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Didn't want to sidetrack the road rage thread.
On Monday I stopped to get some snacks at the local filling station and there was a guy smoking on the forecourt!!!!! WTAF Had a word (non sweary) and the response was "Uh, it's OK" before chucking the stub away.
Today I was coming back through the village. There's roadworks to fix a burst water main so a set of fourway temporary traffic lights in place. Cue long tailbacks, including one across a mini-roundabout. I'm heading away from the lights and wish to turn right at this roundabout. I indicate and as I pull onto the roundabout the van waiting at the far side pulls onto the roundabout and blocks my exit. I remonstrated and the driver just shrugged. Maybe I should have reported him to the police, wouldn't have been out of my way - the police station is right next to the roundabout.
you ok hun?
Guessing you don't drive very often...
Yes, they are examples of stupidity, but barely register on the scale
I remember a local tv news crew covering a demolition derby at a speedway. One of the crews couldn't get their car started in the pits before the event so were checking to see if the fuel pump was working by disconnecting the fuel line and cranking the engine over. It was dark so they were using a cigarette lighter to see. When the tv crew realized what was happening, they leapt back and just started laughing in disbelief.
There has always been ignorance stupid,it's just there are some brand new types of ignorance stupid around now. Getting older doesn't help,it seems that some of the basic rules of engagement that I learned as a kid don't apply now. 😉😂
I've come to expect the unexpected from everyone these days. Also, i always expect the very worse from people. That way i'm never disappointed and anything over p155 poor behaviour is a pleasant bonus.
The standard of driving has definitely deteriorated since this Covid malarkey.
We need to apply a more descriptive term to people like these.
It's not enough to say stupid as this encompasses too many variables and doesn't cover what we think is a true reference to an individual or said individuals behaviour.
For example, those in thols2 post could indeed be deemed stupid, yet they are more stupid idiots.
The original 2 are more stupid (jab yourself with a sharp object) and stupid (rhymes with hunt).
Much more descriptive although to be used with caution, as in some cases it may incite violence if one lets the perpetrator know of your new term for them.
If this does indeed happen, one could probably then be referred to personally as stupid. At that point, one is just stupid - no secondary description needed. 😀
I saw a petrol station on fire once, epic spectacle. Needed a helicopter with a bucket of sea water to put out the flames.
as the UK population grows we all have stupid thrust on us in increasing number and proximity....
Cars though, they are the cause of so many problems, because they are getting bigger and the use is so entrenched it will take a politician with rhino skin and a thumping majority to do something about it. But the benefits could be huge if they only had the balls to invest in green transport and technology.
You CANNOT set fire to petrol with a cigarette!
[i]You CANNOT set fire to petrol with a cigarette![/i]
But you can light the vapour if you are holding a petrol can near your face and inhale quite deeply. You end up with a pretty little flame dancing on the nozzle of the petrol can. If you try to blow it out you expel all of the petrol vapour from the can directly through the flame and into your face and lose your eyebrows and any fringe or hair at the front of your head.
When your mum asks what happened you have to pretend to be a Pink Floyd fan and, when you spent the whole evening staying indoors at your friends house and definitely never went playing with petrol, you watched The Wall and were inspired to shave, not burn, your eyebrows off to look like Pink.
Please don't ask how I know.
You CANNOT set fire to petrol with a cigarette!
I thought "seriously...?"
But every day is literally a school day! 🙂
You CANNOT set fire to petrol with a cigarette!
yes you can, or more accurately the vapour phase, although a fag end is a inconsistent ignition source, so doesn't always ignite, unlike a naked flame. fags burn around 700 degrees, petrol ignites around 240 ish, but you need the right conditions
@WCA
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Please don’t ask how I know.
My father as a child had to tell his parents and police that they had no idea how the canal bridge came to be damaged by a can of petrol. Apparently it had nothing to do with them having a small fire to keep warm, having stoked it with a splash of petrol they didn't realise the can spout was on fire, and his friend didn't lob it towards the canal, missing the water and having the can explode on the bridge.
there was a guy smoking on the forecourt!!!!! WTAF Had a word (non sweary) and the response was “Uh, it’s OK” before chucking the stub away.
It was pretty much compulsory on Koh Phangan when I lived there. E-cigarettes are banned though.
In Chalkolum village the gas station was next to a plot where they had open flame barbecues in the evening.
Ok. Contrary to popular belief, petrol stations do not explode/burst into flames when a vehicle crashes into the petrol pumps.
I only know because I owned a filling station ( no Bombers involved) up in Durham between 1985 & 2000. During this time I witnessed just that scenario when a car careered off the main road & wiped out one of the pumps, leaving the pump at the other end of the forecourt & just a flickering flame coming from some petrol residue.
Just as well cos the tanker had been the day before & there was 3000 gallons of 4 star in the tank that fed the pump.
