Whacky Signs.

[duncan]

Better than the notice on boat outboard motors which say this side up, rather than other side up.  If you lay them down wrong side up, they get oil in all the wrong places.

[Tim Dubya]

[Ian Abel]

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OUCH!!  

[Ceptic]

More Sensible / Wise than Whacky, I'd say.

 

Edited September 27, 2016 by Ceptic

[Colin_McLeod]

[TheQ]

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I think that's been on here before but either way it's only a couple of miles away from me in Norfolk.

[eastwestdivide]

Swiss German humour.

In case you can't read it, it says "Tritt näher! Er ist nicht so lang wie Du denkst..."

 

For the non German speakers, have a guess first.

NB google translate suggests "he" where most people would have said "it", but that's machine translation for you - no context. Or maybe some people give theirs a name.

 

 

And from the same holiday, a menu item "lost in translation":

Maniac dumplings pan - Homemade dumplings with tasty pumpkin cubes and arugula on finest meadow flower scum and spicy cottage cheese.

With the waiter, we worked out that the "scum" was the German "Schaum" = foam in this case, but we couldn't fathom why the maniac dumplings. They were a kind of gnocchi.

Edited October 2, 2016 by eastwestdivide

[BG John]

NB google translate suggests "he" where most people would have said "it", but that's machine translation for you - no context. Or maybe some people give theirs a name.

It's an instruction relating to "pointing Percy at the porcelain", so "he" is correct .

[28XX]

From a Midlands working men's club.

 

Please do not throw your cigarette butts in the urinals

 

 

 

It makes them soggy and difficult to light.

[62613]

From a Midlands working men's club.

 

Please do not throw your cigarette butts in the urinals

 

 

 

It makes them soggy and difficult to light.

Or the variation on the wall in the upstairs gents in the Ship & Royal in Shields: Please do not put your tabs in the trough; after all, we don't p*** in your ashtray

[t8hants]

There was one in Winchester that has now gone and I have lost my photo of it,  which was a turn right arrow with 'King Alfred' above it.

Presumably peasants had to turn left.  It has ever been thus.

[Horsetan]

Swiss German humour.....

 

 

And from the same holiday, a menu item "lost in translation":

Maniac dumplings and scum on menu.jpg

Maniac dumplings pan - Homemade dumplings with tasty pumpkin cubes and arugula on finest meadow flower scum and spicy cottage cheese.

With the waiter, we worked out that the "scum" was the German "Schaum" = foam in this case, but we couldn't fathom why the maniac dumplings....

Maybe they involved cereal killing to make the dough for the dumplings?

[PhilJ W]

There was one in Winchester that has now gone and I have lost my photo of it,  which was a turn right arrow with 'King Alfred' above it.

Presumably peasants had to turn left.  It has ever been thus.

The local bus company used to go by the name of 'King Alfred' so it may have been a direction to the bus station.

[Horsetan]

There was one in Winchester that has now gone and I have lost my photo of it,  which was a turn right arrow with 'King Alfred' above it.

Presumably peasants had to turn left.  It has ever been thus.

 

OT, but I think the Bake Off team missed a treat by not basing their operations in Winchester......

[teaky]

Swiss German humour.

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In case you can't read it, it says "Tritt näher! Er ist nicht so lang wie Du denkst..."

 

For the non German speakers, have a guess first.

NB google translate suggests "he" where most people would have said "it", but that's machine translation for you - no context. Or maybe some people give theirs a name.

 

 

And from the same holiday, a menu item "lost in translation":

Maniac dumplings and scum on menu.jpg

Maniac dumplings pan - Homemade dumplings with tasty pumpkin cubes and arugula on finest meadow flower scum and spicy cottage cheese.

With the waiter, we worked out that the "scum" was the German "Schaum" = foam in this case, but we couldn't fathom why the maniac dumplings. They were a kind of gnocchi.

Manioc(cassava) probably.  Can be used whole, grated or as a kind of flour much like potatoes.

[RJS1977]

The local bus company used to go by the name of 'King Alfred' so it may have been a direction to the bus station.

 

When I went to the 009 Society show at Sparsholt in April, I got chatting to another punter at the bus stop in Winchester about the bus services. He told me:

 

"The last time I caught a bus in Winchester was back in the days of King Alfred."

 

I only just stopped myself asking him whether it was before or after he burnt the cakes.

[melmerby]

From a Midlands working men's club.

 

Please do not throw your cigarette butts in the urinals

 

 

 

It makes them soggy and difficult to light.

On the same lines was a sign in Birdland (Bourton on the Water) which said:

"Please don't throw cigarettes in the pond - the fish don't smoke"

 

Keith

[Colin_McLeod]

One from Northern Ireland

 

[eastwestdivide]

In Hope, Derbyshire, an antiquey/interiors shop, "Living in Hope"

 

And further up the valley (in Castleton), their sister shop, presumably with all the stuff that doesn't sell in the main shop, "Beyond Hope"

Edited October 23, 2016 by eastwestdivide

[TheQ]

One from Northern Ireland

 

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I've had the same at the T junction where my road meets the main road, there were two sets of road works giving countermanding orders, luckily there was a way through.

[martin_wynne]

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[BG John]

[phil_sutters]

When I went to the 009 Society show at Sparsholt in April, I got chatting to another punter at the bus stop in Winchester about the bus services. He told me:

 

"The last time I caught a bus in Winchester was back in the days of King Alfred."

 

I only just stopped myself asking him whether it was before or after he burnt the cakes.

Maybe he was a bit confused about past exhibitions - the Burnham and District MRC hold their exhibitions in the King Alfred School.

[phil_sutters]

A few signs - some of which have 'humorous' captions for which I have to admit responsibility

I wondered if, as the locations named are all religious buildings, they were trying to be inclusive, but just hadn't found a mosque or synagogue nearby.

The tailbacks must be horrific if you try to read all this as you enter the harbour area.

I was on that bus when the Rover cut across in front of it and forced it to run into a pavement railing. I only noticed the irony of the offside advert when I got off and crossed the road having realised that the bus would be sat there for a while for formalities to be done.

Irresponsible young oiks who wear their baseball caps back-to-front pee on the seat - while more staid older types sit and wee. I wonder if this is the only sign that displays stickman's stick!

 

 

Sorry for inflicting this lot on youl - now you know what the family have to put up with and why they are happy I spend more time on the computer than with them!

Edited October 27, 2016 by phil_sutters

[RJS1977]

Maybe he was a bit confused about past exhibitions - the Burnham and District MRC hold their exhibitions in the King Alfred School.

 

No - King Alfred were a bus operator in the Winchester area back in the 60s.