@@gayleclanton3311 The signs are reflective so drivers could see them from further away which would enable them to drive around the frozen deer without loosing control. :)
"Secret Nuclear Bunker" That sounds like some shit from a cartoon. Basically a sign that says where the evil cartoon villain is, but in cartoon fashion nobody suspects a thing.
Yoshi_IX I live nearby and it’s a decomissioned Cold War bunker which was meant to house the government if that had to go underground. Is honestly well worth a visit though
Actually kind of a useful sign imo. Then again I think it's kind of a general rule/law to not pick up hitchhikers in the US anyway. Therefore I have never once seen an actual hitchhiker in the 26 years of my life and yet I know exactly what they are. Thank you, media.
@@tekgeekster I’ve both picked up hitchhikers and hitchhiked myself a number of times. It was a pleasant experience every time. Nice people, interesting conversations. But yeah, near a prison is not a good place for that.
down where i live, theres been a 70 kmh sign, thats a temporary sign(says temporary below it) that has been there for as long as i can remember(its been there for at least ten years)
If i were a council a sign should said: HANDS OFF YOUR PHONE AND KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD YOU F**KING COCKING PRICK IMBECILE. i i hate a driver using a phone while drive
funny enough i live nearby brentwood, its a real sign however sadly to ruin the joke its a tourist attraction soo :( but still out of context signs are the best 🤣
Lane closed so that we can impose a preposterously low speed limit on the lane that isn't closed so we can catch you speeding and fine you and then spend the money on signs with squirrels on them with antlers
As for the FAIL Blog photo, that was on a highway in Cornwall, England in 2006. Huge numbers of drivers were descending on the region for a music festival, and officials recognized that a 2-mile passing lane would actually worsen traffic with the heavy load. It may sound barmy but in fact it makes a lot of sense because, if it was left open, traffic from the two lanes would have to merge into one at the top. This causes a lot of aggro and a lot of stopping and starting which has been shown to delay traffic even more.
@@dakota9821 in my experience of American roads... that's like 80%of the roads. My Fiancée used to commute for over an hour each way and worked late shifts. She kept almost falling asleep at the wheel because the roads are so straight and the biggest bend she's be on that wasn't a 90° turn down small streets (which are much longer than most British streets) was a slight bend that was as straight as a bend could get
My favourite is from another Top Gear episode which states: "Do not walk on the grass" - but its on a tiny square patch of grass surrounded by concrete lol...
I saw a meme that featured a sign saying "stop sign to be installed on (date I can't remember)" So they went to the trouble of making a teaser stop sign instead of an actual stop sign. Genius
I saw a stupid ass sign that said “speed limit 60mph” the guy behind me thought so to he sped up and followed me for miles. He had some ugly flashing lights on top of car though
Yeah. Here in the U.S, no matter what anyone says, we have not had a good president in six years. If given the choice to vote for someone else in 2019, we likely would have
Ireland also has the smallest speed limit signs I've ever seen. Some of them are smaller than a CD and you can barely see them. What's the deal with that?
There's a "fallen rocks" sign by my house. The fallen rocks are over 5 feet away from the road. So uhh... don't stray over 5 feet off of the road because you might hit a rock. Important advice from a sign.
I was once driving up a pretty steep hill and saw a sign simply saying flood. It was literally impossible for a flood to ever occur there no matter how much water you had
I've been to that Secret Nuclear Bunker, for context it's actually a museum in Nantwich and it shows how the government would of operated if the cold war became hot and England was hit with a Nuclear strike, what's funny is for many decades following the cold war no one knew that bunker was even there until the 90s (it was built in the 50s) the government gave the land back to the family who originally owned it cause it was clear the bunker wasn't needed, and it's still open today, it's very interesting but also creepy since it makes you think "what if this was the place you'd have to live to try to keep the country going if the nukes dropped back then?"
Just want to say that secret nuclear bunker is not in Nantwich. While there is one in Nantwich, this one is just outside Brentwood in Essex. I used to go to school in Brentwood and we did school trips to it.
There was an actual sign in a Bulgarian hospital during it's socialist times where it said "Let no patient die without a doctor helping him" and yes, it sounds equally ridiculous in Bulgarian. Another one was on an entrance for a coal mine: "All the communists - underground". There were quite a bit of those :D
@@tsrenis Intended to sound like "All the communists are hard working folks in the mines" and ended up sounding like "All the communists - kill them and burry them underground". Cheers!
I personally once saw a crash where a couple with a trailer went off into a tree, passenger mere inches from being hit by a branch to the face. but they also managed to hit a sign that said “drive carefully”
There's a couple of signs in a small town near where I live that says "please don't shoot our signs" and you know what it's filled with bullet holes as if they were expecting anything else
There’s a sign by where I live that says “road slippery when wet”. Well thanks for tip there captain obvious. What’s your next astute observation, “visibility low during fog”?
It's warning the trees should they ever have dreams of conquering mankind: "Trees: no. Just don't". That is the most useful sign there is, without it we'd all be enslaved by trees already.
@@aregulardude428 One was the Tailpipe Man, as P Wattay said, another was a young Clarkson wearing a speedo and nothing else, and a third was probably a female racing driver with exposed breasts. The trio put up a lot of shock images during their time on the show
The bunker sign was white letters on a brown background, which in the UK means a tourist attraction, so it must be a decommissioned one opened up to the public. But still funny though.
