• A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Man, my mom used to always hold up a fist in solidarity when she’d pass a sign. Wish she was around so I could send this to her =/

      My sister and I will just have to appreciate it

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      The megaphone really ups the quality of this. Who even has one of those anyways? Where the heck do you even buy one?

      Impressive work, gentlemen

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I’ve always read that sign this way.

    Also misunderstood:

    “Do Not Pass” (and “Pass With Caution”)

    As a kid, I wondered why my parents would continue driving past those without even flinching.

    “Bridge Ices Before Road”

    I originally took this “before” spatially, as like “in front of”. So the bridge ices in a very particular spot — just before the bridge ends and your route becomes road again.

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Reminds me of me as a kid getting upset with my grandmother once for taking a sip from her water bottle while driving, because I had heard from so many tv ads that “drinking while driving” was highly illegal.

    • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      When I was young the No Passing signs being on the opposite side of the road seemed odd, but no adult I asked knew why.

      Eventually figured out it was on the opposite side so a car that is passing can see the sign.

  • hamFoilHat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    When I was a kid I came up with a name for the group that snuck in and set up those signs, “Polite People for the Cessation of Byway Maintenance”. They always put their protest signs up a respectful distance away and always just the one in each direction, thus the polite people part.

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Reminds me of the guy I passed on a college campus leading an anti-noise pollution protest with a bullhorn.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      Unironically, I support completely ceasing all road construction (even “just” repaving, let alone widening) until every street has been brought up to “complete streets” standard with proper sidewalks and bike lanes. Car drivers do not deserve more spending until cyclists and pedestrians are made first-class citizens!

      • Platypus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Given that it takes a long time to bring a street up to standard (budgeting, design, contracting, and constructing), that would probably be 10-20 years at an optimistic estimate to get every street up. In that time, under your proposal, the roads would become undrivable, and therefore:

        • Emergency vehicles would be unable to operate. Thousands die.
        • Traffic increases exponentially as the usable roads become increasingly infrequent and commuters flock to the few good ones. The above problem is made worse; gas usage increases dramatically as more and more cars sit idle for hours a day.
        • Highway safety plummets. Thousands die in avoidable crashes.
        • Roads become impassible to trucks. Deliveries of food and goods grind to a halt. Starvation, food riots, economic collapse follow.

        I’m all for increasing walkability and bikability; I’m fortunate enough to live in a city that is both, and it’s great. Proposals like this, however, do nothing but make it look like the movement is a bunch of “fuck cars” knee-jerkers who know nothing about infrastructure and can thus be safely disregarded.