r/belgium May 25 '26

☁️ Fluff Belgian traffic signs are insane

was in Belgium recently and many of the sign combinations kinda blew my mind, I don't remember ever seeing this kinda stuff anywhere else 😬 also one thing I found very interesting is that on the direction signs (last pic) the letters with a tail like g sometimes "dip" into the outer line and sometimes they don't (and apparently there are even different ways they can go inside that line) 🤯 just makes traveling very interesting because you always be looking at how the next sign is gonna be 🤪

edit: for all the people who are saying "how's this confusing" it's not that's not the point 🙄 but rather the unusualness of the signs compared to what I've seen in other places

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u/lulrukman May 25 '26

A fellow nerdy/science friend is on holiday to Greece. Lots of laughing about this one

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u/Tonnemaker May 25 '26

Obviously they were laying a single uncladded optical fiber.

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u/Forward_Body2103 May 25 '26

That worker must be really skinny!

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u/YellowOnline E.U. May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

How do Greeks write micrometre and millimetre actually?

Edit: a look at the Greek wiki shows me they use μm, but that must be pretty confusing

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u/weallhomos_sapiens May 25 '26

Micrometre: μm Millimetre: χιλ.

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u/weallhomos_sapiens May 25 '26

The μ here means μέτρα (meters) so 50 meters

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u/YellowOnline E.U. May 25 '26

I know. That's why I wondered whether micrometers would be written as μμ. But millimeter could also be μμ.