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>> No. 5103 Anonymous
22nd September 2011
Thursday 9:56 pm
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THERE'S TRAFFIC AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE JUNCTION BUT INSTEAD OF LETTING YOU PULL OUT I'M GOING TO CREEP MY CAR FORWARD A FEW METRES AND BLOCK YOU IN BECAUSE I'M AN INCONSIDERATE CUNT WHO WOULD RATHER INCONVENIENCE OTHERS JUST SO I CAN SPEED UP MY OWN JOURNEY BY A FEW SECONDS.
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>> No. 33038 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 5:00 pm
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>>33036
I find this equivalence between drivers and wankers highly annoying. There are plenty of wankers who don't drive.
>> No. 33039 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 5:06 pm
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>>33038
Yeah but at least they're not trying to kill us all just so they can work their fancy job.
>> No. 33040 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 5:45 pm
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>>33036
Zing. Well, there was noticeably more aggressive drivers than usual.
>> No. 33041 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 7:35 pm
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>>33039

Nobody will have to work when we're all dead m8. It's the most logical path.

Let foxes rule the earth, they'll do better job of it than we did.
>> No. 33042 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 7:42 pm
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>>33041
I dunno, lad. The Animals of Farthing Wood was pretty brutal.
>> No. 33043 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 7:48 pm
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>>33042

Because of the humans. It would have all gone very differently if the humans all died in the second episode, in a crossover with Threads to make the most traumatising TV show possibly imaginable.

Fox of Farthing Wood was clearly one of history's greatest and most noble leaders. We could al learn a thing or two from him.
>> No. 33044 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 8:03 pm
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>>33042
Well look who's never seen Watership Down.
>> No. 33045 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 8:05 pm
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>>33044
I don't remember any foxes in Watership Down.
>> No. 33046 Anonymous
17th April 2022
Sunday 8:23 pm
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>>33043
>Fox of Farthing Wood was clearly one of history's greatest and most noble leaders. We could al learn a thing or two from him.
These bloody furries on this site, man.
>> No. 33552 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 4:10 pm
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GONNA DRIVE REALLY FAST DOWN THESE SINGLE LANE COUNTRY ROADS EVEN THOUGH THERE'S LOADS OF BENDS AND HIGH HEDGES ON EITHER SIDE SO I'VE NO IDEA WHAT'S ROUND THE CORNER.
>> No. 33553 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 7:38 pm
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>>33552
It's a bit like gambling, and I love gambling.
>> No. 33554 Anonymous
14th September 2022
Wednesday 11:28 pm
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>>33553
Problem is this is a bet where the highest payout is 50p and the losing bet is being shot in the chest with a bazooker.
>> No. 33555 Anonymous
15th September 2022
Thursday 12:30 am
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>>33554

Thing about gambling is it's not about the winning. It's about the risk of losing.
>> No. 33556 Anonymous
15th September 2022
Thursday 3:59 pm
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>>33555
Is it a win or a loss if you kill a horse and rider?
>> No. 34028 Anonymous
9th March 2023
Thursday 2:15 pm
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There's roadworks on the M62 and every time I've joined J28 going westbound I've nearly been taken out by someone who ignores this sign and the cat's eyes shifting each lane diagonally, by just going straight ahead. Usually they think I'm at fault even though my options are to either follow the new lane layout or go straight ahead into a bunch of cones.
>> No. 34029 Anonymous
9th March 2023
Thursday 9:19 pm
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>>34028

Yeah, that's been puzzling me too, because normally people never have a problem with it, but I've seen people just cruise straight forward on that bit at least half a dozen times over the last few weeks.

The M62 and M1 have always had at least one stretch in that state for probably as long as I've been driving (remember the clusterfuck when they first made it a "smart motorway", and it was all like that for what felt like about three years?), so it's hard to imagine people don't know the drill by now.
>> No. 34123 Anonymous
20th April 2023
Thursday 9:49 am
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I don't know if it's a new thing, but I've noticed people are connecting their phones to their cars and calling people that way. My girlfriend's got into the habit of calling me when she's driving home from work rather than listening to music or the radio like a normal person and at least two of my neighbours have started doing it as well; all women. Anyway my gripe is that the sound of a phone conversation coming out of car speakers is incredibly obnoxious, especially when someone parks up and keeps the conversation going.
>> No. 34124 Anonymous
20th April 2023
Thursday 11:46 am
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>>34123

