Oh it’s absurd. When I grew up in Britain we used to joke about America and how they had a sign on everything but the U.K. is now 10x worse. The endless announcements. The sign language video on every single timetable screen (Why? can deaf people not read? How do they navigate the 99.9999% of the world that lacks such screens? Can’t their iPhone help?). It’s madness.
My favourite is how the classic “mind the gap” (worthy as some of those gaps were quite big and it varies from station to station) has been replaced with “mind the gap between the train and the platform” as if some people are too stupid to know where the gap is? (And no sign language videos for that, so presumably it’s a slaughterhouse for the hard of hearing!).
And what is the “it” that we’re supposed to be seeing and spotting anyway? Maybe they could solve that problem instead.
My favourite is how the classic “mind the gap” (worthy as some of those gaps were quite big and it varies from station to station) has been replaced with “mind the gap between the train and the platform” as if some people are too stupid to know where the gap is? (And no sign language videos for that, so presumably it’s a slaughterhouse for the hard of hearing!).
And what is the “it” that we’re supposed to be seeing and spotting anyway? Maybe they could solve that problem instead.