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I have a hobby of doing the opposite: making undesirepaths.
During large snowfalls, I often need to bring out the shovel and make a path, both from my house and in front of it towards the main road. I like to add turns and bends, just enough to confuse and lightly annoy, but not enough for people to consider stepping into deep snow or making their own path.
Psychopath.
Nah
My gosh this is such a funny premise.
University of Maryland did this with their walkways for a while. They let the kids beat down paths for the year to make the sidewalks.
Makes heaps of sense, when you can. Still need something for people in wheelchairs and stuff early on though.
I’ve often thought painting lines across paths and then observing the paint wear off could tell you a lot about which paths could be removed, or where corners could be rounded off better.
They had regular sidewalks that the campus planners made. But they took a year to see what the students walking paths looked like.
This is the way TikToker shows how he keeps people from walking across his lawn
So he’s an asshole assaulting children for fun, which is also almost certainly illegal
If told this I’m sure the cunt would say “muh propertay tho”
That hedge could actually be a gods windbreak behind the bench
I especially like when people do this in the snow and make big holes that I can easily step into
In my junior high days (mid 80s) My friends and I found a machete in one of their dad’s stuff. We spent a weekend bushwhacking paths around some city-owned but undeveloped land near a lake. We ended up wearing them down pretty good into bike paths with some jumps and cool whoops. A few years later, the city turned it into a park and paved our paths.
Thank you for your service 🫡
(like unironically. that rules)desiremachete pathsFuck yeah, awesome :)
Apparently when they were building the death star, they couldn’t figure out where to put the vents, so they just turned off the gravity and threw a bunch of womp rats in the center and built out pipes along the vectors of where they died.
These are called desire paths.
Hence the cross post to [email protected] :)
I saw that, hence where I got the very idea!
Hence!
Hitherto!
Elephant paths in my country.
Goat paths here
Those fuckers. Maybe instead of the bush fence, it should have been a wrought iron fence. With spikes on top.
Electrified.
With auto targeting tranquilizer dart firing turrets, of course.
You don’t want turrets when you can send out the flamethrower drones once the proximity sensors are triggered.
That’s a great point. And come to think about it, the flamethrower drones may work better alongside the attack dogs.
I’ve heard a story about a college campus that didn’t install any paths, waited for natural dirt paths to form in the grass, then installed paths there. Neat idea.
Makes sense for a college campus where everyone has a different schedule. Just draw a line between every building and there’s your pathways.
And then some people just like walking in grass instead of cement
I think that would be UC berkley
I heard the same story, but for a Disneyland.
I heard that’s what they did for your mom’s house.
Whole front yard is BRICK
nah it’s just a three-dude-wide strip between the bus stop and the bedroom
Ah the ol’ desire path strikes again!
I enjoy the Desire Paths community here on Lemmy. It’s so interesting to see what paths people take contrary to what paths are laid out for them.
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I created a desire path by biking to school every day in high school. After I left a sidewalk popped up covering it inch for inch. Mission accomplished
I didn’t know I needed this in my life but this strikes a chord in me
A full bench!? I miss benches that made sense instead of the hostile architecture ones popping up.
So far where I live have pretty normal benches.
No way there is no desire path Delta at the end of the main path where it officially meets the pavement.
I like how the path curves behind the bench after the bench goes up like people are choosing not to walk in front of people sitting on the bench.
Until the fuckers added another 2m/6ft to the walk by putting in the trashcan…