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I received a smiley face from one of those signs which flash up to tell you your speed if you are exceeding the limit. I was doing 35 mph in a 40 zone because it was dark and the road is tortuous. Has anyone else seen that lind of thing, and does anyone else agree that it's silly ?
Edited by Webmaster on 07/12/2007 at 23:14
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Sure beats a ticket through the door.
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SIDs (Speed Interactive Signs) usually used as school projects and the like around here - better than a three pointer any day.
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It had the temerity to SMILE at you!!!!?
Lock and load..... It's going down....
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45 in a 40 and it sticks two fingers up!
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90 in a 60 and it salutes you ! :-)
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90 in a 60 and it salutes you ! :-)
As long as you show it your warrant card ;-)
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Er, the OP said 35 in a 40 zone owing to tortuous road.
So the damn thing was leering at him seductively because he was MIMSING. Reminds me of those signs that say: 'Please drive like a total prat through the village'. Most people obey them too.
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It had the temerity to SMILE at you!!!!? Lock and load..... It's going down....
:-)
Personally, I like signs that smile at me. Makes me feel good. We had one locally a while ago. It always smiled at me. I was sad to see it go.
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"So the damn thing was leering at him seductively because he was MIMSING"
Brilliant.
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There is one of these stupid signs in Hamilton on a l3 lane approach to a major roundabout.
No idea which of the three lanes it is aimed at as it is on a slight bend.
IMHO its actually a hazard at a point where all concentration should be on the road in front of you, not a flashing sign at the side.
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There is one of these on the sea front near where I live. The device is a rectangular black panel about 8 ft high mounted on a small trailer and if you go through at over 30mph the top part flashes up the speed limit and the lower part flashes up the image of a speed camera.
Mercifully it does not smile at you if you go through under 30mph.
There is a scanner on top of the unit about the size of a large camcorder which can be twisted round in the direction of the traffic to be scanned. Recently some miscreant climbed up on the unit and pointed the scanner out to sea!
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Lud, define MIMSING for me. Oh, and it is spelled OAP. I've been one for a considerable time. If I can't see around a bend I proceed cautiously until I can. The sign gave me an amber smiley face. If I had been doing 30 perhaps I would have got a green one.
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maybe if you were going at 5mph with a tailback of 50 cars behind you it would sound a fanfare and sing "who's a jolly good fellow"
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Maybe we should call them Brunstrom boards?
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I should delete that - in case he sees it, right up Ego Avenue that one, he'd love it.
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do you reckon a 'Brunstrom Smile' could become as well known as a 'Glasgow Kiss'?
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Lud define MIMSING for me.
I wasn't having a go at you hillman. No doubt you had your reasons for mimsing (= going measurably slower than the speed limit, all limits these days being too low under most circumstances). We all do it sometimes, usually perforce like me on the A29 this evening behind a lot of Sunday carp (I could feel Julius Caesar turning in his grave, that road being in part an arrow-straight Roman military motorway) and from time to time from some other necessity. I assume you were experiencing one of those.
Do try to go 5mph over the limit next time and see if it gives you a red scowl though. If it does I might go up there and see the thing myself. I love Christmas kitsch.
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Speed indicator devices. A good idea, IMO, to make one think - better than a speeding ticket, which just causes bad feeling and resentment. They measure and record vehicle speeds (but not number plates, at the moment).
These things are a very visible indication of speed - in some places, you'll see "speed tubes", parallel rubber tubes stretched across the road - these record speed and traffic numbers, silently.
SIDs record speed only up to a selected cut-off point, to discourage "racing" and general anti-social behaviour.
SIDs are very good for checking your speedo. accuracy (within speed bands, see above).
If these things are used in your area, your council (or parish council) will can be contacted, and ought to give you the information recorded by the device, if you ask them.
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We have them in Darlington that tell you your speed IF you are going over the 30 limit usually really inacurate displys 36 when your doing 31/2
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