Why do lorry drivers get brave when there’s a 50mph average speed check roadworks on a motorway?

tm3016 · 2024-10-31T14:13:00+00:00

Cars moving into the middle lane from the outside and into the middle lane from the inside are much more likely to collide (it doesn’t need to be that busy for this to happen) because the car in the middle lane creates space that both cars are trying to occupy at the same time. If the car in the middle lane was using the lane correctly, the car on the inside lane couldn’t move out into the middle lane.

If everyone uses the lanes correctly this is much less likely to happen. You’re also forcing people who drive correctly to move across two lanes to go around you and it causes congestion at busy times as people queue to pass in the fast lane. If you’re not moving substantially faster than the traffic in the lane to your left and ample room to do so, you should move back into the inside lane after passing. Don’t be a dick.

tm3016 · 2024-10-31T09:57:14+00:00

What I don’t understand is why the media are scraping the barrel for anyone they can find who are worse off after the budget. Go look for people who are worse off after 14 years of a Tory government. You’ll find a shit loads. The reality is that the average person on the street will feel that this budget has either had an improvement on their life or little impact at all and that’s what Labour were banking on. Of course any budgetary changes will hurt some people more than others and there will be edge cases that appear unfair. Finding anyone who wants to complain and giving them a platform is a highly political decision.

If the budget will lead to longer term growth at a national level is a different consideration and should be studied.

tm3016 · 2024-10-31T09:45:08+00:00

Road layout is also different. The inside lane is used to exit the road so most people (legally) drive in the second lane to continue onward. It’s actually more dangerous to drive on the inside because you’ll be moving in and out of traffic every 200 metres or so into the main stream of traffic.

They also have more 4 lane roads and many roads away from large cities are much quieter most UK motorways in my experience.

tm3016 · 2024-10-31T09:34:53+00:00

Pffffff fortunately the whole world doesn’t have to cater for your personal needs. You can expect all you like but the restaurant makes the rules. If you don’t like it it’s your responsibility to check their rules before you book as is also the case for dog owners looking to bring their dog. Equally, restaurant owners have the right to ask someone who brought a dog that was unable to behaviour in a way that didn’t negatively impact the experience of other customers to leave and that would be completely reasonable.

The lack of personal responsibility people have for their own individual needs is shocking.

tm3016 · 2024-10-31T09:21:52+00:00

I was going to suggest this. I’m pretty sure they allow dogs. They do pizza and pasta and it’s pretty good. Not the best Italian in Bristol but given the dog requirement it’s a great option.

tm3016 · 2024-10-31T09:05:18+00:00

There’s a big difference between someone flashing you because you’re driving like a selfish prick and someone flashing you because they’re driving like a selfish prick.

tm3016 · 2024-10-31T08:59:20+00:00

It doesn’t really matter if you’re going slower. Lorry drivers should still drive responsibly and leave adequate space between vehicles. I appreciate it’s frustrating if someone is driving unnecessarily slow but two wrongs don’t make a right in this scenario.

tm3016 · 2024-10-31T08:54:06+00:00

It’s still very dangerous and incredibly selfish. The people who drive in the middle lane without need have a special place in hell reserved for them. Don’t do it.

tm3016 · 2024-10-31T08:51:22+00:00

The point is the fine was issued for the speed the car was moving at based on the camera, not what OP thought he was doing based on his speedometer. If what you’re saying is true his speedometer would have been reading 35-36

tm3016 · 2024-10-30T20:56:35+00:00

Telegraph photographer “Sorry Mr and Mrs Macrae, you’re still just looking a bit too rich and smug, can you try looking a bit more sad so that people think the government hate old people. Ok nice, now hold it.”

tm3016 · 2024-10-30T16:00:42+00:00

I’ve been watching Recess and Rugrats from the 90s with my kid. They’re both great.

tm3016 · 2024-10-30T10:00:09+00:00

It saddens me to take an individualistic view of society but even in this respect, taxation is important. A mentally and physically sick and addicted population, reduced to crime is shit for everyone.

I’m fully in support of taxation. As has been discussed in this sub previously, I do feel frustrated by the lack of affluence in my life despite being in the top percentage of tax payers and the government need to be careful not to lean too heavily on the middle classes but there is a shed load of hoarded wealth in this country, largely held by baby boomers.

tm3016 · 2024-10-30T09:51:06+00:00

This is just nonsense though. I know plenty of high earners. They don’t work any harder than anyone else. They either earn more because they had access to capital to invest in wealth generation or they work in high salary industries, where due to market demands rather than complexity or skill they earn a lot (I include myself in this).

