Pedants' Paradise

[LMcD]

According to the Uxbridge Dictionary, 'bloviation' is the deployment of an array of very powerful bellows to help fully laden passenger planes to take off.

[oddoneout]

Seen this morning on the back of a white van "Police follow this vehicle". I don't know if that is an order or statement of fact but either way there was no police presence.
I assume that it means there is some form of tracking in operation.

[french frank]

"Police follow this vehicle". I don't know if that is an order or statement of fact

On the lines of Jonathan Miller's: Gentlemen lift the seat (Beyond the Fringe).

[EnemyoftheStoat]

On the lines of Jonathan Miller's: Gentlemen lift the seat (Beyond the Fringe).

Or that optimistic "Photographs Do Not Bend" on the exterior of an envelope. (With "Oh Yes They Do" handwritten along the fold.)

[oddoneout]

"Infected Eye Drops". Although I did need to buy eye drops I decided against these...

[teamsaint]

"Infected Eye Drops". Although I did need to buy eye drops I decided against these...

There is a very annoying shortage of contact lens solutions that has rumbled on for some months now, due to a technical product recall.
Down to my last bottle.

[Serial_Apologist]

"Infected Eye Drops". Although I did need to buy eye drops I decided against these...

Similarly RECYCLED TOILET ROLLS above a supermarket aisle some years ago.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Spotted this last night while cooking the supper. On a large packet of oven chips:

VEGAN & GLUTEN FREE

What a relief: never have liked the taste of vegans

[oddoneout]

The sign on the verge said "Bus stop suspended". I looked around but couldn't see where; the metal plate was still attached to the lamppost at right angles as normal, and the buses were still letting passengers off.
What was wrong with "moved" or " relocated"?

[LMcD]

The sign on the verge said "Bus stop suspended". I looked around but couldn't see where; the metal plate was still attached to the lamppost at right angles as normal, and the buses were still letting passengers off.
What was wrong with "moved" or " relocated"?

'Moved' or 'relocated' might suggest a permanent repositioning. Passengers shouldn't have been allowed to debus there, but First Group Norfolk and Suffolk drivers are a law unto themselves!

[Bryn]

'Moved' or 'relocated' might suggest a permanent repositioning. Passengers shouldn't have been allowed to debus there, but First Group Norfolk and Suffolk drivers are a law unto themselves!

Or the crew that goes around affixing and removing such signage may have been behind in their work and the drivers may have been advised the serve the stop as usual. Such occurred even before the pandemic.

[oddoneout]

'Moved' or 'relocated' might suggest a permanent repositioning. Passengers shouldn't have been allowed to debus there, but First Group Norfolk and Suffolk drivers are a law unto themselves!

Add "temporarily" then. In fact it was simply a two day event to enable access to a main drain connection opposite the bus stop so it was just a move to a few yards down the road. My comment about letting passengers off was because not only was the bus stop itself not suspended (as in dangling) but neither was the service(getting off the bus), which might have been another interpretation of the notice, it was just moved a short distance.
As it happens I was chatting to a neighbour yesterday who uses that stop as it's only a couple of minutes walk from her house and she has mobility problems, and at first she thought it had been taken away when she saw the sign. She was relieved to see the other sign on the verge a short distance away indicating the temporary position.

[Serial_Apologist]

Add "temporarily" then. In fact it was simply a two day event to enable access to a main drain connection opposite the bus stop so it was just a move to a few yards down the road. My comment about letting passengers off was because not only was the bus stop itself not suspended (as in dangling) but neither was the service(getting off the bus), which might have been another interpretation of the notice, it was just moved a short distance.
As it happens I was chatting to a neighbour yesterday who uses that stop as it's only a couple of minutes walk from her house and she has mobility problems, and at first she thought it had been taken away when she saw the sign. She was relieved to see the other sign on the verge a short distance away indicating the temporary position.

My father's favourite roadside notice was, NEW LAID EGGS DRIVE UP HERE. His second favourite was SLOW CHILDREN CROSSING: he turned to my mother and commented, "You now know we've arrived in Yorkshire!"

[LMcD]

Add "temporarily" then. In fact it was simply a two day event to enable access to a main drain connection opposite the bus stop so it was just a move to a few yards down the road. My comment about letting passengers off was because not only was the bus stop itself not suspended (as in dangling) but neither was the service(getting off the bus), which might have been another interpretation of the notice, it was just moved a short distance.
As it happens I was chatting to a neighbour yesterday who uses that stop as it's only a couple of minutes walk from her house and she has mobility problems, and at first she thought it had been taken away when she saw the sign. She was relieved to see the other sign on the verge a short distance away indicating the temporary position.

There have been instances locally of services on some routes not stopping at a suspended stop and others dropping off and picking up passengers as normal.

[Old Grumpy]

My father's favourite roadside notice was, NEW LAID EGGS DRIVE UP HERE. His second favourite was SLOW CHILDREN CROSSING: he turned to my mother and commented, "You now know we've arrived in Yorkshire!"

Signs round here (happen, Yorkshire): Warning. Free range children!