But you can give lollipops to flowers.

alt textA sign about what you can and can’t do in an aera.

What you can do :

  • A flower and a lollipop. Maybe it’s a windmill. Edit: it's a magnifying glass and a flower.
  • A bird with some sound or ultra sound coming to it.
  • A person sitting crossing their legs like meditating. Maybe their legs are wood.
  • A dog in leash.
  • A person throwing two little cubes in a bin or in a giant glass.
  • A shoe. It’s written "Comfortable shoes are recommended" in English and Italian.

What you can’t do :

  • A fire. The wood is the same than the legs of the meditating person.
  • A person swimming in water.
  • A cigarette.
  • A square, each faces having some antenna or reversing syringes. Probably a drone.
  • A hand grabbing a flower. Or a windmill.
  • A hand close to a cat.
  • A head, mouth open, talking.
  • An ice cream cone.
  • A bike.
  • A moving ball.
Alt text in post, because it's very long.

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[–] 20 points 11 months ago (5 children)

A magnifying glass and a flower. You can look at (and enjoy) the flowers but (as per the second row) not pick them.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Oh thanks! I really didn't understand this one. Why didn't they draw an eye?

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago*

    I'm with you on that. Magnifying glass is usually "inspect" versus "look" and an eye (perhaps with a dotted line connecting it to the flower) seems altogether more obvious.

    That said, although the point of pictograms is to (hopefully!) be clear and multilingual, there might be cultural differences at play that mean I shouldn't jump to conclusions.

    It does seem an unusual choice though.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    You can look at the flowers, but you can’t pick them.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Do not karate chop the cat*

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    No volleyballs, rather specific isn't it?

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Maybe it means "no rubbing your pussy" in public?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    the bird using "echokinesis"

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)
    • A flower and a lollipop. Maybe it’s a windmill. Edit: it's a magnifying glass and a flower.

    It is a butterfly in a skewer, being used in tandem with a magic wand to levitate a ball.

    • A dog in leash.

    That's a warg with its neck stuck in a bicycle stand. That's indicating that if a warg comes to eat you, you can quickly run through a bicycle stand to trap it until the authorities arrive.

    • A person sitting crossing their legs like meditating. Maybe their legs are wood.
    • A fire. The wood is the same than the legs of the meditating person.

    You can use the force to collect pieces of wood that have been cut at 90° angles, but you can't use wood cut at other angles for witchcraft, by keeping them in formation next to a large leaf with a slice in between.

    • A hand close to a cat.

    Don't approach a cat with your from the side. Well, you are not supposed to do so from over it either. The best way to approach is from under its chin, with your palm upwards.
    You can later pet it from the sides and the top.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Other lessons from the sign:

    • You may send radio broadcasts to origami birds.
    • We encourage you to dip your hands into any glasses of sparkling water.
    • Do not swing progress bars around.
    • Violence against butterfly skewers is forbidden.
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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago
    • Violence against butterfly skewers is forbidden.

    That's an important part.
    Those skewers are precision tools made to handle radially symmetric butterflies and cost a significant sum to the local govt.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    You can gather wood, but you can't make a bonfire.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm still gonna pet the cat

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    This sign missed the mark by a mile. When I have to stop and think for quite a moment to wrangle a signs' meanings from it, it has already failed.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I like that the only text is a recommendation to wear comfortable shoes.

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