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That gator plays the maraccas.
Gotta lure the families towards it somehow 🤷🏻
And likes baby poop.
We live near a park with alligators in an exhibit, they are well fed and lounge on the banks of a little pond, with some turtles, sunning themselves - so I always let my kids lean over the railing, not touch them or anything but I didn’t worry about it since they were fed & lazy.
Until one day, we saw one of them lunge at a turtle and grab it, moving so fast! Crunch crunch gulp. Which disabused me of two wrong ideas. One, that these alligators did not care to have a snack, and two, that nothing but eagles could eat turtles. Someone had told me that no animal could bite through a turtle shell, but that eagles would drop them from a great height to crack them open, and since I’d never seen another animal eat a turtle, I bought it.
So after that, no more leaning over.
Always always always always always always always always always always always be wary of all crocodilians. ALWAYS. Pseudosuchians have been around for 250 million years, and it’s not because of their personality or good looks.
A gator yelling at a careless parent for putting their child in a precarious position is a weird thing to put on a sign…
The gator is running for superintendent and wanted the PR boost
In Europe the red circle means “no [whatever is inside the circle]”. It took me a while to figure that out as a Californian.
And to make matters more confusing, a red circle crossed out means “cancel the No from before” so like the end of a loading zone or the end of a no parking zone.
On German streets, a red circle means prohibited, but a red triangle is a warning. For parking, crossed out ones means you can stop for a few minutes, keeping the car in sight, and crossed out twice means you’re not allowed to stop at all. To mark the beginning and end of a no-parking zone, we use arrows.
I suddenly feel inadequate and very confused. Does this mean double and triple negatives? Or something else?
That sign’s there after learning the hard way that gators will leap up and eat a juicy baby if you dangle it out there like a piece of chicken.
When feeding consider size
But please only feed organic children to the crocodiles.
Best I can do is free range that’s been fed nothing but penicillin and other children.
Ahh so location please been looking for where to dispose of my unwanted infants it also is a plus i will be helping feed the local wildlife.
Guessing Australia, but i would expect a second pic of the child in the gators mouth. Many of the warning signs there can be graphic.
We have crocs here, not gators
Yes, of course. I tend to use “gator” to refer to all alligators, crocodiles, caiman, and ghars. I guess I should use “crock” because they are all classified as Crocodylia.
There isn’t a sign “do not feed” either so…
I know what this means
It is not remotely intuitive that it means that
The meaning is the same in all of Europe, and has been for a hundred years.
It’s also taught to everyone before they are allowed to drive.
It doesn’t need to be intuitive, and crossing it out would make it much harder to see what’s actually crossed out.Okay. That actually helps me understand. Thanks
There are different meanings of “intuitive”. One is that anyone with experience of the world should understand it, even without education. By that definition, this is not intuitive. But nor would it be with a slash through it: the world does not teach us that slashes through things mean “don’t do it” except through education.
By the other meaning of intuitive, that it aligns with other things which hopefully you have been educated about, this is pretty intuitive. Red circle means “don’t” and there’s a picture of a motorbike.
Funnily enough, I’ve never needed to drive, which resulted in me never bothering to actually get a licence. So I’d have easily missed that memo at many points in my life. I don’t need a licence to walk or ride a bike on roads where it might be valuable to expect everyone on them to understand the signage in non-opposing ways.
Now I’m gonna preface this with: I can comfortably pass a driving theory test with no issue whatsoever, before anyone assumes I’m coming from a place of complete ignorance.
Slashes, crosses & bars through something are commonly understood by everyone to kinda mean the opposite of the thing that’s got a line through it. When a kid wants to erase a mistake in school, they’re taught to cross it out. Basically making that concept intuitive to everyone who made it through the first year of school.
Now, when other circles with crosses, slashes and bars exist in the same signage design language, it heavily implies an icon in an open circle is intuitively a signal something is permitted and not prohibited.
The only people you can guarantee that a red circle means “don’t” for, are people who have a driving license in a country that isn’t the US
That’s far from everyone out there. Which feels like a fairly clear failure for a sign that would typically be important
I have always assumed that there is no slash because it vastly impedes how easy the sign is to read, which is critical for road signs where you’re almost certain to be moving at speed and soon out of sight.
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If there’s a more convenient way to get rid of a child, I don’t want to know about it
Recommended even!
