WE CAN ONLY guess it was a Friday when this sign in Tipperary went up.
Probably around 5.55pm.

Image courtesy of Gordon Kiely
WE CAN ONLY guess it was a Friday when this sign in Tipperary went up.
Probably around 5.55pm.

Image courtesy of Gordon Kiely
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Im not sure what the fuss is about here. It’s obviously an ingenious move by the road engineer. Should the first sign become covered in snow, there is a second redundant back up system which is sloped at at an angle to dissipate collection of frozen precipitation, and also has incorporated foliage to enhance thermal insulating properties.
I know that place. I know it well. It’s got a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end. It’s like something out of a Robert Frost poem. It’s where I asked my wife to marry me. We went there for a picnic and made love under that oak and I asked and she said yes.
Closer to 2:25, ….after all who works on fridays
This clearly is private sector. One contract to put the new sign up, another to remove the old one. Most of the work is not done on the side of the road – someone else is on a fat commission to get the local blueshirt/FF councillor to swing the deal. Someone else works as a business adviser to get the grant. Someone else to get the Jobsbridge slave to actually do the work.
I have a bigger joke for you, a tax disc on my 10 year old car that reads €687.
Funny that, even if your car is 29 years old, you have to pay the same (large) tax year after year, whether you drive it once a year or all day every day. Of course, if you can afford a nice new efficient hybrid, you won’t have to pay much motor tax. But of course, most of us can’t afford nice new efficient hybrids, so we pay higher taxes on our old bangers instead.
Hilarious!
The best sign I ever saw was in the bright lights of Mullinavat Co. Waterford. There was a temporary set up traffic lights with following written underneath:
Stop when the lights go red. Go when the lights go green;)
There’s been traffic lights running 24/7 on a stretch of road between Dungarvan and Clonmel for the last 4 weeks. The only work that’s required is to fix a stretch of wall approx 20ft long. I’ve yet to see a council worker working on it. I pass it every day on the way to work.
Think they are just put up for insurance purposes Patrick. You’d be tempted to just break them because of the awful time delay between changes, but be careful as some busy body might report you as happened Michelle Smiths husband.
http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/de-bruin-breaks-red-light-at-road-works-1-2153586
i cant see wats funny about this picture, someone please enlighten me.
Gordon, top man, says all you need to know. The lazy f*****r who put the new sign up needs to be sacked for not removing the old one. How pathetic that someone sent out to replace a sign couldn’t be arsed to take the old one away, must be looking for an extra payment to go back and remove it. Typical ‘me feinism’!
Sure the council would have to consult with the HSA, RSA and CSSO, then do an enviromental impact assessment to comply with the EU Habitats Directives and a traffic management study before the old sign could be removed.
Big swing… Other sign is pretty much faded away… Why would you remove…. Surely there’s a better example out there!
i dont get why this is funny either. the old sign has been near-completely engulfed by soil, roots and ivy. it would probably be more difficult and messy to be removed than is worth anyones while. I’m just shocked they even bothered putting up another one to be honest.
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