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TURN AROUND. YOU ARE GOING
THE WRONG WAY.
Some signs, well, they just shout the obvious.
However, of course there is no cure for stupidity
and in a world where careless and stupid people
exist, nothing is obvious. This was driven home
to me by a picture of a clothing label that a friend
posted on their social media page. It was the
label off a baby’s jumpsuit. The label read:
RED SKY
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relevance to Australian weather patterns at all.
Apparently it was a sure thing if you were in the
northern hemisphere though (say… England). I
also discovered that not all signs are subtle, and
some are downright rude.
A case in point is a common sign used by the
Department of Roads. This government body
cannot afford the luxury of subtlety and I suspect
that they deliberately employ people who have
been blessed with absolutely no sense of social
delicacy or restraint in the designing of their
road signs. I mean, how much sensitivity do you
need in order to place a road sign with its back to
the oncoming traffic that reads:
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