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Conversations in a suana
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Posted December 20, 2011 at 3:09PM
Whilst 'chilling' in the sauna after a work out - the chat usually centres around footy or what the season plans are so the the following piece made a welcome change and to me a surprising piece of information.
One of us described the latest antic of a truck driver trying to fit his 10 ft wide container truck up a 6 foot alley - because that what the sat nav told him, and the thousands of pounds worth of damage to vehicle and property it caused.
I added my comment of frequently seeing large vehicles wending their way up my road when in fact they should be one road to the north- including on one occasion a transporter with 10 cars up- and the sight of the driver trying to back into a cul de sac to turn back the way he came from.
One of us, a driving instructor, commented that none of this is necessary now because there are now 'Large vehicle' cards available now and he remarked on a friend who used such a device because he draws a caravan when on vacation.
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Posted December 20, 2011 at 11:07PM
The satnav's for everyone,can be purchased for under £50.The last time I looked at satnav's for HGV's,the prices were in four figures.It doesn't take a genius to do the maths to understand why ordinary satnavs get used by all,especially when you consider that the special satnavs are needed perhaps once or twice a year.Added to this problem is the drivers are of foreign origin & don't understand the roadsigns,which is why we were faced with a lengthy journey to a nearby village as an artic had attempted to negotiate a minor road and got stuck on a humpback bridge damaging the bridge in the process.The artic had to be cut up to remove it from the minor road,the bridge had to be rebuilt & as a result the road was closed for almost six months.
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Posted December 21, 2011 at 7:03AM
"drivers are of foreign origin & don't understand the roadsigns" ???
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Posted December 21, 2011 at 8:13AM
Qb
I'm with you!
One of the reasons we had to change many of our road signs a few years ago (remember the hand holding a torch, which indicated a school?) was to make them the same as those used on the mainland.
I remember somebody commenting once on how sensible it was of the Germans to adopt the same blue motorway signage as us.
He was a bit put out when I pointed out that the Germans had motorways, and signage, some thirty years before the UK had such a "major breakthrough"!
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Posted December 21, 2011 at 8:56AM
"remember the hand holding a torch, which indicated a school?" No, I must be too young;)
Even looking it up, I find that the old Janet & John gaily stepping off the kerb with satchels swinging school sign, is the oldest one I can recall.
Even the old British road signage has pretty obvious pictograms to non-British drivers, the change only gave us a Europe wide standard.
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Posted December 21, 2011 at 9:03AM
Note how an innocently worded statement can now have a sexual connotation with the changes in the use of words over the years...
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Posted December 21, 2011 at 10:03AM
Quickbeam
To what what were you alluding too when you wrote
'Note how an innocently worded statement can now have a sexual connotation with the changes in the use of words over the years.'..?
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Posted December 21, 2011 at 11:12AM
Quickbeam. My Australian friends were amused by a local road sign pointing to "Public Hard" ...where boats can be launched of course!
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Posted December 21, 2011 at 11:19AM
We may have gone a deviation too far here, it's only a matter of time before the decent public of Mornington Crescent are offended by the antics of when Terry meets Julie on the Waterloo sunset express.
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Posted December 21, 2011 at 12:41PM
QB Got it.
But it took a while- I am very old you know, and 'straight'
There was a family photo portrait studio in this town- going back the 50 plus years I have lived here - called Go Gay
One day a few years back I noticed the signage had changed it was now called Go Gaze-
that took a while to sink in why.
Innocent and old that's me.
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