Town planners, are cunts eh?
What the Holy Hell is this supposed to be? See link below.
Lucky Swindon, I envy you, not! I’m absolutely gobsmacked at this.
Just build one massive roundabout, like the Wall of Death, otherwise known as Park
Square, in Sheffield, and put a sequencing traffic light system in.
What fucking idiot thought this was workable, and what cunt signed it off?
P45s for all.
Nominated by Jeezum Priest.
It’s a shame the bloke who designed it is dead. If he was still around I’d like to ask him what he’d been smoking when he designed it because I’d like to try some.
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That roundabout is cool, hur hur…
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I see so many drivers who are total cunts that this Magic Roundabout seems like the perfect place for some of them to meet their doom.
Other than that it looks like a set off Thunderbirds.
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I drive and ride round the Magic Roundabout all the time (live local, alas) and it’s perfectly easy if you’re not a spa§tic or a retard.
Or a wimminz.
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Unfortunately spazzas, retards and wimminz make up about 90% of the driving population.
And on the subject of wimminz and percentages, I see Sir Keir has said ‘99.9% of wimminz do not have a penis’.
Trust the leader of the Labour Party to be one of the 0.1%.
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Agree both, TtCE and GD, used it regularly. No problem if you can fucking drive. Roundabouts are a brilliant European invention which the yanks are only just now catching on to in place of their brainless fucking “four way stops” i.e. a cross roads where no-one has priority. Consider the fact that the UKs first roundabout was installed in Letchworth well over a century ago! Our younger daughter has recently been explaining to a terrified woman she chats to in Canada how a roundabout works as one has recently been installed near where she lives. There is a very similar roundabout system in Hemel Hempstead which is at the confluence of six roads rather than five as in Swindon and it’s worked perfectly well for many years. If this one in Swindon intimidates you I would suggest you don’t risk the Hanger Lane gyratory system in West London. It would probably push you over the edge.
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Use to have one of those roundabouts near me, worked perfectly.
It’s only confusing to fuckwits that can’t drive. The people that can’t navigate a normal roundabout or junction.
About over half the population in my experience.
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Had the planner of this monstrosity been indulging in some of Mr Cunt Engines psychedelic fancies? To be fair he was probably envisaging flying cars.
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To enable safer driving within the UK the Department of Transport have confirmed that the Highway Code will be printed in three more languages, Audi, BMW and Range Rover….
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Ah now then it’s known locally as the ‘magic roundabout’ by some.
I’ve got a good customer in Swindon so have traversed this shit show on a number of occasions leading to carnage for other users.
You see I have a Beemer and as everyone knows the indicators don’t work and it’s fucking impossible for me to give way to any other cunt.
It’s the cars fault because in the Mrs Volvo it doesn’t happen other than I for some inexplicable reason I always park across 2 spaces.
So I’ll look forward to the translation into BMW then!
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If there were any kind of justice in the Universe, the dead cunt who designed this mess would be condemned to drive an eternal roundabout just like this one. However, when he reached his point of exit he would be cut off and have to drive around again.
A kind of modern day Sisyphus driving in a circle for all of eternity.
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Hopefully General, to eventually disappear up his own arsehole.
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Does anyone else remember those 3 lane single carriageways. The middle lane was for overtaking in either direction. Mental.
Probably the same bloke who designed the Magic Roundabout.
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I certainly do, Rudolph,
Fucking death traps.
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Still exist in effect in some places lads. Typically on steep hills traffic climbing has priority with a solid white line to the right of the middle lane but traffic descending has a broken line to their right indicating that they can use the middle lane if it’s clear. Trouble is of course that the buggers descending don’t check it’s clear far enough ahead relative to the closing speeds. A505 approaching the A418 south of Leighton Buzzard comes to mind. One of the deadliest such places I knew was on the A46 from the M4 junction 18 to Bath but I believe they have upgraded that road now.
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9mm aspirin
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Looks more like a maze than a roundabout.
What kind of sadistic bastard designed that?!
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There is a magic roundabout not far from me in Hemel Hempstead. It’s been there since the early 70’s and it works very well. It’s easy – just a series of mini-roundabouts around one large roundabout. Anyone that can’t handle one is either a woman driver or a spazz that needs to retake their driving test.
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Maybe we could get a ‘Magic Roundabouts of Great Britain’ feature going.
