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Title: Sensible Signs
Post by: hatler on 22 August, 2014, 11:19:47 am
Sadly no photo for this one, the sign was only up for a day.

But in Kingston, yesterday, there were two signs just before a bit where the vehicle lane was closed which directed drivers to first : -

"USE BUS LANE"

and then (heaven forfend)

"NARROW LANE
DO NOT OVERTAKE CYCLISTS"

How cool is that.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 22 August, 2014, 04:51:35 pm

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140822_140455_zps57518a2e.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140822_140455_zps57518a2e.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: drossall on 22 August, 2014, 10:11:25 pm
"NARROW LANE
DO NOT OVERTAKE CYCLISTS"
Macclesfield has, or had, signs on the road from Congleton, as it approaches the inner by pass, to the effect of "Do not overtake cyclists at traffic islands".
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Deano on 27 August, 2014, 11:22:36 pm
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5585/15034394736_18f072e403_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oUxcLm)

The road was routed around the loch in the sixties or seventies, so the ferry is no more, but the village remains.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 28 August, 2014, 04:42:00 am
Up the road a piece from where I am now (Page, Arizona) is normally a ferry across Lake Powell, but it isn't running at the moment chiz.  Otherwise I could have copped a couple of good bridges and a ferry ride ???
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 30 August, 2014, 05:08:32 pm

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140830_154349_zps551889b5.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140830_154349_zps551889b5.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 September, 2014, 04:30:15 am
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3835/15123151462_b9fb6ea075_c.jpg)
Badwater Basin, DETH Valley
This may seem a bit nanny-state but two people have been killed utterly to DETH hereabouts by the heat since April; it was 121°F / 49.4° C here this afternoon and I could have made quite a palatable cuppa with the contents of my water bottle.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 03 September, 2014, 07:06:34 pm
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/wales2014/Photo0922.sized.jpg)

On one of the many fine outdoor shops of Llanberis.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2014, 01:05:41 am
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3907/15158213941_f1f7c2c53d_c.jpg)
On the bog door, Rest Area RP-806, Nevada.  Sensible advice, really...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Biff on 07 September, 2014, 11:46:29 am
I had some unpleasant experiences with snakebites in my youth. Eventually I stuck to lager by itself.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Bluebottle on 07 September, 2014, 09:04:57 pm
Trip to India, stuck in traffic in Chennai (as is the norm for Chennai).  Big signs on the central reservation: "Smoking is injurious to the health".

Indeed so, but the irony of studying that whilst stationary in the exhaust-fume fog of "rush hour" was not lost.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Deano on 07 September, 2014, 10:45:30 pm
I don't know whether this level of accuracy is sensible or silly, but these road signs which I spotted today in Kirkby Stephen (and I must have passed them at least twenty times without noticing) are my new favourite road signs:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3888/15168774341_b1e1f5d9f6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p7pW96)
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5561/14985198038_923c0cdbab_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oQc4iq)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2014, 11:21:11 pm
Those are entirely sensible :thumbsup:  Distances on BRITAIN'S canals are still measured in miles and furlongs.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Biff on 19 September, 2014, 07:35:18 pm
(http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w516/bcwd/ATT00010.jpg)

(http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w516/bcwd/ATT00019.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 20 September, 2014, 06:05:38 pm
<pedant> Scorpions are not insects. </pedant>
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 September, 2014, 02:14:25 am
Sadly didn't photograph it but I saw one today warning of mountain lions and BEARs.

How fast can they run?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Steph on 24 September, 2014, 06:55:46 pm
(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/IMG_2351.jpg) (http://s954.photobucket.com/user/cyclisttony/media/IMG_2351.jpg.html)

In a Friesland bike shop.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 September, 2014, 12:14:20 am
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2944/15158864119_36694c6442_o.jpg)

The gorge immediately behind this notice is 172 metres deep...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 26 September, 2014, 03:01:26 am
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2945/15168453899_0225966923_o.jpg)

The gorge immediately behind this notice is 351 metres deep.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Riggers on 26 September, 2014, 01:34:39 pm
For that particular sign to be posted, it kind of infers peeps have tried to fish from the bridge!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: billplumtree on 27 September, 2014, 06:29:25 pm
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vyn3WAQiUZ8/VCbx2U1QCWI/AAAAAAAAGkE/et6jWivGkt0/s720/P2520238.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Steph on 28 September, 2014, 10:57:21 am
But none of them look like a man's willy...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 28 September, 2014, 06:42:03 pm
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0954.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: BrianI on 28 September, 2014, 06:52:02 pm
But none of them look like a man's willy...

Carroty error then?   ;D
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 06 October, 2014, 05:07:08 pm
(http://api.ning.com/files/q*0FqWTixVJWH*t5GQ6PDfmZdnS2ZtI1wT9EMt0XM2QoJYFRDEaMeDzU3dTqBq2Y9tqWSzupWWegDZUd0zWEEeP9c5yY4sB8/Photo1566.jpg)

(Sensible sign, silly path. (http://www.birminghamcyclist.com/forum/topics/small-heath-cole-valley-works?commentId=3004025%3AComment%3A145244))
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 06 October, 2014, 07:21:08 pm
Is that the one they're talking about on Birmingham Cyclist, Kim?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 06 October, 2014, 07:22:56 pm
Is that the one they're talking about on Birmingham Cyclist, Kim?

The very same.  I quite like the idea of a hillclimb challenge - sounds like all it's good for.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Biff on 21 October, 2014, 02:50:30 am
Could be sensible or not really:

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0T7B7pIEAAenf2.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Biff on 29 October, 2014, 06:19:54 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1H3njdCAAIMFY7.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 29 October, 2014, 07:25:39 pm
TfL have just Tweeted this HGV has broken down.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1IztDdIQAA1w6I.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: drossall on 31 October, 2014, 08:03:15 pm
Biff - we were there on Wednesday day as well, playing with the idea of Harold and William calling it all off because of it being wet underfoot ;D
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Biff on 31 October, 2014, 08:41:08 pm
Biff - we were there on Wednesday day as well, playing with the idea of Harold and William calling it all off because of it being wet underfoot ;D

 ;D Just imagine the alternative course of history - 'Sod this lads, its too bleedin cold, lets go down the pub instead'.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Biff on 01 November, 2014, 08:24:25 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1VqQMNCUAAqbjk.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: RJ on 07 November, 2014, 06:38:56 pm
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3952/15735012482_7c42f988bd_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pYs41E)
Chalk request (https://flic.kr/p/pYs41E) by rjevans6 (https://www.flickr.com/people/7194134@N06/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Gus on 07 November, 2014, 07:43:01 pm
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/gus69/426693_10151108647776870_903715110_n_zpsd15a40bb.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/gus69/media/426693_10151108647776870_903715110_n_zpsd15a40bb.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Biff on 10 November, 2014, 11:34:41 pm
(http://meetville.com/images/quotes/Quotation-Andy-Love-pain-Meetville-Quotes-178395.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Gus on 11 November, 2014, 08:02:39 am
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/gus69/1981989_10152506158286314_7430860651727997178_n_zpse481f27a.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/gus69/media/1981989_10152506158286314_7430860651727997178_n_zpse481f27a.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: clarion on 11 November, 2014, 01:43:16 pm
Show off! ;D
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Biff on 11 November, 2014, 03:56:51 pm
Rough translation - 'Enjoy the journey, not just the destination'

(http://img.mobypicture.com/ffc98920464d5a0e103e31baa0f8e981_view.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Andrij on 23 November, 2014, 02:46:43 pm
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-t00VOlqz9Lw/VHHtwD7bXhI/AAAAAAAACvo/Ncc2ebvEJ5g/s640/DSC_0595.NEF.jpg)


Why?  http://youtu.be/cwBFkT_KZr8
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 November, 2014, 03:00:38 pm
When I lived in Leytonstone we used occasionally to get the Epping Forest cows wandering down the street, to general consternation.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Andrij on 23 November, 2014, 03:05:22 pm
I've been told that, before the cows here all went mad, cattle used to be grazed on Whipps Cross roundabout.  Trufax?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 23 November, 2014, 03:11:35 pm
I've been told that, before the cows here all went mad, cattle used to be grazed on Whipps Cross roundabout.  Trufax?

