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Hey, I used to have a Born to be Chicken in my old neighbourhood. Not bad food.
Here's another cute restaurant sign for you. Not photographed well because I was standing outside an imposing massage parlour with security cameras.
http://www.daehanmindecline.com/digital/20080419hoehyunhighrise/49.JPG
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The mysterious road markings in Poland are normal vahicle "No Stopping" warnings, obviously to keep drivers from blocking the bus stop.
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There is a restaurant in Taichung, Taiwan, called the Marijuana restaurant. The sign features a brightly-colored cannabis leaf and the word "marijuana". I'll look around and see if I can find a picture somewhere.
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One sign did in fact make a great deal of sense.
It was offering women who might be tempted to throw their newborns in dumpsters, to turn them over to an social agency.
Perhaps, there were cases of this being done before at that location.
It is bizarre how many teens dont think to do this. There have been a number of high profile cases
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Look carefully in the distance of the zig zag line and you will see a pedestrian crossing, this is the same pedestriam crossing warning sign as they have in Australia too.
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The T.Hanks image on the bin is in Quick, a Belgian Fast Food restaurant chain.
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http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2671/p17cl4.png - this is sign from Poland and like Rallymodeller said it forbids ordinary drivers to stop near bus stops.
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Those lines on road are common in Croatia too. That means it is the place where bus stops and you cannot stop or park car there. That spot always has to be clear so the bus can "dock"
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in the Netherlands those zigzag lines indicate the driver to slow down (to a stop). they aint a rule but more a subliminal help.
u mostly find them approaching crossings here, not at busstops.
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those zig zag lines are also used in Switzerland (they tell you not to stop there) in Croatia, in Slovenjia and we have them here in London, too, on the bus lanes. Maybe they look odd in America, but here in Europe are really popular!
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Cabbages and Condoms is a famous restaurant in Thailand run by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) of Thailand to promote condom use. My parents went there on vacation.
http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/pda/ccrest.htm
The "don't throw your baby in a dumpster give it to a fireman or a nurse" Probably has to do with "safe haven" laws that allow "a parent to legally surrender newborn infants 7 days old or younger at a hospital, police station, or manned fire station without facing criminal prosecution."
http://www.babysafehaven.com/
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This one cracked me up while in Kusadasi, Turkey.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85719180@N00/2435875014/
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The sign about rebirth is from Ranathambore, Rajasthan, India.
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Great pics
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Saw most of these before, but still great pics.
http://www.bestsnippets.com
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Wow, I've driven past Cramp's Liquors. It's near Burlingon, NJ. I always thought it was a funny name. Now it's e-famous!
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"Could be the famous Banksy's work:"
I think this picture is pretty powerful...Gaspump handle with tank treads shooting blood....
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There are some crazy signs in China - the infamous
'Baby' one is pretty good...I love the 'worldwide delivery' one, too... :-) Cool site by the way!
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more then half of these pictures are photoshoped......
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Checked your other posts and I am subscribe now! great blog!
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On the door of the server room of our school is (and for as long as I can remember, has been) a sign that says:
"Bitte atention! This room is fullfilled mit specialelectronische equippment. Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for die experts only! So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von here working intelligencies. Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights."
All the previous admins have been students of our school like me, and we have excellent German and English programs, so I can only count this as a creative attempt at mixing the languages... thought I'd post ot anyway.
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Actually The T.Hanks Is From Vinnie's Pizza In Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY (N.9th And Bedford)
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The 9th sign from the bottom with a lots of japanese characters (and with the "This sign is to prevent foreign tourists from getting lost"), has something written in italian which reads:
"Stà sul senter ostia",
and can be translated (probably from a venetian dialect) into:
"Stay on the signed path, goddamit!"
;)
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The 9th signage with the turns:
FIRST SIGN:
Left turn allowed from left lane. Parking structure can be accessed from left lane.
Right and through movements allowed from right lane.
SECOND SIGN:
Left and U-turn allowed from left lane. Trucks cannot make the U-turn.
Right and through movements allowed from right lane.
THIRD SIGN:
For those who did not see the first sign, a parking structure is to the left.
The 12th Picture with the clover leaf:
Simply means that you can't make a straight right due to construction. Follow the diagram.
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On sign 14 (lots of speed limits), this is at a border crossing.
