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Racing back home yesterday, I came across a very odd sign, near Tring. It's on a perfectly ordinary road -
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/FlyingDodo/DSCF0007.jpg)
but when you get closer, you can see the police have their very own reserved lay-by!
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/FlyingDodo/DSCF0008.jpg)
I can't see why. There's no donut concession nearby, no hordes of hoodie clad hooligans hanging around. Very strange.
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It's an exclusive police dogging spot.
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Doesn't look very well used ;D
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There's 2 or 3 of these around Stratford-upon-Avon ... they're for the Camera Gestapo to park up the white van with the window in the back door and catch the errant motorists (there's probably some white paint marks on the road within line of sight for the camera settings)
Rob
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(http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/fail-owned-bike-fail.jpg)
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Saw this one at work. Crap picture, but you get the idea.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/2775223691_4c52f9667c.jpg)
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Slightly immature, but still funny. This is the emergency handle on a train.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/2786723048_99c3dca287.jpg)
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There's 2 or 3 of these around Stratford-upon-Avon ... they're for the Camera Gestapo to park up the white van with the window in the back door and catch the errant motorists (there's probably some white paint marks on the road within line of sight for the camera settings)
Rob
If there are no speed camera markings nearby, it could be a standby point for incidents at a nearby location?
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Slightly immature, but still funny. This is the emergency handle on a train.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3200/2786723048_63b9b5fda8.jpg?v=0)
You found it! Nice one.
;D ;D
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Saw this one at work. Crap picture, but you get the idea.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/2775223691_4c52f9667c.jpg)
Nothing wrong with touching men ;D
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That depends on your... bent. :sick:
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You don't want to get a visit from the fairy down this road!
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p23/chris415700/acfpics/IMG_0238.jpg)
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(http://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/1619-2/DSC01183.jpg)
My favourite on the Gainsborough Express (a line from Marks Tey to Sudbury). Photographed about 2 years ago.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/endoftheroad.jpg)
Not funny?
OK how about this then?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/TunnelRide2008007.jpg)
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Clicky (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4470516.stm). Some of these are clearly the product of an insane genius.
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(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41057000/jpg/_41057394_monkey.jpg)
I'm sure that this has, in fact, happened to me ;D
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Was this in the same room where you found your knickers lying on the floor later in the day?
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Ah yes. The filing room incident. We don't talk about that...
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Ah yes. The filing room incident. We don't talk about that...
The filing room incident! Didn't that incident involve the loss of a pair of knickers?
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::-)
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(http://www.bream.org/pics/towpath.jpg)
Gagh!
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v424/JezzaD/dsc00415.jpg)
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not silly, more annoyingly careless:
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/IMAGE_00011.jpg)
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/IMAGE_00018.jpg)
and one *great* sign in New York:
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/MRT_5807-01Medium.jpg)
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Well, Hastings and St Leonards, you've only yourselves to blame.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4126/5026538663_d86dd14387.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/5026538663/)
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2548/4001774725_b9937b9865_m.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/4002297890_82978baa55.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3926543783_fb4f9cacd6.jpg)
???
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2765/4330100769_dbdf0dab2e.jpg)
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2765/4330100769_dbdf0dab2e.jpg)
Ahhh. That's the sign on the Lecht road! I was way past it before I realised that it would be a really funny* desktop photo for me at work.
* That's maths teacher humour, which may not be universal. ::-)
Mind if I steal it? O:-)
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Ahhh. That's the sign on the Lecht road! I was way past it before I realised that it would be a really funny* desktop photo for me at work.
* That's maths teacher humour, which may not be universal. ::-)
Mind if I steal it? O:-)
Do adders need to use logarithms before they can multiply?
IGMC.
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3926543783_fb4f9cacd6.jpg)
This is a military sign in Germany at a bridge.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse)
The first one is for vehicles with wheels, the second for vehicles with caterpillar tracks.
Two vehicles of class 24 are allowed to cross the bridge together, and only one at a time of category 70 on wheels and one of category 50 with tracks.
Apparently it was prescribed by NATO during the cold war.
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Those military signs are used in Poland too. They even give examples in the HC! Presumably they have been introduced since joining NATO - or maybe they are a different version left over from the Warsaw Pact?
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2548/4001774725_b9937b9865_m.jpg)
Is that in NZ?
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No picture unfortunately but right at the top of the M1 north bound there is a sign saying "No services on the M1" ........ it's about 100 yards before then end of the M1. Possibly one of the worlds more pointless signs.
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Somewhere in the USA:
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/gordon1314/prisonsign.jpg)
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3926543783_fb4f9cacd6.jpg)
This is a military sign in Germany at a bridge.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse
The first one is for vehicles with wheels, the second for vehicles with caterpillar tracks.
Two vehicles of class 24 are allowed to cross the bridge together, and only one at a time of category 70 on wheels and one of category 50 with tracks.
Apparently it was prescribed by NATO during the cold war.
I thought the numbers were the weight (in tonnes) ie two 24 tonne wheeled vehicles or one 70 tonne wheeled vehicle etc.
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I like the vague signs that you get on major roads, always in capitals:
THE NORTH
THE SOUTH
The best one is coming off the M18 onto the A1(M) where you have the ultimate binary navigational choice on one sign.
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I like the vague signs that you get on major roads, always in capitals:
THE NORTH
THE SOUTH
The best one is coming off the M18 onto the A1(M) where you have the ultimate binary navigational choice on one sign.
The same, but different -
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/269962507_3ec294d997.jpg)
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An array from Namibia
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/namibiasignsjpeg.jpg)
and a much more specific, very large, one ;)
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/capricorn.jpg)
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3926543783_fb4f9cacd6.jpg)
This is a military sign in Germany at a bridge.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse
The first one is for vehicles with wheels, the second for vehicles with caterpillar tracks.
Two vehicles of class 24 are allowed to cross the bridge together, and only one at a time of category 70 on wheels and one of category 50 with tracks.
Apparently it was prescribed by NATO during the cold war.
I thought the numbers were the weight (in tonnes) ie two 24 tonne wheeled vehicles or one 70 tonne wheeled vehicle etc.
It's could be speed limits in KMH for vehicles crossing one or two up.
A tank is closer to 60 tonne.
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(http://www.loupiote.com/photos_m/3742299810-don-t-gossip-let-him-drive-misogynist-road-sign-leh-srinagar-ladakh-india.jpg)
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An array from Nambia
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/namibiasignsjpeg.jpg)
I like them! It makes me wonder, what action should you take to avoid warthog-collision that would not also be appropriate in the possibility of zebra-impact?
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3926543783_fb4f9cacd6.jpg)
This is a military sign in Germany at a bridge.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse
The first one is for vehicles with wheels, the second for vehicles with caterpillar tracks.
Two vehicles of class 24 are allowed to cross the bridge together, and only one at a time of category 70 on wheels and one of category 50 with tracks.
Apparently it was prescribed by NATO during the cold war.
I thought the numbers were the weight (in tonnes) ie two 24 tonne wheeled vehicles or one 70 tonne wheeled vehicle etc.
It's could be speed limits in KMH for vehicles crossing one or two up.
A tank is closer to 60 tonne.
Not all tracked vehicles are tanks. Incidentally, I wasn't guessing, from memory I'm pretty sure it is weight, and not speed.
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3926543783_fb4f9cacd6.jpg)
This is a military sign in Germany at a bridge.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse
The first one is for vehicles with wheels, the second for vehicles with caterpillar tracks.
Two vehicles of class 24 are allowed to cross the bridge together, and only one at a time of category 70 on wheels and one of category 50 with tracks.
Apparently it was prescribed by NATO during the cold war.
I thought the numbers were the weight (in tonnes) ie two 24 tonne wheeled vehicles or one 70 tonne wheeled vehicle etc.
It's could be speed limits in KMH for vehicles crossing one or two up.
A tank is closer to 60 tonne.
Not all tracked vehicles are tanks. Incidentally, I wasn't guessing, from memory I'm pretty sure it is weight, and not speed.
It's not speed. It's class, determined by weight.
e.g.
Klasse Gleiskettenfahrzeuge Radfahrzeuge
(Class) (Tracked Vehicles) (Wheeled Vehicles)
40 36,3 t 42,6 t
50 45,4 t 52,6 t
80 72,6 t 83,5 t
100 90,7 t 104,3 t
120 108,9 t 125,2 t[/tt]
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/ClipartEtc/family_planning_advice_sign_use_rea.jpg)
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It's not speed. It's class, determined by weight.
e.g.
Klasse Gleiskettenfahrzeuge Radfahrzeuge
(Class) (Tracked Vehicles) (Wheeled Vehicles)
40 36,3 t 42,6 t
50 45,4 t 52,6 t
80 72,6 t 83,5 t
100 90,7 t 104,3 t
120 108,9 t 125,2 t
Ah, so whilst it's not actually the weight, it does appear to fairly closely correlate with that. You've done better than me, I've been hunting around through NATO documents, and utterly failing to find anything usefull!
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(http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s129/vglewis/YACF/IMG_2719.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/ClipartEtc/WARNING.jpg)
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^^^ Brilliant
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LOL. :thumbsup:
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Ahhh. That's the sign on the Lecht road! I was way past it before I realised that it would be a really funny* desktop photo for me at work.
* That's maths teacher humour, which may not be universal. ::-)
Mind if I steal it? O:-)
Yeah, on you go, it's not like it's not there all the time :)
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Those military signs are used in Poland too. They even give examples in the HC! Presumably they have been introduced since joining NATO - or maybe they are a different version left over from the Warsaw Pact?
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2548/4001774725_b9937b9865_m.jpg)
Is that in NZ?
Yes, Te Araroa
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Thanks, funny how little things like the style of street signs remain distinctive after over ten years since I was there (didn't think my memory was that good!)
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(http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/Leftpondia/Holibobs2003/images/77_No_Relation.jpg)
Near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
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It's not speed. It's class, determined by weight.
e.g.
Klasse Gleiskettenfahrzeuge Radfahrzeuge
(Class) (Tracked Vehicles) (Wheeled Vehicles)
40 36,3 t 42,6 t
50 45,4 t 52,6 t
80 72,6 t 83,5 t
100 90,7 t 104,3 t
120 108,9 t 125,2 t[/tt]
The 'class' figure is a weight in those stupid 907kg Leftpondian so-called tons. The tracked vehicles figure is the same weight in real measures.
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3926543783_fb4f9cacd6.jpg)
This is a military sign in Germany at a bridge.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse)
The first one is for vehicles with wheels, the second for vehicles with caterpillar tracks.
Two vehicles of class 24 are allowed to cross the bridge together, and only one at a time of category 70 on wheels and one of category 50 with tracks.
Apparently it was prescribed by NATO during the cold war.
Beware of low-flying tanks 'n' trucks, innit?
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This is a silly sign thread :smug:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4144/5002536680_5041b1b41c_z.jpg)
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The classic:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4330068395_49d2d81ebe_z.jpg)
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And of course:
(http://www.dallyvalley.com/thumb/twatt.jpg)
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(http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/26/59/265977_da2fc4a4.jpg)
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(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_2D7cNlO04aw/SdHP6m36sqI/AAAAAAAAAZ8/5PJ37znnw74/s400/sign3.jpg)
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5036742081_4508816405.jpg)
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What's silly about Kempten Nesselwang? Is it like Numberwang?
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Das ist nicht Kempten Nesselwang.
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3457/3926543783_fb4f9cacd6.jpg)
This is a military sign in Germany at a bridge.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militärische_Lastenklasse)
The first one is for vehicles with wheels, the second for vehicles with caterpillar tracks.
Two vehicles of class 24 are allowed to cross the bridge together, and only one at a time of category 70 on wheels and one of category 50 with tracks.
Apparently it was prescribed by NATO during the cold war.
Beware of low-flying tanks 'n' trucks, innit?
Poland 50 miles?
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Poland 50 miles?
Warsaw and back on one tank?
No scarf and I didn't have a hat, either . . .
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(http://thejetpacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/fucking-austria.jpg)
(http://www.masalatime.com/img/83051.jpg)
(http://www.masalatime.com/img/83055.jpg)
(http://www.masalatime.com/img/83057.jpg)
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(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p51/jmfangio5/secretnuclearbunker.jpg)
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(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c22/gordon1314/skive.jpg)
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(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p23/chris415700/aukpics/P7220021.jpg)
(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p23/chris415700/aukpics/PICT3559.jpg)
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somewhere for long distance Audax riders to visit
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3116/2913388634_283d581b5a_z.jpg)
Need something to help you grow stuff?
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2471/4047122647_ddbfe8a830_z.jpg)
Someone has to stop these people.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3608/3335275677_d151d25a07_z.jpg)
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Skiing restricted...
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/5087533578_14cfa674cf.jpg)
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(http://i56.tinypic.com/ndx5rd.jpg)
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5175337880_042ea542cc.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_fulford/5175337880/)
Yeah! Right! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_fulford/5175337880/) by paulfulford (http://www.flickr.com/people/paul_fulford/), on Flickr
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This one didn't last long before Bristol council took it down:
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i269/andys_photos/_46712179_timbuktu.jpg)
See also the Sign of the Times powerpoints here (http://www.public.navy.mil/navsafecen/Pages/presentations/humor_pres.aspx). Despite the website name these are not necessarily naval or safety-related.
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(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/temp/P1010747.jpg)
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Here's my collection of silly-ish signs (click for larger version):
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/2564465751_1222b89cb2_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/manicstreetpreacher/2564465751/)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/233/458211807_8aa8bee671_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/manicstreetpreacher/458211807/)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/439883717_9d05d59870_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/manicstreetpreacher/439883717/)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/423591679_7e1ea421a2_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/manicstreetpreacher/423591679/)
And just down the down the road from Lord Hereford's Knob:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4688812244_0a799ee06f_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/manicstreetpreacher/4688812244/)
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(http://www.legslarry.org.uk/Signs/sign15.jpg)
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That's not strictly speaking a silly sign. More like sensible safety advice, if you ask me.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/ClipartEtc/sign.jpg)
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LOL!!!
;D ;D ;D ;D
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We use and heartily endorse this product (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4470516.stm)
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Not really silly, more bloody good!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/ClipartEtc/TrafficPoster.jpg)
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I was discussing that one with Speshact on Saturday. I saw one at Vauxhall as well, on Friday.
It's an old cycle campaign slogan, but they've given it a negative twist, suggesting that you can use satnav to break free from the traffic (thus externalising it again), and access the (implied) open roads shown in car adverts.
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I saw that one painted on an autobahn bridge1 near Frankfurt about ten years ago.
1 - In German, obv.
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What is it in German, btw?
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Probably about three paragraphs. With a verb at the end. ;D
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What is it in German, btw?
It was something like "Du sitzt nicht im Stau, du bist Stau" but my memory-branes my not be entirely accurate on this.
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I've seen that one a few times recently, and I always think:
You are not traffic.
Traffic moves.
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Not a sign you see every day! and I wonder what happens if you do
http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/pic/?o=RrzKj&pic_id=802024&v=0&size=large
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They explode of course!
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(http://tinyurl.com/2vkm7af)
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This one is not Silly, but still made me fell all happy:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/4975537098_44c8dab20e_z.jpg)
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2541/3758118631_a552950334_z.jpg)
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3448/3731748851_73f46c8893.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/3731748851/)
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(http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f130/PaulRide/onions.jpg)
At Chelsea Physic Garden. Do the mean "fewer common vegetables" perhaps?
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(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5309/5650619161_ed6b7d667d_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/5650619161/)
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/5650619161/)
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On my ride home from the Not A Royal Wedding Camping Weekend, there were a couple of times I wondered if I was taking the most direct route:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5023/5686608832_ec5f00c862.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/5686608832/)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5181/5686611450_731f47a6f1.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/5686611450/)
or that I'd wandered into some alternative reality:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5283/5686049147_3faf00def7.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/5686049147/)
The name's origin goes back to the use of the word for the children's game, nowadays spelt tiddlywinks, as rhyming slang for "drinks". The word evolved into slang for a small beershop, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Thus Tiddleywink got its name from a cottage in the hamlet that once served beer to passing cattle drovers.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5270/5686046261_d9f46f6b7d.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/5686046261/)
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I was tempted to do a ride through Maryland and Pennsylvania (it wouldn't have been far), but there were arrows on the map persuading me not to. ;D
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By a car park in Bembridge:
"Private Parking
Houseboats only"
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Pay close attention to the toilet pan:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3094/3246728583_057f873419.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravenbait/3246728583/)
Stick toilet in peril! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravenbait/3246728583/) by Ravenbait (http://www.flickr.com/people/ravenbait/), on Flickr
WTF?
Sam
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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_eT0LQ33VtbE/TcAJRMnc25I/AAAAAAAAAMI/QVdWCt7NK-w/s512/DSCF1299.jpg)
Cardiff Bay wrestles with its Condor problem
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Elenith riders may have spotted this on the A44 on the way from Rhyader:
(http://www.project-training-course.wanadoo.co.uk/llandegley-airport-2.jpg)
You can learn quite a bit about the history of Llandegley International by putting "Llandegley International Airport" into a search engine such as Google.
:)
http://www.llandegleyinternational.com/
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Not my picture, but:
Norwegian speed bump sign (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fkmr/48131497/)
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Taken in Tasmania in February. Were it not for the apostrophe fail...
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_Ua9XvuIKzVk/TYFAlQM1QmI/AAAAAAAADDE/Tdpw_cugLl4/s720/D7K_2668.JPG)
::-)
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(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/temp/IMG_0248.jpg)
in sunny Cincinnati. Quite mad, tried to convince me he was Osamas cousin.
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Are you sure that's not Wowbagger?
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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_eT0LQ33VtbE/TcAJRMnc25I/AAAAAAAAAMI/QVdWCt7NK-w/s512/DSCF1299.jpg)
Cardiff Bay wrestles with its Condor problem
Red Kite Feeding has taken off. Google Images (http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.information-britain.co.uk/showpic.php%3Fplaceid%3D1220%26width%3D250&imgrefurl=http://www.information-britain.co.uk/showPlace.cfm%3FPlace_ID%3D1220&usg=__oSvT6O3oiRghx35USTXG62KAoeA=&h=304&w=250&sz=8&hl=en&start=2&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=p3utiN5DKJD9IM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=95&prev=/search%3Fq%3DRed%2BKite%2BFeeding%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1074%26bih%3D639%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&ei=YILGTZPEMtSr8QOryMj1Bw)
They also frequent rubbish dumps, it's bad enough when Herring Gulls think they can nick your chips without encouraging Buzzards and Kites.
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I'm Shure They Do.
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(http://www.weblogr.de/localola/wp-content/fail-owned-school-sign-fail.jpg)
;D ;D ;D
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2067/5706008783_074e6c60ab_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7832028@N02/5706008783/)
Gaol Ferry Brdg City side (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7832028@N02/5706008783/) by Cudzoziemiec (http://www.flickr.com/people/7832028@N02/), on Flickr
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2528/5706008833_79674e9247_m.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7832028@N02/5706008833/)
Gaol Ferry Brdg S (http://www.flickr.com/photos/7832028@N02/5706008833/) by Cudzoziemiec (http://www.flickr.com/people/7832028@N02/), on Flickr
Guerrilla knitting.
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There's a sign in Bushy Park , Teddington telling you that 'Barbecue's and Fires are not allowed'.
They could at least be consistant
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is this silly? - My workplace yesterday.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_eT0LQ33VtbE/Tczm1XZGWaI/AAAAAAAAAQE/yBPmGoYxzCI/s512/2011-05-12%2012.15.13.jpg)
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Riding of Cycles Prohibited, inside a lift!
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2598/5747025239_83684661ab_o.jpg)
Coventry Station yesterday. Lousy phone picture, sorry!
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Riding of Cycles Prohibited, inside a lift!
Now that's a challenge. If only I knew someone who had a bike with exceptionally small wheels... :D
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Does a trackstand count as riding?
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Does a trackstand count as riding?
I suppose it would. It was a big lift. I must confess I've really never considered riding inside a lift but seeing that sign might give me ideas...
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My nephew is rather skilled on a unicycle...
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My nephew is rather skilled on a unicycle...
Send him to Coventry?!?
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Seen whilst on holiday in St. Ives some years ago
(http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j462/GHuggy/BeerFestivalsmall.jpg)
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Beware of parachuting cows:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/5751637786_dc9d802985.jpg) (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/5751637786_9f249bda2b_o.jpg)
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I wasn't sure where to put this sign from the NCN in Berwick. Possibly a contender for Greatest Cumulative Distance on a Roadsign. But one must query how both Edinburgh and Derby can be North from Berwick.
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5110/5752824442_062da382a5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/5752824442/)
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The sign on the right....
(http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p115/quisling_photos/bede92de.jpg)
Seen in a London pubbe toilet (I think it was the Ship and Shovell in Charing Cross)
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It would have to be a large bottle to get even a small pickled girl in it
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/5758440346_d6f0c06351_b.jpg)
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It would have to be a large bottle to get even a small pickled girl in it
Circus of Horrors seem to manage (http://www.middlesbrough.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/stream/image/?image_id=15277472)
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Snapped in Victoria Park, Newara Eliya, Sr Lanka, Dec 2007
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2228368265_5533a23bfe_z.jpg)
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The new sign for the 'Explore York' central library.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Sit8eY5eH6k/TeTYgGy7QNI/AAAAAAAAALo/WOEA4qrCZzI/s720/librarysign.JPG)
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Oh deare.
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To be fair to them, there is an 'E'. It's on another bench, about 15 feet away.
What really really makes my blood boil, is that the benches are where the disabled parking used to be. There is no longer any disabled parking adjacent to the York city centre.
The council (just voted out in the recent election) were a bunch of absolut morons.
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Snapped in Victoria Park, Newara Eliya, Sr Lanka, Dec 2007
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/2228368265_5533a23bfe_z.jpg)
"Behave decently" is a term for "no flirting". Another common sign, "Do not create nuisance" means do not urinate in public.
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Snapped in Victoria Park, Newara Eliya, Sr Lanka, Dec 2007
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"Behave decently" is a term for "no flirting". Another common sign, "Do not create nuisance" means do not urinate in public.
I'm now really worried over what "Plucking" Flowers means. ;D
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Sadly no photo of this, but I loved the sign I spotted in Chennai that read, "Smoking is injurious to the health." There is something about proper Indian English that is sufficiently idiosyncratic to make things all seem theeka. Of course, this polite reminder not to put yourself, or those around you, at risk from inhaling toxic fumes was placed in the central reservation of one of Chennai's busiest roads and I was able to read it as we had been stuck in traffic for half an hour. ::-)
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(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5317/5828551711_a724914538_z.jpg)
I had to make a picture of this at some point. I only come near Titz at brevets.
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A few from my China collection....
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2719/5859664049_f27dff54e4_b.jpg)
I love the bit on this one which says "The administrative offices of the park have the power to criticize and educate".
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5022/5859664195_49cb47d49f_b.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5116/5859664711_b353146740_b.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5183/5859664565_b32de22b0c_b.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5185/5859664431_46276b32b8_b.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/5860218228_0f8a520fd1_b.jpg)
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It must be a very big van to fit everything in
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5067/5759367671_eac9a12e52.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/manicstreetpreacher/5759367671/)
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At jnct CAKE!
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(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/4659053662_75608d8b0d_z.jpg)
Shenandoah Mountain, George Washington National Forest, Virginia
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4962207599_1bd3d81734_z.jpg)
Virginia Beach
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4962207599_1bd3d81734_z.jpg)
Virginia Beach
Right next door to the Fun House :o
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6068/6070776072_a4a64250a3.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/77272293@N00/6070776072/)
A mystery sign in the toilets at Heathrow Terminal 3. It's just a mystery sign by the mens and ladies toilet, but it doesn't lead anywhere. It has the broad shoulders of a man, rather than the slope of the ladies sign. It was situated next to a fire exit, but it wasn't directly above a door of any sort.
Anyone seen anything like it before?
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Perhaps it leads to a maintenance room for uni-wheeled service robots?
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A divine exit for a priest?
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Right next door to the Fun House :o
...and the rest of that building was our hotel! Creepy....
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(http://www.nuttycyclist.co.uk/cycling/photos/ncn71-small.jpg) (http://www.nuttycyclist.co.uk/cycling/farcilities-signs-sustrans.htm)
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Bangor IIRC?
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Sustrans NCN 71 in Cumbria.
Photo was clickied to original on my website.
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(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/nocensure/20110815_1603.jpg)
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(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2154/1805992347_a3f95d4aa9.jpg)
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Some responses to signs are quite silly too :D (http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2011/08/4e4b51b9c4397.jpg)
(http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2011/08/4e52d23d756eb.jpg)
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Snapped in Victoria Park, Newara Eliya, Sr Lanka, Dec 2007
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"Behave decently" is a term for "no flirting". Another common sign, "Do not create nuisance" means do not urinate in public.
I'm now really worried over what "Plucking" Flowers means. ;D
Given the rural surroundings - I think it is a spoonerism ;D
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Snapped in Victoria Park, Newara Eliya, Sr Lanka, Dec 2007
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"Behave decently" is a term for "no flirting". Another common sign, "Do not create nuisance" means do not urinate in public.
I'm now really worried over what "Plucking" Flowers means. ;D
Given the rural surroundings - I think it is a spoonerism ;D
As in 'Do not dig up this garden, berated tractorman'?
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Elenith riders may have spotted this on the A44 on the way from Rhyader:
(http://www.project-training-course.wanadoo.co.uk/llandegley-airport-2.jpg)
You can learn quite a bit about the history of Llandegley International by putting "Llandegley International Airport" into a search engine such as Google.
:)
http://www.llandegleyinternational.com/
Passed this today and made me chuckle, I was in a car though returning from a week in Wales. lots of cyclists around climbing those there hills.
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(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/FlyingDodo/IMG_0839.jpg)
Seen next to the air machine at the petrol station halfway down Reigate Hill.
You can just see 50p written in the gap, although in real life, it wasn't clear at all.
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(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/FlyingDodo/IMG_0836.jpg)
A local estate agent in Littlehampton!
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6194/6126291107_4d2f3c49ea.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/6126291107/)
Does anyone else find the smug triumphalist smile on the car rather inappropriate?
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6194/6126291107_4d2f3c49ea.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/6126291107/)
Does anyone else find the smug triumphalist smile on the car rather inappropriate?
snap!
Seen last week, on a French cycle path
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_9Ae_dGIUcWs/THL6300Eb0I/AAAAAAAAAng/uJTcmgOhixA/s720/IMG_2746.jpg)
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6152/6192683344_0780ec243e.jpg)
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Some of these have been seen before, but there are plenty of new ones here, too.
http://www.happyplace.com/4286/brilliantly-sarcastic-responses-to-completely-well-meaning-signs
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No photo but at my local Sainsburys when the self check out machine breaks down they put a sign on it saying "sorry for the convenience"
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I'm not sure if the person who put hte sign 'This toilet is out of order. Apologies for the inconvenience' was into bad puns or just missed it totally..
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http://www.happyplace.com/4286/brilliantly-sarcastic-responses-to-completely-well-meaning-signs
Like ^^^^
I am told that on the Col des Chandeliers in Niger there is a sign warning of "Piste dangereuse pour 200 km". To which has been added:
"Not if we can cycle it! Rog & Tony, 7/2/87"
They must have been BRITONS.
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Got this one from a friend of mine :
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/gus69/penissign.jpg)
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Gus, that is brilliant.
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Not so brilliantly 'shopped...
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True enough.
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Have we had this one?
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2508/3687988221_164d06058f_b.jpg)
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Or this?
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6012/5909075125_972425b13d_b.jpg)
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And . . . this?
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6058/5909076469_3c74ee34cf_b.jpg)
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And . . . . lastly
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6053/5909669092_b4784a0ce7_b.jpg)
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If . . . I may be permitted one more?
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5160/5909111583_1218808b2e_b.jpg)
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Am I boring you?
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5273/5909155469_80f7196519_b.jpg)
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OK. ONE last one - taken in Vatican City apparently
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5235/5909165635_29e7f7c0d9_b.jpg)
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Will remove any or all if they're old hat - and I just can't keep pace?
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And . . . this?
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6058/5909076469_3c74ee34cf_b.jpg)
This is obvious - "the strip of black brush material IS NOT for shining your shoes!"
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And . . . this?
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6058/5909076469_3c74ee34cf_b.jpg)
This is obvious - "the strip of black brush material IS NOT for shining your shoes!"
And if you do, the black lizard of death will surely pounce upon your back and administer swift justice.
I also notice that the shop to the right, espeically in the dog carrying sign is in danger of Godwinising this thread.
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I thought it was the Italian version of the British "no spitting on the bus", as in "no kicking on the escalator"
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/no_entry.jpg)
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some cambridge graffiti:
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/L1000542.jpg)
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On a hotel room safe (approx 16"x4"x12") "Danger of Suffocation"
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from Namibia
(http://www.bosphorus.f2s.com/capricorn.jpg)
I'm going to call SNAP on that one...
Namibia 2008, Mr & Mrs Feanor, with Junior 1&2 hanging off the sign.
(http://www.lowe-family.me.uk/Dsc_0020a.jpg)
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6035/6310663438_15841a2f10.jpg)
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6227/6312791067_9c389274ae_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6312791067/)
IMAG0260 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6312791067/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/56478000/jpg/_56478954_keepklear-firestation.jpg)
From BBC news (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-15595548).
Perfektly sensible spelling (though KLEER would have been even better). :smug:
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Is that Krusty the Klown's garage?
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7DKMiUOY4Gk/TrUEdr669kI/AAAAAAAAfcU/esW2k5KEXWw/s800/Photo0235.jpg)
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Precise - did you check it?
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Not as precise as this one :
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6319663006_462a7d9df5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/31828224@N05/6319663006/)
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Sadly cameras are prohibited at my workplace, but we have a whole set of height barriers over the roads marked with a maximum height of 5.3340m
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Why can't they just say 17' 6" (precisely). :facepalm:
Flip side of that coin might be the 38mph speed limit in Windsor Great Park (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859388).
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Not as precise as this one :
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6319663006_462a7d9df5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/31828224@N05/6319663006/)
The precision of the distance is the same.
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Many trucks in India have hand-painted signs saying they are restricted to 48km/h, clearly a conversion from 30mph. Wikipedia tells me that "India's conversion to the metric system occurred in stages between 1955 and 1962." The trucks weren't quite that old, that's for sure.
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Sadly cameras are prohibited at my workplace, but we have a whole set of height barriers over the roads marked with a maximum height of 5.3340m
You don't work at Sellafield, do you? ;)
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Sadly cameras are prohibited at my workplace, but we have a whole set of height barriers over the roads marked with a maximum height of 5.3340m
You don't work at Sellafield, do you? ;)
You might very well think that; I couldn't possibly comment. O:-)
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This is a sign on the bar at my local.
Me, from time to time, "Oh, you're still out of Quibbles?" "When do the new stocks of Quibbles arrive?" etc etc
<repeat until funny> :facepalm:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC00673.jpg)
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6227/6312791067_9c389274ae_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6312791067/)
IMAG0260 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6312791067/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Stavanger by any chance?
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Not as precise as this one :
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6319663006_462a7d9df5.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/31828224@N05/6319663006/)
The precision of the distance is the same.
Ah yes, but if you look closely, my sign has a little arrow that indicates the precise point from which to measure! :smug:
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I can see what they were going for here, I'm not sure the end result is quite what was envisioned though:
(http://i43.tinypic.com/28hh5j4.jpg)
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Passed a crane on my way in today 'James Jack, lifting specialists'. Nominative determinism
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I see those cranes frequently & I've never made the connection :-[
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6103/6331152993_8885facd0b_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6331152993/)
the best 1 km ın Deutschland? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6331152993/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6031/6332096412_f80b4a1732_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6332096412/)
anyone for fast food? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6332096412/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
Anyone?