Ste Cork I figured that must be, in the states we have the same thing but a different shade of brown for tourist/historic sites. Our city councils are crazy about signs too, I literally passed a construction zone in a typical 65mph zone that said, sign not in use. One of four northbound lanes blocked with bright orange barrels, no workers have been there in over a week and we are supposed to reduce speed to 55. Speeding fines here in construction zones automatically double. Going the usual 65 could earn you a $300-$400 USD fine PLUS your insurance goes up or you can pay double the fine if you don't have any points and pay 800 dollars... I'd have to scrap my 96' Camry to pay for that cause I don't think I'd get a thousand for it selling
What's even more annoying is when you're driving along and you come to a tiny corner that has a chevron and then you continue and have to go around a even tighter corner which apparently doesn't deserve a chevron.
I drove up to a corner where the chevron was hidden behind the hedges on the inside of the corner so i couldnt even see it till id already started turning. Pretty poor planning i must say
My favourite is on the M4 that says ‘for the Oracle leave at Junction 11”. It’s not so fun when you realise it’s a shopping centre but amusing when you’re a bored kid who’s obsessed with Greek mythology on a road trip.
It depends where you live in the UK, in my county all speed cameras are banned because they cause more accidents / deaths from people stamping on brakes.
@@underworldguardian704 This was on several signs in Torbay. The council are totally nuts. The have come up with some jems over the years. The latest one is control the virus drive slowly!!
@@michaelkowal3230 Nope. The blind spot is an area which you can’t see from using your mirrors. Usually over your right shoulder in a standard right hand drive European market car. This comment is pretty dumb as 90% of road users can check their blind spot whilst driving and are encouraged to when on a driving test whenever moving off or joining an A road. The only people who can’t check a blind spot are HGV drivers as they have so many - 2 meters in front of the truck is a blind spot, anywhere immediately under the cab doors, anywhere down the sides of the truck within close proximity are all blind spots. It’s actually quite scary that so many people think that checking a blind spot in a car is impossible.
In my home town theres a sign indicating that the speed limit of 50 mph, an increase from 30 mph. On its own this would be fine, but it comes less than 100 yards before a stop sign. Across from the stop the speed drops back to 30 mph. TLDR: speed limit increases before stop sign and then decreases after it.
In Virginia there was a sign that said "National Firearm Museum" and not until recently did they realize that it should say "National Firearms Museum". So, for the longest time I would joke that there was only one firearm there.
I’m pretty sure the original sign was fine though. “National Gun Museum” would be fine. Really you can replace the word museum with “collection” and you would definitely say Gun Collection or Firearm collection. Collection/Museum implies the plural.
Scarecrow Krone do they use that pic every time? or does he mix it up? I've seen that one but a few forums of people from the studio say its different sometimes
This always reminds me of going to visit my uncle in Munster Germany when he was there with the army in the late 80's, me mum and my Grandparents, were driving down the road one day and my Grandad in the front passenger seat was looking at things, a sign went by that said Ausfahrt (exit?). He looked at it, turned to my uncle and said 'whats that sign mean? Arse fart?" I don't think we stopped laughing for the rest of the drive....
In Texas, most bridges have a sign that says "Bridge May Ice In Cold Weather" They used to say "Watch For Ice On Bridge", but they changed it becasue it is almost never cold enough to ice on the bridges. The story goes that a Texas Rep's daughter slowed way down to watch for ice on the bridge in the middle of summer with him in the car right after she learned to drive.
@@JazzKazoo0930 then they're doing a fine job acting like children while having jobs which directly impact the nations they live in and in which their children are likely to live in.
Here in Oregon we've got signs like this: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/74/95/7f/74957fb98ebf9e46d114a22d11fc2173--warning-signs-street-signs.jpg movinginsider.com/files/2012/10/wrong_way.jpg www.lolwot.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/10-hilariously-stupid-road-signs-that-actually-exist-2.jpg s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/0e/ae/3b/0eae3be4db16d4ca062f9270b03efd22.jpg
They renamed a highway near me in 1997, what had been the Interboro Parkway, after baseball legend Jackie Robinson. It was done as part of the 50th anniversary of Robinson breaking the baseball color barrier. He'd lived in the area during and after his playing days and is buried in one of the cemeteries next to the highway. The put a sign just before the point "The Jackie" breaks off from another highway, telling people about the rename. And left it there. For at least 10 years. Until someone slammed into it and knocked it over. But my personal favorites are the useless directional signs that dot Long Island. Everything that goes westbound just says "New York", referring to New York City, which those living out in the suburban sections of the Island have to go through to get anywhere by road. You come to a point where you can move from one East-West highway to another, the signs just give you the choice of "New York" or "New York". What they could at the very least do is list where that road leads eventually. One side should say "New York-LaGuardia Airport-RFK Triboro bridge-" and the other say "New York-Midtown Tunnel"
In Houston, TX we have road signs year round that say "Bridge may ice in cold weather". So that's like one day every ten years or so. The rest of the time I can't even keep ice in my tea
My secondary school spent at least a thousand pounds on signs to show off its boring name with. It had one by the main gate. Now it has a slightly bigger one instead, as well as one by the car park, and on the back of the building. That last one is particularly stupid for three reasons. 1 - It has no info, just the school logo and name. 2 - It's on the back of the school, so no-one standing in front of the school can see it. 3 - There are trees between it and the nearby roads, so no-one standing behind the the school can see it either.
