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Not YKK?
It's rude to use uncommon abbreviations without defining them at least once.
Not OP, but this wiki article should help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YKK It's the world's largest zipper manufacturer. They officially changed their name to YKK Group so it's not even an abbreviation anymore.
Look at your pants.
It’s a piss stain so what?
But I'm not wearing any!
It's a common abbreviation. YKK owns the majority of the zipper market.
IIRC, they even had their own custom-made office computers, running their own internally developed operating system and software, during the 80s. Not sure if that was standard practice for Japanese zaibatsu at the time or just a YKK idiosyncrasy.
You're downvoted to oblivion and even though I've heard of YKK, I completely agree.
It pisses me off when I have to google an acronym every 2 sentences.
How is the rest of the world supposed to track which acronyms you've heard of so we know which ones not to use?
This whole argument is as fucking stupid as Felon telling his engineers to stop using jargon.
That's true for acronyms that are not brand names, but for ones that are — I don't even know what that acronym means, but I get the point.
It's not like you would be able to expand Dolce and Gabbana, because it's not an acronym, and it may also mean nothing for a person reading, being a brand they might not be interested in
Then again, I've seen people use "DG" (Dolce & Gabbana) or "YSL" (Yves Saint Laurent). If you're not in a perfume-and-makeup-specific-community then using these as acronyms makes zero sense.
Again, YKK is definitely an exception because I have a feeling no one would know what the hell you're talking about if you used "Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha" lol
Oh, Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha?
I love those zipper they have the smoothest action out there.
Seriously had no idea what YKK was until the Pete & Bas lyric from Gangster Shit.
What’s YKK?
Just zipping around the lake
Does the zipper handle fold over to the other side in reverse mode?
- Break zip off clothing item
- Drop zip in puddle
- Photograph zip in puddle
- Quick bit of Gimp/Krita/Photoshop
- Tell internet people it's a boat
Please tell me it's an icebreaker
I adore the whimsy of this.
This is magnificent!
it doesn't look like it's unzipping anything that's ridiculous
Some interesting details here. I especially liked this image, because of how two people have to sit inside.
Is it strange that I am aroused right now?
Your fun bits: "oh no, they are gonna do it again"
Great, now go in reverse and undo the boat wake :p
Illusion, Michael!
I have to wonder if there’s a way to make the water behind it look more zippery
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