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drove into a stationary vehicle [which wasnt there] before I backed out of my space
Which is a pretty good argument for backing into a space, so as to be driving out of it. As per standard instruction issued at work about 15 years ago on all company sites, and I've just automatically done so ever since. On topic,it makes my wife disproportionately cross, as she bangs on about not being able to get stuff in and out of the back of the car, but tough titty.
Sorry, slight thread drift... anyway, wasn't there a discussion on this very subject a few years back? Or maybe I imagined it.
I thought the highway code recommended reversing into a driveway or parking space on a main road?
I've always done it where I live even if it inconveniences another car for 15 seconds when I park up. 🤔🐌🚗
I don't even think it's a recommendation, reversing out into a majorerer road is a MUST NOT, eg reversing out of a side street onto a main road. I would assume it's the same for driveways but I'd have look it up to be certain.
Which is a pretty good argument for backing into a space, so as to be driving out of it. As per standard instruction issued at work about 15 years ago on all company sites, and I've just automatically done so ever since.
I did a site visit to the AA once. I almost always reverse into parking bays but in this case I had a load of kit including a server to unload. On Reception I was met with "you have to reverse into the parking bays," I replied "oh, sorry, I didn't realise." There was an uncomfortable silence for a moment before informing me that I had to go back out and turn it around before he'd let me into the building.
This latest attempt by Facebook to make its own platform an unpleasant place to be and annoying af, that's aside from all the AI crap forced on you now.
Automatically making the first few words of a post massive and ugly. Oh look, they don't fit in now 🙄
For example
The way delivery drivers are treated... how is this a fair schedule? and not encoraging dangerous driving?
before he'd let me into the building
Was that the Ellison Building on Newcastle Business Park by any chance? If he was bald, he was known as the 'major'...
People who make shit up without doing a simple bit of research...
Rule 201
Do not reverse from a side road into a main road. When using a driveway, reverse in and drive out if you can.
Yes, I still have no idea how he got there with me watching all the timeThe poster drove into a stationary vehicle and is blaming them for it?
yes I know, but Im sure it wasnt there when I looked, before I backed out of my space
umm... I think its standard advice to look where you are going. you know, as you are actually moving?
Was that the Ellison Building on Newcastle Business Park by any chance? If he was bald, he was known as the 'major'...
It was one of the HQs but I don't think it was Newcastle (I really have no idea now), but "major" tracks. The AA's internal staff all have military ranks, so you don't have a Line Manager you have a Sergeant or some such. It was in many ways a deeply odd place.
I know of an auto industry company where, several years ago, staff were berated for not reverse parking at the office. A few weeks later, as the white painted exterior walls were slowing darkening, staff were politely asked not to reverse park.
I did a site visit to the AA once. I almost always reverse into parking bays but in this case I had a load of kit including a server to unload. On Reception I was met with "you have to reverse into the parking bays," I replied "oh, sorry, I didn't realise." There was an uncomfortable silence for a moment before informing me that I had to go back out and turn it around before he'd let me into the building
Had the same thing at one of the big energy suppliers. I explained that if I reversed into the space it’d be impossible to unload.
They actually told me to unload then turn the vehicle around.
I then had to drive out of the space and block the car park whilst I reloaded my equipment at the end of the job.
During the site induction I got a look for laughing out loud that they had disciplined someone, for putting out a fire without having a fire extinguisher ticket.
More importantly why do shops never put Alcohol free beer in the fridge? Bloody annoying.
We were banned from reverse parking at our old site, as the fumes went straight into the weird air circulation system of the buildings
We were banned from reverse parking at our old site, as the fumes went straight into the weird air circulation system of the buildings
We were banned from reverse parking at a place I worked in Texas because the standard of driving was so bad that reversing took up too much time and resulted in too many accidents. Luckily it was also prohibited to take firearms onto company premises, so the only consequence was dented car body panels, and not mass fatalities.
We were banned from reverse parking at our old site, as the fumes went straight into the weird air circulation system of the buildings
We were banned from reverse parking at a place I worked in Texas because the standard of driving was so bad that reversing took up too much time and resulted in too many accidents. Luckily it was also prohibited to take firearms onto company premises, so the only consequence was dented car body panels, and not mass fatalities.
Make one wonder about driving standards in general, my neighbours park like pricks and it was irritating me until the penny dropped.. They are simply not confident/skilled enough to reverse park or parallel park.
Unless they can drive in 'nose forward' they don't even try and they'll park further away.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they don't attempt it and crash into my car every evening! But c'mon it's not hard with a bit of practice.
The W on my keyboard is currently producing multiple Ws. It is inconsistent, which makes it even more annoying.
They are simply not confident/skilled enough to reverse park or parallel park.
Are they of the older persuasion?
I was never taught those things. Reverse was used for the "reversing round a corner" manoeuvre and the "turn in the road using forward and reverse gears." I taught myself how to parallel park years after passing my test in 1990.
People on holiday in Jamaica moaning. You won't be there in a week then inhabitants will be rebuilding.
"winch and plummet"
Awaiting a new bike. Despatch dates were in a 5 day window. This is the last day of that window. Still pending. And the delivery options shop is dodgy as chuff. So will have to arrange something else but can't because....
And with that it's now heading to me.
Bought two bottles of Radox bath stuff, his'n'hers. Just run a bath and accidentally picked up the wrong one, now I smell like a tart.
