#30mph limit

[insidecroydon]

Croydon has 20% more speeding drivers than next worst area

Has anyone seen Suella Braverman behind the wheel of her car going down the Purley Way or over the Flyover recently? What do points make?: as a lawyer and the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman is supposed to uphold the law Only if the Home Secretary was clocked speeding in Croydon, she would be far from alone, as official figures published over the weekend show that one postcode in this borough…

[crimsonfacets]

today is the day I learned that pepa should never be behind the wheel.

[marsoid]

answering these in one go

i got Sugar off a craigslist ad in 2016. she was listed for $9k but i got her for $8800, the seller knocked down the price literally just because he was nice and could tell i loved the car so much 🥹 my bank wouldn't let me pull out all the cash at once so i drove her home and paid him that Monday which is CRAZY but he trusted me to pay him and i did

when i first got her she didn't have power steering or power brakes (turned like a land yacht and stopped when she felt like it) so that was the first thing to address. fixed the horn and some other minor stuff that needed it. i also made the decision to replace the carburetor with EFI, which is kind of controversial in the classic car world lol but it's more fuel efficient

the EFI i had installed actually gave me the most problems over the years it was ALWAYS having issues and breaking down. but i recently had it reinstalled by someone who is NOT an idiot and I've had no problems for like 2 solid years I'm so fucking glad lol now she's more reliable than ever

she has a 350 small block V8 and auto transmission since she's my daily driver and allows for the smoothest ride possible as a commuter car. i don't race but she is fast lmao. I've never put pedal to metal but I've gotten her up to 80mph before without even flooring it so 😭 she can fucking Go lol. she kind of defaults to 30mph coasting so i have to have my foot on the brake to keep the speed limit in residentials

what else uhhh the cabin smells so good.... i love old car smell. I'm so lucky in her 53 years of being on the road she's apparently never had an owner that smoked inside the car i would have gone crazy if it smelled like cigarettes in there lmao

she has bench seats in the front and back which are like two little sofas. i used to nap back there on breaks when i was still working at a studio.

she has no airbags and you have to tighten the seatbelts yourself. there's an over the shoulder belt and separate waist belt. the passenger shoulder belt you gotta tug on after clicking it bc sometimes it comes loose on its own 😭 she is a death machine with no crumple zone so if i crash i will die 👍🏾 but I'm a very cautious driver and i don't even drive that much sooo IT'S FINE

she is very low tech besides the EFI and if there's ever an engine problem u can literally just look under the hood and mess with stuff until it's fixed. it's very spacious in there with a lot of room to poke around. cars in the 70s were made to last and because they are still so beloved to this day there's endless info online from enthusiasts about fixing stuff that pops up. some companies are still making new parts for classics so we don't have to dig through junkyards when we need replacements... unless u want to ofc, the hunt can be fun too LOL

i get people waving me down daily to ask me what year she is and tell me they used to have a Nova when they were younger or knew someone that did and how much they loved them and IDK IT'S SWEET!! ppl are always so happy to see her......... the antithesis of the cybertruck

thanks for reading here's some thirst traps

[somewheremillo]

[More mid-teens!Killugon]

Leorio and Kurapika teaching Gon and Killua to drive would be so fucking funny bc the difference in the way they would teach them-

Leorio’s teaching:

Leorio to killua, when they are practicing in a parking lot: woAH WOAH S-SLOW DOwN?!?!!??

Killua: I’m going 8mph-

Kurapika’s teaching:

Kurapika: ok so I know it says to go 15mph here, but that’s more of a suggestion than the law. Kurapika proceeds to go 35mph

Killua: you what-

Gon, taking notes: if… car is… moving… to slow… add 30mph… to… the… speed limit!

[stephensmithuk]

The Hound of the Baskervilles: The Stapletons of Merripit House

A mullion is a vertical divider in a window.

A scullery maid was the lowest ranking female servant in the household, who would wash the dishes and sometimes the clothing too. Snow White and Cinderella started off in this role.

It would take Watson around two hours to walk to Grimpen. I've done longer walks and I suppose he would have done so in his Army days.

A grocer is a person who runs a grocery, which in British English is analagous to a general store, where you would buy most everyday items, including the most common newspapers and magazines. We would also distinguish these days between the larger supermarket (grocery store) and the smaller corner shop (what New Yorkers would call a bodega); frequently run by immigrants or their immediate descendants. This is an example of the latter.

I do not know how common it was then, but today it is very common, even in major cities, to have a Post Office counter as part of another store such as a corner shop; these franchised businesses are run by subpostmasters. The Post Office, as well as post, provides banking services for both its own financial business and for other banks or building societies. The computer system that was used for financial transactions by them, Horizon, is currently at the centre of a major scandal.

