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Yep. Nothing like big print for putting off trespassers.That'll stop the little blighters.
Yep. Nothing like big print for putting off trespassers.That'll stop the little blighters.
I think there's a Bronze Age site on the hill in the gardens?
That is...quite an odd article. It makes it sound as though the only way you can see the Iron Age site is from the motorway...
Badly constructed sentence! Would never have lasted from the Iron Age...That is...quite an odd article. It makes it sound as though the only way you can see the Iron Age site is from the motorway...
If it was Comic Sans, I'd leg it. Only axe murderers use that font.Yep. Nothing like big print for putting off trespassers.
*smiles sweetly and hides axe*If it was Comic Sans, I'd leg it. Only axe murderers use that font.
You should drive through an American subdivision some evening after 7 pm. No one around, houses all dark. Looks completely abandoned!Went for a walk on Saturday and ended up in the (fantastically named) Norton-juxta-Twycross.
It's just down the road from me so I don't find it creepy as such, but it's one of those villages where you never seem to see anybody out and about - no joggers, dog walkers or weekend gardeners. I don't think the feel of the place is much helped by an enormous church which seems to dominate half the village.
It's considered useful for readers with dyslexia. The slides at the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle at CERN were in Comic Sans.If it was Comic Sans, I'd leg it. Only axe murderers use that font.
Of course. So is this place, although our axe murderers are far more stylish...CERN is staffed by axe murderers?!!?
Why is that?You should drive through an American subdivision some evening after 7 pm. No one around, houses all dark. Looks completely abandoned!
Used to drink in the now extinct pub there for many years (The Moores Arms) one of the best locals I have ever come across (I lived at the nearby Twycross Zoo at the time) and I think that the reason Norton-Juxta-Twycross is now dead (as with several local villages) is the loss of the pub which was very much its social centre.Went for a walk on Saturday and ended up in the (fantastically named) Norton-juxta-Twycross.
It's just down the road from me so I don't find it creepy as such, but it's one of those villages where you never seem to see anybody out and about - no joggers, dog walkers or weekend gardeners. I don't think the feel of the place is much helped by an enormous church which seems to dominate half the village.
I'm not entirely sure, mind, but I believe most are in their basement rec rooms watching TV, although I'm sure quite a few are so boring they just sit in the dark in the living room.Why is that?
heh, I've got another "you should drive through an average American subdivision"....the one my parents live in, a lot of the families have older kids and of course, all the kids have their own cars, so some families have 5, 6, 7 cars in their household and all of the houses have 3 car garages.My village is tiny. Really really small, more of a hamlet. But some nights when I get home from work I STILL have to park several hundred yards away from my house! I live in a row of four small cottages, and I and my next door neighbour are single, but on either end are two couples, who both have cars. One member of one couple drives a work van (the other car is an SUV), and the ones at the other end have just bought the most BLOODY ENORMOUS 4WD thing, that's so long it's like a minibus.
I don't mind parking up the road, but I do admit to a teeny bit of satisfaction if I can beat someone home and get to park right outside.
Yes, I know it's not creepy. But it can be bloody terrifying doing the walk from the car to the cottage in a place with no streetlights and something moving in the graveyard...
Of course we are! The fact I'm sat here in my pjs doesn't mean I'm not stylish,far from itOf course. So is this place, although our axe murderers are far more stylish...
I wondered if the answer was that strangers would be noticed and possibly treated to some ventilation.I'm not entirely sure, mind, but I believe most are in their basement rec rooms watching TV, although I'm sure quite a few are so boring they just sit in the dark in the living room.
It's funny you say that...in American subdivisions - at least the ones I've been to - everyone's a stranger. People move every 2 or 3 years and while you might have a neighbor or 2 you wave hello to, that's about all. I could go on and on about the intricacies of suburban America but frankly, I'm at a loss to understand it. Little people in little boxes 5 feet apart, street after street, mile after mile. Weird.I wondered if the answer was that strangers would be noticed and possibly treated to some ventilation.
They're often like this here nowadays;heh, I've got another "you should drive through an average American subdivision"....the one my parents live in, a lot of the families have older kids and of course, all the kids have their own cars, so some families have 5, 6, 7 cars in their household and all of the houses have 3 car garages.
