Post your funniest "sign" pictures

Not actually funny, but when you think about it:

1. This is at an all-girls school...
2. Isn't playing sports with balls what a gym is designed for?

Firemike wrote in post #18950210
Not actually funny, but when you think about it:

1. This is at an all-girls school...
2. Isn't playing sports with balls what a gym is designed for?

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Very interesting!

I wonder if that sign was " local pub " approved ?

SYS wrote in post #18950268

Excellent
Where can I buy one

avondale87 wrote in post #18950410
Excellent
Where can I buy one

Is YOUR village suffering from tourists Richard?!?!?!

The story behind that "no tourist" sign isn't actually funny at all.

There's a "village" (more like a neighborhood) in Seoul, South Korea, that became extremely popular with tourists from Japan, China and others that the residents just can't have any peace at all. Some tourists are, due to their culture, extremely loud when they tour the place. For them, it's a "normal" way of conversing with one another; for others, they're literally "yelling." Of course, Seoul is the city that never sleeps, so imagine these tourists inundating the "village" at all hours. I actually do feel for them.

SYS wrote in post #18950442
The story behind that "no tourist" sign isn't actually funny at all.

There's a "village" (more like a neighborhood) in Seoul, South Korea, that became extremely popular with tourists from Japan, China and others that the residents just can't have any peace at all. Some tourists are, due to their culture, extremely loud when they tour the place. For them, it's a "normal" way of conversing with one another; for others, they're literally "yelling." Of course, Seoul is the city that never sleeps, so imagine these tourists inundating the "village" at all hours. I actually do feel for them.

I need one too but would most certainly fear the wrath of all the businesses that are making fortunes off the tourists. In fact I'm shaking in my shoes writing this as it's such a taboo subject here....

Inspeqtor wrote in post #18950435
Is YOUR village suffering from tourists Richard?!?!?!

Rather so.
Interesting reading SYS comment below.
Read that into here.
Plus they walk out into the road in front of you, stand in middle of road ipads to their faces, park vehicles anywhere and drive on wrong side of road.
They invade the shops and their kids run up the Isle arms outstretched dragging stuff onto floor whilst their parents laugh and don't clean up.
We had a group come down our drive, get out of their car, have a picnic, relieve themselves.....
Another group opened the gate and climbed on bales of hay taking selfies.
There's more but will leave it at that

Edit. Annie's comments reads same here. Oh no, you can't say that....

Firemike wrote in post #18950210
Not actually funny, but when you think about it:

1. This is at an all-girls school...
2. Isn't playing sports with balls what a gym is designed for?

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An all-girls' school eh? Perhaps the sign is a subtle way of saying, "No Boys Allowed"?

SYS wrote in post #18950442
The story behind that "no tourist" sign isn't actually funny at all.

There's a "village" (more like a neighborhood) in Seoul, South Korea, that became extremely popular with tourists from Japan, China and others that the residents just can't have any peace at all. Some tourists are, due to their culture, extremely loud when they tour the place. For them, it's a "normal" way of conversing with one another; for others, they're literally "yelling." Of course, Seoul is the city that never sleeps, so imagine these tourists inundating the "village" at all hours. I actually do feel for them.

avondale87 wrote in post #18950450
Rather so.
Interesting reading SYS comment below.
Read that into here.
Plus they walk out into the road in front of you, stand in middle of road ipads to their faces, park vehicles anywhere and drive on wrong side of road.
They invade the shops and their kids run up the Isle arms outstretched dragging stuff onto floor whilst their parents laugh and don't clean up.
We had a group come down our drive, get out of their car, have a picnic, relieve themselves.....
Another group opened the gate and climbed on bales of hay taking selfies.
There's more but will leave it at that

Edit. Annie's comments reads same here. Oh no, you can't say that....

Very interesting read from both of you. Thank you both for enlightening everyone here.

I shall continue the OT direction

Mrs Wife and I are avid travellers. I won't bore you with the list. We are seriously considering calling a halt to our overseas trips though, because the rapidly-increasing numbers of travellers at the destinations we favour have made such trips rather less appealing. We have, up until recently, tended to visit popular destinations out of season, and less popular destination in season, but even that strategy isn't working now.

Thankfully, we've pretty much exhausted our 'bucket list' and only a couple of places remain unvisited, plus we love our home country which has much yet to reveal. So it might be that the pain (literal) of long-haul flights is no longer worth it if we have a crowd of noisy, often ill-mannered 'new era' tourists between us and that iconic fountain.

Another sad result of this tsunami of gauche travellers is the effect they are having on those poor souls who are employed to service their needs. On our last visit to Rome, we were apalled at how some of them treated waiters and shopkeepers, notwithstanding language and cultural barriers. This is resulting in more and more grumpy waiters/waitresses - and who could blame them when they just had to clear a table where four adults seem to have sprayed most of the food all over the tablecloth, then rudely demanded another basket of free bread?

Ugh.

Spencerphoto wrote in post #18950577
I shall continue the OT direction
On our last visit to Rome, we were apalled at how some of them treated waiters and shopkeepers, notwithstanding language and cultural barriers. This is resulting in more and more grumpy waiters/waitresses - and who could blame them when they just had to clear a table where four adults seem to have sprayed most of the food all over the tablecloth, then rudely demanded another basket of free bread?
Ugh.

That's one of the others I didn't mention and is too common here.

I'm with you on overseas travel and home state and beyond has so much to offer.

But then, I'd love to go see Scotlands highlands and it's isolated coastal areas (suppose there's such a thing).
Sorry Annie.
It won't happen so you can breath easy
But please keep those misty, craggy, moody, enlightening photos coming. Please

Spencerphoto wrote in post #18950577
I shall continue the OT direction

Mrs Wife and I are avid travellers. I won't bore you with the list. We are seriously considering calling a halt to our overseas trips though, because the rapidly-increasing numbers of travellers at the destinations we favour have made such trips rather less appealing. We have, up until recently, tended to visit popular destinations out of season, and less popular destination in season, but even that strategy isn't working now.

Thankfully, we've pretty much exhausted our 'bucket list' and only a couple of places remain unvisited, plus we love our home country which has much yet to reveal. So it might be that the pain (literal) of long-haul flights is no longer worth it if we have a crowd of noisy, often ill-mannered 'new era' tourists between us and that iconic fountain.

Another sad result of this tsunami of gauche travellers is the effect they are having on those poor souls who are employed to service their needs. On our last visit to Rome, we were apalled at how some of them treated waiters and shopkeepers, notwithstanding language and cultural barriers. This is resulting in more and more grumpy waiters/waitresses - and who could blame them when they just had to clear a table where four adults seem to have sprayed most of the food all over the tablecloth, then rudely demanded another basket of free bread?

Ugh.

Spencerphoto
Ditto MW and I, I'll match your Ugh and offer a ' I can't believe people can be so inconsiderate'
backn4th

avondale87 wrote in post #18950606
That's one of the others I didn't mention and is too common here.

I'm with you on overseas travel and home state and beyond has so much to offer.

But then, I'd love to go see Scotlands highlands and it's isolated coastal areas (suppose there's such a thing).
Sorry Annie.
It won't happen so you can breath easy
But please keep those misty, craggy, moody, enlightening photos coming. Please

If you come, Richard, I'll take you to the 'local' spots where no tourists go! Now there's an offer...