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Drivers and their problems
A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don't quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- giff77 1 sec ago
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- Mr Hoopdriver 11 min 49 sec ago
I've kept ride records for most of my life. I know I'm slower now than 30, 40 and 50. My Max HR is still in the 160s' and not following the 220...
- john_smith 46 min 26 sec ago
Hold on a sec. The ones moaning about zero emissions are allowed to emit CO2. It's the other lot who need to stop breathing.
- andystow 2 hours 17 min ago
I quite like the look of the tee, it would make it really hard to tell whether or not I had just come from a paintball fight.
- Simon E 2 hours 20 min ago
I fail to see why that is any more valid. The markets are not comparable, my point was about how some brands can sell overpriced, inferior products...
- David9694 2 hours 35 min ago
second home owner gets £60 parking penalty in Cornwall ...
- chrisonabike 3 hours 42 sec ago
Unfortunately they're classified as vulnerable due to being under the care of a government minister. Remember the publicity about the hierarchy of...
- DoomeFrog 3 hours 2 min ago
The Best Overall are, by definition, also the best under £100?
- brooksby 3 hours 11 min ago
Someone definitely needs to tell those "journalists " at the Torygraph about it...
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Cabbies and burger van man - that's who we should be listening to.
I didn't quite understand how the speed limit, and for that matter the traffic lights, stopped his would-be customers from eating their food.
"Cranham Drive motorhome: dad clears drive of all vans":
Let's not be too hard on the fellow, maybe he was using it as bike shed.
Christ, just what the fuck is it with these angry old men. I'm old now and more mellow that I've ever been.
HRT?
(hormone replacement therapy / legal-ish testosterone)
Otherwise law-abiding?
more wildlife mayhem
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24302508.poole-swan-causes-crash-...
Cash meters get targeted, the cash stolen and the machine wrecked. This is not cheap and leads to the removal of machines.
Hard to believe anyone with a car does not have a bank account or are they catering for the ones with no licence, insurance, ved?
If you've got the significant wodges of cash needed to pay your VED, take out insurance, pay your garage bills, it's hard to see any good reason why you haven't got a bank account.
If the real issue is the unfathomable complexity of apps and card payments then I'm struggling to see how you can safe to drive.
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who beached his cybertruck - fuck it!
He called Elon Musk
But was still stuck at dusk
And was freed with a spade and a bucket
cyber truck owners are complaining of vandalism due to the Tesla brand now being intrinsically tied to Elon’s negativity & bullshit.
Is that a message to or from the owner?
I wonder if Councils are going about this the wrong way. 30 mins parking- £20, 1hr- £10, 2hrs- £5, 4hrs- £2. And no moving your car until your time's up! Encourage the people who hang around town spending money, dissuade the 'pop to the shops for a paper' merchants.
Absurd - EV owner has no guarantee of a parking space anywhere near their home.
I've never understood why people should be allowed to own a car unless they have a private, off road space to keep it on. Roads should be for making progress upon and not storing ones several tons of metal..... and yes, I do have private parking for six cars on my property.
In Japan they have the shako shomeisho (proof of parking) rule, meaning one cannot buy a car – new or secondhand – unless one can produce a certificate from the local police proving that one either owns or rents an offstreet parking space close to one's home address. In addition (and this is apparently what makes it work really well) parking on a public street overnight is banned almost everywhere in the country.
どこに置いておけばいいですか、教えてください
Doko ni oite okeba īdesu ka, oshietekudasai
私を誘惑しないでください...
Watashi o yūwaku shinaide kudasai...
How I wish I could go back in time and implement this policy in the UK, before everything got out of hand.
Totally this. Go back 100-120 years and say "you know old chap the time will come when everyone has got one of these infernal cars" and perhaps have some pictures of what the world now looks like.
(And no I don't dote on the past as being when everything was wonderful.)
I'm in favour of on street parking for visiting e.g. shops, but not for long term storage. banning overnight parking seems the perfect way to accomodate this. With no cars remaining on the road all the time, there should be ample space for people to park in most places to meet the needs of shopping, picking up kids, visiting friends etc. and very little need for parking controls.
Good thing he didn't paint a bike shed on that...
Superb! Maybe in the same style somebody should start offering trompe l'oeil bike shed painting, disguise it as a parked SUV and no problems from the council.
But as Mark Twain pithily observed (along with many others), "Common sense ain't that common." One could of course argue that common sense would dictate that it is foolish to give virtually every citizen, whatever their level of intelligence or coordination, the right to pilot a tonne of lethal machinery easily capable of exceeding 100 mph in a more or less uncontrolled environment shared with unprotected human beings, with minimal education and testing and no follow-up training, tests or checks…
"unprotected human beings with minimal education . . . ", that is a bit harsh on the pedestrians.
Point taken, comma inserted!
most drivers would have assumed he was talking about cyclists
Sounds like Mr Schiavone (famous ancient Welsh clan, the Schiavones) understands English perfectly well, and should have had no trouble deciphering the parking ticket.
I'm sure if you presented him with directions to a garage selling petrol at £1.39 a litre he (and all other drivers claiming to not see/ be confused by signs) would have no trouble understanding it.
Couple with toddler in back end up with car on top of them after crash on country road
A young family were going about their Saturday afternoon when they were in collision with another car. After a number of 'near misses', there are now calls for the speed limit to be cut
The exact circumstances of the collision are unknown, including the speeds of the vehicles involved, but the mum said there needed to be better signs to warn drivers of some of the potential hazards. and a lower speed limithttps://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/couple-toddler-back-end-up...
And there was me thinking that every inch of Wales was covered in 20 mph limits.
"the mum said there needed to be better signs to warn drivers of some of the potential hazards"
Errrr.... High hedges, narrow road, bends. And that's just fron that one photo. Why would any competent driver need a sign to tell them that they need to moderate their speed and use the horn ?
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