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@_the_cloud @aebrockwell @pluralistic my cheery old tour guide pointed out this sign and she described it as "here's a sign warning you that women will steal your grandad's wallet"
@dresstokilt Exactly where my mind went when I saw that. "Whut? Warnig: Elderly Pickpockets".
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@aebrockwell @pluralistic I took this photo in Scotland. Apparently elderly people had become such a road hazard that the council felt that they needed to put up a sign.
@_the_cloud @aebrockwell @pluralistic But I am trying to figure out the need for the words. Being able to recognize the silhouette would seem to be an important skill to have when driving.
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@aebrockwell @pluralistic I took this photo in Scotland. Apparently elderly people had become such a road hazard that the council felt that they needed to put up a sign.
@_the_cloud @aebrockwell @pluralistic The British street I live on has a toad warning sign.
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@aebrockwell @pluralistic I took this photo in Scotland. Apparently elderly people had become such a road hazard that the council felt that they needed to put up a sign.
@_the_cloud @aebrockwell @pluralistic usually see these nearby old folk’s homes
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That emoji always looks to me like someone being patted on the head.
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@MattMerk @pluralistic my hometown of Somerville, MA, is covered in stickers on utility boxes and so forth. my favorite read
ALL STICKERS
EXCEPT STICKERS
ABOUT STICKERS
BEING PROHIBITED
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@aebrockwell @pluralistic @_the_cloud The Isle of Mull has Otter Crossing signs.
@Infoseepage @aebrockwell @pluralistic @_the_cloud
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@pluralistic Down by where George Washington went back and forth across the Delaware there is a ‘Watch Blind Cat’ sign.
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@aebrockwell @pluralistic I took this photo in Scotland. Apparently elderly people had become such a road hazard that the council felt that they needed to put up a sign.
@_the_cloud @aebrockwell @pluralistic isn't 40 plus years old 'elderly' in Scotland
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@_the_cloud @pluralistic I remember it, or something very similar, but probably from about 40 years ago, so I've no memory of where it's from.
@Vibracobra23 @pluralistic Found it, finally! After running as a background task all day, the LLM that I've been training for over sixty years came through and remembered where I read it. Knew it was in a book I owned and had read more than once, a very long time ago. Not exactly high literature, but "The Boy's Own Annual" (Vol. 60, 1937-38) was the source of this memory:
Bill Stickers will be prosecuted
The public warnings run
The question we should like to ask
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@pluralistic This thread reminds me of a sign I saw on a road trip when I was growing up. It was placed at the intersection of a road and a driveway, and I immediately started laughing as we passed it. I originally interpreted it to mean it was an entrance reserved for, I dunno, houseplants, and there must be a different entrance for people somewhere else.
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@MattMerk @pluralistic my hometown of Somerville, MA, is covered in stickers on utility boxes and so forth. my favorite read
ALL STICKERS
EXCEPT STICKERS
ABOUT STICKERS
BEING PROHIBITED
ARE PROHIBITED@drawnonglass @MattMerk @pluralistic ah, normies discovering recursions
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@drawnonglass @MattMerk @pluralistic
my laptop at the moment...
@crashbox @drawnonglass @MattMerk @pluralistic
Finally, someone who has a grasp of Set Theory!
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@pluralistic Oldie but goodie.
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@Vibracobra23 @pluralistic Found it, finally! After running as a background task all day, the LLM that I've been training for over sixty years came through and remembered where I read it. Knew it was in a book I owned and had read more than once, a very long time ago. Not exactly high literature, but "The Boy's Own Annual" (Vol. 60, 1937-38) was the source of this memory:
Bill Stickers will be prosecuted
The public warnings run
The question we should like to ask
Is— what's Bill Stickers done?@_the_cloud @pluralistic Sterling work!
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@pluralistic This thread reminds me of a sign I saw on a road trip when I was growing up. It was placed at the intersection of a road and a driveway, and I immediately started laughing as we passed it. I originally interpreted it to mean it was an entrance reserved for, I dunno, houseplants, and there must be a different entrance for people somewhere else.
@pkdmva @pluralistic See also HEAVY PLANT CROSSING which always makes me imagine some sort of triffid migration.
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@pluralistic Let Bill Stickers go free!
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@pluralistic Poor Bill.
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@bigbong @_the_cloud @aebrockwell @pluralistic We have Penguin Crossing signs in New Zealand.
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@MattMerk @pluralistic my hometown of Somerville, MA, is covered in stickers on utility boxes and so forth. my favorite read
ALL STICKERS
EXCEPT STICKERS
ABOUT STICKERS
BEING PROHIBITED
ARE PROHIBITED@drawnonglass @MattMerk @pluralistic Loophole:
Print out a multitude of tiny stickers about sticker prohibition, and use them to spell out other messages.
