The stupidity of some car drivers...

[co-op]

By jove I think you've got it!

The vast majority of car drivers do not behave in the ways that you describe or park like the tits in the OP..

Of course! I know that really cardrivers can do no wrong.

If only everyone else would just arrange the world to suit cars, there wouldn't be a problem. What we should really do here is amputate the editor's ears and then the whole horn & noise "problem" would be sorted, then we can spiral out from there - maybe pull down his block to make extra parking spaces? - and eventually we'd have a perfect cartopia. Hoorah!

 

[rhod]

1. Put some fake clamping signs on the wall.
2. Buy a clamp.
3. Park a car prominently with clamp on & fake ticket on windscreen.

 

[Cobbles]

If you're that keen on becoming a parking attendant, why not go for it yourself?

It's much better to sub-contract it out to a company who can take a doleite off the books onto the minimum wage (plus commission).

The less noisy, ugly cars I have outside my house the better thanks, so

Easy - only issue permits to pretty cars.

I'm only interested in getting rid of the car park and having a nice, green piece of parkland there.

Parkland? - it's a concrete slimed gap site, not a couple of acres of Dartmoor........

If that's what you want, buy the land, did down through the detritus, ship in a couple of feet of topsoil and plant away.

 

[Spymaster]

Of course! I know that really cardrivers can do no wrong.

Some can, and do. But most don't.

Simple as that really and all your ranting won't change it.

In my experience, which seems greater than yours (given that I drive, motorcycle and walk, frequently and internationally and you seem only to walk around south east London) there are proportionately far fewer thoughtless motorists than cyclists.

 

[_angel_]

Imagine! Bumpy grass?! Best concrete over it immediately, because the precious cars simply must have the best surface possible for their little tyres and those pesky pedestrians had just better get used to it.

Mind you, I hope you don't start whining if your house floods as a result.

You're a complete prick when it comes to this issue, aren't you? I guess we're kind of unlikely to flood round here, by your logic, as all council estate houses here have MASSIVE fucking gardens.

Because when they built council housing they didn't imagine that plebs would actually drive cars, they built no driveways for them.

If you lived in those houses and had a car or a van (a lot of people in trade in council estates how dare they drive a car or have a trade that needs a van!) They still have to park it somewhere. On a main road isn't an option.

Anyway, how dare they want to have a car or van or motorbike. That should only be for rich people in big houses who can afford their own garages.

 

[co-op]

Some can, and do. But most don't.

Simple as that really and all your ranting won't change it.

In my experience, which seems greater than yours (given that I drive, motorcycle and walk, frequently and internationally and you seem only to walk around south east London) there are proportionately far fewer thoughtless motorists than cyclists.

And your bland denials of my opinions don't add up to much either. I know my opinions are minority ones here, often that means they've been thought about quite deeply rather than just a regurgitation of the car agenda zeitgeist as yours are.

You haven't got a clue what my "experience" is, although if you bothered to look around on even pretty recent threads on this board you'd see that you're talking shite here. But you haven't so you don't.

I have lived and worked abroad in several different countries, and also several different cities in the UK. From the complacent, conventional and self-congratulatory tenor of your opinions, I'd guess I'm older than you and have a vastly wider experience of the planet than you. But that's just a guess of course.

 

[Spymaster]

And your.....<blah blah> ...... have a vastly wider experience of the planet than you.

I doubt this, but whatever.

You clearly have limited experience of road use beyond crossing them and possibly cycling on them. This, combined with your ridiculously partisan agenda makes your opinion virtually worthless in my view.

 

[editor]

Parkland? - it's a concrete slimed gap site, not a couple of acres of Dartmoor...

Get a dictionary, stupid boy. A park can be any size.

 

[perplexis]

Wait until it's really full and burn the lot.

 

[co-op]

I doubt this, but whatever.

You clearly have limited experience of road use beyond crossing them and possibly cycling on them. This, combined with your ridiculously partisan agenda makes your opinion virtually worthless in my view.

You're a silly little twerp for saying the above, because what you seem so "clear" about is factually incorrect - I have driven all kinds of vehicles in all sorts of terrains in all sorts of coutries. And your twerpitude is even greater since you could have found evidence to that effect had you bothered read other threads I've posted on.

