[mdavidford]

Everything seems painfully slow this morning – is that just me, or is it like that for everyone?

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[wycombewheeler]

brooksby wrote:

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

… That was after him commenting it was stupid for cars to leave a little space for pedestrians to be able to cross infront of petrol stations because “someone else would queue jump into that space”. 

That seems to be a very common attitude.  Even in a queue of traffic toward traffic lights, people don’t like it if you leave (oh, I don’t know) a gap so that other people can get in or out of a side road.

 

OT, anecdote from last night: long queue of traffic heading toward Portishead on the A369.  Nose to tail from Abbots Leigh down to the Pill junction, as there are temporary traffic lights on Haberfield Hill.  I’m on the cycle path, go through a gap between cars onto the refuge.  Look to my left and check nothing’s coming.  Start to move but my spidey sense shrieks so I don’t move, just as a delivery scooter races past from my right on the wrong side of the traffic island…  That little trick managed to get him maybe five or six cars further forward in the queue 

I’ve noticed that drivers are more likely to let a car out of a side road into the queue in front of them, than they are to leave a gap so cars coming in the other direction can turn right into the sid road, causing them no delays whatsoever.

I don’t understand myself, they will even stop across the entry side of the road to allow someone out of the exit in front of them.

And near zero chance of leaving a gap at a pedestrian crossing, or waiting for pedestrians to cross before moving 5metres forward because the car in front moved 5m forward.

[brooksby]

AlsoSomniloquism wrote:

… That was after him commenting it was stupid for cars to leave a little space for pedestrians to be able to cross infront of petrol stations because “someone else would queue jump into that space”. 

That seems to be a very common attitude.  Even in a queue of traffic toward traffic lights, people don’t like it if you leave (oh, I don’t know) a gap so that other people can get in or out of a side road.

 

OT, anecdote from last night: long queue of traffic heading toward Portishead on the A369.  Nose to tail from Abbots Leigh down to the Pill junction, as there are temporary traffic lights on Haberfield Hill.  I’m on the cycle path, go through a gap between cars onto the refuge.  Look to my left and check nothing’s coming.  Start to move but my spidey sense shrieks so I don’t move, just as a delivery scooter races past from my right on the wrong side of the traffic island…  That little trick managed to get him maybe five or six cars further forward in the queue 

[AlsoSomniloquism]

Shame you didn’t point out

Shame you didn’t point out the Conservative MP who tweeted out that Pedestrians are at the bottom of a very long list of priorities on the road as the example with cars and Lorries the first thing. That was after him commenting it was stupid for cars to leave a little space for pedestrians to be able to cross infront of petrol stations because “someone else would queue jump into that space”. 

[Rendel Harris]

One sentence. NG said,

One sentence. NG said, ridiculously, that the helmetless councillor was “a role model to remainers.” I said that maybe the right were stupid enough to ape their leaders in everything they did but on the left we have the brains to make up our own minds. That was it. That’s not a rant. If you want to waste your time accusing me of trolling every time I challenge a rightist comment on here, fill your boots, but it just makes you look a bit desperate really.

[chrisonabike]

It’s WING MIRROR the reflecty

It’s WING MIRROR the reflecty thing that looks back! But yes, quo vadisc brake?

[Rich_cb]

Which you replied to with
Which you replied to with what exactly Rendel?

A rant about right wingers being stupid.

So, yes, you did politicise it by escalating it quite so ridiculously.

You’re just as bad as all those you shout ‘Troll’ at routinely.

[TheBillder]

I’ll look forward to the
I’ll look forward to the Fermat’s Last Rim Brake theorem. And your ultimate analysis of whither the door mirror.

[hawkinspeter]

Sounds pretty stressful – go

Sounds pretty stressful – go get yourself a beer once things settle down

[Tony Farrelly]

Evening all!

Evening all!
As you’ve noticed the site has been having a bit of a mare today… after a difficult week, to the point where earlier on this evening we had to revert the whole thing to basically yesterday. 
So first off, apologies to anyone whose lost any comments posted between then and this evening – top marks if you did manage to post anything after mid morning. 
We’ve been able to put back all the features and tech news that we lot, but so far we haven’t been able to get the news back – we will though. 

[chrisonabike]

There goes my pithy solution

There goes my pithy solution to all the transport issues in this country and also the last word on helmets.  Topics which we’ll probably never discuss again. Never mind, I’ll stay for the cheap puns and snark.

[Rendel Harris]

wtjs wrote:

Unfortunately, these expressed sentiments didn’t stop him disingenuously collaborating while in Nazi captivity

Wodehouse was totally exonerated of any charge of collaboration. He foolishly agreed to make some broadcasts for his American fans with the CBS correspondent in Berlin, at a time when America and Germany were not at war – he was guilty of naivety and nothing else, as George Orwell (hardly the typical Wodehouse defender) said in his essay “In Defence of P.G.Wodehouse.” He was not a collaborator – they don’t generally get knighthoods.

[AlsoSomniloquism]

Although it is a good

Although it is a good maintenance page window. Almost as clever as the 404 page.

[wtjs]

Possibly my favourite lines

Possibly my favourite lines in all of Wodehouse are when Bertie Wooster attacks Roderick Spode, who has set up a group a fascists called the Blackshorts

Unfortunately, these expressed sentiments didn’t stop him disingenuously collaborating while in Nazi captivity

[Hirsute]

I think you said £250.
I think you said £250.

[Steve K]

We’ve also lost my maths to

We’ve also lost my maths to work out the full price of the new Hiplock lock – which I was quite proud of and was the main result of me helping my daughter prepare for her 11+ (well, subject to whether she’s passed or not)

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