Very often happens this - some leader of something (school in this case) have some money to spend - go and hire company which is owned by someone related/friend/whoever and give them some work to do, often overpriced. In that way he's doing con and helping to someone. Very possibly he receives some of that easy earned money back to his personal pocket. Sad but very common.
My school spent thousands of dollars on signs that say: Safe, respectful and responsible. Its often above 40 degrees in summer and we still don't have air-conditioning. Thank god for those signs though
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On the M6 there were some road works, a few years ago, and they had signs up saying 'Overhead Bridge Structure'. I couldn't help but think 'Should you be driving the tipper wagons and cranes if you can't see the big grey concrete stuctures with cars and lorries going over them?
Online, there’s a picture of a parking lot sign on a parking space that says “Green Vehicles Only” presumably referring to eco friendly vehicles. Well in that spot is a green Dodge Challenger SRT8
There is actually one place I would appreciate a signpost is that their spots of intersections that actually have these weird humps in them and I'd appreciate the sign to tell you that there's a hump there because you're doing the speed limit which might be 35 or 45 you can't see the Hump and then next thing you know your vehicle is Airborne
My favorite is a sigh that just says "watch out for danger", like what am i supposed to watch out for? Landslides? Deer? Jason Voorhees? You will never know.
@@good_greeb Last time Florida had snow my parents even knew about (I've never seen any in person) was some freak snow clouds in the late 70's pushed down by an insanely strong front. The snow that fell mostly melted to rain as it was falling and what did make it to the ground wasn't even a 1/4" deep.
There was a sign at a lake I went fishing at... it said “wrong way” but the workers forgot to add a nail to the top of the sign so it read, “ʎɐM ƃuoɹM” to make it worse, it was on a pedestrian only road.
0:44 true, last year I had an "accident" with my car, I got distracted for 1 second a got out of the road just a little bit, there was dirt and grass so it would be fine... if they hadn't put the most useless sign imaginable, can't remember what was it about and no one ever will, because they never replaced it after I "took" it out
I used to live in Mohnton PA, it was a very forested area and they put this up near the road. It said "Deer Crossing" which is interesting because the deer stopped crossing there due to the road.
My favorite is not a government sign, but one someone put in front of their house. It said "Private Sign Do Not Read". Don't tell anyone, but I read it.
I’m a big fan of signs that have nothing but “!” On them. Like, there is a hazard here but you won’t know what it is until it hits you.
Its like a mario cart cube with the "!" You either get a mushroom a star some coloured shells or a banana peel!
@@bearworldwide101 hi
@Damian 2000 hi
Or you hit it
This is hilarious 😂
My personal favorite was one by a bridge that said “bridge may be wet when raining”
Really I thought the bridge would still be dry even when it rains
I love how it still says "MAY be wet" like it might not be
@@pinheadlarry7335 there's always a chance
@@undo9981 the clouds can have preferences too, maybe it had a crush on the bridge 🤥
mine is by a ski resort in the summer saying may be icy
In Texas we have signs that say "Obey State Laws."
Why do we need that sign?!?
In Texas? Ya I think you answer your own question... your in Texas.
Cause some dumb idiots think they’re above the law.
sakar181 idea: it could be a reminder for tourists to check out what the difference in state laws are if they’re visiting the state for the first time
@Wicker _ Well, it's also there so when the idiots get pulled over by the State Troopers, they can't just claim they didn't know the laws.
Commder Fireball you’re
There is a sign in in Florida called “don’t throw stones at the sign thank you“ as opposed to what
In Texas we have signs that say not to shoot at the signs. We shot at the signs
@@Johndoe-jd do you really shoot everything in texas or is it made up?
@@arberanagnosti4500 Yea, Texas is made up
@@Surge-mr2ed yeah it got shot
Molotovs
"why don't they just put the deer sign on the deer?"
Because the deer is already startled by the headlights put on it. #ScaredShitless 😜😀😜😀😜😀
@@gayleclanton3311 The signs are reflective so drivers could see them from further away which would enable them to drive around the frozen deer without loosing control. :)
@@markwright3161 I was speaking in a metaphorical sense....And, I was speaking of myself.
Iq 690
Idea of the century.
"Road liable to ice" on a road I've never seen ice on in 32 years
That's just every road isnt it?
I saw a similar sign in Canada of all places
@@sirspookybones1118 If you're close to the equator then probably not
We have a tonne of those in the Netherlands, also 'road slippery when wet'. I think they just put them up whenever an idiot crashes.
the sign is there to scare the ice. It's obviously a sgin that's working really well, if you haven't seen ice on it for 32 years
"Ive actully been tossed by a squirrel like that" - James May
I Died!!
I’m sorry?
@@dangerdean9066 hi
@@everykenyan hi
No, he meant headbutted... XD
I thought those 'Sign Not In Use' signs were a joke. But then I saw one on the M4 and I had to pull over and stop because I was laughing so much.
