Being an arse but not being called up about it doesn't make you not an arse, it just means everyone else thinks it behind your back.
Had an 'experience' just before christmas.
I was driving along what I was sure was a straight road. A car was coming towards me in the distance. As it got closer, it appeared to veer onto my side of the road. I assumed there was a kink in the road and was just about to go to the left of it, when I realised the dozy idiot had driven to my side of the road and parked in a layby on my side facing me and due to his lights I couldnt see the road properly.
Scared the hell out of me as I nearly drove straight off the road and into the trees.
Except when it's a normal and accepted part of everyday driving and done by the police when they're stopping for a coffee and calling someone an arse behind their back would be hipocritical. It's a cultural thing.It's not a cultural thing, it's still dangerous, it's just expected that they're dangerous! Doesn't make it right.
Doesn't make it right.
I'm actually finding it very difficult to understand how the Spanish (Latino) way of doing things versus the English (Anglo Saxon) way of doing things can be anything but culturally different. But hey...
I'm actually finding it very difficult to understand how the Spanish (Latino) way of doing things versus the English (Anglo Saxon) way of doing things can be anything but culturally different. But hey...
Elfinsafety gone mayd, innit.
Oh it's all got a bit snappy.
As I said I can see lots of reasons why it's a rule but how come it's a "do not"?
THC seems to be all Should /not and must /not with apparently must being a proper rule that you can get done for and should being an open invite for anyone who decides "actually I don't want to follow that one just now" (pretty sure I've seen "it's only a should not so I'm fine" on here in the past)
You're supposed to follow all the rules, but anything that says MUST is backed up by law.
Elfinsafety gone mayd, innit.
You're supposed to follow all the rules,or? I think inflammatory point Don is making that "follow this or some random strangers will get upset on the internet" isn't much of an incentive following the rules is a PITA.
I'm generally a stickler for rules BTW, I like clearly defined lines* just wondering if anything happens apart from once in a blue moon a copper actually seeing a transgression and giving you a quiet word but not much else.
Don generally you follow rules so everyone doesn't think you are acting like a dick, if you don't care what people think then looks like there isn't much stopping you.
EDIT there are some fairly important safety aspects too of course not just elfin.
*that I can skirt right along the very edge of 
Don generally you follow rules so everyone doesn't think you are acting like a dick, if you don't care what people think then looks like there isn't much stopping you.
The British way of sticking to rules is really quite funny.
If the parking bays are marked with white lines perpedicular to the pavement, yet everyone parks at 45º and there is a bay available at 45º, will you complain and wait until you can park according to the rules? Now who's the dick?
I did exactly that in Australia and every car got a parking ticket. 
Culturally speaking.....
The western world generally lives by a set of 'DO NOT'S' that keep the mindless minority in check.
The rest of us just wanna get on with our own stuff with minimal hassle ne c'est pas?
I once got hollered at in Canmore AB for parking on the wrong side of the road.... they dont like it over there... no sireee. Eh.
I did exactly that in Australia and every car got a parking ticket.
Me hizo exactemente eso en Australia y cada coche se quedo consuiguio una molta aparcamiento. Entre en una oracion o frase...
Any better?
Muy bien. 
OH got a parking ticket by the police a few years ago for parking against the flow of traffic.
"follow this or some random strangers will get upset on the internet" isn't much of an incentive
Well, no, being considerate to others should be though?
What I'm saying is that following rules is a very British thing. Trust me when I say that following the rules if and when you visit a foreign land will cause you grief.
No arguments here. But, see my earlier All Murray quote; we might moan about it, but quietly we like it and wouldn't have it any other way.
OH got a parking ticket by the police a few years ago for parking against the flow of traffic.
I'd love to know how they enforced that.
Don The problem with picking and choosing which rules you follow gets u in trouble when someone else nearby chooses to ignore diAmetrically opposing rules.
I can break the limit down here its a 1 way street
vs
One way? Pfff no senor.
(Sorry dunno how to do squigly things on my phone)
I can break the limit down here its a 1 way street
vs
One way? Pfff no señor.
You have to accept that people think differently.
Yep. There are "people that think like me" and "people that are wrong". 
shh graham you are not meant to mention the big hitters mantra in public
So it doesn't matter what you do if you don't get caught? And is that seriously the rules, in highway code espanol? Red=stop green=go red/amber=go very quickly? That Al murray quote is sounding better and better
Well done Don I'm not very patriotic normally but you've convinced me it's bloody awesome being british living in britain coz quite frankly the rest of the world sounds like ocularly rotational loons*.
* yes yes someone did recently tell me it's very difficult to impartially study other socities without feeling superior but the rest of the world still sound like nutters.
rule britania, britania rules....
if you get caught, you get caught. but if you don't get caught, what?
i'm sorry you can't see things from a different point of view. perhaps it's better you don't go abroad, eh?
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