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1 hour ago, Mark Connolly said:

I know a guy who's kid is called Jaxon. I also used to work with a guy called Aydon, which is apparently the Italian spelling of Aidan.

Yeah there was a jaxon too.

And a Clay. 

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People who have their social media profile picture as them and their girlfriend/wife.

Either done to show that they actually do have a real life, not 'from up my gran's bit' girlfriend or they think they're punching above their weight and want to show off


I think it’s because they are dirty shagger b*****ds and their other halves don’t trust them.
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Isn't it to do with some regulation that they have to be under a certain amount of calories? Still annoying.
Mostly not, their input costs have gone up so they can either make the product smaller or charge the consumer more and the former cause fewer complaints.
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7 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said:
7 hours ago, Mark Connolly said:
I know a guy who's kid is called Jaxon. I also used to work with a guy called Aydon, which is apparently the Italian spelling of Aidan.

Calling bullshit on that. The Italian alphabet didn't originally contain a y (or a j, k, w or x) and it's only modern loanwords from other languages that contain those letters (like jeans or lanyard or w****r).

What about Juventus?

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Whilst looking at prospective house purchases, I couldn't help noticing that a good few owners had gone down the artificial lawn route. 

All I could think was it'll end up stinking of various animal's piss. 

We bought a house with a lawn. 

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12 hours ago, Cerberus said:

Aiden/Ayden is such a jakey name.

It's a little know fact that everyone who is called Aiden works in a call centre.
And not even a semi-respectable Tier 3 technical specialist call centre, they all work in an outbound sales call centres trying to punt shite like new kitchens.

I was at school with a guy called Aidan who became an award-winning journalist with the Scotsman and has written a number of football-related books, including one about the 2016 Cup Final. (Okay, that last one is for sale for six quid in The Works, but it's still a proper book.)

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On 14/09/2018 at 11:29, Mr X said:

Roundabout use in Dumfries is the worst.

A far worse example of bad marking is at the Dalscone roundabout. Three lanes - turn left, straight on and turn right - turned into two, one for turn left and straight on another for turn right ... ok so far, apart from when they decided to mark the right turn lane with a straight ahead arrow :blink:

This is a pet hate of mine. There was a line added to the design codes which said something like "avoid right turn arrows on roundabout approaches where there is a high number of foreign drivers and potential for confusion". The inten

23 hours ago, sjc said:

Cheers. Couldn't quite remember which was which as it was 25+ years since my apprenticeship in consultancy. Seem to recall a lot about "deflection" and "flair" lengths though?!

Deflection is a design requirement for safety. Basically can't have entry too straight as people can drive on too fast/not give way. Entry path radii cannot exceed 100m on standard and 70m on compact roundabouts. Flare length is basically an addition to the calculation about the length of additional lanes on approach. 

On 13/09/2018 at 16:49, 19QOS19 said:
On 13/09/2018 at 16:45, flyingscot said:
Councils have the right to mark roundabouts as they see fit to be fair. I do a bit of design work, and I can often mark them like that.

Why contradict the highway code though? Especially when most cars will go over or right. By doing that there they're more likely to have two lots of traffic queuing for the right hand lane whereas had they had left well alone and not made a complete arse of it the traffic would have flowed better.

Don't know the location. Like I say whenever I design something it's a calculation based on what works best for traffic flows. Incidentally I don't think there is a rule that if there is 2 lanes, then the inside is for ahead and right lane for right. In the picture it's 2 lane exits, and just showing a diagram of typical movements. Certainly isn't in design terms. 

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