I remembered a quote from Bash: “The admin is a jerk, he put his phone on charge and tells me not to read the SMS on his phone. It never crossed my mind, but now, damn, curiosity is tearing me apart.”
And the English instead of our “No Exit” write: “Exit on the other side”.
“Do not mess in vases!”, “Do not blow your nose in the curtains”.
This wonderful set is complemented by the concept of think negative. After months of living in the USA, this difference in the mentality of people from opposite continents is very noticeable. Here too they can plaster a bunch of signs saying the Potomac drowns careless tourists, but they do it much more gracefully.
The link above leads to an article about the prohibitions at every corner that kept popping up in Russia.
