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stickyAmazed at the speed thought suitable by drivists as they plough along on snow or compacted ice through the village.
Also amazed (not amazed) by the lack of space multiple drivist gave me (didn't give me) as I walked along the side of the road. Only place I could walk as the pavements were under a foot of snow. Despite no other drivists on the nice wide almost empty roads they still don't want to share the space.
Many many folk driving about with cars covered in snow - on roofs and bonnets. Really dangerous - bothers me perhaps more than it should
@algo annoys me as well! this morning also several also just with a small hole in the windscreen and rear window.
@algo, nope. People should get rid of the snow. I did yesterday but it came back. It falls off on peds and cyclists and dugs. It obscures the windscreen if it slides that way, very bad. Be annoyed, be very annoyed then maybe whistle a cheery tune. When I was clearing the roof of the motor yesterday and pointlessly there was a. Lad the whole time on the traffic is,and. Emitting the most terrible whistling. due to my extreme Kindness I resisted the following from my farther
Wee Gembo is whistling
Pops Gembo asks Can you sing?
Wee Gembo stops and says yes dad
Pops Gembo says that’s good then cause ye cannae whistle
@gembo - beautiful. I shall certainly be using that
algo: IWARTS, can you juggle?
IWARTS: Yes, algo, I can.
algo: That's good then cos ye cannae play guitar.
The best sledging in Balerno is down Newmills road to the railway crossing.
Youngest was out with her pal there today.
She tells me some skiers arrived in a car older lads about 20 and started skiing Down The road. Fair enough. They used the ramp my daughter had made, fair enough, they used their car to drag them back up the hill, not fair enough.
Faux-by-Four sitting sideways across our road morosely going back and forward in the dish it had dug in the packed snow. Taxi spinning rear wheels behind him. #NecessaryTravel
Cross country skiier using the lower Whitehouse Loan road closure to good effect. Think she was the same one I saw pictured on Cockburn Street.
Oh this is the bad driving thread not the bad snow thread. Well I saw plenty of that too.
It's amazing how many previously "essential" car journeys appear to no longer be essential now that driving is less convenient.
Another reason to dislike SUVs is that their drivers appear to be less capable of brushing the snow off their roof. Several of those that had managed the sides but not the middle. Of course the worst cars are those who don't clear anything their wipers can't reach, SUVs and others equally guilty there.
@acsimpson: I saw a smallish hatchback being driven along with a diamond-shaped 6" deep pillar of snow on its roof the other day. The driver had obviously stood at each corner and wiped off what they could reach with one arm, while standing far enough back not to get snow actually on their person.
Some people appear never to pause to consider that they might need anything other than the keys when they set out to drive. There are also those who (per the severe weather thread) treat their cars like some kind of magic carpet that cannot ever, possibly, conceivably be unable to take them where they want to go. (The 'magic carpet' mindset is also at the root of much of the lazy, selfish and inconsiderate driving which is to be seen every single day: almost as if it's the car that does everything, with the responsibilities of the person behind the wheel limited to making occasional suggestions as to how to reach their desired destination. See also the sentient beings thread.)
Driving used to be quite difficult. Back when having a wee button you pushed in and then removed from dashboard to light your fag was considered the height of technology.
So easy now you can drive and phone or drive and eat sugar puffs or drive and put on make up all at the same time
Lots of cars on my ungritted street rather than the sometimes bus-clogged but slush-free main road. It's very distracting having to turn and look out of the window every few minutes when I hear wheels approaching far too fast.
Just walked up the Vennel to witness a guy frantically polishing the snow with the front wheels of his Renault.
While I was recycling he persisted. No idea why he had driven to top of steps as dead end at bottom of quite steep slope - maybe essential Deliveroo guy?
Anyway I came back round later and he was still at it digging out snow and with car trying to reverse up.
So not just BMW drivers think their cars can defy gravity on an icy slope.
Did a quick run of the Greenbank to Meadows Quiet Route last night - including bonus footage of a Fiat 500 not managing a very slight incline
https://twitter.com/blackfordsafer1/status/1359814667653304320?s=20
gembo looks back on the days of non-synchromesh gearboxes, double-declutching and ignition advance/retard levers... ;-)
And that's before we get on to the [horror of] manual chokes
@algo is it your music? :)
That video needs a dizzyness warning!
@bill yes - don't need to worry about copyright stuff then (I know there are alternatives but...)
@chdot - indeed I'm afraid it was pretty twitchy - will try again soon. I tried stabilising it afterwards but it was possibly even worse. The worst bits were actually the snow that had been turned into sort of sand where the grit had been, and there were big ridges to traverse - where there was just compaction of the snow it was alright.
@neddie, yes those are my memories, double de clutch like what even is that man? Biting point I never knew down in Duke Street Jail there is a happy land where you’ll never fail, where all the prisoners sing tied tae a nail, ham an’ eggs they’ll never see dirty wahter fur their tea spend their lives in misery Down in Duke Street Jail
My granda was taught to drive by his father in law in the days of double declutching. When Granda wasn't quick enough to change gears for Great Granda's liking, Great Granda would just do it for him.
I still have no idea what "double declutching" actually involved, but my granda chuckling as he told us about this was incredibly enjoyable.
@algo - Jazz
@algo - Nice
As John Thomson used to say in the fast show
@Frenchy
My dad taught me to double declutch, as his father had taught him before. I sometimes just do it as a cultural phenomenon.
Is this the Doric double de clutch you northerners are talkin about?
Double declutching whilst wearing tackety beets lined with a handful of straw.
Will just leave this here:-
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“Each driver was found to have no driving licence and subsequently no insurance.
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Presumably this is the tip of the iceberg. Potentially hundreds of folk driving illegally with no licence, no insurance on Edinburgh's streets.
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