Rewriting History
Yesterday the story was that during a photo shoot Leibovitz had asked the Queen the take off her tiara, saying is was too...
And that was as far as she got. The Queen cut her off and "stormed out". Now, the BBC is saying that was not the case. (Or....was it???)
Blank Slate With Tar
The Dutch have started taking down all road signs and found that it actually increases safety and traffic flow, while reducing overall traffic speed. Should we try it here?
Tour De France
A Spaniard is still in the yellow jersey after 5 stages, but the "real racing'" hasn't started yet. The silence about last year, Floyd Landis, doping, etc, is absolutely deafening. Bunch of crashes this year, more than I've ever seen -- bad juju?
Quotation of the Day
Old Jewish lady: ... And what do you want to be when you grow up?
Six-year-old girl: A shampoo girl.
Four-year-old boy: A hooker!
Mother, smoking: I like it when they have low expectations about life.
From Overheard Everywhere
Yesterday the story was that during a photo shoot Leibovitz had asked the Queen the take off her tiara, saying is was too...
And that was as far as she got. The Queen cut her off and "stormed out". Now, the BBC is saying that was not the case. (Or....was it???)
Blank Slate With Tar
The Dutch have started taking down all road signs and found that it actually increases safety and traffic flow, while reducing overall traffic speed. Should we try it here?
Tour De France
A Spaniard is still in the yellow jersey after 5 stages, but the "real racing'" hasn't started yet. The silence about last year, Floyd Landis, doping, etc, is absolutely deafening. Bunch of crashes this year, more than I've ever seen -- bad juju?
Quotation of the Day
Old Jewish lady: ... And what do you want to be when you grow up?
Six-year-old girl: A shampoo girl.
Four-year-old boy: A hooker!
Mother, smoking: I like it when they have low expectations about life.
From Overheard Everywhere
posted by Dave at 9:15 AM
4 Comments:
I think the road sign thing can work if "here" is a small village in the Netherlands that has cycling as part of its DNA. Although I suppose it could work in the States as a way to get the huffy and entitled drivers off the road, since they would go to jail after ramming into people on the first day of the experiment.
The signage is so bad throughout much of North America that removing it would not make much of a difference . So says my inner cynic.
The tiara IS "too..."
More restrictions means less common sense. Less personal responsibility. Less regard for fellow road user in any capacity.
I personally don't think North Americans have enough common sense for this to work here. But I like that cities up to 49 000 people in EU are trying this. We have a lot to learn about community from the dutch, that's for sure....
I was kind of joking... but really, the freeway signage is bad. Half the time, you get the exit information when it's too late to catch it.
But you're right that it's an interesting commentary on people's sense of community
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