So that's why...

I'm sure nearly all of you have noticed the small things in different places you've visited -- bad translations to English, different street signs, just very small things that you notice, but are close enough to what you're use to that you get the point.

Here in Asia, especially in Hong Kong, I've noticed that nearly all of the public warnings or announcements are not only telling you what to to, but also why you should (or shouldn't) do something. I first noticed it when I went to the grocery store and there was a constant announcement going on about washing fruits and vegetables so that you don't get sick and you feel better and enjoy food. I thought, that's weird --doesn't everyone know to wash stuff you get from the store? Especially a store in China? And how to they know I'm going to enjoy it more? What if it tastes like crap?

The grocery store is always pushing items claiming not that it is better, or improved or healthier -- but that it will make you enjoy life more, or make you happier, or your day more harmonious. Very strange.



Either way, John and I have taken some pictures of signs we thought were funny -- so just so obvious and detailed that we couldn't believe that a public warning was needed.

This one is telling you about dog poop - In the US it's usually a simple "Clean up after your pet" or "Curb your dog". Here, they're actually getting into the whole act of it.




This one is posted outside of the Pearl Tower in Shanghai. Rule #1 states, most importantly that "The raggamuffin, drunken people and psychotics are forbidden to enter the Tower"

This one is showing what happens to you if you've never thrown food at birds, or seen someone else do it


These are just some other ones that we thought were really unnecessary, or obvious.

Like -- lock your doors when you leave....

Look behind you before you cast a fishing pole into the gross South China Sea (now ironically, here is where a warning about actually washing and eating the fish would have maybe been of some value)

Don't really listen to the fortune tellers on the streets of Kowloon. The funny part is that they say not to be "easily fooled" by the religious street scams as opposed to really difficult to fool