What comes over loud and clear from your posts is the classic over-confidence in unthought-out, received opinion, derived from narrow experience. Perhaps that's why you lunged so neurotically to make the accusation of "inexperience" to someone who disagrees with you? Qui accuse, s'accuse and all that.

Certainly a bland and dull suburban life would explain a ridiculous username like "Spymaster" - Gosh! How exciting and cool! It's a little reminiscent of that other staple of the office drone - a ludicrously over-sized and specced 4x4 - called a "Ranchero Maverick" or "Land Rover Freelander" or whatever the ad boys in Soho have calculated will make you feel like you are Somebody. It's passably obvious that there's an inverse correlation between these names and the meaningless, dullness and imprisoned-by-convention nature of their owners lives.

Good luck with it all.

 

[editor]

Off topic material removed.

 

[twistedAM]

I keep a couple of parking tickets which are useful to slap on cars to freak out the driver. Lots of fun watching them approach the vehicle and see they've got a ticket.

 

[Spymaster]

.....<worthless opinion snipped>...... Good luck with it and all.

Thanks for that.

Regarding your so called "experience", again whatever. That's why I used the words "seem" and "seems" in the post with which you take exception. Anyway, who am I to judge the veracity of your contributions? but posting on the internet is as easy as scrawling on a bog wall. If you'd genuinely had recent experience of driving in London you'd know that what you post is often nonsense.

 

[Elvis Parsley]

".....<worthless opinion snipped>......"

yay Spymaster, way to win an argument. well done you. <rolleyes the size of the moon>

 

[Spymaster]

".....<worthless opinion snipped>......"

yay Spymaster, way to win an argument. well done you. <rolleyes the size of the moon>

If you think I'm going to respond to "twerp", "twerpitude", "neurotic", "bland", "imprisoned by convention" D), "dull", "office drone" and worst of all "suburban", then you are very much mistaken.

All of the above, is worthless opinion, so you can insert your lunar rolleyes into your rectum, old chap.

And what's to win? I think Co-op (on this topic) is a poster of very little value and he thinks I am "the above". The difference is, I judge his post content and he, based on my screen name, judges what he errantly perceives to be my lifestyle and calls me names.

Fair enough, it takes all sorts .

 

[editor]

Looks like this is a thread destined to be full of off-topic personal attacks.

(*and I was guilty too, m'lud after foolishly reacting to an unpleasant insult thrown my way).

 

[likesfish]

get some hippo bags of sand delivered instant road block

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Yes! That's the idea! Concrete over everything - who needs grass anyway when a car could be sat there - but don't start complaining when the houses flood, y'hear!

Concrete creates flooding?

 

[rhod]

yup

 

[Spymaster]

Concrete creates flooding?

There's a theory that concreting over gardens etc., prevents the "run-off" and absorption of rain water and can contribute to flooding.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

yup

Enlightening! Never knew that although with the way councils charge drivers when it comes to parking it doesn't surprise this trend would happen...

 

[Cobbles]

Get a dictionary, stupid boy. A park can be any size.

The word that you used was Parkland - here's a couple of random samples:

http://http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-parkland.html
parkland


The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | Date: 2008

park·land / ˈpärkˌland/ • n. (also parklands) open land consisting of fields and scattered groups of trees. ∎ land reserved for a public park.


http://www.thefreedictionary.com/parkland
park·land (pärk

l

nd

)n.1. Land within or suitable for public parks: Alaska's vast federal parkland.
2. Grassland with scattered clusters of trees or shrubs.


The only way to group or cluster trees in that hankie sized dereliction would be to buy ti use a load of Bonsai..........

 

[co-op]

If you think I'm going to respond to "twerp", "twerpitude", "neurotic", "bland", "imprisoned by convention" D), "dull", "office drone" and worst of all "suburban", then you are very much mistaken.

All of the above, is worthless opinion, so you can insert your lunar rolleyes into your rectum, old chap.

Well to be fair to myself, it was in response to posts of yours that seemed to peak at an analysis of the editor's dilemma that was based around "fuckwitted idiots" (or some such insight) as being the best explanation of what was going on, followed by various bland announcements that I was wrong without any arguments or attempt to describe why. That looked (& looks) like childish internet wind-up to me and my general rule is if it's good enough be dished out to me, it's good enough to get dished back.

