That's right - the red stop lights are heart-shaped. Apparently, this is their special Valentine's "gimmick" for the whole month of February. To the Philippine politicians reading this - too late, di niyo na magagaya hehehe. I guess you can wait for Christmas, where you can turn the green traffic lights into christmas trees - but then again, that'll be too late for elections in May.
Another "curiousity" are the male urinals, which can be found in the Amsterdam Schiphol airport's rest rooms:
There is an embedded housefly near the center of the urinal. The theory is that if you give men something to aim for, they will instinctively try to hit it. Apparently, this reduces "spillage" by 80%. To quote the netlore archives:
"If you go to the men's washrooms at the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam," Vicente wrote, "you may notice there's a fly in the urinals. So what do you think most men do? That's right, they aim at the fly when they urinate. They don't even think about it, and they don't need to read a user's manual; it's just an instinctive reaction. The interesting feature of these urinals is that they're deliberately designed to take advantage of this inherent human male tendency."
I will be the first one to admit that this theory is sound - I took aim at that fly as soon as I saw it.
3 comments:
very interesting!!!
so true...die fly die!!! haha
true that! back home they put ice in the urinal.. you aim at an ice cube and watch it melt haha
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