Everything Leads Into The (new year) Elite thread

Westvleteren

Afternoon all

The rain here is incessant and due to continue into tomorrow. Took Bub out for his morning walk and wasn't impressed with having to put his little jacket on Won't be going out for our other walks so have put a film on The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, liked the animated version as a kid

aau1

Still. £1 if you can find them

HopePray

While searching for butter in my freezers I came across a leg of lamb, now defrosting.
Best before date is the 15 th April, luckily it does not state which year.

nairny54

Please forgive me if this has already been mentioned.....for those doing the 5:2 diet there is a free Kindle book download on Amazon today
" The 5:2 diet explained - a guide to lose weight fast, get lean, build muscle and look your best."

Classy_Chick06

Possible coke glitch!

This is from a womble with yesterdays date,

there is a multi showing on receipt of

coke 2ltr 2 for £2.50

A v M

2 x Coca Cola (2L)£3.96£2.50

Enterprise_1701C

abailey54 wrote: »

I'm nursing a hangover today from over-indulging in my 3-monthly naked wines order (that's one every 3 months ) - they do such nice wine but boy is it strong, the one I was drinking last night was 14.5% :eek:

You think that's strong? I'm getting slightly concerned about some redcurrant wine my OH is making. He set it up to ferment last August. And it is STILL fermenting, only just, but it is still bubbling :eek::eek:

jailea

Classy_Chick06 wrote: »

Possible coke glitch!

This is from a womble with yesterdays date,

there is a multi showing on receipt of

coke 2ltr 2 for £2.50

A v M

2 x Coca Cola (2L)£3.96£2.50

Ooh exciting :T

Savvybuyer

zagubov wrote: »

Coming back from Ts, I stopped at the lights (monitored by a camera)_.An ambulance pulled up behind me with lights flashing so me and another car went through and pulled over in front of the other lanes to let it past. Worried now I'll get a fine and points! :mad:

There ought to be an exemption for things like that - hopefully whoever sees the camera will notice the situation and common sense will prevail.

I had one before - and be thankful if you don't have Asperger's:D (my condition makes me an absolute stickler to follow every (written) rule (I can't help it) and it causes so much stress trying constantly to comply and always thinking you'll get caught out otherwise) - it's an offence (strict liability I believe as well) to fail to comply with red light but also an offence (again I think strict) to fail to comply with a constable's directions. So what did I have some time ago?

The traffic lights, which were working (they weren't a camera one), were on red, but there was a constable directing traffic as there were also cones up alongside. The constable directed me to go through. Lights on red. Criminal offence (strict liability one) for failing to comply with red light and no exemption for constable's direction. So I stopped, trying to comply with that strict law. Constable shouted "come on".

Very very reluctantly, I edged forward and through the lights (still on red) and followed their direction.

What could I do? Presumably the constable's direction (as directing me to do something unlawful) was outside their powers, so I should not have complied with it. Yet it's an offence to fail to comply with a constable's directions. Of course (though I don't think in this 'common' sense way:D), having gone through - and followed the constable's direction - no police then took any action for me failing the red light.

Perhaps I could have argued duress if they had. I certainly felt under a lot of duress (and stress). Yet this is a strict offence and I see no defence of duress or anything else written into it. [Really, I perhaps wish one of my obsessions in the past had not been the reading of road traffic law. I read things even if they don't cover my situations - e.g. like collecting prices in Morries including of items of kinds I never buy. I just like full knowledge, and full pursuit of knowledge it seems. (Of course, knowledge does not include social knowledge in this context:rotfl:).]

The 'correct' legal-compliant approach (the one of stupidity of the law perhaps!) perhaps would have been to have waited at the light until it changed. The constable's directing me to break the law was arguably unlawful so that I didn't have to comply with it. I was under a duty to comply with the red light. But imagine all the greater cofuffle if I had stayed there waiting and not following the (potentially unlawful) direction.

This happens because of my Asperger's (as does everything I do or don't do - it's a pervasive disorder). Sometimes I do unexpected things on the roads, like slowing down for a 30 mph speed limit sign whilst everyone else goes through at 40+. Yet they should expect me to slow for the sign, but because no-one ever does, they don't. I have to be even more careful there (slowing down well in advance and slowly) - yet I constantly get 'harassed' by people following so close behind me. (I even had to pull over yesterday and let one vehicle past on a 30 mph A-road - it was obvious they wanted to go much faster, I felt very intimidated. Then the driver went past and I followed, with the driver going into the distance - and then they travelled along, feet behind the car now in front of them.)

