Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

Is there some edict down at TfL HQ that london bus drivers have to use up
both waiting lanes at traffic light junctions if theres more than 1 lane in
a given direction? Are they deliberately trying to slow down all the traffic
behind as they slowly drag themselves across the junction when the lights go
green?

Today I got fed up and just went around a bus and stopped in front of him but
he still tried to edge me out of the way by creeping up really close to my
car. Luckily for him he damage it but what the hell is with these morons?

B2003

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

wrote in message
...
Is there some edict down at TfL HQ that london bus drivers have to use up
both waiting lanes at traffic light junctions if theres more than 1 lane
in
a given direction? Are they deliberately trying to slow down all the
traffic
behind as they slowly drag themselves across the junction when the lights
go
green?

Today I got fed up and just went around a bus and stopped in front of him
but
he still tried to edge me out of the way by creeping up really close to my
car. Luckily for him he damage it but what the hell is with these morons?

I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. I'm talking
about a few centimetres. It's ridiculous

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Tue, 25 May 2010 10:42:44 +0100, Mr. Benn wrote:
wrote in message
...
Is there some edict down at TfL HQ that london bus drivers have to use up
both waiting lanes at traffic light junctions if theres more than 1 lane
in
a given direction? Are they deliberately trying to slow down all the
traffic
behind as they slowly drag themselves across the junction when the lights
go
green?

Today I got fed up and just went around a bus and stopped in front of him
but
he still tried to edge me out of the way by creeping up really close to my
car. Luckily for him he damage it but what the hell is with these morons?

I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. I'm talking
about a few centimetres. It's ridiculous

It sounds like they've mistaken Bob Newhart's sketch[1] as a traning course
rather than comedy.

[1] http://www.we7.com/track/Bus-Drivers...Id=1148384&m=0
(there's a short ad. at the start, and it takes a while to get going)

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

Mr. Benn wrote:
....
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. ...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did not
use your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Colin Bignell

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote in message
...
Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. ...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did not use
your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Colin Bignell

Are you serious Colin?

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

Mr. Benn wrote:
"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote in message
...
Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. ...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did not
use your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Colin Bignell

Are you serious Colin?



Surely he must be kidding?

Bod

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On May 26, 10:22*am, "Mr. Benn" wrote:

"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. *...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did not use
your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Are you serious Colin?

Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On 26 May, 14:39, Mizter T wrote:
On May 26, 10:22*am, "Mr. Benn" wrote:

"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. *....

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did not use
your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Are you serious Colin?

Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.

How can we check our appearance without using mirrors? I am sure that
the majority of drivers do use them.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Wed, 26 May 2010 06:39:53 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote:


On May 26, 10:22*am, "Mr. Benn" wrote:

"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. *...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did not use
your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Are you serious Colin?

Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.


I think everyone has missed the most important point, which was that
the reason the buses were too close was that the idiot Boltar was
holding up the flow of traffic by driving too slowly.

It might seem a little strange that someone who was only recently
complaining about other drivers holding up London traffic would be
guilty of the same antisocial behaviour he was complaining about, but
that's Boltar for you. ;-)

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:13:31 +0100
Bruce wrote:
I think everyone has missed the most important point, which was that
the reason the buses were too close was that the idiot Boltar was
holding up the flow of traffic by driving too slowly.

It might seem a little strange that someone who was only recently
complaining about other drivers holding up London traffic would be
guilty of the same antisocial behaviour he was complaining about, but
that's Boltar for you. ;-)

Actually you've got in completely arse about tit. The bus was using up both
lanes at the head of the queue so I drove in front of him as far as I could
and when the lights went green I was gone. I had no intention of waiting for
the red slug to heave itself across the junction with a huge queue of
traffic built up behind it.

B2003

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

"Mizter T" wrote in message
...

On May 26, 10:22 am, "Mr. Benn" wrote:

"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. ...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did not
use
your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Are you serious Colin?

Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.

Thanks for your advice. I'll completely remove the rear view mirror in my
car as it doesn't serve any useful purpose. It was useful for the furry
dice though.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

Mr. Benn wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message
...

On May 26, 10:22 am, "Mr. Benn" wrote:

"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. ...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did
not use
your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Are you serious Colin?

Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.

Thanks for your advice. I'll completely remove the rear view mirror in
my car as it doesn't serve any useful purpose. It was useful for the
furry dice though.



I constantly scan ALL of my mirrors at very regular intervals. To not
do so, would be foolish and not very sensible driving.

