Drivers and their problems

Steve K wrote:

I went past a car in (slow) moving traffic on the A24 (CS7) in South London earlier this week where the driver had both hands off the wheel as he was counting a wad of bank notes.

Was it this chap?

David9694 wrote:

Younger viewers will be interested to know that the character featured, played by comic Harry Enfield is "Loadsamoney", an otherwise nameless London plasterer getting rich in the late 1980s building boom. 

Who drove, as I recall, an "XR3i Turbo Nutter Bastard".

David9694 wrote:

Younger viewers will be interested to know that the character featured, played by comic Harry Enfield is "Loadsamoney", an otherwise nameless London plasterer getting rich in the late 1980s building boom. 

Bish bosh shoom shoom wallop - dosh!

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Organiser David Bailey said it was always billed as a monster truck show (singular) not a monster trucks show.

I would love for him to try that argument in a court! 

David9694 wrote:

Mum and Dad's taxi

how much money and time is spent on transporting children by car?

https://www.zuto.com/blog/the-taxi-of-mum-and-dad/

In our family, Dad's taxi is (normally) a Tern GSD.  Mum's taxi (and dad's if taking both kids) is the car.

David9694 wrote:

You can't have somewhere to live because I want to park my car.  No, Civic Society, you fucked it, you stood by and let your amazing regency town become yet another race track for cars. 

Actually seems a reasonable knee-jerk. I'm not a planner or council worker but presumably while some kind of traffic modelling is mandated little thought seems to go into "how might people get about without cars?"

Actually I know that statement is incorrect here in Edinburgh. Thought is taken but a) seems it's more wishful thinking (if it's possible - just - lots will) as b) the provision is still "shared use" and/or "adventure-grade", and c) doesn't sufficiently consider connections to the network (...that we don't yet have). d) Meanwhile there's a garage or plenty car parking for all and great connections for drivers...

And in fact we're still doing "predict and provide" stuff. I think I can guess how people are going to take their kids to school and do their shopping...

David9694 wrote:

However, some pointed out that disposing of large waste legally and responsibly was “not always possible”.

I'm assuming they meant "not always free."

David9694 wrote:

Van gets sinking feeling on Cornish beach as surfer glides by

Visitors to a popular Cornish beach watched as the sea engulfed the unfortunate vehicle

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/van-gets-sinking-feeling-corni...

Bloody surfers don't even pay their wave tax

brooksby wrote:

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Organiser David Bailey said it was always billed as a monster truck show (singular) not a monster trucks show.

I would love for him to try that argument in a court! 

It makes me think of The Simpsons

Steve K wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Mum and Dad's taxi

how much money and time is spent on transporting children by car?

https://www.zuto.com/blog/the-taxi-of-mum-and-dad/

In our family, Dad's taxi is (normally) a Tern GSD.  Mum's taxi (and dad's if taking both kids) is the car.

The timings and distances of my kids' events means that my wife does the taxiing (in a car).  I'm usually still at work, and she works from home (she is self-employed)

Could've been worse - they could've turned up to find this.

David9694 wrote:

'Common sense not fixed speed limits are needed on our roads'

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…

The way I'm reading it, she went in to the shop, he was still in the car with the child. It's not clear why he was unaware of the ticket - maybe he was asleep as well as the child...

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If we go out and park anywhere, I'm terrified. If we are over a line or anything, we have got to park right in the middle. That's what they've said to us.

It's just a lack of humanity.

Umm - that is generally how parking's supposed to work - did she think the lines were just there for decoration?

If this wasn't in the city centre then I think he'd probably get away with it. There is a residents parking permit scheme on the roads around there but his address isn't in the zone that qualifies for a permit. He's really got two choices, which are to buy a smaller car or find somewhere else to park it. You can park for free about 15 minutes walk away.

Hirsute wrote:

The judge replied: “You not being on the roads for the next three months is better than you being out there driving.”

Though not as good as him being off the road for an actual meaningful length of time.

David9694 wrote:

I haven't gone looking for the Facebook group in question, it's all a bit too close to home for me - anyone else got the stomach for it, maybe could give us the gist? 

Bunch of carbrains, occasional voice of sanity, not as bad as Xitter.

HoarseMann wrote:

Woman gets fine for illegally parking on Winnats Pass and will never return to park there after ordeal (umm, that's how parking fines are supposed to work?!):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14426639/TikTok-travel-influenc...

It looks like it only adds two miles to walk from the Castleton car park.

"unprotected human beings with minimal education . . . ", that is a bit harsh on the pedestrians.

Some vandal added one of those to the Dunbar Wharf board's sign in Limehouse that perfectly reasonably prohibits cyclists from riding over the three yards or so of land they own between Narrow Street and the Thames Path. Disgraceful, ashamed of myself...

ChrisA wrote:

"unprotected human beings with minimal education . . . ", that is a bit harsh on the pedestrians.

Point taken, comma inserted!

I see there is a reply to the piece by someone calling themselves a lawyer. If this person is a lawyer then Heaven help anyone who takes legal advice from them. 

Rendel Harris wrote:

Some vandal added one of those to the Dunbar Wharf board's sign in Limehouse that perfectly reasonably prohibits cyclists from riding over the three yards or so of land they own between Narrow Street and the Thames Path. Disgraceful, ashamed of myself...

So you have to dismount for those three metres or else the world will end?  Someone at the Dunbar Wharf Freehold Company clearly didn't get given a bike when they were a child...

The one I posted about

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24490015.parking-ticket-handed-parent-combs-...