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"Lorry crash at Cameron Toll bridge causes chaos"

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  1. Ed1
    Member

    When someone refers to be someone doing something on a professional basis, the assumption would be they get paid for it. To refer to someone as a professional traditionally would have meant a doctor or a lawyer would expect some advanced education, membership of a group. Now a professional seems to be water down to mean anyone that works in an office.

    I always think if someone describes them self as a professional it probably means they are not in the traditional sense if they were a professional in the traditional sense they would most likely say what they do not use some vague diluted term.

    Bank worker, public servants, HR all these people may describe as professional yet not have any advanced or speclized education and not necessarily belong to a professional body.

    It would depend if using as adjective or noun, see Synonyms it would depend on the context and how is being used.

    It can just mean in some contexts someone that is being paid to do something rather than someone who is not being paid.

    http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/professional

    Posted 9 years ago #
  2. 14Westfield
    Member

    I've always thought that the distinction of 'professionals' is that they were paid for what they know, rather than what they do.
    That way includes a master carpenter who creates an ornate bench just as much a judge who sits behind it.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  3. AKen
    Member

    The world's oldest profession requires no formal qualifications.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  4. deckard112
    Member

    Regardless of people's definition of professional, I think you'll find the majority of bank workers are heavily regulated by the FCA. I personally have to complete a minimum of 15 mandatory assessments every 12 months. This is in addition to continual compliance and behavioural monitoring and I don't even formally dispense 'advice'.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  5. steveo
    Member

    Is this one of these small p capital P issues.

    The difference between a professional X and a Professional is that one gets paid for doing a job and the other is a legacy term when people with some jobs thought they were inherently better than others.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  6. kaputnik
    Moderator

    We were at Beamish at the weekend. They have a row of workers' houses and also a row of Professionals' houses. The Beamish definition of a Professional would be someone with bad taste in wallpaper and ornaments who does not keep a double bedstead in their parlour.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  7. acsimpson
    Member

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29514013

    It seems Halford's drivers are as professional as their mechanics.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  8. acsimpson
    Member

    slightly OT as it's not Cameron Toll but this is what happens when a Lorry is where it shouldn't be. I would have been about 15 minutes behind this crash if I'd been on my bike:

    http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/watch-dramatic-moment-lorry-crashes-4524741

    Posted 9 years ago #
  9. slowcoach
    Member

    Lucky nobody else was passing at same time. This is continuation of Grange Road mentioned here before.

    Streetview from 2009 shows a warning sign for the bridge at about 22 secs on the video clip, but it's hard to see if it was there on the video. The warning sign on the bridge itself is clear on the video but seems to be higher up than the 2009 one in streetview - maybe it's been hit in between times.

    Posted 9 years ago #
  10. MediumDave
    Member

    Another one stuck under the bridge this morning. A Large articulated curtainsider. After deflation of some tyres it just about squeezed under with an unpleasant scraping noise and stopped blocking the bus stop outside the Toyota garage

    CHAOS was occurring on Dalkeith road as people suddenly switched lanes for some reason. Usually without indicators or checking the mirrors :eyeroll:

    I slalomed through to walk past (and rubberneck) on the pavement.

    Posted 1 year ago #
  11. chdot
    Admin

    Was another a week or 2 ago.

    Might have gone in the bad driving thread.

    SOMETHING MUST BE DONE…

    Posted 1 year ago #

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