These are painted on the sidewalk, on the corners of several intersections in West Los Angeles. How dumb/unevolved do you have to be to not understand that a red hand means stop?
Actually, in Latin American countries, you don't get the red hand sign to signify stop. You get a red little man.
Sure, it's idiotic and unevolved, but it's also a cultural difference. I knew someone who'd been here 27 years, from the same country as me, and all she'd learned to say was "hhhhhhhhalllllo" (I'm trying to stress how strong her "H" sound was) and "goomornin."
It's not so much the hand, more like the red. I mean, red pretty much means no or stop or don't do it, right? Is there a country somewhere where red means yes? And just how long does it take to figure out when to cross? Look at the other people, look at the cars. It's just laziness. It's like people who keep mixing up "its" and "it's" and "your" and "you're". It takes roughly two seconds to figure out which one is correct.
That's one thing I thought was interesting when I moved to the States. A lot of sign were written in English without any icons. "One Way", "Right Lane Must Turn Right", "No Turn On Red", and the "Walk/Don't Walk" signs. In Europe, since the countries are small and there's a bunch of different languages, it's easy to just drive all over the place, so the signs is universal icons and symbols with very little verbage.
Now that mention it, it's been a while since I've seen an actual "Walk/Don't Walk" sign.
I'm starting to wonder how many people realize that when it goes from 'walk' to a blinking 'don't walk', that means that those already crossing the street should continue, but anyone still on the curb should not.
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LOL!!
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Sure, it's idiotic and unevolved, but it's also a cultural difference. I knew someone who'd been here 27 years, from the same country as me, and all she'd learned to say was "hhhhhhhhalllllo" (I'm trying to stress how strong her "H" sound was) and "goomornin."
I rest my case.
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It's not so much the hand, more like the red.
I mean, red pretty much means no or stop or don't do it, right?
Is there a country somewhere where red means yes?
And just how long does it take to figure out when to cross?
Look at the other people, look at the cars.
It's just laziness.
It's like people who keep mixing up "its" and "it's" and "your" and "you're".
It takes roughly two seconds to figure out which one is correct.
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Yeah!
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When I was a kid, all those signs said Walk/Don't Walk.
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and people actually pulled over for ambulances...
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That's one thing I thought was interesting when I moved to the States.
A lot of sign were written in English without any icons.
"One Way", "Right Lane Must Turn Right", "No Turn On Red", and the "Walk/Don't Walk" signs.
In Europe, since the countries are small and there's a bunch of different languages, it's easy
to just drive all over the place, so the signs is universal icons and symbols with very little verbage.
Now that mention it, it's been a while since I've seen an actual "Walk/Don't Walk" sign.
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