In Hindsight, The Bates Motel Had Subtle Clues…UPDATE!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Jompe71 says, “Pulling this kludge off and manage to write the sentence “Ladder in front of house” in Chinese using tape at the same time… impressive!”
Looks like the OCDs have it Fixers! However, since nothing ever really dies on the internet, the kludge in its original ceiling glory is after the jump. The poll is still there too, because while your boss may not care about your opinions, the internet surely does!
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So what to do? Does the joke still work if the kludge is righted? Or should we kludge this kludge and leave it on the ceiling?
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rotate this picture!
Dude, rotate that picture, it’s making me dizzy!
Are we sure the showerhead isn’t on the ceiling? With that much tape, it almost has to be.
Yeah, but whats the handle then doing there too?
If you look at the shadow from the packing tape(?) the window/light fixture would have to be on the floor if the showerhead was on the ceiling
Creepy theme park lodging. Can’t they leave the attractions out of the hotel? I hated taking a shower while standing on what was technically a wall, and I didn’t feel much like taking the four-story slide down to the restaurant, either, only to sit at a table fashioned from a giant, spinning teacup.
The hotel defied gravity too?
Gravity is so inconsequential, we really shouldn’t let it drag us down.
I was just about to mention gravity and the metal hose to the showerhead …
Relax. The original photo was taken with a Janet Leigh-cam.
Last-minute modifications were made to the hotel suite due to Sultan Kosen’s surprise visit. Unlike most hotels, the water pressure here is insane! A word of advice to the staff for next time: if you can’t do it with one strip of duct tape, don’t do it at all.
Gravity says the hose is going to hang down, not out to the left.
Some people claim that God talks to them, but no, you have to be different and have delusions of Gravity talking to you.
This is crazy. this kludge uses red tape , not the standard black!
Red, because it makes a romantic athmosphere.
No problem, I just tilted my laptop over to the left, and all was right with gravity.
Oh crap! I never thought to rotate my screen with the nvidia control panel!
Try that with an iphone!
No need for high-tech, just rotate yourself.
Thanks, “There Is No Spoon”-kid.
This duct tape lover (and red IS the color of love) has been very thorough– there appears to be tape holding up tape that’s holding up even more tape. Sometimes it’s hard to decide what to do as you get close to the end of the roll, though.
You know you messed up a kludge when someone sees a photo of it and they don’t know what’s top and what’s bottom.
I think it says something in Chinese!
Actually, that’s the kanji for “counterclockwise”
Are we sure that’s not Chinese for “Do not fill above this line?”
Confucious say, “He who use all the duct tape to make pearl of wisdom and hold hot shower to wall at same time may come to a sticky end.”
The design almost looks like chinese lettering…. if translated do you think it would show up on Engrish Funny?
1) If the top pic was the correct orientation, I bet the shower curtain would hang straight down.
2) Again in the top pic, there appears to be an electric light fixture on the wall to the right below the shower head. This would violate any reasonable building code. However, based on what I’ve seen on this site in the past, that fact alone doesn’t automatically disqualify this orientation.
If that tape job lasts more than one shower, someone needs to tell me where I can buy somma that tape.
Oh, duh –
3) The tape free portion of the hose probably hangs towards the center of the earth. The assumes, of course, that no zip ties are at work just out of the frame.
I know this is cutting edge but, Mother. Please stop. I might go Psycho.
does anyone else notice that ceiling is spelled wrong in the poll? unless thats a word kludge…
Giant red spider caught a shower! Good boy!
Still thinking with portals, evidently.
I have five bucks that says this is from asia and was installed by a plumber who a) had never seen a shower and and therefore b) assumed this device was for washing one’s left hand after dropping the kids off at the pool. Which made the low positioning of the original hanger perfectly sensible.
One more rotation and it’s a bidet!!
Leave them both and the poll!
I thought it was taped near the floor for washing private parts. You better turn the picture to avoid that misunderstanding:)
Man, I’m 6’5. I’m tired of having to bend over in half to get my head wet in the shower. Leave it on the ceiling.
Pulling this kludge off and manage to write the sentence “Ladder in front of house” in chinese using tape at the same time… impressive!
Why not rotate the page arround the picture
Rotate it, because it’s thereifixedit, not thereitookaphotoatagoofyangle.
The wrong-angle photo ruins the appreciation of the kludge in the same way a misspelling can ruin a joke – it diverts focus from what is intended to be shown.
THANK YOU!! SOMEONE FINALLY GETS IT!!
whoops.. that was a little loud…
*tries to shuffle out w/ back to wall*
*fails horribly*
Someone call failblog and tell them to take their over-sized failboot back!!
Poor little fella, everyone knows that duct tape spiders love to devour shower hoses…
well… I think there should be another possible answer – “Leave both pictures”… I think both pics look nice ^^
Eh, up, down, sideways… the caption is still “Kindly stand on the red X.”
I may have missed this, but were there really no jokes about the shower being held up by red tape?
These darned new bureaucratic building codes, it’s all just a lot of red tape.
FTW? Doh!!
This definately has to mean something in some language.
The shower head hook fell off and can no longer be positioned on the shower wall.