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Political Realities ^ | 11/03/13 | LD Jackson

[rustbucket]

[CrazyIvan]

I used to have one in the bathroom that was a picture of a big mean looking guy in leiderhosen with a bucket and scrub brush. The caption was “Hans must wash all employees before returning to work”

[spokeshave]

Germany has more road signs per kilometre of highway than any other country in the world, I’m told.

I believe it. Driving along a German country road leaves you with a headache from having been nagged incessantly. It’s not your travelling companions doing the nagging; it’s the traffic signs.

Look here. Do this. Don’t do that. Pay attention. Stop. Go. Slow down. Be quiet. Watch out for small children. Watch out for large animals. Hold your breath (pig farm ahead). Beware the Ides of March.

Along with the usual international panoply of road signs, the Germans have come up with quite a few that are uniquely their own.

Some of them make sense (in an anal-compulsive sort of way) but others just leave me scratching my head.

Just Google "German redundant road signs and go to "images"

[spokeshave]

....and “Caution...falling rocks”

[Track9]

There there to tell the deer where they should cross.. because government has the power to speak to animals.

[dalereed]

Screw safety!!!

If it saves time and I have a 50% probability of survival i do it!

i’ve only been busted up a dozen or so times in my 76 years!

[Fiji Hill]

But adding to your point, here in California every parking garage has a sign that says something ike "this structure has cancer causing agents, known to the State of California" or something like that. I always wondered, what do they expect us to do with that? Its not safe to park? or is it? Make up your damn mind State of California.

Those signs are the result of some ballot initiative passed a few years ago by our state's low-information voters.

[Iron Munro]

D'oh !!!

[RegulatorCountry]

Here there are visible deer runs, you can see the path worn through the woods. Usually in valleys but not always. The signs are not arbitrary. The deer are most active at night with poor visibility, new moon, fog, clouds. Not rain though, unless the weather is wild enough to startle them. Full moon or almost full, not as active, unless it’s rut season. Then they’re all over the place no matter what. I’ve hit three over the course of my life, never anything serious, fortunately.

I did get a big dent in the passenger door of a Tacoma 4x4 once, a large animal scrambled out of underbrush near a stop sign, low and clawing, and ran right into the side of the truck. I swear it was a mountain lion but nobody believed that. Really don’t know what else it could have been.

[Peet]

Moral of the story: Make soup.

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I picked up and browsed an OLD cookbook in a used bookstore somewhere in South Carolina. The first recipe in the book started “Clean one cooter.”

I put it back on the shelf. Back home later I just HAD to look up what the he** a “cooter” was.

Day-yum, so that’s what it means...

[ErnBatavia]

[Toddsterpatriot]

Now, any idiot can live to a ripe old age.

[Don W]

What I often think...

[Right Wing Assault]

Do not operate this electric knife under water.

Do not stand on this chainsaw while operating.

[left that other site]

Mine is an old 60’s Era Colt Detective, and I downloaded the manual from the Colt Website. So, although the gun is OLD, the Warnings are NEW! LOL!