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How sad am I?
I took part in the Sport Relief Mile in Glasgow on Saturday with my daughter. While we were waiting for our turn to run, everyone was standing along the course cheering on the other runners. I couldn’t fight my urge to feel the banners tied onto the barriers to find out whether the logos had been painted on or were vinyl. I really need to get a life.
Dawn
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suspense is killing me… so was it print or cut vinyl? 😮
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I knew someone would ask, and I was pretty sure you would be first! The banner itself was a cloth-like material (not the pvc banners we use) and had been screen printed. You should have come along to find out for yourself. Before the run they give you a red sock to wear and you get the other one when you finish. All very good, but I just put the finishing one in my bag and didn’t realise until I got home that I had walked through Glasgow and gone home on the train wearing one red sock and one white, both of which everyone could see.
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:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: thats worse than feeling the banner :lol1: though i do the exact same in shopping centres and the like… im the phantom sign groper at the weekends 😳
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Maybe we should set up a support group??
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:lol1: :lol1:
Hello everyone, my name is Robert Lambie and i have been a sign anorak for 15 years. 😳
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quote John & Dawn Roddick:Maybe we should set up a support group??:lol1: :lol1:
im always getting a telling off when im out too….. 😮
nik
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when I go out groping, someone hits me hard! 😳
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quote Dave Rowland:when I go out groping, someone hits me hard! 😳
no wonder mate, i was trying to buy a pint at the bar at signuk at the time… 🙄 😉
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quote Robert Lambie:quote Dave Rowland:when I go out groping, someone hits me hard! 😳
no wonder mate, i was trying to buy a pint at the bar at signuk at the time… 🙄 😉
Is that why you bought Dave a large one?
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Rob, took his time at the signuk bar… about 12 rounds later, he found a seat
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I once split my tyre on a curb after turning around to have a second look at a sign whilst driving past and it was at that point that I had found out that some little scroat had knicked me spare wheel. It was a long walk home. 😳
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maybe at the next UKSB signuk meet, we find somewhere where there is a lot of signage and then the public can stare in amazement as an orgy of sign-makers hands start fondling the street furniture!
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quote Dave Rowland:maybe at the next UKSB signuk meet, we find somewhere where there is a lot of signage and then the public can stare in amazement as an orgy of sign-makers hands start fondling the street furniture!
😮:lol1: :lol1: nah bit of a waste…….hands on tumblers sounds better 😀
nik
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sounds like my kind of meet Nik! 😉
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I try not to touch :lol1: but Im always looking, all the time. Another thing I tend to do is talk about signage quite a bit to family and friends …. then I realise that they are looking at me as if to say "what the hell are you going on about" …. I tend to forget that not everyone is into it as much as us.
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My names Lee and I’m an anorak too.
It’s been 4 hours since my last sign stare.
I’ve got vinyl patches but their not a lot of use 😀
I seem to have also taken to self mutilation with a scalpel, usually involuntary :lol1:
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I find myself telling others, who are not remotely interested, what a font is on the side of a van! Or worse ….. the credits at the end of a tv programme 😳
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guilty to touching and talking 😳 😳
Lynn
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I get it from my partner, but shes great…
We travel down and back up from newcastle a lot, I’m sick of hearing, "thats one of mine, I designed that" whilst pointing at a truck liveries :lol1:
Kinda almost getting used to it 😛
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yes, being a font expert and folks looking back at your thinking ‘sad’
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trouble is I don’t feel sad this is the greatest job in the world 😀
Lynn
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I’m guilty of it too. 😳
I recall being in a swimming pool when the waves were running – I was using the impetus of each wave to help me jump high enough to feel the lettering on the sign that told of the pools depth to determine if it was made of vinyl or was screenprinted. Little did I realise a lifeguard was almost ready to leap in and rescue me when he saw what looked like someone scrabbling for a handhold on the sign or anything else that could aid a swimmer in distress 😕
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quote Lynn:trouble is I don’t feel sad this is the greatest job in the world 😀
well said lynn :thumbsup:
nik
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hey.. i typed that wrong…strange, thats touch typing for u.
should say:-
yes, when watching the credits of a movie and being a font expert and folks looking back at your thinking ‘sad’ when you shout back "hmm, that looks like Futura"
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