Frankly, Dear Reader, sometimes reading signs ‘correctly’ can be a bit of a schlep…
Hackney residents were shocked yesterday to see a new road sign had been erected…
*Beards and hats and dressed in black… /shakes head… Knot Amish, though, Clicky. You don’t get many Amish in London…*
Franck Allais produced the road sign artwork for a project, to ‘celebrate London’s diversity’.
“It was a project about crossing the road … how everyone is different, everyone has an identity.
“There is not only one sign in the street. I put more signs up in the street, but only this one got noticed.
“I am sorry for any offence caused.”
Signs missed by the residents included a woman pushing a shopping trolley…
… a man pushing a wheelchair…
… and a cat…
*Knot exactly ‘people’ though, Clicky, eh? *
*/rolls eyes…*
A misunderstanding then, rectified and apology given. Not a sign of a hate crime…
“We take reports of hate crimes extremely seriously so if any residents find any kind of anti-Semitic signs or graffiti they should immediately report them to the police on 101.”
*/sneers… Hateful sign…*
Blue Frank put up an interesting post today about ‘roadkill‘. He too is seeing signs…
But it might be beginning to change. It’s not as easy “to control exactly what people think” as it was 20 years ago. The internet is changing how information gets around. The MSM no longer has a monopoly on what and what isn’t news.
*Smokers and Jews have a lot in common, Clicky… /sigh…*
… Whilst Red Frank posted images of Anne Frank, and children fleeing for their lives, along a road…
*He also included one of Leggy’s short stories, Clicky… From the same book at ‘Telephone Pest’… We turned that into a screenplay… /blows out cheeks… Fucked if I know how to get it made…*
*Heh. You romantic, Clicky… /lights up… And if knot? …/blows smoke…*
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