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Silly Signs

by BobCarter 4 months ago
Last updated 22 days ago.

They’re everywhere, aren’t they. Road signs, traffic signs, street signs, shop signs, warning signs… Some of them are useful, important helpful. Others are just plain daft.Silly signs of our times. Others can be baffling or amusing. Have you seen any silly signs lately? Send your photos in! Here’s three to get us started. The ‘Make Your Mind Up’ one is near Sunk Island and is maddeningly contradictory – on one hand we’re told NO FISHING and on the other ‘CAST WITH CARE’! The ‘Traffic Diverted’ was seen in the river Hull. I thought the ‘No Smoking’ one was amusing and spotted it in the city centre.

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Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Just a couple of my favorites. Also, a handy tip. If you can’t be bothered hanging around to read a public notice, rip it from the lamp-post and take it home to read. Then, return it at your leisure.
Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

No 2.
TheBreaker Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Lol
YourMailWill Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

On the back of a toilet door in a cafe in Leicester… It was only visible after the door was closed.
YourMailWill Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

think about it…
YourMailWill Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

sorry, click the image to view a larger version and read the text
YourMailWill Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I think this may have been put there for a joke
MarioTheGibbon Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

i like the test ones on motorway overhead gantries that read "this sign not in use"
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

When I worked at Ideal Standard, some forty years ago, the Marquis Boiler had a label which was tied to another label reading, ‘Please remove this label before using’.
BobCarter Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

So this is what the local council really thinks of us! This was taken on the river front near Alexander dock.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Now we know why they are near the bottom of the educational league tables.
Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Dear oh dear; we are clearly beginning to reap what we have sown.
MarioTheGibbon Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

what we "of" sown, surely!?
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Lazarus: Be careful how you word your reply!
Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

What’s wrong with my replies?
MarioTheGibbon Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

my previous reply is intended as an ironic comment on the interchangeability of "have" and "of" in the modern colloquial argot, and is a reference to the misuse of the word "off" in an earlier post. it is not a correction of spelling or terminology. please accept this humble offering in the spirit with which it was intended.
MikeCovell Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I remember seeing a bag of nut’s with the warning "This product may contain nuts"

Another fave is on certain foodstuff’s it says "Serving Suggestion" and shows the food in a bowl or on a plate. What else are we to do, serve it in a hat!
Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I am fully aware of your semantics Eddd, but I was waiting for a curious explanation from Colombo. Besides which, I’m spoiling for a fight today. I wrapped things up at 3am this morning and woke at 7am to travel to mother’s to fix her drainpipe. I’ve wasted 3 month’s piddling about with Flex2, only to turn to Microsoft’s alternative, which I could have done 3 months ago. I’ve got a heat sore on my rump, Tesco’s didn’t have any blueberry muffins, and the price of evap on Anlaby Road is 64p! Oh, and James Blunt sounds like a neutered cat. Arrrgghhh!!!
MarioTheGibbon Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

"...I’m spoiling for a fight today…" – oh dear: i’m off!
TheBreaker Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Look on the bright side Laz you’ve got us…
BobCarter Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I wish I’d kept the packet but I didn’t. It was smoked kippers and one of the ingredients listed was smoke! I kid you not…
BobCarter Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Simpson the Seal has been following the post with interest and this is his reaction to these crazy signs!
Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Liquid smoke Bob. I’ve got it all over my fingers from buying a lb of smoked bacon yesterday.
MarioTheGibbon Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

"liquid smoke"! an oxymoron – apologies for the lack of depth to lazarus
Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Very good Eddd. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
MarioTheGibbon Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

...er, dunno. ken dodd?
AR-T0NY Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Well?
Chromosome23 Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Comet Holmes?
YourMailWill Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I think it’s the phrase "...after sunset"
Chromosome23 Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Ah…elementary!
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Lazarus: I find nothing wrong with your replies, but I have noticed others sometimes take exception to them.
philcollinson Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

now lazarus and colombo put your handbags down
Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Are the back of your legs still stinging phil?
philcollinson Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

from what?
Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

From having them slapped by the moderators for being a naughty little boy.
philcollinson Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

oh the deleted post you mean.
BobCarter Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

That’s telling us!Taken at Swine.
BobCarter Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

What next, striped camels? Spotted in West Park near the Stadium.
BobCarter Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

This local allotment holder has a sense of fun! Hope YourMail doesn’t find it offensive.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Too late ! It’s been copied.
Colombo Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Presumably they mean impounded.
Lazarus Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