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From Serbia (as was the previous one). I reckon thıs means: magicians operate in the area. Never trust magicians.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6059/6332096424_59714ae822_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6332096424/)
mysterious sign in Serbia (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6332096424/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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that last one is crying out for someone to put rabbit ears on it.
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From Serbia (as was the previous one). I reckon thıs means: magicians operate in the area. Never trust magicians.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6059/6332096424_59714ae822_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6332096424/)
Beware of Greeks bearing giftwrap.
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Shake your carpets here.
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Yay! Bogroll!
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(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6046/6357760161_c2cb230dba.jpg)
Taken from my Tardis.
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(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y179/Eversley/DSC_0139.jpg)
Issues with boundaries.
;D
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Anybody got a better photo of this one?
Top of A13 sliproad from M25. Cycle lane painted, Cycle Route sign, and on same pole "cyclists dismount" ::-) ::-) ::-)
Google Streetview (http://g.co/maps/xjkba)
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Seen near Cape Town (surprisingly enough).
(http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/FlyingDodo/Misc/DSCF0095.jpg)
Makes it seem as though the plants have been misbehaving, and are doing time.
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Many trucks in India have hand-painted signs saying they are restricted to 48km/h, clearly a conversion from 30mph. Wikipedia tells me that "India's conversion to the metric system occurred in stages between 1955 and 1962." The trucks weren't quite that old, that's for sure.
I remember the railway stations in Sri Lanka in the mid 1980s having signs with eerily precise metric altitude figures, given to the centimetre. Eerily precise until converted to Imperial measures, that is, in which they were rather round figures, often multiples of 10 feet. :facepalm:
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Mind you, I have in the fridge a bottle of milk labelled 2.272 litres. Ludicrous overprecision is a global phenomenon.
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Going through the Dartford crossing on Saturday, I noticed a sign on the toll booth that made me do a double take. I didn't get a picture myself but I tweeted Carlton Reid about it and it turns out someone has already sent him a picture of it...
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4123/4876099334_9d91af1658.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/carltonreid/4876099334/)
Dartford Crossing in Cloud Cuckoo Land has 'Road Fund Tax'. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/carltonreid/4876099334/) by carltonreid (http://www.flickr.com/people/carltonreid/), on Flickr
:facepalm:
d.
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Yeah, everyone knows its proper name is the Motor Car Exercise Licence Duty!
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Not a sign, but funny none the less....
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-1qh68huz5Hs/TuakVB6I26I/AAAAAAAAE9U/z3O8o9iJf_U/s687/when-internet-is-down.jpeg)
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Not a silly sign as such, but an odd name
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/P1010312.jpg)
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No photo as I am driving when I pass it. At the top of the M1 extension to the A1 going north there is a sign that says "no services on M1". It is positioned approximately 500 yards from the end of the M1. Why they felt they needed to tell everyone there were no service in the next 500 yards I have no idea.
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(http://www.sawstonfreechurch.org.uk/lejog/oopsday12.jpg)
Somewhere in Scotland on Bruce's LEJOG ride (http://www.sawstonfreechurch.org.uk/lejog/leblog.htm).
I came across that stretch in June - we just cycled through the road works, dodging the bulldozers!
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(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/mikes99mail/L1003594.jpg)
that's deliberate, isnt it?
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(http://www.lovebryan.com/friends/brunt/data/upimages/beach6_pickle.jpg)
I don't think they know their onions.
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It's not an olive, it's not that old, is the landscape flat?
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somewhere just past the peidmont region there is a town called mount olive. it is shockingly flat and no one there seemed to mention olives. it is, however, the pickle capitol of the country.
It is in the USA - North Carolina - so I guess that counts as fairly old by their standards. Almost.
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Well, gee, that's helpful:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0163.jpg)
fwiw, the cycle parking is hidden round the corner from the entrance with no signage.
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Is that metal thing visible on the r/h edge of the photo a cycle parking stand or some kind of fence? Perhaps a fence designed to facilitate access for wheelchairs, prams, etc, in some incredibly cunning way?
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It is a cycle parking stand. Somewhat like a tall Sheffield with a diagonal bracing for some reason.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/002.jpg)
Not such a silly sign, you might think. Just the name of a road. Till you see all the houses on that road:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/003.jpg)
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You could tease SimonL with that street sign, maybe even get him to divert a ride down that road. ;D
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Since it's near Crystal Palace, I don't think anyone's legs would thank me if I did ;D
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The etymology of bungalow is actually from "bangla" it literally means "a house in Bengali style" rather than a one-floored house. So it could be argued that street name was appropriate if there were houses like that in turn-of-the-century Calcutta. But somehow I doubt there were. :)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/003.jpg)
Chain's a bit slack ;D
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The etymology of bungalow is actually from "bangla" it literally means "a house in Bengali style" rather than a one-floored house. So it could be argued that street name was appropriate if there were houses like that in turn-of-the-century Calcutta. But somehow I doubt there were. :)
And I thought it was because the builders " bung a low" roof on the house....
IGMC
Q
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Indeed so, M le Maire. Very badly worn. Tis now replaced with a twangy new one.
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Not a conventionally silly sign, but this (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=crown+inn+uley&ll=51.6861,-2.301636&spn=0.014527,0.042272&client=opera&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest&hq=crown+inn&hnear=Uley,+Gloucestershire,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=15&vpsrc=0&layer=c&cbll=51.686154,-2.301407&panoid=xKXeDdauEf7yMXejp9DBbA&cbp=12,40.9,,0,0) made me laugh when I saw it this afternoon. Perhaps because for some reason I misread it (willful delusion?) as downhill.
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I didn't see it, but nabbed it off a friend...
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6704103283_aa30cee328.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/6704103283/)
393656_327147453965114_100000095860986_1274306_1463006830_n (http://www.flickr.com/photos/65398243@N06/6704103283/) by Chrisando74 (http://www.flickr.com/people/65398243@N06/), on Flickr
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6714921861_35433a7189_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6714921861/)
Persian Gulf ahoy! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6714921861/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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A couple from Dubai. In the first one, I have no idea what the two at top and middle right mean.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7014/6715277863_93330ac1e9_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6715277863/)
the rules for the pedestrian underpass (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6715277863/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6715277837_801a13e078_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6715277837/)
the rules of Dubai Beach (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6715277837/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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A couple from Dubai. In the first one, I have no idea what the two at top and middle right mean.
No dematerialization transporters; no jetpacks and no skeleton lugeing.
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No shitting while standing up?
No lurking under the bleachers.
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I would have thought the second one was some sort of anti-audax sign, to go in bus shelters. No sitting down for a rest, and no sleeping allowed.
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No cheating at Twister.
No Psychiatrist consultations.
:)
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Although its there for good intention :facepalm:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7011/6726669593_55ba7cb199_z.jpg)
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At the Curborough Craft Centre cafe
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0175.jpg)
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Good to see they're okay with spork-wielding bent lowlifes, though. :thumbsup:
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Between us, I think we broke all of those. ::-)
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Who was slapping & tickling the wenches then??
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Don't know.I was first to leave.Seems like I should have stayed longer.
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Actually quite a sensible sign in the cafe at lunchtime. Sorry I couldn't get any closer for a shot.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0190.jpg)
Apparently, some customers have taken offence ;D
Personally, I think we need one on the door of the forum.
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(http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm63/rower40/Temporary/IMAG0020.jpg)
Or should we have a separate thread for over-size/inappropriate computer error messages in public places?
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Best malfunction I ever saw was years ago at a station. The ticket machine (running NT) had blue screened and the punter was trying to understand the instructions....
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Or should we have a separate thread for over-size/inappropriate computer error messages in public places?
Good call. I have a photo somewhere of an entire shop front filled by a projected BSOD...
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I once spent an entire transatlantic flight looking at a flickering Red Hat boot menu where the inflight entertainment was meant to be.
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7009/6824956089_84c9e04e33.jpg)
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(http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm63/rower40/Temporary/IMAG0020.jpg)
Or should we have a separate thread for over-size/inappropriate computer error messages in public places?
Good the see that platform 3/4 does exist.
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Good the see that platform 3/4 does exist.
Good point. This sign had platform 3 on the right, and platform 4 on the left.
Platform codes are 3-character ASCII. So "3/4" is legit, but "9 3/4" is not. Letters are often appended to the platform numbers, not only to indicate which end of the platform is being referred to, but sometimes for other purposes. E.g. platform "11X" at York means "Come in to platform 11 on a warner route, so that the full 180m overlap beyond the exit signal is not available". Platform "17F" at Edinburgh means "17-Front" - i.e. there's another train waiting on the buffer stops, and the incoming train is double-docking on top.
One very-commonly-used platform code at *almost* every station is "BUS".
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It's platform 3\4 </pedant>
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7186/6857322711_8fae30e9d4_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/6857322711/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/6857322711/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
No, I've no idea either.
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blocked sewer pipe ahead ??? :)
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7207/6864284041_75941b4f7c_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/6864284041/)
Colourblind (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/6864284041/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
The last word is correct. The other two are hopelessly wrong.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-16983788
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Pushkar.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7047/6908479839_4d600e5d2d_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6908479839/)
notice in Pushkar (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6908479839/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6908509377_fc0982b9a8_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6908509377/)
Kakelaw, Rajasthan (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6908509377/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7038/6908547579_4a1d74757f_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6908547579/)
Indian advertising (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6908547579/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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...and the last one for now:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7201/6908588525_a0a88c95be_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6908588525/)
for those who are lost... (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6908588525/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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Maybe a lump hammer for a visit to the ad agency?
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-jEqbwV5yz00/T0q3X9fYHGI/AAAAAAAAAx4/BpxRMSlQn2U/s640/Photo0139.jpg)
stuck to a hand dryer in Ulverston Coronation Hall. Any ideas?
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Something to do with Valiant?
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Something to do with Valiant?
I almost put it in "I saw this and thought of you" :)
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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=158921210828133&set=a.148776941842560.38635.100001307660367&type=3&theater
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no piccy
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no piccy
+1
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It's a sign...
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Seen on the way home today: -
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-FOH9Z2Y5W_Q/T2Dq9oYBdlI/AAAAAAAAA24/h7bXhM7hyoc/s512/DSCF1056.JPG)
So you advertise that the van is limited to a speed faster than it's allowed to go on any UK road :facepalm:
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I once spent an entire transatlantic flight looking at a flickering Red Hat boot menu where the inflight entertainment was meant to be.
Air New Zealand's Boeing 777-200ER's run Windows CE (!) on theirs (this was 10 days ago...). Had to reboot the inflight entertainment screens 3 times and they still didn't work. We got given better seats for the second leg of the trip back from Auckland to Heathrow... 13 hrs looking at a stuck reboot screen isn't exciting.
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I once spent an entire transatlantic flight looking at a flickering Red Hat boot menu where the inflight entertainment was meant to be.
Air New Zealand's Boeing 777-200ER's run Windows CE (!) on theirs (this was 10 days ago...). Had to reboot the inflight entertainment screens 3 times and they still didn't work. We got given better seats for the second leg of the trip back from Auckland to Heathrow... 13 hrs looking at a stuck reboot screen isn't exciting.
Probably runs on old Playstation hardware. The later versions used Windows CE
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0328.jpg)
I misread this one slightly.
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As "whose boxes" no doubt. :)
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Didn't really know where to put this.... Classified tips? But a recession special needs wider currency.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-dbmpBZ8EKxQ/T2ZXZIx1DSI/AAAAAAAAgSw/Au3V9Dtl1LY/s640/S0180525.jpg)
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Wouldn't those rusty boobs be a bit scratchy?
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0328.jpg)
I misread this one slightly.
Oddly enough I saw one of them on Saturday (obviously not the same one you saw) and mis-read it too....
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-16983788
Not silly at all. I've seen the results of someone used to squat toilets getting confused by a sit-down crapper. Not nice. :sick:
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Indeed - a university not far from here with a large number of middle-eastern students now installs both types of toilet.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/textingsign.jpg)
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This one is quite a boast.. On the door of one of the other rooms of the hotel at which I am currently a resident.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7049/6874595730_b48e168cf4_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/6874595730/)
Curious sign on a hotel room door (http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/6874595730/) by davidmamartin (http://www.flickr.com/people/davidmam/), on Flickr
Edit:
I now know why the comment 'Soap suds' was left on the Flickr page. Apparently this refers to a fictitious liason between two characters in a long-running northern soap opera.. Only about half Britain know that, but obviously not me.
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And it is patently untrue, since all three named are fictional. :o
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(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6092/7030308675_48718e2224_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/7030308675/)
catfoodfail (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/7030308675/)
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7121/6884208366_84d647dc26_b.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/6884208366/)
On a bus passing through Forest Hill earlier this year. Did they think the residents of SE23 would see this and think, "Oh yes, I must invest in some UAE government bonds"? (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/6884208366/)
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In CPH:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7209/6885960536_19eae93e77.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6885960536/)
IMG_5305 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6885960536/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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http://tinyurl.com/6sopl2w
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http://tinyurl.com/6sopl2w
I wasn't hallucinating yesterday then :)
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http://tinyurl.com/6sopl2w
I wasn't hallucinating yesterday then :)
Not at that point, anyway ;)
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(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/lindagordinho/Maundy%20Thursday%20ride%20050412/MaundayThursdayWalk2012029.jpg)
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That's a wee bit harsh :o
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/niceday.jpg)
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(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5235/7060161691_368f93deea_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7060161691/)
IMG_0063 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7060161691/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7274/7060159921_dc546de4e5_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7060159921/)
IMG_0062 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7060159921/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5040/7063819103_9f7233c522_b.jpg)
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(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5339/6919237102_c641de3c8a_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6919237102/)
IMG_0262 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/6919237102/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U5g-FvXHlsc/T4MXmFPq2lI/AAAAAAAADJA/KbK2Fxf-gog/s800/IMGP7726.JPG)
Two things:
1. No apostrophe.
2. Ew.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_0325.jpg)
Well, not very silly.
Till you see the 'verical' drop:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_0326.jpg)
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U5g-FvXHlsc/T4MXmFPq2lI/AAAAAAAADJA/KbK2Fxf-gog/s800/IMGP7726.JPG)
Two things:
1. No apostrophe.
2. Ew.
Nahh, you've got it all wrong. It's an observation, like "CYCLISTS DISMOUNT". After all, farmers very frequently do own seed. :D
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Forgetting, for one moment, the cyclist's apparel (for that was clearly a 03:00am decision by the graphic design department)...
And apologies for the slightly shaky Nokia-not-Nikon quality of the photo....
But am I alone in seeing some (a lot of) irony in this train-mounted ad?
Aren't bikes banned from the Olympic Stadium for the duration? Or have I got that wrong?
Andrij?
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/6938479584_12cba15bd3_b.jpg)
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No bikes in the Olympic Park for the duration of the Games (including Para-Olympics). The Greenway will be shut to cyclist, at least the bit which goes along the Park. The Lea towpath will also be shut starting well before the games. BTW, neither the Greenway nor towpath go through the Park itself, just along side it for a bit. You'll be able to ride your bike to near the Park, but you'll have to park up and join the peds for careful vetting to make sure you're not planning to spend any cash and/or bringing in/wearing anything not produced by one of the sponsors.
Sorry, should that have been in the Rant thread?
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(http://i40.tinypic.com/ve9jwk.jpg)
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Well, not very silly.
Till you see the 'verical' drop:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_0326.jpg)
At least it is safely locked up so no-one can steal it.
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Forgetting, for one moment, the cyclist's apparel (for that was clearly a 03:00am decision by the graphic design department)...
And apologies for the slightly shaky Nokia-not-Nikon quality of the photo....
But am I alone in seeing some (a lot of) irony in this train-mounted ad?
Aren't bikes banned from the Olympic Stadium for the duration? Or have I got that wrong?
Andrij?
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/6938479584_12cba15bd3_b.jpg)
Yebbut (leaving aside the image.... hard though that is) isn't the message a simple one "Getting about during the Olympics in London will be easier on a bike"? From what I can make out it makes no mention of getting to the Games themselves.
So the ad isn't silly, but if one of "us" fails to see it that way, and we know that bike is the quickest way at ANY time, it is still a massive fail. Fits with the image, tbh
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(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5112/7086758227_ec41791e13.jpg)
Of course, dear.
(It might be too blurry to read; it says "MOVE OVER------>")
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(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5112/7086758227_ec41791e13.jpg)
Of course, dear.
(It might be too blurry to read; it says "MOVE OVER------>")
Which is a bit silly as nobody will be able to read it in their mirror...
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(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5112/7086758227_ec41791e13.jpg)
Of course, dear.
(It might be too blurry to read; it says "MOVE OVER------>")
Which is a bit silly as nobody will be able to read it in their mirror...
Don't be even sillier, it is quite legible as it intended to be read by oncoming cars as the driver of the penismobile overtakes.
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(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5112/7086758227_ec41791e13.jpg)
Of course, dear.
(It might be too blurry to read; it says "MOVE OVER------>")
Which is a bit silly as nobody will be able to read it in their mirror...
Don't be even sillier, it is quite legible as it intended to be read by oncoming cars as the driver of the penismobile overtakes.
Both wrong! It is written in mirror writing (IIRC - it's such a blurry phone photo even I can't read it properly :-[ )
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No bikes in the Olympic Park for the duration of the Games (including Para-Olympics). ...
Sorry, should that have been in the Rant thread?
Andrij has it. I saw this poster this morning, and thought it ridiculous.
You can also add that bicycles will be banned from the Olympics road lanes, so you won't be going anywhere fast on a bike near the Olympics anyway.
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No bikes in the Olympic Park for the duration of the Games (including Para-Olympics). ...
Sorry, should that have been in the Rant thread?
Andrij has it. I saw this poster this morning, and thought it ridiculous.
You can also add that bicycles will be banned from the Olympics road lanes, so you won't be going anywhere fast on a bike near the Olympics anyway.
Yes, but is it referring to travel in general or travel to the Olympic Games?
And less of the doom mongering, please. There are very few Olympic lanes, and all easily avoided on a bike (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/london-2012-olympic-route-network.pdf)
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No bikes in the Olympic Park for the duration of the Games (including Para-Olympics). ...
Sorry, should that have been in the Rant thread?
Andrij has it. I saw this poster this morning, and thought it ridiculous.
You can also add that bicycles will be banned from the Olympics road lanes, so you won't be going anywhere fast on a bike near the Olympics anyway.
Yes, but is it referring to travel in general or travel to the Olympic Games?
And less of the doom mongering, please. There are very few Olympic lanes, and all easily avoided on a bike (http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/london-2012-olympic-route-network.pdf)
Looking at the TfL site, I'm not sure they've actually got the paperwork in to legally stop cyclists being in them: -
Games Lanes
These clearly marked lanes will be on about a third of the ORN/PRN and, when operational, they will not be open to general traffic. They will only be available for accredited vehicles and the adjacent lane will remain open to general traffic. To avoid a fine, don't drive on Games Lanes when operational.
Cycling
Cyclists will be able to use the ORN but won't be able to use most of the Games Lanes as they are offside (away from the kerb) - not the preferred road position for cyclists.
Arrangements will be made to allow cyclists to travel in most of the nearside Games Lanes.
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Forgetting, for one moment, the cyclist's apparel (for that was clearly a 03:00am decision by the graphic design department)...
And apologies for the slightly shaky Nokia-not-Nikon quality of the photo....
But am I alone in seeing some (a lot of) irony in this train-mounted ad?
Aren't bikes banned from the Olympic Stadium for the duration? Or have I got that wrong?
Andrij?
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5324/6938479584_12cba15bd3_b.jpg)
Yebbut (leaving aside the image.... hard though that is) isn't the message a simple one "Getting about during the Olympics in London will be easier on a bike"? From what I can make out it makes no mention of getting to the Games themselves.
So the ad isn't silly, but if one of "us" fails to see it that way, and we know that bike is the quickest way at ANY time, it is still a massive fail. Fits with the image, tbh
Seen this in the giveaway paper this morning, and the message is "Bike could be quicker for your journey", there is another one "Walking could be quicker", nothing to do with getting to the games.
The image is of a granny in a dress with helmet, hi-viz and tri-bars. Probably drawn after lunch.
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Seen yesterday on the way to the Olympic Park:
(http://www.rossall.plus.com/beauty.jpg)
They've got a point, you know. I spotted the car easily, but I couldn't for the life of me see what else they were talking about. Happily, I did eventually spot it nearby :thumbsup:
(http://www.visualphotos.com/photo/2x1499632/closeup_on_mountain_bikers_legs_and_bike_10002046.jpg)
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I think that I've posted this before somewhere. I just love the fact that the staff at Aberystwyth Station get a whole 5 minutes lie-in on a Saturday.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/AWelshLie-in.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/endoftheroad.jpg)
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I think that I've posted this before somewhere. I just love the fact that the staff at Aberystwyth Station get a whole 5 minutes lie-in on a Saturday.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/AWelshLie-in.jpg)
And that "you should not have to queue for longer than 5 minutes during peak periods" but they don't open till 10 minutes into that peak.
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(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/lindagordinho/arran%20and%20islay%202012/253.jpg)
Somebody obviously thought this sign was a bit silly.
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perhaps they were killinit
:D
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Ouch ....
;D ;D ;D
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0387.jpg)
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(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/lindagordinho/arran%20and%20islay%202012/253.jpg)
Somebody obviously thought this sign was a bit silly.
Linda, I see a lot of that sort of thing around but that looks a bit worrying. Those look more like .22 bullets than the usual air-gun stuff.
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2 signs for the price of one in Brixton:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_E-Dq0cqomM/T5_kZaE4wXI/AAAAAAAADD4/TzXU9MTEPNY/s400/2012-05-01%252010.22.48.jpg)
close up:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ba3XiEjQbGA/T5_kgTRg16I/AAAAAAAADEA/Wx6KQgfhJf4/s400/2012-05-01%252010.22.41.jpg)
I want some of Brixton's 3rd best selling grass. ;D
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Or in other words:
NO CAMPING.
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7077/6988715688_77278a6843_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6988715688/)
"Open Defecation Free" (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/6988715688/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
I'm pretty sure it's not a mistranslation (apart from the ambiguity).
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/parking.jpg)
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There used to be a very famous hotel in Torbay, didn't there?
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(http://www.haluze.cz/fotky/small/vtipne-obrazky-687-4.jpg1.174218.jpg)
You are not permitted to poo in the pool.
Technically I think he's top-decking the diving board, which may be seen as more socially responsible than contaminating 2000 cubic metres of sterile water.
Until a small child slips in it, anyway.
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7224/7229152902_ff92e1af75_z.jpg)
This one isn't really silly, but it made me smile.
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(http://handsonit.co.uk/images/photos/signs/Images/1.jpg)
Seriously? The bike whose rack you can see in the corner was there about a week.
(http://handsonit.co.uk/images/photos/signs/Images/2.jpg)
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*cof*bullshit!*cof*
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/IMG_1518.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0438.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0432.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0432.jpg)
::-)
I have had many an interesting debate with people who say 'of course there's a vegetarian option, there's fish' Hmmm. I'm not veggie, but even I know a fish has a face.
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(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/lindagordinho/Routes%2068%20and%2072%20October%202011/IMGP0018.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/ATM.jpg)
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Basil, that is priceless. ;D
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I didn't manage to get photos, as I was driving at the time, but I spotted two beauties on the way back from Lincoln on the A15:
a sign for the firm 'RIMMER BROTHERS'
but the best was the road sign pointing the way to "Dyke Village"...
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Didn't have a camera on me, but I saw a 'Central London Congestion Charge - Pay here' sign, on a petrol station in Egremont (darkest Cumbria) ???
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but the best was the road sign pointing the way to "Dyke Village"...
I think I've been there...
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8159/7274754232_905c300d4f_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7274754232/)
IMG_0329 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7274754232/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(http://handsonit.co.uk/images/photos/signs/Images/1.jpg)
Excessive use of the passive voice in that sign - why don't they write like normal Brits! I'm not sure the bike is able to decide whether or not to secure itself to the railings!
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Passive sounds more 'official'.
Too wordy ayway. Should be rephrased.
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Presumably the police will know it's not legal to take and dispose of someone else's property
Too wordy anyway. Should be rephrased.
Excessive use of the passive voice in that sign
Which leaves: "Don't secure bikes here. For security reasons".
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(http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/pix/spainsign.jpg)
Saw a few of these last week, which I took to mean don't speed if you are in a car, a truck or on a Tron-style lightcycle :)
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7078/7282057642_37f68d994d.jpg)
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7078/7282057642_37f68d994d.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FEW5mh7iAI
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The pick of the crop?
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8153/7289795120_94d7a95771_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7289795120/)
IMG_0334 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7289795120/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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That's Dick & Dom's Bungalow behind the fence. Fungus lives next door.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC00781.jpg)
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So I guess touring bikes and Yuba Mundos have to park elsewhere...
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Are humourous juxtapositions allowed here?
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3ByHlr55Emc/T8SJNGPn-bI/AAAAAAAAg4k/RXRjoA30a5M/s640/S0270985.jpg)
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Well, durr!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0479.jpg)
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/stac_poll_grafito.jpg)
Not so much a sign as some nice graffito
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(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/lindagordinho/May%20holiday%20Scotland%202012/058.jpg)
I meant to follow the sign, to see if they have a Short Pier there. But I didn't.
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-GC4LjRxkTLo/T8ti5T1po7I/AAAAAAAAA6I/TVihjaHgeUc/s512/Photo0226.jpg)
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CpHUnqAecEU/T847aNpkc_I/AAAAAAAAAZs/dQZlX2c9Y7w/s720/2012-05-31%252014.11.11.jpg)
Speak yourself Fennish
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZFDvn8R2-uI/T846XyFoRUI/AAAAAAAAAZU/ejaOGi_jDS4/s512/2012-04-19%252018.15.44.jpg)
It's OK - I brought my flask.
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/578240_439306186094448_1554875197_n.jpg)
A Slovak sign that says, "Today's promotion! Alchohol is free for all customers over 70 years old, who are accompanied by both parents!"
A couple of years ago, Mrs B's aunt could have qualified.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0496.jpg)
Welcome to... what was it again?
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0497.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0500.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0530.jpg)
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It's always good to be warned of caution.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0500.jpg)
Excellent ;D
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-H69vY-6iLgY/T8466ye9oLI/AAAAAAAAAZc/l5LM70fbvto/s640/2012-04-19%252018.22.32.jpg)
No part-timers or people in half a mind where to study
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A fairly rough bunch of ex-polys, with three or four honourable exceptions. I take it that Waldegrave and Orleans Park School is not the sort of place Tory ministers send their kids.
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Two schools.
Waldegrave is the local girls-only comp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldegrave_School_for_Girls.
Orleans Park is our local mixed comp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orleans_Park_School.
Neither have a sixth form(!)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0565.jpg)
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A no entry sign that only applies to certain times. (https://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=51.574703,-0.083817&spn=88.389044,125.507812&t=v&z=3&layer=c&panoid=2jZLPVif7984n9ouq1Aqlw&cbll=51.574703,-0.083817&cbp=13,-185.48839432875664,,1,4.660573216446551)
Q. Why the need for the two 'midnights'? Why not just 10pm-6am?
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Passed this on Sunday:
(http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61117000/jpg/_61117470_dull_and_boring_road_sign.jpg)
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that's a cracker ;D
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That was quick work to get the new sign up.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0572.jpg)
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Is that an STD clinic car park?
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(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/542435_10150911248369586_1972129730_n.jpg)
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Is that an STD clinic car park?
That's what I thought. But the next bay says 'TES ONLY' The gap was unfortunate.
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Dull and Boring reminds me of the Ugley Nasty ride, which passes through those two villages.
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(http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/542435_10150911248369586_1972129730_n.jpg)
Where the hell is this? That's one of the worst mis-translations I've seen!
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Made a nice change from seeing signs telling cyclists where to go…
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Phone%20Stuff/IMG_1599.jpg)
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Sadly cameras are prohibited at my workplace, but we have a whole set of height barriers over the roads marked with a maximum height of 5.3340m
There's a height sign on one of our rounds marked as "2250mm"...
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A road in the city centre in York has been closed on one side due to roadworks with metal link fencing, and turned into a one way street, with a diversion for traffic going the other way. There are a number of small driveways and carpark exits opening onto the street, so they've put up signs on the metal fencing opposite each exit to indicate that it's now one way.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8022/7521030070_ab762b2e33.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/59866846@N02/7521030070/)
Picture 0157 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/59866846@N02/7521030070/) by Panticle (http://www.flickr.com/people/59866846@N02/), on Flickr
I can't help thinking that an arrow would help....
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Copper: Excuse me sir, do you know this is a one way street?
Motorist: But officer, I am only going one way...
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0612.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0609.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0613.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/dawnogthedumb-1.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/dawnogthedumb-1.jpg)
;D
But, that's three innit?
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/dawnogthedumb-1.jpg)
;D
But, that's three innit?
Do most people in that part of the world have three hands each?
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/dawnogthedumb-1.jpg)
;D
But, that's three innit?
18 in Norfolk.
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Guess where we stayed last week..?
(http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/320327_10151085321303255_599748780_n.jpg)
;D
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So close, and you never said hello.
Though it probably could be any one of a number of Dykeheads around..
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Guess where we stayed last week..?
(http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/320327_10151085321303255_599748780_n.jpg)
;D
Strange. Can't see the image on YACF, but right-click and open in a new window and I can see it.
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(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Gk55gC5GYAQ/T_89fkIDLkI/AAAAAAAACYA/kEDKHAraJys/s852/20120712_214238.jpg)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=basmatic
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(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/081.jpg)
And who might like this place? Hmmmm?
(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/060.jpg)
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And who might like this place? Hmmmm?
(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/060.jpg)
Pretty much something for everyone. :D
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(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/1169.jpg)
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Your job is to specify a system for display of information in possibly the most visible part of the Olympic park, by the entrance through Westfield in Stratford. Reliability has to be very high on the list of specification. So, obviously, you go for a system based on Windoze.... :facepalm:
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-me6Gyecx2_A/UAPVryNn4LI/AAAAAAAAh7A/-ca1hxH-Rg8/s640/20120715_130932.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0630.jpg)
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Map sign, this, and it takes a bit of explaining. Sign first:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0625.jpg)
Then legend:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0626.jpg)
So it says you aren't permitted to cycle from Roehampton Gate to Kingston Gate, nor Robin Hood Gate to the junction near Spankers Wood.
Really? :o ???
EDIT: Link corrected
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I get the map twice but no legend ???
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Least helpful direction sign:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_0551.jpg)
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Your job is to specify a system for display of information in possibly the most visible part of the Olympic park, by the entrance through Westfield in Stratford. Reliability has to be very high on the list of specification. So, obviously, you go for a system based on Windoze.... :facepalm:
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-me6Gyecx2_A/UAPVryNn4LI/AAAAAAAAh7A/-ca1hxH-Rg8/s640/20120715_130932.jpg)
It's OK, the same kind of system has been used up in Liverpool...
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/l_1.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/IMG_1613.jpg)
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Not a sign, per se, but my ticket for phlebotomy at the hospital
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0632.jpg)
It was about 1030 on 19 July 2012.
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Who is Number One?
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;D That hadn't even occurred to me!
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Silly label this time, from my local pharmacist. I hadn't noticed till the second day of the course...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0636.jpg)
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There is no combination that works for that. 18 tablets. 5 days. erm ?
