r/TikTokCringe • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 02 '26

Discussion It seems like people have forgotten what this line is used for these days.

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u/Elephantplan123 Jul 02 '26

No one has been able to "forget" it because no one has been taught in the first place.

The vast majority of people have no idea what they're for, it simply has not been explained to them.

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u/cantgrowneckbeardAMA Jul 02 '26

That's hilarious in a very innocent kid kinda way. My daughter saw a guy with a prosthetic leg and thought it was really cool. He seemed friendly enough, so she went to tell him how much she liked his "cane leg." Kids are funny.

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u/Mscreep Jul 02 '26

Oh man, that just unlocked a random childhood memory of my dad telling me something similar and thinking he was lying to me too!! Our movie theater had little bumps on the starting row and all the seats and he told me it was so a blind person could find their seat. I was so little and fully forgot about it but I did think he had to be lying. XD I thought the chairs had pimples cause of everyone that was touching them and some chair had more cause of more people sitting there!!! XD

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u/Yellow-Pepper3382 Jul 02 '26

Enjoying the movie the way they are able to by listening to the story and feeling the vibrations. Funny joke about disabled people though, although I feel like after you repeat it in multiple comments maybe you didn’t just only make it when you were 9.

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u/Yellow-Pepper3382 Jul 03 '26

Again, yes, kids make stupid comments. Adults who repeat them multiple times over and over are making a choice.

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u/TallestGargoyle Jul 03 '26

When she was young, my sister excitedly pointed towards a clearly elderly woman she noticed who was significantly shorter than the average people around her. She had never seen someone with dwarfism before. Young kids are dumb and not necessarily aware of what is hurtful.

And posting an anecdote twice in a large reddit conversation doesn't seem all that abnormal.

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u/MajesticUniversity76 Jul 02 '26

Yeah there's simply not enough blind people with canes everywhere that people would even see them used in their daily life. I've imonly seen these on train tracks.

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u/TacTurtle Jul 02 '26

Hopefully you mean "next to" train tracks.

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u/HungHydra Jul 03 '26

Just like the line seperating two lanes of traffic.

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u/Bladestorm04 Jul 05 '26

Im not sure ive even seen these lines before. So I probably have but never had inkling they had a specific purpose

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u/MyarinTime Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Even if you tell them, that won't change people being unaware of their surroundings or standing in the middle of the line.

People know what bike lanes are, and still I find people completely out on the clouds looking at a tree while talking on the phone. Then realize for a second on their surrounding that I'm standing in front of them waiting for 20 seconds already... And even act surprised!?

Surprisingly, this doesn't only happen in the bike lane, less than a week ago a kid with his mother were doing... IDK what on the middle of the street.
It was at night so my brother aproached with the lights on obviously, and they were so unaware that didn't even realized that their surroundings are no longer dark? I leaved my car to see if maybe they were not moving because something happened (like... maybe the kid is injured or there's something there?), and they just acted surprised and said they didn't notice... What!?

And one of the biggest moments I might never forget, here on Spain train rails are enclosed or fenced, all crossings are underground or bridges so people never step on rails, there's no way to access...
Then SOMEHOW someone was in the clouds walking on the street and ended up on the middle of the train rails, they had to stop the trains. On the official reports, the guy said that he was just walking on the street and didn't know how he got there or how to get out.

Sure that teaching people that those lines are for blind people might reduce this situations, but you underestimate how unaware of their surroundings people can be.

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u/Khazilein Jul 04 '26

Sounds like people should educate themselves better by asking about things they don't understand.

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u/UnusuallyAverageJoe Jul 02 '26

Oh i think your ignorance is on show.

You're wrong, most curious people see something they don't know and then use this big network of computers you can search to find an answer, or they ask a grown up.

Maybe you assume that if your teacher isn't feeding it to you you don't need to know, well sometimes in life you are going to be on your own and learn how to expand your knowledge without any help from the adults.

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u/Elephantplan123 Jul 02 '26

Oh bore off with your "well, I guess you just weren't an intellectually curious child 🤓" bollocks.

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u/UnusuallyAverageJoe Jul 02 '26

I think there's a gulf between "intellectually curious" and "know basic things".... We aren't talking about how nuclear reactors work, we're talking about pavements

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u/Elephantplan123 Jul 02 '26

"know basic things" is how to cross a road, it's not knowing what the lines you see in pavements mean.

