Clothing for Real People

The wonder of advertising.

Here a sign for "casual clothing for real people".  What sort of other people are there?  There's imaginary I suppose, and I expect some people or their behaviour may well be might be described as "unreal", so remarkable as to elicit disbelief.  Maybe the real sign is itself unreal in it's implication ....Hmmmm.....

Value the hand drying experience

Here's the hand dryer in a garden centre loo....

However while the hand dryer exists in the singular here, there is one of them, it's described in the plural.  It's quite possible that someone was asked to "make some signs for the hand dryers" with them being in different places - at least the ladies and the gents - and maybe because to some it might  not look much like a dryer at first glance.

Another alternative is that the radiator could be considered a dryer convecting heat upwards while the hand dryer projects heat downwards.  Maybe that's why there's such an explicit encouragement to "Value the Experience".

Really Ram Raid Resistant

An the wall of a now defunct out of town electrical retailer.

As well as ram raid bars, there's no less than four additional defensive mechanisms.....the wall is reinforced, ram raid resistant, alarmed and under 24 hour CCTV surveillance.  The irony the real risk to the company were commercial ones... apparently slower than the rest to shift this physical emphasis of effort into web sales.....

Welcome - risk of death

This is a welcome sign on approach to the delightful Alnwick Garden in Northumbria.  The garden has lots of attractions and features - the grand cascade waterfall which is it's signature feature, a giant treehouse with walkways and restaurant, the walled rose garden and so on.  But rather than those,  the feature being promoted on it's welcome board is the poison garden, a real feature in it's on right of course, but perhaps not making the warmest of welcomes.

Push the Pull Door

Here it seems like someone has a acquired job lot of pull/grab handles and fitted them to both sides of the door. So pull handles on the pull side and pull handles on the push side.  So rather than the typical push plates on the push side (often with the word "Push" etched in for good measure) here you're approaching a door with the familiar grab handles which are crying out to be pulled.  Hence the need for the retro fit instruction on how to operate the door... "Push".