Doesn't it just annoy you....
05-11-2004, 18:53
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
I hate it when I'm at college waiting to cross the road (at a PROPER crossing) and no one sodding waits for you to go. Also another annoying thing is when people go way over the line on traffic light crossing and give you a bad look when your crossing (even though the man is on green)
Certain people in cars are just plain ignorant.
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05-11-2004, 22:22
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
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Is that your professional medical opinion? If so, I hope you're not really employed in the health sector.
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With an attitude like his I've been hoping that for a long time! 
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05-11-2004, 22:26
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
Okay, enough of the personal comments please, any more will be deleted.
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05-11-2004, 22:54
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
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Originally Posted by Salu
I thought it was the pedestrian's right of way?
The car was turning right from a major road into a minor one. I was walking on the main road across the minor one.
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Well, the Highway Code used to say (and probably still does) that if you have started crossing a road and a car turns into that road then it has to give way to you; you don't need the driver's or anyone's else's permission. On the other other hand, being in the right may be no consolation as you lie injured in the road!
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05-11-2004, 23:21
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
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Originally Posted by Bifta
Is that your professional medical opinion? If so, I hope you're not really employed in the health sector.
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I hope that is tongue in cheek, like my comment. 
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Originally Posted by Dellwear
With an attitude like his I've been hoping that for a long time!
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Why a long time? What are you harbouring against me?
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05-11-2004, 23:26
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
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I hope that is tongue in cheek, like my comment. |
But of course, shame "Scott" didn't see it that way, btw, are you Swiss?
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05-11-2004, 23:30
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
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But of course, shame "Scott" didn't see it that way, btw, are you Swiss?
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No, we're safe, he's not a doctor, as far as I can work out. Although when I asked what he did he ignored me!
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05-11-2004, 23:32
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
The day pedestrians start paying road tax and insurance is the day I'll give way to one who's NOT on a crossing
*also includes cyclists but that would be 
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05-11-2004, 23:34
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Originally Posted by dellwear
No, we're safe, he's not a doctor, as far as I can work out. Although when I asked what he did he ignored me! |
Perhaps it's something acutely embarrasing 
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05-11-2004, 23:35
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
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Originally Posted by daxx
The day pedestrians start paying road tax and insurance is the day I'll give way to one who's NOT on a crossing
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I've been paying road tax and insurance for the last 11 years....
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05-11-2004, 23:41
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
OK then I'll re-phrase
The day pedestrians start paying road tax and insurance for the right to use the roads (not including the area designated as pavement) is the day I'll give way to one who's NOT on a crossing
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05-11-2004, 23:46
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
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OK then I'll re-phrase
The day pedestrians start paying road tax and insurance for the right to use the roads (not including the area designated as pavement) is the day I'll give way to one who's NOT on a crossing
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So what are you going to do? Knock them down if they're in your way and not using a crossing? I think not somehow ....
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05-11-2004, 23:47
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
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Originally Posted by daxx
OK then I'll re-phrase
The day pedestrians start paying road tax and insurance for the right to use the roads (not including the area designated as pavement) is the day I'll give way to one who's NOT on a crossing
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well they may annoy with their untaxed presence but like it or not you owe them the need to slow down or stop, you cant buy the right to hurt or kill people!
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06-11-2004, 00:10
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
Not so much taxed as uninsured, I've lost count of the number of times some totally inconsiderate buggy pushing pedesterian or cyclist has 'accidentally' badly scratched the paintwork on my car whilst manouevering through a line of stationary traffic at a pedetrian crossing, traffic light rather than use the lights or crossing or in the case of the cyclist the extreme left of the road.
Cyclists and pedestrians need a reminder that they are subject to the Highway Code and the Road Traffic Acts as well as the 'cash cow' motorists.
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06-11-2004, 00:31
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Re: Doesn't it just annoy you....
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Originally Posted by Salu
I thought it was the pedestrian's right of way?
The car was turning right from a major road into a minor one. I was walking on the main road across the minor one.
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That is basically correct, whenever a car is turning around a corner they must stop if there is a ped crossing the road they are turning into...
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