When I walk around the streets and pass by ground-floor apartments, I look to see what is standing on the window sills. Not too far away from me is a window with some cat ornaments in them.
One cat ornament is a hideous little thing of a cat with a welcome sign hanging off a chain that it's holding in its mouth. Sort of like this - only the one I saw is blackish and at least three times more hideous:
This level of hideousness in fact:
Now, what really amazes me is not the fact that someone with limited aesthetic development has actually spent their hard-earned cash on such an object. No, it's the fact that someone who actually graduated from design school thought that what was sorely lacking in this world was a cat with a welcome sign dangling from its mouth.
They spent years in design school and came up with these things. What is even more extraordinary is that someone then agreed to produce these hideous little articles and - even more astounding - that a buyer in a shop thought that placing an order for these items would be a good idea. The shop believed it could make a profit and keep going by selling such horrible little things.
However, hideous design is not limited to cats with welcome signs in their mouths. No, how about this example:
Isn't that what your heart has long desired? A naked gnome on a toilet.
Or how about this to welcome guests to your home?
It comes with motion sensors so that, when you walk past it on the way to the door of the house, it makes a noise. You can guess what kind of noise, I'm sure.
Ornaments to give you nightmares:
I'm fond of rodents, but that would give me the heebie-jeebies.
What medication were they on when they came up with those shoes? And who agreed to make them? And who sold them?
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