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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Wonders of the Chinese Landscape


"QUANTUM SHOT" #125


China never looked so good (since the advent of digital photography)

Amateur travel photography in China reaches new heights, as this site clearly shows. The splendor of the land complemented by growing skills and technology makes for a fascinating viewing. Here are a few samples:

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China's Best Photography Series

Photographer Feng Jiang holds a Ph.D from the University of York. Even though this series has been around for a while, these are the absolute best pictures of China I've seen so far. You can reach Mr. Jiang for prints at jf19780910@yahoo.com


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Visiting Chinese caves has a poetry of its own

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Images source: ikoku.cool.ne.jp

See also our previous post "China in the Mist"

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12 Comments:

Anonymous koshka said...

wow- the mountains are so surreal. Beautiful post.

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Anonymous Chris Roberson said...

Unreal Landscapes... any one of them seems more at home in some imagined sf/f world than the other side of the planet from where I'm sitting.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

The post very much on time for me so I am glad I checked the net. I just finished watching The Last Emperor. Photography in the movie is ok but very limited - to the Forbidden City, the prison and some other grey stuff. Very nice pictures and show a different face of China.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wonderful images. I'd be inclined to visit your site again or on a more regular basis if you would please cite your sources. Some, you have. Great! Clicking on a link that takes me to a static flickr page does not allow me to investigate. Informational-wise, it's like clicking on a thumbnail of a picture and not getting a larger picture. Frustrating experience. Finding more citation information, like a good newspaper, would make for a more rewarding experience and something that I turn to places like reddit and flickr for.

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

thank you for this comment. Most of the sources are listed in the body of the post, or at the end of it. I also duplicate the source info on the flickr pages. Some photos lead to the larger versions, if such are available. I would like to find out more about the locations photographed here; if you have such info, please send it in.

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Anonymous Eric Rolph said...

first photo:
A place for the eye and mind. Stunning. Please track down the exact location. It's a must visit. Thanks for finding.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder how much of the area shown in the pics, especially the river scenes with the old volcanic cones, will be under water after the DAM is complete.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

To say thats China is a bit too generalized. All of the photos are just from one area!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilin

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Blogger nancybui said...

I really liked the picture you found. It looks so relaxing. I couldn’t figure out what it was in the water but when I looked closer I made it out to be a person floating in the water looking up at the sky. I wish I could trade places with that person. Instead I’m stuck here with all this snow. I loved your descriptions about the picture too.

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Anonymous AJK said...

Great photos to say the least. They give a very false reality of where the majority of the population lies today. Over 40% of its 1.3+ billion people live in urban settings. Those in rural locales are facing soil erosion, desertification, and lack of potable water in significant numbers.

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Blogger Simmons said...

Wow. Those are amazing.

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Anonymous sky said...

I want go to travel china and see this place with my eyes it's wonderful land

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  • These score are wonderfully strange. I've linked to this blog from mine, which is called http://smpl.se
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  • Thank you! I've been looking for these weird musical notations for a long time - thank you! I've linked to your site. Great site, it is, too. jmd

    www.winewomansong.com
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  • Does anyone know where that sheet music nonsense comes from? I'd love to get hold of a full version.
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  • yeah that is some crazy music.. i want a full version as well
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  • For the full versions (and more) -
    see this post
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  • Nuns with guns? You have to protect your old, atrophied virginity somehow I guess.
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  • this reminds me of that movie Knock Off with Jean Claude
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  • Great post!
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  • I have been up close to some of those container ships having picked up many times at various docks in N.O., Houston area and in the NJ ports.
    They make you feel really small when you have to really look up to see the top of one even from 50-100 yards away let alone standing or driving next to one.
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  • hey this site has been digged cute !
    cool collection buddy ! thanks to that flickr guy busyman

    a cool collection for you !
    hhtp://thundafunda.com
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  • Here is another for your collection. This is the University of Arkansas Razorbacks "Razorbug".
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  • Thank you, Johnathan!
    Pic is posted
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  • There's a black & white one done up to look like a killer whale with a big dorsal fin and a huge tail in Anchorage, Alaska.
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  • Let's try that again. What collection of VW mods would complete without the flying saucer.
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  • http://flickr.com/photos/jahfish/190281287/