It wouldn't surprise me; I lived half a dozen streets south of the Whipps Cross Road.  I don't know if they can still use the cycle/pedestrian bridges across the N. Circular these days, though.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: mcshroom on 26 November, 2014, 08:43:33 pm
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10538615_10152908392173384_4586100611891672211_n.png?oh=f0129f6a144f2e57a6a3c01c194b6730&oe=551BA605&__gda__=1427405904_854cbe7f1da02f4c061fcb6a66605c2d)

Most useful sign I've seen in their series so far :D
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: scott on 27 November, 2014, 03:24:22 am

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4017/4312160721_4c11e585fa_b.jpg)
La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica

Nice of them to leave it up to you.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ruthie on 10 December, 2014, 12:06:30 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/13677081974_66a76ab083_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mQABYb)IMG_1102 (https://flic.kr/p/mQABYb) by ruthturner3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/106826773@N02/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 10 December, 2014, 01:48:55 pm
I've been told that, before the cows here all went mad, cattle used to be grazed on Whipps Cross roundabout.  Trufax?

Yes. Epping Forest and the Wansted Flats are common land, and every year there were herds of cattle grazing, making walking back from the Fleece on dark night an interesting variant of Russian Roulette, it is why there are cattle grids on the entry points to the North Circ up by the Waterworks (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.593066,0.009608&spn=0.001411,0.002411&t=m&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.592968,0.009561&panoid=xE3K-h_slru-ZLGyK8Ahng&cbp=12,34.02,,0,0) and A12 at the Green Man (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.569975,0.017166&spn=0.022487,0.038581&t=m&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.571582,0.01735&panoid=0NRtqQNEwmAAtoUbYY4SXg&cbp=12,78.36,,0,0).

They used to wander the streets around here, munching on all the tasty flowers they could reach; leave your garden gate open at your peril. Greatest amusement was to be had as they would wander across the Aldersbrook Road, holding up drivers. Often, the uninitiated would sound their horns, which mostly had the effect of stopping Daisy in her tracks as she pondered what was making so much noise.

The twin effects of the mad cow fiasco and rustling put paid to the economics of it, so it stopped.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 11 December, 2014, 02:48:41 pm
Certainly not a silly sign

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10384279_10152350239479735_8488862467622149992_n.jpg?oh=4303afb4e3bfc39a49aaeef68e658f6c&oe=550921D2&__gda__=1425933703_649db7fd057233d41ae0fda54427b23c)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ruthie on 30 December, 2014, 09:33:52 pm
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8634/16150395005_6f49dc25fc_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qB9ZLi)20141230_132038 (https://flic.kr/p/qB9ZLi) by ruthturner3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/106826773@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: clarion on 30 December, 2014, 09:54:15 pm
Are they calibrated for that?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 31 December, 2014, 12:18:48 am
Certainly not a silly sign

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10384279_10152350239479735_8488862467622149992_n.jpg?oh=4303afb4e3bfc39a49aaeef68e658f6c&oe=550921D2&__gda__=1425933703_649db7fd057233d41ae0fda54427b23c)
What, and have to give them a separate bath? !!!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 11 January, 2015, 10:43:57 pm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150111_223254_zpsa1831a84.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150111_223254_zpsa1831a84.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Torslanda on 14 January, 2015, 05:41:54 pm
Certainly not a silly sign

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10384279_10152350239479735_8488862467622149992_n.jpg?oh=4303afb4e3bfc39a49aaeef68e658f6c&oe=550921D2&__gda__=1425933703_649db7fd057233d41ae0fda54427b23c)

Useful advice for Julian and Charlotte

***runs away***
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: billplumtree on 07 February, 2015, 09:15:09 pm
20p-in-the-slot telescope on Arnside pier:

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-5XfOhWzdKDs/VNZ_kLrJTdI/AAAAAAAAImo/QDdCZIjfLH0/s800/Telescope.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ruthie on 21 February, 2015, 11:24:30 pm
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8673/16605200332_d27d47ac7e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rikZxs)20150221_130637 (https://flic.kr/p/rikZxs) by ruthturner3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/106826773@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: nikki on 24 March, 2015, 09:03:52 pm
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7634/16919869015_7ec6be5c30.jpg)

...assuming the sign was warning about some sort of water or skid hazard.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: CrinklyLion on 25 May, 2015, 08:28:10 pm
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10425853_10153222175981839_8967288601079236030_n.jpg?oh=8813b58733279c866de22bdafb86dd0b&oe=55F3525E)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: The French Tandem on 24 June, 2015, 09:34:41 pm

(http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b482/ratle/CAM00186_zpsmyymzxyu.jpg)

Translation:
(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: nikki on 01 September, 2015, 09:03:22 pm
A bit blurry, for reasons of being a hundred or so metres underground:

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/775/20843531528_170680c79a_c.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 07 September, 2015, 01:21:41 am
Stan, as is well known, makes work for idlers.  Hence they are not welcome around here:

(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/594/21202791395_3c6cc39651_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yiBRbT)
P9060337 (https://flic.kr/p/yiBRbT) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: HTFB on 10 September, 2015, 12:05:45 pm
Stan, as is well known, makes work for idlers.
True. Derailleurs are the work of the devil.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 24 September, 2015, 02:48:05 am
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5836/21476616490_e69ab8180f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yHPgRd)
P9230222 (https://flic.kr/p/yHPgRd) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Though given the weather was just like BRITAIN i.e. 9 degrees and raining I suspect the said bear was at home with a nice cup of cocoa.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Andrij on 26 October, 2015, 07:32:14 pm
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5784/22287796618_382cf88c4a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zXuMru)
DSC_0645.NEF (https://flic.kr/p/zXuMru) by Andrij (https://www.flickr.com/photos/bebchenko/), on Flickr

The only one I spotted on St. Peter's Street in Colchester's Dutch Quarter.  I'd hate to see a 'long vehicle' anywhere in that part of town.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ruthie on 26 December, 2015, 07:01:18 pm
https://flic.kr/p/CvqnFw
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: redshift on 27 December, 2015, 08:52:46 pm
From Anglesey a few years ago:

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3112/2899451427_60a568f484_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/5qdrTR)

Engage Brain, not SatNav (https://flic.kr/p/5qdrTR) by shifty176 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/27345381@N03/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pingu on 29 December, 2015, 02:48:02 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1706/23677650179_c589023bd4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/C5j9tV)
IMG_3160 (https://flic.kr/p/C5j9tV) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 29 December, 2015, 02:54:42 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1706/23677650179_c589023bd4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/C5j9tV)
IMG_3160 (https://flic.kr/p/C5j9tV) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

File under 'ideas for duck eggs'  </ukc.food>
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Wowbagger on 31 December, 2015, 12:10:24 am
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1706/23677650179_c589023bd4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/C5j9tV)
IMG_3160 (https://flic.kr/p/C5j9tV) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Is that a hydro-electric plant installed just to upset Donald Trump?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Feanor on 08 January, 2016, 11:22:13 am
You may need to click to embiggen the image to read the sign...

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1646/23953047490_967fabff6e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CuDCvq)
Cyclists Dismount (https://flic.kr/p/CuDCvq) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: nikki on 08 January, 2016, 11:45:57 am
Erk!

The amount of debris on the cycle path looks about right though, if a tad damp...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: clarion on 08 January, 2016, 03:08:01 pm
Which NCN route is this?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Feanor on 08 January, 2016, 03:42:48 pm
I think it's part of NCN1.
It's the underpass under the A947, North of Aberdeen:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@57.2156738,-2.1850585,17.28z?hl=en
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Feanor on 08 January, 2016, 10:45:15 pm
I was reminded of a 200k I did in Oklahoma, where much of the cycleway was in the bottom of a storm drain:

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=71458.msg1480846#msg1480846
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 January, 2016, 01:00:36 pm
Back when dinosaurs stalked the LaBrea Tar Pits the IHPVA held a sprint event in one of LA's "rivers".  Always the risk of falling foul of a Terminator in a stolen lorry if you muck about down there.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 10 January, 2016, 02:03:01 pm
(http://41.media.tumblr.com/9cd8edf154e0b46dcbe6d6be5a41485b/tumblr_nxmcp9DtvR1qlrl72o1_540.jpg) (http://tiocfaidharlulz.tumblr.com/post/132958649072/you-tell-em-galway-subway)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 22 January, 2016, 07:30:29 pm
Not sure if this one counts as sensible or silly, tbh...

