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Mourning Due posted:Going waaaaay back to car chat: there's a junction coming off the 127 to the 130 and 13, two lanes, left lane is left turn only, right lane is left turn or straight on- well marked, both by signs and roadmarkings last two times I have used it someone beside me in the left hand lane has plowed straight on absolutely oblivious to me rather than left turn, making me swerve and brake and pray the shithead behind me is paying some attention, I'm getting another dashcam sorted out before I try that poo poo again my current favourite is the roadworks on my commute- the diversion takes you through a few quiet/posh areas and people keep kicking down and/or moving the diversion signs around presumably to avoid traffic on their road and it's causing mayhem all round because the side roads are tiny, cramped with parked cars and just can't take more traffic than a car or two going back and forth without log jamming normally, let alone with all the diverted traffic going over a month now, but I'm sure the lovely temporary repair jobs they are doing to the potholes won't be hosed up already again by spring **Edit sorry didn't mean to snipe with car chat will nature post later promise
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Mourning Due posted:. If you want to go over that, you should be able to press a button to do so, but it should turn on your hazards and blare your horn until you deactivate it. And tampering/removal should mean permanent loss of license, or loss of business if you're a garage doing it. At least that way we'd all have a oval office alarm. The amount that I hear drivers using their horns for no reason other than to say I’M ANGRY means I don’t think this is the dissuasion you think it might be.
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Mourning Due posted:Going waaaaay back to car chat: I used to hit 90 on the motorway about 20 years ago when I had no patience for the drive and wanted to cut an hour and a half journey down to about an hour. Now, though, I'm a lot lazier and have the speed limiter on in the car to stop me from having to check poo poo whenever I get to a speed camera zone. It's a pain when going into a school zone out of school hours, but the joy I get when I stop a merc/bmw/audi from going above 30 is so satisfying. You also start to notice a few things in regards to traffic control. The other bit of joy I get is when a plonker overtakes me, only to get stuck at the traffic lights up ahead while I casually pull up behind them again. Then the same thing happens for the next set, where they speed off at 40, only to end up sitting at the next set of lights for longer or get stuck behind other people not willing to rattle it down a residential area. There's also a roundabout near me where a single 40mph road leads onto a 60mph dual carriageway. The single road widens a bit so that those looking to go around the roundabout to the right can do so without a big queue while the left lane is for straight a ahead onto the dual carriage. There's no road markings stating this but given its how 90% of drivers treat it as right only, it's clearly its design. The other 10%? BMW/merc/Audi drivers trying to undercut/overtake the left lane of traffic going onto the dual carriageway. It's a little dangerous, but I drive a focus which has a bit more power than it looks, so whenever I'm in the right position where I'm at that roundabout in the left lane and a wanker pulls up in the right lane, I get out a bit quicker than they expect and join the dual carriageway in the right hand lane. That right hand lane eventually leads to the supermarket just up at the next roundabout (it's a weird tiny dual carriageway) , so I just stay there at the speed limit infuriating the arsehole who's often right up behind me until they get back into the left lane and speed off. On extremely rare occasions, the driver on the left lane of the dual is also driving at the speed limit, so the BMW/merc/audi driver has to sheepishly drop back to get into the left hand lane for the next upcoming roundabout. Maybe that makes me an arse but I don't wanna live in a world where I can't piss off the drivers of flash cars (like the fucker who's dumped his BMW in the nursery car park across 2 spaces for the last few days and has a half opened pack of Tennants on the passenger seat floor).
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Soricidus posted:My experience of being autistic and pathologically anxious in the workplace: increasingly employers offer adjustments to the interview process such as providing the questions in advance. Customer interaction has turned out to be largely optional in the kinds of office job I’ve done. Knowledge sharing is essential for promotion, but you don’t have to do it by giving presentations specifically, mentoring and writing are equally recognised. Training is required, but is available in forms including self-study and online courses as well as formal classroom-type stuff. quote:You have more choice when it comes to work, though - if you don't want to deal with people, you wouldn't apply for a customer-facing job. Whereas education is structured so you have to do written exams even if you have a disability that makes them difficult, if not impossible. Interviews are a different situation, but if you declare a disability when you apply, you can be given reasonable adjustments for the interview. Thanks, this kind of info is really helpful. I guess things really have changed since I stopped working in jobs outside of academia a decade ago. The main reason I asked this question is because if you'd asked me when I was younger whether being forced to confront situations that made me anxious in secondary school or uni would be helpful, I would have said no and sought accommodations, but in retrospect I realise that being forced to confront those challenges (again, in combination with therapy) was what allowed me to move past the worst of it and succeed in situations where interviews, presentations, group discussions, etc. were important. This is why I'm hesitant to eliminate presentations or oral exams for this reason alone--we already make accommodations when students with disabilities come to us requesting them, and so I think getting rid of those exercises altogether is counterproductive (and, as I noted, increasingly unfeasible given the necessity of shifting away from written work).
