Saturday, July 07, 2007

Human directionals

The favourite human interest story on New Zealand television news last Friday night was the new US fad of "sign spinning" - apparently a new twist on the rather depressing human directionals trend noted by Steve Sailer.

Apparently a couple of American college graduates have made a tidy sum of money from teaching the sign-holders to put a "positive spin" on their signs, as the media usually likes to do with stories about wage rates and immigration issues.

Personally, I would have thought sign spinning would be an even harder way to make a few dollars than sign holding. How long can you spin a sign for? (at least in the 30s depression they had easy to hold sandwich boards), and how soon before the novelty wears off among the public?

Yet more service industry insanity coming to a western country near you!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Need human directionals?

Unknown said...

I enjoyed your article on Human Directionals. Thanks for posting it. In Orange County Human Directionals are quite common and it's interesting to note their use in other areas.