I've got a factory sat nav with hands-free bluetooth in my car, so my phone is automatically always connected when I'm driving, but I always turn down the volume when I'm parked and on the phone with someone. It is rude to have it on so loud that other people around you are made to listen to your inane conversations whether they like it or not.
>> No. 34125 Anonymous
20th April 2023
Thursday 3:45 pm
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>>34123
If you drive an electric car through traffic (ie comparatively silent) you wouldn't believe the number of conversations you hear.
>> No. 34126 Anonymous
20th April 2023
Thursday 3:49 pm
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>>34029

Forgot about this, but as it's niw part of my commute I've been on it enough to see the problem. Under certain lighting conditions the paint they blacked out the lines with actually reflects the sky and just looks white again, while the cat's eyes are kind of pathetic, so people evidently get confused which is meant to be which. The signs are placed a bit too late to really help.
>> No. 34265 Anonymous
6th June 2023
Tuesday 9:27 pm
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M6 Northbound, just past Birmingham where it merges with the M6toll.
The righthand lane goes off on its own and merges 100m ahead of the left two lanes.
I go up here regularly and without fail there's always cars who swerve across into the right hand lane at the very last minute for no reason. I often see whole lines of cars shoot up there and leave an entire lane on the left completely empty as they all depart it at the same time. I've seen HGVs decide they need to be in that lane and go up there. I've been overtaking in the right lane only to have cars cut in front of me over the chevrons and had to hit my brakes to avoid going into them.
It absolutely does my head in.
>> No. 34266 Anonymous
6th June 2023
Tuesday 11:29 pm
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>>34265
Visit that bit of motorway regularly when visiting my mother-in-law. The signs are all wrong.

That junction is fucking murder!!
>> No. 34279 Anonymous
15th June 2023
Thursday 6:23 pm
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They're resurfacing the road between the coal mining museum and Grange Moor roundabout, so it's down to a 20 zone. I was stuck behind a car earlier that kept speeding up to 50 every time it saw the usual speed limit signs on the lampposts but would then brake and drop down to 20 every time it saw the temporary speed limit signs or the speed cameras. It was really odd.
>> No. 34280 Anonymous
15th June 2023
Thursday 7:47 pm
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>>34279
They are the reason that average speed cameras are a thing now.
>> No. 34282 Anonymous
15th June 2023
Thursday 8:08 pm
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>>34279

They're gradually turning the entire of West Yorkshire into a Sonic level themed around road works, I swear.
>> No. 34283 Anonymous
16th June 2023
Friday 1:34 pm
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>>34279
Can't argue with that approach tbh.
>> No. 34284 Anonymous
16th June 2023
Friday 1:59 pm
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>>34282
Turning a shithole like Wakey into a Sonic level is more than they deserve.
>> No. 34285 Anonymous
16th June 2023
Friday 3:11 pm
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>>34284
Don't be hating on Shitlington.
>> No. 34455 Anonymous
17th August 2023
Thursday 1:30 pm
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I'm guessing it's because I went to Morrisons in the middle of the day, but the number of pensioners with absolutely no road awareness driving cars was frightening.
>> No. 34523 Anonymous
10th September 2023
Sunday 9:11 am
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I know people who own cars like a Toyota Aygo are likely to be extremely cautious drivers, but getting stuck behind one attempting to join the motorway at 30mph is ridiculous.
>> No. 34551 Anonymous
20th September 2023
Wednesday 6:06 pm
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>>34455
>Pensioners

In other words: people who did their driving test decades ago?

I don't mean to sound authoritarian, but there's a strong public safety case for re-taking the driving test periodically after your initial pass. Espacially if you're getting all wobbly and remeniscent about the war. There's a good case for an examiner who could recommend other means of mobility for someone who has been found unfit to drive at 80 years old, for example. I fear that the means to support them wouldnl't be available, though. Another reason for frequent tests would be if you're a Minicab Driver. Since most of those seem to be scratching their teef on beak.
>> No. 34577 Anonymous
24th September 2023
Sunday 1:56 pm
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My Wensleydale cheese was made in Shropshire.
>> No. 34578 Anonymous
24th September 2023
Sunday 1:56 pm
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Fucking hell, wrong thread.
>> No. 34586 Anonymous
25th September 2023
Monday 2:25 pm
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>>34578
Well maybe not. Think of all that extra traffic transporting the cheese to Shropshire.
>> No. 34684 Anonymous
1st November 2023
Wednesday 6:09 pm
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I don't know if it's my eyesight getting worse but recently I've found that I'm increasingly dazzled by headlights which are either too bright or set too high, which has been a thing for a while now so I don't know if it's suddenly got even more obnoxious.
>> No. 34685 Anonymous
1st November 2023
Wednesday 6:38 pm
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>>34684
I think it's because LED head lights are much more prevalent now.
>> No. 34686 Anonymous
1st November 2023
Wednesday 7:09 pm
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>>34685

