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signs (general)

crown

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no monkeys

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belgian workmen wear caps

compare this to the Swedish one and you’ll see these two chaps have been shovelling the same pile back and forth !
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belgium is the land of the one long legged people

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Ghent station dog sign (and other exciting things)

this is quite a mad sign. it contains beheaded dogs, ladder climbing dogs and random pushchair obstacle courses.

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no sitting

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they don’t always

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hand written street sign

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falling through a roof can be dangerous


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detailed construction

look at the detail on this sign (which i may have photo’d before, but always worth a repeat). you can almost hear him straining with the weight of that shovel.
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symmetry

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caution: boys crossing

girls are no worry. but watch out for the boys.
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vacancies

here’s some hand written signs from a non-chain hotel. they’ve got a room vacancy and job vacancy for a cleaner. perhaps it’s a very messy room.
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duplicity

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in times of trouble

in times of trouble, don’t turn to alcholo (especialy largger) [splling dlberate]
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festival signs

no crowd surfing signs were visible again this year, but this time with explanatory wording:
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normally it’s don’t drink and drive, but at festivals it’s don’t smoke and drive:
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honesty

no body likes dishonest thieves.
thiefery in england is still legal of course, but the long arm of the law and the slightly stumpy arm of the underground have reached a compromise. thieves can still do their thiefery, but they have to put a sign up outside whilst they are working so the police have a sporting chance of catching them.
here is one such sign:
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equality in stockholm

there seems to have been some rather clever editing done on a number of Stockholm’s street crossing signs. here is one such example:
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biological hazard

the trains on my toilets (reverse that) are absolutely horrible. so it came as no surprise to see this tape stuck over the door. biological hazard – danger of infection.
i suspect this isn’t an official sign …
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bottoms up

nice arrow work here.
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