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Title: Parking Signage
Post by: Teofilo on December 30, 2008, 05:35:25 AM
My family and I were spending our Christmas  in the mall, when I noticed this signage:

(http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn243/teofiloeugeniopanganiban/IMG0242A.jpg)

Is it just me or is this sign really funny? :D
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Gadget Guy on December 30, 2008, 05:43:00 AM
That is funny! (http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p306/Smelp/Smilies/sBo_bouncing4.gif)
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: edap617 on December 30, 2008, 05:53:19 AM
That's funny. Where's the location of that signage , Gene?
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Teofilo on December 30, 2008, 06:02:33 AM
We've always been in SM Megamall, but we never noticed it. It was just there in the parking lot.
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Roadie on December 30, 2008, 10:36:33 AM
I don't get what's so funny :think:
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Mike, Lord of the Spammers! on December 30, 2008, 10:41:49 AM
I don't get what's so funny :think:
Sorry I don't get it either :think:
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Roadie on December 30, 2008, 10:47:25 AM
I don't get what's so funny :think:
Sorry I don't get it either :think:

Must be a foreign joke :think:
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Mike, Lord of the Spammers! on December 30, 2008, 10:48:20 AM
I don't get what's so funny :think:
Sorry I don't get it either :think:

Must be a foreign joke :think:
Or the fact that we've had sign's like that over here forever :think: :think:
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Roadie on December 30, 2008, 10:52:06 AM
Or the fact that we've had sign's like that over here forever :think: :think:

But even when they first appeared i doubt they were funny...... :think:
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Benner on December 30, 2008, 10:57:53 AM
I don't get what's so funny :think:

Neither do I.

I'm glad it's not just me as I have been staring at that pic for ages trying to spot the joke.  :D
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Mike, Lord of the Spammers! on December 30, 2008, 11:08:58 AM
No this time your stupidity is of the hook Ben :D
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Benner on December 30, 2008, 11:17:34 AM
No this time your stupidity is of the hook Ben :D

Phew!  :D
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: EZ822 on December 30, 2008, 11:27:57 AM
I don't get it either :-\
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Benner on December 30, 2008, 11:31:06 AM
I don't get it either :-\

So it's not just a British thing, it's a European thing then.  :D
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: DaveK on December 30, 2008, 01:38:11 PM
I thought it was a global thing tbh - apparently not!

@ Teofilo - that sign denotes parking spaces reserved for disabled drivers (their cars, not their weelchairs :D), and have been around as long as I can remember here in the UK. These days, on Supermarket car-parks and the like, the logo is often painted on the ground in the parking bays that are reserved. You can get big fines for parking there, if you aren't disabled, which is quite right IMO.

My kids and I call these spaces "spacehopper spots", because the logo looks like a guy on a spacehopper :D
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Neil on December 30, 2008, 01:52:46 PM
Here's a pretty common sign that always makes me :)

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/318378903_cdcbce4e1e.jpg?v=0)

I can't help but imagine something out of Day of the Triffids.

Neil
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Roadie on December 30, 2008, 02:44:46 PM
Here's a pretty common sign that always makes me :)
I can't help but imagine something out of Day of the Triffids.

Neil

One of my favourite signs too :D :D And great book :tu:
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Neil on December 30, 2008, 03:02:44 PM
Almost as bad as the SLOW CHILDREN signs.  The only time children are slow is when you're trying to get them dressed and out the house in the morning  ::) :)

Neil
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: EZ822 on December 30, 2008, 03:09:00 PM
Here's a pretty common sign that always makes me :)

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/318378903_cdcbce4e1e.jpg?v=0)

I can't help but imagine something out of Day of the Triffids.

Neil
Now thats funny :D
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: parnass on December 30, 2008, 03:10:06 PM
This sign is unusual.
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Neil on December 30, 2008, 03:24:11 PM
I say photochop on that one. Still funny though :D

Neil
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Teofilo on December 30, 2008, 04:00:12 PM
We all know that that parking spot is for the disabled (even if the one disabled is the passenger, they can still use the parking slot). But in my opinion it is better to just put "Parking" instead of "Disabled Parking" on the sign because there's already a disabled icon on the sign. I'm more oriented in the American style of English rather than the British style. It may just be really a European thing.

When I was driving somewhere north of here, I saw a sign that said "Slow men working" instead of "Slow down men working."
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Benner on December 30, 2008, 05:30:42 PM
We all know that that parking spot is for the disabled (even if the one disabled is the passenger, they can still use the parking slot). But in my opinion it is better to just put "Parking" instead of "Disabled Parking" on the sign because there's already a disabled icon on the sign. I'm more oriented in the American style of English rather than the British style. It may just be really a European thing.

When I was driving somewhere north of here, I saw a sign that said "Slow men working" instead of "Slow down men working."

I guess when you see these things multiple times every day you just don't think about them. 

And really that should be "Slow, men working" but you never seem to see punctuation in signs.
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: Whoey on December 30, 2008, 08:28:21 PM
My mother used to have a sign in her office that said: Women work all the time too, but don't need to put a sign up to let everyone know.
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: donvito on December 31, 2008, 06:45:37 AM
This one is a classic.
Title: Re: Parking Signage
Post by: BIG-TARGET on January 01, 2009, 03:01:56 AM
Here's a pretty common sign that always makes me :)

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/318378903_cdcbce4e1e.jpg?v=0)

I can't help but imagine something out of Day of the Triffids.

Neil
I loved that film!!!