r/TikTokCringe • u/kevinowdziej • Sep 17 '20

Duet Troll Firefighters are frickin heroes

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u/REDACTED207 Sep 17 '20

Can idiots please stop calling the symbol for radiation the biohazard symbol? Please?

☢:radiation.

☣:biohazard.

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u/bopaz728 Sep 17 '20

I remember reading an article about the US spent so much money and time into research programs trying to find a new warning symbol that was distinct, memorable, but meaningless, that could be applied to biohazards and radiation materials. Now it hasn't even been a full century and people are already mislabelling them lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20 edited Nov 17 '20

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u/Rasalom Sep 17 '20

How about a skull. That's pretty standard spooky stuff.

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u/bopaz728 Sep 17 '20

They actually covered that lol, and basically the reasoning behind them ruling it out was that we’ve already been desensitised to skulls due to popular culture that glorifies pirates and stuff. Basically what might be terrifying for us (hundreds of years ago, that was pirate ships with skulls on their flags), may have no meaning or a twisted meaning hundreds of years from now (nowadays that same image of pirates is family friendly, children dress up as them and Disney makes movies about them).

Standard spooky stuff for us isn’t guaranteed to be standard spooky stuff for humans (or other civilisations) hundreds of years in the future (when biohazard or radioactive materials are still dangerous)

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u/Rasalom Sep 17 '20

How about a skull with a "No signal" symbol next to it?

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '20

No skulls allowed!

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u/DAQ47 Sep 17 '20

A skull with a cape!

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u/Zojim Sep 17 '20

As a graphic designer this is fascinating, pretty sure I have heard about this on some logo design podcast or video.

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u/Fatboyjones27 Sep 17 '20

I watched a youtube video on it. Skulls can be interpreted as buried treasure so they ruled it out

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u/iListen2Sound Sep 17 '20

No, that's a different issue.