Sean Sutton You should cross out "not". And then draw a middle finger
Driving up the M4 I finally realised what they are for: telling you the digital sign above isn't being used
And it's all there for a 4 years from now on... I know it would cost more, but wouldn't it be simpler get rid of digital one or fix it?
Proves that the eco-sign thing is a waste of tax money...
Brian Wong Blame the environmentalist.
"Secret Nuclear Bunker"
That sounds like some shit from a cartoon. Basically a sign that says where the evil cartoon villain is, but in cartoon fashion nobody suspects a thing.
Yoshi_IX I live nearby and it’s a decomissioned Cold War bunker which was meant to house the government if that had to go underground. Is honestly well worth a visit though
@@olivergille8305 I went inside it.
Shhhh....
@@olivergille8305 same we have one on a roundabout
oliver gille been today very interesting
They have lovely signs in the US which say, "prison area, do not pick up hitchhikers"
Actually kind of a useful sign imo. Then again I think it's kind of a general rule/law to not pick up hitchhikers in the US anyway. Therefore I have never once seen an actual hitchhiker in the 26 years of my life and yet I know exactly what they are. Thank you, media.
@@tekgeekster I’ve both picked up hitchhikers and hitchhiked myself a number of times. It was a pleasant experience every time. Nice people, interesting conversations.
But yeah, near a prison is not a good place for that.
@@SynchronizorVideos I just hoof it.
@@SynchronizorVideos you have a nice time until you have someone psychotic ask for a ride or you get picked up by someone psychotic.
@@vipervidsgamingplus5723 Bingo.
There was a temporary sign on the A467 saying flood for about 8 years. As far as I can remember the road never flooded...
CrazyCashGaming It's ridiculous.
down where i live, theres been a 70 kmh sign, thats a temporary sign(says temporary below it) that has been there for as long as i can remember(its been there for at least ten years)
Bet it flooded before the sign was placed there never to be flooded again.
There are signs in place where I live that say "New Road Layout" for a bit of road that has had that layout for at least 5 years now.
@@JonatasAdoM ll l l 9:×%0××
1:53
This is how the meme:
"Oh no! Anyway..."
Continues
May: Oh, bad news!
Clarkson: What?
May: The Dacia Sandero. It's delayed.
Clarkson: Oh no! Anyway...
Ohhhh
I noticed that, that's quite funny
If I have to put up a sign, it will say "Keep your eyes on the road"
Proccito as opposed to what, keep you eyes on your knees?
@@ryanmann1416 On the sign.
"If you can read this sign *you should be watching the road*"
They exist in germany xD
They say „one did not pay attention, three die.“
If i were a council a sign should said: HANDS OFF YOUR PHONE AND KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD YOU F**KING COCKING PRICK IMBECILE. i i hate a driver using a phone while drive
I love how at 5:07 the laughter lasts way longer than it normally does as people realize what's wrong with the sign and just lose it
funny enough i live nearby brentwood, its a real sign however sadly to ruin the joke its a tourist attraction soo :( but still out of context signs are the best 🤣
@@teaajayis it in the other direction?
@@azamaziz7139 Yes it is 🤣🤣
That’s partly why I love Top Gear, genuine laughs from genuine people, not fake canned laughter on conventional sitcoms
Lane closed so that we can impose a preposterously low speed limit on the lane that isn't closed so we can catch you speeding and fine you and then spend the money on signs with squirrels on them with antlers
As for the FAIL Blog photo, that was on a highway in Cornwall, England in 2006. Huge numbers of drivers were descending on the region for a music festival, and officials recognized that a 2-mile passing lane would actually worsen traffic with the heavy load.
It may sound barmy but in fact it makes a lot of sense because, if it was left open, traffic from the two lanes would have to merge into one at the top. This causes a lot of aggro and a lot of stopping and starting which has been shown to delay traffic even more.
@@trentrubenacker9718 whilst correct in this situation, it detracts from the fact that Jeremy’s hyperbole is actually correct in relation to most.
My favourite in the US are the signs saying ‘stop ahead’ in places where you can quite clearly see the upcoming stop sign.
@@rastas_4221 It's useful in blind corners, not open stretches of roads you can see for miles down.
@@dakota9821 Fog is a thing though
I don’t mind those too much other than the waste of money cuz you can’t hit them since they’re typically just painted on the ground
They exist in Canada as well. My theory is that they put them there can’t use the excuse of I didn’t see the sign
@@dakota9821 in my experience of American roads... that's like 80%of the roads. My Fiancée used to commute for over an hour each way and worked late shifts. She kept almost falling asleep at the wheel because the roads are so straight and the biggest bend she's be on that wasn't a 90° turn down small streets (which are much longer than most British streets) was a slight bend that was as straight as a bend could get
1:54 It's the Dacia Sandero!
"Oh, bad news!"
"What?"
"The Dacia Sandero. It's delayed."
"Oh no! Anyway, last week..."
gREAT !
Good news!
1:53 tod
Great! Now, the Toyota Urban Cruiser
My favourite is from another Top Gear episode which states: "Do not walk on the grass" - but its on a tiny square patch of grass surrounded by concrete lol...