And what's to win? I think Co-op (on this topic) is a poster of very little value and he thinks I am "the above". The difference is, I judge his post content and he judges what he errantly perceives to be my lifestyle and calls me names.

Whereas you, O Great Internet Debater, invite people to "insert their lunar eyeballs up their rectum"?

It was you who started making all sorts of assumptions about my life and experience (as I suggested, these say more about you than me) and thus also began that little sidetrack. As before, you're not really entitled to boohoo when you start these things off if you get some back. As for "twerp" - it didn't seem wildly disproportionate compared to say your "fuckwitted whatever", I thought you could probably handle the obscenity level.

And "twerpitude" was a joke - cf "turpitude", as in "gross moral...". But nae matter.

You have again blandly dismissed me as being of "very little value", but this is an empty statement if you can't suggest reasons why.

To me, it looks a bit more like I have managed to annoy you more than you managed to annoy me and now you want out. Fair enough, 'tis the Way of the Internet. But it's certainly not the moral high ground you seem to think you're standing on. Sorry about that.

 

[editor]

The word that you used was Parkland - here's a couple of random samples:

park·land / ˈpärkˌland/ • n. (also parklands) open land consisting of fields and scattered groups of trees. ∎ land reserved for a public park.

Perhaps you missed this bit in your own collection of messily arranged quotes:

"parkland: land reserved for a public park."

Thank you for contributing this fine example of stupid, doltish, self-pwnage. Well done! You're the champ!

PS There's an officially designated park adjacent to the car park and it has trees and everything! In fact, there's stretches of green either side, so joining them up would make quite a sizeable little urban park.

 

[Cobbles]

Perhaps you missed this bit in your own collection of messily arranged quotes:

"parkland: land reserved for a public park."

Well, then, if it's already been reserved for use as a public park (otherwise by definition, it's not parkland), why does the Council let people park on it?

PS, is the verdant beauty of the park that's "adjacent "to this concrete mess behind the crumbling brick wall on the right, or on the other side of the poorly maintained falling-down chain link fence on the left?

 

[editor]

Well, then, if it's already been reserved for use as a public park (otherwise by definition, it's not parkland), why does the Council let people park on it?

Have you been eating Thicko Flakes for breakfast or something?

I said I'd like the land to be used for a "nice, green piece of parkland". And if it gets used as a piece of parkland it would then become - duh! - parkland.

 

[Spymaster]

Well to be fair to myself, it was in response to posts of yours that seemed to peak at an analysis of the editor's dilemma that was based around "fuckwitted idiots" ....

Whereas yours of me was based on my username!

You'll also notice my use of the words "seem" and "seems" about your experience in the post that you've taken exception to.

My "very little value" comment was based on the fact that you are so fanatically anti-car that your posts contain no reason or balance. It's like arguing pro-judaism with a nazi.

Anyway, it's clear we've got off on the wrong foot and if it's not too late I've no wish to make an enemy of you, so I shall withdraw, and comment on your future posts individually.



ETA> You're right about the internet (see Editor and Cobbles above arguing about what a "park" is!).

 

[co-op]

Anyway, it's clear we've got off on the wrong foot and if it's not too late I've no wish to make an enemy of you, so I shall withdraw, and comment on your future posts individually.

Fine by me, you will probably find my posts about cars annoying though.

For what it's worth I don't think of myself as 'fanatically anti-car'. It seems to me that most self-proclaimed "moderates" in the car debate are in fact so deeply attached to King Car and the rights of cardrivers over all other road-users that they can only interpret anyone who questions those perogatives as a "fanatic".

I'm fine with cars. I just think people are more important.

 

[berniedicters]

Someone in a minibus did it to me the other month, but left the keys in - I think they were in the bank nearby or something - so I drove the bus about 200 yards down the street and illegally parked it before going back and moving my own car out.

I am sure this would make me a bad person, but if someone did that to me, I'd do exactly what you did...only I'd then seriously consider "inadvertently" dropping the keys down a drain.

 

[berniedicters]

Get down there at 5am with a couple of cans of wihte spray paint and draw some bays in. 4.8x2.4m, 6m wide 'aisle' in between are the standard dimensions

And, while you're at it, see if you can get a pay and display ticket machine from somewhere...

Or, failing that, a Special Hat, and then sit by the space in a deckchair selling tickets!