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZWOum7WIAAEIlL.jpg) (https://twitter.com/dmchapman/status/690615285133479936/photo/1)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 22 January, 2016, 07:45:11 pm
(click to show/hide)

IGMC...

Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Steph on 22 January, 2016, 11:37:29 pm
Back when dinosaurs stalked the LaBrea Tar Pits the IHPVA held a sprint event in one of LA's "rivers".  Always the risk of falling foul of a Terminator in a stolen lorry if you muck about down there.

Or Giant Ants!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pickled Onion on 13 February, 2016, 06:49:01 pm
(http://handsonit.co.uk/images/photos/2016/sign.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: The French Tandem on 13 February, 2016, 07:38:51 pm
As strange as it might sound, it is considered normal in french-inspired cultures to see moped riders on cycle paths.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pickled Onion on 13 February, 2016, 07:54:40 pm
Indeed, that was in Morocco and a lot of the scooters were slower than me, being weighed down with entire families plus a month's fuel and shopping. They also tended to slow to around 10 km/h when on the phone.

The sign is eminently sensible - the cars and lorries stay out of the cycle lane, and the cyclists, donkeys, scooters, horse carts, etc have their own stretch of tarmac.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 February, 2016, 07:57:52 pm
Sharing with donkeys and scooters sounds fairly reasonable, as long as the dedicated stretch of tarmac is wide enough and smooth enough.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pickled Onion on 13 February, 2016, 08:22:24 pm
Indeed, it was absolutely brilliant! Rush hour in Marrakech was something else entirely. I only saw two crashes - both moped v taxi - and am astonished that was all. 
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 February, 2016, 09:26:26 pm
Once saw a Moroccan donkey come off very second-best in a scrap with a Volvo F16 :sick:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: sg37409 on 20 February, 2016, 09:02:46 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1569/24786948379_21f248d7e1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/DLkAbX)The Lance Armstrong Dope Way in Austin (https://flic.kr/p/DLkAbX) by sg310 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/24775321@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 01 March, 2016, 08:54:32 am
When this arrived yesterday, I thought, what sensible advice

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ufb1zMcT8iI/VtWBrMO2EeI/AAAAAAAA2G8/RNFXlGQ9U8U/s640-Ic42/IMG_20160229_130258.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 01 March, 2016, 11:26:06 am
No picture here ???
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 01 March, 2016, 11:50:24 am
Fixed. Mr Google has been playing with his photos
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Deano on 12 March, 2016, 10:47:45 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1652/25737300665_c1e5ae0390_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FdjoPc)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 12 March, 2016, 10:55:15 pm
 ;D
Excellent!
 :thumbsup:

Hang on.  You lookin' at me?   8)  :smug:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 March, 2016, 06:58:48 am
Pray tell us, Deano, where that is, that we might avoid it like the cliché.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Deano on 13 March, 2016, 05:06:25 pm
The Green Dragon, Hardraw - I reckon it's a ruse, cos you have to go through the pub to Hardraw Force, and if you go round the back, you can avoid paying. Or they could be serious.

;D
Excellent!
 :thumbsup:

Hang on.  You lookin' at me?   8)  :smug:


Not just you, Basil. But especially you ;)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Otto on 14 March, 2016, 04:26:46 pm
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/ottocat/P1000352_zpsuidieyuw.jpg) (http://s13.photobucket.com/user/ottocat/media/P1000352_zpsuidieyuw.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: The French Tandem on 14 March, 2016, 08:17:33 pm
This makes me think about all the "Please drive carefully through our village" signs. Does it mean that I am allowed to drive recklessly anywhere else?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Bluebottle on 14 March, 2016, 11:41:48 pm
...and also reminds me of the sign I saw in what passes for a central reservation in the middle of travel-choked Chennai, the irony of it's location in the middle of dense exhaust fumes not lost on me: "Smoking is injurious to the health."
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 02 May, 2016, 05:07:08 pm
I spotted this on Twitter today.
https://twitter.com/BhamUpdates/status/727151379656130561


Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Andrij on 20 May, 2016, 11:05:34 am
(http://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/iY7aDq7ksgF0/v1/-1x-1.jpg)
From this article (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/photo-essays/2015-11-06/london-bespoke-bike-builders) on bespoke bicycles.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 August, 2016, 02:16:56 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7623/28838569136_f23f46acd3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KWncTf)
As it says.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: trekker12 on 10 August, 2016, 11:59:02 am
Wasn't sure if this was due for silly or sensible so I went with sensible as I think it's a good idea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-37024716
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 August, 2016, 12:07:18 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8746/28443014344_da86c78d97_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KkpTe3)
Smile while the sun shines on the bus lane.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 August, 2016, 12:09:33 pm
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8247/28443002094_ee2e435b4f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KkpPzQ)
For those not initiated into the lower leagues of English football, the blue and white checked shirt is Bristol Rovers. Not a crowd I'd have particularly associated with Gay Pride, but there it is.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 02 September, 2016, 10:18:12 pm
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8207/29330344941_c4c33a44a1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LFPFGr)
Wormleighton parish
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 03 September, 2016, 01:10:54 am
(https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7692/29305115892_dabe043c10_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LDAnYQ)
P9020195 (https://flic.kr/p/LDAnYQ) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Rest area on I-40, Texas.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pingu on 04 September, 2016, 11:58:30 pm
Heh - reminds me of:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/3/2765/4330100769_dbdf0dab2e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P)
IMG_0162 (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 September, 2016, 05:53:15 pm
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8069/28853584634_fee4bd7803_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KXGat9)

Scream and get fed!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 08 September, 2016, 01:41:03 am
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8324/28906121504_4698910029_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/L3kqRf)
P9070406 (https://flic.kr/p/L3kqRf) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

And who would argue with that?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pingu on 08 September, 2016, 09:17:18 pm
No shit.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Jurek on 08 September, 2016, 09:35:53 pm
No shit.
Top post!  ;D
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 September, 2016, 02:26:19 am
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8482/29443335562_4d7993fbf1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LRNMSA)
P9080046 (https://flic.kr/p/LRNMSA) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Presedio car park, San Francisco.  Just out of shot to the right is the Golden Gate bridge.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 19 September, 2016, 10:25:27 pm
From a hostel kitchen in Leuven, Belgium:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/viva_colonia/2016_09_15_18_15_35.sized.jpg)

Also found these words of experience:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/viva_colonia/2016_09_15_18_15_44.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 21 September, 2016, 11:47:28 pm
This was a Sensible Sign until my grate frend Western Half-Devil Monster Face van Schaik decided to get in on the act:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8485/29216124433_1762868ddf_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LvJgVk)
P9210025 (https://flic.kr/p/LvJgVk) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 22 September, 2016, 12:13:57 am
So, where are the fish?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Peter on 22 September, 2016, 12:32:57 am
Garbage is obviously an anti-fish town.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 September, 2016, 01:36:05 am
So, where are the fish?

