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BossHogg wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 22:36
FosseWay wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 14:37
BossHogg wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 12:20 user162_pic965_1281119186.jpg
You won't see many of these in the UK! :laugh:
I presume that's on the Falklands - I've seen similar pictures from a relative in the RAF. But you don't have to go that far from the UK to get Danger - Mines signs; I saw some in Guernsey in 2001, albeit rather old and tattered and quite possibly accidentally left over rather than still fulfilling their original purpose. On Dartmoor there are plenty of signs telling you not to touch unknown metal objects, with the very in-your-face addition "because they may explode and kill you".
It is, it's the Mount Pleasant to Port Stanley road. I served there with the Royal Military Police in 1991. 8-)
I have to admit to being mystified why the sign wants people to drive slowly because of mines...
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You had to drive slowly along the whole road! 35 miles long gravel track with 12 foot wide ditches either side and 60mph cross winds that gusted causing many unaware drivers to end up in the ditch!
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BossHogg wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 09:31 You had to drive slowly along the whole road! 35 miles long gravel track with 12 foot wide ditches either side and 60mph cross winds that gusted causing many unaware drivers to end up in the ditch!
Sure, but that would have applied even without the mines.
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There were the usual cross wind warning signs along the entire length of the road.
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Are there any road narrows signs at the start of a dual carriageway section other than here on the A31?
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"Cancel indicators after manoeuvre", at the start of the A9. Not quite sure who this is targeted at - I presume people coming off the M9 roundabout (which is pretty much a straight line for A9 traffic) who are then continuing to unintentionally indicate left into the garden centre, then getting a shock when a car pulls out in front of them?
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multiraider2 wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 13:56 Are there any road narrows signs at the start of a dual carriageway section other than here on the A31?
Similar here, but a bit more descriptive.
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Tucked away by the electricity pole. MOD sign.
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orudge wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 16:30 "Cancel indicators after manoeuvre", at the start of the A9. Not quite sure who this is targeted at - I presume people coming off the M9 roundabout (which is pretty much a straight line for A9 traffic) who are then continuing to unintentionally indicate left into the garden centre, then getting a shock when a car pulls out in front of them?
They use "CANCEL Indicator now" in Sussex. The road turns to the right so a southbound left turn off is a straight-ish line.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.09080 ... 312!8i6656
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And pretty much the opposite of those is: Please indicate your direction

https://goo.gl/maps/HPMpsrnYb122
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B4444 wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 21:13 Tucked away by the electricity pole. MOD sign.
A slightly closer view of one if you turn 180 degrees: https://goo.gl/maps/92YpAg1HvvA2
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https://goo.gl/maps/F1zS1XpFDQE2
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BossHogg wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 12:20 user162_pic965_1281119186.jpg
You won't see many of these in the UK! :laugh:
What, ex-Cold war warriors with a full head of hair? :roll:
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FosseWay wrote: Fri May 18, 2018 06:35 I have to admit to being mystified why the sign wants people to drive slowly because of mines...
Some mines can be set off by vibration from vehicles rather than pressure.
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someone wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 21:42They use "CANCEL Indicator now" in Sussex. The road turns to the right so a southbound left turn off is a straight-ish line.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.09080 ... 312!8i6656
Glen wrote: Mon May 21, 2018 21:48And pretty much the opposite of those is: Please indicate your direction

https://goo.gl/maps/HPMpsrnYb122
The length and breadth of the land, designers struggle to properly capitalise signs about indicators.

"CANCEL Indicator now" has capitals for emphasis that feel very awkward, and a capital I for "indicator" but none for "now". While In Scotland Every Word On The Sign Is Capitalised For No Clear Reason.
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Bryn666 wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 10:41 "Try your brakes" as opposed to just the usual "low gear now" signs on a hill isn't as common as the Ford equivalent. The only three I can think of are the A465 hills around Merthyr Tydfil, the A2 at Dover, and on the A649 at Bailiff Bridge (which I put in).

A465: https://goo.gl/maps/g9yminvGSwN2 - now on temporary A-frames for some reason (https://goo.gl/maps/MMX5ZpsME4E2)
A2: https://goo.gl/maps/wMFa3FZnUqD2 - (bonus tri-lingual escape lane sign!)
A470: https://goo.gl/maps/94DMNhf9sNq - my work...
There are two successive ones on Brookfoot Lane, Southowram - the first of which has a set of yellow wig-wags, though I've never seen them lit.
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Chris5156 wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 17:37
The length and breadth of the land, designers people struggle to properly capitalise signs about indicators more or less anything.
FTFY :wink:

Apart from the generally accepted rules that you begin a sentence, proper noun or adjective derived from a proper noun with a capital letter, there are no widely followed uniform rules on capitalisation in English. Certain specific domains have more or less uniformly obeyed conventions, but even there, there are frequent exceptions. There are also differences between US and UK English. As a result, presentation of publicly visible information undeniably suffers in a way that it does not in, say, French, German or Swedish, where there are clear rules for how you capitalise titles of literary works, headlines, authority names and so forth.
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Chris5156 wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 17:37The length and breadth of the land, designers struggle to properly capitalise signs about indicators.

"CANCEL Indicator now" has capitals for emphasis that feel very awkward, and a capital I for "indicator" but none for "now". While In Scotland Every Word On The Sign Is Capitalised For No Clear Reason.
Nor do they seem to agree on whether indicators are singular or plural.
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Conekicker wrote: Tue May 22, 2018 13:52
BossHogg wrote: Thu May 17, 2018 12:20 user162_pic965_1281119186.jpg
You won't see many of these in the UK! :laugh:
What, ex-Cold war warriors with a full head of hair? :roll:
I hear you brother - My hair moved north when I did 21 years ago! :cry:
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I walked past another warning of Quayside or Riverbank at East Portholland, Cornwall on Friday.

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