classic33
Leg End Member
You mean pinching them?
Strange Road Signs
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Andy in Germany
Guru
- Location
- Rottenburg am Neckar
Durn commie.
classic33
Leg End Member
Nothing wrong with a bit of free enterprise. Just don't get caught.
Alex321
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- Location
- South Wales
That bottom one is a fake (although it appeared in The Sun). I don't think there is even a road junction with a sign for Llantwit Major 2¼, never mind one pointing both directions. I cycle all around that area pretty frequently.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Uploaded from a Flickr link, supposedly taken in January 2000, uploaded to Flickr 2006, no information about where the sign actually was.
My first thought was that it must have been a cock up by the people putting up the signs, but then I can't find where the real signs would have gone.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I am actually starting to think it is real now though. The photo on Flickr/wikipedia is slightly different to the one you posted (where did you find it?), and I have found a different one again on Singletrack World, which shows the back of another sign as well, and was only posted 3 years ago.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Ok, I was wrong, it definitely exists (or at least did in 2011).
Found it on Streetview
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.428...cXEvvsERDPpAJRLw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
But those distances aren't right. It is closer to 4 miles than 2¼, if you turn left, and more than that if you turn right. There is another sign closer, saying 3 miles.
I have actually cycled along that road, but not from the junction where you would be facing that sign.
Found it on Streetview
https://www.google.com/maps/@51.428...cXEvvsERDPpAJRLw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu
But those distances aren't right. It is closer to 4 miles than 2¼, if you turn left, and more than that if you turn right. There is another sign closer, saying 3 miles.
I have actually cycled along that road, but not from the junction where you would be facing that sign.
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
It's measured in VoG miles. That's the Vale of Glamorgan. It's not a universally recognised or defined measure. Casual and informal unit.
Usually used to respond to tourists.
How far's Llantwit, butt?
Couple of miles.....
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Gwylan
Veteran
- Location
- All at sea⛵
What really gets me is the ¼
That's the giveaway. Imagine all those wasted numbers and back slashes if that happened everywhere.
Environmental nightmare. All those numbers trapped.
The entropy of numbers gets dragged in here
If we use all these extra numbers on signs we will have to make the universe smaller. Because we don't have enough numbers to describe it.
And we know the trouble we got into with virtual and imaginary numbers
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
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- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
That's a bit like the sign used for a while to flame Sustrans, suggesting that the cycle route to a town was almost twice the distance, starting in the opposite direction. Both distances were wrong: the cycle route overestimated, the A road route underestimated. But that didn't suit the prejudice in cycle clubs.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Seems a remarkably specific prohibition. Presumably it's perfectly OK to cross to fetch the cows, or for the ordinary public not otherwise farmworkers to fetch milk cans. Maybe the farmer himself is allowed to fetch his own milk churns