Judging by the presence of a couple of worm-botherers off to the right, in the river behind the sign.  Or in the gert big lake a couple of hundred yards away.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Si S on 22 September, 2016, 10:09:01 am
Definitely a sensible sign, Fish was in Marillion, nothing to do with Garbage.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 September, 2016, 06:51:46 pm
(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8229/29879233116_d96735be83_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MwjT2E)
Seems to be warning of the dangers of carelessly opening car doors. Where the cycle track runs past the lay-by on the A466 at the Chepstow end of the Severn Bridge.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 26 September, 2016, 10:22:16 am
This was a Sensible Sign until my grate frend Western Half-Devil Monster Face van Schaik decided to get in on the act:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8485/29216124433_1762868ddf_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LvJgVk)
P9210025 (https://flic.kr/p/LvJgVk) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

Advice to questing bears?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 November, 2016, 01:04:43 pm
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5792/30622097871_96508d4bd7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NDYfQF)
This could have gone in Silly Signs (or Guess the Place!) but I decided to bow to the YACF hive sensibility and say it was sensible.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 11 December, 2016, 11:47:39 am
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VfA2EGGyuwM/WE08mX7mSFI/AAAAAAAA8RU/HTHF8VA8FRgLgJpF8405nzdByAJhC10lACPcB/s800/IMG_20161210_110937.jpg)
Title: Reply # 124
Post by: meddyg on 11 December, 2016, 10:37:24 pm
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/1/56/31505192615_a5bc4f553c_k.jpg)


 @ The Spa Valley Railway, Tunbridge Wells' Heritage Railway
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Steph on 12 December, 2016, 03:57:38 pm
Heh - reminds me of:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/3/2765/4330100769_dbdf0dab2e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P)
IMG_0162 (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Reminded ME of

(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/IMG_0267.jpg) (http://s954.photobucket.com/user/cyclisttony/media/IMG_0267.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Jurek on 12 December, 2016, 05:17:27 pm
Heh - reminds me of:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/3/2765/4330100769_dbdf0dab2e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P)
IMG_0162 (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Reminded ME of

(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/IMG_0267.jpg) (http://s954.photobucket.com/user/cyclisttony/media/IMG_0267.jpg.html)

That one from Pingu has a strong stench of Photoshop about it - or am I stating teh obvs?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 12 December, 2016, 08:00:39 pm
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7331/9687397937_56d5a0b30e_b.jpg)

Above: Utah, 2013.  Below: Nevada, 2014 (on a toilet door - ulp)


(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3907/15158213941_f1f7c2c53d_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs #128
Post by: meddyg on 12 December, 2016, 10:40:14 pm
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/1/540/30797458513_6b7c536847_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pingu on 12 December, 2016, 10:56:54 pm
Heh - reminds me of:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/3/2765/4330100769_dbdf0dab2e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P)
IMG_0162 (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Reminded ME of

(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/IMG_0267.jpg) (http://s954.photobucket.com/user/cyclisttony/media/IMG_0267.jpg.html)

That one from Pingu has a strong stench of Photoshop about it - or am I stating teh obvs?

Something wrong with your nose  :demon:

https://goo.gl/maps/wXLBmBG6hpA2
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Jurek on 13 December, 2016, 06:14:49 am
Something wrong with my eyes  :-[.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 14 December, 2016, 03:11:43 pm
Your choice:

(http://www.pbase.com/image/164681765.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 December, 2016, 06:14:08 pm
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/6/5585/31631580981_9400734c02_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Qcb7ZT)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 19 December, 2016, 06:16:45 pm
Is that a ban on fancy dress above?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 December, 2016, 06:21:04 pm
I think it said "No stag nights, hen dos or large groups in fancy dress".
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 19 December, 2016, 06:21:59 pm
Even better.   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 19 December, 2016, 06:26:44 pm
Don't rejoice too soon: the pub was open when I took the photo and I could see a large, fluffy, allergic-unfriendly cat on the bar.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 December, 2016, 03:50:50 pm
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/1/725/31824872965_c2df4018b1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QufMYi)

I'm not sure about the exchange rate, but books and tea, what's not to like?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs reply#134
Post by: meddyg on 23 December, 2016, 05:30:12 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/306/30982786664_8ed1aba67a_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Andrij on 24 December, 2016, 09:24:47 am
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/1/725/31824872965_c2df4018b1_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QufMYi)

I'm not sure about the exchange rate, but books and tea, what's not to like?

Tea.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pingu on 24 December, 2016, 11:00:58 pm
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/1/267/31476589110_da28f02e26_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/PXtKjf)
IMG_7933_01 (https://flic.kr/p/PXtKjf) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pingu on 25 December, 2016, 05:33:55 pm
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/1/284/31025745214_f5cde0c83b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/PgD48C)
IMG_7962_01 (https://flic.kr/p/PgD48C) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Guy on 01 March, 2017, 10:54:53 am
An idiot writes:

Isn't Bhutan some sort of fag-lighter gas?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 02 March, 2017, 07:55:35 pm
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RyXHca9sifQ/WLh4SF3XADI/AAAAAAAA9Xo/y8Pn83MIGHwueiixoXhOXjulu9El4bHrwCPcB/s800/P2140631.JPG)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: nikki on 12 April, 2017, 08:42:39 pm
In Kendal:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3950/33185931663_0cb26caf62_c.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 22 April, 2017, 07:06:48 pm
As seen in Switzerland (only in the gents loos (apparently)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170422/d424fc1482200e3f08f89926236e5fe2.jpg)

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Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 23 April, 2017, 01:39:48 pm
I think we have ranted/grumbled in the Pub about the issues that have originated signs like these...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Sergeant Pluck on 23 April, 2017, 02:00:46 pm
As seen in Switzerland (only in the gents loos (apparently)

Is that a square of bog roll carefully pasted on to the sign? Nice.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 23 April, 2017, 04:15:57 pm
Reminds me of that good old graffito: "it's no use standing on the seat/the crabs in here can jump ten feet"  (wall of the Edinburgh University Union toilets, ca. 1966).
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 09 May, 2017, 09:13:10 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_Ql2hqUMAA6w6w.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 May, 2017, 09:08:00 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4245/34747892022_24b51fa3c1_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/UWy2GA)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 28 May, 2017, 10:38:01 am
(http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/165537827.jpg)

The "risque technologique" is that of being flattened by a shockwave and penetrated by low-flying bits of metal: there's a big munitions depot at less than a kilometre from the road.  It's been there for yonks but the sign only appeared this year.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: JStone on 29 May, 2017, 05:50:23 pm
The "risque technologique" ...

A dangerous country, France

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4244/34807048122_1c40098c47_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/V2MdKm)

(outside the petrochem plants near the Dunkerque ferry terminal)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 05 June, 2017, 09:53:19 am
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4217/35109659065_75b2622712_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Vuwbrp)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: nikki on 08 June, 2017, 12:00:58 pm
Couldn't take a photo, but in my local primary school / polling station the election signage has been pinned on top of the Rules for a Happy Lunchtime, resulting in "Please put all rubbish in the parliamentary general election".
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: The French Tandem on 14 June, 2017, 12:15:48 pm
Not sure whether this fits better on the silly or sensible signs thread. All I know is that you are in trouble if your fuel tank is empty!

(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wwrwjt14d44/S6-R9M5W04I/AAAAAAAABKU/4ceu_vBqoPg/s1600/IMG_5107.JPG)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 22 June, 2017, 08:47:31 pm
I'm getting a bit fed up the pub near my house.  "The Jolly Racist" 
 Tonight I'm trying the one at the bottom of my garden.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4310/36172174331_b4e6b77fb2_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/X7pRd8)IMG_20161001_151627 (https://flic.kr/p/X7pRd8) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr

And

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4314/36175216671_6ac5b16322_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/X7FrAg)20170622_203231 (https://flic.kr/p/X7FrAg) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr

"Cyclist Friendly"
Seems good.    :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 26 June, 2017, 04:01:49 pm
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4217/34706445654_84f9c9016a_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/USTB93)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 03 July, 2017, 02:46:12 pm
No picture, sorry, but:
Quote
There's no "i" in Takeaway but there is in Pizza

Can't argue with that, now can you?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: fuaran on 17 July, 2017, 07:51:03 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/tF4y0Khh.jpg)
Very sensible, you don't want to get them mixed up...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 18 July, 2017, 12:28:45 am
Given that these facilities might be used by 'merry' people, surely the architects/designers could have used something that looks completely different?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 August, 2017, 08:13:49 pm
If only!
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4329/35922157390_6a65434e5e_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WJjrTd)

It's on a guided busway which is still under construction, so no idea what the "car trap" actually is.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: sojournermike on 01 August, 2017, 09:14:27 pm
(http://i.imgur.com/tF4y0Khh.jpg)
Very sensible, you don't want to get them mixed up...


Childish, but made my day.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 09 September, 2017, 04:33:21 am
This:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4387/36278574384_3f7b0f135e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XgPbeN)
Sign (https://flic.kr/p/XgPbeN) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

is right next to this:

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4422/36278569704_2f2b17760d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XgP9R7)
Boiling mud (https://flic.kr/p/XgP9R7) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Gareth Rees on 09 September, 2017, 08:36:12 am
It's on a guided busway which is still under construction, so no idea what the "car trap" actually is.

