EEPhil
Number 28
Assuming you are talking about the RAC reference. Perhaps the wiper's on intermittent wipe. Looks like the RAC dropped the ball on this one - the photos seem to be using left hand drive cars.
OP
Deleted member 473
Apparently, a terrorist vehicle is only capable of mounting a pavement on a bridge. Thus, barriers are only necessary on bridges.
MikeSh
Well-Known Member
Well, on current experience it does seem that terrorists in the UK may believe this.
prpr
Well-Known Member
What about tell?
EEPhil
Number 28
Wasn't there one or more in France that didn't involve a bridge?
We could put bollards along the kerbs everywhere, about 3 feet apart. Put some more across the pavement at various points. Might keep people from parking on the pavements as well. (I know, where's the money coming from?)
EEPhil
Number 28
I'm sure Diane Abbott could work out how to pay for it.
(Give her an abacus and the back of a fag packet...)
OP
Deleted member 473
Is she ill? Alcoholic? Early dementia?
OP
Deleted member 473
Or the banker bailout and bonus tree? You have to look at the cost of not doing these things, there isn't a magic money tree to cope with no nurses and doctors, either. There isn't a magic nurse and doctor tree.
Similarly, not taking ETPhil's measures might cost more than taking them.
Trev
The Dumb One
All of the above, it seems.
Just realised that Labour's money tree is growing in my back garden.
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Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
I was following a woman in an Audi off the M49 onto the M4 tonight - it only had one brake light working out of three.
OP
Deleted member 473
The spacing would be wrong, and the 100 year wait might be a problem, unless you propose a Chamaecyparis hedge along the kerb.Could we not disguise the ugly bollards to look like trees?
Or ... plant trees and have boulevards rather than bollarvards?
EEPhil
Number 28
If this was AvP, I would ask more questions. But, as it isn't, which brake light was working? Why don't people check their lights? I always used to check my lights thoroughly before going on any long journey (get someone to tell me if they are working) - and briefly on a more regular basis (reverse into garage and check mirror).
EEPhil
Number 28
There are many roads near me with trees along the kerb. Trouble is the County Council (responsible locally for the roads) keeps chopping them down - claiming root damage or that the tree is the subject of a compensation claim or that it is diseased. Where they have been left standing, some idiots like to park their car in the tree trunk. This usually happens at a junction where people don't look properly, drive too fast, and then have to swerve. Brings the car to a quick halt, but rips the bark off the tree.
Black Hole
May contain traces of nut
I realised the sentence was poorly constructed at the time (is that a split infinitive?), but decided life's too short!
Right side. I guess it was a wiring fault rather than bulbs taking out the others, because I think the high level brake light uses multiple emitters. Interestingly, without brakes there was one tail light on the left and two contiguous tail lights on the right - so maybe this Audi has a tail light and a stop+tail light where my car only has a stop+tail.
I mentioned it being a woman driving because my observation is that women tend to pay less attention to car maintenance than men (even though they can spot a speck of dust from the other side of the room in a place where men wouldn't think mattered - ie anywhere).
Sexist? Who?
OP
Deleted member 473
You must have very small cars in Nottingham.
EEPhil
Number 28
Alright, I'll bite....
I wondered why you were following a woman - stalking?
I wasn't sure whether it was you or the woman in the Audi.
Dangerous. I fitted a high level light to my old car before they became a standard fixture. There was a small amount of light leakage, so you could tell if the light wasn't working. I doubt that is the case with modern cars. (When I asked, I was assuming that it might be obvious if the high level light wasn't working. In hindsight, it was a wasted question!)