Not UK but anyone noticed external doors like shops in more Eastern Europe , open outwards
I think it's a legal requirement in many countries.
Not UK but anyone noticed external doors like shops in more Eastern Europe , open outwards
Thats par for the course down here. You order your food and drink at the bar. Most have sections for restaurant dining where you do get someone coming to the tableHaving to stand at the bar to buy drinks instead of a person coming to the table to take your order
Even Wetherspoons in the UK has an app for table service now. Some enterprising people have been 'crowdfunding' their drinking by tweeting out their table numbers and seeing if anyone orders and pays for some drinks. From The Independent:A couple of places I go to you can scan a qr code can order it online and they will bring it to you.
Using Twitter and the Wetherspoons app, Amie tweeted to her thousands of Twitter followers asking for some celebratory drink donations for her and a friend - in honour of them finishing their exams - and received way more than she bargained for.
Amie's tweet read, “Me and @mhairiesplin had a p*** exam today and we're both skint. Anyone want to help us drown our sorrows on the Wetherspoons app? We're at table one at the Hay Stook, East Killbride. xx” . The pair received a bottle of champagne, a single glass of wine, two vodka diet cokes, two glasses of milk (non-alcoholic), two jaeger bombs, smoothies, multiple rounds of beer, multiple rounds of shots, and one cherry Sourz shot.
We ran a competition on the page she won. But she decided she wanted to feed the homeless with the money. That’s where the Wetherspoons The Game! Homeless Feeds were born.”
That night in Salisbury, £260 of food and (non-alcoholic) drinks were bought by strangers from all over the UK and internationally. The second Feed in Southampton received £418 of food and drink, including fish, chips, chicken wings and wraps, nuts, more than 30 pizzas and a lasagne.
My first thought was that this would be a modern day way for the underage to get served - indeed for all I know it may well be done - wonder who gets the rap if discovered, premises license holder I assume?Even Wetherspoons in the UK has an app for table service now. Some enterprising people have been 'crowdfunding' their drinking by tweeting out their table numbers and seeing if anyone orders and pays for some drinks. From The Independent:
The staff delivering the order will operate Challenge 21 (or Challenge 25, whichever Wetherspoons does) and ask for ID if they think people are under-age. The same goes for people who are too drunk to get served at the bar - they won't get their drinks either.My first thought was that this would be a modern day way for the underage to get served - indeed for all I know it may well be done - wonder who gets the rap if discovered, premises license holder I assume?
Here's a possible UK peculiarity (possibly one of terminology rather than practice):-
I’m English, my wife’s Italian and we currently live in Australia (although the last point isn’t really relevant). Recently we were in the car driving along a local motorway. I was complaining about the slow drivers who insisted on driving below the speed limit whilst hogging the “outside lane”. My wife insisted that on a multi-lane highway it should be called the “inside lane”.
With a bit of thought, this would be more logical terminology. The “fast” lane is on the inside of the highway formation, while the “slow” lane is actually on the outside. So how did the “outside lane” on dual carriageways etc. come about?
Even Wetherspoons in the UK has an app for table service now. Some enterprising people have been 'crowdfunding' their drinking by tweeting out their table numbers and seeing if anyone orders and pays for some drinks. From The Independent:
Someone is even doing the same thing to get people to buy meals for the homeless. From The Big Issue:
A friend always insisted it was because when you are driving in the inside lane or middle lane, you look outside your car towards the faster lanes, and towards the passenger seat and inside the car for the slower lanes.Here's a possible UK peculiarity (possibly one of terminology rather than practice):-
I’m English, my wife’s Italian and we currently live in Australia (although the last point isn’t really relevant).
Recently we were in the car driving along a local motorway. I was complaining about the slow drivers who insisted on driving below the speed limit whilst hogging the “outside lane”. My wife insisted that on a multi-lane highway it should be called the “inside lane”.
With a bit of thought, this would be more logical terminology. The “fast” lane is on the inside of the highway formation, while the “slow” lane is actually on the outside. So how did the “outside lane” on dual carriageways etc. come about?
Here's a possible UK peculiarity (possibly one of terminology rather than practice):-
I’m English, my wife’s Italian and we currently live in Australia (although the last point isn’t really relevant).
