Favorite Sign Posted in UK
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Favorite Sign Posted in UK
Came across a delightful sign posted in a B&B in Cornwall just over a narrow and short staircase: "Duck or Grouse". Wish I could find one similar.
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As you leave the visitor's center at Loch Ness, there's a sign saying "Drive on the LEFT!" (Half of the road accidents in Britain are caused by foreign tourists from countries where they drive on the right.)
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Here are some of my favourites:-
Warning of randy motorists....
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign132.htm
Binge drinkers on the road
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign102.htm
The M25
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign109.htm
Antiques roadshow ahead
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign106.htm
Al Qaeda prohibited
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign055.htm
Warning of randy motorists....
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign132.htm
Binge drinkers on the road
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign102.htm
The M25
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign109.htm
Antiques roadshow ahead
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign106.htm
Al Qaeda prohibited
http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign055.htm
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<i>"As you leave the visitor's center at Loch Ness, there's a sign saying "Drive on the LEFT!" (Half of the road accidents in Britain are caused by foreign tourists from countries where they drive on the right.)</i>
It's the same here. We have signs all over saying to "Keep Left." Want me to steal one for you? We also have a lot of the crosswalks marked with "Look right."
It's the same here. We have signs all over saying to "Keep Left." Want me to steal one for you? We also have a lot of the crosswalks marked with "Look right."
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kwren, I've always been amused by those types of dual purpose shop which you sometimes see in small villages here. My favourite (somewhere in Northumberland) was Guns'n'Videos.
sassh, I too have always been amused when being driven round Fife to see enormous 'SECRET BUNKER' signs everywhere
Daisy, I don't doubt that you really did read that somewhere, but I find it extremely hard to believe that "Half of the road accidents in Britain are caused by foreign tourists from countries where they drive on the right.". My feeling is that the proportion of car journeys made by foreign visitors must be so small as to be undetectable.
sassh, I too have always been amused when being driven round Fife to see enormous 'SECRET BUNKER' signs everywhere
Daisy, I don't doubt that you really did read that somewhere, but I find it extremely hard to believe that "Half of the road accidents in Britain are caused by foreign tourists from countries where they drive on the right.". My feeling is that the proportion of car journeys made by foreign visitors must be so small as to be undetectable.
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Many small villages in England have some very strange names. A cartoon showed a man and woman in a car, both obviously tourists, and the woman is pointing to a sign saying; "Look dear. It's 'Loose Chippings' again. I knew we'd been this way before."
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Reputedly there was once a sign in the middle of a field, which couldn't be read from the path at the edge of the field. If you walked across the field to read it, you would see it said "Do not throw stones at this notice". Or am I confusing it with the too small notice in the middle of a pond that said "Keep clear, thin ice"?
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A friend of mine sent me a picture of a bank in London. The front door had a sign saying "This door is alarmed." He was never able to find out what upset the poor door so badly. I hope the door is feeling better by now.