[mikhailfranco]

And also this gem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_Appreciation_Societ...

which got its meme explosion from a calendar of 12 roundabouts, here is the latest 2024 edition:

https://dullkev.com/product/roundabouts-of-the-world-2024-ca...

[Cockbrand]

On the topic of Appreciation Societies, I'd like to add the World Bollard Association which has brought me much joy.

https://twitter.com/WorldBollard

As an aside, what's today's preferred alternative Twitter/X frontend, now that nitter.net seems to have shut down?

[blippage]

In London, some bollards have been made out of recycled cannons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxdJrqV0l4c

[fennecbutt]

You generally find this where ever cannons have been. I've seen in NZ, UK, France, Malta, etc

[ornornor]

I use twiiit.com (and have a rule in kagi to replace twitter.com with twiiit.com in search results)

It uses a random nitter instance each time.

[Cockbrand]

Thank you to all upvoters, the parent comment has brought me to 1000 Karma, some 12 1/2 years later :)

[jasomill]

Ah yes, the Arc de Triomphe, notable for its location in one of the great roundabouts of the world.

Speaking as someone with a predilection for photographing fire hydrants and manhole covers, this seems like an entirely reasonable perspective.

[samstave]

Have you seen the "fire hydrants that look like planets" blog or whatever it was - it was a few years ago...

https://www.reddit.com/r/firehydrantplanets/ <-- Warning, contains Bollards as well.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=firehyd...

Lots of really cool planet-hydrants posts

[mikhailfranco]

Ah yes, the Arc de Triomphe, celebrating victory in 1806, which turned to tragic defeat by 1812, and invasion by 1814, with 500k French dead, and the Russian Tsar marching into Paris - presumably inspecting the shiny new Arch of Victory LOL. The French invasion of Russia turned into the Russian (allied) invasion of France.

The aforesaid roundabout (12 avenues meeting in a neat circle, containing some vague gallic-shrug number of unmarked lanes) will always be the Place D'Etoile for me, never the Place Charles de Gaulle - but that's another long story of French arrogance and hubris. I do believe the Nazis also paraded around the French Arc de Triomphe.