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From this angle it would seem the car completely missed the entrance to the Road and Mounted the pavement.




This keeps on happening here and elsewhere where these Bell shaped Low bollards are being used. IE Ady's Rd.


Drivers cannot see them. In this case the car appears to of mounted the pavement



DulwichFox

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> KidKruger Wrote:

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> > ?have?

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> Pedant.. You cannot help yourself. Get a life.


You appear to have struck a particularly rich vein of irony today DF, even by your standards.

rendelharris Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > KidKruger Wrote:

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> > Pedant.. You cannot help yourself. Get a life.

>

> You appear to have struck a particularly rich vein

> of irony today DF, even by your standards.



Oh, I'd be pretty p'd off if someone corrected me after a long day as well. It wasn't really necessary, especially given some of the howlers I see on the Forum.

IlonaM Wrote:

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> Oh, I'd be pretty p'd off if someone corrected me

> after a long day as well. It wasn't really

> necessary, especially given some of the howlers I

> see on the Forum.


Indeed, but DF is the #1 corrector of others hereabouts.

rendelharris Wrote:

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> IlonaM Wrote:

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> > Oh, I'd be pretty p'd off if someone corrected

> me

> > after a long day as well. It wasn't really

> > necessary, especially given some of the howlers

> I

> > see on the Forum.

>

> Indeed, but DF is the #1 corrector of others

> hereabouts.


Even I am tempted occasionally, but I have to tell myself to resist!

i started reading this and thought the same as someone previously, how lovely everyone was being, but then everyone went straight to pre judging the poor driver. I hope she is ok, as it must have been quite frightening.


From my own driving around south london, is that people have NO patience what so ever and some drivers will be beeping like crazy which can panic/fluster people. Things like turning out of side roads, or allowing on coming cars down a narrow road.

Personally , i take no notice of these impatient drivers and only go when i think its safe, its always just a few seconds, but everyone is in such a hurry because there is so much traffic !

herne hilly Wrote:

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> i started reading this and thought the same as

> someone previously, how lovely everyone was being,

> but then everyone went straight to pre judging the

> poor driver. I hope she is ok, as it must have

> been quite frightening.

>

> From my own driving around south london, is that

> people have NO patience what so ever and some

> drivers will be beeping like crazy which can

> panic/fluster people. Things like turning out of

> side roads, or allowing on coming cars down a

> narrow road.

> Personally , i take no notice of these impatient

> drivers and only go when i think its safe, its

> always just a few seconds, but everyone is in such

> a hurry because there is so much traffic !


Fair point - I'm in no way a fan of the motor car and am the first to castigate bad drivers, but for all we know this person could have swerved to avoid a child who'd run into the road or been forced off line by someone else's bad driving.

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> And I certainly do not correct others for their

> Grammar.


Just for everything else, and frequently erroneously.


P.S. I haven't corrected your grammar, I'm just laughing at your pompously ironic reaction.

herne hilly Wrote:

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> i started reading this and thought the same as

> someone previously, how lovely everyone was being,

> but then everyone went straight to pre judging the

> poor driver. I hope she is ok, as it must have

> been quite frightening.

>


You have to be doing something seriously wrong and driving fast to get your car stuck up there. Was the driver a woman? That seems a bit of a pre-judgment! I walked past the aftermath yesterday and it looked like the driver was a man. (very happy to be corrected if you know otherwise)

With all respect DF, I'm not in the habit of picking people up on their grammar (in this case it's actually spelling, because you mistakenly typed 'of' instead of 'have'. No-one would intentionally use a wrong word like that).


Fact is, I have suffered years of this abuse, by reading occurrences of 'have' displaced by 'of'.

It unnerves me greatly, affects my concentration and shatters my senses - all in one go.

At last I speak out about it and I'm branded a troublemaker. This is not OK.

I suggest the most efficient (and environmentally friendly, if you include your community here on EDF) solution is to stop swapping 'of' for 'have'. It's been some years now but is a lesson which can be learned very quickly.

'Try it, you'll like it', as the person serving Socrates said.


Sorry to side track they thread, but let's face it, the thread is pretty much done. A car crashed, no-one hurt, car removed, traffic resumes, oil patch to be mopped-up soon. Sort of run it's course wouldn't you say ?

'Hi-Jacked' is too strong a word, I'd prefer "used the opportunity to finally (after years of courteous restraint) educate someone about their repeated transcription error when typing".

In the long run, victims like me would be spared repeated trauma if you'd just respect the reader and type properly.

'It's just not cricket', as the person playing snooker once said.

edcam: weeeeell, the 'hi-jacked' was a quote (yes, I KNOW, quoted things should have quotes !!).



Sue: I'm not inclined to agree I'm afraid. It's denotes ownership, in my sentence. "It's course" (the course belonging to the thread).


Keep at it though....!

I knew that KK, don't worry.


However, I'm with Sue. "Its " is the correct possessive pronoun, not "it's", which is only short for "it is" or "it has".


It's a bit like "his" or "hers", a possessive pronoun all of its own.


A common mistake but a mistake nonetheless.

KidKruger Wrote:

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> Sue: I'm not inclined to agree I'm afraid. It's

> denotes ownership, in my sentence. "It's course"

> (the course belonging to the thread).

>

> Keep at it though....!


No no no no no KK! It's can only ever be an abbreviation for it is/has. The possessive for the pronoun it never takes an apostrophe. To be fair this is a concept that many find difficult, I've probably spent more time as a teacher explaining that than any other rule.

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> After pupils never understood, is that why you

> gave up teaching?


They did understand, thanks, the reasons I quit teaching had nothing to do with the pupils.

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