Whacky Signs.

[martin_wynne]

 

[J. S. Bach]

2 hours ago, martin_wynne said:

 

Makes sense, there probably is a grass landing strip on one side of the road and the hangar/parking area on the other. The real humor is style of the a/c icon used.

 

EDIT: There appears to be a matching sign facing the opposite direction; that, and it is most likely not in the UK.

 

 

Edited May 4, 2023 by J. S. Bach
To add some thoughts.

[F-UnitMad]

4 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Makes sense, there probably is a grass landing strip on one side of the road and the hangar/parking area on the other. The real humor is style of the a/c icon used.

 

EDIT: There appears to be a matching sign facing the opposite direction; that, and it is most likely not in the UK.

 

 

I thought what made it funny was the skid marks on the road??.... 😉

[J. S. Bach]

3 hours ago, F-UnitMad said:

I thought what made it funny was the skid marks on the road??.... 😉

Looks to me like someone did a burnout.

 

Edited May 4, 2023 by J. S. Bach
To do a minor edit.

[TheQ]

Yep definitely not the UK, this is our aircraft warning sign , it would have a plate beneath saying taxiing aircraft.

Edited May 4, 2023 by TheQ

[martin_wynne]

57 minutes ago, F-UnitMad said:

I thought what made it funny was the skid marks on the road??.... 😉

 

That was my reason for posting it.

 

I'm mystified what other humour there is in it?

 

Martin.

[J. S. Bach]

A grass strip and a swept-wing  jet?

 

EDIT: I did not see the burnout marks initially.

Edited May 4, 2023 by J. S. Bach

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, J. S. Bach said:

Looks to me like someone did a burnout.

Quite possibly as an intentional 'set up' for a funny photo.

[KeithMacdonald]

On 26/04/2023 at 21:25, Compound2632 said:

Well, going back far enough, the Anglo-Normans, who had no temporary road signage.

 

Just for them, it has to be in three languages.

 

 

 

[Compound2632]

"Untethered horses may be stolen" can be construed as giving permission for theft.

[martin_wynne]

1 minute ago, Compound2632 said:

"Untethered horses may be stolen" can be construed as giving permission for theft.

 

??? If you give permission, it is not theft.

 

[Jeremy Cumberland]

3 minutes ago, martin_wynne said:

 

??? If you give permission, it is not theft.

 

But does "may" give permission (you may leave), or introduce a possibility (it may rain tomorrow)?

 

I wonder if the Welsh and French have this ambiguity.

[Compound2632]

8 minutes ago, martin_wynne said:

??? If you give permission, it is not theft.

 

Depends who is giving permission, surely: the person putting up the sign or the person owning the horse.

[Compound2632]

Better:

 

THIS IS A HORSE THEFT HOT SPOT

 

Ceci est un point chaud de vol de chevaux

 

Mae hwn yn fan poeth i ddwyn ceffylau

 

(I doubt these translations are idiomatic.)

Edited May 4, 2023 by Compound2632

[martin_wynne]

25 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Depends who is giving permission, surely: the person putting up the sign or the person owning the horse.

 

You can't be given permission by a sign to break the law.

 

Why is it only untethered horses which may be stolen?

 

 

[KeithMacdonald]

[KeithMacdonald]

[kevinlms]

10 hours ago, TheQ said:

Yep definitely not the UK, this is our aircraft warning sign , it would have a plate beneath saying taxiing aircraft.

In Australia, ours has virtually the same plane, but colours the same as the US? photo.

 

As for a jet, it's like the almost universal steam loco, for level crossings, when there haven't been steam locos as a norm for 60 years in most countries.

[Hibelroad]

14 hours ago, martin_wynne said:

 

That was my reason for posting it.

 

I'm mystified what other humour there is in it?

 

Martin.

Some fall on stoney ground. 

[Hibelroad]

11 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

 

Just for them, it has to be in three languages.

 

 

 

Where’s Gymru?

[Compound2632]

53 minutes ago, Hibelroad said:

Where’s Gymru?

 

Welsh is an inflected language and unlike, say, German or Latin, inflects the noun at the beginning rather than the end of the word. Thus: Wales -> Cymru; to Wales -> i Gymru; from Wales -> o Gymru; in Wales -> yng Nghymru.

[Compound2632]

1 hour ago, Hibelroad said:

Where’s Gymru?

 

I'm puzzled, since you give your location as Anglesey, or should I say, Ynys Môn, so i assume you greet your visitors with "croeso i Fôn".

Edited May 5, 2023 by Compound2632

[Hibelroad]

I only asked where Gymru was, I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

[uax6]

1 minute ago, Hibelroad said:

I only asked where Gymru was, I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

 

No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAxkcPoLYcQ

 

Andy G

[33C]

1 hour ago, uax6 said:

 

No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAxkcPoLYcQ

 

Andy G

I expected the Spanish inquisition, but they knocked quietly, left a "sorry you were out" card and buggered off...