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Car Forum / Land Rover Cars / October 2004Highways Dept sense of humour
You know those new big gantries with the electronic messages on - Don't Drive Tired, etc? Coming home down the M4 this evening in atrocious conditions - driving rain, side winds, heavy spray and lots of standing water. Signs had been warning us all the way that the conditions were bad. All traffic down to about 40mph. I'd just remarked to my passenger what utterly sh*t weather it was, when we saw a faulty overhead sign. There in massive yellow letters: POO DRIVING CONDITIONS I'll say.  SignatureRich Series 2a RR 4.6 V8 trialler dog, wife, kids, whatever >You know those new big gantries with the electronic messages on - Don't >Drive Tired, etc? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >I'll say. oh hurrah. >>You know those new big gantries with the electronic messages on - Don't >>Drive Tired, etc? [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > oh hurrah. Cutting, very cutting. I'm glad to see that the ones here in Australia are programmed by the same blokes who program yours. I've never seen a useful message yet. The closest is abouit car accident that have already been cleared away. Then we get really useful ones telling us to use public transport to go to the football. Heaven forbid! I've never seen a game of football (of any code - Aussie Rules, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, gridiron) in my life (I'm only 56). So why would I want to catch public transport to see a game? Ron Beckett Emu Plains, Australia "Austin Shackles" <austin@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message > >You know those new big gantries with the electronic messages on - Don't > >Drive Tired, etc? > I'm glad to see that the ones here in Australia are programmed by the > same blokes who program yours. I've never seen a useful message yet. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> >You know those new big gantries with the electronic messages on - >> >Don't Drive Tired, etc? French ones have messages that carefully avoid implying that the reader themselves might be a risk to life and limb, such as "Restez zen" and "Alcool au volant = not a very good idea" (I don't remember the end of that one). What they should say is "Keep driving up the backside of cars in front at 140kph and you will eventually screw it up and die, you twerp" (twerp = connard, close enough, for those following rude French in another thread). Jeremy >You know those new big gantries with the electronic messages on - Don't >Drive Tired, etc? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >I'll say. Unlike the one on the A40 -> M40 slip road on Saturday lunch time that said "Fog". Blue sky, visibility great. Adrian SignatureTo Reply : replace "news" with "adrian" and "nospam" with "ffoil" Sorry for the rigmarole, If I want spam, I'll go to the shops Every time someone says "I don't believe in trolls", another one dies. On Sunday, in article <pq3dX3JcwGYBFwYA@ffoil.org.uk> > >You know those new big gantries with the electronic messages on - Don't > >Drive Tired, etc? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Unlike the one on the A40 -> M40 slip road on Saturday lunch time that > said "Fog". Blue sky, visibility great. I don't know that area, but locally it's quite common to have thick fog around Brigg, which clears about half a mile west of the M18/A15 junction. So it there were a warning sign at the junction west of Scunthorpe I'd expect it to be warning of fog, just as you describe. SignatureDavid G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger. "History shows that the Singularity started when Sir Tim Berners-Lee was bitten by a radioactive spider." > POO DRIVING CONDITIONS I suspect it was probably meant to say: POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS. But what gets me about the signs is the totally pointless messages. You're driving down the M1, it's a proper pea souper and you can't see past the next white line in front of you. You go past a matrix. What does it say? "Fog" No sh.t Sherlock! SignaturePete Foster - www.xmob.co.uk > I suspect it was probably meant to say: POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > No sh.t Sherlock! At work we get the Servere weather Warnings from the Met and also Flood warnings. The "50% Chance of rain" one always gets me..I mean ... how do they know? Must take years of study to work that one out. On Holiday this year we passed a Blackboard sign on one of our camp sites It read, "Morning 36 Degrees , Afternoon 38 Degrees, Chance of Drought, Fog , Rain and Snow in places, some more than others" That kind of summed up weather forcasting for me in a nut shell. Lee D >> I suspect it was probably meant to say: POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS. >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > Lee D You're not wrong mate, I took a day off today to do a few bits on the RR, the BBC website showed a great big sun fop yesterday & today, it's like a hurricane here today & yesterday was worse. Ho hum, film for me then! Nige >> I suspect it was probably meant to say: POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS. >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >The "50% Chance of rain" one always gets me..I mean ... how do they know? >Must take years of study to work that one out. Is that what's called an each way bet? Signaturehugh Reply to address is valid at the time of posting >> POO DRIVING CONDITIONS > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > No sh.t Sherlock! Yeah, one up here read BEWARE SNOW with a foot of snow on top of the sign and the countryside totally whited out! Oh, thank goodness they pointed that out! We might have missed it! A meteorologist at the airport on Orkney got fed up with farmers phoning wanting to know when it would stop raining, etc. Now he gives specific advice, "It will stop raining at 2.23 this afternoon", etc. Derry > > POO DRIVING CONDITIONS > > I suspect it was probably meant to say: POOR DRIVING CONDITIONS. Yeah, I'd kinda worked that out. The previous six saying exactly that gave me a clue :-) Just seemed very appropriate, and made me laugh. Rich > But what gets me about the signs is the totally pointless messages. > You're > driving down the M1, it's a proper pea souper and you can't see past the > next white line in front of you. You go past a matrix. What does it say? Coming up from Guildford on the A3 as you approach the M25 there are two of those big signs and twice recently they have both said "DON'T DRIVE TIRED" when the M25 is actually stationary clockwise, the way I want to go. What is the point? More of our money wasted! If they had told me what they should I could have taken another route. SignatureRegards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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