Too many road signs

[kernelbogey]

One of my favourite graffiti is on the M25 clockwise, soon after the M40 exits, on a bridge:

PEAS IN OUR TIME

It always amuses me as I pass. Poor spelling or subtle irony?

[Bryn]

... I dread to think what "Cymraeg" means!

Something like "fellow/native countryman", IIRC.

Whereas we English know the them as "Welsh", i.e. foreigners.

[kernelbogey]

I believe that in some of the remotest roads in Iceland, there are signs saying 'Does anyone know that you are on this road?'.

There are some roads in this country that could use signs like that (I'm thinking of the north of Wester Ross and Sutherland, although I've not been there for a good few years).

[Flosshilde]

I believe that in some of the remotest roads in Iceland, there are signs saying 'Does anyone know that you are on this road?'.

There are some roads in this country that could use signs like that (I'm thinking of the north of Wester Ross and Sutherland, although I've not been there for a good few years).

And the M25?

[teamsaint]

And the M25?

Derby Road in Southampton ?

[Mr Pee]

And the M25?

How is that remote?

[mangerton]

How is that remote?

It (the M25) is quite remote from Scotland.

[Hornspieler]

I'm reassured that like the signpost you are happy with having it both ways, Anna!

Naughty!

[Hornspieler]

Derby Road in Southampton ?

Well you can't drive along there. That's Southampton's "Red Light" area.

(No. Don't ask Teamsaint to confirm. He's too young to know about these things.)

HS

[Bax-of-Delights]

One of my favourite graffiti is on the M25 clockwise, soon after the M40 exits, on a bridge:

PEAS IN OUR TIME

It always amuses me as I pass. Poor spelling or subtle irony?

Ah, kernelbogey, you beat me to it! I was browsing through these messages and was thinking to myself if anyone would mention that iconic graffiti. Definitely subtle irony I'd say.

Here in fairly rural Sussex we had a rash of "cycleway" signs put up a few years ago. They directed cyclists off the main road and down residential roads before re-directing them back on to the main road where a cycle path had been freshly tarmacked - a whole mile of it - between villages. At every gap in the pathway to allow access for the houses or garden centre there would be two signs - one for each direction - warning of cyclists on the path and this was replicated on the tarmac itself. Needless to say cyclists ignored the signs and the majority continue to ignore the cycle path preferring to ride on the main road where they can enjoy the swish of air as cars travelling at 60mph zoom by.
The cost of the various signs and the tarmacadaming ran to some quarter of a million pounds. It's so easy to spend it when the money isn't yours but your taxpayers isn't it?

[Simon B]

One of my favourite graffiti is on the M25 clockwise, soon after the M40 exits, on a bridge:

PEAS IN OUR TIME

It always amuses me as I pass. Poor spelling or subtle irony?

With apologies for possibly redundant pedantry, doesn't it actually say:

GIVE PEAS A CHANCE

Either that or I end up hallucinating every time I drive round the relevant part of the M25 - quite possibly an understandable reaction to regular doses of this 8-lane carpark on a Friday afternoon.

An almost entirely unrelated personal favourite of mine (showing just how long these can last) was "HEATH OUT" on a wall adjacent to a road just off Salford Crescent which was there until about 2010. At least the author of that one got their wish at some point...

[Nick Armstrong]

One of my favourite graffiti is on the M25 clockwise, soon after the M40 exits, on a bridge:

PEAS IN OUR TIME

It always amuses me as I pass. Poor spelling or subtle irony?

There's a whole peace-peas industry... I got a Christmas card from my waggish sister wishing Peas and Love with a picture of a plate of said green items with tinsel...

[EdgeleyRob]

Many years ago a fave of mine was 'free the ITV seven'.

[MrGongGong]

There used to be these on consecutive bridges over the M1 heading towards London

GOOD
MORNING
LEMMINGS

[Simon B]

Re:

GIVE PEAS A CHANCE

It's come back to me now that there was a story on the beeb including the possible urban mythology behind this one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13524208