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Ya, the worst i've seen is huge flashing (like, stroboscopically, i kid you not) green crosses for drug stores here in France... There are a few traffic interse
by toothbrush 12y ago
Ya, the worst i've seen is huge flashing (like, stroboscopically, i kid you not) green crosses for drug stores here in France... There are a few traffic intersections where, after having lived here a few years, i still regularly confuse a far-off (3 blocks) green pharmacy sign with a green traffic light that applies to me. Apart from being highly fugly, i would venture that it's almost dangerously distracting. It seems pharmacies in particular are offenders in my city, the rest is all rather subdued (luckily).
- malka 12y agoFrench here. I'm pretty sure some of them can trigger seizures, given how aggressive the strobing is.
- toothbrush 12y agoHa, good business model?
- zyxley 12y agoHah, I just came here specifically to comment about this. As an American tourist, the popularity of those garishly animated pharmacie signs in Paris was one of the subtly weirdest things about a number of countries in Europe that I've visited. I didn't see them anywhere outside of France, and they were so bright and distracting that I seriously wondered how they weren't a traffic hazard.