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Booney wrote:

bennymacca wrote:That wasn't directed at you specifically

I've seen people try and jump on them to set the lights off. But they are a magnetic induction coil so they rely on a big hunk of metal passing above them to work

True, but not entirely, at high traffic intersections at peak hour where sequencing will be programmed to coincide with other intersection in the area to ensure best possible traffic flow. Who works this out I don't know ( well, I do know one Traffic Engineer ) as more often than not it seems to be working to clog up congestion.

Having said that, what's the worst traffic you could encounter in lil'ol Radelaide?

Dunno, perhaps ask someone who took Kensi Road or Fullarton Road to work this morning

Terrible, terrible way to spend two days a year.

Footy Chick wrote:

Booney wrote:

bennymacca wrote:That wasn't directed at you specifically

I've seen people try and jump on them to set the lights off. But they are a magnetic induction coil so they rely on a big hunk of metal passing above them to work

True, but not entirely, at high traffic intersections at peak hour where sequencing will be programmed to coincide with other intersection in the area to ensure best possible traffic flow. Who works this out I don't know ( well, I do know one Traffic Engineer ) as more often than not it seems to be working to clog up congestion.

Having said that, what's the worst traffic you could encounter in lil'ol Radelaide?

Dunno, perhaps ask someone who took Kensi Road or Fullarton Road to work this morning

I went through Britannia on Monday about 3.30pm and it was awesome. No roundabouts, no intersections....just one lane each way. Straight through.

I drive down Fullarton every day, much prefer this week as I don't have to avoid an accident turning through the Brittania Roundabout. Every week without fail I have a near miss due to inattentive drivers

My favourite one was the guy I watched leading up to the roundabout that did not look right at all, slammed on my skids, he looked at me and started abusing me. Just shook my head

Dogwatcher wrote:Car parks are small places - having cars banking up behind you, as you'd like to drive off quicker when you leave is stupid.

Plus:
- If you are about to drive out, while I'm trying to reverse out, I can't see your brake lights to know you're leaving
- getting into your boot is hard
- you actually make it harder for me to get in and out of the car, and yourself, because there's less angle for you to open your door.

And this is all because you want to be able to take off quicker.

In many cases I will reverse in because the turning circle on my Camry makes the Titanic look nimble, it is actually easier and quicker to reverse in a tight situation, otherwise I am doing a three point turn to get into a parking bay, and then I'd have to pull a final manoeuvre to get into the middle of the space to leave a space for all doors to be opened. Effectively, a five point turn/ manoeuvre.
In other circumstances the park might be the first one on the near side when turning right into the car-park. Far easier to position yourself with the car's butt facing the space, with your indicator on, and then reverse in to it, than attempting to pull the aforementioned 5 point manoeuvre and holding everyone up. This is true even for my little Hyundai which turns on a dime; in some situations it saves everyone time. To this day there has not been one person who has misunderstood my intent when reversing into a park, either by stealing it ahead of me (eg, if they entered the car-park from the far side and could drive straight in) or honking their horn because they are "confused" (hmmm, if they don't notice the reverse lights and indicator maybe they shouldn't be on the road, or maybe they enjoy the sight of cars performing three point turns in a narrow parking bay? Don't know, I have never happened to me.)
I will also reverse in if there is no one around, and hence no one inconvenienced. As often happens when it is time to leave, there is a lot of traffic, people queuing up waiting for parks. I jump in the car, waiting car notices this, I give a quick wave so they know I am leaving. They wave back, off I go and the traffic goes a bit smoother.

When the last leg of your NBA Multi blows a 20 point lead in the last 5 minutes of the game

Having the family take me out for a birthday tea and I end up paying.
WTF.

JK wrote:When the last leg of your NBA Multi blows a 20 point lead in the last 5 minutes of the game

Yeah that'd give me the shits.

Computer Crashed wrote:Having the family take me out for a birthday tea and I end up paying.
WTF.

Jeez, that's rough.

WTF = Willing to Trade Family.

NBN carking it at 7pm yesterday. Internode have no idea what's happened so now its up to the NBN technicians to get it up and running again.

What's an NBN?

Done race 6, done race 7, half way through race 8 of the Melbourne quaddie and the boss rolls in when he wasn't meant to be here until after 2....now what am I going to do, work?

Booney wrote:Done race 6, done race 7, half way through race 8 of the Melbourne quaddie and the boss rolls in when he wasn't meant to be here until after 2....now what am I going to do, work?

If you can do this website all day you can sneak the rest of the quaddie in surely!

MW wrote:

Booney wrote:Done race 6, done race 7, half way through race 8 of the Melbourne quaddie and the boss rolls in when he wasn't meant to be here until after 2....now what am I going to do, work?

If you can do this website all day you can sneak the rest of the quaddie in surely!

With the paper spread open across my desk?

yeah nah you're f**ked lol

Booney wrote:Done race 6, done race 7, half way through race 8 of the Melbourne quaddie and the boss rolls in when he wasn't meant to be here until after 2....now what am I going to do, work?

The Quaddie tomorrow is easy anyway in what must be said are very average fields IMO

Race 6- #9
Race 7- one of 13,14 or 15. Question marks on class but I'd go with the 14
Race 8- #1 (Good value)
Race 9- #8

Booney wrote:Done race 6, done race 7, half way through race 8 of the Melbourne quaddie and the boss rolls in when he wasn't meant to be here until after 2....now what am I going to do, work?

Small fields, should have only taken ya 5 minutes

Aldi.

What overhyped rubbish.

Facebook and ignorant uneducated people who have nothing better to do than critise everything you attempt regardless of the logistics behind it which they have no understanding off

Really makes me want to chuck it all in and just go on the dole

I'm so ******* angry right now

whufc wrote:Facebook and ignorant uneducated people who have nothing better to do than critise everything you attempt regardless of the logistics behind it which they have no understanding off

Really makes me want to chuck it all in and just go on the dole

I'm so ******* angry right now

Is this to do with the sports centre hammer?