It's a hole that's just narrower than the wheel-span of a guided bus. Here's one on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway:

(http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/26/67/2266724_646b09d3.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 25 September, 2017, 01:38:27 am
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4367/37267908202_871bbc538a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YMeLHq)
P9240255 (https://flic.kr/p/YMeLHq) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr

I presume the same applies to the dismembered corpses of murder victims.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: pucklie24 on 29 September, 2017, 02:48:29 am
(https://415d6b0c-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/alittlebitoeverything/senseless-signs/07_sdfgdsg.jpg?attachauth=ANoY7cpWc2_x7VDCwMl0PB29iiVfSfhkcsXe9O4NbebFr-lyL2rNBvOdW2USHjuU-NosAh0E2GPOlhhzRTzzygBzOoqmnVNasI9dl5AJNnbOR27gQ2tF0QsUNA9LKP9zi1BGgu-uxN1-dxxvC4BCXv8pdzeNxxkM-tX7C_ADpP6oGAM9M5Cc431gHQXdNQYGDbBLoiNAM-8l14VBrEQUn1JsRsurbrWLMEct2LqrPf1qq2XY_UrfmGR0Za_EbuiSTdQD6peLFh_N&attredirects=0)


 ;D
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 29 September, 2017, 09:25:34 am
It's on a guided busway which is still under construction, so no idea what the "car trap" actually is.

It's a hole that's just narrower than the wheel-span of a guided bus. Here's one on the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway:

(http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/26/67/2266724_646b09d3.jpg)

Rather more humane that the severe tyre-damage gadgets they have in the US. ("Warning: STD Ahead"?)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: JStone on 30 September, 2017, 07:27:50 pm
Outside local hospital main entrance

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4442/37383245412_96fd5ea7b6_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YXqUs1)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 30 September, 2017, 09:24:06 pm
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 14 October, 2017, 01:05:28 am
Not bad for Paris.

(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4486/37681398111_36aecb4934_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ZpM1RM)20171012_202616 (https://flic.kr/p/ZpM1RM) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 14 October, 2017, 09:47:12 am
Beg to differ - the last Guinness I had in Paris was bloody awful.

Maybe I should have slapped a pound of butter in it.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: nikki on 11 January, 2018, 09:48:25 pm
From https://twitter.com/Cycling_Embassy/status/951389464131235840

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DTQCeCpW4AAWqY_.jpg)

"How to stress that people should cycle behind each other with oncoming cyclists or pedestrians? Use this sign! 'With oncoming traffic, do the bike polonaise!'"
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 11 January, 2018, 10:19:28 pm
Evidently the Dutch are more familiar with their social dances. And faced with a Silly Sustrans Gate, the bike limbo might be more useful!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Andrij on 12 January, 2018, 10:02:33 am
WARNING, ZOMBIES!

(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/26804809_1780011482043655_4256441413982752239_n.jpg?oh=b4c986c7e02e16f5cccaa047aa41ed7d&oe=5AB50449)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: JStone on 28 May, 2018, 05:07:47 pm
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/877/41688322104_8243544c84_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/26vRxLd)

Disabled parking space - 'If you take my place, take my handicap'
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 03 June, 2018, 01:40:06 pm
From my Twitter feed...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DexF_kqWsAEE7V4.jpg:large)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 13 July, 2018, 09:04:20 pm
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/920/42484973425_3b860622f2_k.jpg)


placed outside Cardiff City Hall
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 16 July, 2018, 06:25:16 pm
What an appropriate rank.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: JStone on 23 August, 2018, 09:29:19 pm
For those days when when another 22 yards is just too far

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1881/43506742814_98f81f804d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/29hxqTq)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 August, 2018, 10:00:41 pm
I'm sure that one used to say 220 yards, before the Beard thing opened and the next pub was the White Bear (which, incidentally, I have recently discovered is quite nice when the students are away).
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 03 September, 2018, 08:31:44 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1868/29411676167_ea31eb4a5e_k.jpg)






at the Strandbad* Kemnader See last week on the Ruhr River

*or were they calling it 'City Beach' ?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 03 September, 2018, 08:33:16 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1848/44454338811_9099d6c9b3_k.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 04 September, 2018, 11:52:03 am
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1868/29411676167_ea31eb4a5e_k.jpg)






at the Strandbad* Kemnader See last week on the Ruhr River

*or were they calling it 'City Beach' ?
And the TV only shows love films?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 17 September, 2018, 12:38:42 pm
Good luck getting anything through! (Sutton in the Elms, Leicestershire)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180917/3c186d7a7184d449d7ebf05a09414b74.jpg)

Sent from my Moto E (4) Plus using Tapatalk

Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Andrij on 17 September, 2018, 12:48:10 pm
Was the NCN sign just out of shot?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 17 September, 2018, 02:09:20 pm
Was the NCN sign just out of shot?
Not sure if it's NCN, but yes there is a (very narrow) cycle path to the right of the picture with a sign. Not deliberately cropped.
It's a couple of years since I've been down this disused motor-road and they've erected barriers and gates which I'm sure weren't previously there - my memory is that these No Entry signs did at one time serve a useful purpose, but nature wins every time!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 17 September, 2018, 03:11:12 pm
Is this the other end of the same road?
https://goo.gl/maps/gjpsnHtsEq62
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 17 September, 2018, 03:41:50 pm
Yes! That's the one.
Here's a link to the ride :  https://ridewithgps.com/trips/27854322
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 30 September, 2018, 08:33:46 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1925/44942244272_4572fa3382_k.jpg)

just by Broadway station in the Cotswolds...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 13 October, 2018, 09:36:23 pm
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1903/44541274384_78e5d39cef_k.jpg)

Yeah, quite right too !

Bit of a post-war interdiciton I think, though
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 October, 2018, 09:47:56 pm
"Commit no nuisance" is still seen all over Indian cities. Means "Don't piss here!" A less official but probably more effective way of ensuring that is to paint holy figures (Brahma, Shiva, Jesus, Islamic symbols... ) but probably would look a bit odd in a dockyard in Britain!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Salvatore on 18 October, 2018, 12:44:31 pm
I saw the "PRIVATWEG" from a distance and my heart sank - the alternative was a long sandy track. Nevertheless I went closer and read the small print - "Anyone who takes care and keeps their dog on a lead is welcome to pass through."

So I did.

(https://i.imgur.com/cuu3twm.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 18 October, 2018, 12:46:22 pm
Were dogs provided for the dogless?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Salvatore on 18 October, 2018, 02:44:59 pm
I was dogless. If I remember correctly, it was more of a horsey area.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Andrij on 18 October, 2018, 09:00:54 pm
Were dogs provided for the dogless?

They're not provided in London, sadly.

(https://bridgesandtangents.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/dogs.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 23 October, 2018, 09:58:26 pm
Mooching through some old photos, I came across one from the TdF, while I was in Skipton

(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CCyp9Em23pc/W8-LCGjTXNI/AAAAAAAC3FA/3Y-84autDYA2Bdp5eabqwSftK0ykTEulgCKgBGAs/s1024/IMG_20140705_141543.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 06 April, 2019, 12:29:39 pm
On the back of a car:

"I don't look disabled?  Well you don't look ignorant.  Life's funny like that."
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 April, 2019, 06:09:01 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/7813/32630569867_002c4600e5_c.jpg)
It is.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 23 April, 2019, 06:56:33 pm
In that there Belgium

(http://citoyenspourleclimat.be/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ceci-n-est-pas-une-voiture.jpg)

I think I might try to get one (http://citoyenspourleclimat.be/ceci-nest-pas-une-voiture/)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 10 June, 2019, 03:00:33 pm
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nKc0pFb5ldo/XP5iJ15HPYI/AAAAAAADCjk/Ox5HxDqXmdcUkOBFiavzMUPENfmOKapPgCKgBGAs/s640/IMG_20190603_134433.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 29 September, 2019, 05:35:36 pm
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2019_09_28_13_16_59.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 29 September, 2019, 06:59:56 pm
Speaking of which. Could hotel chains etc please train their cleaning staff that when the bog seat is all wobbly it can be rectified by twiddling of a wing nut under the pan?
I nearly fell off the bog thanks to an unsecured seat on the way home from France.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 29 September, 2019, 07:19:00 pm
Speaking of which. Could hotel chains etc please train their cleaning staff that when the bog seat is all wobbly it can be rectified by twiddling of a wing nut under the pan?