It's dangerous to comply with the law and speed limits. And it's all due (sometimes) to the 'failure properly to attend to and complete a job' "neuro-typicals" that run our roads and set the rules. Best one is when they put a 10 temporary limit on the entry to an estate where they're doing road repairs, then fail to put any 30 mile an hour sign on any of the exit. Back on the main road, there I am - travelling at 10 mph whilst the speed limit for everyone else is 30:rotfl:. (I have a little more common sense than that - surely strictly I am breaking the law though.)

And don't tell me about 10 mph temporary limits on 60 mph roads where they have periodically covered up some of the 60 mph signs but not others and have 40 mph limits on parts of the road along in between, which they have covered up some but not all. I had to avoid that road, because no-one ever travels at 10 and I was having reluctantly to go somewhere between 20 and 30, as a token nod to the 10-mph signs, whilst not driving so slow (and more to the point, dangerously) that someone behind me would suddenly appear (country road) doing 60 mph. It caused me such stress at exceeding the 10 mph limit that applied, that I started always to take a different route in future. I also worry that, on a rare event when I might accidentally exceed the limit (as everyone does surely), they'll undoubtedly catch me with a camera at that 10 yard point whilst I was slowing myself back down to compliance. Everyone else - you always break the limits (I don't understand how you can do so and not feel bad?). I suspect the 'normal' brain doesn't even notice the signs on the road. You notice your passenger and chit-chat constantly with them. I have to have the radio totally off as it would distract me (I notice everything*!).

(*Except other's social signals!)

Really, with my near-total compliance, I ought to be exempted from the speed limit laws, as it causes me such stress if I accidentally (whilst changing from one speed to another) enroach a little bit. I don't mean I would fail to comply with the speed (theoretically) applying to everyone else - I'd still follow it scrupulously and to such an extent as to a fault - but it'd remove the stress (from the 5 seconds of non-compliance on a two hour journey and feeling I'd inevitably have found the point where a camera lies hidden, despite my complying with the law far far more than everyone else about this).

And you do constant 40 in 60mph zones. They (i.e. 'the normal people') go too slow - and irritatingly so - when the speed limit is straight 60 and straight road - I suspect no-one knows what the 'national speed limit' sign means (or even knows it is called that) - I feel like creating a poster (written backwards to be seen in people's mirrors) - "IT'S A 60 MILES PER HOUR LIMIT" and holding it up at the front of my windscreen when I am stuck behind someone doing 40. Had a lorry yesterday, on 60 mph A road, did forty for several miles (no opp. to pass) - then, eventually, oh, on the entry to the city, there was a 40 mph sign. Now - I wonder why that 40 mph sign was there? Might it be the speed limit had changed? Wonder why all the signs for the last half hour were a bit different?!?

They keep at constant 40 throughout.

Now, if a 30 mph sign comes, they are still at 40 and don't slow!
It's unexpected for me to do so (although it shouldn't be - if you see a 30 mph sign, you ought to expect the car in front to slow down for it, but, again, I'm clueless - that's not how it works and there's some unwritten social way of behaving that hasn't been expressly told to me. Obviously. Because 'no-one' ever behaves like I do, the expectation is actually the opposite).

I'm sure I must p**s people off behind me when I slow to 30 and stay constantly at that. I admit 30 mph feels so slow (especially at the exit of the 60 mph national speed areas). But, if I annoy others in that way (who are at that moment stressing me by following right behind me), it really isn't my fault. I am following the signs, which is what - well not only I should be doing - but what I have to do by law.

I know nothing to do with moneysaving (unless I add that not going at the speed limit can often save fuel - no need to be doing over 3 revs or whatever it is called:o) - I sometimes on dual carriageways, go up to 55-60 rather than 70, because 70 wastes fuel that way - obviously I vary (or overtake and do so more than 60/69) if there is something behind me (I'd go a bit faster if I had a car behind me and another was overtaking me, so that the car behind couldn't pull out and it was dangerous for me to stay at 60) - and of course I ensure I'm in the far left lane if I'm not going to do the full speed limit.

Jelly_Biactol

EMMAP wrote: »

Jelly can I just say (and at the risk of offending any lurkers or other forum members out there) that you're fast becoming one of my favourite elite weirdos?
If anyone else wants to make the list then your task is to 'out funny' this lady

Aw shucks:o thanks Em
(But I'm a one-hundred-per-cent male mammal)

Did you feed the animals in your zoo this morning? According to David Attenborough, their favourite food is Monster Munch and Um Bongo.

Savvybuyer

Classy_Chick06 wrote: »

Possible coke glitch!

This is from a womble with yesterdays date,

there is a multi showing on receipt of

coke 2ltr 2 for £2.50

A v M

2 x Coca Cola (2L)£3.96£2.50

This is yesterday - sadly, it often (though I may be wrong on that) corrects for shops done from Sunday afternoon onwards. Don't let me put the dampeners on it though;):).