We came across this sign [arguably NSFW - depending where you work] in a square in Ghent. Regularly placed signs along the side of the square. Just in case you missed the first one, I guess. It’s the equality aspect of the sign that particularly appeals to me.
I think it was our next visited which coincided with Ghent winning the Belgian Football League, and, as the evening wore on and the good people of the town celebrated, such signs were widely ignored, to the extent that some of the narrower alleyways were impassable.
I’ve seen a road sign like this on an underpass where the drainage grate was installed with the bars running parallel to the road, so bike wheels would get stuck in it.
There’s nothing better than a picture to drive home a message. Doesn’t matter what language someone speaks. They’ll understand that sign.
Road signs for deer are similar. Everyone understands a picture of a deer and that they can dart out onto the highway. Car wrecks after hitting deer are a problem in my state.
The big sign directing you onto the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston used to have a buckle-bearing pilgrim hat (symbol of the Pike) and an arrow pointing the way. But the arrow was transfixing the hat, as if he’d been shot just a little too high by an indian.
The sign’s gone now, a victim of Political Correctness. A second grade class in Amherst MA campaigned successfully to remove the signs in 1989, feeling they were disrespectful to Native Americans. Which I must say I agree with. But I miss the weird whimsicality of those signs.
My hometown has taken to putting up “Roadwork Ahead” signs with a humourous twist. One of our major bridges was down to two lanes from four all summer, and the warning sign said “Road Work Ahead - If only we had a swear jar.” But even better, where they were working on the water and sewer system they had this sign: Road Work Ahead - No ninja turtles will be harmed."
Seen at the site of everlasting disruptive road construction near my home man years ago, someone pasted the word “Very” over the sign “Slow Men Working”
In Panama, I once saw a “Road Works” sign with the initials of the MOP (Ministerio de Obras Publicos = Ministry of Public Works) at the bottom completed by some joker as Ministerio de Obreros Pobres (Ministry of Poor/Bad Workers).
Unnecessary is the word for everything I’ve ever read on the Daily Mail’s website. It reads like written for people with lobotomies. I’m glad I’ve never had to read one of their rags in print.