Or, if that's already been attempted and stripped the threads, by chucking the whole sorry mess in a bin and replacing it with a working bog seat that doesn't tip you off.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 29 September, 2019, 07:24:35 pm
Speaking of which. Could hotel chains etc please train their cleaning staff that when the bog seat is all wobbly it can be rectified by twiddling of a wing nut under the pan?
I nearly fell off the bog thanks to an unsecured seat on the way home from France.
The seat probably wanted to make the crossing before the chaos of Brexit
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 29 September, 2019, 08:42:04 pm
Loose bog seats seem to be more common than well-fixed ones to the disabled traveller...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 29 September, 2019, 08:54:04 pm
Loose bog seats seem to be more common than well-fixed ones to the disabled traveller...

They're only scoring marginally better for the non-disabled traveller, though I expect the ones in accessible loos get subjected to more sideways stress as people transfer from wheelchairs.  The rot set in when they started deliberately making the nuts out of brie, in order that application of ham-fisted monkey force wouldn't crack the bowl when people tried to sort out the wobbly bog seat.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 30 September, 2019, 12:36:15 am
Proximal muscle weakness in many crips means we descend more heavily than ableds and exert forward shear forces on the bolts when rising.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: ElyDave on 08 October, 2019, 09:18:59 am
Speaking of which. Could hotel chains etc please train their cleaning staff that when the bog seat is all wobbly it can be rectified by twiddling of a wing nut under the pan?
I nearly fell off the bog thanks to an unsecured seat on the way home from France.

Had they overbooked again?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 08 October, 2019, 07:00:41 pm
Went in a restaurant toilet in Utrecht last night. I nearly fell down the toilet because it was square and rather wider than I'm used to.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 08 October, 2019, 08:04:47 pm
Who thought square toilets were a good idea?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 08 October, 2019, 08:13:51 pm
If it is square does that mean there is no place for the hip?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 08 October, 2019, 08:18:48 pm
Or that it's the place to be when you're really, really scared?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pingu on 08 October, 2019, 09:02:39 pm
Who thought square toilets were a good idea?

It wasn't so bad for the standeruppers. Looked a bit wierd thobut.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 08 October, 2019, 09:03:15 pm
If it is square does that mean there is no place for the hip?
;D
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 09 October, 2019, 01:18:13 am
Who thought square toilets were a good idea?

Some f*@%ing 'designer'.

I HATE straight-sided toilest with a vengeance!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 28 October, 2019, 11:01:21 am
Going through some of my Cuba photos I came across this one.

(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ooi8DEomrYU/XbbJQMiQwxI/AAAAAAADGGc/ILv8wESkVREO-1baYzof5ESFLDbxyRW-ACKgBGAsYHg/s1600/HAM80133.JPG)

Tirar (AFAIK) means pull or throw, which is intrinsically confusing, so "Twitch" is a good substitute.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 October, 2019, 12:33:43 pm
Not a taxi for bird watchers?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 28 October, 2019, 01:25:51 pm
"DiRtY DiEsEl", written in the dirt on the back of a dirty diesel.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 28 October, 2019, 01:42:00 pm


Tirar (AFAIK) means pull or throw, which is intrinsically confusing, so "Twitch" is a good substitute.

Could it be translated as "Slam"?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 28 October, 2019, 01:44:41 pm


Tirar (AFAIK) means pull or throw, which is intrinsically confusing, so "Twitch" is a good substitute.

Could it be translated as "Slam"?

Or "Yank"?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 28 October, 2019, 01:53:38 pm
Methinks they meant 'touch' and mistook twitch for touch.

Slidy doors should not be pulled or touched.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 October, 2019, 02:01:48 pm


Tirar (AFAIK) means pull or throw, which is intrinsically confusing, so "Twitch" is a good substitute.

Could it be translated as "Slam"?

Or "Yank"?
No Yanks in Cuba! (Obviously)

I interpreted it as "open" – the handle is broken and either the door has to be opened from inside or you have to get in the the other door.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 28 October, 2019, 02:48:37 pm
Tirar can also mean shoot.  I'm sure this is helpful.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 08 February, 2020, 07:13:53 pm
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2020_02_08_13_11_10.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Steph on 16 February, 2020, 04:41:13 pm
(https://www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/image.jpg)

I nicked that off the mudguard of a German triker while riding the North Sea route.

I then had it painted on my back for the Brighton World Naked Bike Ride, and photos ended up in the Standard and the Graun.

The problem was that the paint was UV proof and during my Danube ride a little later I had the slogan stencilled on my back...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 16 February, 2020, 04:55:30 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49542949778_9b35a0e2b4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2itWyVh)IMG_20200216_165146 (https://flic.kr/p/2itWyVh) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Salvatore on 19 June, 2020, 10:35:08 am
Bilingual signage in Aldershot, so I guess the bottom bit is नेपाली (Nepali).

(https://i.imgur.com/2CjX8jil.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 22 June, 2020, 07:53:27 pm
Are conditions in Aldershot so hostile that pedestrian is only a singular entity?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 22 June, 2020, 08:28:11 pm
Some of our local "CYCLIST REJOIN CARRIAGEWAY" signs got removed when they molished the A38 segregated cycleway.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Tim Hall on 02 July, 2020, 11:34:09 pm
At the farm shop near my place of work:

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/d11lp1kfi1dwf6v/IMG_20200702_131457948.jpg?raw=1)

The last bit is excellent advice.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: fuaran on 13 August, 2020, 04:22:56 pm
Very sensible signs on a bin.
(https://i.imgur.com/rbbT2zch.jpg)  (https://i.imgur.com/js9qmCHh.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Russell on 18 August, 2020, 06:44:28 pm
Sensible and amusing set of signs near the Hampton Park estate in the Surrey Hills.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50241646717_1134912d5a_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jxFzbe)IMG_20200818_143643697 (https://flic.kr/p/2jxFzbe) by Russell Wiles (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156615223@N02/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50241646727_47ada107ec_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jxFzbp)IMG_20200818_143730135 (https://flic.kr/p/2jxFzbp) by Russell Wiles (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156615223@N02/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50241646682_2506ad850c_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jxFzaC)IMG_20200818_143802657_HDR (https://flic.kr/p/2jxFzaC) by Russell Wiles (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156615223@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 18 August, 2020, 07:43:46 pm
Both the last posts are brilliant :)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 18 August, 2020, 08:05:45 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50241646682_2506ad850c_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jxFzaC)IMG_20200818_143802657_HDR (https://flic.kr/p/2jxFzaC) by Russell Wiles (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156615223@N02/), on Flickr

I wonder what he'd make of the keming?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 18 August, 2020, 08:32:31 pm
And the exclamation marks!!!
(Who remembers Keith Oates from C+Forum???!!!)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 28 August, 2020, 02:48:07 am
I still like the pithy Shetland 'Dunna Chuck Bruck'...
(https://www.shetlandamenity.org/assets/images/enlargeable/environmental-improvement/dunna%20chuck%20bruk/dunna-chuck-bruck-w960-h650.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 27 September, 2020, 06:24:00 pm
My son just Whatsaped me with this comment.
"They're still doing it"

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50390698537_d18233478c_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2jLRv6c)
IMG-20200927-WA0002 (https://flic.kr/p/2jLRv6c) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 27 September, 2020, 06:56:40 pm
At one point last year (for 2018 values of last year) I noticed that someone had emptied their dog in front of the sign...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 27 September, 2020, 06:59:40 pm
At one point last year (for 2018 values of last year) I noticed that someone had emptied their dog in front of the sign...

