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
POO DRIVING CONDITIONS
I'll say.
On or around Sun, 3 Oct 2004 20:13:30 +0000 (UTC), "Richard Brookman" enlightened us thusly:
oh hurrah.
Cutting, very cutting.
In article , Richard Brookman writes
Unlike the one on the A40 -> M40 slip road on Saturday lunch time that said "Fog". Blue sky, visibility great.
Adrian
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 s*it 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
"Pete Foster" wrote in news:41608456$0$22746$ snipped-for-privacy@news.zen.co.uk:
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
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
take years of study to
read, "Morning 36 Degrees
more than others" That
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
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.
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
"The Becketts" wrote in news:41615002$0$1024$ snipped-for-privacy@news.optusnet.com.au:
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
In message , Lee_D writes
Is that what's called an each way bet?
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