"My Daddy Works Here" signage

[agentsteel53]

[Split from the "Road signs and states' rights" thread.]

Wait for the day when some state starts using Comic Sams MS for a font!  

the "slow your bleeding heart down, my immediate ancestor works here" signs are a bastardized version of Comic Sans.

[agentsteel53]

You have a picture of one of these signs? I'm interested seeing how one of these looks  

random Internet search.  

seriously, when I am doing 85mph on the roads built to support 100, the last thing I need is a "think of the children!" plea for socialism.  At the very least, it demands that I drive faster.

[corco]

I like the absolute chicken scratch on the ones when you come into New Mexico on I-25- on the right side is Slow Down for Mommy and on the left is Slow Down for Daddy. Before you even get the WELCOME TO NEW MEXICO sign they give you this one, and it's not even a construction issue. It looks permanent.

[agentsteel53]

yep, that abomination is there, and exactly parallel to it on the other side of the road is the "daddy" variant.

at least there is a classic '57-spec New Mexico I-25 shield just a few feet over the state line, on an overpass on top of Raton Summit.  Regard the classic sign; disregard the socialist riffraff.

[Scott5114]

Oklahoma's particularly insidious version, courtesy David Backlin.

[shoptb1]

yep, that abomination is there, and exactly parallel to it on the other side of the road is the "daddy" variant.

at least there is a classic '57-spec New Mexico I-25 shield just a few feet over the state line, on an overpass on top of Raton Summit.  Regard the classic sign; disregard the socialist riffraff.

I'm not sure how "Drive cautiously so you don't kill our highway workers" is "socialist", but "Slow down my <insert parental figure here> works here" sure is an ugly font and a stupid way of saying it.  Perhaps we should say "Slow down, autistic children making road signs" instead

[agentsteel53]

I'm not sure how "Drive cautiously so you don't kill our highway workers" is "socialist"

the fact that they emphasize the breeding members of the working class above all others... reproduction is codified to be the be-all end-all of human achievement and that certainly violates standard capitalism, in which actually delivering positive good to the marketplace is a necessary condition of survival.

congratulations, you have fallen prey to your lowest-common-denominator biological instincts, and created a crying and shitting drain on society - or four, or eighteen if you are a Duggar... let us reward you with tax exemptions, welfare, and other perverse incentives by which you prefer to spread your legs and/or shoot the easy white, instead of going to work.

socialism indeed.  Use a condom, you deranged idiot.  Reproduction is murder.

[Scott5114]

I prefer the IDOT version: "Hit A Worker: $10,000 Fine, Lose Your License". Although "Hit A Worker is in an orange banner across the top of the sign, so it almost looks like it's advocating that you Hit A Worker at first.

[Mr. Matté]

If you're driving on a public highway funded by taxpayers, isn't that already socialist, Mr. Marx? 

/Not that I'm a fan of those silly signs (especially the PC ones)

[jdb1234]

Years ago, Alabama would put up signs that said "People Work There" when approaching a construction zone.

[J N Winkler]

I can't speak for Marx, but Engels at least would have denounced the argument that publicly funded highways are "socialist" (i.e., creatures of the devil) as an instance of false consciousness.

[Brandon]

I prefer the IDOT version: "Hit A Worker: $10,000 Fine, Lose Your License". Although "Hit A Worker is in an orange banner across the top of the sign, so it almost looks like it's advocating that you Hit A Worker at first.

It's a challenge to Chicago Drivers. 

Seriously though, and this may be the start of a new thread, some contruction zones can be very poorly set up.  I was on I-355 sbd last night getting off at Butterfield Rd (IL-56).  They had the right lane blocked, and the exit marked, but the position of the barrels on the ramp left much to be desired.  There was a total and complete lack of signage stating which side of the barrels to go on, and the barrels were set up more like a shalom course for the downhill.

[KillerTux]

I'm not sure how "Drive cautiously so you don't kill our highway workers" is "socialist"

the fact that they emphasize the breeding members of the working class above all others... reproduction is codified to be the be-all end-all of human achievement and that certainly violates standard capitalism, in which actually delivering positive good to the marketplace is a necessary condition of survival.

congratulations, you have fallen prey to your lowest-common-denominator biological instincts, and created a crying and shitting drain on society - or four, or eighteen if you are a Duggar... let us reward you with tax exemptions, welfare, and other perverse incentives by which you prefer to spread your legs and/or shoot the easy white, instead of going to work.

socialism indeed.  Use a condom, you deranged idiot.  Reproduction is murder.