Or *No signs here*
Daniel Sadjadian sign not in use is a great one
Daniel Sadjadian i
Which season and episode is that?
I saw a meme that featured a sign saying "stop sign to be installed on (date I can't remember)"
So they went to the trouble of making a teaser stop sign instead of an actual stop sign.
Genius
I saw a stupid ass sign that said “speed limit 60mph” the guy behind me thought so to he sped up and followed me for miles. He had some ugly flashing lights on top of car though
He wanted to challenge you to a race.
Was Jeremy with an ambulance of Top Gear
Don't worry that's just random quantum beings that pop in and out of existence. Nothing to be bothered
If it’s lights are flashing, you should worry
Tell him to tighten his lightbulb connections so they'll stop flickering!!
Clarkson: “Christ we’ve moved offices, where are we now?”
May: “Upstairs”
Lmao😂
Clarkson: We're above the One Show
There you go
Top Gear
Above the One Show
London
“We are governed by imbeciles”. True to this day, mate, true in so many places.
Yeah. Here in the U.S, no matter what anyone says, we have not had a good president in six years. If given the choice to vote for someone else in 2019, we likely would have
@@JetFalcon710 Atleast there are good tracks to drive fast cars that aren't too policied.
@@alansohn855 True
And the brits probably believed the wind powered sign was some eu regulation.
In Southern Ireland they have markings on the road that say "SLOW", followed later by ones that say "SLOWER"!
Then a third one that goes "just fucking STOP"
Ireland also has the smallest speed limit signs I've ever seen. Some of them are smaller than a CD and you can barely see them. What's the deal with that?
@@Damian_1989 It would be funny if all road sign had swear words, like "slow down motherfucker" or "yield, you piece of shit"
Don't you just love it when governments make rules clear and not open to different interpretations.
5:08 Good to see Wile E. Coyote is still getting employment.
Underrated comment
And we now know where Pixar got inspiration
I know what sign James is talking about, changed priorities, it's 2 mins from my house...
It must be really hard to keep your life in order with all those constant changes!
@@chetanaik Just pick 2 sets of priorities and alternate.
@@Yewtewba chess not checkers
@@chetanaik, hi! Is that blue BMW is crashed on the sign in internet and found this, is that sign is not use in internet and found this,
There's a "fallen rocks" sign by my house.
The fallen rocks are over 5 feet away from the road.
So uhh... don't stray over 5 feet off of the road because you might hit a rock.
Important advice from a sign.
I was once driving up a pretty steep hill and saw a sign simply saying flood. It was literally impossible for a flood to ever occur there no matter how much water you had
I've been to that Secret Nuclear Bunker, for context it's actually a museum in Nantwich and it shows how the government would of operated if the cold war became hot and England was hit with a Nuclear strike, what's funny is for many decades following the cold war no one knew that bunker was even there until the 90s (it was built in the 50s) the government gave the land back to the family who originally owned it cause it was clear the bunker wasn't needed, and it's still open today, it's very interesting but also creepy since it makes you think "what if this was the place you'd have to live to try to keep the country going if the nukes dropped back then?"
Just want to say that secret nuclear bunker is not in Nantwich. While there is one in Nantwich, this one is just outside Brentwood in Essex. I used to go to school in Brentwood and we did school trips to it.
My first impression was that it referred to a 40s bunker during the war against Germany.
why would that be nuclear though? @@am_pm.17
Given how tone deaf the government is, I always expect to see "reading while driving is against the law" signs everywhere.
There was an actual sign in a Bulgarian hospital during it's socialist times where it said "Let no patient die without a doctor helping him" and yes, it sounds equally ridiculous in Bulgarian. Another one was on an entrance for a coal mine: "All the communists - underground". There were quite a bit of those :D
Based Bulgaria
As in they're dead or as in they're working in the mine?
@@tsrenis Intended to sound like "All the communists are hard working folks in the mines" and ended up sounding like "All the communists - kill them and burry them underground".
Cheers!
Communists underground? Good idea!
If there was an award for driest British wit, James May would be at least a finalist every year.
*at least*
I personally once saw a crash where a couple with a trailer went off into a tree, passenger mere inches from being hit by a branch to the face. but they also managed to hit a sign that said “drive carefully”
Kind of unnecessary by that point huh?😂
There's a couple of signs in a small town near where I live that says "please don't shoot our signs" and you know what it's filled with bullet holes as if they were expecting anything else
'Murrica
Is this in Alabama by any chance? I’ve seen a few like that there recently
@@crimsonmaelstrom573 no it's in the middle of nowhere Utah
@@tezlaactual6582 oh. Well, say high to Courage for me
There’s a sign by where I live that says “road slippery when wet”. Well thanks for tip there captain obvious. What’s your next astute observation, “visibility low during fog”?
Caution: Road made of tarmac
"Visibility low when dark"?
The sign is there for the people who need instructions to open a jug of OJ
"Road Dark At Night"
@@charlesc.9012 lmfao
I saw a sign that said on it
Trees
No
Like it said tree and then no underneath
?????????
It's warning the trees should they ever have dreams of conquering mankind: "Trees: no. Just don't". That is the most useful sign there is, without it we'd all be enslaved by trees already.
