Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol 4)
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yellowjack said:
8Ace said:
Road Closed Ahead signs, placed 100 yards from the entry to a busy 4 way roundabout.
With no further clues as to which of the subsequent thoroughfares are closed.
Luckily, it wasn't the one I was taking.
Yup!!!With no further clues as to which of the subsequent thoroughfares are closed.
Luckily, it wasn't the one I was taking.
"Road Ahead Closed"
To which my wife often says "which bloody road?" Because there are many many right and left turns, and merges, and splits, and roundabouts on this "Road Ahead", so please, Mr Highways Engineer, pray tell us WHICH F
KING ROAD YOU MEAN!!!!!It's not like I want to incorporate this vital information into my navigational and driving plans for the journey....
yellowjack said:
8Ace said:
Road Closed Ahead signs, placed 100 yards from the entry to a busy 4 way roundabout.
With no further clues as to which of the subsequent thoroughfares are closed.
Luckily, it wasn't the one I was taking.
Yup!!!With no further clues as to which of the subsequent thoroughfares are closed.
Luckily, it wasn't the one I was taking.
"Road Ahead Closed"
To which my wife often says "which bloody road?" Because there are many many right and left turns, and merges, and splits, and roundabouts on this "Road Ahead", so please, Mr Highways Engineer, pray tell us WHICH F
KING ROAD YOU MEAN!!!!!It's not like I want to incorporate this vital information into my navigational and driving plans for the journey....
Unless a private road in which case is nowt to do with any highways dept.
I've got dozens of roads closed currently, and I've had no complaints because I sign them properly.
ETA b
ks, I've fallen foul of my own "beyond reason" failings - annoyances are permitted and no justification is required! 
SilverSixer said:
Similar to radio traffic announcers who tell you of a queue on a road, but not in which direction the queue is heading. e.g. "A33 queuing back to Rose Kiln Lane" - A33 goes, staggeringly, both north AND south, so which side is queuing, northbound or southbound? Ferchrissakes.
Arrrrgh!Don't get me started on "traffic news" bulletins.
"There's a queue on the A30 at the Jolly Farmer roundabout."
"Really? How interesting. But of no use to anyone who hasn't lived in the area for many decades, because it's currently the "American Discount Golf Store" roundabout, and before that it was "The mongolian" roundabout."
FFS! If the roundabout really does have a name, then someone should write it on a sign, preferably ON the roundabout,so that people recognise which one is being spoken about. Otherwise name it after something less likely to be subject to changing names and complete demolition/replacement than a "pub what used to be there a long time ago..."
C17th to 1823 - The Golden Farmer
1823 to 1879 - The Jolly Farmer, but located north of the A30.
1879 it moved into the middle of the roundabout
1996 to 2003 - The mongolian Barbecue
2003 onwards it's been the American Discount Golf Store (after Burger King, quite sensibly in my opinion, were refused permission to open a drive-through there).
Oh, and don't get me started on roundabouts named to deliberately cause confusion (or so it would seem).
Farnborough. Two roundabouts, connected by a single carriageway road. One is named "The Whittle Roundabout" after Sir Frank Whittle, father of the jet age in Britain at least. On the next roundabout along, there is a fibreglass replica of Whittle's famous E.28/39 prototype aeroplane, and on the obelisk upon which it is mounted there is the legend "Sir Frank Whittle" on a plaque. So when the "Whittle Roundabout" is mentioned, I, along with a great number of local people, presume that the one that's being referred to is in fact the one with the plastic 'plane atop a pole. But it isn't, because the one at the entrance to the QinetiQ site is actually the Whittle Roundabout. Savvy?
Grrrr!
...and just one more. For some reason the PH forum will not allow me to use a capital 'M' at the start of mongolian. It's fine in the 'reply' box, but as soon as I use the 'preview' button to read it back, it swaps to lower case. This annoys me beyond reason!!!
Maserati
Morgan
Mahindra
Mazda
McLaren
Mitsubishi
See? All OK with a capital letter.
Macedonian? That's allowed. Martinique, Morocco, Malaysia, Mexico, even bloody Milton Keynes are all OK.
mongolian though? Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
Yours, sincerely
Annoyed,
50 Beyond Reason,
Migraine Coming,
Hertfordshire
Edited by yellowjack on Tuesday 4th April 13:04
SilverSixer said:
Similar to radio traffic announcers who tell you of a queue on a road, but not in which direction the queue is heading. e.g. "A33 queuing back to Rose Kiln Lane" - A33 goes, staggeringly, both north AND south, so which side is queuing, northbound or southbound? Ferchrissakes.
They're actually being quite efficient with their divulgence of said information: pillocking rubber-neckers will ensure that both directions are snarled.McAndy said:
SilverSixer said:
Similar to radio traffic announcers who tell you of a queue on a road, but not in which direction the queue is heading. e.g. "A33 queuing back to Rose Kiln Lane" - A33 goes, staggeringly, both north AND south, so which side is queuing, northbound or southbound? Ferchrissakes.
They're actually being quite efficient with their divulgence of said information: pillocking rubber-neckers will ensure that both directions are snarled.
Drummond Baize said:
I believe VW use them now too (at least a TG review of the new Golf R mentioned it had them.)
They'll be this season's quad exhaust pipes, you mark my words.
In about the mid-70s, 'Custom Car' was showing how to rig up 'sequential indicators', on a Capri (I think). They made a circular contact arrangement driven by a Lucas wiper motor.They'll be this season's quad exhaust pipes, you mark my words.
Amazon have just sent me an email. Subject is something akin to:
MR FASTDRUID: New from <Insert name of author you like>
Woo! Finally, the next book in the series...
t that it cannot flag books "borrowed" under kindle unlimited as being read and *also* because you've shown an interest keep recommending them as "new" books. My "recommendations" are swamped by books I've already read with no easy way to spot if I've read them or not.
Gah.
MR FASTDRUID: New from <Insert name of author you like>
Woo! Finally, the next book in the series...
Amazon said:
New Release from <author> Amazon.co.uk
Released on 17 Feb. 2017
You won't want to miss this new book.
I didn't miss this new book. I've read this new book when it came out a month and a half ago. Only your system is so sReleased on 17 Feb. 2017
You won't want to miss this new book.
t that it cannot flag books "borrowed" under kindle unlimited as being read and *also* because you've shown an interest keep recommending them as "new" books. My "recommendations" are swamped by books I've already read with no easy way to spot if I've read them or not. Gah.
Why is it, when the council has spent months/years and probably many millions of pounds digging up and then re-laying new roads, pavements and crossings, do they leave up all the odd bits of gravel and tarmac on the sides of the roads (ready to clog up the new drains) and strewn all over the paved areas before they remove the traffic cones and open for use? Would it kill them to give one bloke a brush and spend a few hours sweeping them all up?
Doing my head in around Bristol at the moment - loads of brand new roads/pavements just been opened and they look like something out the Walking Dead from day one with so much detritus left lying around.
Doing my head in around Bristol at the moment - loads of brand new roads/pavements just been opened and they look like something out the Walking Dead from day one with so much detritus left lying around.
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