PLEASE tell me this sign is in Piningsfjord.
Artists install Monty Python silly walk signs in Norwegian town
A Norwegian town has reminded denizens that a normal gait is preferable to a strange one after Swedish revolutionaries installed a pair of silly walk signs. An art group put two street signs inspired by Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks on either side of a zebra crossing. "It's just for fun. There's no deep thought …
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Monday 31st March 2014 10:15 GMT Teiwaz
Re: Beware what you wish for!
Well, what do your expect when the world is populated by apes with digital phone cameras
Monkey See, Monkey Do.
The see no evil hear no evil speak no evil thing is a myth.
See 'evil' everywhere, be offended by everyhting you hear, yell to the rafters until the poo flinging mp-monkeys introduce another ill-thought out law cleverly designed to have its powers expanded at some (close) future date to make sure all the lesser monkeys stay in their cages where they belong.
Imagine a foot stamping poo into your face Forever....
apologies to George Orwell.
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Monday 31st March 2014 11:04 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Re: Beware what you wish for! - @Teiwaz
Telling kids to get off your lawn is one thing, parking tanks there is another. And I thought I was a grumpy old git.
Mary Whitehouse founded the "National viewers and listeners association" without a mobile phone to her name. Mrs. Grundy has been around for a long, long time; but nowadays we have internet forums to pull her pants down and laugh at the result.
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Monday 31st March 2014 18:26 GMT Teiwaz
Re: Beware what you wish for! - @Teiwaz
Tee hee. Don't think I've room for one tank, let alone the plural thereof, maybe a machinegun emplacement, with a few missile launchers in the backgarden....
NVLA - ??? Sounds like it should be an illegal organisation. Not that there's really anything worth watching on telly these days.
In this case, a group of artists tries to make the world a better place by putting up a piece of art that might make passers by smile, only to get slapped down by some buearocrat with a 'just following the rules' mentality.
As a species we're at our best in small groups, not on our own because we need to be with other humans in order to be reminded we're human, and not in large groups because we turn into this hive, with workers and soldiers or castes, or social classes or has money and has not, that pushes conformity and punishes anything that strays outside the norm (one way or another).
Mary Whitehouse I've heard of, but who's Mrs Grundy (sounds like one of those Python Pepperpots)
Ah, time to chill out and lisiten to Mrs Particle and Mrs Velocity, or Mrs Premise and Mrs Conclusion visit Jon Paul Satre,
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Tuesday 1st April 2014 08:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Beware what you wish for! - @Teiwaz
I can tell you why they wanted to get rid of the sign.
If they let this stand, how long until another 'joke' sign appeared?
That would also have to be tolerated because they can't treat one case differently from another...
How many such incidents until what little respect people have for signs is completely lost forever?
What if a supermarket chain decided to make a spoof of a 'Road closed/Detour' sign as part of an ad campaign for a new location?
(I've seen a few of the signs the Department has confiscated over the years, and while a Detour sign hasn't been found yet... it's probably just a question of time)
Back when LIDL opened in Norway, they put up homemade signs in roundabouts, pointing to their new stores. (Yes, the signs were in the middle of the roundabout)
Most people never saw the signs as the signs were removed by the Department soon after.
The signs didn't look like official signs, but they were considered a distraction, and also, they didn't ask permission first.
If it wasn't for the dilligence of the Public Roads Department, the roadside would very quickly fill up with garbage and distractions taking the driver's focus away from the road.
Also, the paper pushers in that department aren't all humorless creatures of the night, or big, angry trolls...
(Actually, as we have real roadsigns depicting trolls and ghosts... you have to wonder)
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Monday 31st March 2014 09:10 GMT JanMeijer
The local politicians gave permission & were all for it. It's the national road authority, division "Østfold", based in Oslo, that displayed a lacking sense of humor and perspective. Norway has a wide and diverse geography, maybe humor is equally diversified over the country? ;)
Pictures of happy test subjects:
http://www.smaalenene.no/nyheter/article7252484.ece
Google translate is your friend
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Tuesday 1st April 2014 09:43 GMT Trygve Henriksen
But the local politicians doesn't HAVE the power to decide what is or isn't acceptable roadsigns.
Which they knew, of course. They gave the OK to gain popularity because they knew that 'someone else' would say no later.
And yeah, we're really, really boring people.
Comes from being frozen solid in blocks of ice for months, then a slow thaw until right before it's time to find a suitable block of ice to lie down on again...
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Monday 31st March 2014 08:17 GMT Anonymous Coward
"It's just for fun"
Our art master in the 6th form was a fairly successful artist in real life. He got a write up in one of the magazines which was full of art blether. He told us that this had in fact been written by his agent and he didn't have a clue what it meant, he just knew how he wanted to paint.
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Monday 31st March 2014 09:20 GMT TRT
We've had official Monty Python street signs in the UK for years...
For example Upper class twit of the year contest.
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Monday 31st March 2014 11:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: We've had official Monty Python street signs in the UK for years...
Funny but not very daring - even members of their own party are making the point as the election gets closer.
I do wonder whether the Provost of Eton thinks the cabinet dominance by Etonians is a two edged sword. Nice advert for foreign students - "come to Eton to learn how to build a cabal and take over your country" - but slightly increased risk that if the revolution ever comes the Wall Game could be played with machine guns.
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Monday 31st March 2014 10:00 GMT Teiwaz
Vote Silly Party
Problem is the Sensible Candidates are actually extremely silly(link any recent story featuring any politician), and the Slightly Sensible candidates turn out to have chartered account level interpersonal skills. We don't have any really truly silly candidates.
We also need more Disturbing Vicars....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3DmvDJm3ww
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Monday 31st March 2014 10:30 GMT Raumkraut
Walk on, bye
The actual sign is already pretty cool:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/ianstacey/375977327/?rb=1
Alas, this version appears to be in the process of being phased out for a more... neutral (read: generic, inoffensive, boring) sign:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norwegian-road-sign-516.H.svg
Though judging by the occasional story in the local rag, I'm not alone in being dismayed with the new sign.
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Monday 31st March 2014 11:00 GMT TRT
Re: Walk on, bye
Hmm... quite a solid little mounting bracket there, socket and post with twin screwdown bolts. Beats the candy-floss and gaffer tape UK method of fixing signs so that they spin round in the slightest breeze and every sign has to have its own post turning the pavement into a slalom and have you seen the price of the sangria and we've found a charming little bar that serves Watney's Red Barrel...
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Monday 31st March 2014 10:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
A Moose once bit my sister......
I'm canceling my holiday to Norway. Instead, I'm going to trei a holiday to Sweden this year, so I can see the loveli lakes, the wonderful telephone system and the mani interesting furry animals, including the majestic moose. Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti.....
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Monday 31st March 2014 13:52 GMT Stephen Gray
Strange woman
"One should not use signs that can be confused with public signs," section chief Elisabeth Bechmann fumed.
Really? You think your fellow citizens are that stupid? Maybe YOU are. I've been to Finland, they're very switched on. Beside Putin has you on his list to annex, so I'd start complaining about that rather than a bit of tomfoolery.
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