Sign in ASDA car park

[Louise76]

Hello!

This is my first post in Pedants' corner (normally I just admire from afar!) but I wanted to share this one with you.

I went to my local ASDA last night and saw a sign apologising for any inconveinience during improvements to the car park!

It made me chuckle but it also made me cringe that someone would make up around half a dozen of these signs without checking the spelling first.

eek, that is bad.
nothing that couldn't have been spotted with a spell check, either.

i know it's off the point but those signs always p!ss me off. maybe most people aren't inconvenienced by alterations to car park but when it's saying 'we've cancelled your train' or 'we've shut 2 lanes of the motorway' surely they should say

we apologise for THE inconvenience

Sainsbury's were advertising

Digital Photo's

and apologising for a

Toilet Cubical out of order

lol iklboo! sounds picasso-esque (picassian?)

What are the pedants' views on "male toilets" and "female toilets"? Always irks me as I'm sure there is no mechanical difference in the equipment...! Mind you I had to spurn a pub as an eating place the other day because someone had spelt "chedder" all the way through the menu - made me dubious about the food, probably unnecessarily.

respect hotpasty

hotpasty - there is a difference in the equipment, but probably not a biological pne
Don't tell me you've never crashed the 'male toilets' on a night out

louise - they probably nicked the signwriter from our local asda.

There was a problem with their petrol pumps and the signs said that they would like to apologise for any inconviniance It was just a handwritten sign, and it was replaced every week as an educated interfering pedant busybody corrected graffitied the sign

I confess, yes, I am aware of certain differences. In fact, urinals are a source of fascination to me.... Why do men prefer to use them rather than a nice private cubical/cle when they insist that they always look directly ahead and never down and sideways for a sneaky peek.... If there were women's (as opposed to "female") urinals I swear I could not bring myself to use one and converse normally to the person next to me as if we were not at that moment doing something so private in public.... Weird. Am I just a prude?

isn't it because standing up to pee has become badge of masculinity? if you go in a kewbicurl you might be sitting down

Or something worse for all those staunch heteros... You're right of course - it wouldn't be the done thing to make yourself comfy in a cubical when you could swagger to a cubicle.

Urinal, I mean!

Thanks. Time to go and get the children - and calm down a little....