China is a wealth of funny signs. One would THINK they would have the people who are relatively fluent in English do the spelling and translating for their signs. One would be wrong. It makes for some pretty funny signs. A few of us are having a lot of fun photographing them as we come across them. We have quite a collection of funny sign photos.
One sign was on the check in counter at the airport. Most of the instructions were pretty straight forward. The final instruction left me scratching my head. I risked being arrested in the airport to capture this photo just for you. It read:
"Breach of the provisions of the relevant department in the settlement."
Well, there you go! Consider yourself notified!
I am also amused by the exit signs. They are consistent. All exit signs are the same. A little green stick man RUNNING for the exit. Because I guess if you really need to exit, you would have some sense of urgency, right?
Not to be confused with an exit, when leaving the Snow Sculptures in Harbin, there was a sign, not
for an exit, but directing us to the "way out". Which, if you think about it, is so much more straight forward than exit. "Pardon me, which way is the way out?" "Why, it's right over there by the sign pointing the way out, of course."
Our friend John wants to know who the "Canary Island" camel is being marketed to. The problem? The words "Canary Island" stitched on the side of the camel are a mirror image!
And for my family in Alaska, they'll be happy to know that in Harbin, China, they can purchase a pair of "Alaska" snow boots. I had 4 store clerks yell at me that there were no pictures in their shop when I snapped this one! Yikes! They had dolls and other art type things in their store, but apparently I was going to go copy their Alaska boots and cut into their business now that I had a photo of them so I could copy them.
Want a good cup of coffee? How 'bout some "Happy" coffee. But always look at the fine print. Notice the red LED light in the top right of the vending machine? It says POO. Does this mean the coffee in this machine is poo flavor? Hmmm. Ummm, no thanks. I'll pass. I'm not THAT cold or thirsty.
One sign was on the check in counter at the airport. Most of the instructions were pretty straight forward. The final instruction left me scratching my head. I risked being arrested in the airport to capture this photo just for you. It read:
"Breach of the provisions of the relevant department in the settlement."
Well, there you go! Consider yourself notified!
I am also amused by the exit signs. They are consistent. All exit signs are the same. A little green stick man RUNNING for the exit. Because I guess if you really need to exit, you would have some sense of urgency, right?
Not to be confused with an exit, when leaving the Snow Sculptures in Harbin, there was a sign, not
for an exit, but directing us to the "way out". Which, if you think about it, is so much more straight forward than exit. "Pardon me, which way is the way out?" "Why, it's right over there by the sign pointing the way out, of course."
Our friend John wants to know who the "Canary Island" camel is being marketed to. The problem? The words "Canary Island" stitched on the side of the camel are a mirror image!
And for my family in Alaska, they'll be happy to know that in Harbin, China, they can purchase a pair of "Alaska" snow boots. I had 4 store clerks yell at me that there were no pictures in their shop when I snapped this one! Yikes! They had dolls and other art type things in their store, but apparently I was going to go copy their Alaska boots and cut into their business now that I had a photo of them so I could copy them.
Want a good cup of coffee? How 'bout some "Happy" coffee. But always look at the fine print. Notice the red LED light in the top right of the vending machine? It says POO. Does this mean the coffee in this machine is poo flavor? Hmmm. Ummm, no thanks. I'll pass. I'm not THAT cold or thirsty.
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