
"Look at this lovely apartment, its cheap too, all the previous owner's inexplicably broke every bone in their body"
Elizabeth 7 years ago
imagine trying to navigate those stairs in the middle of the night while drunk and looking for the toilet. NOPE
person (i think) 7 years ago
They look crazy, but these are actually pretty effective space-stairs. You have to walk up and down them the same way every time (always start w the left foot going up), but if you only have room for a steep stairway, these are much more comfortable to use than a regular-shaped steep stairway, as they allow you to walk up and down normally. There are a few versions of this sort of thing, but they are actually pretty great.
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
maybe that's a french use of "design", "conceptual" may work better for this sentence?
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#27
Absolutely Over The Moon With My New Oven
neverbeenbored 7 years ago
There is another bottle in there too but it's facing down so I can't exactly tell what it is. Maybe BBQ sauce? Also, my bottle says "refrigerate after opening" so maybe they haven't opened it yet. Still an odd place to store it.
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It's all good, just put your most valuable items back there to trip up would-be thieves.
Michelle Hallahan 7 years ago
Its supposed to "kiddie proof" but the child had to show him how to fix the problem.
Diane Herman 7 years ago
I never refrigerate mine either but I don't keep it in the rag drawer.
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Katherine Bartlette 7 years ago
I have to open my dishwasher to get into a drawer. Same placement. I just keep dish rags and towels in it. Fortunately, I can open it enough to stick my hand in to grab whatever towel or rag is near the front.
Michal Mánert 7 years ago
My built-in oven has a bit more advanced selector k**b system. It works like some spring-loaded card readers. One push to completely hide the k**b, another push for it to extend ( lol xD). I do not feel as though THIS was the main reason why they have done that :D
#28
I Think Someone Forgot Their Spacing
SandaPanda 7 years ago
In northern norway we have dialects very similar to swedish so I also read about candy xD
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Tanner Smith 7 years ago (edited)
Free salvation and total love? I dunno about you guys but that's a good deal!
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MyAlterEgo 7 years ago
As I pointed out in prev comment this is an old theological joke directed at Christianity and Islam Not sure if I made sense in prev comment but GDSNWHR is the standard example used to explain the fallibility of religious texts like the Bible and Quran since the way both documents were compiled omits vowels. Therefore GDSNWHR can mean GOD IS NOW HERE GOD IS NOWHERE GOOD SNOW HERE The point being that these so-called infallible texts can be made to mean any number of things
MyAlterEgo 7 years ago
*This is an old Theology joke* (Which refers to ALL major religions) Every heard of the Tetragrammaton? Where the name of god in the Bible is written YHWH Well the entire Greek text was written without punctuation or spacing as well so that a great example of the fallability of the Bible is GDNSWR which could mean: God is now here God is nowhere Good snow here. Strangely, the same goes for the Quran which was written in a form of primitive Arabic without diacritics - the same as writing English without vowels vvowelsvowels,vowelsthis exposing it to
#29
Advertising Plus-Size Leggings With A Small Model In One Leg Instead Of Getting A Plus-Sized Model
Christina Sersif 7 years ago
I'm guessing they don't want to sell the product. As a plus size woman this is distasteful and very insensitive. Whoever thought of this is cheap and idiotic.
kaigz 7 years ago
this is how they advertise in china...i live in china and i only buy products that are advertised like this because its the only way you know it will fit you. most chinese women are stick thin with no curves. chinese plus size models are still not the same as western ones, their curve are in different places. you can find clothes that say 5xl and its basically a medium. other ways are "plus size" women wearing them, then pulling them up to their shoulders. i currently have some tights on the way that i bought because i am assured they will fit.
#30
Yep, This Is How Elephant Looks Like
Happiness is Hippo 7 years ago (edited)
His tusks seem to be coming out of his ears - like earrings :)
Toujin C'Thlu 7 years ago
Either the artist was going by a description alone, or got frustrated.
#31
When You Play The Sims But Forget To Rotate
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
Plus "hello privacy"... you would flash everything to anyone in the room. Now imagine there is a mirror on the opposit wall.
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#32
That's An Interesting Mirror
person (i think) 7 years ago
"How does this mirror work?" By stealing the soul of your child, obvs.
LunaFae 7 years ago
Scariest thing is that that kid looks like an exact copy of me when I was that age. Hat and all.
Chris Pitch 7 years ago
shes looking into a mirror so the mirror is a reflection of the mirror
#33
Well, Do They?
neverbeenbored 7 years ago
For confused people like me, Google helps. The book is "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. D**k.
BoredDragonfly 7 years ago
Thank you! I was going to look it up, but decided to scroll through the comments first
Load More Replies... Freya the Wanderer 7 years ago
Remember that Lieutenant Data in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was "fully functional."
SykesDaMan 7 years ago
... By Philip K. Sheeps I guess? I'm looking for a wordplay on Blade Runner, but can't seem to find one... At least one that's appropriate!
#34
Look Closely Between The 7.5 And 8.0
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
When I was in high school I failes a trigonometry test because my protractor was all wrong like that. Hopefully my math teacher was the one who suggest to check my material and who discovered the reason (and allowed me to pass a new test). I'm pretty sure this wasn't his first time...