They might add a third wheel?
BobCarter Submitted 4 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Good one Colombo. Here’s another. Looks like a quiet week at this pub in Hull!
HarryDownes Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Taken in South Africa
HarryDownes Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

South Africa again.
BobCarter Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

They are certainly strange signs, HarryDownes. Here’s one I took at Hull Fair. I think the chap on the left might require a little more than first aid!
BobCarter Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Looks pretty dark and dismal to me!
MikeCovell Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Bob, I wish to remove that sign and put it at the boundry to Hull as a notice to people on the way in!
BobCarter Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Seen at Hull Fair. That’ll keep ‘em away,then?
BobCarter Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Spotted this one on Holderness Road: DJ CAZ IS SINGLE! FROM AGE 18 TO WATEVER. DETAILS AT BAR. Someone has chalked an arrow to the ‘18’ and written (SHOE SIZE)!
MikeCovell Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

We saw that as we passed Shakers on wednsday on our way into west Hull.
BobCarter Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

You mean to say it’s been up for more than a day?! I saw it at about tea-time Thursday, 7th Aug. There was no one sat at the window so perhaps he’s got lucky?
BobCarter Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I took this of a duck which was a regular visitor to Bob Carver’s chippy in the old town. Luckily Duck is not on that menu!
Ron Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Sign on the fence of the new cemetery on Priory Road reads"DANGER DEEP EXCAVATIONS"
BobCarter Submitted 3 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

This must be the cheapest accommodation in the area, surely? At only £ per night! Spotted on Spring Bank.
BobCarter Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I spotted this sign locally. I know I’m forgetful but even I couldn’t forget my car – could be something to do with the fact that I don’t own one!
BobCarter Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Less of a ‘silly sign’ perhaps and more of a badly situated one considering the state of the surrounding buildings! This advertisement for HDM’s Property Guide might have been better placed? I took the photo this week-end.
MikeCovell Submitted 2 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Hi Bob, As requested, The National Picture Theatre in Hull was built in 1914 but took a direct hit during a raid on the nearby docks on 17th July 1941.

The cinema was open during the raid, but luckily everyone got out, and there was no casualties.

It is believed to be the last surviving example of a civilian building damaged in the Blitz.

Although the interior was destroyed, the facade and parts of the foyer and vestibule still exsist.

The site has been awarded listed status by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport after a campaign by the National Civilian WWII Memorial Trust.
barrow Submitted 24 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

If it is a listed building,then surly to put that sign,or any sign on it, is illegal
Ron Submitted 24 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I don’t know if it is right or not, I heard the film on at the time it was bombed was Charlie Chaplin in "The Great Dictator"which was used as a propaganda film about Hitler
MikeCovell Submitted 24 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

The listed status is to stop anyone pulling what is left of the building down, sadly, it doesn’t stop people sticking boards up in front of it.

There are a few cinemas which are said to have shown the Chaplin film during the blitz, only for them to have taken a direct hit. Perhaps this was an urban legend.
barrow Submitted 23 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

But surly anything attached to a listed building must have planning permission.I am sure if large adverts were put on the Tower of London,another listed building,that would be illegal
MikeCovell Submitted 23 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

It appears that the large black board is there to protect the building, local council is obviously getting a sum of money for the marketing board attached to the black board. Shame really, could do with a little TLC.
barrow Submitted 23 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Might be nice if the front could be taken down brick by brick and re-erected in the museum area with a Hull at War theam,or showing old films in a recreated old time cimema or even near the Deep where many visitors on coach trips will see it and can see in a small old time cinema behind,Hull at War,or Hull’s Fishing heritage,or Hull,then and now,to raise perception of Hull.Or just leave it behind an advert on a main road with weeds growing out of it.
BobCarter Submitted 23 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Kids will be kids!
Lazarus Submitted 23 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

After decades of searching, my ultimate goal revealed itself to be ultimately disappointing.
BobCarter Submitted 22 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Paradise without camping and caravans? Surely some mistake?! They’ll be telling us that there are no bird-hides in heaven next!
MikeCovell Submitted 22 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Barrow; The old White Lion pub, which stood under what is now St Stephens was dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt in a Hull museum, only to get bombed during WWII! How sad that must have been! It would be a good idea though.

Bob; Ronaldo and Cole need some entertainment when they are not playing!!
BobCarter Submitted 22 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

MikeCovell – That’s a bizarre story about the old White Lion pub!
MikeCovell Submitted 22 days ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Bob, That was when Tom Shepard was in charge of Hull’s Museums. There is a book available about him at library, and I remember some time ago, the Streetlife museum had his desk on display in the large glass window at the front.