Intense rant. I can see why you are angry at those who pop out kids because they get almost free money thrown at them. I work with a girl who has two kids at 23 and gets welfare and WIC to feed the baby and she only works 8 hours because she needs "spending money". Happens in the military too as they are called anchor babies because they get pregnant and can't be deployed so they get a sweet job pushing pencils with all the benefits as anyone in the sand. I think anyone could have as many kids as they want but they must support them with very limited government help. I shouldn't pay for someone elses personal choice.

Anyway the MUTCD should be a guideline and states shouldn't be strong-armed into using it through the manipulation of highway funds. Individual states had great ideas and other states adopted those ideas such as colored shields and the federal government stomped all over that. It is the whole idea of federalism, it is like an experiment and each state tries something out. We have a base line which is the Constitution and if it is not enumerated then the right is to the states or to the people.

[hbelkins]

This sign used to sit in my office until it was installed on the Mountain Parkway.

Press release referencing the theme:

http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/kytc.d10/2010-04-09_workzone_safety.htm

[agentsteel53]

remind me not to drive on the Mountain Parkway.  what a disgrace of a sign.

[shoptb1]

[Removed redundant image. -S.]

This sign used to sit in my office until it was installed on the Mountain Parkway.

Press release referencing the theme:

http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/kytc.d10/2010-04-09_workzone_safety.htm

So is the theme to remind drivers that workers are parents too?  Seems like this has become a common theme in many states recently...has it proven to reduce highway worker fatalities?  Is the "crayon-scribble" font somehow more effective in conveying this message?  

[realjd]

I'm not sure how "Drive cautiously so you don't kill our highway workers" is "socialist"

the fact that they emphasize the breeding members of the working class above all others... reproduction is codified to be the be-all end-all of human achievement and that certainly violates standard capitalism, in which actually delivering positive good to the marketplace is a necessary condition of survival.

congratulations, you have fallen prey to your lowest-common-denominator biological instincts, and created a crying and shitting drain on society - or four, or eighteen if you are a Duggar... let us reward you with tax exemptions, welfare, and other perverse incentives by which you prefer to spread your legs and/or shoot the easy white, instead of going to work.

socialism indeed.  Use a condom, you deranged idiot.  Reproduction is murder.

Jesus, dude. So much anger. Take a deep breath, grab a beer, and then can we go back to talking about roads? Regardless of everyone's view on capitalism, socialism, and parenthood, I think we can all agree that those signs are hideous.

I love a good political debate; maybe we could continue this particular discussion in the off-topic board.

[Bryant5493]

On the I-85 work zone in south Metro Atlanta, between S.R. 74/Senoia Road and the Coweta-Meriwether County line, there were those mobile construction zone electronic message board signs that read, "Slow Down -- My Mommy (or Daddy) Works Here."


Be well,

Bryant

[US71]

I think Missouri needs a few of those. There was an accident last week near Carthage where a worker was clipped by an RV.

MSHP says they won't press charges against the driver (maybe because the worker was back on the job the next day?)

[Duke87]

Well, what it is is an attempt at making an emotional appeal to drivers. You know, don't slow down because just the sign says so, *hysterical mother voice* Please! Think of the children!
What I really wonder is whether the concept actually works. Do these signs make people slow down more than "Give 'em a brake" or even just "Construction ahead"?

Either way, the signs are hideous. No argument there.

[PAHighways]

Those "Slow Down, My [parental unit] Works Here" signs were all the rage in Pennsylvania at the turn of the century.  It's been years since I saw one at the beginning of a construction zone.

[florida]

So is the theme to remind drivers that workers are parents too?  Seems like this has become a common theme in many states recently...has it proven to reduce highway worker fatalities?  Is the "crayon-scribble" font somehow more effective in conveying this message? 

It's supposed to invoke an "Aww, how cute! Maybe I really should slow down" sense of feeling when reading it.

[Hellfighter]

Awe great, now we're throwing kids into the construction "slow down" messages. 

[mightyace]

On the I-85 work zone in south Metro Atlanta, between S.R. 74/Senoia Road and the Coweta-Meriwether County line, there were those mobile construction zone electronic message board signs that read, "Slow Down -- My Mommy (or Daddy) Works Here."

At least those mobile message signs don't have one of those hideous fonts - yet.

[agentsteel53]

Please! Think of the children!

if someone shrieks at me to think, my first instinct will be to think about why they're shrieking.

the resulting conclusion tends not to be favorable to the shrieker.