BS: Your Nominations Please

Subject: RE: BS: Your Nominations Please
From: Bert
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 02:18 PM

Oh, sorry Alex, I was forgetting that Americans haven't heard of the 'roundabout'. A perfect solution for dealing with road junctions. You just merge into the traffic on the roundabout, the same way that you merge onto a freeway. But I must admit that I have seen traffic lights on the onramps to freeways here and there. But only in America.

Bert.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Nominations Please
From: Kim C
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 03:30 PM

I forgot the bread machine. However, this is coming from someone who just likes to get her hands in the dough. I realize this is a useful thing for people who maybe can't eat storebought bread because of food allergies and the like.

I think perhaps we have deteriorated into a discussion of things we find annoying that are not necessarily useless to the people who own them. There is a difference. :)

Subject: Superfluous!
From: Bernard
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 04:37 PM

How about the regulation that means a packet of peanuts has to bear the warning:

'May contain traces of nuts'... as if!!

Or the legend seen upon jars of 'Nescafe Original' which says 'New, improved flavour'! How can that be?

No, my prize would go to the inventor of the 'cyber pet'! That guy must be laughing all the way to the bank...

Subject: RE: BS: Your Nominations Please
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 07:00 PM

Alex, you're right about "teenager". Now, when _I_ was a teenager, there WERE no teenagers.

The teenager was only invented after WW2. Before that you had kids, and boys and girls, and then you had adults.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Your Nominations Please
From: Bill D
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 07:35 PM

bert...the Wash DC area has LOTS of 'roundabouts'...we call'em traffic circles...and they vary quite widely as to their design and usefullness...some are fine and some are close to deathtraps...you should see a couple of the 'double circles' with crossover traffic!)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Nominations Please
From: Amos
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 08:51 PM

My vote is for women's underwear; what a waste of talent!

Subject: RE: BS: Your Nominations Please
From: Bert
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 12:55 PM

You're right Bill, you'll always find one local authority that will opt for a traffic circle because it's cheaper than the clover leaf that the junction really needs.

Subject: RE: BS: Your Nominations Please
From: Kim C
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 03:08 PM

but I like underwear. That's another thing I collect. ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Your Nominations Please
From: bill\sables
Date: 13 Feb 01 - 04:43 PM

You talk about Roundabouts or Trafic circles in the US. You should see the bloddy things over here in the UK, they are everywhere. You can be driving down a straight road when suddenly they have put a roundabout there. In Goole East Yorkshire there is a road without any turns or junctions but there is a roundabout in the middle of it. I think some town planner went up in a helecopter and dropped round pieces of paper and where they landed they built a roundabout. Then there are the painted white circles about a yard across which also act as roundabouts. And of course we have the trafic calmers, which are either bumps in the road which can wreck your suspension of chicanes where you have to drive on the other side of the road. They are so bad in Cawood, North Yorkshire that the ambulance drivers refuse to carry anyone wiyh a spinal injury out of the village for fear they cause more problems. The councils say they are to curb kids stealing cars for joy riding, why not just put the little buggers in a Borstal for five years, that would stop them.
Now we come to the trains; just today it took sixteen and a half hours for passengers to get between Newcastle and Plymouth, a few weks ago it took nine hours from London to Nottingham. They have blamed it on leaves on the line or the wrong sort of snow. Are we going backwards, I hope so, because it was so much quicker when we had steam trains and we always got there on time. I think there are too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. (no disrespect for the native ammericans intended)They sit on their fat arses infront of computers and earn obcene ammounts of money while the commuter, who pays their wages, is left stuck on a train not going anywhere. I can't understand how in an age of fast communications and education when we can put a man on the moon, we still can't get a train to run on time. George Stephenson must be turning in his grave.
Bill