Oh, good effort.  Well done Brummies.  ::-)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 07 October, 2020, 06:14:29 pm
(https://images2.imgbox.com/9b/6a/UbfAU0bo_o.jpg)

Wellfield Road, Cardiff.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 20 October, 2020, 01:24:11 pm
(https://images2.imgbox.com/8c/51/NV3TeNge_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 21 October, 2020, 09:58:06 am
Not really sure whether this is sensible or silly: the advice is sensible, but a postbox seems a silly place for it:

(https://i.ibb.co/LvMWmQR/IMG-2596.jpg) (https://ibb.co/g6GpNv9)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Snakehips on 21 October, 2020, 10:37:24 am
Not really sure whether this is sensible or silly: the advice is sensible, but a postbox seems a silly place for it
At about this time of year some say you could usefully store your bananas in a bag with unripe tomatoes.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 21 October, 2020, 04:53:41 pm
I didn't realise until recently you weren't supposed to store taters with onions.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: citoyen on 21 October, 2020, 05:00:47 pm
I didn't realise until recently you weren't supposed to store taters with onions.
Why’s that? I might need to do some rearranging of my veg...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 22 October, 2020, 05:05:00 pm
I didn't realise until recently you weren't supposed to store taters with onions.
Why’s that? I might need to do some rearranging of my veg...

Leads to earlier sprouting, apparently. Since keeping mine apart I would say the taters are sprouting much less quickly. OTOH it is now also autumn and not summer so not exactly a controlled experiment.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 20 November, 2020, 10:32:34 am
(https://i.redd.it/s43e6gw9t6u31.png)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Basil on 20 November, 2020, 10:40:26 am
 :D
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hatler on 20 November, 2020, 10:41:02 am
:-)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 20 November, 2020, 08:30:42 pm
Not really sure whether this is sensible or silly: the advice is sensible, but a postbox seems a silly place for it:

(https://i.ibb.co/LvMWmQR/IMG-2596.jpg) (https://ibb.co/g6GpNv9)

Methinks this is a passive-aggressive sticky from a communal fruit bowl that the recipient has rehomed.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 November, 2020, 09:20:23 pm
It's clearly a fake. Who ever heard of Glaswegians eating fruit?  :demon:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 21 November, 2020, 12:38:57 am
Good point. You wouldn't FIND fruit in G20...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 21 November, 2020, 01:17:45 am
Opal Fruits, innit.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: slope on 24 November, 2020, 05:37:25 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50641962676_b68dff73a7_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ka4iaw) (https://flic.kr/p/2ka4iaw)

Polite signs in Nuwara Eliya town gardens, Sri Lanka.

Photo taken during a most welcome midday apres luncheon (rice and curry) walk about, December 2007.

Whilst returning from the still ravaged post tsunami east coast, overland in an NGO flagged pick up truck with bum breaking 'shot' suspension. Leaving behind the dying embers of a most indecent uncivil war
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 24 November, 2020, 06:16:44 pm
I expect Behave decently means a combination of Don't pee in the park and No hank panky.

Irrelevant comment, I love Tamil script.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: orienteer on 24 November, 2020, 10:33:41 pm
The first sign suggests the second might be a Spoonerism  :demon:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: The French Tandem on 25 November, 2020, 12:18:25 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50641962676_b68dff73a7_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2ka4iaw) (https://flic.kr/p/2ka4iaw)

Polite signs in Nuwara Eliya town gardens, Sri Lanka.

Photo taken during a most welcome midday apres luncheon (rice and curry) walk about, December 2007.

Whilst returning from the still ravaged post tsunami east coast, overland in an NGO flagged pick up truck with bum breaking 'shot' suspension. Leaving behind the dying embers of a most indecent uncivil war

This reminds me of a slightly less polite sign I read in the Geneva botanic garden some time ago, in front of a hole in the ground. The original was in french, but it translates to something like:  "This plant is missing because some selfish decadent moron stole it".

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Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 04 December, 2020, 09:11:18 pm
It's that time of the year again !

(https://images2.imgbox.com/a8/f9/nylvklL1_o.jpg)

OK prob photoshopped, but you've got to get in to the spirit of things !
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 06 March, 2021, 08:48:46 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EDdda8QW4AAZ9UB.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 11 March, 2021, 03:15:09 am
Excellent! Do you have friends in Toronto?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 11 March, 2021, 08:34:29 am
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwJBgIIWQAAu7Xo?format=jpg&name=small)

Ian McMillan wonders if this is from the sixties ?

Well the yellow-black tape is psychedelic...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Beardy on 11 March, 2021, 09:42:28 am
Reminds me of that good old graffito: "it's no use standing on the seat/the crabs in here can jump ten feet"  (wall of the Edinburgh University Union toilets, ca. 1966).
to which is often added “if you think that’s high/dong go next door/the buggers can fly”
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: nikki on 18 April, 2021, 10:20:49 pm

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51123538539_d7ba10fbf7_c.jpg)

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51124595910_59f7f050cf_c.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: quixoticgeek on 29 May, 2021, 11:46:27 pm

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2k44R5VUAAiT6u?format=jpg&name=large)

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Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 30 May, 2021, 12:00:53 am
I'm not sure that is sensible. If I'm asked 'Is water animal, vegetable or mineral?' I'd answer 'mineral'...
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: JStone on 13 June, 2021, 09:08:24 pm
The yellow one - even though it removes the familiar exciting challenge of 'shall I risk it?'

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51244170647_fb4da450c7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2m5gLBz)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 14 June, 2021, 12:36:14 pm
Not only sensible but useful.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Salvatore on 21 July, 2021, 01:45:32 pm
If you ignore the 1st 3 lines, the 4th might be useful.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51326516564_27bd95f699.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mcxPbL)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Ham on 11 November, 2021, 10:48:21 pm
(https://media-exp1.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E22AQE_eR1mBAO9_g/feedshare-shrink_800/0/1636535141704?e=1639612800&v=beta&t=iC8zQC_Zmu3VDVZhm1cGtTuqo9sTUnCN14t44Z4Fo7k)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: matthew on 12 November, 2021, 01:18:23 pm
Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

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Please be patient this car has a black box fitted
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 13 November, 2021, 12:55:37 pm
Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

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Please be patient this car has a black box fitted
Yes, see quite a few of those, including one with "I'm not driving slowly, I'm reducing my insurance premium".
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 13 November, 2021, 07:14:53 pm
Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

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Please be patient this car has a black box fitted
Yes, see quite a few of those, including one with "I'm not driving slowly, I'm reducing my insurance premium".

“I slow down for tailgaters” many years ago, on the back of a taxi down Denmead way.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pickled Onion on 13 November, 2021, 07:42:07 pm
Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

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Please be patient this car has a black box fitted
Yes, see quite a few of those, including one with "I'm not driving slowly, I'm reducing my insurance premium".

“I slow down for tailgaters” many years ago, on the back of a taxi down Denmead way.

An acquaintance with a LR defender (who was generally no slowster) used to do exactly that if he got a tailgater on a single track road. He would slow down until he judged the gap was sufficient for the stopping distance at the speed he was going. If this made the boy racer in the following car get closer, then keep reducing speed. With the low ratio/transfer box (I don't know the exact terminology), a defender can happily drive at less than walking speed if necessary, something that's a complete pain in the arse in a boy racer car.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: neilrj on 13 November, 2021, 07:52:57 pm
An acquaintance with a LR defender (who was generally no slowster) used to do exactly that if he got a tailgater on a single track road. He would slow down until he judged the gap was sufficient for the stopping distance at the speed he was going. If this made the boy racer in the following car get closer, then keep reducing speed. With the low ratio/transfer box (I don't know the exact terminology), a defender can happily drive at less than walking speed if necessary, something that's a complete pain in the arse in a boy racer car.

Always a good idea to slow right down with a tailgater, if they haven't left a safe braking distance then effectively you need both lots of braking distance to allow for gentle braking so you aren't collected by the motion behind.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 13 November, 2021, 08:03:03 pm
Seen on the back bumper of a car list night:

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Please be patient this car has a black box fitted
Yes, see quite a few of those, including one with "I'm not driving slowly, I'm reducing my insurance premium".

“I slow down for tailgaters” many years ago, on the back of a taxi down Denmead way.

