Solidarity with Comrade Bill

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I remember "POST NO BILLS" in Canada, which would usually be covered in stenciled pictures of well known Bills, such as Clinton, Cosby, and Gates.

That was before a lot of things. I suppose we could still leverage Murray and Bruford...

@_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"

@pluralistic @beadsland 🫡

@etchedpixels @jaythurbershow @aebrockwell @_the_cloud @pluralistic The triffids have to cross *somewhere*.

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Road signs in Scotland seem to be quite specific at times

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@dresstokilt Exactly where my mind went when I saw that. "Whut? Warnig: Elderly Pickpockets".

@_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.

@_the_cloud @aebrockwell @pluralistic The British street I live on has a toad warning sign.

@_the_cloud @aebrockwell @pluralistic usually see these nearby old folk’s homes

@aapis @pluralistic

That emoji always looks to me like someone being patted on the head.

@drawnonglass

I am tempted to fabricate and put up signs saying,

"Private Sign - Do not read!"

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Kirkwall - Orkney

@pluralistic Down by where George Washington went back and forth across the Delaware there is a ‘Watch Blind Cat’ sign.

@_the_cloud @aebrockwell @pluralistic isn't 40 plus years old 'elderly' in Scotland

@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?

@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.

@drawnonglass @MattMerk @pluralistic ah, normies discovering recursions

@crashbox @drawnonglass @MattMerk @pluralistic

Finally, someone who has a grasp of Set Theory!