Lost in Translation

DCat · Post by **DCat** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:27 am

In today's Metro:

Cyclists have been baffled by a new road sign which warns "Your bladder disease has returned". The sign - in Welsh - was meant to tell them to dismount at roadworks. But council chiefs made an error using an online translator and confused the words 'cyclists' and 'cystitis'. Amended signs are now being put up as soon as possible in Penarth, near Cardiff.

Welsh-speaking cyclist Matt Lloyd, 27, said: 'When I read the sign I thought someone was having a laugh. I've never even had a bladder disease'.

Sim · Post by **Sim** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 12:00 pm

Thats funny!!!

Cornish Tiger · Post by **Cornish Tiger** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:40 pm

That made me howl!

Kinoulton · Post by **Kinoulton** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:47 am

Cornish Tiger wrote:That made me howl!

Isn't that a prelude to mating in your neck of the woods?

Cornish Tiger · Post by **Cornish Tiger** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:08 am

Just down St Breward way. We tend to bleat up Boscarne.

Kinoulton · Post by **Kinoulton** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:11 pm

Reminds me of last night's scene. A car full of 5 blokes dashing back from 5-a-side hoping to catch as much of the England match as possible in t' village pub.

Horror of horrors we come up behind a herd of cows being slowly driven towards milking.

So progress halted and we just had to sit there glumly watching several dozen cows' backsides slowly trundling towards their destination.

The car driver said bitterly "I suppose they're Parkso's cows." (Parkso being a local dairy farmer.)

The front seat passenger leans forward, peers at them, and says confidently: "No, they're Collishaw's, they are."

As you can imagine there was a BIG debate as to how this man new them so intimately as to tell them apart.