Dartmoor has many peat bogs. The Ordnance Survey maps give their general location, but their exact size varies depending on conditions. Walkers frequently end up in them by accident or lack of experience; safe routes are marked out, but not always easy to see. The vast majority are not that deep and the worst that will happen is a case of smelly, muddy embarrassment. However, some are deeper, where you can end up with a risk of hypothermia - there are no less than four volunteer Mountain Rescue teams in the area to help people in difficulty.

Then some are straight up lethal, especially to animals. A gallop is the fastest horse speed setting - a horse can run at around 25 to 30mph for up to three kilometres before getting winded. So, not a good idea to do it on boggy land.

Grimpen Mire is believed to have been inspired by Fox Tor Mire:

There are 14 species of bittern. One of them is the Eurasian bittern, which was indeed extinct in the UK for a while when this story takes place and is still only here in limited numbers with its habitat. The species as a whole currently rated "Least Concern" but in decline.

The Neolithic period lasted from c.10,000 BC to c.2,000 BC, being the final period of the Stone Age. There is a timber track pathway in Somerset, the oldest recorded road, dating back to c. 3,838 BC.

Cyclopides was an old name for several species of South African Skipper butterflies. They tend to be found in southern Africa, not Dartmoor:

Miss Stapleton must deem the situation urgent to leave without her hat; people did not as a general rule go hatless in this period, even the poorest usually had some form of cap.

[izvmimi]

in other news today someone honked me for two minutes on a winding road for not going 30mph above the speed limit and i immediately coped by imagining deku dangling their car with blackwhip like a toy crane so we’re doing well in the imagination department

[thethirdromana]

How do you see the Kidnapped characters (now 20 something Davie era) interact with the Dracula hunting group? Chill? Amiable? Potential for new pack bonding? Hate and loathing?

Trouble is that so much of Davie's character is defined by his age that I can't imagine ageing him up. I think I might just have to assume Dracula crew post-Dracula, 18-year-old Davie and Catriona, Alan... however old Alan is supposed to be.

Arthur would love Davie. He would be a bit patronising about it, because Arthur is a nobleman and Davie is a gentleman from a small rural estate with - to Arthur - awkward and antiquated manners, but frankly I don't think Davie would notice. I think Arthur would adore Davie's insistence on doing the right and honourable thing at all times, and Arthur's instinctive courteousness would go down well with Davie too.

Jack would be awkward AF, not least because he doesn't believe in time travel. (I am assuming for this purpose that they all meet in circumstances where it's Very Obvious that time travel has happened). Despite all the supernatural things he's experienced, Jack worries that this may all be some kind of mass delusion. Even if he got over it, I think they'd struggle to find much in common to talk about; Jack is so much a modern guy, I think he'd struggle to get over the fact that Davie believes in the four humours and thinks that travelling faster than 30mph will kill you.

Jonathan and Mina would initially be baffled, like who is this very serious child and why does he have a sword?? I think even more so if we assume there's only a roughly four-year age gap between them and also that Davie is taller than either of them. They're both into history, so from that perspective they'd be fascinated but I imagine them being too polite to grill him. Mina and Catriona would vibe with each other: they both get what it's like to be poor and a bit of an outsider. I'm less confident about Davie getting on with Jonathan; Davie's experience of lawyers has been pretty mixed so far.

Van Helsing would have a bajillion historical questions and probably some very weird theories as well, and he'd be much less reticent about asking than the Harkers. Catriona and Alan would consequently begin a game called "what bullshit can we make the Dutchman believe about 18th century Scotland?" They abandon it because it turns out there isn't really a limit.

[2bposting]

Sigh.

On my way. Don't die before I get there. Shouldn't take too long I know a quick route there

I SHOULD NOT HAVE EATEN THAT

[prohaloplayer]

some movies you can tell were made to only be watched while you're on an airplane. this goes the same for movies made only to be watched in your friend's basement before the age of 15. some other movies are even made to not be watched but bought from walmart's clearance DVD bin and thrown out the window of a car going 30mph over the residential speed limit

[ninjacat1515]

Its funny watching videos about dash cam shenanigans because often the person with a dash cam is the problem. They will use their horn in place of applying the brakes, they'll be going 20+ over the limit on a road with blind corners or blasting around a parking lot at 30mph, or someone will be trying to merge onto the freeway and the dash cammer speeds up and blocks them.

