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Provide whiteboards (and pens) for visiting tourists to
leave comments, observations and useful tips.
London is pretty intimidating, even for people with English
as a first language. Difficult to navigate, confusing naming-
systems (Underground/Overground...), and an occasionally
unwelcoming
population.
So. At the entrance to tube stations and tourist
attractions, a whiteboard and pens to allow visitors to
leave messages for their compatriots.
There would be occasional inappropriate messages, but
generally people would leave useful, encouraging stuff.
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// generally people would leave useful, encouraging stuff.// |
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We find your naiive faith in human nature touchingly misplaced. |
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I'm with [8th of 7] on this.
By the second dawn, the whole board will be covered with
graffiti & phone numbers, and the pens will all be stolen. |
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//Underground/Overground..// Wombling free. |
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At UCSB they have a huge cork board when you first walk on
to the grounds, that everyone posts upcoming events, and
odds and ends on. Things for sale, apts. for rent...etc. |
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What is different other than where it's located? Which
basically you could just steal and replant anywhere you wish.
(If your a thief, of course.) |
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...I guess it’s the same, but more directed at
visitors from overseas, who might find the British
lack of other languages a barrier. I just imagine
being a Japanese tourist getting off the tube and
finding a small message in my native language
saying “don’t give up, great things to see, avoid
the night bus...” |
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//Tourist Tips Whiteboard// Has bail been posted? |
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// might find the British lack of other languages a barrier. // |
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That's the whole point. All they have to do is remember how to speak and understand English. All* furriners do actually know this, but have simply forgotten how after years of jabbering in their funny furrin lingo. |
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*except the welsh, to whom the comprehensible spoken word is a concept still awaiting the invention of vowels and the realization that no useful meaning is conveyed by just putting c's, v's double-l's and double-f's together in random sequences. |
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Oh Franky, I get the difference now. It's not a different
location, it's a different language that makes the difference. I
get it. |
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[+] But the young don't grow up fast enough yet, for this to currently work. |
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