I try and anticipate and know what everything is doing around me,
especially if a **** is driving too close to my rear bumper. This tells
me to leave a bigger gap in front of me, just in case the car in front
pulls up suddenly or a kiddie runs out into the road. There's then less
chance of the **** behind me, rearending me.

Constantly checking your rear view mirror IS common sense.

Bod

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Wed, 26 May 2010 16:59:10 +0100, bod
wrote:
Mr. Benn wrote:
"Mizter T" wrote in message
...

On May 26, 10:22 am, "Mr. Benn" wrote:

"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. ...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did
not use
your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Are you serious Colin?

Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.

Thanks for your advice. I'll completely remove the rear view mirror in
my car as it doesn't serve any useful purpose. It was useful for the
furry dice though.



I constantly scan ALL of my mirrors at very regular intervals. To not
do so, would be foolish and not very sensible driving.

I try and anticipate and know what everything is doing around me,
especially if a **** is driving too close to my rear bumper. This tells
me to leave a bigger gap in front of me, just in case the car in front
pulls up suddenly or a kiddie runs out into the road. There's then less
chance of the **** behind me, rearending me.

Constantly checking your rear view mirror IS common sense.

Bod



Whooooosh ... !

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On May 26, 4:59*pm, bod wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:
[snip]
Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.

Thanks for your advice. *I'll completely remove the rear view mirror in
my car as it doesn't serve any useful purpose. *It was useful for the
furry dice though.

* I constantly scan ALL of my mirrors at very regular intervals. To not
do so, would be foolish and not very sensible driving.

* I try and anticipate and know what everything is doing around me,
especially if a **** is driving too close to my rear bumper. This tells
me to leave a bigger gap in front of me, just in case the car in front
pulls up suddenly or a kiddie runs out into the road. There's then less
chance of the **** behind me, rearending me.

Constantly checking your rear view mirror IS common sense.

You sound just like my driving instructor did. Boring. You come across
as a right busybody, sticking you nose in everywhere - just get on
with driving and stop fussing about what other people are doing.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

bod wrote:
Mr. Benn wrote:

Thanks for your advice. I'll completely remove the rear view mirror
in my car as it doesn't serve any useful purpose. It was useful for
the furry dice though.

I constantly scan ALL of my mirrors at very regular intervals. To not
do so, would be foolish and not very sensible driving.

I try and anticipate and know what everything is doing around me,
especially if a **** is driving too close to my rear bumper. This tells
me to leave a bigger gap in front of me, just in case the car in front
pulls up suddenly or a kiddie runs out into the road. There's then less
chance of the **** behind me, rearending me.

Yebbut, you can leave that bigger gap anyway, and then follow the advice.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

Mr. Benn wrote:
"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote in message
...
Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. ...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did not
use your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Colin Bignell

Are you serious Colin?

Actually, I wonder if this at the root of so many drivers being totally
unaware of what is happening behind them - they looked in the mirror
once, didn't like what they saw and never looked again.

Colin Bignell

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

Nightjar "cpb"@ insertmysurnamehere wrote:
Mr. Benn wrote:
"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote in message
...
Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. ...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did
not use your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Colin Bignell

Are you serious Colin?

Actually, I wonder if this at the root of so many drivers being totally
unaware of what is happening behind them - they looked in the mirror
once, didn't like what they saw and never looked again.

Colin Bignell



That happened to me once. I gave a lift to a woman, she sat in the
back seat. She was so ugly, that I dared not look in the mirror twice. :)

Bod

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T wrote:

On May 26, 4:59Â*pm, bod wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:
[snip]
Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.

Thanks for your advice. Â*I'll completely remove the rear view mirror in
my car as it doesn't serve any useful purpose. Â*It was useful for the
furry dice though.

Â* I constantly scan ALL of my mirrors at very regular intervals. To not
do so, would be foolish and not very sensible driving.

Â* I try and anticipate and know what everything is doing around me,
especially if a **** is driving too close to my rear bumper. This tells
me to leave a bigger gap in front of me, just in case the car in front
pulls up suddenly or a kiddie runs out into the road. There's then less
chance of the **** behind me, rearending me.

Constantly checking your rear view mirror IS common sense.

You sound just like my driving instructor did. Boring.

If your driving instructor was boring, he/she was probably a good driver.
Boring means not taking risks. It means being consistent and predictable.
It means not getting into sticky situations (as you foresaw a potential
problem and avoided it) and keeping within your limits.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

Nick Finnigan wrote:
bod wrote:
Mr. Benn wrote:

Thanks for your advice. I'll completely remove the rear view mirror
in my car as it doesn't serve any useful purpose. It was useful for
the furry dice though.

