Whacky Signs.

[PhilJ W]

[melmerby]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

No Three Wees.

Two is OK.👍

[The Johnster]

2 hours ago, martin_wynne said:

 

Have to say that that is a pretty elaborate bus…

[melmerby]

14 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

The Dog's wotsits?😄

[stewartingram]

Wansford NVR 25/09/2022:

 

 

[Hroth]

On 25/09/2022 at 21:30, PhilJ W said:

 

So long as you stay on the public side of the gate and aim through the rungs, you're good to go...

[PhilJ W]

1 hour ago, Hroth said:

 

So long as you stay on the public side of the gate and aim through the rungs, you're good to go...

As long as it isn't electrified.

[Hroth]

2 hours ago, PhilJ W said:

As long as it isn't electrified.

 

 

A gate shouldn't be electrified, although....

Edited September 27, 2022 by Hroth

[The Johnster]

Only fun I get these days, peein’ on leccy fences…

[Hroth]

46 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

Only fun I get these days, peein’ on leccy fences…

 

We should be shocked, I know....

 

[pH]

2 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Only fun I get these days, peein’ on leccy fences…

 

2 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

We should be shocked, I know....

 

He goes through phases - that’s just his current entertainment.

[PhilJ W]

I do miss the GROAN! button.

[Tangoman69]

[Hroth]

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

I do miss the GROAN! button.

 

I sometimes use the friendly/supportive one in an ironic manner

[PhilJ W]

[PhilJ W]

[PhilJ W]

[PhilJ W]

[martin_wynne]

 

[PhilJ W]

I've posted this before but I think it was before RMweb went down and most photos were lost.

[PhilJ W]

[Pacific231G]

One that's always amused me is this notice that apparently still appears above the priority seats in the trains of the Paris Métro.

It's not the idea of priority seats, that's perfectly reasonable, (though probably not needed in more courteous times in this country) but the totally logical but absurdly over prescriptive codifying of it.

Do people who lost an arm in some war really demand that blind people (unless of course their blindness was a war injury) give up their seat for them or that someone who lost a leg in an industrial accident does the same. Do pregnant Parisiennes really demand the seats of elderly travellers.

If there was ever a French equivalent of Monty Python this would surely have formed the basis of a sketch with half a dozen people arguing about which of them is more entitled to the two priority seats while all the ordinary seats are occupied by able bodied passengers who feel no obligation to give up their seat to a pregnant woman who lost her sight and a leg while serving in the military.

Edited September 27, 2022 by Pacific231G

[J. S. Bach]

Having absolutely no idea what that sign states, it totally meaningless to me.

[Pacific231G]

33 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

We all know the phrase "mad as a hatter" but though that's often put down to the past use of mercury, reality tells a different story. The pathetic sight of hat addicts - hatters as we call them- is all too common in this part of London. It starts with baseball caps but rapidly goes downhill from there until you see some poor wretches reduced to the abject depths of bobble hats. Worse still, at some seaside resorts, you sometimes see knotted handkerchiefs on the heads of men who have spent every penny they have on "hatting" who now sit all day on deckchairs staring mindlessly at the sea.  

[pH]

16 minutes ago, Pacific231G said:

If there was ever a French equivalent of Monty Python this would surely have formed the basis of a sketch with half a dozen people arguing about which of them is more entitled to the two priority seats while all the ordinary seats are occupied by able bodied passengers who feel no obligation to give up their seat to a pregnant woman who lost her sight and a leg while serving in the military.

Even more Monty Pythonesque would be half a dozen people arguing about which of them is more entitled to the two priority seats while all the ordinary seats are unoccupied.