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There is no combination that works for that. 18 tablets. 5 days. erm ?
It doesn't specify these tablets. Just take any 6 tablets when these run out.
Actually these were the same instructions that God gave Moses (but he couldn't be arsed half way through the second day)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8429/7608819938_5ccbe85bc6.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109958@N08/7608819938/)
image002[1] (http://www.flickr.com/photos/16109958@N08/7608819938/) by madcow99 (http://www.flickr.com/people/16109958@N08/), on Flickr
Looks like this may have been 'shopped but it made me laugh.
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It's not been 'shopped but it's done the rounds on the intertubes for about five years now.
That and the 'prick with a fork' sausage pack...
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_0590.jpg)
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By October the young ones will be a little bit older.
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We might as well have this on e in here as well. GP surgery.
(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/captionit_1020.jpg)
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Riding through Toulouse on Monday it quickly became clear that some of the signage was less than helpful -
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-lahPXK9UAA0/UBBQPOHkxmI/AAAAAAAAF74/-h-FC1rIBRE/s640/IMG_8322.JPG)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/zoosign.jpg)
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Seen at the entrance to the Tesco superstore off Cowley junction, last night:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7278/7655128030_b4793a1c7f.jpg)
Not sure if the implications of that one bear thinking about. :o ;D :-X
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Random/zoosign.jpg)
I'm not sure that belongs in the silly signs thread. I think it is awesome.
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;D That hadn't even occurred to me!
S'funny. That was the first thing I thought of. ;D
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(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/gus69/387142_347287562015503_1271807504_n.jpg) Translation : Also for bicycles
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7101/7328450638_d62cd54f17_z.jpg)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8161/7683414828_1dcfd76ced_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/7683414828/)
I did like the sound of that toilet.
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Go to flush and it demands you carry out an update first, then the lid crashes?
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Go to flush and it demands you carry out an update first, then the lid crashes?
;D
Oh man! Good job I wasn't drinking when I read that!
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_0823.jpg)
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/IMG_20120809_175426.sized.jpg)
Londo Mollari: "But this - this, this, this is like being nibbled to death by... what are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet... go 'quack'..."
Vir Cotto: "Cats."
Londo Mollari: "Cats! I'm being nibbled to death by cats."
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(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-tmz16Fqlq9g/UCjLzwF8hhI/AAAAAAAAAqg/7RIVbll42bE/s480/tescos-shame.jpg)
Tescos. UPHAIL
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(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx30/Auntie_Helen/Nettetal%202012/c3666a07.jpg)
Well, it's more of a silly name.
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I don't have a photo but I have seen several "No Fly Tipping" signs.
They always strike me as totally redundant and a waste of money. Who are they aimed at? I suggest they are aimed at the sort of people who ignore such signs. May as well have "No Law Breaking" signs everywhere...maybe people just aren't aware.
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I believe AAISP (who do laser engraving as a sideline - don't ask) sell "No smoking / No stabbing / No breaking any other laws either" signs, for premises where nobody was allowed to smoke anyway, but are now required by law to display no smoking signs.
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I don't have a photo but I have seen several "No Fly Tipping" signs.
They always strike me as totally redundant and a waste of money. Who are they aimed at? I suggest they are aimed at the sort of people who ignore such signs. May as well have "No Law Breaking" signs everywhere...maybe people just aren't aware.
One of the silliest signs I've seen was a protest sign that said
"Make illegal logging illegal!"
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Those No Fly Tipping signs and similar are obviously supposed to have a deterrent effect. They do usually have a footnote to the effect of "We are watching you" though that's probably usually bollocks.
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Orienteering round the Wrekin? Bet they never win!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/West%20Midland%20Walking%20Aug%202012/IMG_1211.jpg)
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Hmmm...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/West%20Midland%20Walking%20Aug%202012/IMG_1002.jpg)
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Really?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/West%20Midland%20Walking%20Aug%202012/IMG_1188.jpg)
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Helpful sign (no, it isn't at a junction of paths, just beside the path in the middle of a field)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/West%20Midland%20Walking%20Aug%202012/IMG_1183.jpg)
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All too common silly sign.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/West%20Midland%20Walking%20Aug%202012/IMG_0952.jpg)
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Yes. It can be a private road and private property but have a public path through it. ie you can legally walk down the RUPP but cannot take a motor vehicle there without the landowners permission.
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There was a car park at the far end of the track for the woods.
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There was a car park at the far end of the track for the woods.
Probably a 'permissive way'; no public right of way, but landowners have allowed access.
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Regent's Park, by the boating lake (and the mosque)
(http://i954.photobucket.com/albums/ae29/cyclisttony/001-3.jpg)
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Oh.
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I suspect the 'Halal Ham' is turkey, beef or some other acceptable meat.
Smoked salmon is sometimes known as 'kosher ham'...
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I was wondering...
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Ie processed meat cut into thin slices? 'turkey ham' is a phrase I have seen used before.
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Go to flush and it demands you carry out an update first, then the lid crashes?
Bah! Just buy a Toto. Thoroughly reliable electronics, though the female voice commenting incomprehensibly (to me) whenever I pressed a button was a little disconcerting the first time I used one.
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I did like the sound of that toilet.
The toilet wouldn't worry me - and it doesn't look like a place that Steve Jobs would have ever gone to either ;) I was more intrigued about the Horse Service ???
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0689-1.jpg)
Victoria
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/anderby/IMG_20120827_122548.sized.jpg)
On the beach at Anderby Creek
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In Slovenia. Not exactly fair as cycle provision is excellent, but made me smile, anyhow.
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YvcaZCM8pY0/UD3W6bzRpOI/AAAAAAAAjmY/7wNwV0ERKiI/s640/P1050522.JPG)
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I think it actually makes sense, in an unimportant way. It's the end of a section of compulsory or mandatory path for cyclists only (hence blue circle) but a cycle route continues.
<pointless pedantry off>
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_1525.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_1524.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/DSC00806.jpg)
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They can't even spell "insanity"!
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Ljubljana airport, surprising as the general level of English usage is excellent, but worth posting for the graphic alone
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Yg7Ofak8xRk/UEC7E0WZIFI/AAAAAAAAjmw/FZNBuXbqH_4/s640/P1050909.JPG)
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They're thinking with portals.
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Belgian (not very) supermarket:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8182/7924468372_45659099d6_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924468372/)
IMG_0842 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/7924468372/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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They're thinking with portals.
;D
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8309/7952224126_a1269e646e_z.jpg)
This is actually a perfectly serious sign, but it did make me wonder why the Electric Chairs didn't merit a mention ;D
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(http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kucspfBfdQ1qzpc3ko1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAI6WLSGT7Y3ET7ADQ&Expires=1347145300&Signature=Ow2LeWi%2F40lXidJbXjiqThw7w2U%3D)
Rather amazingly though, that cycle route appears to have priority over the roads it's crossing, rather than the normal approach of a "Cyclists Dismount" sign every six foot.
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I can't figure out where it is. The cyclist is riging on the right and the cars are driving on the right and the number plates look British enough but SLOW is in English. Who else uses yellow read number plates and paints bicycles with square wheels?
It's the UK.
The cyclist is cycling on the wrong side of the path - the fact "SLOW" is upside down on that side is a giveaway (although I'm not sure there's actually a law requiring you to keep to the left on segregated cycle paths). Mind you the signs fixed to the posts suggest you should cycle on the right.
The cars are actually on the left although the prescence of a bus lane on the nearside makes it look as if they're driving on the right.
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On a similar theme, this is on the border between Fermanagh and Donegal, in the area sometimes known as "the back of beyond":
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-SwdBuCS--PE/UEtkfOuwv6I/AAAAAAAAAiE/-IB5w8MKL34/w397-h482-p-k/IMG_00000455.jpg)
How would anyone get there without noticing that in Northern Ireland we also drive on the left? ???
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Furrens wot has been in RoI might enter NI thinking new country = change of side? Or it's put up against the remote possibility of RoI deciding to drive on the right? Or just automatically it goes up on/near all border crossings?
I like the way the grass starts growing in the middle of the road right on the border. I'm not sure which side of the border that grass is on, but it's clearly lost its passport!
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(http://www.cyclechat.net/attachments/warning-jpg.12549/)
[eta] For those of you who can't see the pic, it's from a program guide on TV for the film 'Oldboy' last Saturday.
The warning for the film reads: - Adults only: scenes of violence/torture/sex/live octopus ingestion ???
[/eta]
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Mr. mcshroom, give us a clue. (Those us us that can't see your post)
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Furrens wot has been in RoI might enter NI thinking new country = change of side? Or it's put up against the remote possibility of RoI deciding to drive on the right? Or just automatically it goes up on/near all border crossings?
I like the way the grass starts growing in the middle of the road right on the border. I'm not sure which side of the border that grass is on, but it's clearly lost its passport!
They aren't at many border crossings, but there a few in this part of the world (reputedly the inspiration for Spike Milligan's "Puckoon") on the north shore of Lough Erne between Belleek and Pettigo, which was cut off by road from the rest of Northern Ireland until after WWII . The signs are in the RoI which is here north of the border. ???
There is a good fishing lough just to the south, which accounts for the difference in the state of the roads. Carry on for a couple of miles until you get to a fully paved road again, and you will find this relic of pre-EU days:
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-DSTaAx3ojO0/UE8W94zOR8I/AAAAAAAAAjI/62CgUHbMHUQ/s805/IMG_00000458.jpg)
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From Facepoke:
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/248509_357369464343833_2086117517_n.jpg)
:demon:
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:o
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Ridiculous. No one can cycle that fast! ::-)
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I see enough cross traffic and pedestrians as it is, why would I go there for more?
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(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/551663_338500556241754_540811012_n.jpg) ;D
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8169/7980552585_be1628e7f4_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/7980552585/)
IMG_6985 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/7980552585/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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(http://sergeantpluck.smugmug.com/photos/i-hZtCJ7K/0/XL/i-hZtCJ7K-XL.jpg)
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Hold the ham.
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;D
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Not sure if it counts as silly, but I've finally got round to photographing it (even if the light was a bit low)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-m7hJhOZBcyQ/UFZAZdyo74I/AAAAAAAABMg/zuw-XkueaHU/s640/2012-09-08%252020.21.41.jpg)
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Oh and this one from Morrisons (I've checked and Tesco ones say the same)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3bRG3nQoJto/UFZB9BAYt_I/AAAAAAAABMo/sILjNL8Y32Q/s640/2012-09-09%252017.06.30.jpg)
I'd hope it does
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Not funny, but pretty unusual to see these days. I haven't seen one for years now.
This one was spotted in Moor Street Station.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Morestuff001.jpg)
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(http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web04/2009/6/3/15/buckfast-wine-17258-1244057745-17.jpg)
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After I'd left Charly-sur-Marne, it was pointed out to me that the town has a street whose name could raise a titter to English speakers. I've checked on streetview, and indeed it does.
(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/nocensure/rudenoise_zpsd59bdcd4.jpg)
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This one's for crusty (and only about 8 months late):
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8452/8015346883_6cc973b631_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8015346883/)
accidental zone (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8015346883/) by dean.clementson (http://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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Not so much the sign itself which is silly, but rather it's situation. Spotted this gem on the TPM while skirting around the millennium dome:
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8174/8015330326_fe08c7a26b_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8015330326/)
P9220370 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/dibdib/8015330326/) by dibdib2 (http://www.flickr.com/people/dibdib/), on Flickr
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I clocked that a few months ago and did wonder why they'd done that to all the signage that's adjacent to the blue fence.
The blue fence went up when the O2 became an Olympic venue - the mesh is such that you cannot put your fingers into it should you want to climb it.
Conversely, were you to shin up the adjacent sign post, you'd be able to get over the blue fence with relative ease - hence the sign post has the fenced-in treatment.
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After I'd left Charly-sur-Marne, it was pointed out to me that the town has a street whose name could raise a titter to English speakers. I've checked on streetview, and indeed it does.
(http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h323/nocensure/rudenoise_zpsd59bdcd4.jpg)
For many years, I've been hoping that there was a Rue de Remarque somewhere in France, but Google Maps says not so.
Apple might differ... ;D
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There is a Belcher's Street in Hong Kong. I used to know a Belcher family in Stroud who had a photo of it in their kitchen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belcher's_Street
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(http://i714.photobucket.com/albums/ww143/benway_photo/sign.jpg)
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Not exactly silly... but a sign
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-NF73RcojrS4/UHmoUtJhU6I/AAAAAAAAkPc/KSMmvLAGh0Q/s640/S0231054.jpg)
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I found this on the Menai Bridge:
http://goo.gl/maps/N3N11
"Ac eithrio beic gan feic / Except bicycles by bicycles" ???
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Presumably there was originally a no overtaking sign above :)
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There is but someone's turned it round, hence the "end" sign which should be facing the other way. The same at the other side of the bridge as well, what a sense of humour those Bangor students have!
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Cafe sign, Hertford
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0780.jpg)
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Cafe, St Albans station
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0781.jpg)
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/grammar.jpg)
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Jaded wins the interwebs.
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(http://www.peeble.com/suck.png)
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(http://www.peeble.com/suck.png)
;D ;D ;D
(Should this be in NSFW?
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Sorry - no picture, but maybe lives here anyway.
Menu board on the Tissington Trail yesterday:
Corniche Pasties
Very posh!
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(http://www.drakemag.com/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=52180)
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Not particularly silly, but not sure I'd want to put it on application forms.
(http://channelhopping.onthebox.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bellend.jpg)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8049/8132294809_f7e421f866_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8132294809/)
IMG_0952 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8132294809/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/silly_signs.jpg)
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/flush.jpg)
I slipped my foreign object into the bin.
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I don't know if this counts, because I haven't got a photo of it, but...
There are roadworks on the M62 - they are turning it into a 'Managed Motorway' whatever that means.
The work is signed to end "Winter 2013"
Now, is that Jan 2013, or Dec 2013? Gives them quite a lot of leeway on the deadline!
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I think managed motorways are motorways with 4 lanes and no hard shoulder, and you are allowed to drive in the fourth lane except when you aren't allowed to. They have variable speed limits too. They create extra capacity and work well.
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I think managed motorways are motorways with 4 lanes and no hard shoulder, and you are allowed to drive in the fourth lane except when you aren't allowed to. They have variable speed limits too. They create extra capacity and work well.
That's what we thought. Still a pretty flexible deadline!
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/hoovering.jpg)
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Seen today in Mönchengladbach.
"Friedhof" is German for "Cemetery"
(http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx30/Auntie_Helen/Moenchengladbach%20December%202012/B46D0C5B-6000-4AD3-BBA2-DF1B8897C306-393-00000016E386CD50.jpg)
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Friedhof = House of peace?
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Friedhof = House of peace?
Indeed! Well, Hof is a bit more 'place' than 'house' although it can refer to a house (or a courtyard or more)
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Friedhof is a doughnut house or crematorium. ;)
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BIAwJ9Gr7Z0/UL5mTVC7lRI/AAAAAAAADd4/KadXvAzYHdw/s1000/Saltburn2012-25.jpg) (https://picasaweb.google.com/107639175127151407803/Saltburn51?authuser=0&feat=directlink)
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I'll go the other way, to the easy ones.
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BIAwJ9Gr7Z0/UL5mTVC7lRI/AAAAAAAADd4/KadXvAzYHdw/s1000/Saltburn2012-25.jpg) (https://picasaweb.google.com/107639175127151407803/Saltburn51?authuser=0&feat=directlink)
Or from the other side :): -
Not sure if it counts as silly, but I've finally got round to photographing it (even if the light was a bit low)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-m7hJhOZBcyQ/UFZAZdyo74I/AAAAAAAABMg/zuw-XkueaHU/s640/2012-09-08%252020.21.41.jpg)
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You too? ;) I've been passing that for years! Finally I get around to taking the pic, to find I was beaten to it by a couple of months...
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Not a silly sign in itself:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0805.jpg)
Till you see the Information it was giving:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0803.jpg)
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0x7FF3FFF8: Someone's unplugged the network cable and covered the socket in hazard tape.
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;D
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There you go
http://www.scream.co.uk/southernrail/dorking/screen_tube.html
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You too? ;) I've been passing that for years! Finally I get around to taking the pic, to find I was beaten to it by a couple of months...
Months? I beat you both to it by over a year.
http://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=45766.msg984815#msg984815
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Yes but Bill and Mcshroom seem to have better brakes than you!
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The A66 isn't the best place to stop, no.
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;D
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(http://moby.nzpunter.com/gallery/d/23230-3/DSCF0436.JPG)
(Thanks to sas and google)
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(http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/sandyvigar/nonpotablewater1.jpg)
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(http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/lindagordinho/Saltburn%20sunrise%20Jan%202013/20130105_084252.jpg)
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Do not eat the pier.
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Not so much silly, just a little puzzling:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rhys.llangefni/lluniau/sign.jpg)
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I think that one's in Clacton. I was following the cycle path and was most delighted to find a set of steps!
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Surely that's one for the Warrington Cycle Campaign's Facility of the Month?
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NCN5 performs that manoeuvre opposite the NIA here in Brum. It's the final insult after all the muddy towpath, wharfs and RADAR gates from Smethwick. No comedy magic paint, though for silly sign value there's one of those Sustrans wiggly posts pointing the way up the stairs.
Fortunately, if you're no more than 2mm wider than an ICE Sprint and have really good spacial awareness, you can squeeze past a bollard and take a long-cut via the NIA's service ramp.
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(http://i787.photobucket.com/albums/yy155/sandyvigar/nonpotablewater1.jpg)
The parents of a friend of mine had a similar sign above their toilet. It looked like the type fitted to old BR carriages.
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Perhaps they have a dog who's learned to read?
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Surely that's one for the Warrington Cycle Campaign's Facility of the Month?
OT, that has reminded me that the WCC Facility of the Month gets a mention in David Byrne's "Bicycle Diaries".
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For many years, I've been hoping that there was a Rue de Remarque somewhere in France, but Google Maps says not so.
Apple might differ... ;D
No, we don't have these things in France, but we are not short of awful places:
(http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b482/ratle/misery_zpsf7d89658.jpg)
We also have numerous "Silly" or "Noisy" places, Google Maps will show you some!
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There's a Pont du Moron on the north bank of the Gironde.
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Another favorite:
(http://cache.20minutes.fr/img/photos/20mn/2007-10/2007-10-11/article_Montcuq.JPG)
There is a famous pun in french between the name of this town, and "mon cul", which means "my ass" .
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Isn't that 661Pete's castle in the background? I remember he warned me about the correct pronunciation of that place name when we were about to spend a week nearby.
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I remember he warned me about the correct pronunciation of that place name when we were about to spend a week nearby.
In french, the last letter is sometime pronounced, sometime not. You never know unless you have been told.
The name of this town is much funnier when the last Q is not pronounced!
This is how the town became famous:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qi7a-Mw-qlo
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Thanks for that, French Tandem. Much chuckling. Mrs R teaches French so I have forwarded the youtube link to her at school. Useful lesson in pronunciation.
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I'm not sure this is suitable for young children!
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Don't worry, it's a secondary school.
A Catholic girls' school.
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(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn165/johniebaby/542642_10151416605619752_1792299413_n_zps9038ebd5.jpg)
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DABS
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-kNXQBZRWWmM/URjQLamsH-I/AAAAAAAAmO8/CYY4lXlfmkg/s800/Unpopulated%2520-%2520NAS%2520-%2520buy%2520online%2520-%2520dabs.com%2520-%2520Google%2520Chrome%252011022013%2520110325.bmp.jpg)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8382/8483432552_09ebf9be26_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8483432552/)
IMG_1253 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8483432552/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8526/8482937613_f348206779_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8482937613/)
We were there on Saturday, but saw no cows, nor were there any offers on beef or anything. Still, it was pulling the punters in (we were the third and fourth customers that day...probably)
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Lanercost Old Bridge:
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5026/5888511547_8fc4aa5c58_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/5888511547/)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8373/8504218527_fc580376c4_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8504218527/)
IMG_1261 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8504218527/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_2568_zps8ac4b248.jpg)
The silly sign?
This one:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_2569_zps6a0586e5.jpg)
No, there isn't another one just out of shot.
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And this sign could be a bit more effective
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_2580_zps34805a47.jpg)
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BP think 2012 is teh Future ::-)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_2609_zps74d4e9c3.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/FAT-guy/BLB_zps0f35913f.jpg)
A headline, not a silly sign. Just as sllly.
Is this not just a Private Eye joke? "Exclusive To All Newspapers" sounds familiar.
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/IMG_20130304_163946.sized.jpg)
The covered sign is the one denoting a shared path with a cycle lane and a pedestrian side. The temporary one is a standard shared-use path sign.
More detailed commentary here (http://www.birminghamcyclist.com/forum/topics/selly-oak-new-road?commentId=3004025%3AComment%3A95612).
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v254/FAT-guy/BLB_zps0f35913f.jpg)
A headline, not a silly sign. Just as sllly.
Is this not just a Private Eye joke? "Exclusive To All Newspapers" sounds familiar.
As does 'cont'd p.94'
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This one's not so much silly as a "fnarr fnarr" (you know, Rogerzilla style!)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8111/8536851806_322dc0253f_z.jpg)
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Prince Philip's been causing trouble in the loos again...
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8090/8562916098_e112a244c2.jpg)
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Posted in the window of my local O2 shop yesterday.
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8369/8565856752_490c6c45cb.jpg)
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Can't they reach the top bolt?
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1363613011_zps24edf727.jpg)
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at Audley End station
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8103/8569335385_a0287c0070.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/8569335385/)
more bunions on the left, perhaps?
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1363613011_zps24edf727.jpg)
Doesn't look a bit like Naburn.
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8514/8569108925_bc8b51a0a7.jpg)
but does it pay the bills?
Nigel
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0055_zpsb231635a.jpg)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8258/8615656553_2aba590e8c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62297839@N05/8615656553/)
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That's not at all silly. Very sensible.
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Decisions, decisions.
(http://www.dudes411.com/humor/HumorStreet.jpg)
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(http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/funny-wtf-warning-sign-unsafe-bicycle.jpg)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8373/8504218527_fc580376c4_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8504218527/)
IMG_1261 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8504218527/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Funny you should say that:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/CNV00015e_zps5430a94c.jpg)
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/Rangefinder%20uploads/CNV00012e_zps61a35f7a.jpg)
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Needs more George Osborne, really :)
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There is never a need for more George Osborne. ;D
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GPWM
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(http://triporiginator.com/travelarticles/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Big-Dicks-Halfway-Inn.jpg)
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Brilliant. ;D
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zOx_C_fwj94/UWUwAlaC1hI/AAAAAAAAAu4/1bYVw3KZGBo/s572/IMAG0346.jpg)
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At least barbeques are allowed. Otherwise, a rather boring park.
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And archery. Hopefully there are squirrels to archerise and barbecue, seeing as you're not allowed dogs.
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If you leave it with your armed guard dog it should be secure!
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8383/8647314981_a86411fd39.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8647314981/)
IMG_1402 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8647314981/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8523/8647313649_0b4db369e5_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8647313649/)
IMG_1403 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8647313649/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BHu4aBlCcAA_Roa.jpg:large) (https://twitter.com/crucifixkiss/status/323054555522822144/photo/1/large)
Spotted at Loch Leven last Saturday.
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I couldn't grab a pic, but this morning's club run went to Happy Land.
http://goo.gl/maps/neuZF
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/pbej2xj3o5tcep1/DSC_0091.jpg (https://www.dropbox.com/s/pbej2xj3o5tcep1/DSC_0091.jpg)
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Decades ago when I joined the youth group, one of the older girls was driving. Her mini used to have a box labelled "Keep Herbie from starvation fund". May not have been Herbie - can't remember the car's name now - but similar idea to that one.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMG_3628_zps622415f4.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/IMG_3628_zps622415f4.jpg.html)
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(http://www.angryduck.com/pictures/2013_3/Do_Not_Enter.jpg)
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(http://www.meiring.org.uk/photos/sign.jpg)
Seen yesterday opposite a gate where a forest is in the process of being logged....
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No picture but I shall describe it.
There is a very steep hill from the A64 at the top of Whitwell down to Kirkham Abbey. It's a C road/ I lived here for 17 years and every winter its almost impassable when it gets snowy or very icy as water flows across it in a several places and its in the shade of tress until late in the morning. Never in living memory has there been a warning.
A couple of weeks ago now winters over the council have come out and placed a temporary ice and snow warning sign at the top and bottom .....
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8119/8689937581_0daee160c9_z.jpg)
My guess was "please duck"
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I think it's referring to that pipe.
Probably "Please Suck"
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I think it's referring to that pipe.
Probably "Please Suck"
...E FUC..
SOME OTHER
TUBE
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(http://i.imgur.com/ZikKvBM.jpg)
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It's amazing what you can buy in High Street Chemists these days
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/1368018794_zps0664e5c5.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/1368018794_zps0664e5c5.jpg.html)
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-784f9RrZObk/UYrNKyMIsqI/AAAAAAAAnc0/9ZcPxKvSJXI/s800/Image0048.JPG)
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Ludicrous rather than silly
(http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/6057/beersign.jpg)
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Not a sign so much, as packaging...
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/SueArcher/IMAG0393.jpg) (http://s8.photobucket.com/user/SueArcher/media/IMAG0393.jpg.html)
So, that chess set contains.... a chess set. Gosh.
Come to think of it though, it doesn't actually mention a board....
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJ_l2TCCYAAhfnY.jpg)
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7284/8731864393_c2c0b91b3f_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/8731864393/)
Spunkey Creek (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/8731864393/) by Ron Lowe (http://www.flickr.com/people/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
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So there you are, sitting in the dark, going about your 'business', when all of a sudden
(https://o.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg?t=HBgpaHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0cGljLmNvbS9zaG93L2xhcmdlL2NxNWlvci5qcGcUkAMUrAIAFgASAA&s=nXnk1OS1UsM5-tYn_cLrjulC6NtJu_cAKfwhqXNL9f0)
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No pictures allowed at work, sadly, but it was a good one.
Question of the Week:
Is Cameroon part of the EU?
And if not, why not? ;D
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7281/8739686810_df1614f313_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/8739686810/)
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That's not silly.
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Well, no, not entirely. But they hadn't engraved TREE into every trunk, at the same time :)
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It marks the line of an underground water pipe. It is not related to the ditch, just adjacent to it.
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It marks the line of an underground water pipe. It is not related to the ditch, just adjacent to it.
Yeah, we knew that really. But it did make us laugh.
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Aye - I admired the juxtaposition.
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(http://img3014.photobox.co.uk/4078579366efc84218ce868c6f77ca87ad39b6950ff6cde86a41d5aa55c5995c127f14f6.jpg)
Cars can't get down this close during the work, and are parked temporarily at the top. Pedestrians have the run of the place as a result. Presumably this sign was just the first one available.
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BCC appear to be instigating a cull of colourblind pedestrians:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0183.sized.jpg)
(Subtitles for the chromatically challenged: The upper, red light has the 'walking pedestrian' mask, while the lower, green light has the 'standing pedestrian' one.)
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BCC appear to be instigating a cull of colourblind pedestrians:
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0183.sized.jpg)
(Subtitles for the chromatically challenged: The upper, red light has the 'walking pedestrian' mask, while the lower, green light has the 'standing pedestrian' one.)
That is worryingly dangerous and merits more extensive publicity/ridicule.
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Where is that, Kim?
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Where is that, Kim?
California Way / Northfield Road (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=birmingham&hl=en&ll=52.446542,-1.970372&spn=0.009312,0.0159&hnear=Birmingham,+West+Midlands,+United+Kingdom&gl=uk&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=52.446592,-1.970251&panoid=TcMKioCAwcwY6pmnTOmFOg&cbp=12,299.53,,0,-4.79) Just along the Bournbrook Walkway from one of those extremely irritating anti-cycle barriers that only recumbent trikes can get through.
I note the masks are the right way round on Streetview.
ETA: Just submitted a fault report to the traffic signals department of the council.
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I see Street View image is dated August 2012 so fault is relatively recent.
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(http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7789/fagsign.jpg)
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Not really a sign, but seen the other day:
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3763/8899511968_d106a5156e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/natnot/8899511968/)
Ignoring the helmet bit (I'd rather see a warning about not riding without properly adjusted brakes, but there we go) - "Do not ride at night"?! Really? (The bike in question had lights attached, so presumably doesn't disintegrate in the dark.)
I'm not really sure what the picture's supposed to show, either - do not ride if frame is absent? ???
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The government's new fag packet advisory notice. Seems a bit tame to me:
(http://www.retronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tobacco.jpg)
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(http://handsonit.co.uk/images/photos/pedestrianwalkway.jpg)
Let's hope it doesn't rain!
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The government's new fag packet advisory notice. Seems a bit tame to me:
(http://www.retronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Tobacco.jpg)
This looks like an eminently sensible sign to me :-)
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On the corner of Monk Bar there is a dry cleaners, who have a board outside advertising their various services, including a Shirt Service. Passing it today, I notice the first r has been scratched out...
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Ahh, shades of "Invicta Pa nts"
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/the_public/Photo0243.sized.jpg)
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Bricks: they just make buildings look more classy.
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7287/8989181216_5736bbc587_z.jpg)
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5332/8988042109_e6d58db823_z.jpg)
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Thank you so much for those bricks - what do you suppose it might have been intended to mean, ffs?
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Sage advice when approaching accounting software designers:
(http://static.happyplace.com/assets/images/2013/05/51a7bc1a89fe5.jpg)
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Sage advice when approaching accounting software designers:
Groan
The bad jokes thread is that way ---->
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Sage advice when approaching accounting software designers:
Groan
The bad jokes thread is that way ---->
Are you suggesting I'm on the payroll?
IGMC........
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Thank you so much for those bricks - what do you suppose it might have been intended to mean, ffs?
I've heard it's short for "FishFinger Sandwich".
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(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/2013-06-12190701_zpsc4aefe46.jpg)
Fietsers Afstappen means Cyclists Dismount
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Yes I know it is a PS job but it made me smile.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/ziggycat/null_zps046cd9eb.jpg)
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7eeZfXf1yfA/UcRXLQ4I0eI/AAAAAAAABlI/DqUJW0Y6kSg/w415-h552-no/2013-06-14+13.54.32.jpg)
Who'd want to buy a kilogram of them? ???
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No.
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On a community noticeboard in Southwark:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/Rangefinder%20uploads/IMG_4268_zps803ada1b.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/Rangefinder%20uploads/IMG_4268_zps803ada1b.jpg.html)
Nearby:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/Rangefinder%20uploads/IMG_4272_zps6633249f.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/Rangefinder%20uploads/IMG_4272_zps6633249f.jpg.html)
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I hadn't thought of that!
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On a community noticeboard in Southwark:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/Rangefinder%20uploads/IMG_4268_zps803ada1b.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/Rangefinder%20uploads/IMG_4268_zps803ada1b.jpg.html)
That needs relocating to Mordor Central, as a matter of urgency.
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Not silly really, but I saw a couple of workmen painting the uprights to a car park height sign today. It's to be in black and white sections like a belisha beacon pole, and clearly they've masked it but not pulled the masking off yet, so the white and black currently looked rather haphazardly thick and thin. I rather liked it, it reminded me of zebras' legs. Would be rather fun.
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On south bound side road at Ampney St. Peter. Temporary works sign, "No Arctics Beyond This Point."
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Not any longer, no. It's that global warming.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0190_zpsb188bdd4.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/IMAG0190_zpsb188bdd4.jpg.html)
Well, no, actually, I can't.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/IMAG0190_zpsb188bdd4.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/IMAG0190_zpsb188bdd4.jpg.html)
Well, no, actually, I can't.
