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Especially if you work in HR!



Gerrard Wrote:

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> This has probably been mentioned before, but I am

> hearing it more and more...

>

> The letter 'h' being pronounced "Haitch" rather

> than "aitch". Please, stop it.

Haitch Rah


dukesdenver Wrote:

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> Especially if you work in HR!

>

>

> Gerrard Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > This has probably been mentioned before, but I

> am

> > hearing it more and more...

> >

> > The letter 'h' being pronounced "Haitch" rather

> > than "aitch". Please, stop it.

When I go to buy my train tickets, the machine is full of receipts that people haven't been bothered to pick up. This just seems to be an East Dulwich thing, I've not seen it happen anywhere else. How much effort it is to pick up your own rather than leave me to pick up 20+ or so of yours?

tickets left in machine - definitely not a Dulwich thing - I've come across it at any London station I've bought tickets from


Buses - the highway code advises you let buses out even if they don't have right of way. So why would you be a dick and not let them out?

StraferJack Wrote:

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> Buses - the highway code advises you let buses out

> even if they don't have right of way. So why would

> you be a dick and not let them out?


This is the irrational things thread....we can't all be a virtuous a driver as you. ;-)

Salsaboy Wrote:

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> Where does it say that? Which section?

>

> the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> > Read your highway code they do have right of

> way.

3 posts above !

Ah yes, rule 223. After having a quick chat with a traffic cop friend of mine, this is not mandatory, purely advice.


My gripe is when you are alongside the bus and they then signal and pull out at the same time causing you to take avoiding action such as pulling out into oncoming traffic or braking.

I pull over to widen the gap for the truck coming the other way


The car behind pulls around me, to try and go through "the gap"


The car stops the truck getting through and causes a jam, then other cars pile in behind the lead car


All hell breaks loose and nobody's going nowhere

People in trains who, instead of sitting next to their friends, sit opposite them and then shout to each other across the carriage.


People in trains who put their feet up on the seat opposite. How would they like it they sat down on a seat and found a great dollop of crap on it from someone else's shoe?

StraferJack:


"Buses - the highway code advises you let buses out even if they don't have right of way. So why would you be a dick and not let them out?"


No problem letting them out, and I do hundreds of times a week commuting for maybe 8-10 hours; just indicate and use your mirrors if you're pulling out into moving traffic like everyone else using the road.


TINY things: forum egos and cliques.

It never fails to amaze me how little motorists cooperate with each other in the area . This results in so many mexican standoffs when

A few seconds of waiting would have ensured a good traffic flow.

Seabag Wrote:

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> I pull over to widen the gap for the truck coming

> the other way

>

> The car behind pulls around me, to try and go

> through "the gap"

>

> The car stops the truck getting through and causes

> a jam, then other cars pile in behind the lead

> car

>

> All hell breaks loose and nobody's going nowhere

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