The low cut waistecoats that seem to be in fashion these days. They look awful IMO. I like a waistcoat with a suit but these new types are an abomination!
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The low cut waistecoats that seem to be in fashion these days. They look awful IMO. I like a waistcoat with a suit but these new types are an abomination!
You should really decrease your clothes before you get in the shower.Quote:
Originally Posted by SRHibs
He’s a legendQuote:
Originally Posted by Bangkok Hibby
I’ve probably mentioned it before, but people who press the button and immediately walk across the road at pedestrian crossings. If the road is clear just cross without pressing the button. It’s not at pedestrian crossings that it’s a problem, it’s at normal junctions. The idiot presses the button and crosses and a couple of minutes later the traffic is left at a standstill while no one is crossing the road. I see it every day and it does my nut in.
I've started lowering the window and shouting abuse at people who do this, now. There should be a rule that if you press the button then you must wait for the green man, and if you break that rule you should be horsewhipped, or better. There's hardly any pedestrian crossings in Edinburgh that able-bodied adults really need to press buttons at, except during rush hours. It's just a lazy, sloppy, selfish habit which adds hugely to cyclists' and motorists' journey times, pollution, lung diseases, etc etc etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by lord bunberry
There should be a cancel button at crossings.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
If there's traffic when I get to a crossing, I'll push the button. If there's an adequate break in the traffic before I get a green Man, I'll walk.
I find it very rarely happens though. It's either a busy junction that means I can't walk, or it's a crossing that goes to red quite quickly for the cars. But that's because I'm usually walking at peak times I guess.
Same for me, push the button and wait, if a break in traffic comes before the green man I will cross, don’t see the problem really.Quote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
The problem is that most of the time you can anticipate there'll be a break in traffic in a few moments, so why not just wait for that break so that the traffic can continue to flow? 10 cars stopping and starting when there was no need just pumps more crap into the atmosphere and people's lungs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby
Way I look at it is, every time you unnecessarily press the button, you unnecessarily shorten someone's life. Whereas every time you look right, look left, look right again, then cross if it's safe to do so, you lengthen someone's life.
I never used to press the button to cross the road, im generally pretty good at getting across myself but in recent times drivers have became such dicks to pedestrians, especially the ones who shout out their windows, i now press the button just before i cross, because I can :greengrin
Why the hell im expected to thank someone for stopping at a zebra crossing is quite beyond me. They do get a bit upset when i dont though.
The way I look at it is that as a driver I have to stop either way if the person's pressed the button, whether they've crossed before the lights or waited. It doesn't bother me.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
But you don't have to stop if the button hasn't been pressed, and the pedestrian has just crossed the road, like Mrs S used to above. It's not compulsory to press the button, just because it's there.Quote:
Originally Posted by matty_f
I don't really shout out of the window. I do, however, every time it happens, say a silent prayer for all those with lung problems whose lives are being unnecessarily shortened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. S
Well try leaving the car and waliking. Your car is as much part of the problem as everybody elses. As a pedestrian im happy to take the risk just to annoy some arrogant drivers :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
You definitely overthink crossing the road!Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
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Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby
Sheer bad manners. If I need to explain.........
Pressing the button at a pedestrian crossing is just like waiting in a queue in a supermarket, you wait but if an opportunity comes to get served immediately you move and take that opportunity.
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Originally Posted by pollution
If there's an obvious gap coming up I tend not to push the button. If I'm not sure I push the button but if a gap I didn't anticipate appears then I'll cross. I don't really get the problem as either driver or pedestrian.
Drivers who don't stop at zebra crossings are utter erseholes though. One stupid woman clipped my bairns stroller, admittedly at low speed, the other week because she carried on driving even though I was half way across the road. She even had the cheek to tell me to calm down and grow up when I, understandably imo, lost the plot a bit.
I'm with you on that one, there's a crossing at the Tesco near my house that loads of kids use to get to the primary school next to it, and the number of times I've seen drivers drive straight over it with kids either about to cross or already on the crossing is unreal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Been a few times where parents have nearly come to how's with careless drivers over it, and I've seen a few cars take a boot or a handbag on anger as it's gone through the crossing.
Spending a wholesome afternoon making tomato and chilli chutney with some Scotch Bonnets. Then going to the toilet before washing my hands.......
I feel your pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Boy
Metaphorically and empathetically, obvs
:agree: they’ve not been brought up correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
The thing that annoys me isn’t people pressing the button and waiting, it’s the people who press it and immediately just cross. I see it all the time. The worse place for it is at the top of dundas street. People are walking down from the town and press the button and just walk across the road. The green man comes on after every red light as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby
People that wear ill fitting kilts.
I love wearing my kilt and I think it’s great to see at weddings then you inevitably get that one guy wearing what’s basically a mini skirt and it makes a mockery of it.
I just don’t understand how kilt shops can get it so wrong so often?!
To be fair, kilts seem to change shape over time. Each time I’ve put my kilt on it seems to have inexplicably shrunk around the waist since the last time 😂Quote:
Originally Posted by bingo70
It's a nice idea but it doesn't really work if your work involves delivering heavy stuff. I do, however, make a point of minimising my own harmful emissions by not slowing down, stopping and then starting up again at pedestrian crossings. I just drive straight through in the expectation that whoever has pressed the button has already crossed, safely, by themselves.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. S
You need to invest in a wheelbarrow. Less emissions, more exercise. :greengrinQuote:
Originally Posted by lapsedhibee
I'm going to enjoy every pedestrian crossing button I press tomorrow. :greengrin
:tee hee::tee hee: I was thinking the sameQuote:
Originally Posted by danhibees1875
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Originally Posted by danhibees1875
Murderers,Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs. S