Mascha Claessens 7 years ago (edited)
That's why there was a memo at the school where I work a few months ago , that students shouldn't buy their protractor triangle at a certain store, quite popular for school supplies, because it just was all kinds of wrong... :')
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#35
Braille Numbering On A Bumpy Surface
Molly Block 7 years ago
As a legally blind person who learned to read Braille, I can attest that while this IS a bad tactile design, a person who reads Braille can read those dots just as easily as the rest of you read those numbers with your eyes. You'd be surprised just how well your fingers can provide your brain with a ton of tactile input.
Jo Choto 7 years ago
My niece is blind. They had a national convention at a hotel. The braille was upside down on every single sign, including all the room numbers.
Id row 6 years ago
An apartment complex I stayed at had an electric keypad for drivers to enter the access code to the parking garage. There was braille on the keypad on the driver's side. I laughed every time I saw it just imagining a blind person driving and trying to feel for the numbers to enter the garage.
#36
Want The Camera Too?
dibya sadhukhan 7 years ago
it wants to call the mental asylum when you use the calculator for "1+1"
#37
Ouch
Kristy P 7 years ago
Me: "Back in my day, we had metal slides that burnt the back of your legs on hot days." This kid: "Well, when I was a kid, if you forgot to put the pillow at the bottom, you BROKE both of your legs."
Carol Emory 7 years ago
If you look at the opening, there's a broken piece. That tells me there should be another connecting tube that broke off at some point.
Candice Ravel 7 years ago
Pussies! We had the f*****g slides that seared your skin right off and you landed on concrete and we walked it off.
#38
This Baby Scale…
Molly Block 7 years ago
Baby is a girl, who already has the entire notion of the weight problem fixed, by flipping off the scale and society's assumption of what ideal weight should be.
#39
Stairs Of Death
Nathaniel Bong 7 years ago
Imagine what it would mean if the view was actually from the BOTTOM, not from the top...
Id row 6 years ago
Most people will trip/fall/stumble with as little as a 2mm height difference. Imagine trying to navigate this nightmare!
Amber Ice 4 years ago
It's seen from the top... So they are the same height. I first thought the other way around too..
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#40
This Sign
Šimon Špaček 7 years ago
We need something similar with toilets. One for people who know how to flush it (and how to use brush) and one for those who don't.
#41
I Went To Turn On The Lights And Got Sanitized Instead
Rama Llama 7 years ago
This would be kinda genious way to force-sanitize people at hospitals, old people's homes etc
Ashlyn Krell 7 years ago
Ensures that every time you walk into the room you sanitize your hands. Could be useful, maybe?
Kira Schroeder 7 years ago
Just imagine the horror of something wet plopping on to your hand in the dark...
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Petra Christovová 7 years ago
Wow, someone actually thought that the picture is a good idea?
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neverbeenbored 7 years ago
Failed Bored Panda design- Accidentally swipe left or right and you have to reload and scroll through everything again to get to where you were. Oh, and let's make it over 300 posts so it's extra frustrating if it happens toward the end of the list.
Magdalina777 7 years ago
We had a gorgeous thing happen here about a couple weeks ago. Had the pavement in a certain area covered in fancy new tiles, okay, nice. Then a few days later they suddenly come and put ASPHALT over it. Asphalt. On top of (new) tiles. Okay.....then at night(!) they come back and tear the asphalt off(??), damaging the tiles in the process, and in the morning they take off the rest of the tiles(...). Then they put new new tiles there(.......). The whole city's holding its breath in anticipation of what happens next now XD
Hannah Hudson-Lee 7 years ago
I found this gem popping up as an advert in this thread!
Is she looking for a toilet, a tube of Canesten or a Megavibe2000? Screenshot...5eb5e.jpeg 
Turd Ferguson 7 years ago (edited)
My company moved to a new building and there is an office with this... IMAG0761-5...b12221.jpg 
L' Enchanted 3 years ago
#13 looks awfull lot like the place i live in - means that's one of my neighbor's toilet
Petra Christovová 7 years ago
Wow, someone actually thought that the picture is a good idea?
Load More Replies... neverbeenbored 7 years ago
Failed Bored Panda design- Accidentally swipe left or right and you have to reload and scroll through everything again to get to where you were. Oh, and let's make it over 300 posts so it's extra frustrating if it happens toward the end of the list.
Magdalina777 7 years ago
We had a gorgeous thing happen here about a couple weeks ago. Had the pavement in a certain area covered in fancy new tiles, okay, nice. Then a few days later they suddenly come and put ASPHALT over it. Asphalt. On top of (new) tiles. Okay.....then at night(!) they come back and tear the asphalt off(??), damaging the tiles in the process, and in the morning they take off the rest of the tiles(...). Then they put new new tiles there(.......). The whole city's holding its breath in anticipation of what happens next now XD
Hannah Hudson-Lee 7 years ago
I found this gem popping up as an advert in this thread!
Is she looking for a toilet, a tube of Canesten or a Megavibe2000? Screenshot...5eb5e.jpeg
Turd Ferguson 7 years ago (edited)
My company moved to a new building and there is an office with this... IMAG0761-5...b12221.jpg
L' Enchanted 3 years ago
#13 looks awfull lot like the place i live in - means that's one of my neighbor's toilet
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