Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
jaywalking
1. the action of walking across a street at a place where it is not allowed or…
Entirely unashamed anti car propaganda, and the more the better.
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not-bono-ever
meh
The latest Ford F150 electric is capable of a 4 second 60 run yet can do all the normal pick up truck stuff including using it’s battery to power yer house from for a day. This solution surely satisfies everyone in this thread
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
It's a pick up truck so you can burn some asbestos in the back whilst you cruise the streets. A win by any measure
David Clapson
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This is the problem with electric cars. Or one of the problems. The rocket-like acceleration is going to encourage the petrolheads to show off. I wonder how they'll get their loud exhaust fix? Maybe some speakers under the car for a V8 rumble? Could be quite a lucrative market. Or maybe they'll just spin their tyres.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
David Clapson
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Not exactly spine-tingling Here’s the fake noise the Jaguar I-Pace makes when you hit the throttle. Sounds like a....I don't know what, but it won't encroach on the huge aftermarket which I will make billions from.
Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
People will be able to make them sound like whatever they want. We're going to have everything from herds of elephants to Typhoon jets.
We’ll be selecting car noises like we do ringtones.
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maomao
普費斯
That's a learner's dictionary. It has UK pronunciations for diaper, faucet and sidewalk too because you're either learning one accent or the other.jaywalking
1. the action of walking across a street at a place where it is not allowed or…dictionary.cambridge.org
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
Those monstrosities are a perfect example of why electric vehicles solve fuck all.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
These are car people.
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
It should play Thus Spoke Zarathustra as the speed goes up. Dah, DAH, DAHHHH and then you have to hit 80 to make it go DA-DAH!
Trillions.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Chambers gives the same result, as does every other dictionary, odd hill you’ve chosen to die on here, seems teuchter wishes to join you an’all.
David Clapson
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Has anyone noticed the American anti-car stickers which have appeared lately?
I'd like to up the ante with some abusive anti-SUV stickers, to be stuck on SUVs. Especially the big ones. On the glass - don't want to be accused of damaging the paintwork. Can anyone think of appropriate words which SUV might stand for? Something rude like Simpleminded Unforgivable Vanity. But much better.
Shippou-Sensei suggested V for Vermin, which is just perfect. (His post has disappeared somehow.
)I can't think of anything as pithy for S and U though. I'm not very good at this.
Status-mad. Slack-jawed. Shit for brains...
U could be Urban....Something Urban Vermin.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Superb Ubermensch Victors
maomao
普費斯
Chambers (online), the Scrabble dictionary, doesn't give a pronunciation and says it's an Americanism.
There is clearly no law in any part of the United Kingdom that refers to 'jaywalking', nor is it a crime in the UK under any other name. It has a very clear early 20th century US etymology and is only ever used to refer to US law or by twats.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Chambers (online), the Scrabble dictionary, doesn't give a pronunciation and says it's an Americanism.
There is clearly no law in any part of the United Kingdom that refers to 'jaywalking', nor is it a crime in the UK under any other name. It has a very clear early 20th century US etymology and is only ever used to refer to US law or by twats.
It is an Americanism and there is no law in the U.K. that uses the word, but you said that it doesn’t exist in the U.K. and yet you have just acknowledged that it does, as an Americanism.
maomao
普費斯
pats Bahnhof Strasse on head
Well done
It nevertheless grates when people refer to crossing the road away from or during the wrong phase of a pedestrian crossing in this country as 'jaywalking'. Because it's an Americanism.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
What snappy word or phrase do we use in this country to refer to illegal pedestrianing?
"Walking on a road contrary to section 15(1)(b) of the The Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982, section 17(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or of an applicable part of a relevant Traffic Regulation Order?"
"Walking on a road contrary to section 15(1)(b) of the The Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982, section 17(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or of an applicable part of a relevant Traffic Regulation Order?"
Athos
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Yes it is. It's an offence to walk across certain roads on the mainland, and there's much wider discretion to the police to issue penalties to pedestrians for crossing the road anywhere it creates a danger in Northern Ireland (see The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995).
maomao
普費斯
Motorways certainly though it's not known as jaywalking. Any sub 70mph roads you can name?
Athos
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Yes, some designated non-motorway special roads pursuant to s.17 Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, and some that are subject to Traffic Regulation Orders.
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maomao
普費斯
That's a funny name for a road.
There's a no pedestrian access road sign which I may have seen but can't think of any examples of, maybe on some industrial estates somewhere? I found a report of someone being arrested for walking along a motorway which is reputedly illegal but I can't find any examples of anyone actually being charged with anything. Pretty sure that nobody who objects to similar laws being introduced here is asking for the right to cross motorways on foot.
And I've found a couple of articles that claim that 'jaywalking' is illegal in NI but again no mention of what anyone's been charged with. I'm sure it's not called that on the relevant legislation though.
Athos
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You keep moving the goal posts. Your original claim was that "[jaywalking is not] a crime in the UK under any other name." That's wrong, it is a crime (albeit the legislation doesn't refer to jaywalking i.e. it is 'under another name') in Northern Ireland, pursuant to s.38 The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (not "a couple of articles"). Furthermore, it is known as 'jaywalking' there, including by the police, as you'll see from this FOI correspondence.
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
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maomao
普費斯
I've decided NI doesn't count at all now. Just so you know.
ETA: and I meant 'articles' as in newspaper articles. I'm not going to read the actual laws.
maomao
普費斯
And that's where I've seen no pedestrian signs. And on some of the other tunnels round E14. Though if you're in a tunnel on foot you're not just crossing the road.
Cid
Proper break this time
Pursuant to the original discussion undertaken in the notified thread, it is to be noted that under subsection 3(2)1.aC of the Daft Twat Act 1993.8, clarified in Athos v the world [2006] EWHC 101 a sign restricting access to pedestrians is not functionally and directly to be equivalentified with jaywalking.
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Athos
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Oh, OK. That leaves just three exceptions to your initial inaccurate claim, then: motorways, some non-motorway special roads, and some roads subject to TROs.