By now, you Englishers are imagining great big American driveways and giant garages filled with cars, right? OH HO HO NOT SO FAST. Garages hold all of the crap they can't fit in the house, and the driveway must be kept clear at all times for....reasons (I have no idea why) so all of their cars are lined up on the street.
I think that arrangement is really dangerous. Eldest son's house is somewhat bigger but the kitchen adjoins the back wall of the garage and he often complained about the exhaust fumes in the kitchen (his monstrous car would pollute the planet all by itself). This despite his old feller telling him on every occasion to drive the car in rather than reversing. He eventually got the message, but it took much lecturing and eye rolling.They're often like this here nowadays;
What gets me as Aydee has pointed out, is the amount of superfluous crap that people keep in them.I think that arrangement is really dangerous. Eldest son's house is somewhat bigger but the kitchen adjoins the back wall of the garage and he often complained about the exhaust fumes in the kitchen (his monstrous car would pollute the planet all by itself). This despite his old feller telling him on every occasion to drive the car in rather than reversing. He eventually got the message, but it took much lecturing and eye rolling.
I'll say one thing that they should bring in here that you guys have- enforced removal of vehicles once every two weeks, or even once a month, for street cleaning.heh, I've got another "you should drive through an average American subdivision"....the one my parents live in, a lot of the families have older kids and of course, all the kids have their own cars, so some families have 5, 6, 7 cars in their household and all of the houses have 3 car garages.
By now, you Englishers are imagining great big American driveways and giant garages filled with cars, right? OH HO HO NOT SO FAST. Garages hold all of the crap they can't fit in the house, and the driveway must be kept clear at all times for....reasons (I have no idea why) so all of their cars are lined up on the street.
Repeat 350 more times and you have The Great American Subdivision. I find it hilarious and apocalyptic at the same time.
Why is that?
Yup, exactly! It's like Life after People!Around 6 years ago my wife and I drove from Maine, through New Hampshire and into Vermont. One afternoon, we drove through the most picturesque village in New Hampshire (name now forgotten), still light, houses immaculate, flags flying from each one, cars parked in driveways, lawns mowed...
But not a single person to be seen. It was as though we were driving through a movie set. Weird and at the same time slightly unsettling.
Also very common in the US. A few years ago, in a bid to save money, the school districts in my city changed busing rules to exclude any child in a 2 mile radius of the school.British villages can be like this in the daytime where there are no paths to walk on as the roads are dangerous.
That's horrific.Also very common in the US. A few years ago, in a bid to save money, the school districts in my city changed busing rules to exclude any child in a 2 mile radius of the school.
Never mind the schools are all on very busy roads with absolutely no sidewalks and in some cases, no shoulder and for most of the year, children have to walk on pitch dark streets with no streetlights.
A bit like that in Scotland, where the statutory duty is 2 miles for primary pupils and 3 miles for secondary (although not every council enforces this). However, where there is no safe walking route transport must be provided.Also very common in the US. A few years ago, in a bid to save money, the school districts in my city changed busing rules to exclude any child in a 2 mile radius of the school.
Never mind the schools are all on very busy roads with absolutely no sidewalks and in some cases, no shoulder and for most of the year, children have to walk on pitch dark streets with no streetlights.
I agree that most Americans in many American suburbs are strangers to each other, even if they grew up in that particular area. People don't stay in the same neighborhood they grew up in. They chase jobs and there's also a strong cultural pressure to be "independent," which can often just mean being isolated. So now we have an "epidemic of loneliness" on top of everything else.I wondered if the answer was that strangers would be noticed and possibly treated to some ventilation.
I recently heard a news story about truancy in school kids living inside the two mile radius. Parents who were interviewed didn't have reliable transit and couldn't afford to pay for transit to get their kids to school regularly. They had to rely on neighbors or family members or their job schedules being coordinated with school schedules to get their kids to school, since it was impossible for the kids to walk, bike or take a bus.Also very common in the US. A few years ago, in a bid to save money, the school districts in my city changed busing rules to exclude any child in a 2 mile radius of the school.
Never mind the schools are all on very busy roads with absolutely no sidewalks and in some cases, no shoulder and for most of the year, children have to walk on pitch dark streets with no streetlights.