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Old Jan 4th 2012 | 8:20 am
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Originally Posted by redglade
but digital information signs used on motorways for amber alerts, evacuation info etc can be read while driving without causing a problem.
Not on the roads I drive. Everyone slows down by at least 10mph to read a sign that says "Wear your seatbelt - extra checks at night". How hard is it to read that? Backs the road up for miles for some reason.

Just as bad are when the signs in the city tell me there has been an accident ahead - about 70 miles away, and at least 6 overhead signs outside of the city away.
 
Old Jan 4th 2012 | 11:24 am
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Originally Posted by Xebedee
Well, its a very American thing to publicly display like that isn't it?
Seen them in the UK and loads of them over here. Shitty idea.
 
Old Jan 4th 2012 | 12:54 pm
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Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
They do it back in the UK too, don't they?
First time I ever saw them was in the Netherlands. The area I lived in had a Catholic majority so many of the memorials were very shrinelike.
 
Old Jan 4th 2012 | 1:02 pm
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Originally Posted by cindyabs
First time I ever saw them was in the Netherlands. The area I lived in had a Catholic majority so many of the memorials were very shrinelike.
I think it is/was much more common to see roadside shrines on the Continent than in the UK. I can't recall ever seeing any in the UK before we moved...but I have seen one or two in recent years.
 
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Originally Posted by cindyabs
First time I ever saw them was in the Netherlands. The area I lived in had a Catholic majority so many of the memorials were very shrinelike.
There's one near us and they have this photo up. Without meaning to be harsh, it looks like it was taken after the guy's accident Flowers are changed once or twice a week which strikes me as slight overkill and the point the people have to park is on a steep blind corner. ****wits in my extremely humble opinion.

I wish I had a job. I wouldn't have so much time to get wound up by morons.
 
Old Jan 4th 2012 | 9:58 pm
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Originally Posted by moneypenny20
There's one near us and they have this photo up. Without meaning to be harsh, it looks like it was taken after the guy's accident Flowers are changed once or twice a week which strikes me as slight overkill and the point the people have to park is on a steep blind corner. ****wits in my extremely humble opinion.

I wish I had a job. I wouldn't have so much time to get wound up by morons.
Even with a job I still get wound up by morons. But such is life when one deals with the public.........

Anyway, I am creeped out by the cemetery I pass every day which had one now two graves that are lit.
 
Old Jan 5th 2012 | 12:36 am
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Originally Posted by Anian
Not on the roads I drive. Everyone slows down by at least 10mph to read a sign that says "Wear your seatbelt - extra checks at night". How hard is it to read that? Backs the road up for miles for some reason.

Just as bad are when the signs in the city tell me there has been an accident ahead - about 70 miles away, and at least 6 overhead signs outside of the city away.
Two possible reasons might include those of illiteracy, and bad vision. Intelligence could also play a part.
 
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Originally Posted by paranoidandroid
Two possible reasons might include those of illiteracy, and bad vision. Intelligence could also play a part.
It could, but we're still waiting for some of it from you....
 
Old Jan 5th 2012 | 2:19 am
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Originally Posted by cindyabs
Even with a job I still get wound up by morons. But such is life when one deals with the public.........

Anyway, I am creeped out by the cemetery I pass every day which had one now two graves that are lit.
Lit??? With what kind of lights? Come to think of it, seems to me there were some solar lantern-like things on graves in the cemetery in Southampton when we went for BIL's funeral. Because it was daylight, they weren't lit, but I imagine the glow from them at night would be a little creepy. Many of the gravesites had bits of whimzy decorating them - one had a sculpture of a dog taking a whizz, another had a Co-Op grocery bag tied to a stake, others had whirlygigs, another a whiskey bottle - really, all manner of things. Can you imagine that sort of thing on American graves or solar lanterns at the roadside memorials? OMG!
 
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Originally Posted by Egg and Cress
a dog taking a whizz...
Is this connected with "Cheese Whizz" at all?
 
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Originally Posted by cindyabs

Anyway, I am creeped out by the cemetery I pass every day which had one now two graves that are lit.
That's just downright fricking odd! I'm going to be burnt and then chucked out to sea.
 
Old Jan 5th 2012 | 12:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Egg and Cress
Lit??? With what kind of lights? Come to think of it, seems to me there were some solar lantern-like things on graves in the cemetery in Southampton when we went for BIL's funeral. Because it was daylight, they weren't lit, but I imagine the glow from them at night would be a little creepy. Many of the gravesites had bits of whimzy decorating them - one had a sculpture of a dog taking a whizz, another had a Co-Op grocery bag tied to a stake, others had whirlygigs, another a whiskey bottle - really, all manner of things. Can you imagine that sort of thing on American graves or solar lanterns at the roadside memorials? OMG!
These outline the plots.
 
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Originally Posted by cindyabs
These outline the plots.
Are they body shaped? Or like a murder scene chalk shape? That could be quite amusing. Well, to me anyway.
 
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Originally Posted by moneypenny20
Are they body shaped? Or like a murder scene chalk shape? That could be quite amusing. Well, to me anyway.
Dom't give 'em any ideas............
 
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Originally Posted by moneypenny20
Are they body shaped? Or like a murder scene chalk shape? That could be quite amusing. Well, to me anyway.
When I first started working in Adelaide I had a white tail spider fall from the ceiling and land on my desk. The guy from the next office came in, killed it then took his pencil and drew the outline around the squashed remains. Bastard thought it was funny.
 


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