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Whether we're talking about the subreddit Crappy Design or the Instagram account Ugly Irish Houses, the Internet seems obsessed with tasteless crimes against aesthetics and functionality. If you are too, the Twitter account "Cursed Architecture" is right up your alley.

Its hellish content includes strange angles, melting paint, vaguely threatening toilets, stairs that lead to nowhere, and more. Basically, the kind of stuff that architects and interior designers would imagine in a horror-comedy. But believe me, you don't have to be an industry pro to appreciate these pictures. They're so bad, us regular folk will get them as well. Enjoy!

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Doctor Strange
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is NOT a case of poor design, but of AGE. Drains don't just sit on the ground, they actually sit on top of a large concrete cube, and the pipes connect into the concrete box. Over time, the ground will settle, but the concrete will not. That will result in the drains ending up higher than the surrounding road, walkway or ground. Especially with a case like this, with the block pavers allowing water to seep through the cracks and erode the dirt.

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You do realize that your very logical explanation took all the fun out of this, right? Do you do that a lot? You must be a riot to your friends and family. LOL!

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Duchess Raven Waves
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I showed this to the husband. He is demanding that a Google map this image so he can go fix it because it exists and he cannot allow that lmao

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peter howard
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As a ground worker there are two way this can happen, either the drain is above ground level or they didn't compact the materials around the drain and over time it has compressed and dropped

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M O'Connell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The paving had been laid level with the drain, but the substrate settled over time. The drain piping itself is set much deeper into the ground and has not settled. This happened because the paving substrate was not adequately compacted.

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Jessica B
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The drains inside a fast food place I worked at we're like this. We hosed the floors every night and had to try to squeegee upward...

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Maureen Matthew
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like every drain in my neighborhood. And then the city wonders why residents complaim

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Cybele Spanjaard
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh like my outside ground drain...the tradesman installed the lot 6" above ground..barely catches the raindrops..

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Damon Hill
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Exactly like my basement. The highest part of the floor is the ring around the drain. The drain itself is 3" below the rest of the floor.

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Jw Fischer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When installing a sewage line the pipe that goes up that holds the drain is a vertical tube of concrete. Over time the main sewage line it is connected to, the horizontal line, will sometimes subside a bit and cause the soil surrounding the drain to subside as well leaving it above the "waterline" as you see here. Correcting this would mean digging up the road or pavement, either reinstalling or repositioning the main horizontal line, lowering the vertical pipe with the drain or lifting the soil around the drain. These are costly operations and if the water is not causing damage to property or causing a dangerous situation they are left until it is necessary to do work that sewage line. I have had to explain this so often it tends to get on my t*ts hence my rambling response

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Alditekim
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That drain is like the one kid that nobody wants to play with.

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James016
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In a way it’s impressive that they have managed to do this.

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Bill Honnen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Gee, my newly installed shower floor is like that, Contractor says, "no worries, it will settle down".

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Ryan Deschanel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Congratulations for doing exactly the opposite of the only usefull thing you were expected to do.

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Sum Guy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They should have just let the people use the squat toilet... also... how disgusting do you think the inside of the cone is?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Check the door down the hall for a nice stab in the back.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Was this meant to be a suicide door, or was there supposed to be a porch?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is this so far up? It's neither architecture nor cursed, but just a bad photoshop.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, God - the 70s. You can bet this combo also came in purple, brown and "harvest gold"

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