This means the following:
TOP LINE:
On separated freeways/highways, speed
limits as follows:
Cars 110 km/h
Motorcycles, Buses: 90
Trucks, autos with trailers: 70
SECOND LINE:
On secondary roads (can't see the exact designation)
Cars/Motorcycles: 90, Buses/trucks/trailers: 70
THIRD LINE:
On local roads, speed limit 60 km/h
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The sign with "This sign is to prevent foreign tourists from getting lost" is from the blue mountains near Sydney, Australia
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Great info, thank you!
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Update: somewhat alien to Americans, this kind is often seen in Europe to mark "no parking" space.
Those are NOT "no parking spaces". The lines are drawn in a way that they get closer to eachother at the end, when you drive over them a constant speed, it looks like you are speeding up (kind of an optical illusion). It's used near pedastrian crossings or busstops to improve safety.
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it's not poland, it's germany!
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In Austria these zigzag markings are used specifically to mark driveways, basically saying: "Don't even think of parking here, it#s my friggin' drive!". I guess it is indeed related to the bus stop in the picture (the blue/white/black sign is the typical Eastern European pictogram for bus stop).
The red circle with the blue sections is indeed a "no parking/stopping anytime" sign, but it#s missing one blue slice :-D
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Amazing funny picture!)
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RUSSIAN ARMY MEETS NEMESIS!!
That video made my day!
Thanks to whoever found the clip, and thanks to Avi and the DRB crew for keeping up such a great site. People always ask where I find such gems, and the answer is always DRB! You save me hours of web scouring to find great content! My wife and I actually spent our fifth anniversary in Bolivia based of a couple of posts here at DRB. Keep up the great work!
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Thank you Travis - more wonderful things to come!
How did you like Bolivia? Send us some pics by email if you want.
Cheers
Avi
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This is got to be the most unforgettable post out of all that you have done.
WOW
You deserve this Digg Homepage in fact, hope it becomes your biggest ever
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You wrote "the emerald cockroach wasp has... papal young" :)
Is this a typo, or do you regard the Pope as a giant parasite? :D
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Okay, so it’s not fun to be a snail, or a crab, or a cricket. But what about poor homo sapiens? Please don’t tell me you think we don’t have our own, completely unwelcome passengers. I’ve already mentioned botflies, pinworms and tapeworms. But they are just freeloaders. They aren’t driving the bus that is us like these other manipulative parasites do.
I commend your refraining from making the obvious lawyer jokes.
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Robert - thanks for the laugh!
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Pretty sure that gondii parasite is responsible for "cat ladies". Sure it makes you clumsy, neurotic, and insecure, but it also makes you unable to smell cat urine and makes you LOVE the idea of having a bunch of cats around...Making it more likely for you to die in the presence of a bunch of hosts that would nibble on you.
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Roaches don't have brains. Bad science at play here.
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Ads in the air, using artificial clouds? Just no. Don't. Bury it in some cellar archive and never think about this again, dear companies. Plus, helium? Helium is way more serious as a contributor to the greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide. So: double don't!
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Wished we had known you were doing this piece.
We have some photos of an ad campaign that features women's silhouettes as clouds
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You can send them our way, we'll update with your credit. Thanks!
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I'd be interested to know where Alex is getting his information. Helium is a noble gas and as such, rarely reacts with anything. It also does not accumulate in the atmosphere (despite large scale manufacture) like carbon dioxide. The only danger of helium is an extended period of breathing pure helium can quickly result in death due to oxygen starvation.
As for a the clouds, it's a great example of lateral thinking and hopefully will make its creator quite wealthy.
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Helium foam as (basically) a temporary lighter-than-air aircraft is a really interesting idea! Depending on how easy it is to transport the equipment for making it, how easy it is to create a viable shape, lifting power per volume, etc. this idea might have many more uses than just advertising stunts.
I also have to wonder how a client would feel if they shelled out for, say, a giant Swoosh logo over London, but then found that it had blown out down the Thames estuary before anyone saw it...
And I agree with Mr Smith on the improbability of helium being a greenhouse gas. I certainly can't find anything to support the claim, anyway.
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The railroad tracks are such narrow gauge that I suspect it's from a mine of some kind. Further, the overgrowth on the tracks leads me to believe it's been abandoned for quite a while.