Here’s one of my own favourites, the nightmare that is Sheriffhall Roundabout, near Edinburgh. I always ended up in the wrong fucking lane; it fazed me out.
Afternoon all.
https://www.midlothianview.com/news/support-the-case-to-improve-sheriffhall
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We have several like that in Leicester, Red Hill Circle for one. The Asda roundabout in Thurmaston is a cunt too. It’s not big but people are always in the wrong lane, it appears no fucker can read signs on the road.
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I forgot to mention that, for years, there was a group of French travellers that camped out on the roundabout.
https://live.staticflickr.com/6061/6106189430_300d1351cb_b.jpg
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Forgive me if I’ve posted this before Moggie. One morning in 1980 or 81 I was driving into Leicester on the Narborough Road. I stopped at the lights at Braunstone Lane and when the lights changed my car stalled and would not restart. I was in lane 2 and immediately traffic was whizzing by on both sides of me. Being a brave sort of guy when there was a gap I jumped out and ran away. I crossed the road to the hotel and rang in and then returned to the car. The car was now at the side of the road accompanied by four coppers and a traffic car. As I approached the copper with three stripes on his arm said;
“Is this your car?”
I said it was and he asked me why I had abandoned it there. I told him that when it stalled it would not resart and the traffic was not stopping. He replied;
“They stopped for me!”
And I thought there’s no future in this conversation.
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Leave it as it is the Midlothian one it says it’s a no go area for the pedal powered fraternity
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Sadly…
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Citizen Khan’s London roundabout ( M25) and the shithole within destined to be “15 min Communidees” with Camel rails on each Street.
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These town planners with their white,patriarchal ethnocentric Judeo Christian value systems!
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It seems that in Murcur, even traffic signals are racist.
https://www.levelman.com/the-unintentional-racism-found-in-traffic-signals-b2899c34fefb/
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Rubbish
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Just buy a shitheap volvo and barge through regardless.
All these puffs with their shiny battery wagons will shriek insanely and give way.
Ask me how i know.
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My advice is take the French attitude to roundabouts the way they do around , say the champs elysees. Fuck everyone else eyes straight ahead and go for it…
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Fuck I meant the roundabout at the end of the champs elysees, arc de triomphe. Cunt .
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I’ve not been there EaC but a friend of mine was passenger in a car being driven through there by another Brit. My mate admitted he was terrified and told how when they were clear the driver stopped the car and got out to have a fag and his hands were shaking so much that he struggled to light it.
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I digress,
The scouse cunts team bus was damaged in Manchester, after they were slaughtered by the shite. What do they expect, if a coach in bright red with LIVERPOOL in large fuck off letters plastered on the side is driven through enemy territory!!!
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That photo reminds me of JG Ballard’s fiction, notably this;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Island
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If you are intimidated by roundabouts in the UK then keep off Spanish roads.
In Spain drivers are taught to use the outside lane on roundabouts regardless of which exit they want.
So if you are unlucky enough to be in the inside lane when there is a lot of traffic then you have to watch out for some cunt cutting across the front of you when you want to exit.
Motorways often have the same slip road for cars entering and exiting.
So before you get onto the slip road you have to give way to cars exiting at 120kmh.
When leaving the motorway you have to be careful of cars coming onto the exit slip road at very slow speeds.
Lots of fun!
Indicators are never used.
Tourist cars slow down for no other reason except to admire the views.
UK drivers often drive on the wrong side of the road and often go round roundabouts the wrong way.
Tourists have no idea how dangerous our roads are when we have the very occasional rain.
Even light rain, if we have had none for a few months will turn any road into an ice rink.
To be fair, because of the standard of driving by tourists there are very few accidents.
When driving you tend to be more alert and take nothing for granted.
When there is an accident the police will make sure that the traffic keeps flowing.
Rubber necks get nicked and fined.
Roads do not get closed for hours, broken and wrecked cars are soon shifted out of the way.
I remember in the UK that even the slightest of accidents was treated as a ‘crime scene’ and the road (usually the M25) would be shut for hours.
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All these cunts have a degree in this and that. The only degree their missing is one in common fucking sense….!
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You can bet they were minor shareholders of the companies who get the contracts because the same happened in Bristol near temple meads. All you needed to do is make the round smaller fuck sakes.
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