No joke: Feds discourage humorous electronic messages on highways

Mannivu@feddit.it to Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 118 points –
No joke: Feds discourage humorous electronic messages on highways
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Because the pop culture references confuse people.

They didn’t ban punny things outright, but asked they be broadly understandable

“Why are you trying to have the federal government come in and tell us what we can do in our own state? Prime example that the federal government is not focusing on what they need to be.”

Bro needs to look up the meaning of the word discourage

Meanwhile we still have whatever the hell this is.

Maybe is missing a second part, like "Jesus is watching you" or maybe "Patrick is watching you and he doesn't like what he sees".

Discourage means: Make guidelines to follow for humourous messages, like "don't make a reference too specific for everyone to get"

I thought it was more like "don't distract drivers on the highway"

Yeah exactly. Who would have thought that the guidelines would advise that? Inconceivable! 😅

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If I can be a "14 year old deep thinker" for a moment, I truly believe that society would be thriving if we got rid of all the uncool people, but in order to create it you'd have to become pretty uncool.