• m0darn@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      I am on an elementary school’s parent advisory committee and we had one built for school notices and fundraisers etc.

      It took for ever to get built though, and cost an arm and a leg.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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      4 months ago

      Had them in some small towns I lived in growing up that were used for a public board. Yard sales, missing stuff, other events or official notices.

        • Aeao@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Depends on the hike. Sometimes I hike to where my phone is charging because I feel it’s charged long enough and I don’t want to spoil it. It should be as tired as I am. 20 percent? You’re more charged than I am get your ass over here.

  • Sips'@slrpnk.net
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    4 months ago

    Loooove these stands, whether it’s for a local map or for posters and events.

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      They’re common around designated nature trails in my country too. You’re just remembering simpler, happier times probably.

  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I once cycled to a pub in the rain to meet friends. The pub had no where to lock a bike, apart from one of these roofed sign things. It was tricky but I managed to lock it to it. It was great, kept the rain off my bike.

  • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I never gave these things a second thought, but yeah, they are pretty awesome actually.

  • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    My only problem with these are that the plastic on them is always somehow smudge/frosted enough that you cant read a thing.

    • m0darn@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      I think it’s partly UV and partly being cleaned with paper towel. I think cotton is much softer on a micro level.

      • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        At least here the actual papers and stuff pinned to them are covered by a locked hinged window made of plastic.

      • BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        Is their not a plastic sheet covering the posted maps and signs? Like the structure is wood, but most I have seen have a plastc covering over the display.

        And ya sometimes the scratches and smearing and graffiti makes it unreadable.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          The bougie ones have glass… That might be what they are referring to.

          I do a lot of hiking and most often it’s plastic. Weirdly you find the glass covered ones in usually boring trails in small towns that seem very rarely traveled. I have even seem some that are just cork board, with nothing covering it. The pages are either lamented, or less desirably slipped into a 3 ring binder type sleeve and stapled.

  • earphone843@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    We have one to cover our goat’s alfalfa bales, and I’ve always thought it was neat. Unless I cut my arm on the roof, then it’s not so neat

  • Thorry84@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    There is this nature reserve I like to go to nearby. They have a whole row of these setup explaining stuff about the region, the plants, what they do to preserve it (which is a lot). There’s also some along the walking route with relevant explanations about some of the plants and animals present at that location.

    Until one day some fucking asshole during Covid got a lot of shitty anti-vax stickers and plastered them all over the place. All over all of the info signs, the walking route markers, basically anywhere they could. It must have been hundreds of stickers.

    Next time I came there I reported it, but they said they were aware. People had tried to remove the stickers, but they were those really shitty paper stickers that just fell apart instead of coming off. They also weren’t water proof, so withing two weeks they weren’t even readable any more.

    Some time later the people managing the place attempted to remove the stickers but it didn’t work. In the end they used such a strong chemical it not only removed the sticker but also damaged the plastic underneath. Those things were constructed of a metal plate with the prints on them and sandwiched in between acrylic. The kind of thing that will hold up for years outside and is easy to clean. The acrylic was also treated with an anti-graffiti coating, but that didn’t help against those shitty stickers I guess.

    The signs were all but destroyed at that point and a forest manager told me they didn’t have the funds to replace them all. Some of the sings have since been replaced, but there are still a lot left damaged.

    It ruined my peaceful place and made me hate anti-vaxxers even more. I used to go there to escape from all the awful stuff in the world during Covid as it was one of the things one could still do to not be locked in place all the time. People suck.