I see this posted frequently (not here mind you):
"We didn't have so many warning labels when I was a kid, because people weren't so stupid back then"
However, if you actually stop to think about it, the converse is actually more likely.
"We have so many warning labels now because people back then WERE so stupid."
In my experience, you only need to warn about something after someone has done the thing no-one thought a right minded person would do.
@dadegroot it is like speed limit changes on the roads, or traffic lights at roundabouts which here in the UK often only happen *after* an area has been found to have become a blackspot for collisions or (in the case of roundabouts) the "fair play" traffic flow ideal isn't being achieved and traffic from one particular direction is dominating to the detriment of others..
@clacke @vfrmedia @dadegroot
We've had a 4 way stop at a junction of two highways for many years and are Finally getting roundabout there instead. I can't imagine a reason for placing traffic lights on a roundabout.
@clacke @vfrmedia @dadegroot This is northern canada. The highways connecting a few towns in no way resemble the M6 or the Autobahn! :-)
Still, silly not to have had one there all these years.
@clacke @vfrmedia @dadegroot
Yes, words have a bit different meaning here. I had just woken up and it was too late before I thought to clarify my post. Sorry about that.
I once told a guy I lived in a small town. He was german.
I meant 12k people. He meant 150k ppl with cloverleafs :-)
We are 37mm people spread out over the 2nd largest country in the world. We think on a different scale :-)
@clacke @vfrmedia @dadegroot
In my province of British Columbia, if even the smallest village incorporates, it must be called a 'city'. Even if it's a village or a tiny hamlet. This causes some international confusion as well.
What it currently still looks like (although shovels are in the ground):
https://goo.gl/maps/oZnNYFmtwaTQKQPV7
I love the German system. There are definitions for who runs what services for whom based on these definitions of rural area, municipality, big town, county-level city and city-state.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Admβ¦