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Mrs Pingu

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1500 on: 22 September, 2019, 07:38:56 pm »
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1501 on: 22 September, 2019, 11:23:07 pm »
There's an upside-down speed camera sign on the A435.  I found it strangely discombobulating.

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1502 on: 29 September, 2019, 05:34:46 pm »


Silliness ensured by the absence of a box of tissues, a nearby bin or indeed a sink.

Blodwyn Pig

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1503 on: 01 October, 2019, 03:53:29 pm »
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hellymedic

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1504 on: 02 October, 2019, 12:14:37 am »
There's a badly-named business thread elsewhere on yacf...

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1505 on: 02 October, 2019, 07:22:59 am »
But but but this isn't a badly-named business
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Pingu

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1506 on: 26 January, 2020, 07:06:11 pm »

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ian

Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1507 on: 27 January, 2020, 09:41:20 am »
A colleague and I arrived in Joburg once and the driver at the airport was holding a sign aloft that said EMMA PENIS (for her actual surname, think 'the menace.')

Obviously thereafter she was called Ms Penis (pronounced Pen-iss).

Bluebottle

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1508 on: 03 February, 2020, 10:38:25 pm »
That name would be especially unfortunate in Dundee where the local accent lends new meanings to the foreskinname. "Ehm a" being the local lingo for "I am a" We had a kid at our school called Emma Goodfellow. When her name was read out at registration, there was oft the response, "Eh. So um eh".

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1509 on: 10 February, 2020, 12:06:29 am »
Didn't have time for a photo, but an official looking "Do not leave horse manure here" sign on a roadside electrical cabinet with Severn Trent Water branding and contact details.

I assume there's a story to that oddly-specific instruction.  Presumably involving somebody (who?  why???) using the adjoining concrete platform as a convenient (?) place to store manure, to the frustration of some long-suffering engineers who required access to the water-related infrastructure beneath.

ETA: Found it.  No sign, but possible evidence of poo on the concrete?  It's a sewage pumping station, ironically.

Feanor

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1510 on: 16 April, 2020, 10:41:08 pm »

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1511 on: 16 April, 2020, 11:27:35 pm »
A large banner declaring wasps to be unwelcome in $postcode.



Seems like a Hippy Rimmer approach to pest control   ???


meddyg

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1512 on: 07 June, 2020, 09:52:55 pm »

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1513 on: 08 June, 2020, 02:17:36 pm »
Beware of Danny MacAskill.


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It's just occurred to me, pingu, that the list time I saw you on a bike* you were performing that very manoeuvre, having hit some Schienen.

* You later waved to us from the back of Lars' and Monica's car.
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meddyg

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1514 on: 08 June, 2020, 06:05:16 pm »


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Pingu

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1515 on: 08 June, 2020, 10:08:40 pm »
Beware of Danny MacAskill.


IMG_3355_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

It's just occurred to me, pingu, that the list time I saw you on a bike* you were performing that very manoeuvre, having hit some Schienen.

* You later waved to us from the back of Lars' and Monica's car.

Arf  :) Almost 10 years ago  :-[

meddyg

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1516 on: 14 June, 2020, 09:03:59 pm »




Harsh but fair, I should say....

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1517 on: 15 June, 2020, 03:03:06 pm »
Mildly disappointed that it doesn't use the word polizeilich.  At no time in German history has it every been suggested that this translates to "politely".
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Auntie Helen

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1518 on: 15 June, 2020, 03:36:07 pm »
Private land so I don’t know what the Polizei could actually do!

Saw another no drone sign today in Berlin.  Seems it is a thing in Germany.
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1519 on: 15 June, 2020, 08:14:37 pm »
Saw a sign earlier as I rode into Ripe.

A bike symbol with "Quiet please, this is a residential area" underneath.


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Davef

Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1520 on: 15 June, 2020, 09:39:36 pm »
I think they were looking for the word “prosecuted” rather than “persecuted”.

According to the online dictionary persecute is to subject someone to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.


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meddyg

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1521 on: 19 June, 2020, 08:07:18 am »
Turns out that the word 'verfolgen' translates both 'prosecute' and 'persecute' in German.
- So they might have difficulty with this nuance - depends who you get to do your signwriting.

'Folgen' would be 'follow'
'verfolgen' pursue, trace, track
'strafrechtlich verfolgen' - to pursue with punishment in mind


so not just another bad Google translate !

Auntie Helen

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1522 on: 12 July, 2020, 12:10:03 pm »
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Davef

Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1523 on: 12 July, 2020, 04:34:25 pm »
Probably already been posted but made me laugh


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Davef

Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1524 on: 12 July, 2020, 04:39:18 pm »



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