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I apologise for praising and sharing a photo of a 1930s foot-tunnel with a ramp to wheel your bike up and down that doesn't meet contemporary accessibility standards, unlike multiple other access points that are near it but not in the photo. I am a disgrace. The architects were a disgrace. The bricklayers were a disgrace. My apologies to the Fediverse and everyone complaining to me.
Beautiful!
Am I wrong or is the right side even broad enough for a barnevogn?
@AgatheBleibtDaheim Possibly, a narrow one.
@CiaraNi much too narrow for being right on the wall, steep and probably slick with rain, no handrails for wheelchairs either…
@mirabilos Well done
@CiaraNi It's really beautiful. But they should have added a handrail.
@katzentratschen I knew somebody would immediately find something negative about it!
@CiaraNi Your reply is a bit harsh, isn't it?
@katzentratschen Perhaps, but this negative side of the Fediverse is harsh, I think. It makes me tetchy when I get hit by the speed with which people leap to find fault.
@CiaraNi It wasn't my intention to find fault. I do think it's really beautiful. A handrail or protruding stones could accentuate its spiral form while adding more function.
@katzentratschen We are all welcome to suggest and wish for changes in anything we see. Of course! I was just reacting to the instant arrival of several replies that each criticised what wasn't there, instead of responding to what was there. Or just ignoring it, if it was displeasing.
@CiaraNi Denmark seems to have been building beautiful bike ramps since centuries before the invention of the bicycle.
@jimkennedy Yes indeed.
and horse ramps :)
@sebastian Those too! @jimkennedy
@sebastian @CiaraNi @jimkennedy Oh yes. Horses don’t like stairs :)
@arosano True, they don't! @sebastian @jimkennedy
@jimkennedy Actually, for a horse carriage .... how they turned it around I don't know 
@CiaraNi that's a beautiful piece of design and build. But yeah as others have pointed out, not great accessibility wise
@CiaraNi Lord, grant us strength to endure the pedants.
@coreysnipes I was a bit quick and grumpy there, perhaps. But it happens so often in here that it is accumulated grumpiness at this point.
Some people...
I once posted a photo of cute rabbits for sale at a farm store, and someone had to comment "adopt don't buy." Oh well...
By the way, the curvy ramp and stairs are really cool. I also like the color of the bricks.
@donray That response to the rabbit sounds typical! Sometimes the very speed of the negative comments get me down - like, could yiz not have let us have 60 whole seconds before having a go at the flowers, so to speak :-)
Agreed about the design - the curvy sensations created by linear bricks is amazing. The yellow bricks are characteristic of the uni design.
I would think the “built in 1931” would cause them to temper their criticism.
By the way (doing the math), it’s almost 100 years old! Looks to be very well-maintained.
@donray To be fair, they mightn't have seen the #AltText. Although I would think that visually, it's clearly not your average bike ramp on the side of an ordinary modern road. It is beautifully maintained. A large part of Aarhus Uni is listed and under preservation orders. The building services and maintenance staff deserve a Nobel Prize themselves, as it's a very busy place but they keep it perfect.
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@dyrathror I need an The Fediverse Is Nitpicking emoji :-)
@CiaraNi @dyrathror I’m fairly confident it’ll be this (except this is a sketch and it’d take a lot of hammering into shape to make it an emoji)
youtu.be/BXZJF0-d_M8
@u0421793 Haha - nice @dyrathror
@sindarina I know I am going to regret saying it, even more than I already regret saying something nice about a century-old bike ramp :-)
@CiaraNi It's a great bike ramp! Thank you for sharing 
@sindarina Thank you for liking the bike ramp. I like it too. The brickwork!
@CiaraNi Right? So well done!
@CiaraNi @sindarina And it’s a great photo of the bike ramp, too!
@jeridansky Thank you :-) @sindarina
@sindarina @CiaraNi
AND a great photo.
@kelvin0mql @sindarina Thank you :-)
@CiaraNi ah! Idiot me did not realise you were just supposed to wheel your bikes up and down, not actually RIDE them. 
I retract my previous grumble 
@CiaraNi
Thank you for the alt text. I was trying to figure out how someone would be able to ride up or down on the ramps, because they are narrow. Your explanation that they are for walking them up and down was very helpful. 
@pomegranate_stew That's kind of you to say - thank you :-) Their function is more easily recognisable for us here (in Denmark/Northern Europe) because having a bike ramp alongside steps is an historically common feature everywhere - on public steps, on park steps, at the entrance to house and flat basements, at the entrance to bike parks etc.
How interesting. And sensible.
I wonder if I've seen this elsewhere (albeit not in such a beautiful form) and not understood the purpose).
@PostcardsFromParadise The bike ramps come in all shapes and materials and styles. Historical, modern, basic, fancy. I only have this other example to hand in my own photos - an old stone one in a park.
@pomegranate_stew @CiaraNi let me introduce you to my 12 year old grandson. Maaaaybe he’d use the ramp, more than likely though he’d bump down the stairs on his back wheel.
Kid + mountain bike =delusions of immortality.
@CatDragon Haha - he'd probably succeed, too! Those delusions of immortality are what most of us survive on and thrive on for at least a decade of our youth :-)
@CiaraNi @pomegranate_stew I kind of love that about him. He’s T1D so every act of craziness contributes to him not feeling like he’s defined by his disease.
@CatDragon That's a lovely thought.
@CiaraNi I dont see the fuss.
You are not to blame for history.
@stigcq Thank you. 'You are not to blame for history' - I love this. Although now I am a little disappointed that I am not, actually, to blame for history - for a fleeting moment, it might be fun to have such influence :-)
@CiaraNi
Great block opportunities, though.
@CiaraNi It seems to me that when it comes to looking at pictures, there are two types of human brains. Neither type is right or wrong. They are just different. The problem comes when people of the two brain types interact, and they don't realize their difference.
Your brain analyzes the aesthetics of a picture. You see the lines and colors and think "wow, this is beautiful".
Another brain is practical. Being practical, rather than aesthetic, it thinks that your purpose in sharing the picture was to say "this is an excellent design that should be copied". Therefore, the owner of the brain points out any design flaws that they see.
The clash between these two types of brains is similar to what happens when two people are talking about a bad situation, and one of them just wants to vent and receive sympathy, but the other one thinks that the purpose of the conversation is practical problem solving. Both people get frustrated and feel unheard.
I don't know what the answer is. All I know is that in my own life, I keep misunderstanding why someone has shared something, and it looks to me like that's what happened here. I'm sorry that you received so many responses that weren't what you were hoping for.
@CiaraNi whoa! I hope I wasn't part of the pile-on! I thought it was gorgeous and it's of it's time and no I didn't read the alt text 
@constantorbit Not a pile-on! Just the instant arrival of multiple replies complaining that a century-old flight of steps doesn't meet 2025 accessibility standards. I added my comment, off the cuff, because it would be tedious to spend my time defending random steps for not being what they aren't. And also because this nitpicking is so common - people immediately finding fault in something inconsequential and seeming to expect a stranger to debate it, when they could just ignore it.
@CiaraNi yeah I confess it's a good thing that I feel like the Fediverse has made me much more aware of those issues. In the past I think I would have just said "wow, such beautiful steps!" and moved on... 
@constantorbit Haha - yes, it's become a kind of normalised culture in here!
@CiaraNi I loved the photo...thank you for sharing it. The brick pattern in the foreground exudes a sense of motion to me...I easily got swept up in the sense of what it would feel like to cycle though it. Thank you! 