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Re: Funny signs you've snapped!

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Here are a few silly road signs:

1. Gate No. 16 at Sydney Airport is indeed straight ahead, but you can only turn left at this intersection (Foreshore Rd and General Holmes Drive southbound on/offramps):
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2. HUGE ARROW, tiny text
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Well how the hell do you get out if there is a fire?

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mubd wrote:Here are a few silly road signs:

1. Gate No. 16 at Sydney Airport is indeed straight ahead, but you can only turn left at this intersection (Foreshore Rd and General Holmes Drive southbound on/offramps):
I would guess it's for the benefit of the Police/Fire Brigade/Ambulance/other Emergency Services who wouldn't let the little matter of lane markings, left turn only signs and other regulatory signs bother them too much.
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Albatross wrote:
mubd wrote:Here are a few silly road signs:

1. Gate No. 16 at Sydney Airport is indeed straight ahead, but you can only turn left at this intersection (Foreshore Rd and General Holmes Drive southbound on/offramps):
I would guess it's for the benefit of the Police/Fire Brigade/Ambulance/other Emergency Services who wouldn't let the little matter of lane markings, left turn only signs and other regulatory signs bother them too much.
It probably is just something they've left behind from before the intersection was converted to left turn only. There are very tall metal poles in the median so you can't go straight.
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Pest control ad:

"3 PESTS FOR THE PRICE OF 1"!
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Here's a few.

Roseville station
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Kingswood station
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Mt Druitt station
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Fassifern station
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I don't want to see this thread be closed, but I am posting exactly what the thread title expects
There's a bin sign here, yet there are no bins nearby
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If you read 'disable' as a verb, the signs seem to be a command, rather than a direction
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A few years ago, I visited Ipswich. Wish I'd had a camera at the time: there were posters including

IPSWICH—SMART CITY

IPSWICH—CULTURED CITY

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A CRIME
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I think abesty and boxythingy have completely missed the idea of this thread!!
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Really because im not laughing!!!
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VivalaBuses wrote:I think abesty and boxythingy have completely missed the idea of this thread!!
laptop15 wrote:Really because im not laughing!!!
Perhaps that's because everybody has a different sense of humour?
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Taken in a store in South Yarra earlier this year... :?
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First, my sign.

Note when this 4 hour parking limit is in effect on Saturdays!
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Damn, I am soooo confused.
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A misspelling of 'Fatal' at an apartment block in Parramatta.
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AEC Decker snapped this sign at the Liverpool model railway exhibition LAST year and forgot to post it. :oops:

Funny enough, the same sign was missing this year. :shock: 8)
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MO-busfan wrote:Image

A misspelling of 'Fatal' at an apartment block in Parramatta.
These signs can be found all over the place, usually small. I presumed they are advertising something, not a mis-spelling
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At Stewart Ave level crossing!
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Not a sign as such, but someone has posted this on to a newspaper comment.

“Perhaps the photo caption should have read
"NSW Premier Mike Baird, and OTHER Murdoch exployees ........."”

How true!
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Saw one last year at Dufan (amusement park near Jakarta, Indonesia) on a flume ride. Because it was in the middle of the ride, I was unable to take a photo, but it said "Please do not stand and bowed when the boat slide away"
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boronia wrote:
MO-busfan wrote:Image

A misspelling of 'Fatal' at an apartment block in Parramatta.
These signs can be found all over the place, usually small. I presumed they are advertising something, not a mis-spelling
It is a graffiti artists tag. People are starting to use stickers instead of spray paint cause they last longer. And I think it's the same group of vandals who acid etched heaps of Sydney trains's
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I haven't got a photo, but Officeworks, are selling brown paper bags for 5 cents!
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Funny signs, eh? Just drive down the South Eastern Freeway from Crafers to Glen Osmond... :lol: :lol:

Next time I go down, I'll take some pics!
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