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Lemminary @lemmy.world

4d ago

You must eat banana!

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Confused me a bit because primary school children already know this, but then I realised places like the US and Canada have very different signs
- Yeah in North America we use English on road signs. Possibly sometimes French and Spanish. Wouldn't be surprised if I saw some in German or Pennsylvania Dutch in the rural Midwest.

Got my theory test on Wednesday so perfect timing

Translated to bananas to make it easier for Americans to understand, but actual EU traffic signs are in metric.
- What's the conversion to plantain?

There's also the upside down triangle banana:

GIVE WAY TO A BANANA
- And a hexagon banana:
  
  STOP THE BANANA
  
  or STOP IF YOU'RE A BANANA or STOP FOR BANANA'S quite confusing now
  
  This is starting to sound like a fun indie puzzle game.

Cool guide. Btw, they call road signs "traffic signals" there in Europe?
- What do they call traffic signals (the changy light thingies) then? Maybe just traffic lights?
  
  Semaphores

More precisely:
Possible banana(s).
You must banana/for bananas.
No bananas.
Danger, banana(s)!

WOAH TIL
I had never considered the red edge alone being no. Seems simple, but it didn't occur to me since we have slashes through all our no's.
- Here in the UK we have slashes through many of the red-bordered road signs, but not all of them. People often misunderstand the ones that don't - for instance, these mean "no motor vehicles" and "no cars" respectively:
  The council probably collects a lot of money in fines from people misunderstanding those two in particular
  
  misunderstanding those two
  Easy...
  The one on the left is warning your about Arnold Schwarzenegger, the T-800 model Terminator. He could ambush you at anytime riding on a motorcycle he ~~stole~~ acquired from a bar along with a shotgun.
  The one on the right is warning you that you're dealing with a T-1000 and it has already merged with your car, thus, invisible to you. You are already dead, the liquid metal will slide to the front passenger seat, then stab you to death.
  Did I get it right? 😁
  
  It makes more sense than it meaning only cars and bikes, or cars and bikes allowed but yeah, I probably broke some rules while I was touring :)

Sweden's former minister for equality had a particular interest in these.
- What do you mean by this?
  
  She (Paulina something..?) is rather famously (or infamously) banana-phobic. When the story went viral a handful of other public figures came out to say they had the same, somewhat unusual, phobia.
  
  I thought they were being a racist, but instead they just made a poorly formed sentence. She has a phobia, that's the opposite of an interest!
  https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-equality-minister-paulina-brandber-banana-phobia/

Just watch out for bees.
- I love meta Lemmy humor so much

But what if you hit the rainbow question mark box and get a green shell instead?
- Attach it to your bumper to protect from other hazards

Either the EU doesn't follow the international standard, or you got two different versions of "you should know there's a banana", "you must eat a banana", and "caution, a banana!". There's no "you can't eat a banana".
- Uhhh, yes there is. Other than some limited special cases, a circle with red border and white (yellow in some countries) background is a prohibitory sign. The pictogram shows what's being prohibited.
  
  Yep - this is the case in the UK too.
  It literally took a second to confirm that this is the case in dozens of countries around the world.
  Wikipedia: Prohibitory Traffic Sign
- Pray tell, what "international standard" would that be?
  Surely you're not thinking of the "US Federal Highway Administration's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices", right? You know, on account of that not actually being an international standard...
  
  There's an entire UN agreement about traffic signaling.
  Round signals with a red border communicate requirements, but without crossing the banana, it's a requirement to eat it.
  Blue signals do not communicate information, not requirements.
- So what standard do you follow that is different?
  
  They probably mean this one

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