    shortest one i've ever seen!!!!
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  • Amazing photos, and note the one from 1945 with the Nazi banners and everyone giving the Hitler salute. Yup, the VW came right out of Nazi Germany and onto our roads. Few Americans bought them in the 1940's, but by the time I came of age in the 1960's, everyone had one and they were a blast to drive. Ironic that the preferred mode of transportation for the peace and love generation came from wartime Germany, but our response to this conundrum was to turn the AM radio up louder and light up another joint. Peace, brother.
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  • Here's another one - the Fremont Troll
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  • thanks for the amazing photos
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  • I really love the 20's/30's design Beetles in the pics.
    The Beetle was my first car and I have to say there is no car quite like it. It took me over a year to discover that those strange 'handles' next to my hand-break were actually vents that opened at the back to allow warm air from the engine to come in. No wonder I used to freeze so badly in Winter! You can imagine how upset I was when I discovered that there was actually a solution to the problem of freezing (and I didn't need the blanket...)
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  • I, for one, welcome our tiny reptilian overlords.
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  • THESE are amazing, or at least wonderful pictures :) good job findin' em!
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  • I love the little toughguy baby meerkat on that page.
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  • I wouldn't have thought that a baby turtle could be cute, but you've changed my mind.
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  • Awesome animals photos!

    Best Regards from Portugal
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  • Such a great site, i love your content! I check this every day at work. Can you link to mine? techandtonic.com?

    The flight attendant pics are great, so is that cyberpunk stuff!
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  • hey thanks! i linked to you in blogroll

    all the best,
    Avi
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  • You made my month.

    therealdonquixote hearts actual attractive stewardesses, not "airline attendants".
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  • The first picture is from a Lavazza ad from 2006.
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  • Thats where i saw it also - The first picture is from a Lavazza ad from 2006.
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  • wow... those dames have some great gams.

    loving the go-go boots, but what on earth is up with the girl dressed like a bullfighter??
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  • Too damn funny. Those are great pics.

    This remind me of the book written by, and about a Stewardess in the 60's ... "Coffee, Tea or Me."

    It was, I guess, considered racy at the time but it reads like porn if it were sanitized by Disney.
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  • *chuckle* I'm old enough to remember the Braniff "bubbles"... ahh, the days when women were girls! Women have gained far, far more and we're all better for it - but there was also a unique spirit of fun in those days that we've lost . . . society gains, society looses . . .
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  • I guess the MEN enjoyed those days. It was like being "Miss America" to be an airplane stewardess then. I happened to know a girl who was one.
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  • Just go to Latin America. In the Bogota airport I saw some wonderful costumed stewardesses.
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  • um, have you flown recently on an Asian airline.

    The staff look exactly like this, and they treat you like royalty.

    What happened to flight in America?

    Unions.
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  • The jet engines were better-engineered then, and could suck in up to three stewardesses without wiping blades.
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  • paul a'barge said...
    What happened to flight in America?

    Unions.


    Curse those unions for making it so that women over 35, those not blessed with model looks, and even some men can work as flight attendants!

    What happened to the good old days when stewardesses had to wear short skirts and smile while they were groped and otherwise sexually harassed by businessmen the age of their fathers who reeked of cigarette smoke?
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  • What! no fat bald gay men or 200+ lb women? Those girls were hot forty years ago...

    Too bad the same ones are still working today!
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  • I love the Asian airlines. The woman aren't ashamed to be women.
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  • The change in flight in American has nothing to do with unions and everything to do with the 1976 deregulation of the industry. And it's obvious from the average ticket prices since then, quality problems aside, that deregulation was (as it nearly always is) the right thing to do.
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  • "Groovy" doesn't even begin to cover it.
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  • there’s no uniform sexier than the one-piece mini-dress and off-kilter cap, especially when set off by go-go boots.
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  • How to Save the Airline Industry:
    I, for one, would fly a lot more if stewardesses still wore go-go boots
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  • I *LOVE* these stewardesses!! Awesome! :)
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  • Ah the good old days. When even college educated women were willing to be treated like servants and sex objects.
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  • I lived in southeast asia in the '60s. For in-flight entertainment the flight attendants on Thai Airways used to give a style show. Sometimes they wore bikinis.
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  • Yet another reason why I was obviously born in the wrong decade.
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  • friendly skies
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  • Oh, what memories! I was a flight attendant for Western Airlines back in the day. Our uniforms weren't designed by Pucci, oh, but the job was wonderful! It's not like that anymore.
    Janet T
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  • You should take a look around Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. The rest of the world still realizes that, like models, stewardesses have a definite expiration date and don't let them hang around until their fifties like the bitchy old broads you see on Northwest.
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  • Too bad they're all OLD now.

