http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Today's bizarre interaction en Mon, 18 May 2026 01:43:36 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283879 Sat, 02 Jun 2018 06:36:47 +0000 gembo 283879@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There is a scmaltzy show on Netflix, The Good Place where the characters are in heaven but with impostor syndrome. They cannot swear. So they try to swear but it comes out non swear words. So the word for female dog becomes bench etc. Quite inventive.</p> <p>Kids fake shoot me I fake die. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283872 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 21:39:03 +0000 jdanielp 283872@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@ARobComp that idea sounds like a load of sloblock. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283864 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 17:52:46 +0000 ARobComp 283864@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jdanielp - just start a separate thread which contains every single possible borderline rule 2 word and see what happens. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283861 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:15:28 +0000 acsimpson 283861@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Perhaps the driver was related to the woman on the Corstorphine facebook page who called me a rule 2. I had merely questioned why she had used the word entitled to describe children playing on a closed road rather than the drivers who use it the other 99%+ of the time. She also didn't like me suggesting that vehicle noise is a far greater issue then children playing on such a closed road. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283852 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:57:52 +0000 jdanielp 283852@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Apologies, although the offending word is still present in two posts on the page. I didn't consider it to be swearing which is why I repeated it, although, had it been aimed at a named person, then it would certainly have breached rule 1... I suppose that asking for a link to a definitive list of rule 2 words for future reference wouldn't be feasible? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283845 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:39:44 +0000 Trixie 283845@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh aye, no matter what way you twist it, driver was being a right [rule 2]. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283843 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:26:22 +0000 Ed1 283843@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If the driver reacted to a child making rude gestures then driver should not be on the road as unsuitable temperament. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283838 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:14:07 +0000 Trixie 283838@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The only thing I can think of that would tie all this together is perhaps the kids were waving in a fashion that may have been interpreted as the universal sign for merchant banking and he thought you'd instructed such? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283829 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:41:19 +0000 crowriver 283829@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So basically he's still an &lt;Rule 2&gt;. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283826 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:37:09 +0000 fimm 283826@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So basically he didn't have a problem with your road use, or your criticism of <em>his</em> road use, but he did have a problem with your kids messing around?</p> <p>Most odd. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283822 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:19:21 +0000 HankChief 283822@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>His hand gesture at the junction was an apology. I took it as that and during our discussion he said "I made a mistake and I apologise/d for it". It really wasn't a big thing.</p> <p>And as someone mentioned above, the rest of his driving was unnoteworthy. I didn't feel threatened by him driving behind me, so much so that I didn't realise he was still there and I usually have a pretty good sense if following vehicles are up to no good from their engine noise and I wasn't concerned at all.</p> <p>Which all just made it more odd... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283821 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:08:44 +0000 spytfyre 283821@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think that hand raised was a gesture of WTF not "sorry"<br /> Doesn't sound like the apology type </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283819 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 13:06:11 +0000 jdanielp 283819@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver true. I quite fancy an ice cream now, but not chocolate. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283817 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:46:59 +0000 crowriver 283817@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jdanielp, so he's more a passive aggressive type of *, or a retrospectively aggressive one who gets his knickers in a twist about kids waving at him "cheekily". Or something. </p> <p>More varieties of arsehole out there than flavours of ice cream at St Luca's it would seem.</p> <p>ADMIN EDIT</p> <p>Certain word * removed after a rule 2 complaint. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283815 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:32:31 +0000 jdanielp 283815@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@crowriver and yet the driver stopped and raised a hand in apology (asssuming that HankChief interpreted that gesture correctly?) and then proceeded to not overtake dangerously by all accounts, which is the kind of reasonable behaviour that I don't normally associate with * - obviously they could have driven rather better in the first place...</p> <p>ADMIN EDIT</p> <p>Certain word * removed after a rule 2 complaint. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283809 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:06:51 +0000 crowriver 283809@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The young guy was clearly just an arsehole. </p> <p>Lots of them around, usually revving engines at pedestrians crossing, then drag racing away as soon as they get amber (as two of this variety did yesterday while I walked my daughter back from swimming). Loud popular music blaring from bass bins in the boot an optional extra. And that sort of thing.</p> <p>In 15 years' time they'll be driving hatchbacks with diamond shaped "Baby On Board" signs obscuring their view through the rear window, and shouting at any other road user that dares to get within a metre of their precious motor. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283800 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:22:51 +0000 spytfyre 283800@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jdanielp &gt;.&lt; lol<br /> if only it was always the Dukes of Hazzard horn too... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283798 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 11:13:55 +0000 jdanielp 283798@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@spytfyre it could perhaps be argued that any vehicle on or near a road presents danger enough to require that it constantly sounds a horn, but this may not be practical. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283792 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:27:35 +0000 spytfyre 283792@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You say beeping is <a href="https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q406.htm">illegal</a> mate unless in an emergency, got your reg no. The danger had passed and it was them not you.<br /> <blockquote>"A horn should not be sounded when stationary on a road at any time, <strong>other than at times of danger</strong> due to another vehicle on or near the road." </blockquote> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283790 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:24:11 +0000 fimm 283790@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lack of awareness that parents really, really, really don't have eyes in the back of their head? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283785 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:46:46 +0000 I were right about that saddle 283785@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@HankChief</p> <p>Could be anything. Hypomanic state induced by car use quite common. Mephedrone etc use widespread. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283783 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:35:22 +0000 alps 283783@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><ol type="1"><li>Just lacks coping skills (modern epidemic)?</li><li>Hungover and a bit emotional?</li><li>PTSD from previous being-waved-at-by-children trauma?</li><br /> </ol> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18871#post-283780 Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:19:42 +0000 HankChief 283780@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm baffled by this...</p> <p>Happily heading along a quiet road this morning, I see a car appearing on the right wanting to turn right into the road we are on.</p> <p>Natural reactions mean I keep an aye on them. As I get nearer, I see them looking and then start to move despite me about to occupy the same road space. I shout 'woah ' and simultaneously they stop (before really entering the road, let alone my side of it). They raise their hand as an apology and I pass and think nothing more of it and carry on my day.</p> <p>200yds down the road I hear a beep from behind and it's the same car. No one else is around so I pull in and stop. The youngish chap aggresively tells me not to be so cheeky. And that he doesn't take cheek from anyone.</p> <p>I struggle for words but eventually manage to placate him, after explaining that of course I was going to shout if I feared for our safety and that I had accepted his apology and it wasn't a big deal as he had spotted us and stopped in plenty of time.</p> <p>It turned out his bugbear was that on the back of the bike the kids were waving (no rude gestures I hope) at him and pretending to shoot him. They are going through a waving phase so it wasn't personal to him... </p>