Yeah, cos there's a massive problem at the moment with the teenagers slipping over because they think it's cool. What the fuck?
I bet people trip over because they're reading that poster and trying to work out what the fuck it is on about instead of looking where they are going.
I realise I'm a semantic pervert, but my problem with this isn't the weakness or unoriginality of the joke or even the assumption that people are ignorantly falling over for a laugh, but the confusion of the mind with the brain. We might ordinarily think of the mind as being instantiated in the brain, but the brain is what gets smashed to pieces on the floor, not the mind.
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Date: 2009-07-20 09:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 10:11 am (UTC)(What is the voltage of a tube line, anyway?)
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Date: 2009-07-20 10:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-20 09:55 am (UTC)I bet people trip over because they're reading that poster and trying to work out what the fuck it is on about instead of looking where they are going.
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Date: 2009-07-20 10:07 am (UTC)"What's the last thing that goes through a fly's mind when it hits a windscreen?
Its arse".
Not that its the height of comedic genius in the first place, but the TfL version loses something in the translation. Such as the point.
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