You're just not trying hard enough, is there a keyhole?
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I'm not that much slimmer than when you last saw me!
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Could you nail it up, perhaps?
I suppose you'll have to employ a couple of rather large security chaps to oversee the state of the door after you leave. ( You know, the types that wear ear-pieces and over use and over emphasise the word "Sir"). That's going going to be rather expensive and rather an imposition on you, imo.
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Something involving remote controlled explosive bolts would probably work. If you can get hold of the fuckers. Have you ever tried to get explosive bolts? Might as well prop the door shut with the associated licensing paperwork. Job done.
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Something involving remote controlled explosive bolts would probably work. If you can get hold of the fuckers. Have you ever tried to get explosive bolts? Might as well prop the door shut with the associated licensing paperwork. Job done.
I knew an australian engineer who made a pretty penny as a consultant specialising in remote controlled one time switch gear. The sort of stuff that when you press the 'turn me off, now , quick or sooner' big red button does so by blowing the control unit to smithereens so that there is no chance that any one other than a crack team of mechanical engineers with the associated spare units will be able to turn the thing back on. The kind of scenario where the remote oil platform is approaching supernova and volunteers to rock up and press the 'off' switch are hard to come by. Getting samples and production gear shipped anywhere was difficult. And the test procedures even more so.
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7284/8731864393_c2c0b91b3f_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/8731864393/)
Spunkey Creek (http://www.flickr.com/photos/62966413@N04/8731864393/) by Ron Lowe (http://www.flickr.com/people/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
Twinned with...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3056/2643723706_6aaff5518b.jpg?v=0)
Rumour has it it's a salt-water lake.
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(http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/003/233/380/Berneray_Forecasting_StoneGordonHatton2_crop_650.jpg?1372303857)
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Not silly, but on the Campsies ?
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3757/9178532576_ac75bb4477_c.jpg)
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Photo unavailable to me...
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Dunno what happened there. User error I think. End of a great bike month, fun dads v kids football match today, big garage clear out, some nice music on and kids in bed, & only 4 days at work before summer hols, so a few beers have been supped this evening. These may have been a factor in this.
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I see it without any problems.
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I see it now.
Was it pointing the right direction?
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v326/ado15/Rangefinder%20uploads/CNV00014e_zpsa2c58284.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ado15/media/Rangefinder%20uploads/CNV00014e_zpsa2c58284.jpg.html)
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z1Sa5oyBv9s/Uew7x4hDHOI/AAAAAAAAECM/poYBqxuoyCI/s800/Cows.jpg)
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They really shouldn't allow cows into the countyside if they can't follow the Country Code.
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/Photo0507.sized.jpg)
Near the church in Great Alne
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1017290_724424464253676_1355747961_n.jpg)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BSIKMmJCMAACu5x.jpg)
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*bzzt* Deviation!
That's a perfectly sensible and reasonable sign. ;D
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Some briliant examples on this page of Hilarious Chinese Translations (http://www.boredpanda.com/funny-chinese-translation-fails/) (NSFW). :D
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And they only charge a quarter. Bargain.
(http://everydayfunnyfunny.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/buttplug-removal-machine.jpg)
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(http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-488-488-90/15/1555/QO9DD00Z/posters/eat-here-get-gas.jpg)
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(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3684/9667480766_26ba3abcf1_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9667480766/)
IMG_1991 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/9667480766/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Well, it makes us laff.
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(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3716/9697224724_94d94d7ccd_c.jpg)
;D Outside the Best Western, Twin Falls, Idaho
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And is it true?
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And is it true?
It looked pretty wet, but I didn't go in to check
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(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7422/9704723755_0ca9ac25d9_c.jpg)
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(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2834/9824479933_4371133fc8_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/9824479933/)
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5464/9824405525_9ea285480b_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/9824405525/)
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It's got a bin in it too :thumbsup:
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(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-7DKMiUOY4Gk/TrUEdr669kI/AAAAAAAAfcU/esW2k5KEXWw/s800/Photo0235.jpg)
Just as you are leaving raf marham if my memory serves. Saw that every day for 5 long years
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I've seen strange numbers on signs like that for years. I always assumed that there had been a time when metrification seemed immanent, so the positions would be logical, while the numbers would be more sensible later.
They don't quite work out though. (Unless they were using some very rough and ready conversion factor)
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They don't quite work out though. (Unless they were using some very rough and ready conversion factor)
Or using the factor the wrong way round? Still doesn't seem to work out.
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I assumed it was when there was something in the way around the 150 yds point, or a side entrance which would make the sign ambiguous or confusing.
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So,
We need Ham to:
A) Accurately measure 150 meters from the junction and see if the sign is anywhere near that.
B) Accurately measure 150 yards from the junction and see if there is anything there that would make the position impracticable.
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Attempting to find it, I found this:
http://goo.gl/maps/fXari
It is in the same area, with the same 142 yds. But it is not the same sign (check the height versus the earth). And moving this one 8 yards back would make it more visible. The combination strongly suggests I am wrong.
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The combination strongly suggests I am wrong.
.... and I'd just awarded you the "best answer" prize!
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One hundred and forty six yards and two feet would be the natural distance to mark, being 2/3 of a furlong.
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Meaning you give way in 2/3 of 1/10 of a day. Or a bit more if you only have one ox.
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Silly%20Signs/SSCN0097.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Silly%20Signs/SSCN0097.jpg.html)
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This way to the hokey cokey party.
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Opening hours of a Finnish bike shop.
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2810/9274996395_1b68dec597_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/9274996395/)
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(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/86116171/greek-toll-booth.jpg)
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(http://qph.is.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-03989e314b1408499b6eb76c5d8986e9)
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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-fZs8bEHeuEs/UkiBessOYgI/AAAAAAAAELo/TIFeJYcJSto/s1000/P1010211.jpg) (https://picasaweb.google.com/drwhrobertson/NewlandsValley?authuser=0&feat=directlink)
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Wasn't in a sensible place to stop and take a photo, but a hand-drawn "TRACTRS TURNING" sign. Farming meets Web 2.0, presumably.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BV2TNd0IYAEia1p.jpg)
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/DSC0022-1.jpg)
Failed to find any in the vicinity, to take home
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This weeks bargain offer:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWDnXiGIYAAN-U0.jpg)
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Trying to attract the randonneur?
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In the canteen today:
Jerk chicken. Rice. Coslow.
No. English is not the first language of the kitchen staff.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWNT3NFCYAEbowx.jpg)
For those who don't speak Danish, it means approx 'the final push' (in this case towards the end of the sale).
I'm told an alternative meaning is available.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWNT3NFCYAEbowx.jpg)
For those who don't speak Danish, it means approx 'the final push' (in this case towards the end of the sale).
I'm told an alternative meaning is available.
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7105.msg1205206#msg1205206
Snap!
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This post in the SuperTwat thread
Mark Constantine, founder of Lush. The man is pure evil.
Is he? I had the impression (possibly carefully cultivated) that the Constantines were progressive, campaigning folk, against animal testing etc.
just reminded me of the sign outside the Lush shop in Nice:
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-l4EyT_fwsxE/SZQRVNJYCII/AAAAAAAAAqQ/FGVV44m2-4o/s800/P1010960.jpg)
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(http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/152943130.jpg)
Bring your own baby seal.
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No idea if this is genuine or not, and whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent:
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2839/10489092965_56a2c08a95.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/10489092965/)
PA241142 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/10489092965/) by TJ Clarion (http://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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I don't see it on Open Plaques (http://openplaques.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&phrase=wittgenstein).
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I'm pretty certain it is factual, from retained cranial information about Wittgenstein predating Wikipedia.
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I don't see it on Open Plaques (http://openplaques.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&phrase=wittgenstein).
It has just gone up in the last couple of weeks.
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It has just gone up in the last couple of weeks.
Guys Hospital? I'm sure it's much older than that and I used to hang around with a nurse from there about 25 years ago. Must be wrong ;)
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:facepalm:
We saw an old sign today calling it 'Mr Guy's Hospital', and decided to campaign for the reinstatement of the 'Mr' ;)
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Although this sign is next door but one to me - a mere tens of feet away, I never noticed this myself. #2 son happened across it on the interwebs.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Evolution_zps0ec43277.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Evolution_zps0ec43277.jpg.html)
Actually, one sign is not silly at all.
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Superb comeback :)
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Not silly, as such, but funny. Seen in, umm, Belgrave Square on Friday night, this modified no left turn sign:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jonqrx6F-wI/UoekzxAEXKI/AAAAAAAAE5c/UXTGuVrg2DE/s640/IMGP2531.JPG)
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I like that a lot.
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Not a wise course of action:
(http://kjeell.se/christina/wp-content/uploads/farthinder.jpg)
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Not really a silly sign, as it's perfectly sensible!
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5537/11031636615_8080fdb402_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/natnot/11031636615/)
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Not a sign, but the new form from the DBS (the replacement for the CRB)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uem0I2Qtfrg/Uph1yJ2CqmI/AAAAAAAAq_o/CRO2s6bxjj0/s800/Image0051.JPG)
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But there are plenty of spaces to use, to complete the sentence. Surely you can think of a creative way of doing it?
"..... as a suppository" springs to my twisted mind.
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But there are plenty of spaces to use, to complete the sentence. Surely you can think of a creative way of doing it?
"..... as a suppository" springs to my twisted mind.
Google suggests:
".... batteries as toothpaste"
".... sign"
".... recursion for this domain"
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Silly%20Signs/ponysign.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Silly%20Signs/ponysign.jpg.html)
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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-4hXVbV8WgLw/UiCL5q8exwI/AAAAAAAAA7s/QDWXeLnOlTU/w600-h450-no/Bucksley.jpg)
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(http://newcomicreviews.com/unsorted/17/newnew/the%20goose%20will%20attack%20if%20you%20go%20through%20this%20door%20dr%20heckle%20funny%20fail%20pictures.jpg)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BbyNGmCIcAAJ33f.jpg)
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1551516_10152044683661749_617376279_n.jpg)
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Yes I know its 'shopped, but it made me smile.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BdS8V5LCIAAPW7e.png)
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(http://i1166.photobucket.com/albums/q611/DiscoMuppet/52c18ef8876a0_zpsff61e990.jpg)
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(https://o.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg?t=HBgpaHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0cGljLmNvbS9zaG93L2xhcmdlL2R0NTlqYi5qcGcUwAcUoAsAFgASAA&s=_L73L-ZnvlNSg1HQmy9Z9s2GKplJJ6_u94mbzI_1jYI)
See https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=79686.0
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfqcXdYCUAAprBM.jpg)
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Looking through some old photos, I noticed this one taken on the YACF "Up the 'Uts" weekend a few years ago:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/wobblyjohn/Up%20the%20Uts/DSCN6231.jpg)
The rail is hiding the line: "rinse out tea pots," :demon:
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(http://www.pbase.com/image/154454165.jpg)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bg80OUOIIAAVs0Q.jpg)
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Wrong on so many counts, but being a building anorak I diverted to studying the brick bonding, a perverse variation on English garden wall bond...
Now does it mean what it says, no dogs riding bicycles, or is it suggesting its a bicycle riding area, so no dogs, or no bicycle riding, because dogs are allowed. I'm always amused by signs referring to "no bicycle riding" as it only encourages trikes and unicycles, and quadcycles, and....
Referring to "cycling" would cover all, and saves on paint. As you say, silly sign...
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wuCk_XE3FW4/UwnniCAJuDI/AAAAAAAAEJk/B18oWgk7-kc/w698-h527-no/2013-11-27+15.20.01+%25281%2529.jpg)
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Interesting. If I tilt my screen away from me I can see 'No Smoking' in there. Photoshop?
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Well spotted! Wonder if NO SMOKING was originally in red but faded after exposure to the elements.
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Almost certainly
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Definitely a colour other than black. It's at Whitehaven station and if you get up close the NO SMOKING is a very pale yellow colour.
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Definitely a colour other than black. It's at Whitehaven station and if you get up close the NO SMOKING is a very pale yellow colour.
Nicotine?
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RED and YELLOW fade most in the sun, unlike BLUE.
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RED and YELLOW fade most in the sun, unlike BLUE.
This is true, and while it's a well known fact that red bikes are faster, the problem is they get slower if you ride them on sunny days.
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Blue reflects the higher-energy portion of the spectrum, red absorbs everything but the lower. Political moralizing opportunity.
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(http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a618/Nagasawa25/fart_zps4ee11c7d.jpg) (http://s1286.photobucket.com/user/Nagasawa25/media/fart_zps4ee11c7d.jpg.html)
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Farts = speed
Humper = bumps on the road.
Dempere = in this case it means "to slow down" but it can mean suspension too.
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Saw this kind of sign on a Peter's Food (http://www.petersfood.co.uk/) lorry this morning:
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8308/7923301294_3b8aedf70c_z.jpg)
Couldn't take a picture as I was driving, but found the above one in a gallery (https://www.flickr.com/photos/loplop/galleries/72157625464653258/) that suggests that it's becoming a trend...
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On a largely unobserved wall at Waterloo station are two tiny mosaics. Here's one:
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2862/12863365603_8e57dd5a87.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/12863365603/)
P3010003 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/12863365603/) by TJ Clarion (http://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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:D
(Didn't know Escher had a donkey)
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(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/57044735/P1030587%20copy.jpg)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BicYCANIgAAcpbx.jpg)
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Ouch, that's a bit cruel. But perhaps I only think that as a result of having paused at a filling station on the A1 last weekend and watched two incidents.
(a) customer walks up towards shop to pay for petrol, and at the very last moment does a sideways skip as he realises that the big pane of glass in front of him is not the door, despite there being a clear ramped section of pavement in front of it.
(b) small child, having had a jolly time playing with hand dryers in the loos, walks straight into a big pane of glass next to the exit door, whacking head and resulting in prolonged howling, which must have been fun for the onward journey. There were some of those semi-opaque round stickers across the pane of glass but they were well above the line of sight of a small person.
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7276/13580185863_de04f6dcb3_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mG318z)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3823/13560891964_a1874255c7_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mEk7J9)
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7440/13589855785_8a6d0e5897_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mGTyEn)
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Not really silly signs, but more the users well readers of the signs that are silly.
We got three shops in a row from the left - relish/jam shop, antique shop and then the bike shop I work in. To enter the antique shop you have to enter from the relish/jam shop, not the bike shop. If you look into the antique shop it is rather easy to spot the the hole in the wall to the left of shop into the relish/jam shop and that there is no hole in the wall to right into the bike shop.
Every month for the last seven-eight months the relish/jam shop owner have tried a new way to let customers know how to enter the antique shop. "Please enter shop via shop on the left", "Please enter shop via the relish/jam shop" etc - with and without arrows and the bigger and bigger sign on the door*. Every market day we have a least 2-3 people walking into the bike shop trying to find the none existing hole in the wall to the antique shop**.
Along with many people outside doing a little dance from the left to the right, trying to figure out if the shop with 6-10 bicycle outside and many more in the windows is the relish/jam shop, where the dead give away is the name above the shop and the jam/relish jars in the windows.
* Which many people don't even see, along with pile of antiques on the inside of the glass door, blocking the possibility of entrance through that door.
** It is rather funny when we got a "train" of people walking into the shop following the leader who walks straight into the wall full of helmets on display, before they figure out that there isn't a hole in the wall which they can enter the antique shop by. And then you have this queue of people trying to figure out where the exit is, we just need a bit of Benny Hill themed music and we are onto a classic :)
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Sounds like a fine opportunity to introduce people to the advantages of bikes over jam :)
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Isn't there a nice Foska Marmite jersey you can display prominently?
http://www.foska.com/marmite-road-cycling-jersey.html
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3763/13625180445_50d9cf01cb_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mL1Bse)
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Obviously set up to cater to our anitpodean colleagues.
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/IMAG0021_zps570c5d08.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/IMAG0021_zps570c5d08.jpg.html)
This might seem a bit crude, until one realises where the photo was taken. Its a small fishing boat, and it was down at West Kingsdown, Nr. Deal in Kent, (Dover Sole!)
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7280/13701451223_2a709e16f1_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mSKw6D)
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2815/13702641103_c3f9de6d0d.jpg)
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Courtesy of Twitter.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkviN4mCMAAlNMK.jpg)
Applies to a film about the Holocaust.
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1837_zps18a909cf.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1837_zps18a909cf.jpg.html)
Yes I expect he probably is!
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I read it as:
Dennis will close cocks
or
Dennis wills cock close
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/IMAG0025_zps285ddaa7.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/IMAG0025_zps285ddaa7.jpg.html)
Please DO NOT read the 2 signs in conjunction with one another, ::-)
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(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8382/8483432552_09ebf9be26_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8483432552/)
IMG_1253 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/8483432552/) by The Pingus (http://www.flickr.com/people/the_pingus/), on Flickr
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2872/13805409735_75855699b7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/n2WkkM)
IMG_20140412_170525 (https://flic.kr/p/n2WkkM) by Ron Lowe (https://www.flickr.com/people/62966413@N04/), on Flickr
As of 12/4/14...
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3784/13827631454_fdf32f413f_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83697226@N02/13827631454/)
P1010035 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83697226@N02/13827631454/) by JuanM58 (https://www.flickr.com/people/83697226@N02/), on Flickr
Not that silly I suppose; she must have been watching that Richard Fortey on the telly.
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3784/13827631454_fdf32f413f_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83697226@N02/13827631454/)
P1010035 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83697226@N02/13827631454/) by JuanM58 (https://www.flickr.com/people/83697226@N02/), on Flickr
Not that silly I suppose; she must have been watching that Richard Fortey on the telly.
I wonder how much rhubarb you need to sell to buy a dinosaur? ???
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3784/13827631454_fdf32f413f_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83697226@N02/13827631454/)
P1010035 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83697226@N02/13827631454/) by JuanM58 (https://www.flickr.com/people/83697226@N02/), on Flickr
Not that silly I suppose; she must have been watching that Richard Fortey on the telly.
I wonder how much rhubarb you need to sell to buy a dinosaur? ???
Just get a chicken and claim it evolved whilst you were waiting
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Intriguing logo on cycle lane.. http://t.co/9LlBkq51DL (http://t.co/9LlBkq51DL)
Repeated further on at junction with Jumpers Avenue.http://goo.gl/maps/RAUfQ (http://goo.gl/maps/RAUfQ)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlM_eyLIUAAoHzQ.jpg)
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(http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/file/3564_404_not_found.jpg.pagespeed.ce.jJU7gbwGWC.jpg)
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(http://www.majorgeeks.com/news/file/3564_404_not_found.jpg.pagespeed.ce.jJU7gbwGWC.jpg)
Yeah, should have been 503, really.
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2936/13957985432_76fa24f223_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ngqjMf)P4204257 (https://flic.kr/p/ngqjMf) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7443/14024838163_3cf1e2cd5a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nnjXLx)P4244426 (https://flic.kr/p/nnjXLx) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7042/14001683441_ea40007127_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nkhhFc)P4244366 (https://flic.kr/p/nkhhFc) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5274/14020605981_fe4678f78a_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nmXgFT)P4254450 (https://flic.kr/p/nmXgFT) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7413/14043641133_de0f3a506f_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/noZkeF)P4250024 (https://flic.kr/p/noZkeF) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7133/14002113046_271582d97e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nkjuob)P4264541 (https://flic.kr/p/nkjuob) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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Sorry,no photo. I did try, but but my surreptitious attempts from a distance didn't work, and actually walking up to the guy and photographing didn't seem like a good idea.
You know how studes wear sports kit that says stuff like "University of Birmingham Football/Lacrosse/cycling/netball/whatever? Well, there's a stude in the pub tonight wearing "University of Birmingham Surfing"
Eta. And yes, he does have long blond hair and a ickle blond protobeard.
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Dude!
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7317/14048123691_2016ea5ea3_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/npoiKa)P4280004 (https://flic.kr/p/npoiKa) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7317/14048123691_2016ea5ea3_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/npoiKa)P4280004 (https://flic.kr/p/npoiKa) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
Have you by any chance cropped out the old plug-into-a-13A-socket trick? :)
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No one would use twin and earth into a 13a plug, would they? :o
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No one would use twin and earth into a 13a plug, would they? :o
Course not. That's what Speakons are for ;)
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No one would use twin and earth into a 13a plug, would they? :o
Course not. That's what Speakons are for ;)
*twitch*
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In Stroud
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/20140428_161849_zpshxmoemws.jpg)
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No one would use twin and earth into a 13a plug, would they? :o
<whistles innocently>
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Bmj0GYHIUAABdMs_zps957fcf26.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Bmj0GYHIUAABdMs_zps957fcf26.jpg.html)
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Cycled through Wankum today and had to photograph this:
(https://scontent-a-fra.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10269616_10152002713371786_8686937304001059528_n.jpg)
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Section of a billboard at Tesco petrol station, Ely:
(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y252/wobblyjohn/Silllysign_zps4dd25e49.jpg)
:facepalm:
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Silly%20Signs/corkscrew.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Silly%20Signs/corkscrew.jpg.html)
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5452/14095076901_8ff1e8a6cd_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ntwXig)P5030018 (https://flic.kr/p/ntwXig) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2925/13911690280_83f086d33f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nck3QY)Witton Castle (https://flic.kr/p/nck3QY) by dean.clementson (https://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7392/13911670150_37a92ca90f_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ncjWRU)P5030023 (https://flic.kr/p/ncjWRU) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Bmj0GYHIUAABdMs_zps957fcf26.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Bmj0GYHIUAABdMs_zps957fcf26.jpg.html)
Is that what you call a loose translation?
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5452/14095076901_8ff1e8a6cd_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ntwXig)P5030018 (https://flic.kr/p/ntwXig) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
I guess a motopcycle is some kind of Hell's Angel on acid.
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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/PjlyJZBKLKv70vZfSm-wmthKOTn6e-ufTmzY7G8PzNw=w738-h553-no)
From yesterday's ride
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Coole Pilate must be Pontius's hipper, more laid-back brother. Has a goatee, rides a fixie with titchy, untaped bars, adopts a Nazarene accent and hangs out with Gallileans.
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(https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/10171733_10152277147786112_8882760038117010128_n.jpg)
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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/PjlyJZBKLKv70vZfSm-wmthKOTn6e-ufTmzY7G8PzNw=w738-h553-no)
From yesterday's ride
Also: http://tinyurl.com/n3vde68
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'Scotland's Secret Bunker' so ought to be the tomb of Donald Trump!
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Seen on an ambulance on the way in this morning. Who thought that was a good idea?
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8329/8102384833_c74b27d86c.jpg)
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In similar vein, yesterday I saw "Canute Medical Services".
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5532/14170457634_b4fe26d47d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nAcin5)P5100083 (https://flic.kr/p/nAcin5) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7445/14196285492_121a8a4977_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nCtF5Y)
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(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC04285.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC04285.jpg.html)
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC04157.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC04157.jpg.html)
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(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC04157.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC04157.jpg.html)
Nothing silly about that. I imagine it's like a small-scale version of what happens if you park your car under a sausage tree.
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(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcROSY4dUMORL8lpzX_A4OqPRCgyFGOwGXcJuXIx1Mv3jsRWceArHg)
I wish I were a jellyfish
that cannot fall downstairs.
Of all the things I wish to wish
I wish I were a jellyfish
that hasn't any cares
and doesn't even have to wish
"I wish I were a jellyfish
that cannot fall downstairs."
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Not very silly. Just amusing that they're still painting over "Station" more than 50 years after it closed!
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5236/14215685425_0ffb1020fc_z.jpg)
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/t1.0-9/p180x540/10307231_10152033480861786_356185523026582227_n.jpg)
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Er...
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Translates of course as 'Hands off German tits. No to EU-standard breasts'.
I wasn't previously aware that was in the rules/laws. Is it another bendy banana option?
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Indeed. But it's no more ridiculous than the claims UKIP make about Europe.
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(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC04157.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC04157.jpg.html)
Nothing silly about that. I imagine it's like a small-scale version of what happens if you park your car under a sausage tree.
Indeed. I don't know what a sausage tree is, but palms of most species are prone to shedding branches without provocation.
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Translates of course as 'Hands off German tits. No to EU-standard breasts'.
I wasn't previously aware that was in the rules/laws. Is it another bendy banana option?
EU-standard breasts and bendy bananas - ???
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Indeed. I don't know what a sausage tree is, but palms of most species are prone to shedding branches without provocation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kigelia
A well-formed sausage weighs several kilos, and is prone to dropping without warning. They're LOUD (especially when they land on a steel roof).
*googles for a photo with a human for scale*....
(http://www.natgeocreative.com/comp/RF04/597/1398504.jpg)
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I've seen one of those somewhere, can't think where though.
Palm branches are bigger though.
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(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/2014-05-17170242_zps5d4b779a.jpg)
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/2014-05-17170118_zpsf4e82f6d.jpg)
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Website rather than sign but
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6s0RBI2IX2Y/U3n7Xrz5nHI/AAAAAAAArgU/4I18a5ktIf4/s640/screen-shot.jpg)
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(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC04157.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC04157.jpg.html)
Nothing silly about that. I imagine it's like a small-scale version of what happens if you park your car under a sausage tree.
Indeed. I don't know what a sausage tree is, but palms of most species are prone to shedding branches without provocation.
You are absolutely correct. However the chance of that tree shedding coconuts or palm fronds is, to be frank, rather small.
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5154/14230791364_8de182fa8b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nFwwtN)P5204622 (https://flic.kr/p/nFwwtN) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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By chocolate?
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Seen on an ambulance on the way in this morning. Who thought that was a good idea?
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8329/8102384833_c74b27d86c.jpg)
Maybe it's the Papal ambulance, and they forgot the "His" from the signwriting?
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(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC04157.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC04157.jpg.html)
Nothing silly about that. I imagine it's like a small-scale version of what happens if you park your car under a sausage tree.
Indeed. I don't know what a sausage tree is, but palms of most species are prone to shedding branches without provocation.
You are absolutely correct. However the chance of that tree shedding coconuts or palm fronds is, to be frank, rather small.
Doh, d'oh and dodo! I was so fascinated by the palm sausage that I totally overlooked the tree in the photo! :facepalm:
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2904/14242788792_1b2928e764_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nGA1U1)P5224647 (https://flic.kr/p/nGA1U1) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Silly%20Signs/sharp_plant.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Silly%20Signs/sharp_plant.jpg.html)
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Haven't got a pic, but the name of a camp-site near Chambord translates as "Valley of Flux".
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1964_zps5ea52f28.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1964_zps5ea52f28.jpg.html)
::-)
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1194_zps3595bdba.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1194_zps3595bdba.jpg.html)
:sick:
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Interesting subliminal connection between the willy shop and
Carla Sarkozy Carla B !
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2898/14250895996_c62098d220_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nHiyTo)P5254704 (https://flic.kr/p/nHiyTo) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2920/14087409080_09df373eac_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nsRDVs)P5254700 (https://flic.kr/p/nsRDVs) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3665/14107067867_c3397f0f3b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nuApN4)P5284805 (https://flic.kr/p/nuApN4) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3778/14106968418_806fdae281_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nuzUeq)P5284800 (https://flic.kr/p/nuzUeq) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3745/14300628734_8c70243cf5_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nMGsGo)P5290031 (https://flic.kr/p/nMGsGo) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2911/14114569710_67fda1c35b_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nvfRQb)P5290027 (https://flic.kr/p/nvfRQb) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2913/14321388993_be00ee5dde_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nPwRZT)P5290019 (https://flic.kr/p/nPwRZT) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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my, you did have an interesting day, didn't you.
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Yup. But I never found that cash machine ;D
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Pub signs that look like Hitler, anyone?
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3722/14315097264_71d74de4dc_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/14315097264/)
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Spotted this one years ago, but only got a photo last week. It's silly because it's not true.
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3743/14129138590_40d1e19174_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/14129138590/)
Not Flat (https://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/14129138590/) by dean.clementson (https://www.flickr.com/people/30024450@N04/), on Flickr
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I found this yesterday. A set of these have been installed on the new cycle path between Maryport and Allonby: -
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Y7Tgp68pDYk/U4trnBhEioI/AAAAAAAAF9Y/FdKxYbYkEcg/w734-h553-no/IMG_20140531_163019.jpg)
Shame they couldn't have found the money to finish tarmacing the cycle path instead of having gravel sections ::-)
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(http://i.imgur.com/41u2Brb.jpg)
Andrew
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(http://home.bt.com/images/odd-road-markings-in-plymouth-136390675138803901-140530124128.jpg)
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I wish someone could teach me how to capture a picture from twitter on my nexus.
Unfortunately, I'm going to have to post a link again </naff>
https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/473505049432567808
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Pub signs that look like Hitler, anyone?
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3722/14315097264_71d74de4dc_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/14315097264/)
. . . or, indeed, Milligan?
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(https://scontent-a-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/10438574_674880459226027_8068519801679919138_n.jpg)
Source: Safe Cycling Australia (https://www.facebook.com/SafeCyclingAustralia/photos/a.221459274568150.49398.220197534694324/674880459226027/?type=1)
Andrew
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Poor Luton. Look What Has Been Done. :(
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5037/14149914129_a8b5605637_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nyo1uH)Scan0022 (https://flic.kr/p/nyo1uH) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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I am reassured there is no discernible change to this rather ropey bit of road.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2934/14150967787_aae5fa6058_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nytpHe)Scan0061 (https://flic.kr/p/nytpHe) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3893/14337553364_b548a8a558_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nQXH6W)Scan0013 (https://flic.kr/p/nQXH6W) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Ju6u1rAAeG0/U496BJnsnmI/AAAAAAAAFyY/1HonsjINf9Q/s800/P1010508.jpg)
Very silly when you're travelling through the Alps, on your bike, and you still think "Hmm, I wonder if I could, somehow..."
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Highway Gothic, according to the ever-reliable wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FHWA_Series_fonts).
Do you reckon FML is 'shopped too, or just a happy coincidence?
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The first four letters (Farm) don't seem to match the last five (ville), methinks
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Farmville and the silly sentence look photoshopped to me as they are the only characters in Arial. Scatterbrain that I am cannot put my finger on the other typeface.
Farmville (https://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm/?redirecting_zy_session_expired=1&) is a Facebook game.
Andrew
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(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-gLooAywBFSY/U5N-ki9-8aI/AAAAAAAACKY/4KSbctTu2Ss/s912/20140511_155250.jpg)
Except for signs, apparently.
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Accept for signs, apparently.
one for the 'Spelling that makes you cringe' thread? ;)
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Accept for signs, apparently.
one for the 'Spelling that makes you cringe' thread? ;)
::-) Blame it on the vodka.
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3857/14178539219_b7d326c46f_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nAUHJK)P6064834 (https://flic.kr/p/nAUHJK) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2928/14363657792_5887082404_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nTgv3h)P6064859 (https://flic.kr/p/nTgv3h) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2908/14342052566_7cd1f492da_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nRmLyo)P6064877 (https://flic.kr/p/nRmLyo) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2900/14363592912_5655cef32e_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nTgaKE)P6064925 (https://flic.kr/p/nTgaKE) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0795.sized.jpg)
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3867/14423858233_cf682c8c16_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nYA3wV)P6095143 (https://flic.kr/p/nYA3wV) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/q80/s720x720/10334452_731029666937329_7705015178929762445_n.jpg)
From here (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=731029666937329&set=a.126046340769001.9811.124306287609673&type=1&theater).
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/IMAG0041_zps9a93a454.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/IMAG0041_zps9a93a454.jpg.html)
outside the Post office in Gravesend.
