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I guess the pub had a space on the sign and thought they ought keep on adding words until it was full. No mention though of their unique feature though, which is the miniature railway running through the beer garden.
martin | 13.06.21 - 7:28 a.m. | #
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The Pines and Needles sign appeared earlier this year. Possibly in March or April, was definitely there in May.
Victoria | 13.06.21 - 8:12 a.m. | #
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The one that bugs me the most out of these is the footbridge sign. That’s the one that would fail the “common sense” test.
David | 13.06.21 - 8:33 a.m. | #
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The small humped bridge at "Republic" was originally built with a very shiny brick surface and was like walking on ice even with just the slightest shower of rain, following numerous minor accidents the warning signs were put in place the bridge was resurfaced with a much more sensible surface that gave pedestrians much better grip when walking across it.
fishislandskin | 13.06.21 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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...but nobody thought to take the warning signs down... brilliant.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 13.06.21 - 8:54 a.m. | #
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One of my least liked road signs is the one for a slippery surface: a red triangle picturing a car at a skew angle and a pair of skid lines.
If there's a known defect with a road, do something to fix it: sticking a sign up is just a cop out and an admission of failure.
RogerW | 13.06.21 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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Also "Road markings faded/missing. Paint them in then!
scrumpy | 13.06.21 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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Or the sign that reads: "This gate to be kept closed at all times". Well, it's not a gate, then, is it?? Grrrr.
Jambo | 13.06.21 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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And Oyster card readers on buses that have a Covid-safe plastic covering to stop people tapping on a presumably non Covid-safe plastic Oyster reader underneath!
Cornish Cockney | 13.06.21 - 11:08 a.m. | #
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It's health and safety gone mad!
Boris | 13.06.21 - 11:25 a.m. | #
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Jambo - you're just being pedantic. I would never have done that.
martxw | 13.06.21 - 11:31 a.m. | #
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Czech lager is deemed by some to be superior to the mass produced stuff like Fosters/Carlsberg/Carling etc. So it may be worth shouting about. Even though it is also mass produced.
Hand Pumped Cellar Cooled Cask Ales is also useful information. It distinguishes the pub from those that only serve electric pumped and metered, over-cooled fizzy keg ale such as John Smith's Smoothflow (which may not even merit being described as ale).
NPIan | 13.06.21 - 11:42 a.m. | #
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After such a masterly opening paragraph as that, DG, anything further is gilding the lily...
cau1khead | 13.06.21 - 12:32 p.m. | #
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The "hand pump" one is another example of the now commonplace practice of turning something ordinary, inherent (ish in this case) into an advertising selling point. "Selling" the description. In this case hand pumped beer would have sufficed to distinguish from delivery via co2 pressure.
Milest | 13.06.21 - 12:34 p.m. | #
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Plenty of pubs don't serve proper ale these days, and a flat roof was traditionally a sign of the kind of pub that wouldn't. So it does seem worth advertising.
Lmm | 13.06.21 - 1:05 p.m. | #
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These comments remind me of two of my own main irritants: describing things as 'pan fried', and the idea of 'hand cooked crisps' - where are all these crisp cookers with their withered, well-done limbs?!
Mike Newman | Homepage | 13.06.21 - 1:49 p.m. | #
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As a self confessed beer snob, knowing they sell cellar cooled hand-pumped ales is useful for me. Better to know that I might get a decent half of real ale outside the pub, than awkwardly go to the bar look to see that they only sell fizzy crap and walk out without buying anything.
R2 | 13.06.21 - 2:07 p.m. | #
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Oh this is great!
There's so much material; should be a regular feature ... in fact it could be a whole blog on itself ... even a book.
P S BAKER | Homepage | 13.06.21 - 2:31 p.m. | #
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The Czechs have an arguable claim to have invented lager in Plzen - hence the German name Pils or Pilsener. So if they serve genuine carefully-brewed lager imported from the Czech Republic then maybe the wording is justified. As for the cellar cooled etc, when I first moved to England in 1971 hand pumps were dying out in urban pubs and certainly not something to brag about.
Peter | 13.06.21 - 2:48 p.m. | #
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I'm not sure how "increased customer satisfaction" is meant to keep you safe, either. Unless by decreasing the risk of being punched in the gob by a disgruntled fellow-passenger.
cau1khead | 13.06.21 - 3:26 p.m. | #
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At the Riverside Studios development by Hammersmith (used to be a) Bridge there are two yellow triangle warning signs fixed to the river wall which shout "CAUTION Risk of drowning."
Thank goodness. I'd never have known.
JP | 13.06.21 - 4:18 p.m. | #
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Don't blame Health and Safety for apparently excessive risk-aversion, blame our compensation happy culture. Where there's blame, there's a claim indeed.
Arlu | 13.06.21 - 5:27 p.m. | #
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I too must say that the Czech Lager is very understandable, this is seen as a premiar product. The Hand pumped cellar cooled cask ales, is also very important to a certain percentage of the drinking population.
Michael | 13.06.21 - 7:08 p.m. | #
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At work there is a steep flight of steps, outdoors. They're old and a bit bockety. The powers-that-be added a central handrail. Then they added a sign to remind you to use the handrail, which was welded on to it, at the top. So that as you come up the steps, head-down, using the handrail - you bash your head on the sign when you get to the top.
mark addy | 13.06.21 - 11:28 p.m. | #
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Thank you Mark for writing bockety, a word I'd only previously heard spoken.. that I thought my mother had made up!
Frank F | 13.06.21 - 11:40 p.m. | #
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Victoria Park Lake in Hackney has warning signs that the water may be wet.
Klepsie | 14.06.21 - 10:37 a.m. | #
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