419eater is putting up road signs now

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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:24 pm

The county is under lockdown.

The area is cordoned off and the National Guard and SWAT are on scene. Shocked

If you can read the road sign behind it - that's not a problem.

I'm located far enough away to make it of little use in locating me, and anyway who's going to come looking for me in Greenland. Laughing

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:34 pm

Gomer - Are they using bait to catch the badgers???

Bruin

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:50 pm

I'm not very good with road signs (especially ones with speed limits on Embarassed

) but I'm not sure if it means - watch out or a badger will get you - or, I've seen a badger and I don't know what to do (but maybe that would be a question mark and not an exclamation mark), or, beware because badgers are just not very good drivers.

Wikipedia says

Quote:

It is usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume

So maybe there's a gang of them ! Shocked

Be afraid - be very afraid.

Baiting Guru Joined: 07 Jul 2006 Posts: 5727

I had questions about the Stanley bait, and I'm still not 100% convinced that Stanley isn't a badger. If he is a badger he's a damn good badger.

The shipping website was checked from Lagos, before Stanley left for Lagos. But it has also been checked numerous times from Aba, and ever since Stanley supposedly arrived in Lagos it has only been checked from Lagos. I'm not 100% sure what is going on. I tend to believe strongly that Stanley is for real, but the IP address of the August 20 check continues to haunt me.

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:24 pm

It's not a Photoshop and I've been wanting to photograph it for weeks.

My mother thought I was insane - but she's correct so I wasn't too bothered.

It's on the way into Market Harborough from Leicester - (in Greenland Wink

) if anyone wants to check.

Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 10:58 pm

Maybe some folks thought badgers were endangered, and when someone saw one he was overjoyed that they still exist.

Elite Baiter Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1043

Don't know why they are putting up signs, it's not like they exist.

Titania: They are protected, but not because are endangered. It's because people aren't very nice to them.

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exclamation to indicate strong feelings

I bet they do have quite strong feeling about getting run over by all those reindeer sleds and such that are so very common throughout Greenland.

I had a close call with a badger (a real one, you know, has a stripey nose and giant teeth) a little while ago. I was out having a late night walk back from the pub when a rustling ensued from the bushes. Damn thing stayed next to me for 100m or so and then ran accross the road right in front of me.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:14 am

The warning signs are there to alert motorists to the dangers of running into one of those mythical beasts.
I can assure you that doing so can be a costly business.
I hit a large badger at about 60 mph on a road near where Gomers pic was taken (Desborough) and it caused just over £1,000 (USD2,000) of damage to the front and underside of my car.

From that day on I have believed in badgers and know just how harmful they can be. Sad

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:05 am

The sign's on the wrong side of the road. How effective can that be. Wink

Baiting Guru Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 2531 Location: AU

i wonder if it has something to do with this

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:33 am

@BA - I believe the part of Greenland where Gomer lives drives on that side of the road. Wink

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:00 am

^^Well, how smart can those people be if they don't even know what side of the road to drive on. Wink

They should be warned of ANY animal in the road. Laughing

As they say over there: I'll get my coat.......

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:02 am

I fear that someone has erred within this thread. Smile

Whilst over one third of the worlds motorists do drive on the left hand side of the road, those in Greenland drive on the right.
(except the odd one on his way home from the pub late at night).

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:51 am

Breddan Butter wrote:

Whilst over one third of the worlds motorists do drive on the left hand side of the road, those in Greenland drive on the right.

Most countries which drive on the left hand side of the road are or were members of the British Empire/Commonwealth. That or they have had a strong history of feudal knights who used their swords in their right hands - they would pass oncoming knights on horseback with their right side toward him (i.e. staying on the left hand side of the goat track) and that explains why Japan drives on the left hand side of the road as well.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:02 am

Definition of a pessimist - a person that looks both ways when crossing a one way street.

Definition of an optimist - a person who only looks in the direction that he expects the traffic should come from on a one way street.

What has this got to do with badgers you ask? Absolutely nothing.

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:18 pm

I think it has already been pointed out, but the situation here is dire. People are driving on the wrong side of the road!

BTW, I worked for a UK company, and went over for a meeting. Had jet lag, loked left for approaching traffic, and very nearly stepped off in front of a speeding lorry. My astute coworker grabbed my arm literally half a second before the truck would have knocked me down.

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

Quote:

truck would have knocked me down.

Aside what side of the road we drive on, I suspect that this phrasing is regionally different as well.

I had three friends, from three different areas of the world, who each used the different phrases: "knocked down by a car" "hit by a car" or "run over by a car".

I say the car would hit you, knock you down and run you over. Laughing

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:49 pm

I often drive on the left hand side (and live) in the US (and don't visit pubs) Laughing

Oh, I also live on a way way street Wink

edited to add --> That's what happens when talking to a 15 month old child and typing at same time. Embarassed

I won't change it so T's post below will not look 'odd' Wink

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 4:58 pm

justjay wrote:

Oh, I also live on a way way street Wink

Is that anything like a one-way street? And is it dead-end? And do you live at the end?

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 06 Feb 2008 Posts: 720

I am a Siamese Twin and the only reason we go on Holiday to France is so my Brother gets a chance to drive

Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:06 pm

Years back I used to go on holiday in the South of France regularly hiring a local car.

It was horrendously expensive but the chance to drive a car at a gazillion miles an hour and play at being super chic was too much for me to resist.

Two things ruined it for me - once, when I forgot that St Tropez have different coloured police cars and I got pulled in with a pile of others for failing to stop at a red traffic light. Honestly - if I hadn't gone I would have been rear ended. It once happened to me on a train crossing. Shocked

Anyway, the fact I was in a local car and kept my mouth shut apart from some grunts, I was allowed to go. Very Happy

Secondly - the number of times I went to the wrong side to get in the car trying to be super cool. Embarassed

Not as bad as the time I was caught in traffic late at night in Cannes and a hooker tried to climb in through my window. If she could have found me a parking space I'd have let her in. Laughing

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:58 am

Back on the subject of roadsigns, I wondered whether the one I picked for my avatar may be placed somewhere in Chad (rather than
the Shetlands where it actually is; made a special trip to see it a few years back...) since you are "Close to Twat"...?

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:57 pm

GomerPyle wrote:

Not as bad as the time I was caught in traffic late at night in Cannes and a hooker tried to climb in through my window.

Quote:

If she could have found me a parking space I'd have let her in. Laughing

Isn't it allowed to use bumper stickers with a hired car?
I mean a text like "No Sex Please, We're British" on your car might stop certain kind of ladies trying to climb in through your window.
But if you nowadays stay in Greenland, I suppose anyone trying to climb in through your window is just somebody freezing outdoors... or a badger :yikes:

Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:38 pm

Has anyone seen this one anywhere in RL:

The traffic signs should be taken seriously as there do exist badgers:

Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:49 am

There is a two way street in London where the rule is that you drive on the right. Admittedly, it is only a short one and is a dead end, but do you know which one and why?

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