The BAD PARKING thread [vol3]
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ewand said:
fatboy18 said:
HTP99 said:
ewand said:
Sainsbury's Calcot, Saturday afternoon.
"that'll do"...
It's an Allroad, or whatever Volvo call their version; so that is fine!!"that'll do"...
RobinBanks said:
GetCarter said:
HDR on phones. Someone somewhere said... 'That's a good idea'
You seem like someone who knows about cameras etc.What is the purpose of that mode? I've seen it before on the internet (my phone probably has it too but I've never looked) but I just can't understand what it's for.
alpha channel said:
RobinBanks said:
You seem like someone who knows about cameras etc.
What is the purpose of that mode? I've seen it before on the internet (my phone probably has it too but I've never looked) but I just can't understand what it's for.
In theory in its decent mode it is meant to balance the light out so that it maintains detail in the dark and light areas without blowing out the detail in the light areas and killing detail in the dark. On phones though you generally get what you see here where the settings are generally set to bat sWhat is the purpose of that mode? I've seen it before on the internet (my phone probably has it too but I've never looked) but I just can't understand what it's for.
t crazy levels and can create a halo around contrasting areas to an image/create what you see here (hyper processed if you will).
AlexRS2782 said:
Had this picture sent to me by a friend - the neighbour did a pretty good job of completely blocking the pavement on both sides with their van, a Polo & their Defender hanging out of the driveway.
This drives me mad, even more so that I now have a little kid who I take out in the buggy a lot, on a short walk around our area I have to go onto the road two or three times usually.ukaskew said:
AlexRS2782 said:
Had this picture sent to me by a friend - the neighbour did a pretty good job of completely blocking the pavement on both sides with their van, a Polo & their Defender hanging out of the driveway.
This drives me mad, even more so that I now have a little kid who I take out in the buggy a lot, on a short walk around our area I have to go onto the road two or three times usually.(Not excusing the nugget in the OP, who has helpfully ensured that he also blocks off the dipped kerb for wheelchairs etc to cross, just for extra points).
MX51ROD said:
Oh dear. Good job no one was sunbathing, how on earth did they do that I wonder.
Mike_Mac said:
Totally agree and it's something that's now pretty much ubiquitous in modern estates - I just can't understand the mentality of the planners/builders/whoever that think -'lets build a load of 2/3/4 bed houses here, give them a single garage that will barely fit a smart car and then leave naff-all on street parking that doesn't either block up the road or mean people pretty much have to park on the pavement.
There's an estate just being completed near here - I walk through with the dog occasionally and if you visit after 5pm, you'd think a plane carrying a load of cars had just pushed them out of the back and they'd all miraculously landed wheels down!!If you want to do small-scale development, the planning rules are pretty tight in most areas. There's a bedroom-to-parking space ratio applied (that is offstreet parking which you must provide over-and-above any street parking)
If you build a large development tho, I get the feeling you can build anything from 6' square dog kennels to giant 4 storey purple dildos, such is the lack of care from councils faced that ALL THAT EXTRA INCOME AND JOBS!!
I'm told they're building houses for approx 10,000 people in our town (approx 55-60,000 pop. right now) - they're building no new GP surgeries, no new Dentists, no new access roads (indeed they're crippling the existing ones with multiple sets of traffic lights for the new estates) or any other sort of infrastructure tho - so I kinda assume the council simply sees 'kerching' and allows anything (including garages too-small for cars and drives too-short for cars)
Mind you - another major issue is people have too many f
king cars - they buy a small 2-bed house and move-in with 3 cars and a work van (a pet peeve of mine - if you need a van, you need a van-sized parking space - not your neighbours garden)p.s. I was told the "parking issue" in the estate I mentioned above was solved by offering numbered/allocated parking around the entrance to the estate. They seriously expected people to walk 50m to their homes - yeah, they'll do that - sure - and if they don't because they'll get - errrr - no action taken if they block pavements/junctions etc. etc. so....?????
ewand said:
No. If they'd been considerate, they might have parked properly, not abandoned the vehicle with lock still on the steering and the rear tyre half hanging off a kerb. What would happen if they had to get out quickly?
I assume they'd put it in reverse and use the steering wheel. Are you struggling to work this one out?Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff