Can't fault those Brits on animal care
May 5, 2020 18:46:43 #
May 6, 2020 08:33:08 #
Rusty69 wrote:
Seems they even have a soft spot for horny zoo equines.
May 6, 2020 09:10:49 #
May 6, 2020 09:12:58 #
May 6, 2020 12:39:29 #
diclam wrote:
To be fair, do they also have a crossing for the non-humped zebras?
Those crossings often are more of a protection for the car than for the other. A collision between the two can ‘total’ both of them at best. For example, in summer 1971 I had a summer internship in New Mexico when one of the regular employees came banged up one day. His pickup truck had run into a black steer the previous night. The steer had to be ‘euthanized’ - but his truck was also ‘total led’.
May 6, 2020 12:57:36 #
couch coyote
Loc: northern Illinois
Rusty69 wrote:
Seems they even have a soft spot for horny zoo equines.
LOL! English is a delightful language!
May 6, 2020 14:32:38 #
So why does the sign above depict a person? Or is it a just a wry British joke? After all, crests of hills on roads are often signposted “Blind Summit” in England!
May 6, 2020 14:44:57 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
saw615 wrote:
So why does the sign above depict a person? Or is it a just a wry British joke? After all, crests of hills on roads are often signposted “Blind Summit” in England!
They probably thought a picture of mating zebras would be too graphic.
May 6, 2020 15:06:28 #
I was so focused on the words, I totally missed the image. My bad!
May 6, 2020 15:09:22 #
I can see from the locations of the posters that someone is going to have to 'splain you mister.
A zebra crossing is the nickname for a pedestrian crossing, due to the black & white stripes. A humped crossing is one that is either fully or partially raised as a speed control device, a la speed bumps in the US.
A zebra crossing is the nickname for a pedestrian crossing, due to the black & white stripes. A humped crossing is one that is either fully or partially raised as a speed control device, a la speed bumps in the US.
May 6, 2020 15:34:01 #
alexol wrote:
I can see from the locations of the posters that someone is going to have to 'splain you mister.
A zebra crossing is the nickname for a pedestrian crossing, due to the black & white stripes. A humped crossing is one that is either fully or partially raised as a speed control device, a la speed bumps in the US.
A zebra crossing is the nickname for a pedestrian crossing, due to the black & white stripes. A humped crossing is one that is either fully or partially raised as a speed control device, a la speed bumps in the US.
“Two peoples separated by a common language”
May 6, 2020 16:11:56 #
You are of course correct. I have been out of England long enough to cotton onto the use of the term ‘humped’ in relation to a zebra crossing. But being British, it occurs to me that there’s an entirely different meaning of the word ‘hump’ which could bring a whole new interpretation to the sign ‘Humped Zebra Crossing’.
Anyway, why does the sign above show only a flat crossing? Surely, it should be humped to accommodate those persons who either don’t get the idiom ‘zebra’ or who suffer from an inability to read.
Anyway, why does the sign above show only a flat crossing? Surely, it should be humped to accommodate those persons who either don’t get the idiom ‘zebra’ or who suffer from an inability to read.
May 6, 2020 18:36:50 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
alexol wrote:
A zebra crossing is the nickname for a pedestrian crossing, due to the black & white stripes.
A zebra crossing is the nickname for a pedestrian crossing, due to the black & white stripes.
That 'splains a lot. On this side of the pond, stripes are not the norm for the crossings, and I have not encountered the term in any book written by a Brit that I have read. Also, we have many Cattle Crossings, Deer Crossings, and other creature crossings.
May 7, 2020 12:42:14 #
TheShoe wrote:
That 'splains a lot. On this side of the pond, stripes are not the norm for the crossings, and I have not encountered the term in any book written by a Brit that I have read. Also, we have many Cattle Crossings, Deer Crossings, and other creature crossings.
And more to the point, we don’t use the term “zebra” for it even when there are stripes.
May 7, 2020 13:08:37 #
Nor do you refer to Belisha beacons which used to grace the tops of the poles at ‘zebra’ crossings! I don’t think I saw any of those the last time I was driving in the UK (last year).
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