I constantly scan ALL of my mirrors at very regular intervals. To not
do so, would be foolish and not very sensible driving.

I try and anticipate and know what everything is doing around me,
especially if a **** is driving too close to my rear bumper. This
tells me to leave a bigger gap in front of me, just in case the car in
front pulls up suddenly or a kiddie runs out into the road. There's
then less chance of the **** behind me, rearending me.

Yebbut, you can leave that bigger gap anyway, and then follow the advice.



I already leave a bigger gap than most drivers do.

Bod

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On May 27, 9:43*am, pete wrote:

On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T wrote:

On May 26, 4:59*pm, bod wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote:
[snip]
Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.

Thanks for your advice. *I'll completely remove the rear view mirror in
my car as it doesn't serve any useful purpose. *It was useful for the
furry dice though.

* I constantly scan ALL of my mirrors at very regular intervals. To not
do so, would be foolish and not very sensible driving.

* I try and anticipate and know what everything is doing around me,
especially if a **** is driving too close to my rear bumper. This tells
me to leave a bigger gap in front of me, just in case the car in front
pulls up suddenly or a kiddie runs out into the road. There's then less
chance of the **** behind me, rearending me.

Constantly checking your rear view mirror IS common sense.

You sound just like my driving instructor did. Boring.

If your driving instructor was boring, he/she was probably a good driver.
Boring means not taking risks. It means being consistent and predictable.
It means not getting into sticky situations (as you foresaw a potential
problem and avoided it) and keeping within your limits.

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Thu, 27 May 2010 03:30:57 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote:

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.


Visions of Mizter T doing power slides around Piccadilly Circus in his
Subaru Impreza ...

Er, no. Can't see it. Sorry.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On 27/05/2010 11:30, Mizter T wrote:

On May 27, 9:43 am, wrote:

On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T wrote:

On May 26, 4:59 pm, wrote:

Mr. Benn wrote:

"Mizter wrote:
[snip]
Of course he is - and he's completely right - if everyone just
concentrated on looking at the road in front of them, and stopped
getting distracted by that which is behind them, then all would be
well. It's none of anyone's business what goes on behind them - we
don't have eyes in the back of our head for a reason.

Thanks for your advice. I'll completely remove the rear view mirror in
my car as it doesn't serve any useful purpose. It was useful for the
furry dice though.

I constantly scan ALL of my mirrors at very regular intervals. To not
do so, would be foolish and not very sensible driving.

I try and anticipate and know what everything is doing around me,
especially if a **** is driving too close to my rear bumper. This tells
me to leave a bigger gap in front of me, just in case the car in front
pulls up suddenly or a kiddie runs out into the road. There's then less
chance of the **** behind me, rearending me.

Constantly checking your rear view mirror IS common sense.

You sound just like my driving instructor did. Boring.

If your driving instructor was boring, he/she was probably a good driver.
Boring means not taking risks. It means being consistent and predictable.
It means not getting into sticky situations (as you foresaw a potential
problem and avoided it) and keeping within your limits.

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.

Fraid it doesn't work like that. Try going at different speeds on a
known journey in traffic and see how your arrival times vary. Then try
the same journey but stopping all the time - e.g. for petrol etc. You'll
soon see what makes the real difference - not speed but time spent not
moving.


--
John Wright

Use your imagination Marvin!

Life's bad enough as it is - why invent any more of it.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On 27/05/2010 08:39, bod wrote:
Nightjar "cpb"@ insertmysurnamehere wrote:
Mr. Benn wrote:
"Nightjar "cpb"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote in message
...
Mr. Benn wrote:
...
I have noticed bus drivers driving dangerously close behind me. ...

That's your fault. If you drove like most people appear to and did
not use your rear view mirrors, you wouldn't notice them.

Colin Bignell

Are you serious Colin?

Actually, I wonder if this at the root of so many drivers being
totally unaware of what is happening behind them - they looked in the
mirror once, didn't like what they saw and never looked again.

Colin Bignell



That happened to me once. I gave a lift to a woman, she sat in the back
seat. She was so ugly, that I dared not look in the mirror twice. :)

A woman once ran into the back of my vehicle - hers was a Ford Cortina,
mine was a Volvo 240 (Pre-Ford). She lunched her car but did no damage
to the Volvo. Very pretty woman but when she opened her mouth she spoke
like Janet Street-Porter.

--
John Wright

Use your imagination Marvin!

Life's bad enough as it is - why invent any more of it.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:19:01 +0100, john wright
wrote:
On 27/05/2010 11:30, Mizter T wrote:

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.