    http://s1.gladiatus.us/game/c.php?uid=31043
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  • Some of those chicks are serious hunnies, why are stewardesses wearing frocks and semi-gowns these days? Men are still men - BRING BACK THE STEWARDESS MINI'S! =D
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  • Whats with the matador uniform in the fifth picture, Air Spain?
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  • now I understand why they are called the good old days...
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  • "What happened to the good old days when stewardesses had to wear short skirts and smile "

    Yeah it's so much better nowadays now that we have fat ugly chicks with attitude as stewardesses. Thank god we don't have to deal with those thin cuties who smile anymore!
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  • Simply AWEFUL garbage photography... women fly planes, not dress up like Austin Powers fembots and serve duty free drinks on them. If you're not flying combat, you're not flying.
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  • Wow, by looking at these pictures, it appears that their goal was to sell you the flight attendant as the primary goal, and the flight itself as 2nd priority.

    It makes me wonder, as PC as we think we are today, how 40 years from now they will look at us.
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  • Believe it or not there was a glamour time in commercial aviation. Alas, today, it is all gone, reduced to the bottom line of corporate balance sheets, AND, the desire of the traveling public to get there cheap (but, they still want all the amenities of the old days).
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  • just wondering... if i wanted to do an old school flight attendant halloween costume, how do i make it obvious that i'm a flight attendant and not just, like, someone from the 60s or 70s?

    and i LOVE these photos.
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  • I love the special colors of these old photos.
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  • Congrats! I've nominated you for a Lemonade award, because I think you have a great pinup blog. :)

    Check it out at http://www.thepinupblog.com/files/036ed21e8968766be1e7b23471d540f2-180.html

    Tali
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  • Thank you for posting these. Those were the good old days.. I began working for the airlines in the 70's but not as a flight attendant. I worked in sales. I started flying with my family in the 60's and even through the 70's before deregulation... it was wonderful to fly. Now I hate it though I fly around the world for my work. I wish it were like it was.
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  • Thank you Tali - much appreciated.
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  • Absolutely amazing! I love bridge constrution. Thanks so much for these pics!
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  • Wow. The world's most pointless bridge. Somebody obviously never heard a ramp.
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  • One word, freaking awesome! Alright, so that was two words. :P
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  • i've gone over this bridge twice on my motorbike, on holiday this year. it's an amazing sight from afar and the views down either side are pretty scary. it was one of the highlights of our euro tour. :-D
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  • I have been to Paris twice,1st time 2-1991 during the Gulf War and the 2nd 9 weeks after 9-11(to bad Sadam or Ben Laden could not be at Euro Disney on ThanksGiving Day). The people in Paris were great and I cant wait to see/travel on the Bridge (where's the confounded bridge?: Led Zepplin.
    What a beautiful design and most functional + the fact of Britain & France making transportation solutions.
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  • Oh my.I never thought that bridges can be built above clouds.Great engineering & nice info too.
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  • What amazing photos ! I think it is quite scary to drive in that bridge, but for sure a wonderful construction work.
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  • really nice to see all these wonders///// hope some boby beat this record//// i think one more earth will arise
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  • What amazing bridge ! Is it dangerous to drive there?
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  • I've passed that bridge a few times, and it is an amazing sight. The sad part of the story concerns the town of Millau though. Before the bridge was built, you had to leave the highway and cross Millau. it was a very popular rest-stop for families, with great restaurants and nice afternoon activities. I went through the town last November, and it is now almost a ghost town. The business activity ahas dropped drasticaly, and the inhabitants have moved away. it was such a nice town, too...
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  • 4th and 6th are the best ones.