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(http://www.cumbriacrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-06-17-003.jpg)
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(http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=387735&d=1403031419)
Andrew
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Unfortunately hyphenation for the word for garlic in German
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10421455_10152092985041786_4925753910121465505_n.jpg)
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French word for garlic has 3 letters.
English has 6.
German has 9...
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French word for garlic has 3 letters.
English has 6.
German has 9...
One of my favourite puns is Flanders' & Swann's "The French and Italians eat garlic in bed".
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2917/14471245592_1b54a7d4f6_z.jpg)
In case you can't read it the bottom line is:
GATE IN USE
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Of course it is. As a fence.
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3873/14493967293_3d11da4696.jpg)
Always makes me giggle :)
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(http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b496/22xjR2Udt/YACF/0656_zps9847f19a.jpg)
Seen on the side of a car (a Mini, IIRC) in Chalfont St. Peter last week.
I think I would make an extra effort to walk around the car a few times almost touching before leaving a note under the windscreen pointing out how stupid the sticker is.
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It brings to my mind those car alarms popular for a while in the '90s, which had some kind of proximity sensor; if you stood within a certain distance but not touching, a recorded voice would boom out, 'Stand BACK from this vehicle!'
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(http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b496/22xjR2Udt/YACF/0656_zps9847f19a.jpg)
Seen on the side of a car (a Mini, IIRC) in Chalfont St. Peter last week.
Only one pedestrian in Chalfont St Peter.
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Only one pedestrian in Chalfont St Peter.
On a similar basis there's only one cyclist in Birmingham (and they do, from time to time, dismount).
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Didn't try it to find out why:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3914/14545323916_3290ecfd77_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oajA3Q)
IMG_3512 (https://flic.kr/p/oajA3Q) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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The next one along is bang out of order.
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(http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b496/22xjR2Udt/YACF/0656_zps9847f19a.jpg)
Seen on the side of a car (a Mini, IIRC) in Chalfont St. Peter last week.
Only one pedestrian in Chalfont St Peter.
Well, there was apparently only one horseman in Drumcliffe churchyard.
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2906/14394623620_9c7d56bb9d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nW1d6S)
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3895/14404127409_832d118a0d.jpg)
So, as I'm not allowed to drink it anywhere I'll just use it for ornamental purposes :)
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(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/gus69/GetImage_zps11612b17.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/gus69/media/GetImage_zps11612b17.jpg.html)
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(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b231/gus69/GetImage_zps11612b17.jpg) (http://s20.photobucket.com/user/gus69/media/GetImage_zps11612b17.jpg.html)
If that sign is the one I think it is, i.e., a Queensland bike shop then it is a reflection of what was heading their way ... a .......... big storm, we call them cyclones (I think it was Ita (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Ita) but not 100% sure) ....
Andrew
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0821.sized.jpg)
In other countries, of course, they'd just fix the tap...
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5157/14596561006_4ac4fd1db3_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oeRc3W)Scan0141 (https://flic.kr/p/oeRc3W) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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Not so silly: I'd say that was relevant Traffic
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3847/14432913710_23696ff8ed_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nZospQ)Scan0139 (https://flic.kr/p/nZospQ) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsmNp4yIIAArBIq.jpg)
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0827.sized.jpg)
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Isn't it crap when your hand breaks down? Hope the engineer was able to reboot it .
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You mean they haven't tried switching it off and on again?
For shame...
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/10385493_633931676701105_8704238582447858515_n.jpg)
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That's NOT silly!!! ;D ;D ;D
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(http://www.ewingh.com/eje/divers/ChiChiVeuxTu.jpg)
"Chichi veux-tu m'épouser? Lolo".
With names like that they deserve each other.
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5532/14170457634_b4fe26d47d_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nAcin5)P5100083 (https://flic.kr/p/nAcin5) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
That's the road to the back of the Green Man in The Itch...
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It is. I don't know how many slow children they have in the village.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bswr0LTCcAAQ2zG.jpg)
To any French readers, its only silly to juvenile Brits.
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Er. I don't know much about dogs, but...
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3919/14704650034_b34ff2673b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oppb9S)The greyhound (https://flic.kr/p/oppb9S) by Pelotonhound (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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Obviously a cat-lover.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/steinsky/143733824/in/photostream/ (https://www.flickr.com/photos/steinsky/143733824/in/photostream/)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BtJmTN2IgAANL2x.jpg) (https://twitter.com/hackneymarshman/status/491567789808033794/photo/1)
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Well, that's...
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2899/14540183427_59facbc425_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/o9SeXH)P7075778 (https://flic.kr/p/o9SeXH) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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Don't fuck off when someone's giving you a blow job ???
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Well, exactly. Or Priests get out quickly if the Police are knocking.
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Oh, Clazzer, you are naughty :(
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Not really a sign as such, but wonderfully silly.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140725_114256_zps8d9c0e08.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20140725_114256_zps8d9c0e08.jpg.html)
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3917/14742787772_cf1c864bbb_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/osLDb5)P7250021 (https://flic.kr/p/osLDb5) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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Not a sign, but an unusual instruction:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3922/14564829569_dc7376c05c_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oc3ypc)P7230002 (2) (https://flic.kr/p/oc3ypc) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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Saw this marked on the map and totally misinterpreted it :face palm:
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5569/14574150427_7283ae50ae_z.jpg)
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3840/14601049277_2cd7832cb2_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/offcfV)P7280009 (https://flic.kr/p/offcfV) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
Only silly if you know that there are no bike racks provided. ::-)
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I dunno. "Please report any repairs" is a bit strange - surely they'd know if they had repaired anything. Or is repair Newspeak for damage these days?
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And they obviously have a serious problem with smokers.
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5579/14602054917_54f081b3a3_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ofkmcx)P7265852 (https://flic.kr/p/ofkmcx) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
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I am reassured there is no discernible change to this rather ropey bit of road.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2934/14150967787_aae5fa6058_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nytpHe)Scan0061 (https://flic.kr/p/nytpHe) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/people//), on Flickr
That looks very much like just north of the roundabout on Cromwell Road Whitstable, just before the snicket which takes you under the railway line behind the houses on the left of the photo..
If it is, then I can confirm it has been resurfaced and is a vast improvement to the retina-detaching pot-hole fest it was before. :)
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2057_zpsd67bf595.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2057_zpsd67bf595.jpg.html)
in France
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_2057_zpsd67bf595.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_2057_zpsd67bf595.jpg.html)
in France
It's a trap!
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Thelma and Louise?
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I was thinking more along the lines of "Asparagus Next Left".
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I rode past one like this in Deopham today:
(http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/218/2249/1600/060531Deopham.jpg)
There's also a background story (http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/now_bor_you_watch_your_speed_1_688518) and a discussion on SABRE (http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=14754).
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5592/14675999259_bdd0d19478_z.jpg)
Like there's ever any doubt!
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10501689_870840116278180_5855208406863105524_n.png)
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0834.sized.jpg)
Which isn't really silly, until you walk along the platform and realise it's part of a set...
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0835.sized.jpg)
And even better...
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/Photo0833.sized.jpg)
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10501689_870840116278180_5855208406863105524_n.png)
That would make a good sticker to put on my bikes ;D
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... and the other is a real sign.
(http://pierroad.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/arun-district-council-cycling-policy.jpg)
I think it's a cry for help, the poor loves. They really really want a bike, but don't have one. :'(
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Not my photo, but I thought it ammusing enough to go on here:
(https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10173590_715567065150256_1929252265_n.jpg?oh=4700bf6aafd7bb8e9e44368bc51f505f&oe=546C2920)
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... and the other is a real sign.
(http://pierroad.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/arun-district-council-cycling-policy.jpg)
I think it's a cry for help, the poor loves. They really really want a bike, but don't have one. :'(
As an aside, my son is always rather amused when we enter the realm of the Arun council. As Arun is his name, he just walks around claiming all of the things with it written on are his!
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5552/15010860701_f5ebbe7ffb_o.jpg)
Next to a tunnel on Colorado State Highway 14. The Cache la Poudre river (right and down) is about 18" deep at this point.
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From my Twitter feed (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bv0f7uZCAAAVSuI.jpg)
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I guess that's aimed at the teachers. ;D
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That's the wine aisle, not the spirits.
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That's the wine aisle, not the spirits.
It's still early in the term. Give it a few weeks.
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(http://shitlondon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gatwick.jpg)
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5591/14861709759_e08af3e3fb_c.jpg)
What the picture doesn't make clear, but is self-evident to anyone capable of reading the sign, is that on the other side of the fence is a two thousand foot drop...
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(http://shitlondon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gatwick.jpg)
Looks familiar (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7105.msg1689502#msg1689502) :)
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5569/14869484709_c3fe1c5b38_z.jpg)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3892/14869623788_b52aba86fe_z.jpg)
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/14870483138_e3e82a7489_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oE47yj)
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3848/15044458756_e34c7966dc_c.jpg)
I don't see why not; it's only 467 feet down to the river... Navajo Bridge, Arizona
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Probably not a 'silly sign' as such but not sure where else to put this - my new Garmin gives all the local farm names. This one wins the internet!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t1.0-9/10614176_10152233018086786_6255887672852994214_n.jpg)
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(http://d3dsacqprgcsqh.cloudfront.net/photo/a2PPZ9Y_460s_v1.jpg)
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(http://37.media.tumblr.com/07de2cda8face85a13be60fff2c168e3/tumblr_nawq47BL2h1qzft56o1_500.jpg)
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Not so much the sign, but choosing to ride up the road:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3859/14911283410_966a71093b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oHEe4h)
IMG_3806 (https://flic.kr/p/oHEe4h) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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Irony perhaps, though I suspect not:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BwtEhy-CUAA9rl7.jpg)
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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-SacqcWdvTSA/VAsK2hN_45I/AAAAAAAAr_E/zcvMALTXhHc/s640/P9060333.JPG)
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To be on the safe side, I took this sign seriously. But google translate confidently translates the text on the sign as "I've been reading the label on the flea", which strikes me as rather silly.
Explanations welcome.
Edit: perhaps the landowner is suggestion he/she has very good eyesight, and nothing escapes him/her.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5562/15208948676_868ed7296b_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/15208948676/)
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Edit: perhaps the landowner is suggestion he/she has very good eyesight, and nothing escapes him/her.
That's how I'd interpret it.
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Although curiously, No Entry normally implies that entry is allowed, but not by this entrance (as in a car park where the exit has No Entry from the road).
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Spotted this fantastic sign on the way to Aachen yesterday too late to do anything about it.
On the way back I asked my German companion to photograph it but in the dark with the iPhone it is a bit rubbish.
But basically the sign is to Dreieck Jackerath straight ahead and the junction takes you to Titz.
(http://www.auntiehelen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Motorway-sign-768x1024.jpg)
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Can't comment on Titz, but there's a Triangle near Halifax.
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(http://www.pbase.com/johnewing/image/157388083.jpg)
Just in case you've forgotten
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Cádiz radio station. How we laughed.
(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Miscellaneous/IMG_20140917_181826.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Miscellaneous/IMG_20140917_181826.jpg.html)
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(http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w516/bcwd/ATT00004.jpg)
(http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w516/bcwd/ATT00006.jpg)
(http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w516/bcwd/ATT00009.jpg)
(http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w516/bcwd/ATT00020.jpg)
(http://i1079.photobucket.com/albums/w516/bcwd/ATT00005.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx7G9wZCYAAl00K.jpg)
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(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-nKRVKbGmcao/VB8xpqUXcwI/AAAAAAAAGi4/sYtzKIMMaJQ/s720/P2520019.jpg)
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An instruction, not a sign: When I turn on its GPS feature my Panasonic FT-3 asks me rather sweetly to
Please follow cabin attendants after turning on GPS.
"I wasn't stalking her, yer honner, the camera told me to do it."
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2944/15145269257_d4d68c9236_o.jpg)
If you have just murdered Dark Side legend Steve "Slash" Slade, then Reserve NM seems a long way o go to dispose of the body...
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Saul Hudson take note.
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I never thought of him...
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3880/15331498652_dda86dc4d4_o.jpg)
I am now intensely curious as to what's going on here...
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3879/15111475580_5e6d4c5139_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/p2mgdq)
Kelvingrove sign (https://flic.kr/p/p2mgdq) by rjevans6 (https://www.flickr.com/people/7194134@N06/), on Flickr
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2941/15352033461_6618a398a7_o.jpg)
I'm now wondering whether the perp was caught in mid-vandal and is e'en now doing time in the U.S. Penitentiary Florence ADMAX Facility...
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2944/15145269257_d4d68c9236_o.jpg)
If you have just murdered Dark Side legend Steve "Slash" Slade, then Reserve NM seems a long way o go to dispose of the body...
Never heard of him. Rather, this elicited memories of a chap climbing onto a kitchen counter in UCL halls of residence and proclaiming "I'm going to have a slash out of this window". A student and a gentleman, forsooth.
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I never thought of him...
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3880/15331498652_dda86dc4d4_o.jpg)
I am now intensely curious as to what's going on here...
The truly weird thing about that sign is the lack of bullet holes.
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1344_zps60fdbdb8.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1344_zps60fdbdb8.jpg.html)
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/100_1349_zps916ecb9f.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/100_1349_zps916ecb9f.jpg.html)
Oh yeah!
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(http://i.imgur.com/IiHNN6x.jpg)
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Cercy-la-Tour
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5612/15591392022_981bc46af0.jpg)
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;D ;D ;D
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Never wanted to go to China anyway
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1RY6dLCIAAIWcv.jpg)
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/7087_10152444083199403_2013838018863908306_n.jpg?oh=7ed37b76ee1d7c0d33f3d9cef5d0ea26&oe=549BF0E2&__gda__=1418298208_63721a6b291923d4192e145c62ffe26f)
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(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8583/15798321742_7db110d05c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q53wDC)
IMG_4260 (https://flic.kr/p/q53wDC) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7353/14067272063_5bb3eb2743.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nr5rTv)Eating the evidence (https://flic.kr/p/nr5rTv) by ruthturner3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/106826773@N02/), on Flickr
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:facepalm:
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7489/15833732306_455dec9f11_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/q8b1YA)
IMG_4330 (https://flic.kr/p/q8b1YA) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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After seven months in Germany with just a few visits home this Recycling Centre's name is rather apt.
(http://www.auntiehelen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Williwisch.jpg)
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3KW6xJIIAAsRjW.jpg)
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Apparently, early in the war, their was a shortage.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1285/4659053662_75608d8b0d_b.jpg)
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(https://scontent-a-vie.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10300961_10152452765849264_2018468818673880349_n.jpg?oh=182a3af3e4e521eeb9997c1ec7376f35&oe=551751CF)
I wonder whether there is an F on the door or not.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/91101_Flying_Scotsman.jpg/1280px-91101_Flying_Scotsman.jpg)
Apparently, but I don't think he's in the window.
Rather crass, slapping the name along the side like that. The original F.S.was much more discreet.
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But at least that purple thing actually works and is in one piece, which is more than can be said for tha tmillstone around the NRM's neck, the "proper" flying scotsman. Being really boring, of course the one you pictured relates to the train, the Flying Scotsman, rather than the locomotive similarly named which occasionally hauled said train.
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Certainly, the FS train was hauled by several different locos, but my comment re discretion stands. The name plates on the locos assigned to the FS train were extremely modest in comparison with the current shrieker.
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(http://i.imgur.com/5Msyp2o.jpg)
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:facepalm:
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8669/15719236200_584f63e0a9_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pX4cgN)
IMG_4407 (https://flic.kr/p/pX4cgN) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2927/13678186183_3319dc4727_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/mQGhdg)IMG_0919 (https://flic.kr/p/mQGhdg) by ruthturner3 (https://www.flickr.com/people/106826773@N02/), on Flickr
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(http://i.imgur.com/QM1Cyzz.jpg)
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9 1/2 Weeks?
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At least Federico's OK. Fellini's 8 1/2
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It would be difficult to arrest him.
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It would be difficult to arrest him.
Yeah, but he has just been passed Fit For Work by Atos*
* UK politics joke.
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Certainly, the FS train was hauled by several different locos, but my comment re discretion stands. The name plates on the locos assigned to the FS train were extremely modest in comparison with the current shrieker.
Ah, having now seen this from a proper PC at home, I see the original purpose. The amusing pics were blocked at work, only revealing the somewhat more prosaic one. I am now officially amused by the original pic, now I can actually see it!
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Certainly, the FS train was hauled by several different locos, but my comment re discretion stands. The name plates on the locos assigned to the FS train were extremely modest in comparison with the current shrieker.
Ah, having now seen this from a proper PC at home, I see the original purpose. The amusing pics were blocked at work, only revealing the somewhat more prosaic one. I am now officially amused by the original pic, now I can actually see it!
Oh jolly D, one is so glad.
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Silly%20Signs/IMG_20141201_152919.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Silly%20Signs/IMG_20141201_152919.jpg.html)
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Norm's in da house, apparently
(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Silly%20Signs/IMG_20141204_102523.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Silly%20Signs/IMG_20141204_102523.jpg.html)
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We beg you to wear trousers? :o
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"Please, PLEASE....."
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Weak translation.
'Lange Hosen' might equal 'long trousers' but a better-worded notice might suggest shorts were unsuitable, rather than begging diners to wear trousers.
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(http://i.imgur.com/jiEVH9l.jpg)
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(http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c121/scoop123/550B06E4-D16F-48DF-9795-47D3A43904BA_zpslpsku3b9.png)
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(https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10941419_10152947025186839_8714097594351778177_n.jpg?oh=af453aae0d23ddc1859a92d1ca1ec4c6&oe=5524A611&__gda__=1432283716_cc887bc9d95c5633c992d4c009a6a32d)
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Shimano or Campag?
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(https://scontent-a-vie.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10300961_10152452765849264_2018468818673880349_n.jpg?oh=182a3af3e4e521eeb9997c1ec7376f35&oe=551751CF)
I wonder whether there is an F on the door or not.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/91101_Flying_Scotsman.jpg/1280px-91101_Flying_Scotsman.jpg)
Apparently, but I don't think he's in the window.
Rather crass, slapping the name along the side like that. The original F.S.was much more discreet.
Was painting the front of the train in UKIP's colours a deliberate act?
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7456/15742706993_b23131602a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pZ8ujD)
IMG_4699 (https://flic.kr/p/pZ8ujD) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7456/15742706993_b23131602a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pZ8ujD)
IMG_4699 (https://flic.kr/p/pZ8ujD) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
That mashed potato's a funny colour... ;D
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7456/15742706993_b23131602a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pZ8ujD)
IMG_4699 (https://flic.kr/p/pZ8ujD) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
That mashed potato's a funny colour... ;D
Cloff pliss!
</Shed>
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The roundabout about which this sign warns http://goo.gl/maps/hIgQT (http://goo.gl/maps/hIgQT) was replaced by the traffic lights in the background.
In 2000.
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7456/15742706993_b23131602a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pZ8ujD)
IMG_4699 (https://flic.kr/p/pZ8ujD) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/people/36539950@N00/), on Flickr
That mashed potato's a funny colour... ;D
;D ;D ;D
We obviously watched the same children's TV
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Which way to Santa Ana?
(http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah311/berry30/DSCF4310_zpsc3olkora.jpg)
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Which way to Santa Ana?
(http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah311/berry30/DSCF4310_zpsc3olkora.jpg)
That's silly, they forgot the NCN numbers.
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NCN?
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NCN
National Cycle Network over here - or, mostly, not.
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NCN
National Cycle Network over here - or, mostly, not.
Indeed. Notorious for these sort of feats of informative signage:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/all-roads-lead-to.jpg) (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/December2009.htm)
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NCN
National Cycle Network over here - or, mostly, not.
Indeed. Notorious for these sort of feats of informative signage:
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/all-roads-lead-to.jpg) (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.meg/wcc/facility-of-the-month/December2009.htm)
The metal signs are usually fitted by County council Highways dept. The stickers will have been done by a Sustrans volunteer.
In Ely we had to alter the Council NCN 11 signage as it directed you round in circles. ::-)
They also produced Ely Cyclemaps with the route of NCN 11 incorrect - the county cycling officer had marked it where he thought it went rather than check the paperwork for the agreed route, or actually follow the signs. :facepalm:
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(https://scontent-b-mad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/7493_340425089420475_1838534616_n.jpg?oh=8731268ee53d522d7b1f9be71d65b633&oe=555748E2)
Literal translation: 'Buy one shoe, get 50% off the second'. So, a pair at 75% of the usual price? Methinks they meant to say something else.
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NCN
National Cycle Network over here - or, mostly, not.
Ah, that'd be it then. Ta muchly. 'Scuse my continental ignorance and apparent dyslexia.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8m3aMKIIAAVwot.jpg)
The responsible citizen has nothing to fear from the British Transport Police, but you can't be too careful.
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Walked (well I was pushed actually) on the pavement past a nursing home yesterday.
Security lights came on and electronic voice warned us "Warning, you being recorded on security cameras."
Big Brother...
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Helly it's high time one of the superbrains on this forum invented a hover chair for you. It'd solve so many issues.
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I don't think my friends could levitate here http://goo.gl/maps/HqvEs (http://goo.gl/maps/HqvEs) though.
We meet at the Tally Ho http://goo.gl/maps/fYJKL (http://goo.gl/maps/fYJKL) for a curry or other Wetherspoon's food,
amble towards the Trinity Church Centre fhttp://goo.gl/maps/F1dwN (http://goo.gl/maps/F1dwN)
for our Proper Meeting, then descend on Chix Chox http://goo.gl/maps/EYpNA (http://goo.gl/maps/EYpNA) for coffee ± more food.
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:D
That's how you do meetings! My meetings aren't as good as that.
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Barnet Cyclists: Noli popinam praeterire!
We have a tea break mid-meeting, with ( chocolate usually) biscuits & hot drinks.
Well-nourished...http://barnetlcc.jalbum.net/BC/30th%20anniversary/album/index.html (http://barnetlcc.jalbum.net/BC/30th%20anniversary/album/index.html)
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Helly it's high time one of the superbrains on this forum invented a hover chair for you. It'd solve so many issues.
We were promised jet packs.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Q7yXeuwY0
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Ooh, I do like that shirt design. Quite silly, but also not silly at all.
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Shame I don't like the
shocking pink cerise!
I have a yellow T-shaped shirt from a few years back, as modelled by Ian.
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In Holland the red signs indicate a direct cycle route. The green signs are for scenic routes.
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/20150224_1255151_zpskru9lns5.jpg)
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In Holland the red signs indicate a direct cycle route. The green signs are for scenic routes.
(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t140/VinceHall/CyclingStuff/20150224_1255151_zpskru9lns5.jpg)
"I'm colourblind, you insensitive clod!"
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The scenic signs also have a picture of a tree. On them :P
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But where are the routes to Curacao and Bonaire?
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(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8697/16269482484_d6257bfc64_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qMFmjG)
Hmm, I wonder if it has anything to do with...
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7624/16865962866_2410195332_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rGotad)
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I seem to remember it was a Thursday. Where is it?
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Here. (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Roman+Rd&hl=en&ll=52.603041,-1.8645&spn=0.004965,0.008368&fb=1&gl=uk&ftid=0x4870a4191c14a5f5:0x42ccebbb0e7bb3cb&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=52.602963,-1.866642&panoid=OAEnFVGB7nEK-zrKUvRAkg&cbp=12,142.46,,3,12.42) It's featured on various forum rides.
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Well that sign lies, something did happen there. It was the 5. September, sun came up and sun went down etc
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That sign (and the ford) are in Eskdale. You can buy one of the signs on Amazon so it's hardly unique :)
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I could see the sign was "fake" - it was the ford that interested me!
Thanks all.
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See also George III's diary entry for the 4th of July, 1776...
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It would be a good sign for 4th century somewhere in the middle east, near Al-gebra.
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;D
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/20150324037_G.sized.jpg)
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(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/iddu/20150411-01-MIsc/DSCN1958_zpsbxg1cjlh.jpg)
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(http://i.huffpost.com/gen/2699022/images/n-SALVO-SPORTS-large570.jpg)
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(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8697/16269482484_d6257bfc64_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qMFmjG)
18th April 1930 (http://newslite.tv/2011/04/18/on-this-day-in-1930-bbc-said-t.html)
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(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CowoZ5Ir1pU/VT6zTBa0OqI/AAAAAAAAJTY/yuCztHjvc2A/w737-h553-no/20150426_123353%5B2%5D.jpg)
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^like. I want one :)
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I believe we may have done this before, but it bears repeating.
https://goo.gl/maps/AM5yp
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8871/16872132794_7aec845ced_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rGW6gh)Freya (https://flic.kr/p/rGW6gh) by JuanM58 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83697226@N02/), on Flickr
In these austere times it is gratifying to find local businesses surviving, even if their current aspirations tend to be more modest than in the past. Last year she was saving up for a dinosaur.
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So you are telling that there is a dinosaur walking about near there ? :)
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I believe we may have done this before, but it bears repeating.
https://goo.gl/maps/AM5yp
In the circumstances, it would be reasonable to post it every time you go around the circuit...
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_0904.jpg)
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8871/16872132794_7aec845ced_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rGW6gh)Freya (https://flic.kr/p/rGW6gh) by JuanM58 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83697226@N02/), on Flickr
In these austere times it is gratifying to find local businesses surviving, even if their current aspirations tend to be more modest than in the past. Last year she was saving up for a dinosaur.
Am I the only one disturbed by the shape of that fork?
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/DSC_0904.jpg)
I'd rather stay thirsty.
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8871/16872132794_7aec845ced_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rGW6gh)Freya (https://flic.kr/p/rGW6gh) by JuanM58 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83697226@N02/), on Flickr
In these austere times it is gratifying to find local businesses surviving, even if their current aspirations tend to be more modest than in the past. Last year she was saving up for a dinosaur.
Am I the only one disturbed by the shape of that fork?
No you're not. What is going on there?
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(http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/iddu/00000000-Misc/2015-05-10%2017.11.18_zpslya8aman.jpg)
??? ;D
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Am I the only one disturbed by the shape of that fork?
Is it a Bates Diadrant (http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/builders/bates3.html)? There were lots of experiments going on with specific aspects of frame design in those days (the Curly Hetchins (http://www.hetchins.org/100.htm) and the original Flying Gate (http://www.tjcycles.co.uk/) for example). You can draw your own conclusions over how important it was that the various designs were each claimed to give a real advantage, versus that manufacturers' names on frames were outlawed as advertising at the time, so an instantly recognised shape was commercially useful.
A friend once told me that his Flying Gate went into corners like a dream. Sadly, however, it wouldn't come out again :o I've never heard that from anyone else, but I've never forgotten it ;D
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A friend once told me that his Flying Gate went into corners like a dream. Sadly, however, it wouldn't come out again :o
Did T.E. Lawrence have one, perchance ;)
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It is indeed a Bates so yes, there are dinosuars hereabouts. There is some blah about it in reply no. 7699 here: https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17.7675
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Nice bike.
You can use the link in the message title (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17.msg1855845#msg1855845) :thumbsup:
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(https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7787/17990250186_a49eba0b26_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tpJJBm)
IMG_5077 (https://flic.kr/p/tpJJBm) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Silly%20Signs/Pingus.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Silly%20Signs/Pingus.jpg.html) ???
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Like :P
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Don't know if this (https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112039897599395555125/albums/6151322553332292465/6151466220953810578?pid=6151466220953810578&oid=112039897599395555125) will work but trying to share from my gewgal photos
ETA- well it worked on my pooter.
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Don't know if this (https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112039897599395555125/albums/6151322553332292465/6151466220953810578?pid=6151466220953810578&oid=112039897599395555125) will work but trying to share from my gewgal photos
ETA- well it worked on my pooter.
Not on here.... :(
All I get is the sign in page to my google acct.
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Don't know if this (https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/112039897599395555125/albums/6151322553332292465/6151466220953810578?pid=6151466220953810578&oid=112039897599395555125) will work but trying to share from my gewgal photos
ETA- well it worked on my pooter.
Photo not available
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Oh well.
Another attempt-
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC05602.ARW.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC05602.ARW.jpg.html)
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And is the Triffid guarding the cheetahs?
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Fuzzy, I do think you're taking school security a bit too seriously.
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And is the Triffid guarding the cheetahs?
Nope. The Triffid is trying to eat the goatlets.
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Fuzzy, I do think you're taking school security a bit too seriously.
You can never be too sure.......
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(https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7764/18352208182_49f9667e9d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/tXHS7s)
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Awwwwwwwwww :'(
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I've passed by this many times, never stopped to take a photo, which is a shame because I know you lot will enjoy it. But then I thought, Google Maps! So, here you are
https://goo.gl/maps/j27AT
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I've passed by this many times, never stopped to take a photo, which is a shame because I know you lot will enjoy it. But then I thought, Google Maps! So, here you are
https://goo.gl/maps/j27AT
How have I never noticed that?!? :o
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Sadly I never took a photo, while driving in Dinosaur on Stegosaurus Fwy (65) in Colorado. We spotted this sign ->
(https://i0.wp.com/farm2.staticflickr.com/1414/1423754017_d73a07a002_b.jpg)
I managed not to crash while laughing erm driving.
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Ooh, I been there! 2003.
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I've passed by this many times, never stopped to take a photo, which is a shame because I know you lot will enjoy it. But then I thought, Google Maps! So, here you are
https://goo.gl/maps/j27AT
Is this for real, or is there a pun I didn't catch?
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I've passed by this many times, never stopped to take a photo, which is a shame because I know you lot will enjoy it. But then I thought, Google Maps! So, here you are
https://goo.gl/maps/j27AT
Is this for real, or is there a pun I didn't catch?
It is for real. You are observing the confluence of Asian names and Western sniggering vocabulary
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I've passed by this many times, never stopped to take a photo, which is a shame because I know you lot will enjoy it. But then I thought, Google Maps! So, here you are
https://goo.gl/maps/j27AT
I might give them a ring.
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/snake_pass/2015_06_10_15_08_37.sized.jpg)
I assume that's in the same sense as "Deano Flat"
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There's a barber's in Darlo called Hackett.
Doesn't sound terribly tempting.
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re Kim's Derbyshire Level, I remember a road somewhere that runs remarkably flat along the tops for miles and miles.
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re Kim's Derbyshire Level, I remember a road somewhere that runs remarkably flat along the tops for miles and miles.
Not that one, then :)
(It does avoid the final drop into Glossop and the climb back up, but makes up for much of that with undulation.)
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(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/IMG_7053.jpg)
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Which one is the "Bruce Forsyth"?
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And is the Triffid guarding the cheetahs?
Nope. The Triffid is trying to eat the goatlets.
No pictures I'm afraid but at CenterParcs de Kempervennen, nr Valkenswaard, there is a 'pets corner'. One of the multilingual signs in English states 'It is forbidden to pick up the goatlings'
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150624_1832002_zps9e07dc76.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150624_1832002_zps9e07dc76.jpg.html)
Sign in my local. Quite unnecessary in my opinion.
Some of the staff are already pretty large. :-X
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(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xtp1/v/t1.0-9/11703015_10152850166681786_5187093758640700681_n.jpg?oh=9c78f3a861cef47225fdb4f613a21459&oe=562DF576)
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(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/DSC05602.ARW_1.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/DSC05602.ARW_1.jpg.html)
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Unfortunately the weather on Wednesday was not conducive to photography, so this google streetview (https://goo.gl/maps/I0gQE)link will have to do.
And it's here because there's no cafe in the village to prove it.
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Newport Bridge, Middlesbrough:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/559/19021648833_d9bb0c5cb7_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/uYSVuD)
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That's crying out for a home-made addition reading "Sign makers advised to f**k off".
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I like it. That should be the official wording for all "CYCLISTS DISMOUNT" signs. It makes the whole situation a lot clearer, and might make people think twice before erecting them.