One person thought that trees existed and another person disagreed with him and tried to claim trees didn't exist
I always use my wildest imagination, when Jeremy says "I went on the internet and I found THIS!"
I'm pretty sure it's still worse than what I imagined
Probably something explicit or sexual so they couldn't show on tv.
But i'm still wondering what that was tho
It's 100% porn
@@aregulardude428 One was the Tailpipe Man, as P Wattay said, another was a young Clarkson wearing a speedo and nothing else, and a third was probably a female racing driver with exposed breasts. The trio put up a lot of shock images during their time on the show
Knowing Clarkson, more than likely
"Secret" Nuclear Bunker LOLOLOLOLOL
The bunker sign was white letters on a brown background, which in the UK means a tourist attraction, so it must be a decommissioned one opened up to the public. But still funny though.
Should say "Not-so-secret nuclear bunker.
Ste Cork I figured that must be, in the states we have the same thing but a different shade of brown for tourist/historic sites. Our city councils are crazy about signs too, I literally passed a construction zone in a typical 65mph zone that said, sign not in use. One of four northbound lanes blocked with bright orange barrels, no workers have been there in over a week and we are supposed to reduce speed to 55. Speeding fines here in construction zones automatically double. Going the usual 65 could earn you a $300-$400 USD fine PLUS your insurance goes up or you can pay double the fine if you don't have any points and pay 800 dollars... I'd have to scrap my 96' Camry to pay for that cause I don't think I'd get a thousand for it selling
I actually live close to the secret nuclear bunker and there are signs everywhere for it.
People found it yet?
500 quid for a sign?? a Scotsman wld have done it for 20 quid :/
art mallory with the south’s tax money 😂👍🏻
art mallory let’s be realistic... probably would have done it for a free round at the pub
500 quid.... I'm guessing 200 goes to all the people involved in discussions about the sign...
@@aaryeshg.6526 Imagine, somebody got paid to discuss whether a sign was echo-friendly or not.
@@aaryeshg.6526, hi! How are you doing here? Is that blue BMW is crashed on the sign in internet and found this??
"Why don't they put the deer sign on the deer" is such an underrated and genius quote
Yes, genius....
the " nah im going to go to the pub" is possibly my favourite top gear joke
I think it’s the delivery of the line that always makes me chuckle
What's even more annoying is when you're driving along and you come to a tiny corner that has a chevron and then you continue and have to go around a even tighter corner which apparently doesn't deserve a chevron.
Irish steam train
Hoi hoi that's portrush in ur prof pic
I drove up to a corner where the chevron was hidden behind the hedges on the inside of the corner so i couldnt even see it till id already started turning. Pretty poor planning i must say
@@danielr.l.mccullough600 Coleraine actually!
@@szymongorczynski7621 I see it now... A fellow norn irish railway fan nonetheless
My favourite is on the M4 that says ‘for the Oracle leave at Junction 11”. It’s not so fun when you realise it’s a shopping centre but amusing when you’re a bored kid who’s obsessed with Greek mythology on a road trip.
From what I’ve learned on Top Gear, the UK has 10x less roads, but 20x more speed cameras and signs.
Your right quite right
10x less roads and 20x more cameras... than what exactly?
@@iainrickwood2623 Just take an really wild guess
It depends where you live in the UK, in my county all speed cameras are banned because they cause more accidents / deaths from people stamping on brakes.
My best one I saw was a sign saying, ' Look for bikers in your blind spot!!'
How the hell do you do that????
@@underworldguardian704 This was on several signs in Torbay. The council are totally nuts. The have come up with some jems over the years. The latest one is control the virus drive slowly!!
The whole point of a blind spot is that you can't see what's there
I don’t understand this one, you can look for bikers in your blind spot. Just turn your head around….. the only ones that can’t are HGV drivers.
@@michaelkowal3230 Nope. The blind spot is an area which you can’t see from using your mirrors. Usually over your right shoulder in a standard right hand drive European market car. This comment is pretty dumb as 90% of road users can check their blind spot whilst driving and are encouraged to when on a driving test whenever moving off or joining an A road. The only people who can’t check a blind spot are HGV drivers as they have so many - 2 meters in front of the truck is a blind spot, anywhere immediately under the cab doors, anywhere down the sides of the truck within close proximity are all blind spots. It’s actually quite scary that so many people think that checking a blind spot in a car is impossible.
In my home town theres a sign indicating that the speed limit of 50 mph, an increase from 30 mph. On its own this would be fine, but it comes less than 100 yards before a stop sign. Across from the stop the speed drops back to 30 mph.
TLDR: speed limit increases before stop sign and then decreases after it.
In Virginia there was a sign that said "National Firearm Museum" and not until recently did they realize that it should say "National Firearms Museum". So, for the longest time I would joke that there was only one firearm there.
I’m pretty sure the original sign was fine though. “National Gun Museum” would be fine. Really you can replace the word museum with “collection” and you would definitely say Gun Collection or Firearm collection. Collection/Museum implies the plural.
Apparently in LA, there is / was a sign that reads: "To the Braille School"
As Billy Connolly said, "Who's it for?"
@@WardyLion Probably for the driver.
“If you look to the left there’s a secondhand glock. That concludes our tour of the firearm museum.”