    Btw great blog

    Bi hello from Serbia
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  • Some amazing photography with beautiful faces!
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  • Superb photographs! Thank you. :)
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  • Great collection of work!
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  • rus you simple man, 1st, 2nd, 9th and 11th are easily the best, but i bet that every one featured beats any work you produced, they definantly beat all my work.
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  • That is one crazy plant!

    Happy Mardi Gras!

    Check out Renegade's BS
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  • This strange plant does not exist only in Namibia. It can be found in Angola too.

    As a matter of fact, it was in Angola that this plant was studied for the first time, by the Austrian botanist Friedrich Welwitsch, who lived in the 19th century and worked for the Portuguese government. His work was so important that the plant was named after him.
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  • its those things from fallout.!
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  • It looks like a twat...
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  • I'm not going to make the obvious observation.
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  • Classic opening line... "Other planets may have aliens, but we have this..." It could be the tag line to a movie...
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  • The sign with the heart means "no pacemaker"
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  • "Caution: Volcano Debris"?
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  • hilarious!!
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  • the other is - "low clearance ahead 30 meters".
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  • The "traffic circle" is what everyone else in the world calls a "roundabout", and it's a common traffic junction pretty much everywhere (except, aparently, the USA). They're only put in places where three or more roads meet, and are a much more efficient junction than T junctions or crossroads, etc.

    In this case, it's blindingly obvious that there was an additional road on the left that's since been landscaped away - look at the dent in the grass. It's not worth digging up the entire roundabout, so they left it there with only two exits.

    Could you really not work this out?
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  • "Meters" is _not_ abbreviated "t". That sign actually means "no vehicles carrying explosives over 30 tons", the 30 tons referring to the entire vehicle of course, not the explosives.
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  • The firt weird sign could be translated as "Do not get close of this if you are wearing a peacemaker" it could be some kind of machinery emitting Micro-waves.

    As the second anonymous said these kind of traffic junctions are also usual in Spanish roads and streets.
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  • These were funny!
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  • Wow, when I first read it was signs I figured I'd already seen them before. But there were quite a few in there that I hadn't. Thats probably the best laugh I've had all day... other than at one of my coworkers drinking stories... but thats a whole different story.
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  • I'm not the Only Bathroom Researcher
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  • very nice. im impressed
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  • The one with a heart, a lead, and a red circle with a line through it is, I believe, a "if you have a pacememaker, don't enter this area" type sign.
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  • Yes, "anonymous", we do have traffic circles, roundabouts, rotaries, here in the US, mostly
    in the East.
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  • "No pacemakers?" I could have sworn it was "no tugging at heartstrings."
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  • Lol... "Do not get close of this if you are wearing a peacemaker"

    ^- I guess there'd be a gun on the sign then...

    No, really, it's a warning for ppl with artificial cardiac pacemakers because there could be interferences (electromagnetic fields) in the area that might hinder the pacemaker from working correctly.
    Usually this problem has to do with large magnets, but it even a hairdryer can be problematic...

    thx for your patients... erm... patience

    Day
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  • There is nothing more relaxing then a fighterpilot on amfetamines!
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJL4TXPTAfc
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  • the second mystery sign could be "No Suicide Car Bombers on 30th of the Month"
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  • "Be Prepared for the Unexpected" was taken on the way to Cape Scott Provincial Park (northern most tip of Vancouver Island, BC, Canada). I should know, I've got the original. :P
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  • New Cuyama welcome sign, WTF is that all about? Checked Wiki and it has the same picture with the caption 'humorous sign'..
    Have I missed something?
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  • The "no pacemaker" sign is not only common in Asia, but also in Europe (well, at least in Germany). At my college it's often seen together with signs like "High Magnetic Fields" and "no credit cards, keys or other stuff like that". Can't find links to show you the pictures, though.
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  • I'd say that the one with the little clay face and handwritten sign was by David Shrigley, given the strangeness and the handwriting.
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  • Thank you Azdaja, it does seem to be his work - I updated the credit info. At least handwriting fits...
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  • omg wow the poor quality high prices sign is from my home town guelph, ontario the other side of the store it has other things in the window making ridiculous claims about how good the store is but on that side its saying that the store is terrible
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