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That's crying out for a home-made addition reading "Sign makers advised to f**k off".
Like :thumbsup:
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20150722_09_08_31_Pro_zpstwh8sloo.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20150722_09_08_31_Pro_zpstwh8sloo.jpg.html)
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20150722_09_08_31_Pro_zpstwh8sloo.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20150722_09_08_31_Pro_zpstwh8sloo.jpg.html)
Objection!
That belongs in the sensible signs thread
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a-hem....
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=84578.msg1866905#msg1866905
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(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3697/19916532995_f9c8013bea_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wkXrnV)P6070102 (https://flic.kr/p/wkXrnV) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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The loos in a restaurant near here used to have no legends on the doors, just drawings of poultry. The one on the gents was of course a cock.
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a-hem....
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=84578.msg1866905#msg1866905
Mines a right handed faerie, not jealous at all :-X
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Not so much the content but the mechanics of the sign itself:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/508/19893217116_7bedbd0d32_c.jpg)
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Useful for Mr D Cameron though, if he's off to watch the Villa.
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(http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b496/22xjR2Udt/YACF/1259znaka_zps4ccfsaql.jpg)
On the edge of a main road at a junction into a housing estate. I guess it means to be careful as you are likely to come across cars, pedestrians, children playing and houses skiing.
'Home Zone' isn't it? They have them Germany. (And Holland I think). :)
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The loos in a restaurant near here used to have no legends on the doors, just drawings of poultry. The one on the gents was of course a cock.
A Cumbria pub with a shepherd-y theme (and a suspiciously Teutonic sign (https://www.flickr.com/photos/30024450@N04/14315097264/in/photolist-nNYBFN)) marks them Tups and Ewes.
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--fsVFkxWY9c/VcZKWep9PmI/AAAAAAAAJsM/caZ4_SoQaDg/s640-Ic42/20150808_172819.jpg)
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I just found this, at Warwick Castle, a bit of an odd juxtaposition:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21716908/WarwickCastle.JPG)
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Sign today on garden centre tea room, stating that all food is prepared in a kitchen containing nuts.
Unfortunately it is staffed by people with learning difficulties :facepalm:
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--fsVFkxWY9c/VcZKWep9PmI/AAAAAAAAJsM/caZ4_SoQaDg/s640-Ic42/20150808_172819.jpg)
Northumberland just north of Alnwick? If not I remember seeing one similar!
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--fsVFkxWY9c/VcZKWep9PmI/AAAAAAAAJsM/caZ4_SoQaDg/s640-Ic42/20150808_172819.jpg)
What is so silly about that? they can hardly see over the steering wheel they are so small. Plus, they're a bit nuts.
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Surely they're in the Tufty Club so don't need to be told?
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--fsVFkxWY9c/VcZKWep9PmI/AAAAAAAAJsM/caZ4_SoQaDg/s640-Ic42/20150808_172819.jpg)
Northumberland just north of Alnwick? If not I remember seeing one similar!
Not this one though. That's near the Kirkstile Inn in the Lake District
Next one: -
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9AUJwDmFxek/VdISTAgEK1I/AAAAAAAAJwM/qzPt2k3ZE54/s640-Ic42/20150814_164341.jpg)
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SNAP! (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7105.350#msg1259046) ;D Also apparently linked with Bland in Australia (http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/scots-town-dull-joins-forces-with-bland-and-boring-1-3185215).
We've also of course had Silly and Lost (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7105.50#msg_732233) (in neighbouring posts), and we've probably mentioned Nasty and Ugley, the well-known villages on the Herts-Essex borders.
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SNAP! (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7105.350#msg1259046) ;D
We've also of course had Silly and Lost (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7105.50#msg_732233) (in neighbouring posts), and we've probably mentioned Nasty and Ugley, the well-known villages on the Herts-Essex borders.
Yeah but I thought it was silly that there is a Dull Safari Park :D
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150817_170215.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150817_170215.jpg.html)
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/558/20029812471_640c47f6bd_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/wvY2qk)
DON'T WALK ON THE WATER (https://flic.kr/p/wvY2qk) by billplumtree (https://www.flickr.com/photos/billplumtree/), on Flickr
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I'm really wondering who chooses the names of the villages around here:
https://goo.gl/maps/g0nEV
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/598/20631990590_72ca46e8c5_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xrbkZG)
IMG_5265 (https://flic.kr/p/xrbkZG) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Meine Französisch ist kaputt... "After the effort of a bastard headwind, signed the cows on the corner"?!?
(I assume that 'Beaufort' isn't actually French for strong wind, because that would makes sense.)
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Isn't Beaufort a type of cheese?
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Isn't Beaufort a type of cheese?
Known for its effect on the lactose intolerant? ;D
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You'll be sorry if you ignore this:
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21716908/IMG_20150825_155044952_small.jpg)
So maybe it should be in sensible signs...
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There are a few of those around Catterick and Wensleydale - hardly any tanks, though, so probably worth the risk ;)
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Yes, that's where I took it, on holiday last week, on the way back from a loop from Reeth over Tan Hill and Buttertubs, then back down Wensleydale.
As I was on a bike, I wasn't going to park there anyway.
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Isn't Beaufort a type of cheese?
Yup :thumbsup:
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The sign on the wall near the stove in our Huttopia abode....
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11951141_10153443215011839_8950576781675784958_n.jpg?oh=b7beb9a409b756aecf685f0f313bda98&oe=56A9F69C)
Caution!
This stove can get really hot, make sure you don't leave anything nearby, not even wood.
(https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/11058669_10153443214911839_1433554080625676819_n.jpg?oh=4bc82ded2b4653e8bcc575c0fe8ae902&oe=566C4BD1)
Maybe not even signs displayed behind plastic about hot stoves....
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That flue looks a bit close to the wood wall as well . . .
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(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y291/silverbackcyclist/2015-09-03%2014.36.58_zps3r8gmvfq.jpg) (http://s7.photobucket.com/user/silverbackcyclist/media/2015-09-03%2014.36.58_zps3r8gmvfq.jpg.html)
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/621/21219889542_50051b48de.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/yk8tSw)
P9070351 (https://flic.kr/p/yk8tSw) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Quite a sensible sign until the local equivalent of RZ showed up.
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Or a Kiwi.
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/667/21272166612_bc55c912bb_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ypKq2j)
P9080362 (https://flic.kr/p/ypKq2j) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
The blue squares denote rest areas. I do not think the uppermost one is a particularly appealing spot for a picnic.
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Have you asked Windy?
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There are some rather odd signs appearing. At first glance they appear sort of "official", being on proper metal posts, but then you realise that they can't be.
There are a couple within a mile of our house.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150920_1015282_zps37a27484.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150920_1015282_zps37a27484.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150921_163044_zps8021b836.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150921_163044_zps8021b836.jpg.html)
Mrs. B says she has seen others further out. She thinks it may be guerilla 'Art'. ???
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(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/Joel_Niemi/invisible%20cow_zpsxqi2ai1v.png)
I haven't been there, but this could be a problem anywhere that Aberdeen Black Angus cattle roam
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(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/Joel_Niemi/invisible%20cow_zpsxqi2ai1v.png)
I haven't been there, but this could be a problem anywhere that Aberdeen Black Angus cattle roam
About ten years ago I saw two dead cows within a hundred yards of the famous Black Mailbox near Area 51. I think semis were a more likely cause than alien experiments.
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Dead farmyard animals? Semis? Technically Cameron would have been an alien!
I seem to have left my coat by another thread, I'll go and get it.
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This
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/610/20953815624_7fe32f38d3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/xVBMnb)2015-09-20_08-46-21 (https://flic.kr/p/xVBMnb) by Oranj (https://www.flickr.com/photos/oranjh/), on Flickr
This sign will be familiar to those who traverse the Eastern bypass on the Oxford ring road. I can't help feeling that it should say "Diverted cycle path" (as the accompanying signs reveal (https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5829/21388710438_62ff492a3a_b.jpg))
explains this
There are some rather odd signs appearing. At first glance they appear sort of "official", being on proper metal posts, but then you realise that they can't be.
There are a couple within a mile of our house.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150920_1015282_zps37a27484.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150920_1015282_zps37a27484.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150921_163044_zps8021b836.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150921_163044_zps8021b836.jpg.html)
Mrs. B says she has seen others further out. She thinks it may be guerilla 'Art'. ???
You are a diverted cyclist!
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In the computer shop in Arnside,
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5G9fyLADMZE/VgJynBUDh4I/AAAAAAAAIw8/D56GZf1uQVE/s640-Ic42/Closed.JPG)
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Tbf, it's a very sound reason for not being open.
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I did pass a "Basil Road" this morning but there was nowhere to stop, so you'll have to make do with this:
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/630/21042136414_9fd3f814e0_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/y4qs4q)
P9230214 (https://flic.kr/p/y4qs4q) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
On the bridge over part of the Bridge River hydro-electric scheme.
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I did pass a "Basil Road" this morning but there was nowhere to stop,
The first house purchased by Mrs. F and I was here (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5869635,-1.8183088,3a,60y,282.76h,91t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s7bZ_n2FilAdWP7YO5AHfsQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1) :smug:
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Round the back of Gatwick Airport is a quiet (give or take the aircraft noise) road.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pxK0u_QtRbc/Vhl_87efv3I/AAAAAAAAHeE/mn_ykcJo6I4/s912-Ic42/2015-10-10%25252012.08.26.jpg)
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Choice! :D
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Next one: -
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9AUJwDmFxek/VdISTAgEK1I/AAAAAAAAJwM/qzPt2k3ZE54/s640-Ic42/20150814_164341.jpg)
Highland safaris do rather good cakes and have a track pump by their cycle racks. A good stop on a ride out from Dundee if doing the round of Glen Lyon/Ben Lawers (which looked remarkably like the flooded Scottish village dam in Dr Who)
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Round the back of Gatwick Airport is a quiet (give or take the aircraft noise) road.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pxK0u_QtRbc/Vhl_87efv3I/AAAAAAAAHeE/mn_ykcJo6I4/s912-Ic42/2015-10-10%25252012.08.26.jpg)
In "Sensible Signs", maybe?
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20151010_10_37_25_Pro_zps1q3v2spx.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20151010_10_37_25_Pro_zps1q3v2spx.jpg.html)
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Didn't get a photo, but sign in the window of a hair & beauty type place:
"Eyebrows £6 or 2 for £10"
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but only if you see one of these signs. Otherwise, keep your foot away from that brake pedal
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/Joel_Niemi/Be-prepared_to_stop_zps5mkfxnhp.jpg[/img]](http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/Joel_Niemi/Be-prepared_to_stop_zps5mkfxnhp.jpg) (http://[img width=640 height=480)
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Especially if you're a cyclist using the verge to escape the traffic...
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but only if you see one of these signs. Otherwise, keep your foot away from that brake pedal
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/Joel_Niemi/Be-prepared_to_stop_zps5mkfxnhp.jpg[/img]](http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/Joel_Niemi/Be-prepared_to_stop_zps5mkfxnhp.jpg) (http://[img width=640 height=480)
See numerous thoughts by various people that one effect of road signs is to legitimise dangerous driving except where a sign tells you to slow down/take care etc. Frinstance: https://beyondthekerb.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/i-fought-the-law-and-the-law-lost/
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Didn't get a photo, but sign in the window of a hair & beauty type place:
"Eyebrows £6 or 2 for £10"
Does that mean you could do both Gallagher brothers for a tenner?
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Seen on an old bus, years ago, was the "Standing forward of this partition" sign which, with selected letters scratched out, read "Stan ward is a tit". ;D
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That reminds me. Some years back, the buses in Brum had a sign at the front that read "Bus Stopping" which lit up whenever someone pressed the bell. I travelled on a bus where some of the lamps in the box had failed. Every time someone pressed the bell, the sign lit up "ping" :D
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:D
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That reminds me. Some years back, the buses in Brum had a sign at the front that read "Bus Stopping" which lit up whenever someone pressed the bell. I travelled on a bus where some of the lamps in the box had failed. Every time someone pressed the bell, the sign lit up "ping" :D
;D
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Ok, so the sign's not silly. It's a very useful sign if you need directions.
The grit/salt box isn't silly either. It's very useful if you need some extra grip.
But ...
(http://www.rachaelrowe.com/eBayImages/mugs/SillySignDorch.jpg)
:facepalm:
Good job I have a decent satnav app on my phone.
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20151011_15_54_11_Pro_zps55yshbri.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20151011_15_54_11_Pro_zps55yshbri.jpg.html)
Not that clear, but the sign was peppered with bullet holes. ::-)
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20151011_16_06_03_Pro_zpscn6uyzzr.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20151011_16_06_03_Pro_zpscn6uyzzr.jpg.html)
painted on the wall of Shornemead Fort, Gravesend,
(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20151024_12_00_21_Pro_zpsynttqwbr.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20151024_12_00_21_Pro_zpsynttqwbr.jpg.html)
Not as bad as where I once lived, A butchers with the name ''R. Feacey'' over the shop window :sick:
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In Bridge of Allan
(http://s18.postimg.org/vqlooqo95/stone_for_sale.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
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In Bridge of Allan
(http://s18.postimg.org/vqlooqo95/stone_for_sale.jpg) (http://postimage.org/)
offers welcome ;)
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/732/21864775634_f678723a48_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/zj7G3f)
Somewhere in Oxfordshire. A more wordy version might have been:
"Please drive SLOWly. The road crosses the outfield of the CRICKET playing area and a fielder might have to cross the road to catch a skier or prevent a boundary. So please take care."
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I thought it was a protest against Twenty20.
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That's certainly the slowest backing-up by a non-striking batsman that I've seen since Geoff Boycott retired.
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There are some rather odd signs appearing. At first glance they appear sort of "official", being on proper metal posts, but then you realise that they can't be.
There are a couple within a mile of our house.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150920_1015282_zps37a27484.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150920_1015282_zps37a27484.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150921_163044_zps8021b836.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150921_163044_zps8021b836.jpg.html)
Mrs. B says she has seen others further out. She thinks it may be guerilla 'Art'. ???
Ah ha! finally the answer
http://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/13929951.Silent_activist_plans_to_auction_sign_creations/?ref=rss
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20151030_10_18_22_Pro_zpsjb87qj4b.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20151030_10_18_22_Pro_zpsjb87qj4b.jpg.html)
this did make I chuckle. Downtown Nice
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There is always time for another last minute.
― Hogfather
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THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR ANOTHER LAST MINUTE
― Hogfather
FTFY
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I stand corrected.
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20151126_09_17_39_Pro_zpspoxtthjb.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20151126_09_17_39_Pro_zpspoxtthjb.jpg.html)
Hmmm!
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(http://s9.img.humo.be/q100/w850/h/img_150/1500929.jpg)
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Don't mention the war.
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(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5720/23383358854_c1633cce23_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/BCiPVy)
There's only one road to Redmire.
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There's only one road to Redmire.
And it appears to be signed as a sheep route as well as a cycle route
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(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/FZ1SGklReLxEYo48JDkBBMxmOtPZV5rhnHuPkv9NLS0=w738-h553-no)
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Round the back of Gatwick Airport is a quiet (give or take the aircraft noise) road.
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pxK0u_QtRbc/Vhl_87efv3I/AAAAAAAAHeE/mn_ykcJo6I4/s912-Ic42/2015-10-10%25252012.08.26.jpg)
That picture is winding me up something rotten. Gah! Where? No don't tell me!
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Cheaper than Wimbledon!
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Out of season strawberries are expensive
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Out of season strawberries are expensive
No, they're not ;) ;D
250g Sainsbury's Basics Strawberries £1.20... ;D
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Farthings?
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(https://scontent-ams3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/12715816_10153233608901786_1414932093426338572_n.jpg?oh=5b2aea15952adedf638f44825f334460&oe=57678FE4)
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(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8697/16269482484_d6257bfc64_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qMFmjG)
Internet rumour would have it that these signs, which were for sale on Amazon and can which can be found in many places, are in fact a typo, and the year should be 1752.
The intended joke being that nothing happened anywhere on June 5th 1752, as that was one of the 11 days that never existed. The day after 2nd Sept was the 14th, due to the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar
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Rummaging through old photos I found this shop interior, taken in Mestia, Georgia
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qzM-DYTUQ9g/VtIHBfPmrPI/AAAAAAAA18g/fNWZ33FkHt8/s640-Ic42/P1010776.jpg)
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Made more sensible by the additions:
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1560/25556933966_5dc027d5a8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/EWnY5w)P1190044e (https://flic.kr/p/EWnY5w) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1556/24958921453_06bb4b2eee_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/E2wZMX)P6150038e (https://flic.kr/p/E2wZMX) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1686/24964472013_9d3895cf4b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/E32rMg)P6160081e (https://flic.kr/p/E32rMg) by TJ Clarion (https://www.flickr.com/photos/93751227@N04/), on Flickr
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Seen in that there Swindon yesterday-
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/Photo0230.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/Photo0230.jpg.html)
I think he/ she had the arse cos they were walking as opposed to riding the bike that signified the cycle path ;D
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Translation fail. Kinda ironic considering who they're supposed to be there for. Daimler Sovereigns usually get the same treatment too.
(http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah311/berry30/DSCF7410_zpsaxtlceqg.jpg)
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Consider a passenger arriving at Bristol Airport from Spain, with nothing to declare. Which lane should they use? (These are the only options, apart from a separate 'Items to declare' area)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ha6ZlP1YtLY/Vu7YdKXtXoI/AAAAAAAAeuU/2XEvrhR6JRY1XnMem4JZKqd_i6YiotaOQCCo/s640-Ic42/IMG_0697.JPG)
Is this an example of the quantum passenger dual slit experiment, passing simultaneously through both?
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I assume the EU one...
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I assume the EU one...
On further reflection, I think you're right. I must be easily confused :-[
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Consider a passenger arriving at Bristol Airport from Spain, with nothing to declare. Which lane should they use? (These are the only options, apart from a separate 'Items to declare' area)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ha6ZlP1YtLY/Vu7YdKXtXoI/AAAAAAAAeuU/2XEvrhR6JRY1XnMem4JZKqd_i6YiotaOQCCo/s640-Ic42/IMG_0697.JPG)
Is this an example of the quantum passenger dual slit experiment, passing simultaneously through both?
Same at Glasgow, IIRC. It confuses me too. :-\
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I wouldn't have a clue how to interpret that signage.
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Well, what about someone arriving from outside the EU with something to declare ?
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Well, what about someone arriving from outside the EU with something to declare ?
They go to the "Items to declare" area, obviously.
People from the EU never have to declare things (I think?). Whoever made the signs assumes they know that.
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I go through which ever one is least crowded
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People from the EU never have to declare things (I think?).
No, you've got to declare, inter alia, currency over, IIRC, £10k (might be €10k), and anything that isn't a 'personal import' - so goods for resale, probably commercial samples, that kind of thing. (Steph would know, I guess.)
I go through which ever one is least crowded
Is probably the right answer.
I don't know if you canmay go through the blue channel just because you've travelled from an EU country, or if you also have to be an EU citizen/resident.
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Well, what about someone arriving from outside the EU with something to declare ?
They go to the "Items to declare" area, obviously.
People from the EU never have to declare things (I think?). Whoever made the signs assumes they know that.
Ooo. I missed ('cos it wasn't in the photo) that there was an 'items to declare' area.
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IIRC the Eu and Nothing to Declare lines both lead into the same area after the entrance "gates" anyway, at least at
Lulsgate Bristol Metropolitan Conurbation International Air Field.
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This might seem like a silly sign, taken in a UK office
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/r-dtzO9YgfxK8VIZUb2xkswi-TUqRFPrMoZPUfs1XGcIu8isUqquEsJcMVujFCY7JAd_GZLr28CjjIwhdp68Fjzsd-Xq8Wt_0qxB0umzUYhfDW7ZZeDgnyk3cpb49TKH7BfCRN-h5GDgOFAi4XMH3k58Uyxse2G5QDoCDbeNFz387wmo0cyW--LdAt6TkgKTT_FjHfgZ_55ONBg2hYRijVPUGXesGyNwxZ7zESjz5eOOYr5XJeqSRhr9Z6EMJUmrDwXr8Q-IjoA9hRx2DPJ92F_YaNRqWI1MPBtYyuKD9rcnAXOe6GASCdBA6aJPlFzWxjaKr4NuwwuTkyx8zX6W5RGRJLXBL6RTQ3yyg01iyW5hr2Zvab8qBkJXerJEYlHcbTx28jXzYZ3LmamXedKGC4JEIE6JhGEhh1h_EizPb4rCd-FlVYHn5P8xDSRp5tdfU_Gn-28AxEG7xuF7w8bxmxgX288WOnbk68TQ48lxZ6X2MaxqUUHgHl08po8A1OM-v-2CgEaCLWwpKjHUENGBBZvEE0yN-1_P7xO9-srpEGAL5-EyomN7Uf5WzmA_fljzsIAglA=w677-h902-no)
but you have to remember that if you contract with Tech Mahindra, say, you really need to add budget for lavatorial repairs.
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There are signs in the lavatories at my current client - professional office, mostly graduates -
"Respect your colleagues and housekeeping staff: do not leave the contents of your nose on the wall"
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There are signs in the lavatories at my current client - professional office, mostly graduates -
"Respect your colleagues and housekeeping staff: do not leave the contents of your nose on the wall"
Is that was that is?
It just gets painted over, doesn't it?
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People from the EU never have to declare things (I think?).
No, you've got to declare, inter alia, currency over, IIRC, £10k (might be €10k), and anything that isn't a 'personal import' - so goods for resale, probably commercial samples, that kind of thing. (Steph would know, I guess.)
I go through which ever one is least crowded
Is probably the right answer.
I don't know if you canmay go through the blue channel just because you've travelled from an EU country, or if you also have to be an EU citizen/resident.
All wrong. Kim was closest
People arriving from the EU do not have to make a declaration, full stop, because that is the law. It is a Customs control, not a passport control. Nationality and residency are irrelevant. Commercial goods are dealt with through the VAT system, and you do NOT have to declare currency. That (and it's Euros10k) only applies to people leaving or entering the EU at an external frontier. Fly into Bristol from Spain, no declaration. Fly into Bristol from Brazil, declaration. Fly into Bristol from Brazil having transited Spain and not 'landed' (cleared Customs), declaration. The same outwards.
As for prohibited or restricted goods (weapons, drugs etc) the offence is committed as soon as the item enters UK airspace/territorial waters, so there is no question of declaration.
Simple rule: you can only use the Blue if you have arrived from an EU country. You do not HAVE to use the Blue if the Green is easier or less crowded. There are, of course, massive posters explaining all that all over the baggage reclaim area. In pictures for the hard of thinking.
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Great fun for all amateurs of silly/sensible signs here:
http://panneauxdumonde.toile-libre.org/Site/Worldsigns_-_Panneaux_du_monde.html
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(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160425/1666c31a51e97a6490059401832f53ca.jpg)
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With the seat DOWN?
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Baby steps: they're dealing with people who don't know what the large ceramic recepticle is for.
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From experience of male toilets, that's a lot of people.
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From that twitter:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgVX9bcWcAAE6y0.jpg:large)
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Same owl on Mondays and Thursdays? Or do you think they have some sort of Rota?
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(http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160508/38de1f3ca494d486a29801243da43f26.jpg)
Sea Life Centre, Mooloolaba Old.
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Millhouse, twinned with Midwich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_of_the_Damned_(1960_film))
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/26978027015_6e4805a992_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/H6XrwP)
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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7068/26942507281_8bf7024585_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/H3PoKB)IMG_6573_01 (https://flic.kr/p/H3PoKB) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Photoshopped, but fun. ;D
(http://permies.com/t/55938/a/39145/You%20Got%20This.jpg)
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ladies and gentlemen we have a winner!
(https://scontent-fra3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p296x100/13177689_10153431432611786_3778471687501723450_n.jpg?oh=a8c893b890dc0adea9abc929f0ee60ce&oe=57A3BA54)
German road name.
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And it's left handed! Will it fit on Kim's recumbent?
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;D
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This really made oi larf
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LBkwI7Fy2EQ/Vz4iQHfpChI/AAAAAAAA3Sw/OPv-v0vQ3nkMrDqIc1ww3hOQl_GaYTRtgCCo/s800/SGS.jpg)
From this page http://www.sgs-engineering.com/help-advice/starting-your-sgs-strimmer/
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Could be worse. They might want you to stir it.
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(http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatures/wm/live/624_351/images/live/p0/3v/fv/p03vfv73.jpg)
Doesn't seem silly to me! (Though depicted pedestrians would be!)
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OK, own up! Who broke the electricity?
(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/brokenElectricity.jpg)
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OK, own up! Who broke the electricity?
(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/brokenElectricity.jpg)
Resistance is futile
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It's just bad news on top of bad news...
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7554/27108713481_009c9f6152_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Hivf4K)
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OK, own up! Who broke the electricity?
(http://staff.city.ac.uk/~jwo/acf/brokenElectricity.jpg)
Resistance is futile
Resistance is potential divided by current.
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It's just bad news on top of bad news...
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7554/27108713481_009c9f6152_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Hivf4K)
Your feelings of hunger are just an illusion.
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OK, own up! Who broke the electricity?
Resistance is futile
Ohm my god :facepalm:
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Have we exceeded you capacitance for humour?
Your move diode.
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From that twitter
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CjInZ-lWEAA38DQ.jpg)
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Have we exceeded you capacitance for humour?
Your move diode.
That's enough Faraday!
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I wonder if they've rectified the situation yet.
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/A3BbZgZbl5-gjxl60iRW-D-wORfT6ZF0-DNVCrvkXXchr2ab_fQqk5EpGmqkKV_Uj80hwS_gVS65Z00u7Mig4aTQHqbrKaevmUnsh2WAx1pOK4kuLHEnSRhiTtmyHZp5a5imSDvVkQiS_KJklFOQmCLsk5wCjePJdmIinV3a1sv_zAVctToSaELBNLdoBTNP6cJdDZv_z17ubRhbV3AmTJMUfPCDjSU0_Ec7XlEdFA1K1-GGjgr9Zk5HTAEQFPjYTwCrOcZCrWCj_t7hp7m06_gDisVP_gcjTgJdnsopuYdNaVsUqRWKW-hTcVtoMsMO0w-jqwaEiZSBswncTmXfxJrSMfzTd36SIqkI-QdhdXpKH8vBockdDRJqtE_rOPvvBO1ABnp9cxfx9-bXCSeUQcuxvRsgl3n-HYNgRkfPUWErx00-7xINYgVWIQJ2L8U5hF-w2d5_Ta5nPDEaP9nbD0bHobhylr0zzHn15g40PvTllEUXhV_frpidOShn4DdZ38aH1xqTnU3H2ucSmw8MIZBE7d9emwPjBi0OYbF5ahRPv8QDsNyL-gEeV16kGVMgj0KseY_mAvahN4_9wUwPB9ZXC7uz63QY=w657-h878-no)
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Ric de Flour, Hat flavourings, Hat colours... who cares about nuts?
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Hat colours? Are they pink or something? Or what?
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"May contain nuts" but not in amounts that need to appear on the label
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In Castle Combe. Syntax and ambiguity.
(http://i1383.photobucket.com/albums/ah311/berry30/Mobile%20Uploads/20160420_162928_zpsackbsx1l.jpg)
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"Is careful falls the stone please to depend on the dike to pass rapidly" and lots more here:
http://www.pbase.com/mjunsworth/chinglish
Found on PBase.
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No pic, cos it's on a busy road with nowhere handy to stop, but the Vote Leave sign in a field by the side of the road near Newby Bridge has been lightly (and quite convincingly) modified to Vote Beaver.
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No pic, cos it's on a busy road with nowhere handy to stop, but the Vote Leave sign in a field by the side of the road near Newby Bridge has been lightly (and quite convincingly) modified to Vote Beaver.
I think you'll find that's been viral on t'internet for a while, plenty of photos out there so you can rest easy :-)
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To cancel that out, there's a guy standing on the central reservation of the Bristol Road in the pissing rain holding a large EU flag. I'm sure that'll help.
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From Ship AIS for a tanker berthed on the Mersey
Latest AIS
Map Hist ?
Name: Blue Sky
MMSI: 636014378 [LR]
IMO: 9413016
Callsign: A8TK7
Speed/Dir: 0.1 kts / 358° N
Status: Underway by Sail
Dest: Gb Liv
ETA: Jun25 04:12
Type: Tanker Haz D (84)
Details: Crude Oil Tanker
Size: 229m x 42m x 8.9m
Built: 2009
Received: 12:49:56 27 Jun 16 BST
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I don't get it - why is that a silly sign?
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Bloody big sails, then.
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It took me a little while, but
Status: Underway by Sail
Details: Crude Oil Tanker
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Status Underway by Sail
At 0.1 knots it's not underway and at 229 metres long it's not capable of sailing anywhere.
The junior deck officer has entered the wrong setting onto the GPS unit
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Masthead the silly blighter.
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Keelhaul him, then make him walk the plank!
Yarr!
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Status Underway by Sail
At 0.1 knots it's not underway and at 229 metres long it's not capable of sailing anywhere.
The junior deck officer has entered the wrong setting onto the GPS unit
Well, unless it is using a Skysail auxilary propulsion unit. Getting more common on tankers, saves (on average) 5.5% fuel.
If you are using motor and sail, rules of navigation say you declare yourself as 'sailing'.
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If you are using motor and sail, rules of navigation say you declare yourself as 'sailing'.
No if you using an engine for propulsion you are a power driven vessel
Col Regs Rule 25(e)
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They've obvious leant their ship against the wall while they're in the caff gorging on CAEK, and it's blocking off half the satellites. Any minute now they'll show up in Oldham.
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If you are using motor and sail, rules of navigation say you declare yourself as 'sailing'.
No if you using an engine for propulsion you are a power driven vessel
Col Regs Rule 25(e)
What are you talking about? That's the rule for a sailing vessel and is about lighting (well, specifically, displaying an inverted cone).
If you are both motoring and sailing you displaying signals indicating both, so that other vessels know you are restricted in your ability to manoeuvre. So a tanker flying a Skysail (or equiv) would very reasonably indicate on their AIS that they were under sail.
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Boringly it was just leaving - it's out at the Bar racon now and still thinks it's sailing.
At some point they'll get a sarky radio call from the coastguard.
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If you are using motor and sail, rules of navigation say you declare yourself as 'sailing'.
No if you using an engine for propulsion you are a power driven vessel
Col Regs Rule 25(e)
What are you talking about? That's the rule for a sailing vessel and is about lighting (well, specifically, displaying an inverted cone).
If you are both motoring and sailing you displaying signals indicating both, so that other vessels know you are restricted in your ability to manoeuvre. So a tanker flying a Skysail (or equiv) would very reasonably indicate on their AIS that they were under sail.
No you wouldn't. The colregs are clear - if you are using an engine for propulsion you are not sailing, whatever sails you may have hoisted. You need to exhibit the day sign for motor sailing or the correct navigation lights at night to indicate to other vessels that you are not sailing. Also if fitted with AIS you need to display the correct information.
The navigation rules that apply to you are those for motor driven vessels.
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If you are using motor and sail, rules of navigation say you declare yourself as 'sailing'.
No if you using an engine for propulsion you are a power driven vessel
Col Regs Rule 25(e)
What are you talking about? That's the rule for a sailing vessel and is about lighting (well, specifically, displaying an inverted cone).
If you are both motoring and sailing you displaying signals indicating both, so that other vessels know you are restricted in your ability to manoeuvre. So a tanker flying a Skysail (or equiv) would very reasonably indicate on their AIS that they were under sail.
