Tractors, Cyclists and Emmets

fluffnutter

Not that I feel strongly about it either way (I guess it doesn't feel that relevant unless you're from Cornwall) but I can't help thinking they wouldn't do themselves any favours (in devolving from the UK) - they'd be skint!

barbiedoll

On the other hand.......the Cornish pay the highest water bills in the UK because all of us tourists demand constant baths and showers for our two week stay. We expect the show gardens to be green and lush and we all love the flowering displays in the towns and the villages. Most Cornish people can't afford to stay in the county where they were born because the out-of-towners want a nice holiday home in a chocolate box village. That's why the local schools, pubs and post offices have all shut down. They earn the lowest wages and yet their property prices are on a par with parts of London. We want fast roads through their towns so that we can get on holiday quickly, yet we drive like idiots when we get there. We leave rubbish on the beaches and throw litter into the hedgerows.
No wonder they hate us!

I've been visiting Cornwall for over 30 years and I have never met anyone who hasn't treated me with kindness and respect. I have been offered a bed for the night in a perfect stranger's house, I had a railway employee drive over 20 miles (in his own time) to reunite me with my lost luggage. If you want to see some real disrespect on the roads, come and drive for half an hour in south-east London, you'll be a quivering wreck in no time!

pmduk

kernewek wrote: »

5. Pavements are for pedestrians, roads for cars not vice versa.

I don't mean offence, I'm the first generation of my family that wasn't born in Penryn. However, I was taught that pedestrians had the right of way everywhere but a motorway.

kernewek

fluffnutter wrote: »

Not that I feel strongly about it either way (I guess it doesn't feel that relevant unless you're from Cornwall) but I can't help thinking they wouldn't do themselves any favours (in devolving from the UK) - they'd be skint!

To be fair the likes of An Gof are somewhat isolated in their views. For the most the Cornish support the england sports teams, especially rugby and any talk of independence is more a light hearted musing in the pub. We know full well we need tourism and I think you would find very few Cornish who would disagree with that, despite the scrawlings of a few idiots on the back of road signs.

cajef

kernewek wrote: »

A Cornish rant.

Best rant yesterday and today.:)

kernewek

pmduk wrote: »

I don't mean offence, I'm the first generation of my family that wasn't born in Penryn. However, I was taught that pedestrians had the right of way everywhere but a motorway.

You may well be right, but I'm not sure that would be of great consolation to someone who's just had their entrails spread across a road after telling themselves that.

fluffnutter

kernewek wrote: »

You may well be right, but I'm not sure that would be of great consolation to someone who's just had their entrails spread across a road after telling themselves that.

I doubt anything would be much consolation to them. Apart from perhaps knowing they'd died in a really rather attractive part of the country.

Elsewhere

While I do not agree with all that the original poster says, I do sympathise. I live in a touristy part of Dorset and I get fed up with the slow tourist drivers, but we persuade them to come here for the scenery, so we have to put up with it. However, the ones that suddenly slow down to walking pace so they can take a snap or a video... WHAT? Park and take your picture, please!

The tourists' (grockles here - BTW, "emmet" is dialect for "ant" in Devon and Cornwall) behaviour as pedestrians is also suicidal. They wander across the road (don't look to left and right) down in town as if they were in Disneyland, rather than a place where real people live. OK, we are used to watching out for them, but there are ambulances - fire engines - white van drivers! - even mums late to pick the kids up from school - who have to hurry about their business. Frankly I catch myself wandering on occasion when I am on holiday (last holiday was in Manchester - fascinating city) but I suppose eventually I realise and try to pay attention, so please remember that even in Cornwall some people have deadlines!

pmduk

kernewek wrote: »

I do drive accordingly - I overtake them. Hope I don't get stuck behind you one day.

I don't drive, there're are too many lunatics sitting behind steering wheels.

Flyboy152

pmduk wrote: »

I don't drive, there're are too many lunatics sitting behind steering wheels.

Just as many walking on the pavements and roads and (God forbid I should ever mention it) cyclists.