Drivers and their problems

David9694 wrote:

Drivers 'turn bus lane into car park' along Stratford Road and locals say 'it's a problem'

Reading the article, the cars parking in the bus lane are double parking there.  So who's parked in the actual parking spaces?  My money would be on 'the people wot work in the shops'.

Hirsute wrote:

Local rag scraping the barrel to call an allegro a 'vintage car' !

A VINTAGE car more than four decades old has been pulled off the road for being in a poor condition after being spotted by police in a supermarket car park.

This is what happens when you allow vehicles on the road that don't pay any tax and don't need an MOT. It does need insurance and a numberplate, so we can't quite play Cyclist Bingo

Brilliant lawyering.  I can only imagine - "My client was certainly not driving dangerously at at least two points - when he started and when he stopped".

You missed what he got and what he paid though: 90 mph, driving the wrong way on a dual carriageway, trying to ram police, no valid licence, no insurance.

Cost to him: 12 months jail sentence and also banned from driving for three years.

Obviously we won't now see him on the roads for four years, honest.

I assume they are soft southerners !

hawkinspeter wrote:

pockstone wrote:

"A SANDWICH??"...channeling Lady Bracknell. “One worker told me he no longer has time to drive home for lunch, so has to make do with a sandwich,” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/19/drivers-protest-as-bologna...

I think we need to start exporting Cornish pasties and a pint of wine in a British version of a Bento box.

I didn't read this properly.  I thought you were talking about that article about dabbawalas - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/jan/...

(Can't remember where I read an article about this in the last day or so, and was sure it was in the Grauniad).

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

I think we need to start exporting Cornish pasties and a pint of wine in a British version of a Bento box.

I didn't read this properly.  I thought you were talking about that article about dabbawalas - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/jan/...

(Can't remember where I read an article about this in the last day or so, and was sure it was in the Grauniad).

I remember reading about that - it's an incredible feat of logistics. Also, I'd love to have a lunch-time tiffin delivery service, but not so keen on paying takeaway prices for it. (That's made me hungry for a lentil dahl now)

wtjs wrote:

The dead giveaway was 'my little one'- ...heaves with nausea

well, they already admit the main reason is "I wouldn't want to..." so at least they are self aware enough to realise it is their choice and not really something imposed on them by the weather. I bet these same parents drive even when the weather is fine.

David9694 wrote:

As long as it isn't blocking anyone's way...

Anyone in a car, everyone else isn't important enough to worry about

To be fair lunch in general, and particularly going home to have it with your family, is a much more important cultural thing in Italy: around 75% of people have lunch at home and many consider lunch, rather than dinner, the big meal of the day. Lunch breaks tend to be longer – up to two hours – and most Italian schools end the day at 13.00–13.30 so children are home for family lunch as well. So while the concept of complaining about having to stay at work and have a sandwich for lunch is pretty risible in UK culture it would represent a major lifestyle change for many Italians.

If youve got 10-15mins to waste sure do it that way, or just get an ice scraper.

What ever happened to those front windscreens with heating elements, Ford patented it iirc which is why it never went mass market.

Hirsute wrote:

"Normalise ridiculing Land Rover drivers"

Here's another one from the same artist from a couple of years ago

Storm Isha trapped Devon millionaire's wife in new Ferrari

Sadly, this is not quite funny enough- we need it on a beach with the tide coming in, or equivalent

I do feel his pain. Sandwich from the canteen v home cooked Bolognese lunch...no contest, although I suspect his canteen sandwich v my canteen sandwich would be an equally unfair match. A friend spent Xmas in Bologna and her hosts cooked absolutely everything from scratch, not much got bought in except fresh meat, fresh veg, fresh dairy, oil and flour; and all that produced from within a few miles of home. Anyway, my Rustler's burger just pinged in the microwave...must go!

stonojnr wrote:

What ever happened to those front windscreens with heating elements, Ford patented it iirc which is why it never went mass market.

People in the US didn't like them because they blocked their radar detectors.

David9694 wrote:

Which local rag? 

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24066905.colchester-police-prohibit-...

I think technically a vintage car has to have been built between 1919 and 1930 (pretty sure that Allegros weren't being built then…).  Before 1919 are veteran or Edwardian.

A historic car generally has to have been built before 1983.

someone has latched onto the freedoms granted to so-called Historic vehicles (no MOT, no ULEZ, £0 VED)

You're living in the past! Up here in Go Ahead, Cut Red Tape Lancashire everybody is entitled to those freedoms if they have the sense to claim them. This is FN19 FSY

I'd love for them to put a number on that "inappropriate speed"

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24066905.colchester-police-prohibit-...

but they do a lot of blocking now, so you often only get 1 or 2 sentences of the article.