I've long since recycled the neurons as to where, but "Your tailgating will not intimidate my cruise control."
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Moleman76 on 15 November, 2021, 08:38:34 am
Did I report

"Pardon me for driving so closely in front of you" here, or among the motor-vehicle related topics?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pickled Onion on 19 November, 2021, 08:14:26 pm
(http://handsonit.co.uk/photos/2021/cow_apart.jpeg)

"One cow apart"
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 28 November, 2021, 02:22:32 pm
(https://www.bristol247.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Warmley-Raleigh-and-Humber-Cycles-ghost-sign-photo-Martin-Booth-1600x900.jpg)
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Writing on the Ghost Signs website, ghost signs expert Sam Roberts says that the protection of the sign in Warmley “presents quite an interesting precedent, in that a sign can acquire protection within the context of planning being granted for a change to the building”.
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/ghost-sign-near-bristol-repainted-by-orders-of-local-council/
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pingu on 28 November, 2021, 04:36:11 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51709761297_ec846398ea_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mMq3uz)
IMG_9251_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2mMq3uz) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 26 December, 2021, 02:16:21 pm
Seen on a cycle path. :thumbsup:

(https://i.ibb.co/4854Xpd/20211226-110734.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8rSPf9c)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 26 December, 2021, 02:27:34 pm
Seen on a cycle path. :thumbsup:

(https://i.ibb.co/4854Xpd/20211226-110734.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8rSPf9c)

I like that!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: barakta on 26 December, 2021, 02:31:32 pm
It's bad enough I see many lights flickering without deliberate strobing which gives me "argh cannot see *scream*" level of pain. Strobing front lights on a bike are inexcusable unless it's very foggy.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 August, 2022, 08:24:02 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52273856114_9c089bd262_c.jpg)

On a bridge over the Avon in Bath, between the cycle path where it follows the river and Lidl (or is it Aldi?) on the Lower Bristol Road.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 09 August, 2022, 11:44:43 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52273856114_9c089bd262_c.jpg)

On a bridge over the Avon in Bath, between the cycle path where it follows the river and Lidl (or is it Aldi?) on the Lower Bristol Road.

I've not seen one of those before.  I wonder what its legal status is?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 09 August, 2022, 12:07:12 pm
Surely you're not doubting the rigorous procedures of Bath and North-East Somerset council? !!!

Here's a streetview of the same sign, almost – without the m/c ban – at the other end of the bridge.
https://goo.gl/maps/S2WmfhFvSP7utc4Q9
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 04 September, 2022, 05:37:35 pm
(https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/yacf_watlington_2022/2022_09_03_16_41_37.sized.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: ElyDave on 04 September, 2022, 07:06:36 pm
Saw something very similar at a pub last week
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 12 November, 2022, 08:37:38 am
(https://images2.imgbox.com/68/a1/hVpCAXZk_o.jpg)

In a forested bit of California coast...)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Kim on 12 November, 2022, 12:06:08 pm
From the people who brought you those crossing-the-road flags?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Moleman76 on 16 November, 2022, 11:04:08 pm
At least they're not suggesting the bells will scare bears away
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Moleman76 on 16 November, 2022, 11:08:17 pm
No photograph, but reported by a friend several years ago:

Trailhead sign in South Africa:

"Beware of Tree Snakes
"Some are deadly"

Steve said he spent most of the hike looking upward.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: MattH on 04 February, 2023, 01:23:18 pm
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FJHlT3KacAARFcB?format=jpg&name=900x900)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 04 February, 2023, 04:57:06 pm
 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: MattH on 16 March, 2023, 07:36:13 pm
Nicked from elsewhere - this is in Kristiansand, Norway.
(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3VWEZeVQqvjNaMrJLeG6OhLu2tvZe8HOsMuHL7rkONqTYKgKNd7irsjcC4ISF2vvNNlmUMdcbPuXJVsycRbk_ezkDjUQz98JS2vljnMWatjQD25EYM3eIcpp4wCGbIVTk_H8jg8KefU4E7eLj1MqWqLECgkOOIreJjMIfruV0kO0K_e33AxZIvNXk/w640-h426/IMG_2107.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Salvatore on 03 May, 2023, 09:19:35 pm
If you ignore the 1st 3 lines, the 4th might be useful.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51326516564_27bd95f699.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mcxPbL)

But not quite so sensible given that I came across this beastie on the beach mentioned on the sign.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52868530070_33903e074b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oxP35w)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 03 May, 2023, 09:41:52 pm
Cool!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 04 May, 2023, 08:26:46 am
Chum & I were running down from one of our local castles ~20 years back when I felt a whack on my right foot and saw an adder looking very dizzy indeed behind me. I don't think it had attacked me, rather that it had lifted its head at the wrong moment and got whopped.  I ran on. Chum, about 10 metres back, didn't notice it and his heel landed on its back. Exit adder, I should think.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Flite on 04 May, 2023, 08:27:55 am
I put up warning signs about the adders on our land, with advice to stay on the paths, and the self-entitled dog emptiers rip them down.
Spoke to an owner a few days ago who insisted that it was too cold for the adders to be about - I told him I had photos to prove they were, so he walked off while his dog rampaged over our fields disturbing the wildlife.
Two dogs been bitten in the last 3 years. Good business for the vets at more than £600 pounds per dog.
Contrary to popular belief, I do not dislike dogs!
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: mrcharly-YHT on 04 May, 2023, 02:36:04 pm
Chum & I were running down from one of our local castles ~20 years back when I felt a whack on my right foot and saw an adder looking very dizzy indeed behind me. I don't think it had attacked me, rather that it had lifted its head at the wrong moment and got whopped.  I ran on. Chum, about 10 metres back, didn't notice it and his heel landed on its back. Exit adder, I should think.

Back in Oz I trod on snakes dozens of times.

Doesn't kill them. Takes a lot to kill a snake.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Salvatore on 04 May, 2023, 03:07:13 pm
Several decades ago, not too far (about a 5 minute brisk walk)  from the sign and adder pictured, my uncle's dog was nosing in some undergrowth and suddenly drew back with a wimper. Instantly diagnosed as an adder bite by someone. My other uncle, a GP, took control of the situation and said he would take the dog to the nearest vet about 7 miles away, while someone else phoned the vet to warn them. As a GP, my uncle had a green flashing light on a magnetic mount to indicate he was on an important mission. But as a GP in central Wolverhampton he'd never had the chance to use it. This was his chance. Onto the roof of his car it went, and off he sped with the dog and an aunt down the narrow twisty lanes (actually an A road most of the way, but width, surface, traffic count and likelihood of meeting a tractor more like what you would expect on an English county lane).

The vet did his bit, but it was touch and go for a couple of days because the bite was on the neck/throat and the swelling made breathing difficult for Biddy (the dog) but she survived for several years after the drama .
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: T42 on 04 May, 2023, 03:21:07 pm
Chum & I were running down from one of our local castles ~20 years back when I felt a whack on my right foot and saw an adder looking very dizzy indeed behind me. I don't think it had attacked me, rather that it had lifted its head at the wrong moment and got whopped.  I ran on. Chum, about 10 metres back, didn't notice it and his heel landed on its back. Exit adder, I should think.

Back in Oz I trod on snakes dozens of times.

Doesn't kill them. Takes a lot to kill a snake.

Chap I know in Budgewoi would likely take them home and give them a nice cup of tea.  He keeps a python called Wallace in his living room.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Pingu on 04 May, 2023, 05:04:43 pm
If you ignore the 1st 3 lines, the 4th might be useful.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51326516564_27bd95f699.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mcxPbL)

But not quite so sensible given that I came across this beastie on the beach mentioned on the sign.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52868530070_33903e074b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oxP35w)

Heh - reminds me of:

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/3/2765/4330100769_dbdf0dab2e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P)
IMG_0162 (https://flic.kr/p/7ACU6P) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

Never seen an adder there, thobut.
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 31 May, 2023, 06:37:53 pm
(https://images2.imgbox.com/96/ba/ehWZAqIU_o.jpg)

a useful sticker !
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: meddyg on 13 August, 2023, 12:28:34 pm
Hire a bike at Cardiff Bay barrage & rehydrate your dog en passant !


(https://images2.imgbox.com/14/47/zoKc5cUw_o.jpg)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Mr Larrington on 22 September, 2023, 03:43:12 am
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53204432721_0b8f1629ce_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2p4uCex)
House next door to Kurt Cobain Park, Aberdeen WA (https://flic.kr/p/2p4uCex) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 22 October, 2023, 09:18:05 pm
From an Audax Twitter post
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F9EUxIMXcAEi2RC?format=jpg&name=large)
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 October, 2023, 02:14:27 pm
Near Monmouth?
Title: Re: Sensible Signs
Post by: hellymedic on 23 October, 2023, 03:38:32 pm
Chepstow Cycling Club's Borders & Castles ride I think, so probably.