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Somehow culturally we have to separate fast cars and private cars. Fast cars go on a racetrack where they can properly go fast and use the racing line and all that cool stuff, and then private cars on a public road can be what they're supposed to be, transportation. It's like housing, where a house has become both a place to live and an investment, with the priority shifted to the latter. Only that's different because ideally we would do away with housing as an investment entirely.
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Investment properties go on the racetrack. History Comes Inside! posted:Nah because car shaggers will go off at length about hypothetical scenarios where they absolutely need to do 90 mph stunt driving at a moment’s notice to avoid hitting a granny or a baby or a granny with a baby so any kind of barrier to that is unacceptable, even one they could disengage because they only have fractions of a second to react to the danger (because they were already speeding). People will whine about any safety improvement (often with motor company people paying them to) and the past 50 years has been a history of getting enough people to ignore them.
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WHO REMEMBERS PROPER DRINK DRIVING???
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Guavanaut posted:Investment properties go on the racetrack. This used to be how the proper binmen would come right into your garden
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smellmycheese posted:WHO REMEMBERS PROPER DRINK DRIVING??? One for the road?
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smellmycheese posted:WHO REMEMBERS PROPER DRINK DRIVING??? https://youtu.be/W_tqQYmgMQg This is what they took from you.
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smellmycheese posted:WHO REMEMBERS PROPER DRINK DRIVING??? I love that the Irish have the Healy-Rae brothers in the Dáil (possibly others but they don't have funny election songs) arguing to legalise drink driving, at least in rural areas.
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But what if you're piss drunk and need to operate your 3 ton truck? What then huh?
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I had some knobhead barrelling down the overtaking lane flashing everyone doing less than 85 to get out of the way. Charitably assuming it was a medical emergency or something but suspect it was being a wanker
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OwlFancier posted:I had some knobhead barrelling down the overtaking lane flashing everyone doing less than 85 to get out of the way. Safe bet, considering it was a driver
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Aug 10, 2023 09:52
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My old man drove drunk everywhere all the time but I was too young to really realise it until I was maybe 10-11 and noticed he was using the white lines dividing the lanes as a guide. One night he wrote the car off around a lamp post and managed to get out and stagger the rest of the way home, and all his mates at the pub backed up his bullshit alibi that someone had come into the pub and nicked his keys when the police came knocking about the abandoned car. Drunk drivers are cunts.
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forkboy84 posted:I love that the Irish have the Healy-Rae brothers in the Dáil (possibly others but they don't have funny election songs) arguing to legalise drink driving, at least in rural areas. I don't really know why they bother because drink-driving is still de facto legal down their neck of the woods anyway. And if you're part of the Healy-Rae dynasty you can run a combine harvester over a group of German backpackers in the middle of Kilgarvan and not lose a single vote
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But what if I am mandated to wear a seatbelt and it becomes jammed and then a paedophile approaches me and begins shaking a box of eggs suggestively? What then?Trainee PornStar posted:The best adverts were from when I was a kid.
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There was a safety advert when I was a kid that had a bloke drinking from a glass bottle of milk or something and then leaving it on a wall, while a kid walked along banging a stick on some railing or some poo poo and then it just cut to some implied tragedy. Not sure what the message was there, ‘don’t leave glass bottles on walls’ feels like a very specific thing to do a whole ad campaign about.
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Guavanaut posted:But what if I am mandated to wear a seatbelt and it becomes jammed and then a paedophile approaches me and begins shaking a box of eggs suggestively? What then? Are the eggs wet? This is important.
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forkboy84 posted:Safe bet, considering it was a driver My stepdad used to say that you could never trust someone who drives wearing a hat. My mother has said that while she thought he was wrong about people most of the time, in over 40 years since she's never seen anything to contradict him on that.
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History Comes Inside! posted:There was a safety advert when I was a kid that had a bloke drinking from a glass bottle of milk or something and then leaving it on a wall, while a kid walked along banging a stick on some railing or some poo poo and then it just cut to some implied tragedy. I think the 'milk' was probably a metaphor because people still chuck glass beer bottles about and then I have to clear them up so that it's not left to elderly neighbours. Ideally people should not be cunts, but that one is often beyond people street drinking during the day so as a second option we should probably move away from glass bottles for a lot of things.