And yelling "I HAVE A CAMERA!" doesn't make you right either. Road rage is a major thing with them too people will submit videos of someone in front of them making a mild mistake and they will lose their shit.

[sronti]

Teljesen nyilvánvalóan ez a jó út, de ehelyett úgy teszünk, mintha ez valami radikális lépés lenne.

[garashir]

drivers on the road think you should explode if you don’t go 30mph over the speed limit

[usafphantom2]

Britain’s top-scoring naval fighter of World War II was not what you think it was

Hush KitMarch 24, 2020

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As World War II loomed into sight, the Admiralty was desperate for anything approximating a modern fighter aircraft. This need was met by a modified light dive-bomber originally intended for a cancelled RAF requirement. The resulting Fulmar shared the engine and armament with the Spitfire and Hurricane, but there though the similarity ended. With a pathetic flat-out speed of 247mph and a feeble service ceiling of 16,000’ it was far inferior to its contemporaries. More worryingly, it was also 30mph slower than the Luftwaffe’s Heinkel He 111 bombers. Fair to say as a fighter it made an adequate cancelled dive-bomber. So how did it became the top Royal Navy fighter of World War II?

Bing Chandler is a former Lynx Observer, current Air Safety Officer and struggling Naval History MA student. He also has some great offers on his internal organs now Seafire PP972 is up for sale.

During World War II, no aircraft carrier force operated a greater number of types than the Royal Navy. Although partly due to the length of time Britain was involved in the conflict, the Admiralty’s haphazard approach to aviation doctrine and procurement bears a lot of the blame (although nothing can excuse the diabolical Blackburn Firebrand). It is still however something of an anomaly that the Fleet Air Arm’s highest scoring fighter of the war was the relatively slow and staid Fairey Fulmar — with 112 kills (more than double the total achieved by the far more potent Corsair). Despite this, the Fulmar has never really caught the popular imagination. Post-war historians have damned with faint praise by acknowledging that while it was at least capable of taking on torpedo-bombers, the Fulmar’s manoeuvrability was far inferior to Axis dive-bombers. To give some idea of the limited esteem in which it was held at the time, it is perhaps worth reading a verse from 809 Naval Air Squadron’s Fulmar Song (to the tune of ‘Any old iron‘:

‘Any old iron, any old iron,

Any, any, any old iron;

Talk about a treat

Chasing round the Fleet

Any ole Eyetie or Hun you meet!

Weighs six ton,

No rear gun

Damn all to rely on!

You know what you can do

With your Fulmar Two;

Old iron, old iron!’

Fighter Direction is everything

To understand this apparent contradiction, of how such a sluggish machine was the Navy’s best fighter, it is necessary to look at a technology that at the time made the aeroplane look positively middle-aged: radar. The Royal Navy had been at the forefront of developing naval radar, but even so, by 1939 its capabilities were extremely limited. Rather than the top down ‘God’s eye view’ of a modern display, operators would look at a single wiggling line with increases in amplitude indicating a contact. Despite entering the war without a full understanding of what radar could achieve – and after some teething troubles – the Navy soon found ways to make up for the deficiencies of its aircraft. This would allow Fairey’s converted dive-bomber to hold its own in aerial combat through the opening years of the war in a way that belied its poor headline performance. The actions in the Mediterranean to escort convoys to Malta showed time and again the value of Fighter Direction where controllers onboard ship would direct the aircraft to intercept incoming attacks. Often these aircraft would be Fulmars, which were in the front line throughout that period, before being relegated to the role of night fighter. Somewhat ironically, the addition of radar antenna for this role would finally render its performance unequivocally unacceptable. Fighter Direction would give the Fulmar the edge it needed to overcome its shortcomings while engaged in some of the heaviest aerial combat the Royal Navy would face during the Second World War.