Fraid it doesn't work like that. Try going at different speeds on a
known journey in traffic and see how your arrival times vary. Then try
the same journey but stopping all the time - e.g. for petrol etc. You'll
soon see what makes the real difference - not speed but time spent not
moving.


Whooooosh ... !

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On 27/05/2010 15:05, Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:19:01 +0100, john
wrote:
On 27/05/2010 11:30, Mizter T wrote:

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.

Fraid it doesn't work like that. Try going at different speeds on a
known journey in traffic and see how your arrival times vary. Then try
the same journey but stopping all the time - e.g. for petrol etc. You'll
soon see what makes the real difference - not speed but time spent not
moving.


Whooooosh ... !

You may say that... but having been overtaken no less than three times
by the same police car (hence recognizable) in the space of ten miles on
a dual carriageway, then ending up right behind him on the same
off-ramp, I became convinced that speed (from say 45-75) matters little
in overall journey time, it only makes seconds of difference. Hence no
need to push the limits. I'm sure Jenson Button might well agree.

--
John Wright

Use your imagination Marvin!

Life's bad enough as it is - why invent any more of it.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On May 27, 1:19*pm, john wright wrote:

On 27/05/2010 11:30, Mizter T wrote:

On May 27, 9:43 am, *wrote:

On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T wrote:
[snip]
You sound just like my driving instructor did. Boring.

If your driving instructor was boring, he/she was probably a good driver.
Boring means not taking risks. It means being consistent and predictable.
It means not getting into sticky situations (as you foresaw a potential
problem and avoided it) and keeping within your limits.

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.

Fraid it doesn't work like that. Try going at different speeds on a
known journey in traffic and see how your arrival times vary. Then try
the same journey but stopping all the time - e.g. for petrol etc. You'll
soon see what makes the real difference - not speed but time spent not
moving.

I stop for nothing. Unless absolutely, unavoidably necessary. Gotta
live in the fast lane man - and *every* lane is the fast lane. No
wonder we're all going nowhere.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On 27 May, 15:46, Mizter T wrote:
On May 27, 1:19*pm, john wright wrote:





On 27/05/2010 11:30, Mizter T wrote:

On May 27, 9:43 am, *wrote:

On Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:03 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T wrote:
[snip]
You sound just like my driving instructor did. Boring.

If your driving instructor was boring, he/she was probably a good driver.
Boring means not taking risks. It means being consistent and predictable.
It means not getting into sticky situations (as you foresaw a potential
problem and avoided it) and keeping within your limits.

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.

Fraid it doesn't work like that. Try going at different speeds on a
known journey in traffic and see how your arrival times vary. Then try
the same journey but stopping all the time - e.g. for petrol etc. You'll
soon see what makes the real difference - not speed but time spent not
moving.

I stop for nothing. Unless absolutely, unavoidably necessary. Gotta
live in the fast lane man - and *every* lane is the fast lane. No
wonder we're all going nowhere.


In that case I suggest that you'd still be better off using your
mirror: to look out for things that might crash into you. Anyone in
front of you should use their own mirror and get out of your way. No
point you looking at them, because you ain't gonna stop.

And you can check your appearance all the time of course.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On May 27, 4:33*pm, MIG wrote:

On 27 May, 15:46, Mizter T wrote:
[snip]
I stop for nothing. Unless absolutely, unavoidably necessary. Gotta
live in the fast lane man - and *every* lane is the fast lane. No
wonder we're all going nowhere.

In that case I suggest that you'd still be better off using your
mirror: to look out for things that might crash into you. *Anyone in
front of you should use their own mirror and get out of your way. No
point you looking at them, because you ain't gonna stop.

And you can check your appearance all the time of course.

Nah, mirrors are unnatural. And nothing's gonna catch me up. Though
you do have a point - there's not a lot of point in paying *too* much
attention to the road ahead either - over-concentration is as bad as
no concentration.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Thu, 27 May 2010 15:28:20 +0100, john wright
wrote:

On 27/05/2010 15:05, Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:19:01 +0100, john
wrote:
On 27/05/2010 11:30, Mizter T wrote:

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.

Fraid it doesn't work like that. Try going at different speeds on a
known journey in traffic and see how your arrival times vary. Then try
the same journey but stopping all the time - e.g. for petrol etc. You'll
soon see what makes the real difference - not speed but time spent not
moving.


Whooooosh ... !

You may say that... but having been overtaken no less than three times
by the same police car (hence recognizable) in the space of ten miles on
a dual carriageway, then ending up right behind him on the same
off-ramp, I became convinced that speed (from say 45-75) matters little
in overall journey time, it only makes seconds of difference. Hence no
need to push the limits. I'm sure Jenson Button might well agree.


