Author Topic: Sensible Signs  (Read 122265 times)

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #175 on: 23 August, 2018, 10:00:41 pm »
I'm sure that one used to say 220 yards, before the Beard thing opened and the next pub was the White Bear (which, incidentally, I have recently discovered is quite nice when the students are away).
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meddyg

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #176 on: 03 September, 2018, 08:31:44 pm »







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

*or were they calling it 'City Beach' ?

meddyg

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #177 on: 03 September, 2018, 08:33:16 pm »

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #178 on: 04 September, 2018, 11:52:03 am »







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

*or were they calling it 'City Beach' ?
And the TV only shows love films?
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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #179 on: 17 September, 2018, 12:38:42 pm »
Good luck getting anything through! (Sutton in the Elms, Leicestershire)

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #180 on: 17 September, 2018, 12:48:10 pm »
Was the NCN sign just out of shot?
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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #181 on: 17 September, 2018, 02:09:20 pm »
Was the NCN sign just out of shot?
Not sure if it's NCN, but yes there is a (very narrow) cycle path to the right of the picture with a sign. Not deliberately cropped.
It's a couple of years since I've been down this disused motor-road and they've erected barriers and gates which I'm sure weren't previously there - my memory is that these No Entry signs did at one time serve a useful purpose, but nature wins every time!
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #182 on: 17 September, 2018, 03:11:12 pm »
Is this the other end of the same road?
https://goo.gl/maps/gjpsnHtsEq62
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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #183 on: 17 September, 2018, 03:41:50 pm »
Yes! That's the one.
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meddyg

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #184 on: 30 September, 2018, 08:33:46 pm »


just by Broadway station in the Cotswolds...

meddyg

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #185 on: 13 October, 2018, 09:36:23 pm »


Yeah, quite right too !

Bit of a post-war interdiciton I think, though

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #186 on: 13 October, 2018, 09:47:56 pm »
"Commit no nuisance" is still seen all over Indian cities. Means "Don't piss here!" A less official but probably more effective way of ensuring that is to paint holy figures (Brahma, Shiva, Jesus, Islamic symbols... ) but probably would look a bit odd in a dockyard in Britain!
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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #187 on: 18 October, 2018, 12:44:31 pm »
I saw the "PRIVATWEG" from a distance and my heart sank - the alternative was a long sandy track. Nevertheless I went closer and read the small print - "Anyone who takes care and keeps their dog on a lead is welcome to pass through."

So I did.

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #188 on: 18 October, 2018, 12:46:22 pm »
Were dogs provided for the dogless?

Salvatore

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #189 on: 18 October, 2018, 02:44:59 pm »
I was dogless. If I remember correctly, it was more of a horsey area.
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Andrij

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #190 on: 18 October, 2018, 09:00:54 pm »
Were dogs provided for the dogless?

They're not provided in London, sadly.

;D  Andrij.  I pronounce you Complete and Utter GIT   :thumbsup:

Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #191 on: 23 October, 2018, 09:58:26 pm »
Mooching through some old photos, I came across one from the TdF, while I was in Skipton


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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #192 on: 06 April, 2019, 12:29:39 pm »
On the back of a car:

"I don't look disabled?  Well you don't look ignorant.  Life's funny like that."

Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #193 on: 09 April, 2019, 06:09:01 pm »

It is.
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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #194 on: 23 April, 2019, 06:56:33 pm »
In that there Belgium



I think I might try to get one

Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #195 on: 10 June, 2019, 03:00:33 pm »

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #196 on: 29 September, 2019, 05:35:36 pm »

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #197 on: 29 September, 2019, 06:59:56 pm »
Speaking of which. Could hotel chains etc please train their cleaning staff that when the bog seat is all wobbly it can be rectified by twiddling of a wing nut under the pan?
I nearly fell off the bog thanks to an unsecured seat on the way home from France.
Do not clench. It only makes it worse.

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Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #198 on: 29 September, 2019, 07:19:00 pm »
Speaking of which. Could hotel chains etc please train their cleaning staff that when the bog seat is all wobbly it can be rectified by twiddling of a wing nut under the pan?

Or, if that's already been attempted and stripped the threads, by chucking the whole sorry mess in a bin and replacing it with a working bog seat that doesn't tip you off.

Re: Sensible Signs
« Reply #199 on: 29 September, 2019, 07:24:35 pm »
Speaking of which. Could hotel chains etc please train their cleaning staff that when the bog seat is all wobbly it can be rectified by twiddling of a wing nut under the pan?
I nearly fell off the bog thanks to an unsecured seat on the way home from France.
The seat probably wanted to make the crossing before the chaos of Brexit