Englands defence are like fingering Jordans gash. They let 4 in quite easily.
I drove my daughter to nursery and then to the train station this morning, and took the time to count the number of cars parked with 2 wheels or more on the pavement compared to the number of cyclists riding on the pavement. Here are the shocking stats:
0 pavement cyclists out of 5 cyclists
127 cars parked on pavement out of 211
Thats right, my survery clearly shows that 60% of drivers drive on the pavement compared to 0% of cyclists.
Fucking cyclists, how dare they ruin this survey.
As I will be training (ie: on the train) for the rest of the week (need my reserves for Manchester to Blackpool and back), I shall carry out more of these amazingly accurate surveys.
#1 by Austin on June 29, 2010 - 7:33 am
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Wow.
#2 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 7:36 am
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I know.
Shocking isn’t it.
You came on here expecting some sense – but you should have learned by now – not fucking likely from me!
#3 by Austin on June 29, 2010 - 7:45 am
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I am shocked by this statistic.
#4 by @phillconnell on June 29, 2010 - 7:47 am
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Joby, that’s truly shocking. I look forward to more accurate and representative surveys.
It’s like reading the Daily Mail. Only fun.
#5 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 7:47 am
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Glad to hear it. There is more to come.
So next time we get shit from drivers for pavement riding – we can fight back with these proven facts!
#6 by @phillconnell on June 29, 2010 - 7:51 am
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As a representative sample of 100% of 1 person, I can honestly say that i NEVER ride on the pavements. Except when the roads are too busy.
#7 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 7:52 am
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As a representative sample of 100% of 1 person, I can honestly say that i NEVER ride through a red light. Except when I realise after 10 minutes that its one of those fucking lights that doesn’t change unless a metal object approaches it.
#8 by Carrie on June 29, 2010 - 7:58 am
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hmmm. Can you do a survey of lazy bastards who instead of parking a safe distance away instead drive up the school yard to deliver their wobbly little precious to school?
#9 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 8:03 am
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I already have that statistic, as I surveyed it last time I went to pick my daughter up at school closing time last time.
You will be shocked by the findings (bearing in mind this is a primary school).
100 children attended.
65 got picked up by car outside the gate, causing 84% of
traffic congestion in that area for the day over 20 minutes.
17 children got picked up on foot.
10 children created a walking chain with the after school club and walked off into a paedophile ring.
6 people got left at school by accident.
1 child got picked up by helicopter.
2 lollipop persons also got injured during this survey.
#10 by Austin on June 29, 2010 - 8:03 am
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Im going to become a confounding variable as a n=1 sample who NEVER rides on the pavement and REGULARLY rides through red lights.
#11 by Uncle Dick Madeley on June 29, 2010 - 9:03 am
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Ooh, this is another of my bête noires. What baffles me is that it’s a criminal offence to drive on the pavement but not to park on the pavement. Makes it impossible to impose fines on people, though how a car got onto the pavement without been driven there is a wonder… Perhaps it was pushed). My neighbour regularly parks her car *across* the pavement, from front gate to kerb, completely blocking the pavement and forcing people to walk across a muddy verge and into the road.
#12 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 9:10 am
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It annoys me too – I am the only person who parks my car at the side of the pavement, and it causes shit loads of traffic throughout the day, but I refuse to pull up onto the pavement like everybody else.
I would feel guilty as hell if I knew I was responsible for a woman pushing a double buggy, having to go out onto a busy road unable to get my car, and then get hit by someone doing 70mph on the 20mph road (it happens).
The councils / police can actually do something about it – they choose not to, as its just another feather in the motorists bow, that the police / councils are just in it for the money.
If they DID do something about it, traffic congestion would increase by 20%, thus forcing more people onto public transport / alternative ways to get too and from places.
#13 by Uncle Dick Madeley on June 29, 2010 - 9:33 am
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Agree completely but what’s *really* annoying is that most of the houses around here have driveways which would each fit at least three cars. Just nobody can be bothered using them and those that do usually get blocked in by some idiot too lazy to walk more than ten yards. They’d rather park on grass verges, leaving twelve inch ruts in wet weather so the council will eventually say, we’ll tarmac all the grass verges, cut down the trees, and what used to be an attractive street will just become one enormous parking lot like some Joni Mitchell song.
#14 by Uncle Dick Madeley on June 29, 2010 - 9:34 am
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PS. This is beginning to sound like Grumpy Old Men.
#15 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 9:42 am
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It might be beginning to sound like Grumpy Old Men, but tough shit.
You are right.
Our “council” agreed to dig up the 3/4 of the green in front of our house to allow for 5 car parking spaces – bastards.
Saying that – we did ask them – LOL.
#16 by Uncle Dick Madeley on June 29, 2010 - 10:34 am
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I’m not LOLing. This is not something to LOL about. I hope you went and created an equally sized patch of greenery elsewhere or paid for a new green 5 car parking spaces big in China to balance the damage done to the environment.
#17 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 11:18 am
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Yes I did. In my garden.
#18 by LTMWB on June 29, 2010 - 12:36 pm
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Wow ure a mind of info where do get these stats from
I want to know how u know so much about
#19 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 12:42 pm
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Les, we’ve had this discussion on a previous post – EVERYONE knows about that gash and what it can and can’t handle.
Infact, more is known about that gash than the elements that make up a 2p coin.
In my opinion of course.
#20 by Uncle Dick Madeley on June 29, 2010 - 1:13 pm
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Speak for yourself.
93% mild-steel and 7% copper. That’s the 2p coin, of course.
#21 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 1:15 pm
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LOL – can’t believe you went on Wikipedia for that.
#22 by Uncle Dick Madeley on June 29, 2010 - 1:44 pm
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I can’t believe you went on Wikipedia just to be certain that I’d got it right.
#23 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 1:45 pm
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I’ve got to make sure that you are quoting correctly – don’t want the wikipedia nazi’s on my tail.
#24 by Uncle Dick Madeley on June 29, 2010 - 1:50 pm
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I think they’d already be on your tail for some of the tricks you pull of wikipedia. Let’s be honest. My incorrectly quoting the copper content of 2p pieces isn’t going to be high on their list.
#25 by jobysp on June 29, 2010 - 1:53 pm
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I have had my IP blocked before yes your right
Talking of Wikipedia, there used to be a website (dunno whether it still exists) that lists all the changes made by staff at the Daily Mail, as the whole company uses the same IP address.
Some very interesting changes where made over the years…