Tarrman:
Good lord, all this over a bloody sign that everybody understands!! If you don’t understand it you shouldn’t be bloody driving!
+1
Orys I don’t see how you think the blue square sign makes it clear you have priority. You are the smaller red arrow, which is always the one that gives way.
switchlogic:
Orys I don’t see how you think the blue square sign makes it clear you have priority. You are the smaller red arrow, which is always the one that gives way.
Exactly ^^^^
And if an accident were to happen where you didn’t give way, you would be to blame.
Santa:
The beware of the ■■■■■■■■■■ sign
Perhaps a picture of an old man in a shell suit with a cigar might be more appropriate 
Still with the annoying arguments?
Tarrman:
Good lord, all this over a bloody sign that everybody understands!! If you don’t understand it you shouldn’t be bloody driving!
The point is that sign can be understanded both ways, depends of if you look only at arrows (like Switchlogic) or only at the general outlay of signs (like me). You can’t look at both as since the sign is upside down, they are contradictory. Simply solution to it would be “if you don’t know what the signs means, you shoulnd’t be bloody hanging them”. If the sings were put up properly, there would be no need for interpreting “what the sing hanger had in mind” as their meaning will be obvious.
switchlogic:
Orys I don’t see how you think the blue square sign makes it clear you have priority. You are the smaller red arrow, which is always the one that gives way.
I can explain it to you. There are generally four types of sings. Red squares, telling you what you CAN’T do (regular “give way to oncoming traffic” sign falls in that category, saying that you CAN’T go if someone is going from the other way). Yellow triangles, warning you about something. Blue circles, ordering you to do something. And blue squares giving you information.
Blue square is an informative sign. Blue square with arrows informs you, that you are entering a narrow bit of the road where one direction have priority. Since you don’t need to do anything, you just get informative sign, otherwise you would have red sign sign ordering you to give way. Therefore layout of arrows is an insignificant detail, as it is the colour and shape (in other words, category of the sign) of the sign that gives you most information you need, that is if you can or can’t go. If it would be not like that, then both signs could be blue.
Tarrman:
And if an accident were to happen where you didn’t give way, you would be to blame.
I wouldn’t. Because what I see when I come from the side of blue sign is a sign saying that I have priority that is happened to be turned upside down. So either I have priority despite that someone can’t hung a sign properly, or this is not the legal sign as per Highway Code and Vienna Convention, and therefore I have no legal obligation to observe it. Either way, I don’t have to stop. And as for the sign underneath, to drive in UK I don’t have to be able to read English, for all that matters I can be Bulgarian or Serbian and I don’t even need to know European letters.
Bale Bandit:
Still with the annoying arguments?
Yeah, what I can do. For me and many others is obvious that someone hung this signs wrong, how silly, end of the story. But some think it is better to try to prove, that there is nothing wrong with them and that it is me who can’t drive 
If the arrows dictate that you don’t have right of way,then I would say that it would be prudent to allow oncoming traffic that right,regardless of the shape of the sign.Proceed with caution is the rule I would apply.whichever side I was approaching from. 
Sir +:
If the arrows dictate that you don’t have right of way,then I would say that it would be prudent to allow oncoming traffic that right,regardless of the shape of the sign.Proceed with caution is the rule I would apply.whichever side I was approaching from.
Arrows dictate I don’t have right of way. On the other hand, the sign dictate I do have right of way. So I don’t know:
- does someone wanted me to have priority, but put sign upside down, so the arrows are wrong way?
- or does someone wanted me to give way, but mistakenly put wrong sign, so the arrows are ok, but they are on wrong sign?
I don’t know it. Proceed with care - thats for sure, it’s obvious to do that when in doubt. The point is: if the signs were put correctly, there would be no doubt.
In my day we didn’t have so many warning signs 'cos people weren’t so [zb] stupid.
Quote stolen from some ■■■■ on facebook.
Common sense.
Someone has far too much time on their hands it seems.
Yes, stopped driving for a living.
Blimey, invoking the Vienna Convention now, just when I thought you couldn’t get any more pom…no, I’ll leave it
Two Polish truck drivers are barreling along when they come up to an overpass. A sign says, “Clearance: 11"2’.” So they get out, measure their truck, and realize that it’s 11"6’. So the first man looks at his friend and says, “I don’t see any police around… let’s go for it!”
Tarrman:
Good lord, all this over a bloody sign that everybody understands!! If you don’t understand it you shouldn’t be bloody driving!
+1
Why complicate the issue anyway ,if there must be a picture for the illiterate amongst us then why not a simple traditional “give way” sign
Not only did I not see the arrows , I didn’t even see the bloody Indians. 
bigvern1:
Two Polish truck drivers are barreling along when they come up to an overpass. A sign says, “Clearance: 11"2’.” So they get out, measure their truck, and realize that it’s 11"6’. So the first man looks at his friend and says, “I don’t see any police around… let’s go for it!”
That’s actually not so abstract… In Poland bridges are marked with 0.5m of margin, that’s why it is quite common occurence
switchlogic:
Blimey, invoking the Vienna Convention now, just when I thought you couldn’t get any more pom…no, I’ll leave it
Yeah, Vienna Convention… Yet another bloody people who try to tell Britain how it should do their things