Drivers and their problems

I presume that's "Xmas spirit"?

Since Xmas, just in my village there's a street lamp standing at a very odd angle and wrapped with police incident tape, and someone's wall (on a bend, coincidentally) also wrapped in tape - the low wall is cracked and at an angle and the fence panel mounted on top of it is leaning backwards rather badly.

brooksby wrote:

I went there the other day to collect my new Cycle to Work bike 

What have you got?

brooksby wrote:

Since Xmas, just in my village there's a street lamp standing at a very odd angle and wrapped with police incident tape, and someone's wall (on a bend, coincidentally) also wrapped in tape - the low wall is cracked and at an angle and the fence panel mounted on top of it is leaning backwards rather badly.

Bloody cyclists...

chrisonabike wrote:

brooksby wrote:

I went there the other day to collect my new Cycle to Work bike 

What have you got?

Their Classic Lightweight with an optional triple chainset (so, 3 x 9 gears).  Have bought a Litelok X1 lock (supposedly angle grinder proof…) but I'm waiting for Proofide and security skewers before I actually start riding it in.

brooksby wrote:

[...]  Have bought a Litelok X1 lock (supposedly angle grinder proof…) [...]

FWIW the Litelok X1 is angle grinder resistant, not angle grinder proof. It's still a very good lock (it's what I use daily!) but it can be cut eventually. It will last longer than any non-resistant D-lock and probably tough enough that most thieves won't bother trying, but if someone really wanted to get through (and had sufficient time undisturbed, and potentially a spare cutting disc) they could. There's a pretty comprehensive review here: https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/reviews/products/security/motorcyc...

OnYerBike wrote:

brooksby wrote:

[...]  Have bought a Litelok X1 lock (supposedly angle grinder proof…) [...]

FWIW the Litelok X1 is angle grinder resistant, not angle grinder proof. It's still a very good lock (it's what I use daily!) but it can be cut eventually. It will last longer than any non-resistant D-lock and probably tough enough that most thieves won't bother trying, but if someone really wanted to get through (and had sufficient time undisturbed, and potentially a spare cutting disc) they could. There's a pretty comprehensive review here: https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/reviews/products/security/motorcyc...

Sorry - I'd meant that it was resistant enought that They'd probably not bother (which is practically the same thing as '-proof', to all intents and purposes).  I totally understand that given enough time and a bag full of grinder discs, a thief can steal anything…

(edit) And the Litelok X1 is far more grinder resistant than the Kryptonites I've been using until now (a Forget-about-it and a Evolution Mini).

A diamond disk will make fairly short work of it and my Hiplock dx1000.

ktache wrote:

A diamond disk will make fairly short work of it and my Hiplock dx1000.

(edited) I'd hope that there aren't too many thieves wandering around with battery-powered diamond-disced* angle grinders that have been fitted with diamond discs…

*"disced" just looks wrong, doesn't it?  But "disked" doesn't look any better. 

I'd hope that there aren't too many thieves wandering around with battery-powered diamond-disced* angle grinders…

I'd like to think that our 'among the best in the world' crims, armed and encouraged by police inaction and 'can't be arsed' attitude, will not be discouraged by the hardly taxing job of putting a different disc onto their battery powered angle grinders

brooksby wrote:

*"disced" just looks wrong, doesn't it?  But "disked" doesn't look any better. 

I think because both of them are wrong (at least there's no adjective "disced" or "disked" in either my concise or complete versions of the Oxford dictionary), there's no need to modify the noun to use it adjectivally, just "diamond disc angle grinders" is fine, in the same way we say "disc brake bikes" not "disced brake bikes". "Angle grinders with diamond discs" might be a slightly more elegant way of expressing it?

I'm not sure that absence from the dictionary makes a word wrong, just not conventional.

bensynnock wrote:

I'm not sure that absence from the dictionary makes a word wrong, just not conventional.

That's a huge debate and one which could keep – and has kept – linguists and philologists in gainful employment for decades. Generally speaking though the OED is assiduous in gathering up all the words of the English language without making any judgement upon them, so if a word is not in the OED it seems most likely that it is not (yet) part of the language. Maybe one day it will be and brooksby will be cited as the original source! 

Except of course that disced and disked are in fact in the dictionary.

bensynnock wrote:

Except of course that disced and disked are in fact in the dictionary.

Not in the sense used here they are not*, or at least not in either edition I own of the Oxford English Dictionary. Be interested to hear which dictionaries they are in.

*There is a sense "like a disc" as in "the tree's disced canopy"

Be wary of using 'rim' as a verb.

Rendel Harris wrote:

bensynnock wrote:

Except of course that disced and disked are in fact in the dictionary.

Not in the sense used here they are not*, or at least not in either edition I own of the Oxford English Dictionary. Be interested to hear which dictionaries they are in.

*There is a sense "like a disc" as in "the tree's disced canopy"

Around here farmers disk their fields. They can then say that they disked their field yesterday. But yes, completely different sense of the word, and a verb, not an adjective.

I'd have used "disc'd" or "disc'ed"

stonojnr wrote:

I'd have used "disc'd" or "disc'ed"

I'm having flashbacks to reading Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon"… 

If this is Rome, there was a park-and-march just the other side of the Rubicon.

Rome's always had terrible traffic because all roads lead there.  And the drivers - pack of vandals!

I'm impressed that we can rely on CoaB to elevate the tone of these pages!

wtjs wrote:

I'm impressed that we can rely on CoaB to elevate the tone of these pages!

From Louis De Bernières, from memory (and toned down)  "Replace your hat, señor, or I will urinate in it!  I will not tolerate respect!"

chrisonabike wrote:

Rome's always had terrible traffic because all roads lead there.  And the drivers - pack of vandals!

Calm down Hun. Best get yourself some HiVis(igoths).

POLICE INVESTIGATING

I've just realised that I should have been amazed at this proposition, where lawbreaking motorists are concerned. They certainly don't bother with any of that nonsense in Lancashire! As soon as I type 'W' into the DVSA website, it knows what to do and brings up WU59 UMH (no VED for 6 1/2 years) and WT16 ATX- driving around for 4 months with a failed MOT for numerous serious defects, or parked outside the pub 50 yards from the police station as it is here. Police investigation or action:nil

I have just discovered this is a fake promo from a few years ago !

"The restrictions will be in place seven days a week from 7am to 6pm, starting from Tuesday – and furious home owners have complained about a lack of consultation."

Does seem excessive

“The thing is, they’re not working seven days a week, 24 hours a day, so why do they need no parking seven days a week?”

A woman has been arrested after admitting to assaulting two members of the public in Taunton.

What flavour of English is this?