Author Topic: Silly signs  (Read 338622 times)

meddyg

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1425 on: 29 June, 2018, 01:58:17 pm »




unmissable on the Norfolk tourist trail !

JStone

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1426 on: 13 July, 2018, 06:40:46 pm »
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hellymedic

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1427 on: 13 July, 2018, 06:59:17 pm »
<pedant>
Were the containers impenetrable?

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1428 on: 13 July, 2018, 07:16:05 pm »
I didn't realise WHS even sold alcohol.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1429 on: 16 July, 2018, 05:30:46 pm »
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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1432 on: 14 August, 2018, 06:01:02 am »
WTAF?



Slightly betterer than "Cyclists Dismount" I suppose.

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1433 on: 14 August, 2018, 10:32:57 am »
I've seen that one too (in a different place, obvs). "Live" traffic? A lot of it seems pretty dead!
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1434 on: 14 August, 2018, 10:36:30 am »
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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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1435 on: 14 August, 2018, 11:26:11 am »
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.

Mr Larrington

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1436 on: 14 August, 2018, 12:17:52 pm »
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!

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1437 on: 14 August, 2018, 12:41:04 pm »
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.

Kim

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1438 on: 14 August, 2018, 01:01:31 pm »
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.

Mr Larrington

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1439 on: 28 August, 2018, 03:02:24 am »
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Pingu

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1440 on: 02 September, 2018, 10:31:54 pm »
 ???


IMG_1771 by The Pingus, on Flickr

T42

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1441 on: 03 September, 2018, 09:58:11 am »
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.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1442 on: 03 September, 2018, 07:37:51 pm »
And a medal?
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1443 on: 06 September, 2018, 01:55:14 am »

P9050392 by Mr Larrington, on Flickr

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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1444 on: 06 September, 2018, 01:11:43 pm »
More silly/funny names, but:


Hearty Gate on the Somerset Levels


Merryhole Lane near the Severn Bridge


Bully Hole Bottom in Monmouthshire
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meddyg

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1445 on: 08 September, 2018, 09:21:39 am »
???


IMG_1771 by The Pingus, on Flickr

Boar having trouble with brolly ?

meddyg

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1446 on: 08 September, 2018, 09:23:34 am »



Yes, it is opposite the Beeb in Salford
and yes, the bridge is 3 metres wide !

Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1447 on: 09 September, 2018, 12:06:47 am »
Three words not usually seen together.



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meddyg

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1448 on: 09 September, 2018, 10:50:06 pm »
Three words not usually seen together.



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?

meddyg

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Re: Silly signs
« Reply #1449 on: 09 September, 2018, 10:52:06 pm »
Oh, dear, Spesh

The webshite is terrible too

https://en.creativebureaucracy.net/

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