Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I agree with you Wheezy. It is very annoying, particularly if you are in the slow lane and moving faster than the traffic in the middle lane and have to move all the way out to go round.

A few years back, my Dad and I did a short advanced driving course advertised by Hertfordshire County Council. I don't know if they still do it but it was very worthwhile. People don't get any follow up once they past their test so it was interesting to see what bad habits people had got into. It was taught by advanced drivers and the police, using the police's "Roadcraft" driving course as its basis.

I've adopted a couple of the practices since. The two I find most helpful are "tyres and tarmac": ensuring that you can see both the tyres of the car in front and some tarmac. This means if the car in front breaks down, stops or gets stuck, there's always room to move around without manouvering. I'd never heard that before. The other one I find useful is "concave/convex", or steering your car within the lane as you approach a bend for maximum visibility of oncoming traffic. The instructor says most people stay in the middle of the lane all the time. The technique I find least useful is the one where you talk out loud every obstacle that you see to ensure maximum observation. Other drivers rightly conclude that you are bonkers.

I learnt to drive in a tractor and a mutability lawn mower really. Thena. Car in a field. Was much easier because you have room to make mistakes. Meant when I got on the road had just to get used to traffic and speed.

Having a parent who drives like a police driver meant I do all those things. (Apart from when I am singing in the car) . When I am feeling tired, on longer journeys when needing towards needing a rest or whatever I make a point of talking the road, its a surprisingly useful technique. Its also useful in inclement weather, and to remind one what to do in ice etc and fight the reflex to brake.

Other drivers concluding I'm bonkers? Well, saves on professional fees, eh?

michaels

I always tend to position myself in the lane to get best visibility and also tend to keep to the outside of the lane to be furthest away from any danger emerging from the pavement - dangers in the other lane you have a much better view of.

I may sometimes finish overtaking in the last few hundred metres before a motorway exit that I plan to take (ie I wouldn't go in the inside lane and slow down to 50 or whatever the lane speed was at the 1 mile to go sign) but if people are queueing in the inside lane to exit I would join the queue.

Where there are roadworks and lane closures the current highway code guidance is to use all lanes to queue in and merge at the obstruction but some peole seem to get very upset if you follow this guidance...

lemonjelly

Spirit wrote: »

At the weekend OH painted our bedroom window frame. When the undercoat dried it had some very cute cat paw prints in it.

I have a friend who has laminate flooring.
They repainted their windowsills & went to bed.
Next morning, floor was covered in white gloss paw prints!:eek:

lostinrates

Can Nyone help quickly.....

Need the write word and google image will not help me!

I need a word for some one who provides factual information for a fictional dramatisation for credits.....

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Can Nyone help quickly.....

Need the write word and google image will not help me!

I need a word for some one who provides factual information for a fictional dramatisation for credits.....

Historical/technical /legal whatever advisor?

Doozergirl

zagubov wrote: »

Historical/technical /legal whatever advisor?

That's what I was thinking. Breaking Bad has a chemist adviser, Holby City has medical advisors.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

Historical/technical /legal whatever advisor?

Hmm, historical or factual advisor might do , its not quite ringing the right bell in my head.


thanks Zag.

Edit ( advice is about one particular ' historical' person.....does that help? ). So 'Ratesonian advisor....lost ingrates? ....( autocorrect to fab to correct back)

neverdespairgirl

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks. When I was a student, friends of friends were at the theological college attached to the university, training to be vicars. Rumour had it they used to set each other challenging words to try to work into a sermon when doing preaching practice, without those listening spotting it. One such word was "toluputine", which is an adjective pertaining to armadilloes - so "bovine" for cows, and "canine" for dogs, and "toluputine" for armadilloes. Apparently the student set this challenge did manage to get the word in, but I never found out how.

Barristers do the same thing, sometimes, getting unlikely phrases into legal arguments or closing speeches to the jury.

LydiaJ wrote: »

It did look very narrow. Not the kind of spacious hall you would expect in a property as grand as they are trying to create. The pic Sarah showed them of floating stairs had a glass panel up the outside in place of a rail. I imagine that would meet the building regs as long as it was the right kind of glass.
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I think you are right - not that I saw the programme, but the sort of people buying a huge, £X million house, wouldn't expect the kind of hall where someone dumping a coat or a bag would block the whole passageway.

When my parents bought their large family house (the one they sold last December) my mother particularly liked the large hallway on the ground floor and landing on the first floor.





I exepct Lydia'll hate it - wood floors and cream paintwork and ceilings (-:

Wheezy_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Can Nyone help quickly.....

Need the write word and google image will not help me!

I need a word for some one who provides factual information for a fictional dramatisation for credits.....

factualinforesearcherforfiction

lostinrates

We have a tiny entrance hall, and NO corridors apart from the one we just put in. We have a sweet little galleried landing upstairs, and will have another above it. The back landing will be part of our 'bedroom' one day