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[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 day ago (43 children)

That sign usually means no entry for bikes so I was confused for a moment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Since the sign is turned towards the viewer, it just seems as if someone drunk placed it a few meters right from where it was supposed to be.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago

Also fits because tourists would ignore most posted signs.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Don't signs usually have a line through it when it means "no", or is that just american signage?

[–] [email protected] 199 points 1 day ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You must pay the rent

I can't pay the rent

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

We ain't got the money for the mortgage on the farm!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago (3 children)

instructions unclear, the banana is up my ass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Ah , you've got the instructions upside-down. I'll help...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You missed the "Caution: A Bannana" sign then didn't you?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

there were three bananas before the caution sign and I slipped

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Also, stop signs are ~~hexagonal~~ octagonal and yield signs triangular so you could notice them even when they're not facing you.

Edit: octagon/hexagon

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Red state. We can't afford the extra 2 sides.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Or when covered in snow or if the sign is badly damaged

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

European bike lanes (like this one should probably depict) are round and solid blue with a bike depicted on them.

bike lane

In Europe, lanes, where biking is prohibited are denoted by a round white sign with a relative wide red border (circle) and a bike depicted at its center.

biking prohibited

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like a single line through would have been the correct design choice, still, because in practically every other context, that's what's used (no smoking signs, for example).

Seems like many, many other places around the world put a line through for road signs (though a couple outside Europe don't, and even some inside Europe do): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibitory_traffic_sign

My 2¢, Europe is wrong on this one, despite being right on so much else haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

A line obscures the thing it's trying to explain. Visually noisy, hard to read.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (14 children)

if I didn't already know better, i would have interpreted these two signs to be synonymous.

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