Urgh!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrendian
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Urgh!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrendian
But I didn't want to get my car wet!
Srsly, how would you open the doors mind?
...aaaand you Brits were saying? :D
I'd imagine carefully?
fingerme carefully? :p
Well you don't want to go at it like a bull in a china shop.
If this isn't a Tenacious D song it should be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrendian
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Jesus was a Cat, confirmed with photography.
:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrendian
oops
Well...........................sometimes that's what they like thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Wildeybeast
It certainly sounds like it should be :DQuote:
Originally Posted by The_Gonk
The UK without Scotland: [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28192293[/url]
Some fun facts:
GDP will only be at 90.7% what it is now
The UK will lose about 1/3rd of its land, causing population density to rocket making the UK the 29th most densley populated (from 45th)
Parlimanet, without scottish labour voters Conservatives would have had a majority on their own
Male life expentancy increases 2.5 years, and women 2.1 years
Seems off I will be statistically better apart.
The life part made me chuckle more then it should....... HAGGAS FOR ALL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
Of course the better together campaign can say things like:
Being part of the UK will mean that you will live statstically 2 years longer!
The whole point is ma bit moot, if Scotland becomes divorced, then all the rest of teh UK has to do is invade it. NATO will be obliged to join the allies, and Scotland being not in NATO, the EU or UN will have no recourse and then we will have a fine place to store our Nuclear Wessles!
The population density thing is a bit misleading, since most of Scotland is uninhabited anyway. It's not like we suddenly have to try and cram a load more people into England and Wales.
Almost feels like this is tumblr in one image
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All of them are, aside from teh GDP. But then that is the point of statistics, they work well on populations but not individuals.
Needs a Supernatural gif in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
so yeah my youtube just went dead... flash and Java are up to date, cashe got cleared, tried without adblock and Ghostery - just keeps giving me the spinny thing in the middle and nothing but black otherwise... blergh
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1j2Duy_xzEAQuote:
Originally Posted by Wolfshade
You are quite correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gotthammer
No idea what the linky is wildey
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-28397822]End of an era in Royal Tunbridge Wells[/url]
The old ABC Cinema is coming down, after 14 years of seemingly purposeful neglect.
And as grotty as the building is, I'm genuinely sad to see it go. Nicely art deco on the inside, it's frankly criminal that the successive owners have been allowed to just let it rot so.
Of course what doesn't help is the more than slightly shady dealings between Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and Odeon (who opened a 'just out of town' multiplex, on the proviso they didn't close down the in town one, until reasons) that nobody else could establish a cinema there. Why? Nobody really knows, but I kind of suspect some kind of brown envelope that may or may not have contained some form of hard currency may or may not have changed hands, allegedly.
It sucks. There is literally nothing to do in the centre of town of an evening, other than restaurants and pubs and clubs. Gone are the days of 'bored, I'll wander into town and catch a film'. Very sad.
Unfortunately planning runs on brown envelopes.
I know of a case where someone on the edge of a village wanted to add a smallish two story extension to their two bed house so they could give each child a bedroom (boy and girl) without moving. Knocked back as its green belt.
Six months later next door but one starts work on an extension twice size as the one they had knocked back.
Obviously no corruption there.
Planning is a bit of a joke really.
Indeed.
Take the dualling, or lack thereof, of the A21.
For reasons there's a stretch between Tunbridge Wells and it's older, far lass attractive and indeed somewhat frumpy, dole queue occupying sister town Tonbridge, which is still single carriage way.
Why it wasn't dualled when the rest of it was has never really be discussed, but it is now finally going ahead.
Again, my bet? Someone in a position to influence things made it so, because money or otherwise reasons. It's a total bottleneck, especially given that the A21 is quite a major road in the area, running from Nodnol down to Hastings.
The solution to congestion is not building more roads.
It has been proven countless times the more road capacity you build the more you end up with more road users and more congestion issues.
yes it's replacing anti car councils with sensible individuals who'll not set the lights up so you're stopped by every set and artificially slowing traffic, and then at same time complaining about air pollution in the area from all the queuing vehicles...
Roundabouts wherever possible please.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
I love and loath islands. On the one hand they massively more efficient than traffic light junctions (though if your incoming traffic volumes is not loaded evenly you can essentially close off junctions).
But roundabouts take up a lot of room comparitively, lane discipline is laughable and they are less pedestrian friendly than traffic lights
Wouldn't work for all of Wolfie's reasons, we're talking the main routes in and out for rush hour that have all the timings cocked up.
All roundabouts would do is jam it worse when the idiots that go in straight lines hit something.
Park Squar roundabout is great fun
That ones easy, it has spiral lines and they're all labelled.
Brook hill and meadowhead are both far more challenging :D
You would you think that a spiralling one with labels telling you in advance what lane to be in then some weird but strangely recognisable abbreviated on road markings but no people still get them wrong, and starting in the right lane don't bother to spiral out then at the last moment cut across a number of lanes
Yeah seen it done unfortunately.
I still prefer roundabouts.
Traffic Lights - P.I.T.A. There's a junction leading from Southborough into Tunbridge Wells, and it's a nightmare. Just creates a bottle neck. You can tell when the lights aren't working, because the traffic flows smooth as you like, on account people aren't idiots.
Any divergence or convergence causes a bottle neck.
They each have their place, cloverleaf intersections are the best intersections as they cause the minimimal speed/flow impact, the big problem ( and the reason why there are only 2 left in the UK) is that they require a huge amount of space
So I put my hand on my mouse moved it a couple of times and the cursor did not move, looking down I realised I had infact my hand on a plum.
:rolleyes:
orly?
It felt good in my hand