@@WardyLion, hi! What the f*ck say "To the Braille School"
3:00 Right behind Jeremy is a girl whose life is forever changed.
What that sign shows actually???
I need answers
presumably porn? seeing as he said he found it on the internet
It was a man sticking his manhood up an exhaust pipe...
0:42 James May's confusion when Jeremy said "being eaten by a cow"
The BBC seem to have forgotten to zoom at a vital moment xD
WHAT WAS IT
It was porn. It was a very obvious porn joke.
An image they like using is one of a man fucking an exhaust pipe of a car.
aaron frost google tailpipe man.
Scarecrow Krone do they use that pic every time? or does he mix it up? I've seen that one but a few forums of people from the studio say its different sometimes
This always reminds me of going to visit my uncle in Munster Germany when he was there with the army in the late 80's, me mum and my Grandparents, were driving down the road one day and my Grandad in the front passenger seat was looking at things, a sign went by that said Ausfahrt (exit?). He looked at it, turned to my uncle and said 'whats that sign mean? Arse fart?" I don't think we stopped laughing for the rest of the drive....
There is a sign in Wales that says "Constant rain, convertibles not recommended"
I've been to the "secret nuclear bunker"
What's it like? How secret is it?
SmithyLad But it is a secret, how did you find it?
Is it one of James May's "secret" clubs?
Same here, found it quite interesting as well. Worth it for a quick day out somewhere.
you don't want my name yes, it was filled with many strange and old things
Not a proper road sign, but there's a few around Dorset with no context whatsoever, that simply read: "The House of Ciderology - Honk for Salvation".
In Texas, most bridges have a sign that says "Bridge May Ice In Cold Weather"
They used to say "Watch For Ice On Bridge", but they changed it becasue it is almost never cold enough to ice on the bridges.
The story goes that a Texas Rep's daughter slowed way down to watch for ice on the bridge in the middle of summer with him in the car right after she learned to drive.
These 3 should be in power. They'd easily sort shit out and do a far better job that the current government.
If it's coming from the great Giorno Giovanna himself, it's undoubtable.
I still wouldn’t trust them they’d do something in secret
Most people are better than career politicians. Most of them have below average intelligence, else countries around the world would look way better.
@@vulthurmir2478 i have no doubt most career politicians are intelligent, they're just corrupt as hell
@@JazzKazoo0930 then they're doing a fine job acting like children while having jobs which directly impact the nations they live in and in which their children are likely to live in.
Hahaha the best part of all of this is May's face after the "could be in the other direction" quip
“It could be in the other direction” 😂
I don't get it
@@thetravellingbloke2992 The Secret Nuclear Bunker could be in the other direction
James :I've been tossed by a squirrel-
Richard :I'm sorry ?
me :😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I saw a sign that said "Icy Roads" in Summer...
AlexDeGhost of course there's icy roads in the summer there's snowy roads in winter you tit
Here in Oregon we've got signs like this:
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MS MMS right lane must right left XD
perfectly plausible. it all depends where the sign was.
I live in S.C. the roads have gotten icy once in the 12 years I’ve been here and every single bridge has a sign that says bridge iced before road
They renamed a highway near me in 1997, what had been the Interboro Parkway, after baseball legend Jackie Robinson. It was done as part of the 50th anniversary of Robinson breaking the baseball color barrier. He'd lived in the area during and after his playing days and is buried in one of the cemeteries next to the highway.
The put a sign just before the point "The Jackie" breaks off from another highway, telling people about the rename. And left it there. For at least 10 years. Until someone slammed into it and knocked it over.
But my personal favorites are the useless directional signs that dot Long Island. Everything that goes westbound just says "New York", referring to New York City, which those living out in the suburban sections of the Island have to go through to get anywhere by road. You come to a point where you can move from one East-West highway to another, the signs just give you the choice of "New York" or "New York". What they could at the very least do is list where that road leads eventually. One side should say "New York-LaGuardia Airport-RFK Triboro bridge-" and the other say "New York-Midtown Tunnel"
In Houston, TX we have road signs year round that say "Bridge may ice in cold weather". So that's like one day every ten years or so. The rest of the time I can't even keep ice in my tea
We call Squirrels with antlers Jackalopes in the US
Almost but not quite right.
Rocky and Bullwinkle
There are 2 different signs one is saying deer and one is saying squirrels
Those are rabbits with antlers, but close enough
My secondary school spent at least a thousand pounds on signs to show off its boring name with. It had one by the main gate. Now it has a slightly bigger one instead, as well as one by the car park, and on the back of the building. That last one is particularly stupid for three reasons.
1 - It has no info, just the school logo and name.
2 - It's on the back of the school, so no-one standing in front of the school can see it.
3 - There are trees between it and the nearby roads, so no-one standing behind the the school can see it either.
Possibly someone just wanted to spend the money.
Then why not on resources, or working air conditioning?
Very often happens this - some leader of something (school in this case) have some money to spend - go and hire company which is owned by someone related/friend/whoever and give them some work to do, often overpriced. In that way he's doing con and helping to someone. Very possibly he receives some of that easy earned money back to his personal pocket. Sad but very common.
My school spent thousands of dollars on signs that say: Safe, respectful and responsible.
