Orkney Signage
For those of you who have ever been to Orkney (I used to live there) you will no doubt have heard of a town called Twatt. For obvious reasons the town has become quite popular among tourists and the like, and many insist on getting their pictures taken next to it.

What has become increasingly popular however, is to take the sign home as a souvenier. Or in other words, steal it. According to this article (about halfway down the page) each sign costs about £600 to replace which has apparently been quite irritating for the local council.

www.orcadian.co.uk/archive/2006/archive50.htm

So if you ever go to Orkney, do your part and steal a sign!

Here is a random picture I found on Google. It still makes me chuckle every time I see it...


( Fat Fred too weird to live, too rare to die, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:04, 6 replies)

Is it unusually hot and wet
in Twatt?

Or does it just stink of piss?
( SpankyHanky, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:18, closed)

I hear the bushes
on the verge can get terribly overgrown there.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 13:44, closed)

fucking
in austria has the same problem with their road signs, not surprisingly.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria
( spesh., Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:09, closed)

Co-incidental second sign?
www.snopes.com/photos/signs/graphics/austria2.jpg

(Translation: "Please, not so fast!")
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 14:35, closed)

I prefer...
... "Tongue of Gangsta", not so very far from there.
(gordonjcp, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 18:36, closed)

there be a twatt
on shetland too
(pogo_it, Wed 23 Sep 2009, 21:30, closed)