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F these, even in urban England (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by brewery@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

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In London, England, where the roads are narrow, the parking spaces are limited and we have plenty of availability of vans that can actually fit things in, we still get these a*holes with their unnecessary large pick up trucks made for a road system completely different to ours...

These spaces are wider than usual and long enough to fit them but they still have to park like w*nkers blocking the only footpath around!

I mean, I have a 5 door hatchback and know that my car overhangs the back wheels, as does any primary school kid drawing a car...

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[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Off topic but do people censor wankers? Is it that level of swear? I thought it was on the same level as "crap" where it's a crass word but not exactly vulgarity

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hmm, my impression was that it's mainly Australia, where they say it like it's a friendly morning greeting. UK folks certainly still say it, but it is deemed rude, and I could see some folks deciding to censor when writing it down, especially when it's used as a proper insult like here.

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago

That truck isn't remotely long enough to explain this.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tie a chain from the trailer hitch to the a fence post (note 'fence post' not fence chain) and leave about five or six feet of loose chain.

Most drivers (including myself) never bother to look at what their truck is attached to unless they were the ones who hitched a trailer to it themselves.

Lots of fun all around as they damage the fence and have to explain it or whip a chain to their tail end.

Leave the area and never return for about a month.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

giggle at will

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

I just scrap my keys on them at this point. I done dealing with car brain shit.

I dream about the day when the petro dollar crashes and fuckers that bought these things die in their house because they've never left their house on foot or bike before.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago

Sweet baby deity, I hate sidewalk blockers.

I had a bruise for months on my shin because some douche nozzle parked with a hitch sticking almost to the other side of the 4ft sidewalk.

If you can't park nicely inside the space, at least have the decency to walk your happy ass across the parking lot and park in the back.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

You only need to specify if it's one of the other Londons.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

And here, they ticket people where the trailer hitch reaches into the pedestrian space...

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Same here in Prague. When parallel parking, sometimes these cars are so fucking wide, that even tho there's more than enough space behind em, it's still impossible to navigate around their fat fucking ass, and by the time I'm finally behind it I'm at a 90 degrees.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

If I remember I'll show you what the space between my schools parking lot and the fense

[+] Illecors@lemmy.cafe -6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are a few comments I'd like to reply to, but I'll stick it all into this separate one, in no particular order.

I do not agree with general amounts of anger this or any other fuck<insert thing> sub promotes.
Driver's licence is given to literally anyone who breaths (or their relative, pretending to be them).
As such, driving skill in UK is abysmal.
Parking spaces and lane widths have not kept up with vehicle size increases. Part of those increases is just fashion, but a lot of it is caused by ever tightening safety regulations. For reference - I drive an old 5 series and fit everywhere just fine. The newer 3 series are the same size cars than mine. See here and here. It's truly insane.
This guy obviously cannot tell the size of the vehicle.
Looks are subjective. I, personally, like the way a Ford Raptor looks, but I'd only consider it for offroading as it drives like absolute shit on regular roads. I like driving too much to give up handling for looks.
Driving should be treated as a privilege, not a right.
There's already way too much regulation for all the tiniest, dumbest things around. I can't stand how the general consensus seems to be "I don't want to think for myself, regulate it on my behalf". Just to clarify - I'm not against all regulation.
The trailer hitch argument seems strange to me - must be an american thing. Permanent hitches are very much a thing here, one does not simply get rid of it during parking. Yes, electric ones exist - my car even has one - but not all cars do, especially older ones.
Yes, parking spaces having wheel stoppers at whatever distance is deemed acceptable would help, but this goes back to outsourcing thinking to someone else. How about you get to know the bloody dimensions of you own car?
On top of that - getting out of the car, checking if it fits into the spot and getting back in to fix if it doesn't is not a crime. One simply needs to care.

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you don't like this format, you can block communities you know.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, I can. 3 caveats:

I try to not lock myself into a self created bubble
I want to believe in free speech as much as I can get away with morally
As an instance admin I cannot afford to let dodgy crap slip through just because I blocked a community

Lemmy is really crap on the admin side.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm from a different country, so the rules might not be the same, but we have a rule to always leave a certain amount of space on the pavement, regardless what you do. Isn't there a thing in UK driving rules (or whatever it's called)?

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

Not sure, I exchanged my EU licence to a UK one years ago, haven't checked for such a specific thing, tbh. Again, it's never affected me - parking a car is really not difficult, as long as one gives a crap.

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