Its often above 40 degrees in summer and we still don't have air-conditioning. Thank god for those signs though
I have a sign near my house that just says "NO". It's hanging up above the road and it just is bright and red and says "NO".
"Lane closed to ease congestion". That used to be done (maybe still is) north of Wellington at long weekends.
"Sign not in use". That's got to be the ultimate.
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And Average Speed, For Major Roads So They Can Fine You For Going 1, Mile Over The Speed Limit And Of Course Their To Stupid To Realise That The Slower You Drive Course's More Pollution, !!!!!,. ❤😂💪🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴. The Stupid So-called Highways Agency, Because Everything Has To Be An Agency,!!!!!,.√√,💪,.
On the M6 there were some road works, a few years ago, and they had signs up saying 'Overhead Bridge Structure'. I couldn't help but think 'Should you be driving the tipper wagons and cranes if you can't see the big grey concrete stuctures with cars and lorries going over them?
I asked my driving instructor what to do when you see the falling rocks sign and he said. close your sunroof
"Well actually I have been tossed by a squirrel like that" and I'm now dying of laughter. 😂
Online, there’s a picture of a parking lot sign on a parking space that says “Green Vehicles Only” presumably referring to eco friendly vehicles. Well in that spot is a green Dodge Challenger SRT8
3:05 - face expression on that cute girl behind Clarkson - priceless :)
simp
@@internetexplorer2673 are u 12 ?
@@lyrasimo yes he is
This is the 3rd time I’ve seen someone saying a girl in the tg audience is cute, but I’m not complaining
Edit: in a yt video
@@nonptat what are you, a 25 year old virgin?
My favourite is the ones pointing to a motorway/ highway exit, but the exit is closed to allow the non existent workers to work safely
There is actually one place I would appreciate a signpost is that their spots of intersections that actually have these weird humps in them and I'd appreciate the sign to tell you that there's a hump there because you're doing the speed limit which might be 35 or 45 you can't see the Hump and then next thing you know your vehicle is Airborne
“ Sudden gunfire “
“ As opposed to gradual gunfire “
🤣🤣🤣🤣legend
My favorite is a sigh that just says "watch out for danger", like what am i supposed to watch out for? Landslides? Deer? Jason Voorhees? You will never know.
a general danger.
"We're governed by imbeciles!"
So business as usual then...
One of my favourite segments of the show back in the day
Went to Florida and there were signs that said "icy bridges."
IT WAS THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER
X2Lazy2WinX obviously takes a small amount of common sense and intelligence to make the connection to the season
as a Floridian, I don't think I've ever seen an icy road in my life lmao
@@good_greeb
Last time Florida had snow my parents even knew about (I've never seen any in person) was some freak snow clouds in the late 70's pushed down by an insanely strong front.
The snow that fell mostly melted to rain as it was falling and what did make it to the ground wasn't even a 1/4" deep.
More like "It was in Florida"
Sign on a windmill: “ blades may be spinning when windy “
The way James looks at the camera at 2:49 is slightly unsettling, but it definitely put the point across.
My favorite is a sign that said "Speed Limit"... and nothing else. No number to go with it. Just "Speed Limit". The rest of the sign was blank.
"Why don't they just put the deer sign on the deer?"
I don't know, James.
I've seen signs multiple times that just say AVOID DEATH. Like thanks I didn't think of that before I saw the sign.
There was a sign at a lake I went fishing at... it said “wrong way” but the workers forgot to add a nail to the top of the sign so it read, “ʎɐM ƃuoɹM” to make it worse, it was on a pedestrian only road.
I’m sorry but isn’t the second scene right after the “oh no, anyway” meme?
Yes it is!
haha someone else noticed!
I really miss them....
may's sign at the end has "a113"
pixar put that sign up :p
now i want to go around the city planting signs everywhere that say "sign not in use"
I’d really love to see the pictures from the “I went on the internet and I found this” running joke
Apparently it's a guy inserting his _asset_ into the tailpipe of a Range Rover
"Bridge ices before road" is my favorite useless sign I've seen.
Here in India stupid signs are ironically rare, but I managed to see one that said "Possible roadworks ahead"
'Possible'
0:44 true, last year I had an "accident" with my car, I got distracted for 1 second a got out of the road just a little bit, there was dirt and grass so it would be fine... if they hadn't put the most useless sign imaginable, can't remember what was it about and no one ever will, because they never replaced it after I "took" it out
i've gone past the one at 5:09 so many times lol it's a tourist attraction so it's not very secret anymore anyway
I once saw a road sign with 'new road sign ahead' on it 😂😂
I used to live in Mohnton PA, it was a very forested area and they put this up near the road. It said "Deer Crossing" which is interesting because the deer stopped crossing there due to the road.
I once saw a sign on the M6 (one of those yellow digital screens above the road) which read ‘Reading text messages can kill’
The stupidest one should be “Caution! This sign has sharp edges”
Gotta love Jeremy's catchphrase: *random thing* IN THE WORLD!
This is the fastest car... pause... in the world
"Undesignated parking" I never did figure out if the sign was designating the parking as such.
My favorite is not a government sign, but one someone put in front of their house. It said "Private Sign Do Not Read".
Don't tell anyone, but I read it.