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I don't imagine someone would have put up the signs about feeding the alligators or using the stairwells as toilets, to name just a couple, unless someone had already done it. So yes, already obvious to most, but not useless.

but not useless.

I disagree.

I don't think that people who urinate in stairwells or torment alligators are likely to be deterred by signs.

I don't think the problem is "gee whiz, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that"....

So for the vast majority of us who wouldn't do things like that sign or no sign, the signs are unnecessary; and for the boorish few that would do those things, the signs will provide no deterrence.

Thus rendering them pretty much useless....

Lord Jim wrote:Thus rendering them pretty much useless....

...well, except for this one....


(And actually there are also a couple of others besides that one which are obviously deliberately meant to be humorous, and succeed on that level--and that's not useless!)

And actually there are also a couple of others besides that one which are obviously deliberately meant to be humorous

This would be another one that falls into that category:

Lord Jim wrote: I don't think that people who urinate in stairwells or torment alligators are likely to be deterred by signs.

I don't think the problem is "gee whiz, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that"....

So for the vast majority of us who wouldn't do things like that sign or no sign, the signs are unnecessary; and for the boorish few that would do those things, the signs will provide no deterrence.

Thus rendering them pretty much useless....

Why do you hate free enterprise?

ETA:

If I ruled the world, there'd be a lot more changes than a few stupid signs, that's for sure.

If I ruled the world, there'd be a lot more changes than a few stupid signs, that's for sure.

Ain't that the truth...

We'd all be living under Workers Collective Committees and calling each other Comrade...

At least we'd have an aesthetic sensibility.

Lord Jim wrote:I don't think that people who urinate in stairwells . . . are likely to be deterred by signs.

I don't think the problem is "gee whiz, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to do that"....

You don't think they give a whizz, then?