Highway Code ignorance is cause of motorists' agression - from CTC web site

[Geraint Jones]

Paul kisses claiming to be <[email protected]> wrote:
> Geraint Jones deftly scribbled:
> > Mind you, I did used to get confused about what a white circle with a black diagonal bar meant,
> > but that was in the nineteen-seventies when the Transport of Department kept changing what it
> > meant.
>
> Didn't everyone ? It seems that they were the only ones who knew what it was for, they just
> didn't tell enough people about it.

There used to be periodic adverts in the newspapers, but like National Savings interest rates, you
never knew whether you might have missed another announcement.

 

[Just Zis Guy]

Geraint Jones wrote:

> Mind you, I did used to get confused about what a white circle with a black diagonal bar
> meant, but that was in the nineteen-seventies when the Transport of Department kept changing
> what it meant.

Luckily we all now know the True Meaning of this sign - "All regulations suspended from
this point on"

--
Guy
===
I wonder if you wouldn't mind piecing out our imperfections with your thoughts; and while you're
about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#103 http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#104

 

[David Damerell]

Geraint Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>Mind you, I did used to get confused about what a white circle with a black diagonal bar meant, but
>that was in the nineteen-seventies when the Transport of Department kept changing what it meant.

If it is a bar sinister it means "beware bastards in motor cars".
--
David Damerell <[email protected]> Kill the tomato!

 

[Tim Woodall]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:30:53 -0000, Just zis Guy, you know? <[email protected]> wrote:
> Geraint Jones wrote:
>
>> Mind you, I did used to get confused about what a white circle with a black diagonal bar
>> meant, but that was in the nineteen-seventies when the Transport of Department kept changing
>> what it meant.
>
> Luckily we all now know the True Meaning of this sign - "All regulations suspended from this
> point on"
>
No. That is the round white sign with a two digit numeral in the middle. (The numeral is to break
the monotony so that drivers don't get bored and stop seeing them)

Tim.

--
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[Paul - XXX]

David Damerell deftly scribbled:

> Geraint Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Mind you, I did used to get confused about what a white circle with a black diagonal bar
>> meant, but that was in the nineteen-seventies when the Transport of Department kept changing
>> what it meant.
>
> If it is a bar sinister it means "beware bastards in motor cars".

I thought a bar sinister was to stop left hand drive cars ...

--
...................................Paul-*** Seti 1413 wu in 10232 hours
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[Just Zis Guy]

Tim Woodall wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:30:53 -0000, Just zis Guy, you know? <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Geraint Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Mind you, I did used to get confused about what a white circle with a black diagonal bar meant,
>>> but that was in the nineteen-seventies when the Transport of Department kept changing what it
>>> meant.
>>
>> Luckily we all now know the True Meaning of this sign - "All regulations suspended from this
>> point on"
>>
> No. That is the round white sign with a two digit numeral in the
> middle. (The numeral is to break the monotony so that drivers don't get bored and stop seeing
> them)

On investigation I see that we are both wrong - the sign for "all regulations suspended" is
either of the above *or* the application of white or yellow paint in the middle or at the sides
of the road.

--
Guy
===
I wonder if you wouldn't mind piecing out our imperfections with your thoughts; and while you're
about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.

http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#103 http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.shtml#104

 

[Luigi De Guzman]

"Peter B" <[email protected]> wrote :

>
> I have been led to believe adjustments to the cranium with a Louisville Slugger can prove
> successful at achieving these aims. If a Slugger is not readily to hand 531/7005 etc tubing can
> achieve similar results.

May I suggest that the scum are unworthy of being beaten with a real Louisville Slugger. A mere Ugly
Stick will suffice.

As to what to do with the Louisville Slugger now that we've resorted to UglySticks? Well, you can
post it along to me. I need a good wooden baseball bat; nothing quite as satisfying as driving one
deep over the left field wall...well, maybe zooming by the cagers in central london as they fume and
stress is almost as good.

-Luigi so it's root, root, root for the home team, if they don't win, it's a shame... 'cause it's
one, two, three strikes--you're out!-- at the old ballgame...

> Do not subject the perpetrator to our justice system, they may be punished by having to forfeit 20
> or 30 quid and have to forego a night down the local.
>
> Pete

 

[Alan Braggins]

David Damerell <[email protected]> writes:
> Geraint Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Mind you, I did used to get confused about what a white circle with a black diagonal bar
> >meant, but that was in the nineteen-seventies when the Transport of Department kept changing
> >what it meant.
>
> If it is a bar sinister it means "beware bastards in motor cars".

A bar is horizontal. Bends can be sinister or dexter (and the bend sinister doesn't necessarily
indicate bastardy). http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/sign039.shtml
http://www.bartleby.com/61/47/B0184700.html
http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/~saitou/cgi-bin/more.cgi?input=Bend%20sinister

"beware bastards in motor cars" is signalled by not putting up a "no motor vehicles" sign. (Though
the latter actually means "no motor vehicles except bastards who think it doesn't mean them".)