Thailand: Random Road signs and the demise of Darwinism.

A picture paints a thousand words, this one screams nope no way am I stopping here.

 It seems the world has gone crazy; the sky is falling in and we should repent for the end is nigh or so many would have us mere mortals believe. You can’t really escape it, for today we have warning signs on just about everything. Poor old Charles Darwin would roll over in his grave if he saw the mollycoddling of today’s society as we attempt to negate Darwinism. 

And you are not going to guess what happened here!!, yep you guessed it. when I turned around to take the picture. I dropped the bike right in the middle of cobra crossing area, never have I picked the bike up so quickly in my life.

If you’re not familiar with Darwin’s theory of evolution, then perhaps you are indeed a living example of why we live in a world of cancel culture and fluffiness. A world where we have dumbed it down so much that we now need ‘Do not drink’ warning labels on bottles of Draino (a caustic acid cleaning product). Put simply, where has all the common dog fuck (CDF) gone?

Arah the good old Alpha monkey always angry, pissed off and ill-tempered much like some of my middle aged mates.

Now having said that, living in Thailand for the past 8 months and riding a big motorcycle one learns pretty damn quickly to apply liberal doses of CDF in one’s ability to safely navigate the arguably loose rule based society that governs the roads here and beyond.

Perhaps when you encounter an Alpha monkey, you better have bought your thing for the pickup truck. I wonder if “a thing” is code for an attitude adjuster AKA baseball bat or shotgun.

But even I’ve started to notice random warning signs that are comical in nature and leave one with the thought. Just how many times does this negative outcome have to happen before someone officially goes yeah, we better put a warning sign here to diminish the occurrences of this given tragic outcome.  I can’t but help feel this may be a touch of the western cultural influence creeping in. Or maybe it simply is further evidence of the erosion of Darwinism to human society as a whole? I guess we’ll never really know.

Well it wouldn’t be Thailand if we were not worried about wild elephants.

Don’t worry there are even signs that tell you what to do if encounter a wild elephant.

This collage of pictures is just some of the funnier and more random road and warning signs that I encountered on a recent 3000 kilometre, month long solo trip around Thailand.

It seems bike riders are a special breed here in Thailand as well Requiring their own signage going both up hill and downhill. Though I am not sure if the downhill one is for the bike riders or the bemusement of other road users

I had a blast on this trip, and it was just what the doctor ordered. Travelling solo for the first time in many years was exhilarating and defiantly out of my comfort zone. In search of something.  You don’t really know what, where or why you’re doing it. But you just want to keep doing it, pushing your boundaries, and living outside of your comfort zone. I guess to me this was one small journey of self-discovery within a quest for divine guidance as I look for the future direction of my next adventures.   If I had to describe it, it was a feeling like I was in my very own roadrunner cartoon show, and I starred as Wile E. Coyote.  Never really succeeding but never giving up, just metaphorically chasing the Holy Grail of dreams

Any Guesses? Caution land mines? caution certain death ahead?

This one stopped me in my tracks…. had me seeking clarification quickly. Translates to - causation of accidents, bendy roads vehicles entering.

Thanks, Snail, for the translate.

This one had me puzzled for days. was it get your Trumpet out and play some tunes or maybe turn up the radio and get your groove on ???
No this one translates to sound your horn. before entering blind corner.

nobody likes pollution, but would you have worked it out without the English prompt.

The Irony of this sign made me laugh, pretty sure one warning sign is a direct result of another warning sign. In a game of which came first the deer or the human feeding the deer,

Took me a little while to work this one out. The penny finally dropped when I saw the burnt-out version of the sign.

Somehow i do not think we could get away with this sign in Australia. But, what’s not to love about the world’s first Man cave.

Just in case you need reminding no smoking and no E cigarettes (whatever that means- you’ll get the pun if you fly Qantas) Ooh and do be a good boy and leave your guns and dogs at home when you come inside to this restaurant.

So, after a month on the road, chalked up an amazing array of experiences and met some amazing people, I look forward to sharing it all with you. I’m still no closer to finding the meaning of life or next week’s lottery number for that matter but then again is anyone.
What I did find out is that it all gets easier after you take the first step, you adapt. You overcome with varying degrees of success and with hundreds of kilometres on the road to travel reflecting upon it invariably leads you to the next opportune moment in life. Sharing that in a logical manner will be the hard part but I’m sure I’ll work something out. Stay tuned for more meanderthal adventures.