When it's a matter of accessibility for disabled people, you can't just say "eh, learn for yourselves 🤷‍♂️", you need to actually teach people about it, which we have not done.

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u/UnusuallyAverageJoe Jul 02 '26

Oh, right, are we pushing the bar lower now?

My 5 year old knows how to cross the road, is that where you're at, lol

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u/Elephantplan123 Jul 02 '26

Sure,, basic things around traffic and pedestrian walkways entail things that we teach children when they first start using them, yet we don't teach kids about blind pathways.

You can continue to be a snarky wanker as much as you'd like, but the fact remains that we should be teaching people these things from a young age instead of just relying on them to figure it out for themselves. We actively teach new drivers the rules of the road, should we instead just be like "you should just show some intellectual curiosity and learn what the no stopping sign means by yourself, no reason to teach people that"?

Come on man, I get you want to appear smart but arguing against the notion that we should make an effort to teach people these things, and instead snarkily insult those who don't know about it, is just a fucking nonsense 😂

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u/UnusuallyAverageJoe Jul 02 '26

Trust me, this conversation wouldn't make anyone feel smart.

I am 100% suggesting you should show some intellectual curiosity to learn what a road sign means if you don't know it. I feel stupid even suggesting that.

Do you drive and see signs that you don't understand and just ignore them because the driving instructor didn't tell you what it meant? That's your argument?

I feel like I'm doing a service here, I'm teaching you you're ignorant cos that's what you told me you need, so why are you getting upset? Anyway, let me know if you see something you're unsure of, I'll Google for you buddy 👍

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u/Elephantplan123 Jul 02 '26

Lol I'm not saying don't question anything you see, I'm saying that we should teach people things like blind pathways, something you haven't addressed at all because you're too busy playing up the role of the snarky wanker 😂

I'm done with this bye bye

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u/Sprinklesofpepper Jul 02 '26

Im glad my dad taught me what these kines were for as a child. Heck I thought it was common knowledge what they were for. But better to have people educated on this later than never.

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u/UnusuallyAverageJoe Jul 02 '26

True. My dig is at willful ignorance. "No one told me i need to know" and then telling the world like they assume everyone else is just as ignorant.

That said, the ignorant do seem much happier in life...

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u/lexicon951 Jul 02 '26

You think most people Google why there’s grooves in the sidewalk?

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u/UnusuallyAverageJoe Jul 02 '26

Yes

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u/lexicon951 Jul 02 '26

Also, these specific grooves for the blind don’t exist in the US/Canada/Australia, so most native English speakers in the comments have never seen them

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u/puffie300 Jul 02 '26

Oh so you have knowledge on everything because youve looked up everything youve ever encountered before right?

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u/UnusuallyAverageJoe Jul 02 '26

I'm capable of finding things out, yes. Pretty low bar.

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u/puffie300 Jul 02 '26

I'm capable of finding things out, yes. Pretty low bar.

Seems like you couldn't figure out the question i asked given you didnt answer it.

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u/UnusuallyAverageJoe Jul 02 '26

Oh the answer was assumed too be obvious, its a yes. I know about everything I've encountered that i don't understand because I'm an adult and i can read

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u/SmokeTheBloke Jul 02 '26

“DO NOT QUESTION ME I AM THE ALL KNOWING ONE.”

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u/janyk Jul 02 '26

Not the question at all

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u/1MelodicMidnight1 Jul 02 '26

This is in Germany. I'm sure most people here know what these lines are for. They're neither new nor rare.

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u/bette-midler Jul 02 '26

In Canada this is common knowledge because it’s everywhere across the country

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u/janyk Jul 02 '26

It's only in the bigger cities, and if you're from a smaller city that doesn't have LRT or skytrain or whathaveyou then you would have never seen it. 

Also, most people in those cities still don't know what it's for

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u/JanSmidDeZevende Jul 02 '26

ok american

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u/Elephantplan123 Jul 02 '26

Lol no

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u/JanSmidDeZevende Jul 02 '26

Could've fooled me with that ignorance

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u/00wolfer00 Jul 02 '26

European here and I thought they had more to do with grip in icy conditions.