I would imagine that at some point we went from highways agency signage that was made to a standard to outsourcing to the cheapest bidder. There is also a possibility that signs can’t be too rigid so they don’t cut vehicles in half?
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Maco1969@lemmy.worldto [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world•Got my first set of water coloursEnglish7·1 year agoDon’t worry about the quality of the paint, I grew up using cheap Chinese water paints and it was OK.
Maco1969@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Greener ‘water batteries’ a step closerEnglish81·1 year agoThat’s alright, fusion is only ten years away!
Maco1969@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What type of labour did the Yorkshire government have survivors do during the first winter? (in the movie Threads)?2·1 year agoScavenging for food, digging up any available crops and planting for next year.
Maco1969@lemmy.worldto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Yo, what was your first computer? How old were you, where and how did you get it, what did you do with it, etc.7·2 years agoZX81, couldn’t afford games so learned to program, wrote little graphical adventures using a text map.
Maco1969@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Zelenskyy calls on partners to create legal framework for transferring Russian assets to UkraineEnglish55·2 years agoBritain bombed Dresden for three days, Germany used incendiary bombs in London, Coventry and Birmingham for three years.
Maco1969@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Putin is urging women to have as many as 8 children after so many Russians died in his war with UkraineEnglish51·2 years agoThat is a brilliant summation, well done!
Maco1969@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•Putin to visit China to deepen 'no limits' partnership with XiEnglish291·2 years agoChina doesn’t back losers, they’ve taken a step back and aren’t likely to do anything to jeopardize trade given their current economic issues. A similar trade ban to Russia’s would tank their economy instantly.
Maco1969@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•‘It was a plague’: Killarney becomes first Irish town to ban single-use coffee cupsEnglish5·2 years agoI visited about twenty years ago, it’s definitely worth a visit.
I probably got a pretty decent dose of lead due to licking my brushes in the eighties, little sets of paints in lead tubes.