No you wouldn't. The colregs are clear - if you are using an engine for propulsion you are not sailing, whatever sails you may have hoisted. You need to exhibit the day sign for motor sailing or the correct navigation lights at night to indicate to other vessels that you are not sailing. Also if fitted with AIS you need to display the correct information.
The navigation rules that apply to you are those for motor driven vessels.
So why did you cite a colreg for a sailing vessel?
You are wrong, you know. This is your colregs 25(e) (e) A vessel proceeding under sail when also being propelled by machinery shall exhibit forward .
Anyway, we aren't talking colregs, this was AIS.
I strongly suspect that the incorrect code was entered in the AIS for the tanker, but the statement that "A tanker is too big to be sailing" is also wrong. A tanker can be motor sailing.
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If you are using motor and sail, rules of navigation say you declare yourself as 'sailing'.
No if you using an engine for propulsion you are a power driven vessel
Col Regs Rule 25(e)
What are you talking about? That's the rule for a sailing vessel and is about lighting (well, specifically, displaying an inverted cone).
If you are both motoring and sailing you displaying signals indicating both, so that other vessels know you are restricted in your ability to manoeuvre. So a tanker flying a Skysail (or equiv) would very reasonably indicate on their AIS that they were under sail.
No you wouldn't. The colregs are clear - if you are using an engine for propulsion you are not sailing, whatever sails you may have hoisted. You need to exhibit the day sign for motor sailing or the correct navigation lights at night to indicate to other vessels that you are not sailing. Also if fitted with AIS you need to display the correct information.
The navigation rules that apply to you are those for motor driven vessels.
So why did you cite a colreg for a sailing vessel?
You are wrong, you know. This is your colregs 25(e) (e) A vessel proceeding under sail when also being propelled by machinery shall exhibit forward .
Anyway, we aren't talking colregs, this was AIS.
I strongly suspect that the incorrect code was entered in the AIS for the tanker, but the statement that "A tanker is too big to be sailing" is also wrong. A tanker can be motor sailing.
Nope you're still wrong I'm afraid
Rule 25(e) defines the point at which a vessel ceases to be a sailing vessel (obeying the rules for sailing vessels) and becomes a motor vessel (obeying the rules for motor vessels). That definition is also in rules 3(b) and 3(c).
Even though AIS has not been formally integrated into the COLREGS it is used as its name implies for identification of ships out of sight of each other and therefore needs to show the correct information and in this case should show either moored or underway. Not underway by sail.
If a tanker is motor sailing it is not sailing - they are very different situations and would be handled differently.
As far as I am aware there is no current technology that would allow a 125,000 dwt vessel to proceed under sail alone it will always need to use its propulsion engine and will therefore be a motor vessel.
http://www.mar.ist.utl.pt/mventura/Projecto-Navios-I/IMO-Conventions%20(copies)/COLREG-1972.pdf (http://www.mar.ist.utl.pt/mventura/Projecto-Navios-I/IMO-Conventions%20(copies)/COLREG-1972.pdf)
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For col-regs arguments please go to the YBW.com forum where you will be wrong (whatever you say)
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For col-regs arguments please go to the YBW.com forum where you will be wrong (whatever you say)
very true!
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160709_164957.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20160709_164957.jpg.html)
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Sensible sign, silly (English) translation.
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Presumably the word 'access' would be better and 'allowed' needs a double l...
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Oh, it's a good try. A lot of Brits would spot the missing L and not the inappropriate "trespass".
Interesting that the roots of the word simply mean "passing across": English has added the sense of prohibition. Anglo-Saxons probably heard it first in Norman mouths when being kicked out or worse. In French it means "to die" - the "passing over" of spiritualists and the like. Someone French with a smattering of English might find that sign quite amusing.
When the Angel of the Lord slew the firstborn of Egypt during the first Passover, was he trespassing? Maybe not, but they did.
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(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/2016_07_14_16_22_49.sized.jpg)
On the less-than-epic B4089 near Aston Cantlow
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7623/28838569136_f23f46acd3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KWncTf)
If you do this too much you will qualify for the next sign:
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8866/28794050181_8f4c919625_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KSr2X4)
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8722/28336426024_efeab1edd4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KaZAeo)
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20160814_12_26_49_Pro_zps5wfduiw6.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20160814_12_26_49_Pro_zps5wfduiw6.jpg.html)
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Objection - perfectly sensible sign, unless hung above a dog spend or something.
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(https://c8.staticflickr.com/9/8108/28971969311_0dae8352c4_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/L99V7g)
IMG_7155_01 (https://flic.kr/p/L99V7g) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8658/28777673060_69432f641b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KQZ6AU)
Enigmatic sign that appeared briefly outside the Modern Languages section of the University.
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Looks like the sort of thing you might aim FRIKKIN LASERS at...
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In mourning for Bristol Rovers?
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In the absence of a thread for Sinister Signs,
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26761666/France2008-11.jpg)
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(http://social.rollins.edu/wpsites/filmsofthe80s/files/2014/06/1393459738993-300x178.png)
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In the absence of a thread for Sinister Signs,
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26761666/France2008-11.jpg)
Looks more like a pig to me!
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You mean a sheep...
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I mean a pig. The pink shape leaning against the plank of wood which is leaning against the outside stairs looks to me like a silhouette of a pig.
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That must be the result of a hideous experiment on an ovine!
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Making a pig's ear of it.
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Looks to me like someone's sawn the Pink Pather in half and thrown away the bits.
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(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8651/28841863980_37a3cfec52_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KWE6jU)
Silly because it applies to almost every road in Britain. Including the tanks, given the size of many cars nowadays.
Also because it's not clear what it means. Is it warning of tanks, and therefore also mud and potholes? Or mud-filled potholes? Or is it warning tanks to beware of mud and potholes (or of mud-filled potholes)? Presumably not as that's what tanks are supposed to drive through. But the semi-colon hints at some connection between tanks and mud beyond merely being in the same place.
In fact, the road was in better condition than most country lanes.
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(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8658/28777673060_69432f641b_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KQZ6AU)
Enigmatic sign that appeared briefly outside the Modern Languages section of the University.
Old fashioned reflective survey target?
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....the semi-colon hints at some connection between tanks and mud beyond merely being in the same place.
.... and related to this excellent analysis, if "Unexploded missiles do not leave the carriageways", does it mean that it's safer to keep off the roads?
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A farm on our walk this morning.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4319/35934548710_1598980ae1_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WKpXoE)
20160902_113403 (https://flic.kr/p/WKpXoE) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr
I assume it is in jest.
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Probably safe to assume each sentry is likely to have at least one arm.
IGMC
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(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8139/29121574060_8176ecc6a3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LnnFou)
I suppose calling themselves the Slaughterers would just not have been cricket.
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(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8166/29301404542_4f6b626afb_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LDgmJ3)
Not really a silly sign – in fact it's rather sensible, pointing as it does to the village of that name – but it did make me think of Winnie the Pooh's clever friend.
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(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8332/29305101332_e4eef735e8_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LDAiDN)
P9020186 (https://flic.kr/p/LDAiDN) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Don't tell the staff of the Gulag...
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8045/28789458614_071d86e839_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KS2v37)
P9020205 (https://flic.kr/p/KS2v37) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
At the Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo TX
(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8499/28789478674_d8399e727e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/KS2AZY)
P9020218 (https://flic.kr/p/KS2AZY) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Amarillo TX
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8750/29379115736_6bfa3db7ec_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LL8Dyd)
P9020219 (https://flic.kr/p/LL8Dyd) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Other side of the above
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8062/29334565571_a82fa6a7af_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LGcjkV)
BurmaShave (https://flic.kr/p/LGcjkV) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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I'm sure that last sign was quoted in one of my orthopaedic textbooks...
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The Burma-Shave one is six separate ones which I have very crudely stitched together to save typing, electrons and what have you, but there is a genuine set of the self-same slogan at the roadside somewhere back in Illinois, carefully placed so you can't stop and take pictures. Of them.
I'm surprised a medical text book would be extolling the virtues of shaving cream though ;D
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Having had a stent inserted via the groin, I'm not.
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8309/29148525360_3f701f801c_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LpKP55)
P9030252 (https://flic.kr/p/LpKP55) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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Mr Larrington wins the internet!
Again!
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(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8076/29398289611_2466ca738e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LMPVhg)
Six little trees in wheelie bins are moveable but they certainly do not make a forest.
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(https://c3.staticflickr.com/9/8528/29452369626_0bce875a69_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LSB6oj)
P9050359 (https://flic.kr/p/LSB6oj) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8018/29197677520_12f5267947_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Lu6Ji7)
P9050360 (https://flic.kr/p/Lu6Ji7) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8462/29452381286_9dd767c252_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LSB9Rm)
P9050361 (https://flic.kr/p/LSB9Rm) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8333/29486598885_50773197f7_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LVCwxX)
P9050362 (https://flic.kr/p/LVCwxX) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8398/29406678211_065e556b97_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LNyUVi)
P9050363 (https://flic.kr/p/LNyUVi) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Lots more Burma-Shave signs on old Route 66 either side of Seligman AZ
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8653/29298524065_794d4a3bda_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LD1AsD)
IMG_7419_01 (https://flic.kr/p/LD1AsD) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(https://c5.staticflickr.com/9/8139/29121574060_8176ecc6a3_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LnnFou)
I suppose calling themselves the Slaughterers would just not have been cricket.
They totally SUCC!
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(https://c2.staticflickr.com/9/8653/29298524065_794d4a3bda_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LD1AsD)
IMG_7419_01 (https://flic.kr/p/LD1AsD) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
We've just translated this with Google, and were disappointed to find that it was nothing to do with a cat having a shit, as we initially thought.
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Cat washing itself. Going to rain again tomorrow.
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At the Moorcock show last Sunday,
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8522/29279006440_681e426707_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LBhyxS)
Sheep expert! (https://flic.kr/p/LBhyxS)
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(http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/Joel_Niemi/14233180_10154641696896037_8203711159732899489_n_zpsye5bcmea.jpg)
an odd sense of timing
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Come back next month.
(https://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8085/29390371270_d38e290b9f_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LM8kr9)
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Unloading outside the Holiday Inn, Rapid City, SD on Sunday
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b360/mattlangridge/thumb_DSC05993_1024.jpg) (http://s23.photobucket.com/user/mattlangridge/media/thumb_DSC05993_1024.jpg.html)
Read the website address......
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P9170321 (https://flic.kr/p/Mgq9k5) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
IRTA "POWER ACTUATED" and thought yes, that's as good a description of David Cameron as you'll find today.
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(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn6/gaydisco/DSCF3504.jpg) (http://s300.photobucket.com/user/gaydisco/media/DSCF3504.jpg.html)
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(https://c7.staticflickr.com/6/5655/29852888030_2de7e1b050_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MtZRy3)
Here, in St Arvans (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6687554,-2.7009437,3a,75y,60.86h,78.06t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sggqHezJDMXt4nr_SSu2pGA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
Does this have any legal standing?
OK, it's a steep, narrow lane with minimal passing places - but it's still a public highway, maintained at the public expense. Or is it just that the residents don't want the riff-raff passing their desirable country residences? And is most definitely a 'through road' - I cycled it yesterday.
(It might have been put there to discourage usage following the closure of the Chepstow - Tintern main road)
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I'd guess it's status is advisory / informative, as per a diversion around roadworks, or notice of an upcoming closure or whatever.
It may be in the interests of traffic flow / safety, rather than NIMBYism, if the road is unsuitable for any real volume of traffic.
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We got the back lane we lived in in sSomerset closed whilst they repaired the main road into Wells. The fools were using it as a way to avoid a slight diversion, and as it was a very steep and small lane with one passing place, it regularly got blocked solid for hours with busses and trucks.
So it can be done by the highways peeps if requested by the residents.
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Yes, a narrow residential street near here was closed, first just with signs then with an official barrier, when people were using it to bypass a section of road that was closed for several months while water mains were being replaced.
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(https://c5.staticflickr.com/6/5265/30136516836_68a1f358f8_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MV4wvS)
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(https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5350/30622110471_cdb89583e2_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NDYjzV)
If you've wasted almost as much time on this forum of righteousness as I have, you'll also misread this as "Depraved glass."
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Unless you're Danny MacAskill I suppose!
(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d116/wilesfamily/IMG-20161128-00473_zpsfk30xhza.jpg)
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This ^^ is perfectly sensible, not silly!
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(https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5495/31191331962_2bf03fbd51_z.jpg)
I fancy the Israeli salad - what you going to have ?
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(https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5495/31191331962_2bf03fbd51_z.jpg)
I fancy the Israeli salad - what you going to have ?
Israeli salad is a disappointing mix of 1cm3 pieces of cucumber, watery tomato and green pepper, usually devoid of flavour, used to fill pitta or plates and placate those who believe Health emanates from eating Five Portions of Vegetables per day...
YSMV.
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I don't fancy the crapssica salad :sick: ;D
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I don't fancy the crapssica salad :sick: ;D
It's feeling Insalted!
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Where did you see this menu? Because I fancy the Russian egg salad, but not if this is, say, the Canaries, and the eggs have come all the way from Russia.
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Canary eggs would be a bit small.
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;D
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It was in India last month - prices in Rupees
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Amey doing their bit for filtered permeability in Birmingham: https://twitter.com/BhamUpdates/status/806919142238486529/photo/1
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The canteen at my place of work today:
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5CdHAYuMt0Y/WFhSPCCLYqI/AAAAAAAA8YY/K6Kl4SQsv_grSHuN-nlEGvv_799mSCkGgCPcB/s640/IMG_20161219_082951.jpg)
...just the same as Danish, but they make bad jokes.
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Or they had a cold.
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I originally read that as "Dadaist Pastries", which I assume means pastries made from cut up bits of other pastries, stuck back together, then served on an upturned urinal.
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I originally read that as "Dadaist Pastries", which I assume means pastries made from cut up bits of other pastries, stuck back together, then served on an upturned urinal.
POTD!
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(https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/11667377_10153504579080625_4332202159910320949_n.jpg?oh=00b1c7fe43aae15599ad33c386889257&oe=590462DD)
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Alternatively, "Cyclists, fcuk-off"?
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(http://i.imgur.com/DkmwjdV.jpg)
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You don't want a puddle of electrons.
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British sockets are shuttered to stop the electrons escaping, aren't they?
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British sockets are shuttered to stop the electrons escaping, aren't they?
They are. Unless someone puts one of those non-compliant cover things in them, and they leak out around the sides.
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It's about wallmarts, innit.
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(http://i.imgur.com/DkmwjdV.jpg)
(http://images.slideplayer.com/7/1642079/slides/slide_2.jpg)
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(http://i884.photobucket.com/albums/ac41/yostumpy/WP_20170205_08_51_05_Pro_zpsc7owcpfi.jpg) (http://s884.photobucket.com/user/yostumpy/media/WP_20170205_08_51_05_Pro_zpsc7owcpfi.jpg.html)
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/505/32690061972_884aade16c_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RNH7w9)
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Wrong thread
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Noticed this in Llan-dismal this morning.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Bloke_on_a_bike/Mobile%20Uploads/20170213_111242_zpswytuevtc.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Bloke_on_a_bike/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20170213_111242_zpswytuevtc.jpg.html)
So. I have insurance. VED is up to date. MOT is sorted. My car is legal.
OK?
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(http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn6/gaydisco/DSCF2989.jpg) (http://s300.photobucket.com/user/gaydisco/media/DSCF2989.jpg.html)
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Have I mentioned @BatLabels (https://twitter.com/BatLabels)?
A compendium from the often silly, but always impeccably signed, One True Batman TV series.
(You could reasonably argue that many of the signs are in fact sensible. I mean, if you're going to have a facility for the emergency gassing of a cricket pavillion (https://twitter.com/BatLabels/status/837379599386435584/video/1), then you'd better be damned sure that people aren't going to use it by mistake.)
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That made oi larf :)
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There was a BRITISH Batman series? :o
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I didn't have the phone with me to take a photo, but earlier this week in the petrol station there were posters everywhere advertising a new Monster energy drink:
"Calorie-Free Energy Drink"
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Oh I dunno if that's ever so silly. I know sometimes I want the perk of caffiene without the attendant calories. Admittedly that's not actually energy per se.
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Tesco has signs for CEREALS and HEALTHY CEREALS
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Tesco has signs for CEREALS and HEALTHY CEREALS
Seems fair enough. One end for Coco Pops, the other for muesli.
But while we're on the subject, let's have supermarket signs with "solutions" in them. A microwave curry, while technically a 'meal solution', would only ever be described as such by Gus Hedges.
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Tesco's in Carmarthen has an isle for 'Cereals' and another marked 'Adult Cereals'
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What ?? Two whole mini-islands ? Wow.
:-)
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Oops. Bugger. :-[
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Tesco has signs for CEREALS and HEALTHY CEREALS
Seems fair enough. One end for Coco Pops, the other for muesli.
I used to make muesli - most are about 10% added sugar! :demon:
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Tesco has signs for CEREALS and HEALTHY CEREALS
Seems fair enough. One end for Coco Pops, the other for muesli.
I used to make muesli - most are about 10% added sugar! :demon:
Some are considerably more. Sugar is cheap and 'No Added Sugar' mueslis are often pricier than sugary ones.
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Tesco has signs for CEREALS and HEALTHY CEREALS
Seems fair enough. One end for Coco Pops, the other for muesli.
I used to make muesli - most are about 10% added sugar! :demon:
Some are considerably more. Sugar is cheap and 'No Added Sugar' mueslis are often pricier than sugary ones.
"No Added Sugar" Alpen is a lie - it contains Malt Extract. It's a long time since I did chemistry, but I'm fairly sure Maltose is a Sugar.
It's also hilarious:
Alpen with sucrose-style-sugar: 378 kCal/100 g
"No Added Sugar" Alpen: 375 kCal/100 g
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Perhaps it is naturally-occurring malt extract :D
Standard Alpen tastes unbearably sweet to me.
We buy the Lidl Luxury Fruit & Nut Muesli <rummages in cupboard> which appears to have sugar added only in the various sweetened/dried fruit contents and which also contains Barley Malt Extract, :o apparently a constituent of "Toasted Malted Wheat Flakes". It still amounts to 25% sugar :-\
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Most dried fruit of the raisin variety is close to 70% sugar, without any added sugar.
'Ready to eat' apricots & prunes are about 38% and, I suspect, 50% water.
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Onna a UoB minibus, stopped alongside at the traffic lights:
"EMERGENCY ENGINE CUTOFF ON IGNITION KEY"
Well, yes, but...
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"EMERGENCY ENGINE CUTOFF ON IGNITION KEY"
That's quite sensible!
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Are "adult cereals" anything like "adult films"?
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Are "adult cereals" anything like "adult films"?
No.
Adult cereals are dull by design...
Adult films are dull by misfortune.
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Are "adult cereals" anything like "adult films"?
Yes, they are shaped appropriately ;)
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On the back of a Mazda MX5: No hairdressing products left in this car overnight.
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/432/32570909476_3086bed9e8_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RCbqCL)
EXCHANGE STREET in Aylesbury was at one time similarly tweaked to "SEXCHANGE STREET"
The train ticket machine in Basingstoke irritates me by stating "Finished Printing" and on the same screen "your receipt is being printed". Make your mind up ::-)
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EXCHANGE STREET in Aylesbury was at one time similarly tweaked to "SEXCHANGE STREET"
The train ticket machine in Basingstoke irritates me by stating "Finished Printing" and on the same screen "your receipt is being printed". Make your mind up ::-)
Years ago CANAL STREET here was amended to ANAL TREET.
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I think Dogpoo Lane in Brum has been mentioned before. (Dogpool Lane)
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Years ago CANAL STREET here was amended to ANAL TREET.
I thought that was traditionally the Manchester one?
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There are a number of artisan yards running off Uxbridge High Street, one was called Cooks Yard originally. Some years ago a wag painted out part of the 2nd O to make it Cocks Yard. When renewing the signs, Hillingdon Council simply copied this and it has remained Cocks Yard to this day.
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Doesn't Pusey Street in Oxford suffer a similar problem?
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A bit rude to photograph it since it's on school grounds, but
WARNING
THESE GATES MAY OPEN WITHOUT WARNING!
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Oopps! still, we might need to know where this is soon. :-[ Its...............................ssshhh!
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4198/33970017673_3ff530912d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TKPdKT)
IMG_8596_01 (https://flic.kr/p/TKPdKT) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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IMG_8596_01 (https://flic.kr/p/TKPdKT) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
That's a great sign! 👍
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No extra:
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IMG_8734_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Ue7hbp) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Often wonder if the badgers know that they're only at risk over that 2 mile stretch . . .
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Safety first.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4267/34858773070_eca1b32fb9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/V7mjLN)
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Often wonder if the badgers know that they're only at risk over that 2 mile stretch . . .
Of course they don't. The sign's in Wales, the badgers all speak Welsh!
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It piqued my curiosity so I googled it and came up with this
https://roadsignsdirect.co.uk/news/here-24859-miles-sign-london-artists-thomson-craighead (https://roadsignsdirect.co.uk/news/here-24859-miles-sign-london-artists-thomson-craighead)
It points North. Its only a few meters above sea level so one pointing east or west would be 24,874 (the equatorial circumference) times the cosine of the latitude (57.149 for that particular sign) about 20,525 miles
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4198/33970017673_3ff530912d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/TKPdKT)
IMG_8596_01 (https://flic.kr/p/TKPdKT) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/jj624/markwilson9000/Silly%20Signs/IMG_20170619_133433.jpg) (http://s1271.photobucket.com/user/markwilson9000/media/Silly%20Signs/IMG_20170619_133433.jpg.html)
Bawdy butcher, Chalfont St Giles
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDVtEbhWAAAl7sw.jpg)
From the https://twitter.com/BritishSigns linked to in the percentage road signs thread.
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Well spotted. Wrong end sign wrong way up. SHould be in a red circle.
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Nicked from today's Evening Standard:
Sign advising passengers to carry water at all times in flooded Ruislip Manor Station.
(https://static.standard.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2017/07/19/11/rhodra-2.jpg)
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Like the signs saying dogs must be carried on escalators......
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Strange...
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There was an Indian restaurant near us in Brum that the kids, when they were small, used to call the Balti Bizarre.
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One for the Spelling that makes me cringe thread.
Meanwhile:
(http://www.pbase.com/image/165926877.jpg)
not to mention a hard hat, ear protectors, a dust mask and a condom. The wretched thing is a whole 20 cm long and is used - very gently - for flush-cutting things like protruding dowels.
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It looks like a mean bread knife.
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The thought crossed my mind, too. It's a bit fine-toothed for that, though.
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A few nay-sayers might have something to comment on that.
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IMG_9058_01 (https://flic.kr/p/WjuFa1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Time for a body-part related cycle ride?
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Time for a body-part related cycle ride?
This must be one of the stops:
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Not silly, just puzzling that there should be demand for Orthodox prayers in Welsh and German. I wasn't aware those countries had notable Orthodox communities, but evidently they're large enough for some to find their way to Bristol. But then, there's an Indian Orthodox Church (rather different sort of Orthodox I expect) in Pilning, a not particularly large village near the Severn Bridge.
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But then, there's an Indian Orthodox Church (rather different sort of Orthodox I expect) in Pilning, a not particularly large village near the Severn Bridge.
Probably not that different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malankara_Orthodox_Syrian_Church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malankara_Orthodox_Syrian_Church)
Went to a Russian Orthodox wedding in Bristol once. Wonderful occasion. I assume at the same place.
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Not silly, just puzzling that there should be demand for Orthodox prayers in Welsh and German.
I've occasionally seen what I assume to be an Orthodox type chappie in Llandysul, I don't think he lives here, but it must be nearby. As the Teifi valley is very Welsh speaking, I guess Orthodox in Cymraeg is a thing.
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IMG_9058_01 (https://flic.kr/p/WjuFa1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Time for a body-part related cycle ride?
Is that near Chesterfield? Or Harts?
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Not silly, just puzzling that there should be demand for Orthodox prayers in Welsh and German.
I've occasionally seen what I assume to be an Orthodox type chappie in Llandysul, I don't think he lives here, but it must be nearby. As the Teifi valley is very Welsh speaking, I guess Orthodox in Cymraeg is a thing.
It would appear that Fr. Vladimir is local. (http://exarchate.org.uk/community-st-celer-plas-geler-llandysul-west-wales)
I thought it might have been someone I was occasionally in contact with, but he is elsewhere in Cymru.
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IMG_9094_01 (https://flic.kr/p/XDZcNi) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4388/36546600045_eb01732f17_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XFuSVT)Teapots to the rescue (https://flic.kr/p/XFuSVT) by Cudzoziemiec (https://www.flickr.com/photos/7832028@N02/), on Flickr
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4410/35737265073_980f9fa691_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/WrYPQD)Teapot Street (Wylye Valley) (https://flic.kr/p/WrYPQD) by Cudzoziemiec (https://www.flickr.com/photos/7832028@N02/), on Flickr
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P9010221 (https://flic.kr/p/YjJcST) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
What do you mean, you already live there? Sod off, Indian bast!
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Powered by the Snu!
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/617sz3tgwHL._SY355_.jpg)
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Wouldn't work in Wlaes then.
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4335/37086182091_9ed2260219_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/YvbnSB)IMG_3705 (https://flic.kr/p/YvbnSB)
by Steve Cunio (https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevecunio/), on Flickr
Makes a change from (Wow)badgers
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IMG_9058_01 (https://flic.kr/p/WjuFa1) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Time for a body-part related cycle ride?
Is that near Chesterfield? Or Harts?
Neither. It's near Cornhill, between Aberchirder and Portsoy, in Scotlandshire.Banffshire
https://goo.gl/maps/FN6MS3faQWK2
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Ah. Thanks.
It seems I've reached a new low in wordplay. My intention was to name places that might be related to the thorax (Cheasterfield, sounds like Hearts). But, as they say: "If you have to explain it..."
Luckily, I know where my coat is.
:-[
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I've passed this a few times now, yesterday I pulled over and took a photo.
There is another shortly after with the same measurements. :facepalm:
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4378/37075283242_d8dd4124a5_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Yudw2q)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/Yudw2q) by Luke Hayes (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60205142@N04/), on Flickr
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You'd have thought they might have got at least one of the conversions correct.
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The lower one is not far off.
4.9m is 16 feet though.
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P9190094 (https://flic.kr/p/YEEAcr) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Hume Lake Christian Camps, California
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It's not clear whether women in bikinis are also required to wear a t-shirt while swimming. Common sense would say not, but as it specifically mentions this for men, it kind of suggests women don't get the swimming exemption, but that seems too silly.
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It's not clear whether women in bikinis are also required to wear a t-shirt while swimming. Common sense would say not, but as it specifically mentions this for men, it kind of suggests women don't get the swimming exemption, but that seems too silly.
I think it means a bikini should be covered at all times, even in the pool, but a one piece does not require an additional t-shirt.
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4378/36587262614_abeb4cc96e_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/XK6huE)
P9240251 (https://flic.kr/p/XK6huE) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Rest area on US-180, New Mexico
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(http://i1.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/article591643.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/DLdJ0mPXkAA6qaJ.jpg)
From here: http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/bath-councillor-backs-call-minister-596535
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That's straight out of an episode of Radio 4's Absolute Power.
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IMG_9995_01 (https://flic.kr/p/D3AiSq) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Glasgow or Norn Iron?
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Glesca
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Very similar. Norn Iron would have been "6.30 tul 10", though.
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That's probably why I could read it...
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4540/38224645856_4bb42ff319_z.jpg)
Tasteful or what ?
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They probably wanted a cross but had even more complaints.
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It's tasteless, but hardly a grave offence.
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4378/37075283242_d8dd4124a5_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Yudw2q)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/Yudw2q) by Luke Hayes (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60205142@N04/), on Flickr
Reminds me of the markings on the back of an ISO container seen recently which I neglected to save a CCTV screenshot of:
Caution! 2Mtr high
and
Caution! 6'6" wide
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All proper British people mix units. Fractions like 11/32" are just too hard, so you switch to millimetres when things get too small for inches. Metres are just French yards.
The one that can catch you out is using lb-ft instead of Nm on a torque wrench; they are close, but not close enough that you won't get in trouble by using the wrong set of numbers. Oh well, I never wanted that cylinder head anyway.
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4378/37075283242_d8dd4124a5_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Yudw2q)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/Yudw2q) by Luke Hayes (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60205142@N04/), on Flickr
Reminds me of the markings on the back of an ISO container seen recently which I neglected to save a CCTV screenshot of:
Caution! 2Mtr high
and
Caution! 6'6" wide
There's a process for displaying the heights of low bridges on road signs. It's not as simple as measuring in inches and converting to centimetres or even vice versa, there's something about making an allowance for road surfaces, rounding down to the nearest whatever and then converting. And the first measurement is presumably metric nowadays so there'll be double conversion. All of which might explain how 2" seems to equal 60cm. Or might not.
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All proper British people mix units. Fractions like 11/32" are just too hard, so you switch to millimetres when things get too small for inches.
No you don't - you stop using fractions and start using thou...
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I feel your gauge, bobb...
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I feel your gauge, bobb...
:P
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All proper British people mix units. Fractions like 11/32" are just too hard, so you switch to millimetres when things get too small for inches.
No you don't - you stop using fractions and start using thou...
Except only oily Brits call them thou. The entire electronics industry calls them mils. I blame the USAnians.
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All proper British people mix units. Fractions like 11/32" are just too hard, so you switch to millimetres when things get too small for inches.
No you don't - you stop using fractions and start using thou...
Except only oily Brits call them thou. The entire electronics industry calls them mils. I blame the USAnians.
I don't know anything about the electonics industry - it just works by magic as far as I can tell. But most American wood and metal workers say thou. Some of them do say mils though, which confused the fuck out of me the first time I heard it!
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Electronics has a thing for doing pin spacing in decimal fractions of an inch, specified in millimetres. It wasn't so bad when everything was through-hole, because multiples of 0.254mm are messy, but clear. But as surface-mount components got smaller, people started inventing new - increasingly millimetre-based standards. And now it's just confusing. Measure once, check the datasheet three times, send the CAD files off to to the board manufacturer, and discover that *something* doesn't fit in n weeks time because you subconsciously read 'mil' as 'mm'
Enclosures and other aspects of physical design are of course done in metric. Except by USAnians, no doubt.
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Thou up to 1mm.
Millimetres from 1mm up to about an inch.
Inches, feet, yards and miles thereafter.
That's how I work. A product of 1960s and 70s schooling and a dad who was wholly imperial.
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For measurements of things smaller than a thou, I believe the correct unit of measurement is the ba' hair.
For measurements of things smaller than a ba' hair, I believe the correct unit of measurement is the midgies willy.
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On the subject of conversions and mixing units - this sign has been bugging me for a long time now:
(http://www.zaribor.co.uk/raz/pics/bogsign.jpg)
I need to go back and GPS it to find out which one is correct, as everyone knows that 1/8th of a mile is 201.168 metres - more than double the metreage shown. That's a fairly hefty error....
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You'd need good bladder pressure, too.
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Sring is my favourite season.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/790/40942825311_db82873b52_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/25nYFxe)
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Siring, misspelt.
That makes sense!
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Never mind all the bollox around detox....
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Seen on the back of a kevved-up Vauxhall of some description[1]: "SPEED BUMP? Please be patient - I'm lowered!"
I think that makes the sign itself technically sensible, but the silliness is in the admission of the ridiculousness of customising a car in order to enhance its suitability for driving like a dick, and then not being able to drive it like a dick.
[1] Bigger than a Corsa, badges lost as part of the kevving-up process.
