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[-] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago

What? All 6s look like upside down 9s...

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 23 points 1 week ago

Dept. of Highways be like:

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That reminds me of a terrible old joke:

A young worker is putting on house siding when the foreman shows up, the foreman notices the young worker tossing every couple of nails out into the yard from his pouch. When the foreman asks “why are you throwing the nails out”, the young worker says “well they’re pointed the wrong direction I can’t hammer them into the wall”. To this the foreman replies “you idiot! Those are for the other side of the house!“

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 8 points 1 week ago

Sir, lemmyshitposting is around the block.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

This is just the "getting to know you" phase or offramp meetups. In 3 exits they'll be in a nicer position.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Interstate exits aren't numbered sequentially anymore, but instead by mile marker. It's easier to insert new exits without messing up the numbering that way.

The "nice" exit, if it exists, would be three miles away, not necessarily three exits away.

[-] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

The sign for exit 99 is ready.

You mean, 66?

Um yeah...sure

frantic scraping noises

[-] sheridan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Does exit 99 use two upside-down sixes?

edit: typo

[-] fum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It looks like they just rotated the holes 90 degrees by accident

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

It uses two upside down nines because if it only used one upside down nine, it would say that it was exit 69, and everybody would be stealing the sign all the time.

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