Silly signs

[Alan de Enfield]

10 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

Quiz question:

 

What is the intended mooring rule to your left?

 

What is the intended mooring rule to your right?

 

...

 

...

 

Clue: they are supposed to be the same.

 

...

 

...

 

Which is that for All year the maximum stay is 7 days.

 

Ho hummmm

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moorings to the right are for NBTA members who because they ascribe to the "No Boats Move Anywhere" club are allowed to moor for 12 months.

 

'Boaters' moor to the left and are limited to 7 days.

 

Makes paying your NBTA subs quite attractive.

Edited October 8, 2020 by Alan de Enfield

[PeterScott]

[Athy]

20 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

There must be something there I've missed. But it does remind me of a sign I once saw at the base of a tube station escalator: "Dogs Must Be Carried". It was poorly enforced: I was not carrying a dog, but they still let me go up.

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

26 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Makes paying your NBTA subs quite attractive.

Membership is free ?

 

?

[Alan de Enfield]

5 minutes ago, Goliath said:

Membership is free ?

 

?

 

And worth every penny !

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

2 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

And worth every penny !

It’s cost me nowt over 8 years. 
 

Maybe it’s time I started making voluntary donations.
 

 

[PeterScott]

Quiz question: This Is  A Silly Sign Because:

 

(a) It's trying to be serious, but it's silly that said equipment is ever locked away

 

(b) It's trying to be silly, but who would want to be behind the bar when desperate parent-of-drowning-child rushes in from the lockside...

 

So out of academic interest, and not suggesting any current emergency, we asked the barstaff: they said that they thought there was a lifering in the beer-cellar somewhere.

 

More (b) than (a), then.

 

And the sign replaced a predecessor which was in place in 1985. So someone thought it silly enough to make its replacement:

 

 

[Sea Dog]

11 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

Quiz question: This Is  A Silly Sign Because:

The Star, canalside at Stone, Staffs, I believe?

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

47 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

Quiz question: This Is  A Silly Sign Because:

 

(a) It's trying to be serious, but it's silly that said equipment is ever locked away

 

(b) It's trying to be silly, but who would want to be behind the bar when desperate parent-of-drowning-child rushes in from the lockside...

 

So out of academic interest, and not suggesting any current emergency, we asked the barstaff: they said that they thought there was a lifering in the beer-cellar somewhere.

 

More (b) than (a), then.

 

And the sign replaced a predecessor which was in place in 1985. So someone thought it silly enough to make its replacement:

 

 

I read it that it’s the booze that’s the life saver. 
Life saving equipment: one bottle of whisky and a glass, or whatever your choice

[Paul Gwilliams]

18 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:

They are being ignored you say? Clearly not enough signs there. CaRT must put more signs up immediately. Perhaps in some sort of chicane formation.

No on the floor slightly raised one end towards the water or bramble hedge

[PeterScott]

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[PeterScott]

[alias]

9 hours ago, Athy said:

On 07/10/2020 at 17:07, Jen-in-Wellies said:

 "To the Water, Where It Is Better By".

 

Satire at its finest.

Also quite close to the english translation of the motto of the French Navy:  To the water, it is time!

 

A l'eau c'est l'heure!

[Heartland]

There are some places in this world where people are pledged to serve, it would seem

 

 

 

[matty40s]

2 hours ago, PeterScott said:

[Quattrodave]

Oooh I recognise that... Berkhamsted?

[Tam & Di]

1 hour ago, alias said:

Also quite close to the english translation of the motto of the French Navy:  To the water, it is time!

 

A l'eau c'est l'heure!

and 'allo to you too dearie

 

Tam

[Mike Todd]

2 hours ago, Tam & Di said:

and 'allo to you too dearie

 

Tam

a l'eay, a l'eau - still available on catch up?

[PeterScott]

[Chris Lowe]

16 hours ago, PeterScott said:

Totem (Wiki)

A totem is a spirit, being, sacred object, or symbol that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, lineage, or tribe.

Are they importing poles from Canada then?

 

[Alan de Enfield]

Just now, buccaneer66 said:

Are they importing poles from Canada then?

Possibly there are not enough left in Poland.

[TheBiscuits]

16 hours ago, PeterScott said:

 

That's not silly, even if it looks it at first glance.  It's the M61 bridge at Botany Bay at Chorley on the L&L, between bridge 78 and bridge 78aa.

 

78, 78aa, 78a and 79 were already present when they built the bridge.  What number would you suggest they gave it?

 

 

[Tam & Di]

5 minutes ago, TheBiscuits said:

 What number would you suggest they gave it?

Perhaps they only had "a"s in their box - I'd have gone 78, 78a, 78b, then 78c if necessary    ?

 

Tam

[TheBiscuits]

9 minutes ago, Tam & Di said:

Perhaps they only had "a"s in their box - I'd have gone 78, 78a, 78b, then 78c if necessary    ?

 

Tam

 

 

It's a good try, and it's the normal convention but the bridges were built in the "wrong" order.

 

Bridges 78 and 79 were built first.

 

The one built next is between 78 and 79 and is numbered 78a.  Normal convention as you say.

 

The next one built, 78aa, is between 78 and 78a (not between 78a and 79 so can't be 78b).

 

Then they built this one between 78aa and 78 so following the same scheme it had to be 78aaa.

Edited October 9, 2020 by TheBiscuits
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