[David9694]

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. 

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[Hirsute]

‘Legoland’ road markings met

‘Legoland’ road markings met with confusion

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c16e46ed25ko

Torbay Council said it painted a junction on Paignton Road to increase safety for pedestrians.

 

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The Rotherham estate prone to

The Rotherham estate prone to car crashes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-south-yorkshire-66502015

(Can’t help feeling that “prone to prangs” is a missed opportunity)

[Cugel]

ktache wrote:

Up by 13%, is that above or below the rate of inflation at the moment?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/frightening-rise-in-vehicles-driving-wrong-way-on-englands-motorways

Many of the head-oners are so because drunk, it seems.  Many were directed there by their stupid-nav.

Others will be going car-jousting because they’re drunk on freedumb. Who is this “society” (that doesn’t exist anyway ‘cos The Thatcher Thing banned it) that dares to say I can’t DO WHAT I WANT? 

Others again will have seen a robber-hero do it on an yank cop movie so it must be cool. See the second-raters swerve-crash out of his way!

Oh Brave New Blighty, that has such carloons in it.

[David9694]

You can’t have any sleep,at

You can’t have any sleep at night because cars:

Exeter residents living next to ‘noisy’ major development are now enduring sleepless nights from roadworks

Developer Watkin Jones has told DevonLive that the completion date for The Gorge is August 31, and that roadworks will take place between 8pm and 2am. They added that also due to the location of the works and the high volume of traffic, they have no other option but to close the highway overnight.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/exeter-residents-living-next-noisy-8669135

[David9694]

Like moving house or getting

Like moving house or getting divorced, crashing your car/ chancing it is a rich man’s pursuit. Quite a worrying video.

[David9694]

Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted

Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring could see free parking axed

New excuse for cheap/free parking unlocked – a fair bit of gymnastics going on for Cllr Capozzi here:

“…because people are using those places for wellbeing, they should be some of the last to be charged,” she said. The Liberal Democrat councillor added “when you see the amount of people who use, for example, the skate park”, free parking becomes an issue of “losing access” to affordable exercise.”

https://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/hemel-hempstead-berkhamsted-tring-could-8576843

[chrisonabike]

Cautious Rotherham drivers

Cautious Rotherham drivers rendered helpless when a dastardly developer failed to put in road markings (crunch, smash)!

Or could it be the “shared space” idea – that people will drive more carefully if there are no markings – doesn’t actually work very well?  Or indeed at all with current UK drivers? (It’s awful for pedestrians and cyclists too).

[ktache]

https://www.theguardian.com

Up by 13%, is that above or below the rate of inflation at the moment?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/frightening-rise-in-vehicles-driving-wrong-way-on-englands-motorways

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hawkinspeter wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.

A thrilling spectacle of nature.

‘Ere, that seems to be Hambini excitedly greeting his hairdresser! He seems ready to ream something, anyway.

[hawkinspeter]

chrisonatrike wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.

A thrilling spectacle of nature.

[chrisonabike]

hawkinspeter wrote:

chrisonatrike wrote:

I thought it was the same one as last week – “poor car”, I thought, “it has only just got over its last accident”.  It’s a different one though so must be the occult effects of the Bristol triangle, or the road or something.

Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.

A thrilling spectacle of nature.

[hawkinspeter]

chrisonatrike wrote:

I thought it was the same one as last week – “poor car”, I thought, “it has only just got over its last accident”.  It’s a different one though so must be the occult effects of the Bristol triangle, or the road or something.

Probably something to do with the balloon festival. The predatory autonomous vehicles are trying to snatch low-flying balloons out of the sky.

[David9694]

Oh, the car ads.  The city

Oh, the car ads.  The city you want to use it to escape from because of other cars.  You can meet the other cars in the countryside instead, perhaps get stuck in some mud, sand or a narrow path as here.  

The get away car – has a The Sweeney ring to it. I wonder if the copywriter intended that? 

[David9694]

Genre Classic:

Genre Classic:

Godstone ‘road rage’ row between Audi and BMW drivers investigated by police

Police are appealing for anyone who saw what happened on the A22 to come forward

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/godstone-road-rage-row-between-27502305

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mark1a wrote:

The Young Ones – way ahead of its time…

A curious notion, this idea that some sort of current event is not really current but a visitation from the future. Generally something described as “way ahead of its time” means only “I was surprised at this event as its unusual in my own generally mundane experience“.

Mind, modern cultural artefacts and constructions can be time-confused, as there’s the imagined-futures (a la Star Trek et al) as well as the “historical” novel and filum. But in fact, both tend to be very much reflections of current concerns, assumptions, prejudices and other ways of thinking-as-we-do-now in the mass media-constructed noosphere.

But humans love to create “heroes” and “special ones” – in the case of “ahead of their time” generally meaning only that “I liked it’s apparent novely (to me)” rather than some truly new, innovative and entirely made-by-the-hero item magically created out of nothing but their immaculate mind like an Ayn Rand character.

“The Young Ones” can be traced back through centuries to Diogenes emitting his body fluids upon others in the market-place and similar – and probably further back, if we had anything written to navigate by.

Whilst it may be an exageration to suggest that, “There’s nothing new under the sun” a case can certainly be made that today’s novely consist of 99.9% of the familiar with 0.1% added glamour, PR or grasping attempt to make some intellectual copyright as feedstock to making some more money.

But I digress.  (I forget from what).  🙂

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