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The railroad track is a short-narrow gauge that used to be popular in pre-independent India. The school-dress (white+blue) is very common in schools around rural areas. I'd say an educated guess would put this somewhere in the North-Eastern area of India. Perhaps Shillong, or near Darjeeling.
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I'm willing to bet those "twilight clouds" are the result of aerosol spraying. Google images "chemtrails".
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first!!!
by the way, this is the best post i saw yet. excellent calculators, i'm really fascinated by the amount of work and love.
great job, this is really the most original thing i saw in quite a long time.
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nenad- you've finally accomplished something in life.
Congratulations, your mother will be proud.
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I may be jumping to conclusions but the name Andy Aaron and the place where he was brought up, New York, are leading me to one thought. Is this the Andy Aaron who used to contribute to Spy magazine?
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Aaaarghh! Not another steampunk post!
Nothing against steampunks and other geeks but how about the rest of the universe..?
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We'll get there... no worries.
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Fantastic!
I hate modern design... to be honest I have everything modern.
I'm a Neo-Traditionalist with a 1930s themed lifestyle.
These designers, like me, are fed up with technology always looking the same while things used to look so much nicer in the past.
Keep it up gentlemen, more more more old fasioned design for modern things please!
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To hate modern design and yet have everything modern... that must be exhausting.
Sweet post. I rather like the relatively high, yet not overbearing, steampunk content here.
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But I have have very little modern around me.
In my house this computer is the only post ww2 thing I have.
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These are pretty killer. I actually got obsessed with steampunk a while ago, eventually wrote about
some of the big-timers in that niche. That Datamancer guy is out of this world.
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This is so greate!!!!
I want this Notebook...
Wonderfull stuff.
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In answer to the post from m0le: yes, I used to contribute to Spy Magazine.
-Andy
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Brilliant!
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ort of stuff, those calculators are awesome. Would love to get one or have the creativity to build one.
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i really want one of those calculators or want to make one they are totally awsome. maybe after making a case mod i will work on somthing like that, but a scientific one.
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Regarding that giant hog:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276216,00.html
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More information of the pigs:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/hogzilla.asp
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I want to hop in a time machine and have a musical argument with Nanette Fabray - She's hot when she's ticked off.
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http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1438490562
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I was enjoying the post until I got to the dead animals.
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The picture showing Pi in a spiral might be taken in a mathematics museum in Giessen, Germany, called Mathematikum.
Yes, a complete museum dedicated to mathematics. Definitely worth a visit (make sure to have enough time for the visit :-)
www.mathematikum.de
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Thank you Pythagoras, great info
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Talking about politicians - have you seen photos of Mrs. Angela Merkel neckline? Here are links: http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/9230/45643090bi6.jpg and http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/223/35041845nz8.jpg
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Kinda hurting for a post today? (Lots of recycled content this time around...)
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OMG Mrs. Angela Merkel shes totaly hot!!!!!!! booooyaaahh!!!
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she's quite far away from being hot, i daresay..
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That picture of George Bush as a Storm trooper "Starts Wars" is a classic Banksy piece of street graffiti.
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that is not a banksy will...
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The Fidel's very rare custom wagon GAZ-14 limo looks like a funeral car a lot, IMHO :)
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I like Castro´s men in black look
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Who is the nice girl that plays the bunny at the parliament?
This one ---> http://lh6.ggpht.com/abramsv/SAVYaw2ponI/AAAAAAAAOe0/JwLoc9UKmys/s1600-h/00cw03e6.jpg
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hey i see u got a lot of russian things here
im glad that u only one who try to take the positive side
keep it up
cheers!!!!
:)
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Some very funny stuff! (though I'm sure at least a few of them are photoshoped).
My favorites would have to be the UN one and Castro with the shades ;)
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Prohibition was a misguided move? I like alcohol as most of us do, but you need to know your history.
Prohibition was lead by women- because men had control of EVERYTHING in their lives. The men could go to the bars, drain all of the familial resources, then come home and beat their wives. THAT was the main reason behind prohibition. Paired with the "morality movement", there were a lot of "good" reasons behind the movement.
Because women finally have most of their rights, prohibition is not so much an issue.
Do your research.
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Oh my god!! MERKEL HAS BREASTS!!! Nevermind she is a wicked awesome powerful woman politician, let's just focus on her neckline!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is so much more important!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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