Fat Jacques 🏴‍☠️

FJ is retired. He is happily married to MrsFJ. Supports Watford. RTs are mostly things he finds funny. No tweet theft. Likes the meta. Hates Vauxhalls

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@thanksforallthe @dontdelay 90% discount for saying good bye. It’s weird.

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@hiltonholloway @graeme_cobb They are huge. Longer than a LR Discovery. I had many. Then they stopped making them and I got Mondeo Estates, then they stopped and I have been in Kugas. Downgrade each time.

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@BitcoinMacksi @aljhlester He uses his high IQ to sustain co Oled stories and deny reality to keep his worldview and identity as a good person intact.

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There is only one resource. The bottleneck. Forcing late merging may slow progress through the bottleneck more, not less.

I can see it is pertinent when the queue backs up into and obstructs other turnings, but on a motorway/freeway the length of the queue is irrelevant, it’s the time sitting in it that counts, and that is set by the bottleneck.

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@John_Stepek PH people have IPC, too.

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@SimonMagus It could be the hardest place in the UK to do it.

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@deeharvey @SimonMagus @RetroRobson There are three solutions to free rider problems:

A high trust society where opprobrium of your peers limits behaviour.

Give the free ride to everyone.

Crack down hard on free riders, which will lead to valid users being negatively affected.

There are no other ways.

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Space usage is less important than flow. You can wish people would merge quickly and skilfully as much as you like, but if they won’t, it’s irrelevant.

I had a similar argument with a highway engineers over a junction design. He was more worried about road space utilisation, than the people stranded unable to joint the roundabout because all the frequent users are in the “wrong” lanes.

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@dresserman Fierce competition from The Range and B&M too.

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@CliveEisen @GeoffNorcott I often have one on the flight.

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@Bob71136804 @Tesco I like them because it is so easy to customise your order. But not everyone can use them; they seem to ignore MrsFJ’s fingers.

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@HarryWilkinsonn It’s not legally binding. Any future govt can repeal the climate change act.

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@SimonMagus @Dr_RWP I bet you know where your towel is.

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@SimonMagus @Specsavers Probably because the store is owned by the optometrist, they are hybrid franchises.

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@graeme_cobb @Tedisiek Does he refuse to wear a seatbelt because he knows someone who burned to death in a car unable to release his seatbelt?

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@DavidPGCSE I have an air tag in my car for this purpose, having lost a car at heathrow T5 parking.

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@CBrenchley @jaglancy Should have a go, I am surprised he hasn’t.