Whoosh again!

Don't you know what it means? I mean whoosh.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:46:48PM +0100, Bruce wrote:

Visions of Mizter T doing power slides around Piccadilly Circus in his
Subaru Impreza ...

I was very disappointed to find that in $video_game that had a London
map in it I couldn't do doughnuts around the cenotaph in a routemaster.

--
David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive

Lesbian bigots try to put finger in linguistic dyke:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7376919.stm

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Fri, 28 May 2010 12:46:19 +0100, David Cantrell
wrote:

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:46:48PM +0100, Bruce wrote:

Visions of Mizter T doing power slides around Piccadilly Circus in his
Subaru Impreza ...

I was very disappointed to find that in $video_game that had a London
map in it I couldn't do doughnuts around the cenotaph in a routemaster.


Even less chance with a Borisbus, then. ;-)

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On 28/05/2010 12:46, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:46:48PM +0100, Bruce wrote:

Visions of Mizter T doing power slides around Piccadilly Circus in his
Subaru Impreza ...

I was very disappointed to find that in $video_game that had a London
map in it I couldn't do doughnuts around the cenotaph in a routemaster.

Surely the war was fought just for that freedom?

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On 27/05/2010 19:00, Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 15:28:20 +0100, john
wrote:

On 27/05/2010 15:05, Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:19:01 +0100, john
wrote:
On 27/05/2010 11:30, Mizter T wrote:

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.

Fraid it doesn't work like that. Try going at different speeds on a
known journey in traffic and see how your arrival times vary. Then try
the same journey but stopping all the time - e.g. for petrol etc. You'll
soon see what makes the real difference - not speed but time spent not
moving.


Whooooosh ... !

You may say that... but having been overtaken no less than three times
by the same police car (hence recognizable) in the space of ten miles on
a dual carriageway, then ending up right behind him on the same
off-ramp, I became convinced that speed (from say 45-75) matters little
in overall journey time, it only makes seconds of difference. Hence no
need to push the limits. I'm sure Jenson Button might well agree.


Whoosh again!

Don't you know what it means? I mean whoosh.

It's generally taken to mean you don't understand what's been posted.
i.e. its gone right over your head.

--
John Wright

Use your imagination Marvin!

Life's bad enough as it is - why invent any more of it.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Fri, 28 May 2010 18:56:56 +0100, john wright
wrote:

On 27/05/2010 19:00, Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 15:28:20 +0100, john
wrote:

On 27/05/2010 15:05, Bruce wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:19:01 +0100, john
wrote:
On 27/05/2010 11:30, Mizter T wrote:

Boring. No wonder it takes so long to get anywhere with people like
you on the roads. You gotta push the limits, man.

Fraid it doesn't work like that. Try going at different speeds on a
known journey in traffic and see how your arrival times vary. Then try
the same journey but stopping all the time - e.g. for petrol etc. You'll
soon see what makes the real difference - not speed but time spent not
moving.


Whooooosh ... !

You may say that... but having been overtaken no less than three times
by the same police car (hence recognizable) in the space of ten miles on
a dual carriageway, then ending up right behind him on the same
off-ramp, I became convinced that speed (from say 45-75) matters little
in overall journey time, it only makes seconds of difference. Hence no
need to push the limits. I'm sure Jenson Button might well agree.


Whoosh again!

Don't you know what it means? I mean whoosh.

It's generally taken to mean you don't understand what's been posted.
i.e. its gone right over your head.


In particular, that you haven't understood the humour, or the irony,
or that you just didn't get it at all.

Buses taking up 2 lanes
 

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:30:15PM +0100, Basil Jet wrote:
On 28/05/2010 12:46, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:46:48PM +0100, Bruce wrote:
Visions of Mizter T doing power slides around Piccadilly Circus in his
Subaru Impreza ...
I was very disappointed to find that in $video_game that had a London
map in it I couldn't do doughnuts around the cenotaph in a routemaster.
Surely the war was fought just for that freedom?

I'm fairly sure that at least one of my grandfathers would have
approved, if only on the grounds that it would require breaking
several of those laws of physics that, as an engineer, he would have
found so terribly inconvenient.

(A. H. Cantrell, chief civil engineer, BR southern region, in case
anyone's interested)

--
David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire

On the bright side, if sendmail is tied up routing spam and pointless
uknot posts, it's not waving its arse around saying "root me!"
-- Peter Corlett, in uknot