Before we started privatizing schools, I never saw a sign like this:

[grahamhgreen]

(via reddit)

[kick-ass-bob]

1. WTF?

I have no words

[hobbit709]

2. 3 hands will confuse them. should be 2 hands and a foot.

[Scurrilous]

18. LOL

:thumbsup:

[leveymg]

21. 2 hands and a foot would be a very small pony. But, if it had a rainbow coming out its

. . ., that might be worth something.

[dana_b]

38. lol

:thumbsup:

[rurallib]

3. now you have to have three hands to see if you can use the express lane.

[area51]

10. lol n/t

[bigwillq]

13. ha ha

LOL :rofl:

[mopinko]

4. not everybody speaks english

not everybody can read for that matter. before we started realizing that we aren't all middle class "normal" iq white people we never had signs like that either.

[TheWraith]

32. Not to mention, not everyone who speaks English is good about counting their items.

You could just as easily see this as a poke at the people who show up in a 15 item lane with 20 things.

[jberryhill]

36. What? I gotta shop AND count stuff now?

Okay smarty pants....

Is a six pack of soda one item or six items?

If soup is three cans for three dollars, is that one item or three items?

Tomatoes are five for two dollars. I have one plastic bag with five tomatoes in it. How many items?

Here's the deal - if it fits in one of the plastic baskets, I'm going to the express lane.

I buy stuff. I don't count it. And, god damn it, I'm checking out! I'm not solving mathematical puzzles here!

Besides, last week I checked out with ten items, so the store owes me five.

[TroglodyteScholar]

39. 15 isn't English.

15 is a number.

[eppur_se_muova]

48. Actually, it's numerals -- *ARABIC* numerals !!1!

ZOMG! Hide the kids! We must protect Murka from Islamofascist Sharia arithmetic!

[AnneD]

51. Curse you....

Al Gebra. She said, shaking her fist in impotent rage.

[BulletproofLandshark]

42. If they don't speak English, they won't understand "THIS many" anyway. n/t

[donheld]

45. Wouldn't it be easier to just say quince?

hell, you could fit 15 in several languages in the space the 3 hands takes.

[Frank Cannon]

52. 15 is 15 in every language except Idiot.

This isn't a language-barrier problem.

[Occulus]

5. I was going to make a comment about adult illiteracy,

and then I realized that this isn't illiteracy. You'd have to be able to read the sign to know what "15 is this many" means!

[leveymg]

6. It's like the picture menu at McDs - literacy optional

[jberryhill]

9. I can't read a thing on that menu

[TroglodyteScholar]

43. Good, then you won't mind having the chicken-beak-and-foot-patty sandwich today...n/t

[jberryhill]

46. I've had worse

I like chicken feet, though. In spicy sauce. Yummy crunchy gelatinous wonders.

[Occulus]

40. It's interesting you mention that

McD's was my very first job, and it was stressed to me at the time that we did in fact have a picture menu available, and it was made clear that it was primarily for the illiterate or mute.

I never had anyone ask me for one, but the idea has in fact been around for quite a long time now.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. In back of your mind, you just KNOW someone will say "I don't get it.

Shouldn't there be 15 hands for 15 items?"

[jberryhill]

8. Signage in the US generally sucks ass

I do a lot of international travel, and one of the things that strikes me is that signage in a lot of countries, and not just in tourist areas, seems geared toward the idea that not everyone speaks one language.

What's really amazing is that even in airports in the US, the English itself can be awful, confusing and ambiguous.

I feel sorry for international travelers arriving at the Philadelphia "International" Airport, although the guys who manage the customs and immigration line at O'Hare deserve an award in the "Shout English Louder And Slower" department of cross-cultural communications.

[JVS]

11. I think it's a jab at people who bring too many items to the express line.

[bvar22]

12. That is the way I read it too,

...and I despise people in the Express Lane who are over the limit,
and THEN try to write a fucking check!

[Mz Pip]

17. and they can't find their pen

or their ID and then have to note the transaction in the checkbook before they give the checker the check.

[bvar22]

22. And THEN, the check is declined electronically,

...and they tell them to "Try it again."

[Frank Cannon]

53. You forgot the price check on at least three of the items...

and the attempted use of two coupons that have expired.

[Broderick]

30. Chuckle

I know exactly how you feel!

[Richard D]

14. For sure

I think it's funny.

[snooper2]

16. Exactly, hey fucking IDIOT, 15 is this many

not 17, not 22, 15

And then you have folks in this thread taking it literally and not seeing the snub.

Maybe America is getting dumber :eyes:

[uppityperson]

26. Indeed, very sarcastic sign.

[RebelOne]

29. I wish that sign was at my supermarket.

I was in the express lane with less than 15 items. The woman in front of me had at least 30 items. Maybe she couldn't read.

[bvar22]

31. Happened last week, but THIS woman had a scam.

She divided up the 30 items into two separate lots,
and said she was shopping for a friend,
like THAT was supposed to make everything OK.

[joshcryer]

47. Agreed, it's a slight mock of people who aren't considerate.

[Raine]

50. I think so too, it's just their way of saying "don't just guess, count them out". Without being

nasty about it, doing it in a humorous way. I like it, it's cute. :-)

[seabeyond]

55. yup. nt

[sfpcjock]

15. Yes, but the unfunded No Child's Behind Left mandate...

requires full-time teaching to 3 subjects and no other instruction in the school or thinking in the classroom. That could work, right? :sarcasm:

[ProdigalJunkMail]

19. looks like you might have been shorted the humour gene... n/t

[Frank Cannon]

54. In all fairness, it really IS almost impossible to tell anymore.

Before he retired a few years ago, my dad saw college students come into his class who were barely more literate or functional than a trained chimpanzee.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

58. good point... n/t

[guitar man]

20. Well it's about time

Drummers and bass players have been excluded from the ADA for far too long! :spray:





(waits for return jab at guitar players) :hide:

[Wait Wut]

23. How do you get a guitar player to turn down?

Put sheet music in front of him.

:loveya:

- Wifey of a piano player :P

[guitar man]

25. What do you throw to a drowning bass player?

his amp! :spray:

[Wait Wut]

28. LOL!!

I'll have to share that with the ex (a bass player)!

I used to know tons of musician jokes, but I've been hanging out with them too long and my brain has atrophied. :P

Not enough jokes about piano players, though.

[EFerrari]

24. LOL

[surrealAmerican]

27. They just wanted an alternative ...

... for the Americans who refuse to acknowledge Arabic numerals.

[Romulox]

33. Counting is one of the hardest things to master in a non-native language

Paying and making change is one of the most stressful things to do in a foreign language.

[hootinholler]

34. I've been trying to figure out just who benefits from this one...

I mean it's not like a blind person will see the sign, right?

-Hoot

[ThoughtCriminal]

35. What part of 1111 are they having trouble with?

There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

15 is magic

8 1 6
3 5 7
4 9 2

[Jim Lane]

37. Reminds me of an old joke....

At a grocery store in Cambridge, with a 12-items-limit lane, a student-age guy wheels up with a full cart containing scores of items. The cashier looks it over and says to him, "Either you're from MIT and you can't read, or you're from Harvard and you can't count."

[WCGreen]

41. Fucking Jazz hands are everywhere....

[smokey nj]

57. Just wait till the spirit fingers get her.

:scared:

[Toucano]

44. I prefer XV.

That's how we did it in my day!

[defendandprotect]

49. Obama/Duncan are certainly helping to privatize schools -- destroy public education ...!!!

Teachers and their unions -- !!

[Fearless]

56. Pretty much... sadly! +1