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If you look it's also in the course 2 above as well, and I suspect behind the roadsign.
I'd guess that it's something to do with the exact length that the wall needed to be. As it's by the street sign, that might suggest that it's towards the end of the wall, and the builder knew that unless that was done, the wall would be half a brick too long.
OK. Thread hijack over. I can't believe I've spent the last 10 minutes looking at a wall on Google maps. Just to put it to bed. I think the end of the wall has subsided and someone's shored it up and changed the pattern. If you look at the rest of the wall though.......
Aarrgh. No.
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there could lie a solution to bad cycling within this scary thought from a Daily Mail reader:
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Head-down arse-up twunt rear ended someone behind me this morning in Parson's Green.
Coming up to pedestrian crossing I'd seen someone (the other side of a car) possibly about to cross and so I was feathering the brakes.
Woman on bike in front of me sees the pedestrian late and skids to a stop.
Bloke(1) behind her brakes hard and stops in time.
I brake quite hard and stop in time.
Bloke(2) behind me also slowing down in time.
Bloke(3) behind him not paying enough attention and takes out the bloke behind me. Luckily they don't skittle as far as me.
Everyone else stops in time.Now I've run into the back of someone myself once, but at least I had the decency to admit it was my fault and understand how I'd let it happen.
Not Bloke(3). Didn't hear much of an apology from him by the time I'd left them.
I blame Strava.
was it this guy?
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there could lie a solution to bad cycling within this scary thought from a Daily Mail reader:
Lordy, we are doomed, doomed!
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Lordy, we are doomed, doomed!
Words fail me! Why! Will they do the same to drivers who mysteriously evade traffic cameras and still jump reds? Will they be inserted into Peds so when they cross the road and get struck by a cyclist trying to void them, courts will see who actually was at fault?
There's only one way I'm getting inserted, and that's when ET gets probing!
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Guy on red and white road bike of some sort, New Cross Rd.
Constantly cutting up lorries, buses and vans. Swearing the whole way.e.g. On the junction outside New Cross Gate station. Attempts to squeeze through a tiny gap between a bus and a van, both stationary at the light (just about to turn amber from red), with about an inch either side. Lights change to amber, guy just manages to pass without clipping either vehicle. Immediately turns around calling both drivers 'Cunts, Fucking Cunts'.
WAC,FC
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the Okker.
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[QUOTE=Dammit;3106404]the Okker.
No.[/quote]
Seconded.
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Called out a girl pulling directly alongside a left turning car this morning as I was patiently waiting behind. He was indicating left so I just said to her, "Why not wait? There's no way he can see you there." The junction is super narrow with two lanes of traffic performing a Mario Kart-style whipping-round-the-corner at speed so pretty daft. I say to her, "Y'know, someone was killed doing the same thing not too long ago" to which she replies, with the kind of face a 4 year old reserves for statements of idiocy about the best kind of Lego to get (Ninjago not Technix, from personal experience), "What? You were killed doing that?" I figure there's no way to reason with her, so just say, "Well, best of luck." Sure enough the light changes and left turning bloke has to brake to avoid mashing her. I get past her and say, "Nice one." Her reply, with the same "Duhh" face: " You don't have to be so arsey about it."
I despair. As a bike trainer I am kinda preconditioned to politely tell other riders how to look after themselves and not fuel drivers' rage and hopefully give cyclists who may not be au fait with potential dangers some measure of advice, but, re: thread title, is it even worth it. Perhaps I should just be less "arsey."
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My first day of commuting today after 7 weeks of holidays, and I'd forgotten what a bunch of belmers there are on the roads at rush hour.
To the single speed rider on the white bike (I presume he's on here somewhere) on Camberwell New Road this morning around 8:40. There was a reason I had stopped behind that bus. Watching you try and squeeze between the ever decreasing gap between it and the lorry and then having to shove your brakes on to avoid being squished was too much for me on a Monday morning.
Then the SAME GUY, 5 minutes later, snaking through the 10 or so of us waiting at Oval lights to go through the red. That is my absolute pet hate, it's a fucking dangerous junction and the lights change very, very quickly.
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I have it on good authority that Kai (the red one?) is, and I quote, "The hardest best ninja in the universe."
According to my sources only one person can beat Kai. Captain Rex.
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Me being a total cunt on the Hipster Spice Route, sorry.
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Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?
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@Multi_Grooves
Riding around the pedegeddon of South Kensington tube station carefully as always this morning, some corduroy wearing yoghurt weaver on a brompton rides straight off the pavement into the road right into my path. I brake and shout "whoah!".
Catch up with him a few seconds later and politely state "you should check behind you before pulling out" (I declined to say anything about the pavement riding for want of starting an argument or being too much of an arse) to which he replied "I did".
I see. Well for a start that suggests then that you simply didn't give a fuck and knew I'd have to brake to avoid hitting you and so you are a cunt, or that you are lying and thus a cunt - which you did, because I was watching you the whole time and you didn't look behind yourself once, you cunt.
In conclusion: cunt.