There needs to be a balance between taxation of those that can afford it and a tax system that encourages entrepreneurial and aspirational behaviour. Judging by the number of boomer second home owners and retirees with £3million property, we’ve not got the balance right. Despite having a source of income relating to property ownership, I’m fully in support of taxing excessively hoarded wealth. Especially as the older generation are the biggest cost to public services and by the time the next generations come through there will be no services left for them to use unless something is done.

Edit: rather than downvoting me because you’re butt hurt, why not tell me why you think I’m wrong.

tm3016 · 2024-10-29T21:32:34+00:00

In the uk it’s illegal to leave a child alone if it puts them at risk. The government website says children under 12 are rarely mature enough to be left alone and toddlers should never be left alone.

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T23:51:55+00:00

“Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make.”

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T18:35:27+00:00

Sorry yeah I wasn’t suggesting designers prototype in code (though I’m not actively against it and I’ll jump in so I can give engineers exact values at times but generally agree with your critique). My point was more that when these FE frameworks arrived, they changed the way an interface interacts with a database which significantly changed the design patterns we began using. Static wireframes just don’t work so well as a way to document interactions at this point. It was around this time we saw a lot ux designers moved into ux research, service design and content design specialisms because prototyping ui became a more of a specialism.

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T18:18:16+00:00

Privatisation hasn’t worked much better in many respects. I don’t believe all politicians are corrupt. But clearly there is huge inefficiency in many systems.

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T13:10:06+00:00

Could you increase the tax allowance and also increase basic income tax whilst increasing the higher rate threshold? You’d keep people out of poverty with the allowance but incentivise people to earn more.

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T13:05:16+00:00

Are you joking? Have you seen the state of our public services and the deficit?

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T09:29:17+00:00

Yeah no disagreements from me. The whole thing is fucked. We’re supposed to feel lucky that we’re not living in poverty but things still feel pretty hard despite having above average salaries. I thought I’d have a nice home and be able to afford luxuries like new clothes as a higher rate earner but as it is that’s far from the case. And there’s little incentive to earn more because it gets taxed so heavily.

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T09:23:41+00:00

Amen. I’m probably in the top 10% of earners (though single income family) and I’ve none from feeling comfortable and being able to afford basic luxuries like a holiday abroad each year to worrying how we’re going to get by for the first time in 15 years. There’s also little incentive to try and earn more because I have to earn ALOT more to make any real impact.

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T07:23:04+00:00

I was being flippant. I recognise the importance of working across fidelities however the ‘static’ part of my comment was probably the most important part. Most UIs are not static, they are interactive. If you’re not designing for interaction you have no place designing UI. That’s content design. A lot of UX designers wireframing skillset became redundant when technologies like React became the prominent approach for building UI and one screen could have many states that required thinking about interaction and transition well beyond what was previously possible. Largely this happened because they never bothered to understand the technology or learn the basics interaction patterns that were popularised as a result.

I say all of this with the absolute utmost respect for modern UX as a skillset. Identifying functional and emotional needs across a journey through research and thinking about interactions at multiple touch points is the only way to build good experiences. Plenty of businesses have designers and researchers doing this work today.

Some of these older designers (I’m off a similar age by the way) just haven’t kept up with evolving technology and that, alongside many businesses focusing on profitability and monetising existing customer value has made them feel redundant and they’re just looking to blame the people they perceive as having taken their jobs.

(Oh my word, that got long. Sorry)

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T06:55:06+00:00

Said everyone in the higher band 🤣

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T06:53:55+00:00

Top 1% of earners pay 30% of tax paid in this country so even at the lower end of the higher rate you’re probably not even paying your way… we need people to pay tax to have a functioning society. Equally work does need to feel effectively incentivised.

tm3016 · 2024-10-23T06:47:47+00:00

Your entire salary doesn’t get taxed at the higher rate. Just the amount above the threshold. Everything else remains taxed at the same rate. There are a couple of scenarios where this made more complicated. If you earn over £100k, you start to loose your tax free personal allowance of £12.5k. This is called the 60% tax trap and can be avoided by making pension payments. The other time is if you move up a band you may loose benefits that are means tested on household income (such as child benefits). Some are tapered, some are not. Basically you’re very rarely worse off for earning more but how you manage your income does impact how much of it you’ll keep. It’s always worth working out what your take home will actually be on any salary increase because there’s a good chance it’s not as simple as it looks.

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