(Quite literally. It's cherry and raspberry, just missing the almonds and I could be in Bakewell.)
Needing to be age checked for alcohol free beer at a sel service till.
Needing to be age checked for alcohol free beer at a sel service till.
+1.
I used to think it was a "computer says no" issue, it's in the 'alcohol' category so gets flagged. But alcohol-free spirits are security-tagged also, whoTF shoplifts AF gin?
That driving to work is almost traffic free during half term and takes me half as long.
The spring loaded gates on core paths/right of way, why do they need to be so snappy highly strung?
Why do they really need to be there?
The price increase of mince and beef in general
The spring loaded gates on core paths/right of way, why do they need to be so snappy highly strung?
Why do they really need to be there?
Er, to keep livestock in the right place? To mark a boundary? You know, all the usual reasons a gat might be needed.
Anyway, setting up TSB internet banking and it asking me for a password (fine) and then, get this, a memorable word. In other words two, different, passwords and I have to remember which one is for which bit. Genius. A pain for me, pretty much impossible for anyone with anyone who's not very digitally savvy.
The spring loaded gates on core paths/right of way, why do they need to be so snappy highly strung?
Why do they really need to be there?
Er, to keep livestock in the right place? To mark a boundary? You know, all the usual reasons a gate might be needed.
Anyway, setting up TSB internet banking and it asking me for a password (fine) and then, get this, a memorable word. In other words two, different, passwords and I have to remember which one is for which bit. Genius. A pain for me, pretty much impossible for anyone with anyone who's not very digitally savvy.
This forum *eyeroll*
Ok I get it if the path goes through a field but why do they need the industrial heavy duty metal if the path goes between two hedgerows with fences. Have a gate by all means to stop motors or motorbikes but easy access at the side
Then there's the Amazon bought signs stuck on the fence to say no parking 24hr access required to field, farmers they don't own the verges ok don't block the gate but some are a law unto oneself.
I agree with the meat is too cheap idea. But there is simplistic reporting. Good quality grass raised meat is low impact. It's the intensive farming and the American battery farming models that are massively impactful but keep prices down.
I enjoy lamb/hogget but the lamb jigsaw in my freezer came from fields I can see from my kitchen.
So I suppose intensive farming techniques really anger me.
whoTF shoplifts AF gin?
Why TF does alcohol free gin even exist?
The literal point of spirits is to distill the alcohol from whatever brewed stuff you have. And then you take it out afterwards? WTAF? What fresh new manner of utter crazy is this?
I enjoy lamb/hogget but the lamb jigsaw in my freezer came from fields I can see from my kitchen.
So I suppose intensive farming techniques really anger me.
So basically what you're saying is if you live in the middle of Wensleydale or Derbyshire with access to a farm shop its fine to eat meat but not if you live in central Birmingham or Manchester?
The only way everyone can enjoy what you are enjoying is if the production is ramped up from a few animals in a scenic pasture to an industrial scale delivery system.
What you are really saying is exactly what I'm saying - meat is too cheap.
I mean there is plenty of feral pigeons in city centres? Wood pigeon tastes good and they're basically cousins, right? 😆
People increasingly losing their shit over Halloween. It's yet another example of the creeping infantilisation of society.
Aka "having children."
I dislike trick-or-treat because I think "give us free stuff or else" is a terrible message to be sending to young children. Halloween itself is just a bit of fun.
Halloween itself is just a bit of fun
If Halloween was just a bit of fun for children, you know dressing up in sheets, a bit of trick or treating and doing a bit of apple bobbing, I'd be all for it.
What Halloween actually is is an industry of disposable tat.
Bought two bottles of Radox bath stuff, his'n'hers.
What a time to be alive! 🤣
@winston no what I'm saying is intensive farming is pretty polluting and not good for animal welfare but it is what keeps meat prices low. When I was a nipper, so 40-50 years ago parents were teacher and nurse but as a % of household budget meat and food in general was much higher. So we now have cheap meat but at a cost.
I live in an area with cheap housing that is pretty rural but that has terrible transport links and has lost its industry. I also know a few farmers that have animals slaughtered and butchered. The meat comes to me straight from the abattoir not some twee farm shop.
I am renovating a house that I bought a few months back, and I'm still living in the place I rented before. I've moved a load of tools over, and a load of stuff, and now absolutely everything I ever want, is in the wrong house, or sometimes it's in the right house but I'm not
It's quite reasonable to be cross about this, but the two houses are about 150 metres apart, which makes it disproportionate how furious it makes me. If they were further apart, it'd be worse but I'd be more careful and plan more. But 150 metres is perfectly designed to be an annoying distance to walk with a heavy thing, but too short a distance to ever actually plan ahead and get my shit together.
(tonight it was my kitchen scales, which I took to the other place to weigh out some plaster mix, and then forgot to bring back. No way am I walking 300 metres in the rain to get them, but instead I made a Guess The Quantities meal and screwed every single one up. And that made me DISPROPORTIONATELY CROSS
I share your pain. For various reasons I am not allowed to park in front of my garage so I work on my car in front of the house. All my tools are 50m away up the drive in the garage. I think I have all the socket sets , spanners etc required but every time its back to the garage for the 10mm e star 1/4 drive soocket for the 1 E star bolt BMW saw fit to use when every other fixing is Hex. I have a shopping basket that I load up with stuff beforehand but axle stands and trolley jacks I drive up to the garage and hand ball them in first with what I think are the required hand tools, but I always miss things .