Comments on: Objazd / Diversion

by: James

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:09:16 +0000

They need to learn English. Full stop. They don´t need to do a Joseph Conrad, but if they can´t cope with basic functions they shouldn´t be allowed in. (My Grandfather came to the UK from Poland after the war and I now live in a Spanish speaking country so I am not Outraged of Tunbridge Wells). If you are not prepared to learn even essential stuff, then you don´t have any commitment to living in your new country.

by: Rmss

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:52:41 +0000

Not that I’m a racist ir anything; but they’re in England. So I guess it’s logical to learn English?!

by: Alessandro Delgado

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:35:11 +0000

Hahaha, that’s just so funny… Polish drivers getting lost and disrupting traffic…

by: ilda

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:05:24 +0000

pandering to political correctness

Honestly, I see the sign more as a piece of British humour… :-)

by: yuko

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:04:11 +0000

I’m sorry,
I meant to say,
Hi Simon!

by: yuko

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:02:58 +0000

Hi Siomon,

I wonder whether it would be common for foreigners in Japan
to drive cars according to Japanese traffic rules.
I’m not sure how strict to get permission fir driving cars in Japan.

I think basically traffic rules in Japan are more strict than
that of Western.
For example, where to park cars, the way we can drive vehicles,
and so on.
I’ve seldom seen non-Japanese people driving cars in Japan.
Have you heard of that?

Yuko

by: Minstrel Ayreon

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:08:28 +0000

Slightly off-topic: is “Diversion” what you typically say over there for “Detour” or for “Exit”?

See, NOW you need signs for American drivers as well.

Of course, THAT would mean a lot of diagrams explaining how to go through a traffic circle while driving on the left side of the road. Oh, excuse me…roundabout. ;-)

by: Colm

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:47:26 +0000

That is so weird. “Oh, never mind putting up road and street signs for indigenous minorities and nationalities let’s just get contractors to put up signs in the language of recently-arrived immigrants”. Is Punjabi next?

I wouldn’t be surprised if the next development in the story is UK drivers crashing because the signs are a distraction.