Whacky Signs.

[Canal Digger]

Seen in the yard of a local Care Home ...

[33C]

9 minutes ago, Canal Digger said:

Seen in the yard of a local Care Home ...

"You know funerals? I don't want one." ..."I'm all sorted!"

[Mark Saunders]

51 minutes ago, 33C said:

"You know funerals? I don't want one." ..."I'm all sorted!"

Do you want to be buried or cremated? 
 

Son, surprise me!

[TheQ]

On 07/09/2023 at 20:02, KeithMacdonald said:

Formerly called RAF Saxavord, used to be manned by many people defending your nation, 24, 7, 365, if it's gone the same way as the others it'll now be many by 3 civilians Monday to Friday bank holidays excluded.

[Compound2632]

5 minutes ago, TheQ said:

Formerly called RAF Saxavord, used to be manned by many people defending your nation, 24, 7, 365, if it's gone the same way as the others it'll now be many by 3 civilians Monday to Friday bank holidays excluded.

 

Not quite correct. The proposed spaceport (satellite launching pad) would occupy part of the RAF site but another part has been re-opened by the RAF as part of a new remote sensing network. Unlike the former equipment, in use up to 2005, which needed personnel on site to keep it working, the current equipment operates remotely, only requiring occasional site visits. So the three civilians on working days only is, I'm afraid, a gross exaggeration. Technology in this field continues to progress.

[Ozexpatriate]

6 hours ago, 33C said:

"You know funerals? I don't want one." ..."I'm all sorted!"

Well there are three things we can do with your mother. We can burn her, bury her, or dump her.

...

I THINK WE'VE GOT AN EATER!

 

Edited September 16, 2023 by Ozexpatriate

[Michael Hodgson]

7 hours ago, Welly said:

I've noticed when watching French train cab rides, the drivers honking horns every time a train passes in the opposite direction - I assume that is in case there is a person about to cross the tracks from behind that train.

That won't do any harm but the trouble is that the people crossing the line will assume the horn is the train they've just got off.

[Andy Kirkham]

 

Chiswell, Isle of Portland. "Ope" appears to be the local word for alley.

[PhilJ W]

[melmerby]

3 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

I THINK WE'VE GOT AN EATER!

Anita who?

[J. S. Bach]

32 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

I know someone who works there. The store is north of Philadelphia, btw.

[Ian Morgan]

23 hours ago, Andy Kirkham said:

Chiswell, Isle of Portland. "Ope" appears to be the local word for alley.

 

 

Portland?

 

Don't mention these things

 

[Steamport Southport]

23 hours ago, Andy Kirkham said:

 

Chiswell, Isle of Portland. "Ope" appears to be the local word for alley.

 

Where's Bob?

 

 

 

[KeithMacdonald]

55 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said:

Where's Bob?

 

Bing will know.

[PhilJ W]

VEGAN?

[Al51]

On 14/09/2023 at 11:18, JZ said:

Skyhook?

Years ago, in another life, I worked at a small engineering company and we had one particular apprentice who wasn't the brightest of lights. He would regularly get sent on fools errands. Once I filled in a store requisition and asked him to go the store to get it. It was for a long weight. Chitty was duly handed over. After about 15 minutes, Albert, the foremen, noticed he had been at the counter for a while and asked what he was waiting for. Needless to say, those at our workstation were duly reprimanded, while Albert tried not to laugh.

Many moons ago I also worked for a small engineering company. The foreman would send new lads into town to an ironmongers that was about ten minutes walk away. The ironmongers would play along for a couple of days or so and then put the lad straight.

 

One lad kept going for over two weeks and the foreman kept laughing at the lad's stupidity. A chance conversation with the secretary revealed that the lad lived just around the corner from the factory. The penny dropped and it was the lad who had the last laugh. He knew it was a wind up from the start and he was just going home for an hour each time. Needless to say, the foreman never did it again. 

 

[fulton]

On 16/09/2023 at 12:40, Welly said:

I've noticed when watching French train cab rides, the drivers honking horns every time a train passes in the opposite direction - I assume that is in case there is a person about to cross the tracks from behind that train.

Also normal practice for the trams in Dusseldorf, a gong rather than a horn, for that reason.

[TinTracks]

On 13/09/2023 at 21:31, PhilJ W said:

 Many moons ago when I was a very young apprentice tailor it was the custom to torment the new starters by sending them to the stores department for a bucket of steam or a reel of tartan thread.

 Regards, Rich

[Dunsignalling]

The foreman at a local engineering works sent the new lad to the stores for a dozen half-inch holes.

 

New lad was savvy enough to borrow the foreman's cap to carry them back in.....🤣

 

 

Edited September 18, 2023 by Dunsignalling

[MartinRS]

On 16/09/2023 at 23:02, PhilJ W said:

Now we know why Fat Boy 3 has an armoured train. It's in order to survive the next asteroid strike!

[Guest]

[Chris M]

Not a sign, but what a lot of W anchors.

[Reorte]

25 minutes ago, Chris M said:

Not a sign, but what a lot of W anchors.

Saw a brochure once, from a company called Anchor something. On the back they'd abbreviated phone, email, website, so the last one was w: anchor... Brochure designer either having a laugh and the managers not catching on, or not realising what they were doing?

[J. S. Bach]

Hmmm, don't see a Danforth in that mess.

[Hroth]

25 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Hmmm, don't see a Danforth in that mess.

 

Or a CQR for that matter...