The Royal Navy’s inter-war doctrine for the Fleet Air Arm, as described in an Admiralty Memorandum from December 1936, concentrated on the search for enemy shipping, air attack of that shipping, and subsequent observation of the fall of shot for the fleet’s big guns . It was considered that air superiority would be achieved by the immobilisation of the enemy’s carriers no apparent thought being given to air to air combat. The reverse was also true in that it was not considered possible for naval fighters to defend the fleet from air attack, especially when faced with land-based air forces able to deploy heavy bombers . To counter the air threat the Third Sea Lord, Rear Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson, decided that the next class of carrier would feature extensive armour plating turning the hangar into a protective enclosure for the air group able to resist a direct hit from 500lb bombs and 4.7” gunfire . The Dido class cruisers optimised for air defence would then provide the defence against air attack , in addition to the Illustrious classes own extensive outfit of sixteen 4.5” guns. That the doctrine was so un-ambitious can in part be laid at the confused status of naval aviation between the wars, it was, until 1938, the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Air Force not of the Royal Navy . In fairness to the Admiralty at the same time despite the Imperial Japanese Navy controlling its air arm its doctrine was also confused and poorly regarded by its air officers perhaps indicating the difficulties inherent in developing high level policy for a new form of warfare. The Royal Navy’s use of fighter aircraft would therefore have to develop as lessons were learnt. A memorandum from January 1940 while acknowledging the need to intercept enemy strikes and scouting aircraft as well as escorting the fleets own strikes still showed a degree of indecision over whether they would still require a second crewmember as the Fulmar did, a confusion that had not been resolved three months later . Ultimately this indecision would lead to both single and two seat fighters being produced for the Royal Navy. Where the Royal Navy had a serious disadvantage was in the actual procurement of aircraft where the Admiralty drew up the specifications for them while the Air Ministry then had responsibility for their design and production.41_803_sdn_fulmar_take_off.jpg

Due to the lack of air officers at the right level the Admiralty had scant expertise in the specification of aircraft which led to it entering the war with several poorly performing aircraft either in service or on the way. These included the Blackburn Roc, a turret equipped fighter which could barely stay airborne at full power; the Fairey Barracuda which provided panoramic views for the Observer but had a tendency not to pull out of dives , and the Blackburn Firebrand which took longer to develop than the war lasted. Consequently, at the outbreak of war the navy found itself back in control of its air arm, but with limited understanding of the capabilities air power brought, no real thought given to air defence of the fleet by aircraft, and a procurement plan that could best be described as flawed. It was from this background that the requirement for the Fulmar would emerge, to some extent explaining the compromises that were accepted.

Screenshot 2020-03-23 at 22.17.42.png Though confusion over the use of naval air power was hampering the acquisition of suitable aircraft, by the late 1930s there was at least an acknowledgment that a new fleet fighter would be required. It was a pressing need, as the Skua it would replace was predicted to be obsolete by as soon as 1940. Consequently, it was a requirement that the chosen aircraft be in production by September 1939 which effectively limited the options to something already in production. The Admiralty’s preference was for a two-seat aircraft, due to the difficulties of navigating over the sea and communicating at long range from the carrier. Outright speed was considered less important as there was an assumption that the carrier-borne fighter would only encounter aircraft of other navies which would be similarly restricted. It is perhaps ironic that at the same time the most likely naval opponent was being designed by Mitsubishi in Japan, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a type which faced neither of these restrictions. The design selected for the Royal Navy was a modification of a design submitted to the RAF as a light dive-bomber. This RAF original requirement had been dropped, but prototypes had already been constructed – which allowed a rapid assessment to be made of their suitability. The Fairey P.4/34 bomber (with minor changes) thus became the Fulmar naval fighter (with a secondary reconnaissance role). The first production aircraft was completed in December 1939, effectively running around three months behind the Admiralty’s timeline.. or ahead of schedule compared to most defence projects. The Fulmar shared an engine, the Merlin, and armament, eight 0.303” guns, with the Spitfire and Hurricane. There though the similarity ended. The early Spitfire’s top speed was 364mph at an altitude of 18,500’ , the Fulmar by comparison had a maximum speed of only 247mph at 9,000’ and a service ceiling of 16,000’ (half that of the Spitfire).

[jellogram]

I regularly think about the time when my life was going to shit and I had no control and no reason to live and suddenly I went the most manic I've ever been in my life and drove like 30mph over the speed limit to the craft store and bought $120 worth of fake flowers and floral wire and I was absolutely freaking out in the store, like just absolutely frantic about needing these flowers for no reason, and while I'm filling my arms with fake roses and shaking and pacing, this old man stopped me and said "You look like you could use this" and handed me a business card for a mental health support group

[tallymali]

What is the 20mph thing, for us non welsh not in the know ?

the default speed limit for built up areas used to be 30mph but its been changed to 20mph to make the roads safer. the media is incapable of being normal about anything so has been doing its best to whip up some kind of culture-war fuelled rage about it. the usual suspects are obediently frothing at the mouth but most people dont really give a fuck

[lindamccartneysstrap]

good lord I was in the exit lane coming home from work and this guy was absolutely riding my ass not slowing down and it was annoying me so despite the fact that I normally speed like crazy I slowed down to the speed limit (30mph) on the turn and the dude started honking at me and passed me immediately when it became 2 lanes and I was feeling real petty so I moved over to the other lane and immediately sped up to like 40mph and that fucker threw something at my car window