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DesperateDan posted:going over a month now, but I'm sure the lovely temporary repair jobs they are doing to the potholes won't be hosed up already again by spring By spring? Must be nice living in a council with money to spare Here the govt appointed three commissioners to run the council's finances but what I didn't realize was that the council has to pay them 1k/day each for 150 days per year, for five years lmao
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It is wimp behaviour to actually go 70 all the way down a motorway though. If you’re not keeping yourself occupied by minmaxing your speed at a cool 81 on the speedo, meaning about 78 in reality, and thus lower than the cameras care about, I just don’t know what to say. Makes you feel like speed racer when you overtake someone and go vrooooooooom! as well. Bonus points if you time your overtaking with a good drop or the chorus of a motley crue song
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Food £200 Data £150 Rent £800 Finance Commissioners £3,600 Utility £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. i will pay 1k/day
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Red Oktober posted:The amount that I hear drivers using their horns for no reason other than to say I’M ANGRY means I don’t think this is the dissuasion you think it might be. My least favourite use of the horn is "I've just seen someone I recognise" SHUT THE gently caress UP
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Aw come on, a little beep beep wave does no one any harm. beepbeep
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Failed Imagineer posted:I don't really know why they bother because drink-driving is still de facto legal down their neck of the woods anyway. And if you're part of the Healy-Rae dynasty you can run a combine harvester over a group of German backpackers in the middle of Kilgarvan and not lose a single vote Hell that'd get my vote
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Jakabite posted:Aw come on, a little beep beep wave does no one any harm. *apoplectic with rage*
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Standard of driving in this country is incredibly low, and motorway speed limits should be raised given the differences in car safety between 1965 and now. But, given the problem of that first point, it's not likely to happen
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His Divine Shadow posted:Aren't those raspberries? My parents tell me it's a crazy raspberry year, they have picked like 10 liters from the woods or more. Scandinavian woods contain both wild blackberries and raspberries. Wild raspberries differ from cultivated raspberries in that the entire plant is annual and wilters in winter--cultivated raspberries have shoots that lose their leaves but survive and bear fruit next year. Since wild berries both grow and bear fruit in the same year, they ripen much later than cultivated ones. Blackberries are a different berry entirely Your parents could have picked either berry, it's not possible to ascertain absent additional information
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Guavanaut posted:Using volumetric units for berries somehow seems even more perverse than using cups for flour and sugar. The raspberry is a compound fruit in which each seed is contained within a singular botanical berry. The appropriate measure is therefore number of berries, which is almost but not exactly equal to the number of seeds Since you're picking the fruit and placing it in some form of container, the size of the container makes using volumetric units convenient if somewhat inexact. To convert into kilos you can just divide by two for almost any fruit (except bilberries/european blueberries which weigh something like 650 grams per liter). So 10 rough liters of raspberries equal 5 rough kilos
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You should try opening up public and private land for hiking, camping and foraging as well, it's pretty great imo
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:Scandinavian woods contain both wild blackberries and raspberries. Wild raspberries differ from cultivated raspberries in that the entire plant is annual and wilters in winter--cultivated raspberries have shoots that lose their leaves but survive and bear fruit next year. Since wild berries both grow and bear fruit in the same year, they ripen much later than cultivated ones. Blackberries are a different berry entirely We aren't confused by what berries got picked, they where wild raspberries growing in the woods. Telling blackberries and raspberries apart is pretty easy. Blackberries are black when ripe and raspberries are pinkish. Blackberries don't ripen here until september and then even barely, they usually don't manage it before night frost sets in, we got wild raspberries and blackberries growing around our here, wild raspberry bushes are ready in july/august. Blackberry bushes can get pretty tall in my experience too whereas raspberries tend to be lower.
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Standard of driving is pretty poor but it's better than the US, where it's considered entirely regular to lunge across the dividing space if you think you've missed your exit.
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Also, seeded watermelons taste better than seedless, same for grapes.
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Yeah I thought London drivers were bad until I moved to California. My theory test was “go in that corner and complete this short multiple-choice questionnaire” and my practical examiner was reading a book during my test. I once encountered somebody reversing back down a freeway onramp.
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This just gets better and better. An excel doc with a “top secret undercover agents” column lol https://twitter.com/sjamcbride/status/1689537540355690496?s=46&t=m_nNbkNoHG4lLitcpyHReg
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TACD posted:Yeah I thought London drivers were bad until I moved to California. My theory test was “go in that corner and complete this short multiple-choice questionnaire” and my practical examiner was reading a book during my test. I once encountered somebody reversing back down a freeway onramp. I don't think it's possible for any human to be a good driver in urban conditions.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I don't really know why they bother because drink-driving is still de facto legal down their neck of the woods anyway. And if you're part of the Healy-Rae dynasty you can run a combine harvester over a group of German backpackers in the middle of Kilgarvan and not lose a single vote I find it utterly fascinating. Are they just that good at getting pork barrel spending for their area? It's mostly interesting because you just don't have the same patronage network here, well, not in the open like that. And lest anyone think you're exaggerating, in 2019 Michael Healy-Rae's son Jackie was elected as a councillor while waiting trial for assault. Because someone jumped the line at the chip van. He was later found guilty. His Divine Shadow posted:I don't think it's possible for any human to be a good driver Agreed, cars turn people into libertarians.
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