LED headlights, more SUVs, more auto-dimming full beams that don't work properly.
>> No. 34687 Anonymous
1st November 2023
Wednesday 7:51 pm
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>>34686

There really ought to be some sort of regulation on it, ten years ago driving at night was never a problem, but the last couple of years it's almost starting to become something I prefer to avoid.
>> No. 34688 Anonymous
5th November 2023
Sunday 9:08 pm
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>>34686
>more SUVs

This is definitely a bit part of it. Most cars are taller now.
>> No. 34812 Anonymous
18th January 2024
Thursday 6:11 pm
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I don't have to do it often, but I'm sick of spending 20+ minutes queuing to get off J24 of the M62 all because knobheads keep blocking the roundabout at Ainley Top.
>> No. 34815 Anonymous
18th January 2024
Thursday 8:09 pm
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>>34812

There's a quite substatial group of people at my work live over that way and drive over, they are just simply never on time and we have given up on expecting them to be. One of them is getting a new job over in Manchester and he naively said he expects the commute to be better. I felt a bit harsh the way I laughed at him.

Junction 27 master race. Can have a different type of fast food every night of the week on my way home.
>> No. 34859 Anonymous
8th February 2024
Thursday 2:34 pm
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Knew I should have worked from home today. About 35 minutes to get in this morning because the roads were dead, followed by taking ~90 minutes to do the journey in reverse after getting sent home at lunch due to a tiny bit of snow.
>> No. 34861 Anonymous
9th February 2024
Friday 2:50 am
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>>34859
>~90 minutes to do the journey in reverse

Would have gone a bit faster if you drove forwards instead, you muppet.
>> No. 34934 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 6:56 pm
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Why do we make roads out of tarmac, and is there something better we could make them out of to prevent them being full of potholes half the time, and closed of for roadworks to fix the sodding potholes the other half?

You know how in the old Total War games you used to upgrade your roads so your armies could march further? It feels like we've reached the endgame stage of the tech tree without ever bothering to go past fucking tier one roads.
>> No. 34935 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 8:20 pm
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>>34934
The only thing tough enough to take that much traffic is your mum and while there's enough of her to go around she's the wrong shape.
>> No. 34936 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 8:55 pm
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>>34935
Mate, that was bang out of order.
>> No. 34937 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 8:58 pm
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>>34936
I've never met your mum.
>> No. 34939 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 5:16 am
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>>34934

Tarmac - or more properly, asphalt concrete - is a really sophisticated material with a lot of clever engineering that goes into it. The aggregates are carefully chosen and graded, and the bitumen is mixed with all sorts of polymer additives to enhance durability and grip. You can't see the technology, but huge advances have been made in recent decades.

IMO there are two main reasons for the shocking quality of our roads.

The first is simply a lack of maintenance. Roadways have a hard life due to the forces imparted on them by traffic and the effects of weather. They will inevitably crack over time and those cracks will inevitably turn into potholes if they aren't promptly fixed. Mainly due to austerity, we've fallen into a vicious cycle where preventative maintenance is postponed, which leads to rapid deterioration of roadways, which increases maintenance costs while also reducing quality. Short-term thinking has become a long-term habit, with quick fixes being repeated again and again rather than fixing things properly.

The other big issue is that nobody is really in charge. Hundreds of utilities have the right to dig up roads more or less whenever they feel like it. That right comes with the responsibility to repair the roadway to original condition, but there are no real consequences for just bodging it with a "temporary" reinstatement, because most councils don't have the resources to properly monitor and control street works.

We're living in a failed state TBH.
>> No. 34940 Anonymous
4th March 2024
Monday 6:34 am
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>>34939
There have been various efforts to improve coordination on street works by councils, with a view to getting streets dug up once for multiple utilities to do whatever work they need before patching it up once.

The results of that can be judged by yet more guidance as recently as last year, and in London the Mayor's office offering a whole bunch of new funding for it.
>> No. 34941 Anonymous
5th March 2024
Tuesday 7:07 am
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My utopian state has wide pavements / cycle routes with concrete trenches and removable tops to access the utilities then replace. Running services under roads is just unfair to the roads, it's too much to ask.
Or does my utopian state abandon roads and just have wide grass trackways and heavy-lift hovercraft for the big stuff, and airships / silent drones for the rest.
Or maybe it's just me and some sheep, and fuck the roads. Yeah, probably that. I should probably move.

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