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2 minutes ago, Tonka said:

clearly you do not, as you can not tell the difference between most & mostly

"The "needless blue signs" are (mostly) not..."

"Most of the signs moaned about..."

 

Both are perfectly correct English, at least according to my English teacher. Did yours tell you something different?

 

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4 minutes ago, IanD said:

"The "needless blue signs" are (mostly) not..."

"Most of the signs moaned about..."

 

Both are perfectly correct English, at least according to my English teacher. Did yours tell you something different?

 

my school was approved by a judge and the queen. Who approved yours ?

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7 minutes ago, Tonka said:

my school was approved by a judge and the queen. Who approved yours ?

Are you saying that what I just posted ("mostly not" and "most of") was not correct English?

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If you've not slowed down by now, you soon will do...

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1 minute ago, magnetman said:

The second one may be to deter paddle boarders. 

Paddle boarders paddling past Welford Lock???

Bottom sign says life is better by water, and quickly if you need to hold onto the handrail...

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15 hours ago, IanD said:

 

I bet they'd moan even more if CART said "Right, we've listened to you, no more blue signs, in fact we're taking them all down!", then the government says to CART "You're failing to meet your KPI of attracting lots of the general public onto the canals, so we're cutting your grant by £10M a year", then CART says to boaters "Sorry, we're going to have to put up all your license fees by 30% to make up for the money we lost due to taking the blue signs down"... 😉

 

The "needless blue signs" are (mostly) not targeted at 35000 boaters, they're targeted at 65000000 non-boaters who nowadays are the real reason the Government funds the canals, as has been made obvious by Richard Parry and others -- and there's not a lot CART can do about this. Boaters on here moaning about how pointless they are and it's all CARTs fault either don't get this or don't want to admit it... 😞


I think Goliath meant this as a light-hearted thread. I expect you will be along soon to argue it's not

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1 minute ago, magnetman said:

Cyclists probably don't know what knots are.

 

Not sure many boaters know either, given the average narrowboat speedometer is probably calibrated in MPH.

 

Oh, hang on a sec....

 

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1 hour ago, PeterScott said:

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Pedestrians/joggers can see it

I believe that particular sign replaced a previous sign  and they re-used  the poles. The vegetation was already there when the blue sign was installed.

 

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