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Seen in various places along the M8 in the vicinity of junction 8, "SIGN NOT IN USE".
So the sign that is ostensibly not in use is in fact in use precisely to tell the reader that it is in fact not in use. Thank you Transport Scotland, that makes perfect sense. ???
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Seen in various places along the M8 in the vicinity of junction 8, "SIGN NOT IN USE".
So the sign that is ostensibly not in use is in fact in use precisely to tell the reader that it is in fact not in use. Thank you Transport Scotland, that makes perfect sense. ???
Yes, I saw them and was a bit baffled ???
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I've seen that before, and assumed they were testing the sign (or perhaps that's the message the sign displays when it loses comms for whatever reason).
I suppose there's a semantic difference between "SIGN NOT IN USE" and a blank sign that could become important in an emergency situation: eg. if you'd passed a couple of signs saying "SLOW DOWN: ACCIDENT AHEAD" you might assume a blank one meant you'd passed the scene of the accident and that it had all been cleared up.
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In similar vein, the "For X follow Y" signs. Wouldn't it be cheaper and simpler just to have a sign reading "X ^^^"?
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In similar vein, the "For X follow Y" signs. Wouldn't it be cheaper and simpler just to have a sign reading "X ^^^"?
Those seem to be used in three situations: diversions, where following the sign for X will lead to a closed road; where lots of sign-worthy destinations are close together, "For Clever Carl's Crispy Corner follow City Centre"; and symbols, "For rugby follow <rugby ball>".
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The M25 has had "For Stansted airport follow Harlow" since forever.
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I can’t help finishing “Think Bike, Think Biker” with “Think Bikest”
Might be a TEFL thing.
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IMG_0771_01 (https://flic.kr/p/27jDQ78) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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"SOMEONE'S GETTING MARRIED SO WE'RE OPEN AS USUAL"
Outside the Daily Mail branded Little Shop in Wootton Wawen
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IMG_0841_01 (https://flic.kr/p/26pB6UP) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Is the issue the Bees, or that they expect someone to pay £5.50 for John Smiths?
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Give it to The Soft Boys:
(https://img.discogs.com/czpzPBasfji5Z7DKzh9HZEE0mZo=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-692537-1330818579.jpeg.jpg)
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The next addition to Trump's legal team?
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLjmPqJW4AAOdpP.jpg)
https://twitter.com/ijukes/status/916735686333681664
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1790/43001270042_4895db10f1_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/28vSKrC)Chuckle a little bit. (https://flic.kr/p/28vSKrC) by David Martin (https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmam/), on Flickr
Another engineering use for duct tape?
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(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/840/42139519245_e5c27076ef_k.jpg)
unmissable on the Norfolk tourist trail !
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Frankley Services, M5
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1787/43386998271_3a95bea028_z.jpg)
1 - excluded middle
2 - cannot vs may not
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<pedant>
Were the containers impenetrable?
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I didn't realise WHS even sold alcohol.
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Fnarr and, moreover, fnarr! (https://flic.kr/p/M4F5JS) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1821/29577629358_86a71d7508_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/M4F5JS)
Fnarr and, moreover, fnarr! (https://flic.kr/p/M4F5JS) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Wow
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1821/29577629358_86a71d7508_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/M4F5JS)
Fnarr and, moreover, fnarr! (https://flic.kr/p/M4F5JS) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Wow
wowbadgers?
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WTAF?
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LONUIlvAGTQ/W3JhvRTBk9I/AAAAAAAC0CQ/VzHr5aoTUzkUAfeFxWC-eiy6OZkdaFqfwCKgBGAs/s1600/IMG_20180808_190932.jpg)
Slightly betterer than "Cyclists Dismount" I suppose.
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I've seen that one too (in a different place, obvs). "Live" traffic? A lot of it seems pretty dead!
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I rode past this one yesterday. No photo, sorry, only a Google streetview link:
https://goo.gl/maps/JTJhTiMqPFU2
What's silly about that? It's not the design – it's just that in the other direction, there's no corresponding "give way to oncoming traffic" sign. The buses take up almost the whole road as they swing round the corner.
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I've seen that one too (in a different place, obvs). "Live" traffic? A lot of it seems pretty dead!
"Live traffic" seems to be a $kyride-ism.
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I rode past this one yesterday. No photo, sorry, only a Google streetview link:
https://goo.gl/maps/JTJhTiMqPFU2
What's silly about that? It's not the design – it's just that in the other direction, there's no corresponding "give way to oncoming traffic" sign. The buses take up almost the whole road as they swing round the corner.
(Sings)
They come swinging round that corner
They think they're Benny Goodman!
(waits for audience applause not a sossidge)
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I've seen that one too (in a different place, obvs). "Live" traffic? A lot of it seems pretty dead!
"Live traffic" seems to be a $kyride-ism.
No "Live traffic" or "Live lane" is fairly standard highways engineering language for an operational lane rather than say the hard shoulder or a closed lane for roadworks. However I would say that while that sign makes perfect sense to the engineers and workmen on the site they have not passed it through a plain english or general population filter to take the jargon out.
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I've seen that one too (in a different place, obvs). "Live" traffic? A lot of it seems pretty dead!
"Live traffic" seems to be a $kyride-ism.
No "Live traffic" or "Live lane" is fairly standard highways engineering language for an operational lane rather than say the hard shoulder or a closed lane for roadworks. However I would say that while that sign makes perfect sense to the engineers and workmen on the site they have not passed it through a plain english or general population filter to take the jargon out.
That would explain why the $kyride people use it, given that the event is planned around road closures. I hadn't come across the term other than having dire warnings (to the effect that the road was about to turn into a pumpkin and I should immediately stop cycling on it to avoid splatty DETH) that used the phrase shouted at me through megaphones.
The implication that cyclists aren't live traffic in the sign Ham posted above probably makes sense in context (I'm imaging some closure to general traffic that cyclists are able to bypass via a shared-use footway or something), but surely "cyclists rejoin carriageway" or "cyclists merge with traffic" would be more standard.
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Beware of Cows with Attitude (https://flic.kr/p/LKYTwT) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1844/44313529811_cd6fcd1b6a_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2avQqy4)Cringe... (https://flic.kr/p/2avQqy4) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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???
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1876/30565484508_204b457c56_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NyY6Ed)
IMG_1771 (https://flic.kr/p/NyY6Ed) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Wild boar do like to root around in the soft verges of forest roads but I don't think they've been issued spades yet. Wrong kind of verge, too.
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And a medal?
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P9050392 (https://flic.kr/p/29q9Hac) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Gophers! They play golf!!1! Who knew?
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More silly/funny names, but:
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1877/42702072730_dfd71312e3_c.jpg)
Hearty Gate on the Somerset Levels
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1876/29573215387_a11685bc3e_c.jpg)
Merryhole Lane near the Severn Bridge
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1866/44461423472_eb58fbe43d_c.jpg)
Bully Hole Bottom in Monmouthshire
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???
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1876/30565484508_204b457c56_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/NyY6Ed)
IMG_1771 (https://flic.kr/p/NyY6Ed) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Boar having trouble with brolly ?
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1889/43821532694_5c803db472_k.jpg)
Yes, it is opposite the Beeb in Salford
and yes, the bridge is 3 metres wide !
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Three words not usually seen together.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmjVAq9W4AAW0jj.jpg)
https://twitter.com/kirsipiha/status/1038313937295601664
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Three words not usually seen together.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmjVAq9W4AAW0jj.jpg)
https://twitter.com/kirsipiha/status/1038313937295601664
Yes, the 'Berlin Creative Bureaucracy Festival'
(no wonder the Finns are sniggering).
Wot they mean is 'Innovation for workers in the public sektor' and their website goes there
but whyohwhyohwhy in a country where there's a native English speaker on every corner don't hey just ask instead of being Teutonic?
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Oh, dear, Spesh
The webshite is terrible too
https://en.creativebureaucracy.net/ (https://en.creativebureaucracy.net/)
DATE/ TIME: Friday, 7 September 2018, 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm (entrance 11:00 am)
afterwards Fuck-Up Night (end 10:00 pm)
Saturday, 8 September 2018, 10:00 am – 7:00 pm (entrance 9:00 am)
afterwards Party at the Klunkerkranich (open end)
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From which we learn that "The Creative Bureaucracy" is the title of a book (written by a Brit), which puts a somewhat different spin on the above sign.
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"Creative Bureaucracy" suggests courses in "How to refuse expenses applications via the medium of interpretative dance" or "A beginner's guide to writing letters of notice in acrostic form". :demon:
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From which we learn that "The Creative Bureaucracy" is the title of a book (written by a Brit), which puts a somewhat different spin on the above sign.
The power of articles. "The creative bureaucracy" is not the same as "creative bureaucracy" (decapitalised because it's not about the book, in either case).
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P9180053 (https://flic.kr/p/Msp9Se) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
This was certainly effective, as I didn't see anyone loitering from the bridge. Probably because they didn't know how.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1897/29834856097_623857f3fe_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MsprhD)
P9180057 (https://flic.kr/p/MsprhD) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
Sensible advice, but attains Silliness because of the wasps' nest behind the box containing the register.
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Some naughty people in the Medway area?
https://goo.gl/maps/ZGFQzoAt6NJ2
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Algorithms innit?
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4013501,0.5182535,3a,37.5y,90h,90.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swpwbDgJYQXJClEmh4niwaQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 (https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4013501,0.5182535,3a,37.5y,90h,90.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swpwbDgJYQXJClEmh4niwaQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656)
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1922/43958775865_352bc4671b_c.jpg)
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Not to be confused with Gay Hill, B38
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Another one that I'm not sure counts as silly or sensible: "The only tool left in this van is the driver."
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Don't swallow the stopper.
(http://www.pbase.com/image/168222414.jpg)
You get extra points for trying, though. It's about an inch across.
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(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1977/31389008318_eaab3fcee4_k.jpg)
'guards cannot hear'
(I don't think there are any guards)
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This was in a cafe. A vegan cafe, as it happens. I didn't actually see Charlotte there, but...
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(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4911/46048007901_9daf693d1c_c.jpg)
This is sensible because, well, pedestrian and cyclist route finder, but silly because it doesn't show you where you are.
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Stayed in a hotel last night - I thought this was an awesome bit of copy checking from someone prior to printing.
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7898/32759559368_9d56d60b78_h.jpg)
Other than the obvious, the copyright message also says "(C) (current year)".
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Basil, you know those new no smoking signs? Have you had a look at what they actually say?
Yes dear. It's in Latin. For all the important guests. The important guests from the Vatican.
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Basil, you know those new no smoking signs? Have you had a look at what they actually say?
Yes dear. It's in Latin. For all the important guests. The important guests from the Vatican.
Me? ???
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I was thinking of your namesake in Torquay. Unless Mrs Basil is actually called Sybil.
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Ah. Carry on.
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Sid James? :demon:
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An old Welsh favourite
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20190124_124426 (https://flic.kr/p/QCLTGr) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr
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Smoking cormorants a predilection du côté de chez toi?
And: there's a line in L.A. Confidential where Kevin Spacey asks a secretary to shag a reverse telephone directory.
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Which way?
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IMG_2457_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Sqnidu) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Which way?
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7833/33093589568_977d144b32_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Sqnidu)
IMG_2457_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Sqnidu) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
These roadworks sponsored by Sustrans.
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Which way?
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IMG_2457_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Sqnidu) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
That junction is a bit horrid at the best of times.
I had the misfortune to take a Motor-Car into town yesterday, and that set of roadworks had caused the most monumental gridlock I've ever seen!
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Which way?
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7833/33093589568_977d144b32_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Sqnidu)
IMG_2457_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Sqnidu) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
That junction is a bit horrid at the best of times.
I had the misfortune to take a Motor-Car into town yesterday, and that set of roadworks had caused the most monumental gridlock I've ever seen!
It was the same on the way home yesterday, Market Street nortbound. Fortunately I was cycling so could just pootle up between the lines of static vehicles.
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Which way?
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7833/33093589568_977d144b32_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Sqnidu)
IMG_2457_01 (https://flic.kr/p/Sqnidu) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
That junction is a bit horrid at the best of times.
I had the misfortune to take a Motor-Car into town yesterday, and that set of roadworks had caused the most monumental gridlock I've ever seen!
It was the same on the way home yesterday, Market Street nortbound. Fortunately I was cycling so could just pootle up between the lines of static vehicles.
It took my boss 2 hours to get home past that the other night, a journey of 30 mins for me on the bike (although not on that shitty road). Arf,
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This week in stickers on the back of cars:
"Disco is not dead", sadly not on a clapped-out 90s Land Rover.
"Eat, Sleep, Dressage" (I'd no idea it was an endurance sport.)
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Cows move - who knew?
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7883/46212256255_202fac112d_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2dpBTLT)
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Does the ticket machine only take Descartes?
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Triffids?
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2019_03_01_17_13_57.sized.jpg) (http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/random/2019_03_01_17_13_57.jpg)
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Tree of tears.
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"Any golf bought for cash" on a generic commercial unit.
I thought this was one for the grammar thread, until I passed the hedge and saw the several of well-polished Volkswagens parked outside.
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NO AIRBAGS
WE'LL DIE LIKE REAL MEN
On some kind of 90s-looking Volvo, which also appeared to have a two-tone airhorn cable-tied to the roof bar. Toxic masculinity is weird.
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Hell, if you can't afford a modern car irony is the next best thing.
In the 80s/90s there was a campaign to get more French cars on the road, with "Je roule français" stickers. We saw one very rusty old Peugeot with the back painted blue, white and red bearing the joyous inscription "Je rouille français" (I rust French).
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See also "Véhicule d'Anges Heureux" spotted on the back of a 2CV longer ago than I like to contemplate.
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NO AIRBAGS
WE'LL DIE LIKE REAL MEN
On some kind of 90s-looking Volvo, which also appeared to have a two-tone airhorn cable-tied to the roof bar. Toxic masculinity is weird.
Interesting, when you realize that Volvo was one of the first company to introduce safety devices like seatbelts, airbags, etc., long before those devices became mainstream.
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NO AIRBAGS
WE'LL DIE LIKE REAL MEN
On some kind of 90s-looking Volvo, which also appeared to have a two-tone airhorn cable-tied to the roof bar. Toxic masculinity is weird.
Interesting, when you realize that Volvo was one of the first company to introduce safety devices like seatbelts, airbags, etc., long before those devices became mainstream.
My thoughts exactly!
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NO AIRBAGS
WE'LL DIE LIKE REAL MEN
On some kind of 90s-looking Volvo, which also appeared to have a two-tone airhorn cable-tied to the roof bar. Toxic masculinity is weird.
Interesting, when you realize that Volvo was one of the first company to introduce safety devices like seatbelts, airbags, etc., long before those devices became mainstream.
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and didn't patent them
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IMG_2632_01 (https://flic.kr/p/TtkyPs) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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IMG_2632_01 (https://flic.kr/p/TtkyPs) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
Not silly IMHO!
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Bof. One cat more or less, who cares?
(pulls bunker door closed and cowers in a corner.)
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IMG_0246_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2eHSujA) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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In that context the traffic lights are pretty silly too.
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Spotted in a pub bog on a recent visit to Brum
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20190617_210246 (https://flic.kr/p/2ghGxac) by Basil W (https://www.flickr.com/photos/153328377@N08/), on Flickr
Surely 'Hard on' is more normal and, well useful?
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Beware of Danny MacAskill.
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IMG_3355_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2gnZhp6) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Is that the Dutch word for Scheiße?
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My favourite line in German was ever "Halt!" rief der Polizist. "Oder ich scheiße!
Goethe, don't y'know.
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If we're including stickers on cars, I was tickled by this one we saw in LA
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is that where they're hiding the plans for the next hyperspace bypass?
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;D
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There's an upside-down speed camera sign on the A435. I found it strangely discombobulating.
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Silliness ensured by the absence of a box of tissues, a nearby bin or indeed a sink.
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There's a badly-named business thread elsewhere on yacf...
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But but but this isn't a badly-named business
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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).
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That name would be especially unfortunate in Dundee where the local accent lends new meanings to the fore
skinname. "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".
Michty!
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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. (https://goo.gl/maps/rWHZwEutkMMmSqHa9) No sign, but possible evidence of poo on the concrete? It's a sewage pumping station, ironically.
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(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ESbCy6zWAAEhwCq?format=jpg&name=small)
That's going to be a bit scratchy.
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A large banner declaring wasps to be unwelcome in $postcode.
(http://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/2020_04_22_15_25_58.sized.jpg)
Seems like a Hippy Rimmer approach to pest control ???
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Beware of Danny MacAskill.
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IMG_3355_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2gnZhp6) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/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.
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(https://www.bristol247.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Pubic-spaces-Bristol.jpg)
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/help-us-make-your-pubic-spaces-safe/
for those of you who don't necessarily get to other parts of the Forum, I've brought this here
with acknowledgment to Cudzoziemiec !
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Beware of Danny MacAskill.
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IMG_3355_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2gnZhp6) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/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 :-[
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Harsh but fair, I should say....
acknowledging Auntie Helen's tour
https://www.auntiehelen.co.uk/kylltal-mosel-day-5/ (https://www.auntiehelen.co.uk/kylltal-mosel-day-5/)
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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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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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Saw a sign earlier as I rode into Ripe.
A bike symbol with "Quiet please, this is a residential area" underneath.
Because bikes are so much louder than cars and vans...
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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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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 !
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Probably already been posted but made me laugh(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20200712/dbdefa22c7e8467d6582a857227d2791.jpg)
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Silly to leave the sign in the undergrowth on the border of a field the farmer has to cut to see where to drive the combine into the field...
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I pointed that one out to Mrs ED this morning :thumbsup:
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I don’t think my son-inl-law did as much damage as he mowed it last year. He had a few days off this year and one of the others did it.
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Via: https://twitter.com/gwenofmonmouth/status/1309204434707197952
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There's a Wank Mountain near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. You can go up it on the Wankbahn.
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There's a Wank Mountain near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. You can go up it on the Wankbahn.
That's a coincidence, there's a Wank Mountain in Westminster, too.
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There's a Wank Mountain near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. You can go up it on the Wankbahn.
That's a coincidence, there's a Wank Mountain in Westminster, too.
An accurate observation.
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Our local Aldi has an A4 sheet of info about Covid-19 precautions taped to the main entrance door. Before you get close enough to read anything bar the title, the door-opener triggers and the sheet is whisked away out of sight.
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I think they should install pedestrian speed cameras.
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There's a Wank Mountain near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. You can go up it on the Wankbahn.
In the same neck of the woods - no more Fucking.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name
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In the same neck of the woods - no more Fucking.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/fugging-hell-tired-of-mockery-austrian-village-changes-name
That's a shame. They should better try to get their village twinned with Montcuq (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montcuq), because In French, Montcuq is pronounced the same as mon cul, meaning my ass
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From my Facebook ffeed...
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Spotted cable-tied to a signpost yesterday, a sign advertising "ANTI-BULLYING PREVENTION" along with children's martial arts lessons.
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Spotted cable-tied to a signpost yesterday, a sign advertising "ANTI-BULLYING PREVENTION" along with children's martial arts lessons.
In a similar vein as you exit the south portal of Greenwich Foot Tunnel, there's a sign stating 'No Cycling Allowed' along with the obligatory red roundel with a red diagonal bisecting black bike on a white background. ::-)
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Seen behind the Eton Costa
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PeahiFyu7GLmkKa98
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Is it because the Welsh are faster walkers than the English, or because the English waste 2 minutes trying to read the top sign?
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Interesting. I live on the Welsh borders so am used to seeing and hearing some Welsh words that are easy to translate into English, or maybe French, then English (e.g Eglwys, Eglise, Church).
Now I see that more = mwy, so if you pronounce the Welsh version as it should be (I think), it actually sounds like "more".
FWIW, in the early days of the excavation of the machine hall at Dinorwic power station, a geologist friend of mine took me (as another geologist) down on his night shift to see the works in progress. Heaven forbid - no way that could be done now. In the canteen after the shift the miners were chatting in Welsh, naturally, but then every so often there would be a word for which the miners presumably had no Welsh equivalent, such as "hydraulics", or "explosives". Those were the days. It was a huge span of roof too, they'd just opened out the arch and were working on cutting out the hall, downwards.
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Is it because the Welsh are faster walkers than the English, or because the English waste 2 minutes trying to read the top sign?
Separate shops on the other side of town for non-Welsh speakers? :)
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Interesting. I live on the Welsh borders so am used to seeing and hearing some Welsh words that are easy to translate into English, or maybe French, then English (e.g Eglwys, Eglise, Church).
Now I see that more = mwy, so if you pronounce the Welsh version as it should be (I think), it actually sounds like "more".
It's interesting that three of the four nouns on that sign (minutes, shops, cafes) are recognizable in English. Though I think only shops is actually an "English" word.
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Interesting. I live on the Welsh borders so am used to seeing and hearing some Welsh words that are easy to translate into English, or maybe French, then English (e.g Eglwys, Eglise, Church).
Now I see that more = mwy, so if you pronounce the Welsh version as it should be (I think), it actually sounds like "more".
It's interesting that three of the four nouns on that sign (minutes, shops, cafes) are recognizable in English. Though I think only shops is actually an "English" word.
And once that's lined up with the translation, the top bit obv. says "It's a Welsh 6 minute walk... "
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Welsh minutes are longer... :P
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At least the Welsh version wasn't the translator's out of office autoreply.
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Interesting. I live on the Welsh borders so am used to seeing and hearing some Welsh words that are easy to translate into English, or maybe French, then English (e.g Eglwys, Eglise, Church).
Now I see that more = mwy, so if you pronounce the Welsh version as it should be (I think), it actually sounds like "more".
It's interesting that three of the four nouns on that sign (minutes, shops, cafes) are recognizable in English. Though I think only shops is actually an "English" word.
And once that's lined up with the translation, the top bit obv. says "It's a Welsh 6 minute walk... "
Mae'n cymryd = it takes. Or so google translate tells me.
The shops must be uphill from the sign. English people, being unused to Welsh mountains and Welsh rain, find walking uphill in the rain slower. But coming down, they slip and slide the whole way. There must be a sign outside the shops that says it takes 6 minutes back to wherever that is, in Welsh, and 4 minutes in English!
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Interesting. I live on the Welsh borders so am used to seeing and hearing some Welsh words that are easy to translate into English, or maybe French, then English (e.g Eglwys, Eglise, Church).
Now I see that more = mwy, so if you pronounce the Welsh version as it should be (I think), it actually sounds like "more".
It's interesting that three of the four nouns on that sign (minutes, shops, cafes) are recognizable in English. Though I think only shops is actually an "English" word.
And once that's lined up with the translation, the top bit obv. says "It's a Welsh 6 minute walk... "
Mae'n cymryd = it takes. Or so google translate tells me.
Yes, apparently
Cymry = Welsh People
Cymryd = Take
Cymrydd = Welshman
That's not confusing at all.
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AN 8 minute walk, surely?
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I bet they do a really good job !
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Oh no you can't!
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;D
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Before anyone heard of selfies (https://i.imgur.com/QHwKtc5.jpg)
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Obviously they wanted to write "Electric cycles" but got distracted.
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My nephew seems to be producing a lot of of Vechicles...
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That's not a silly sign. It's only silly if people ignore it!
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That's not a silly sign. It's only silly if people ignore it!
Fair point!
This might be slightly better
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"Spooking cattle"!
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I don't think I've posted this before. Not in Devon but in northern Norway. It was near a house displaying many such homemade signs. This was one of the least silly.
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That should be displayed for the red kites at Watlington!
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With a kebab/burger/gilet/false teeth/important part of your boules set...
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With a kebab/burger/gilet/false teeth/important part of your boules set...
It's more serious than that
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The bottom bit is quite sensible. Before big climbs they would say for example 1km - 5 km, which meant that you (yes you, the HGV driver) have a kilometer warning and there'll inevitably be a layby where you can put chains on your tyres if necessary.
More:
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NSFW
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All gone in June 2019 (https://www.google.com/maps/@68.2649415,14.1581779,3a,75y,31.43h,94.3t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sGMQ2IwIIDkvXytHV7k5Kcg!2e0!5s20190601T000000!7i16384!8i8192)
Having just streetviewed all the way from Leknes to this house, I'm now pining for the fjords.
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One of the map mods for ETS2 has a road sign warning of måting møøse. Unfortunately it’s on Svalbard, where the møøse population is 0.
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https://twitter.com/petefirman/status/1399296462148751360?s=20
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Seen today at Chieveley services.
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Stop. (https://flic.kr/p/2m4uxMX) by Luke Hayes (https://www.flickr.com/photos/60205142@N04/), on Flickr
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(hoping this will show up) (it also falls into The Pub's Grammar category)
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An estate agent's sign consisting of a Union Jack which at first sight appeared to have splots of paint on it, as if someone had thrown paint at it. From a less acute angle they formed the shape of a lion's head and up closer, it became clear this was the logo of Team GB.
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(from Twitter)
' What on earth did Tim do ?'
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I think he took an E
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I think he had an unfortunate vowel movement.
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I think he had an unfortunate vowel movement.
:D :D
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I must take a photo but keep forgetting. There is a sign about a 3rd of the way down the hill to Kirkham Abbey form the A64 that says "no footway for 1/3 of a mile". The thing is there is no footpath for half a mile before it and no footpath for two miles after it. No idea why the sign is there or what its purpose is.
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Kind of like the "Pick up only" parking outside Tesco, which was quite useful when I had an L200.
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(https://i.imgur.com/NhVHJRW.jpg)
The sign attracted exactly the sort of vehicle it describes rather than the type of vehicle it is meant to attract.
Been a passenger in one of those ^^^^ when the driver had pressed the appropriate button to give it the full 700+ bhp. His was white though.
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"There is no pandemic - ask any undertaker" in the rear window of a random car. :facepalm:
Sadly I'd left my "There are two - ask any epidemiologist" stickers at home.
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camera wouldn't focus through rain on the windshield/windscreen, but I appreciated the understated sticker on the rear of a car ahead of me this week:
"pardon me for driving so close in front of you"
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(http://handsonit.co.uk/photos/2021/wall.jpeg)
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Should this be under "sensible"?
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Won't 'riving the label' damage the strings?
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Won't 'riving the label' damage the strings?
That was why it found its way here, but the remainder....
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:o :o :o
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I attended GP surgery for routine blood test and 'flu jab.
On the wall RED circular 'No Mobile Phones' sign.
On the floor HUGE 'sail' type sign 'Download the NHS App'...
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At first glance I read B9 as benign which looks like an embarrassing name for the Bucharest Nine.
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Plus there are ten people on the stage
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Plus there are ten people on the stage
Maybe it’s aspirational? The game is to be nine. One must go…
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Zinswiller (alt 190 mtr) is looking forward to a cool summer.
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(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52261007551_f73b16e2f1.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2nC8jNk)Gits (https://flic.kr/p/2nC8jNk) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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Seen today in a town twinned with Manningtree in Essex (my old stomping ground) somewhere in the Hoch Sauerland Kreis:
(https://www.auntiehelen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Bonkers-Test-Centre-769x1024.jpg)
Definitely getting myself tested there.
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I don't have a picture, however this week I passed a couple of roadsigns saying "Cats eyes removed". Seems rather cruel.
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And here's everything you ever wanted to know about Bonkers Testcenter.
https://www.hna.de/lokales/frankenberg/frankenberg-eder-ort305273/testcenter-im-club-bonkers-in-frankenberg-91213331.html
Includes an interview with the owner Benjamin Battefeld.
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(https://www.ductilebiscuit.net/gallery_albums/cycling/2022_09_11_15_03_45.sized.jpg)
What did they expect was going to happen?
Also, from the department of not-sure-if-it's-silly-or-sensible, one outside a pub to the effect of "A pint costs less than a litre of fuel. Don't drive, drink!" (Didn't get a photo, the light was fading and it was a busy road.)
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Also, from the department of not-sure-if-it's-silly-or-sensible, one outside a pub to the effect of "A pint costs less than a litre of fuel. Don't drive, drink!" (Didn't get a photo, the light was fading and it was a busy road.)
Definitely silly, as it is not actually true.
One of my favourite signs outside a pub was "Buy one pint for the price of two - get next pint absolutely free!"
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There's a Wank Mountain near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. You can go up it on the Wankbahn.
I've driven through both Wank and Oy, gave me much amusement as a small when on the way to camping holidays
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I find this, outside St Pancras, thoroughly bizarre, although I suppose that I should have some sympathy for the local authority, who have presumably been driven (sorry) to distraction by road users not understanding more reasonable options:
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5qetutrhm80a48/StP-NoMotors.jpg?raw=1)
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I find this, outside St Pancras, thoroughly bizarre, although I suppose that I should have some sympathy for the local authority, who have presumably been driven (sorry) to distraction by road users not understanding more reasonable options:
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/n5qetutrhm80a48/StP-NoMotors.jpg?raw=1)
Cycles should not beware of flying motorcyclists.
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;D :thumbsup:
No Entry is often used where the flying motorbike might be more appropriate. Perhaps here it would be preferable! After all, it is an entry point to a road where motor vehicles are allowed, and it is simply entry by that route that is forbidden (except to cyclists).
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Silly because it's about 3 minutes ride from the university, as someone with a biro has attempted to rectify.
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Maybe it's 10 if you go up the pole?
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You had one job…
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Robbed from the East Lothian Courier via APILN.
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What's HOPIRG?
Googling Hoprig shows it is near Cockburnspath, for which I need better kerning or better VDU spectacles.
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No idea, but they have one.
(Took both myself and MrsH a moment to spot the error).
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They 'ave une?
[chaucer]
Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe,
For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.
[/chaucer]
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IMG_1007_01 (https://flic.kr/p/2oyAdvq) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr
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You had one job…
(https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/resources/images/16424517.jpg)
Robbed from the East Lothian Courier via APILN.
Aye, it'll be 'The Auld Alliance", then !
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Campsite / Glampsite shower room...
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...singing in the shower is all very well, but they ought to pay their musicians properly !
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Campsite / Glampsite shower room...
...singing in the shower is all very well, but they ought to pay their musicians properly !
"dancing in the rain" ?
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If this was aimed at literate badgers it should have a red diagonal line through the image. Maybe it is warning mere humans about the presence of honey badgers, sabre-toother badgers etc.
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Let's not forget wowbadgers...
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Duffryn, Newport near the ASDA
Sign probably waiting school to return..
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and see 'Caption It' for interpretation....
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Alas, I could not locate this magical isle within the confines of my local Tesco Express. Just as well I wasn't there for a sandwich.
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I would hope that the Eigg was fresh, if not the Rùm.
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The result of building a new Co-op in Fishguard and an bus interchange.
Town planners call these 'leisure lines' - allegedly in a New Town , say , you don't put paving stones down until it's clear where people want to walk.
Pembs CC let people decide where to walk (from the supermarket to the bus stop, perhaps?)
and then punish them when they do !
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Town planners call these 'leisure lines'...
I've heard the term "desire lines" - is that the same?
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Cue Hickory Holler's Tramp.
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I've heard the term "desire lines" - is that the same?
I think you're probably right and I'd remembered it slightly wrong !
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Arf... (https://flic.kr/p/2p4uCk4) by Mr Larrington (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_larrington/), on Flickr
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From the heffalump site:
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Spotted in Flitwick on today's club run. That's a bargain on any measure - most people pay that kind of price to park cars - but they don't seem to have room even for one.
(https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ejqta24maym84nyd0qi8k/train-parking.jpg?rlkey=kzs753ub3lu50d683e13pgrrw&raw=1)
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Pic isn’t showing for me…