What's Wrong With This Sign?

Posted by Robert Birming in Travel & Places on August 24, 2008 at 9:31 am


This sign, saying “For Rent” in Swedish, was located in an industrial park outside of Karlstad, Sweden. As far as I know, the place is still for rent…

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14 comments to "What's Wrong With This Sign?"

  1. emmakate
    August 24th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    Umm is it because that is not a valid email address? I'm really not sure what's wrong w/ it!

  2. oneir
    August 24th, 2008 at 10:07 am

    It's so wrogn - on so many levels.
    The @ symbol is illegal in domain name records, so http://www.info@kronlund can't be a url for the real estate agent's website - not even if "kronlund" were a toplevel domain which it isn't. Even if it were meant as an email address, with "www.info" as the intended recipient, it's still missing the toplevel domain suffix. And excuse me but, "LOKALER UTHYRES" "WWW.INFO@KRONLUND"? Stop shouting already. (Just take his caps lock key away) Besides which, that's not even English.

  3. Polx
    August 24th, 2008 at 10:49 am

    right, I see.

    someone who knows nothing of web or email naming protocols and domain names.

    I initially thought the complaint being made was that it wasn't in English.

  4. glassmusic
    August 24th, 2008 at 10:50 am

    and if that emails not working for you, head on over to

    http://www.creedthoughts.gov.www\creedthoughts

  5. Lisa
    August 24th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Actually there's really nothing "wrong" with this sign. The dot is legal in email syntax, and in Sweden, the top-level domain is .se, so you could probably assume it's .se and be safe. Websites in other parts of the world don't work like those in the US where it could be .com, .net, .gov, .us, .info, etc. Mostly they just stick with their own national suffix, unless it's an international brand.

  6. Martin
    August 24th, 2008 at 11:46 am

    Haha OMG i used to live in that city. Its a really nice town.

    But yeah this is so wrong in so many ways.

    I have to disagree with Lisa, the top-level domain in emails in sweden is probably .se but in email addresses its probably .com because most of the people in sweden still use Hotmail. So its even more wrong not to point out where the email is going..ooor where the html address is going to. haha, ocnfusing. Fun nonetheless.

  7. Bart
    August 24th, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    The ".se" suffix is missing from the URL/email address.

  8. jmp478
    August 24th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

    rhetorical question

    –noun
    a question asked solely to produce an effect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply.

  9. Eric Monkey
    August 24th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    Worst Post Evar?

  10. ted
    August 24th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    Wow, how anal can you get? Not worthy of posting.

  11. Ashley
    August 24th, 2008 at 7:15 pm

    This is neat? ...not really.

  12. Bobby the K
    August 24th, 2008 at 8:53 pm

    I'll tell you what's wrong with the sign.
    It's written in some kind of crazy space language, that's what's wrong with it.

  13. JM
    August 25th, 2008 at 12:26 am

    sory... I didn't understand.... all I read was "nerd, nerd, nerd. nerd, url, nerd, domain. nerd, nerd."

  14. Joe
    August 25th, 2008 at 9:44 am

    The comments on this thread are much more entertaining than the article.


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