Things that crack me up #48
Image description: A color photo posted to Flickr by Trevor Coultart shows a white rectangular sign with the black image of Wheelchair guy inside a red circle. To the right, the direction Wheelchair Guy faces, is one word: "HIDE!" also in red.
There are a few pellet gun holes in the sign all around the Dude, who is either fleeing or chasing, I can't tell which.
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This is about as mysterious as Stonehenge to me. Do you have any clue as to what this is about? How bizarre!
I just caught up on reading over at Feministe before popping in here and so in my head, I keep hearing, "Hide! Teh Gays are coming!"
Well, nothing worse than a gay in a wheel chair...I suppose. LOL
One possibility i can think of is that this sign is on a nature reserve and refers to a "hide" for observing wildlife from (usually a camouflaged building like a shed or portacabin with narrow indows that you can look out of through binoculars or a telescope), and that this one is their accessible hide...
Shiva: I've never heard of that. Interesting.
Yeah, I actually think this one is more than a little creepy, given Shiva's insight. If this originally meant to signify a wheelchair accessible observation blind, than the bullet holes combined with edits some graffitist has made are the real story here. For those who can't see, someone has put "AAA!" near the expected location of Wheelchair Guy's mouth. They have also inserted an elipsis (...) between Wheelchair Guy in his red circle and the word "HIDE," as well as an exclamation point after.
Open season on the disabled? Not so funny to me. Maybe I'm old and cranky.
Maybe I need another piece of pumpkin pie.
I interpreted the addition the opposite way actually, as in "Nooo! The evil cripples are coming! HIDE!"...
Then again, hides are for watching wild birds and animals from, not shooting them, in the UK (shooting animals tends to be the pastime only of a few super-rich aristocrats, and they have their own land for it)...
My first thought was that it was some sort of translation issue -- either H-I-D-E is a perfectly reasonable thing to put on a sign like this in some other language and it's just a coincidence it's spelled like the English word "hide," or the people making it got a really bad translator who chose "hide" to translate whatever sort of warning they were intending to convey.
Hi. I took this photo - thanks for posting it, whoever you are. And to answer people's questions, yes, it is indeed a "hide" in the sense of a nature obervation point, which his accessible to wheelchairs. Provided they've managed to negotiate the muddy track to get to it.
Seen at Standalone Farm in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire.
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