Recently we were in the car driving along a local motorway. I was complaining about the slow drivers who insisted on driving below the speed limit whilst hogging the “outside lane”. My wife insisted that on a multi-lane highway it should be called the “inside lane”.
With a bit of thought, this would be more logical terminology. The “fast” lane is on the inside of the highway formation, while the “slow” lane is actually on the outside. So how did the “outside lane” on dual carriageways etc. come about?
As much as I like the app and the gesture with the homeless, I feel rather sorry for the staff when these ‘Spoonsfunding’ things take place, as they often just descend into stupidity (e.g. a bowl of peas or a glass of milk)
I’ve always thought that it should be locked down with location services somewhat so you can only order if you’re in (or at the very least near!) the pub
Well, you can imagine how I felt many years ago in Stoke-on-Trent when a burly male bus driver addressed me as "Duck"! I wondered whether it was a term of abuse or perhaps a sexual overture. After I described this encounter in the office and my colleagues stopped laughing at me, they kindly explained that it's just a term of greeting in the Potteries.-busconductors (clippies?) who adress you with love (luf) or darling or later as governor. We would think this immensely strange.
They've never really stopped.Does the also tipical Britsh styles ´gutterpress´álready start with screaming out what EU-insipred and thus superfluous rules can be done away with asap?
Of the suggestions made, I think @DaleCooper's is probably the most plausible. With runners usually going in an anti-clockwise direction, the inside and outside lanes of an athletics track will be to the left and right respectively........ The “fast” lane is on the inside of the highway formation, while the “slow” lane is actually on the outside. So how did the “outside lane” on dual carriageways, motorways etc. come to be that closest to the central reservation?
Another British vehicular peculiarity is reference to "nearside" and "offside". You'd have trouble being understood using these terms to a motor mechanic in N. America or Australia (unless the mechanic was a Pom).
If everyone called the lanes from left to right - Lane1, Lane2, Lane3 etc then nobody would be confused.
Some anti-driver types object to ‘fast lane’ but everyone knows which one you mean whereas lane 3 means something different depending how many lanes there are.....If everyone called the lanes from left to right - Lane1, Lane2, Lane3 etc then nobody would be confused
The “fast” lane is on the inside of the highway formation, while the “slow” lane is actually on the outside. So how did the “outside lane” on dual carriageways, motorways etc. come to be that closest to the central reservation?
Some anti-driver types object to ‘fast lane’ but everyone knows which one you mean whereas lane 3 means something different depending how many lanes there are.....
Only if you're a lorry/limiter-fitted coach driver to determine if you're allowed in it or not (your vehicle must be capable of 70mph to use the rightmost lane on a motorway). For everyone else, the meaning is the same in all circumstances - you should only be in it if there is a vehicle to your left whose speed you are exceeding and therefore overtaking, or too close to you on your left for a safe distance to be left if you pulled in.
Electric scooters. Most big continental cities have one or more electric scooter for hire systems (along with push bikes). I read that these are still illegal in the UK which seems a bit odd as three and four wheeled mobility scooters are everywhere there. Is it a question of power output? The larger electric bikes require a number plate and insurance over here. In fact it's only recently that a 50cc moped required a number plate.
Sorry for rambling a bit OT, but my recent experiences in LA, Brussels and Berlin suggest to me that e-scooter management is a real problem and will be for the UK if laws are relaxed here. Scooters absolutely litter those cities, they're left to sit uncharged in bike lanes, sidewalks and outside homes and businesses. I can see that happening in all major UK cities too.
Industrial chain pubs like Wetherspoons. My brother in law loves the spoons but to me it just seems really tacky. With austerity I get the feeling Wetherspoons has taken over a lot of local social services. Conversely independent pubs are often really good.
That isn't an issue with e-scooters, it's an issue with rental schemes. It isn't a reason to discourage privately owned scooters, but rather a reason to discourage dockless rental schemes (of both scooters and bikes).
I think it's a legal requirement in many countries.
Depends on whether it's classed as an emergency exit route - in which case it'll fall under either BS179/1125 as appropriate - the gist of the latter being that one movement should open an emergency exit (e.g. a crash bar etc) rather than having to pull a door towards you then move forward, or unbolt doors etc.