Found this less than helpful sign on a woodland walk yesterday…. Anyone else got any similar examples of useless information?

by Optimal-Idea1558

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  3. Behind every sign like this is a whinging/ compo claim bampot.

  7. I used to have a bathroom mirror with a label on the back that said, “Do not strike with hard or sharp objects”.

  8. Might as well be ‘this way’ ‘that way’ ‘another way’ ‘over there’.

  10. We went to Wales and few years ago and my partner said Araf must be a really popular place because all the roads seemed to go there…..

  11. Years ago, we were travelling on a German motorway when my mother piped up

    ‘Ausfahrt must be a massive place, I keep seeing signs for it’

    It means exit

  12. Not a sign but movie subtitles when it shows ‘speaks spanish’ or some other language. Completely pointless

  16. At least you know which directions are official footpaths. That’s kind of useful.

  20. It’s not to stop you getting lost, it’s to stop you going onto the *not*-footpath and ending up in someone’s garden.

  21. Is it useless? It’s clarifying the rights of way.

    Much of the time a rambler happens across some sort of motor vehicle on the wrong sort of trail it’s because the map didn’t clearly denote the right-of-way and nor did the signage, so someone misread a ‘byway’ on an OS map as something they could take a car or motorbike down. I imagine similar can happen with horses and cyclists and, even so, it’s nice to have signage on-the-ground to confirm what the map says.

    More signage laying out the rights of way is good even if every path leading here is a footpath, for some it would be good to know which paths leading from here are ones where you might happen across a horserider, a mtber or a motorcyclist, or even to have the confirmation that there shouldn’t be any of those.

    I guess it might be better to have no signs at all unless at least one of the routes is a different right-of-way to the others? But then I think someone else would happen across that and wonder why not just signpost all rights-of-way… 😀

  23. I remember driving somewhere in France about 20 years ago and coming to a t-junction with two signs saying ‘all directions’ and ‘other directions’ opposite from each other.

  26. We went to Bergen and walked from Ulriken to Floyen. Every sign said 12km to Floyen.

  27. This exact scenario exists in the wood behind my house. It makes me laugh every time we walk past it and my partner declares “How I wish there was a footpath available!” – I am easily pleased. We do this most days.

  28. Good to know that the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland got a job with Town and Country planning department!

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