Road signs

[bungeejumper]

We've all become accustomed to the public service announcements that the traffic planners provide for our benefit. Speed limit breakers' hearts are always gladdened by the POLICE SLOW warnings. And who could forget the family planning campaigns of yesteryear, which simply implored us to STOP CHILDREN?

But I came across a new one the other day, in a deep rural part of Somerset where the signal for my phone and satnav had been non-existent for miles. As I approached the top of a hill, going quite fast, there it was. "MOBILE WORKS". I tried it. It did! That was when I went into the ditch and hit the hedge. My case comes up next week.

BJ

[stevensfo]

Close to us is a school for children with learning difficulties and special educational needs (SEN).

We were disgusted to see a sign in the road announcing to everyone: SLOW CHILDREN.

Is it really right to humiliate those poor kids like this?

Steve

[kempiejon]

Police Aware and Military Intelligence two of my favourite oxymorons.

[jfgw]

Speed limit breakers' hearts are always gladdened by the POLICE SLOW warnings.

I always ignore these as I am not a police officer and they don't apply to me.


Julian F. G. W.

[UncleEbenezer]

Heavy Plant Crossing.

Encountered in early childhood. Having read Tolkien, my thoughts naturally turned to Ents.

[stevensfo]

Heavy Plant Crossing.

Encountered in early childhood. Having read Tolkien, my thoughts naturally turned to Ents.

Or 'Day of the Triffids' ?

Steve

[Mike4]

Also, we occasionally get signs next to dual carriageways warning of "Soft Verges".

The term sounds somehow faintly erotic to me. Dunno about you lot...

[kempiejon]

Also, we occasionally get signs next to dual carriageways warning of "Soft Verges".

The term sounds somehow faintly erotic to me. Dunno about you lot...

Nah Your verges aren't sexy - that's weird and soft doesn't remind me of sexy times... They couldn't handle themselves in a scrap.

[Mike4]

Also, we occasionally get signs next to dual carriageways warning of "Soft Verges".

The term sounds somehow faintly erotic to me. Dunno about you lot...

Nah Your verges aren't sexy - that's weird and soft doesn't remind me of sexy times... They couldn't handle themselves in a scrap.

Reminds me of the old joke...

Q: "What do you call an aardvark that avoids fights in pubs?"

A: A vark.

[stevensfo]

Nah Your verges aren't sexy - that's weird and soft doesn't remind me of sexy times... They couldn't handle themselves in a scrap.

Reminds me of the old joke...

Q: "What do you call an aardvark that avoids fights in pubs?"

A: A vark.

I couldn't find the duvet cover that my wife had seen in John Lewis.

She said I should look harder.

So I shaved my head, put a large earring in, put on a stained teeshirt, bought a can of Special Brew and went back.

Steve

[doolally]

Also, we occasionally get signs next to dual carriageways warning of "Soft Verges".

The term sounds somehow faintly erotic to me. Dunno about you lot...

Like driving down a country lane on a summer's day and passing young couples on the verge
doolally

[WickedLester]

Also, we occasionally get signs next to dual carriageways warning of "Soft Verges".

The term sounds somehow faintly erotic to me. Dunno about you lot...

Like driving down a country lane on a summer's day and passing young couples on the verge
doolally

The farmer will soon cause his passions to subside with his twelve bore. And maybe she won't get shot up after all.

He'll be using rubber bullets of course.

[garfsuncle]

Also, we occasionally get signs next to dual carriageways warning of "Soft Verges".

The term sounds somehow faintly erotic to me. Dunno about you lot...

So it should. “Verge” is a rude French word for “willy”.

Alan

[GoSeigen]

So it should. “Verge” is a rude French word for “willy”.

Also, we occasionally get signs next to dual carriageways warning of "Soft Verges".

The term sounds somehow faintly erotic to me. Dunno about you lot...

Like driving down a country lane on a summer's day and passing young couples on the verge
doolally

A vehicle on the verge and a vierge on the verge?


GS

[bungeejumper]

The term ["Soft Verges"] sounds somehow faintly erotic to me. Dunno about you lot...

So it should. “Verge” is a rude French word for “willy”.

Soft willy. Can't see that catching on somehow.

BJ

[Bubblesofearth]

Also, we occasionally get signs next to dual carriageways warning of "Soft Verges".

The term sounds somehow faintly erotic to me. Dunno about you lot...

You might also like 'slippery when wet'?

[Imbiber]

A sign not far from me.

https://images.app.goo.gl/hMSGy83BJLeHHh1Y6

I'll get me coat...

[csearle]

A sign not far from me.

https://images.app.goo.gl/hMSGy83BJLeHHh1Y6

I'll get me coat...

Clearly she'd been a very naughty girl!

[Imbiber]

The sign is on the Pett Bottom Road . A short distance from the recently closed Duck Inn, where Ian Fleming is said to have written "You Only Live Twice".

[csearle]

The sign is on the Pett Bottom Road . A short distance from the recently closed Duck Inn, where Ian Fleming is said to have written "You Only Live Twice".

Was the Duck Inn that tiny, tiny pub, like just one room? If so I recall visiting it sometime in the nineties. C.