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The message <4D45572E8F%[email protected]>
from Br n <[email protected]> contains these words:

> 25/27 on car1 my browser wouldn't let me answer the others.

Not impressed by the colour scheme - the legends on the buttons are
almost illegible. How on earth are blind people supposed to manage?

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"Dave Larrington" <[email protected]>typed


> Austin Shackles wrote:

> > handy, and led me eventually to:
> >
> > http://www.dsa.gov.uk/mockpaper/theoryintro.htm#
> >
> > Just got 31/35 on "car test 1" and 32/35 on "lorry test 1"
> >
> > I suppose I ought to try the bike one...

> 31 on Car 1, 33 on Car 2. Fall down mostly on trams. And WTS is a "toucan"
> crossing - one with a boodly grate beak sticking out into the road or
> something? Or what? They didn't have them when I was a lad...

As a psyclist, you ought to xabj as these are often part of cycle
farcilities. Two can (toucan, geddit?) cross at the same time, psyclists
and ped strains. There are no bleeps, nor flashing amber, iffn I
unforget right.

These delightful inventopns are guaranteed to put aimless pedstrains
into the path af careful psyclists lawfully hfvat the farcility.


With a puffin crossing the ped strain lights are on the same side of the
street, not opposite or sumpfink.

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Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
> "Dave Larrington" <[email protected]>typed

>> 31 on Car 1, 33 on Car 2. Fall down mostly on trams. And WTS is a
>> "toucan" crossing - one with a boodly grate beak sticking out into
>> the road or something? Or what? They didn't have them when I was a
>> lad...
>
> As a psyclist, you ought to xabj as these are often part of cycle
> farcilities. Two can (toucan, geddit?) cross at the same time,
> psyclists and ped strains. There are no bleeps, nor flashing amber,
> iffn I unforget right.

Ar, those. They only one I ever use is the one at Tottingham Hale iffn I've
been obliged to goto B&Q or Halfrauds, as the altourniquet is a half-mile
detour around a one-way system full of chavs.

> These delightful inventopns are guaranteed to put aimless pedstrains
> into the path af careful psyclists lawfully hfvat the farcility.

Jbexen of Stan, the lot of 'em.

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The message <[email protected]>
from Danny <[email protected]> contains these words:

> > I suppose I ought to try the bike one...

> I got 34/35 for the bike test - but I'm confused. The one I got wrong
> was what to do when broken down in a tunnel. I answered to stay with
> the vehicle and await the police, but the correct answer was to turn
> on hazard lights and get help. I've never owned a bike with hazard
> lights :(

I've owned (really) dozens of bikes, and none has had hazard lights.
(Mine dew, only three have had winking indicators - Triumph Trophy, TSX,
and BMW R80.)

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"Peter Thomas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In message <[email protected]>, Robert Harvey
> <[email protected]> writes
>>Dave Larrington wrote:
>>> And WTS is a "toucan"
>>> crossing...
>>> They didn't have them when I was a lad...
>>
>>The nearest to me is in Notts. It's a normal light-controlled crossing
>>(no flashing amber ambiguity phase) whot is intended for people on bikes
>>to cross car traffic without getting off & pretending to be pedestrians.
>>
>>Pertty rare really, & I don't know why they have such a silly name.
>>
> Bicyclists and pedestrians. Two can?

That's what my CBT instructor told me umpteen fortnights ago. Mined ewe the
place was closed down shortly after I did mine.

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On or around Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:47:48 GMT, Guy King <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>Not impressed by the colour scheme - the legends on the buttons are
>almost illegible. How on earth are blind people supposed to manage?

I found that. If your buttons and 3D objects are a pale colour, it don;t
work. For some reason, the button text is white, rather than picking up the
system colour for it.

change to a darker scheme, it works fine. I conclude it was written by
someone who uses a dark windows colour set. Might get tuits to tell 'em
this.

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Boswell's "Johnson".
 
On or around Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:57:41 +0000, Danny
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>I got 34/35 for the bike test - but I'm confused. The one I got wrong
>was what to do when broken down in a tunnel. I answered to stay with
>the vehicle and await the police, but the correct answer was to turn
>on hazard lights and get help. I've never owned a bike with hazard
>lights :(

I got that one wrong as well, and my bike also doesn't have hazards, partly
cos it hasn't got indicators...

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Boswell's "Johnson".
 
On or around Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:07:40 GMT, Jaques d'Alltrades
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>The message <[email protected]>
>from Danny <[email protected]> contains these words:
>
>> > I suppose I ought to try the bike one...
>
>> I got 34/35 for the bike test - but I'm confused. The one I got wrong
>> was what to do when broken down in a tunnel. I answered to stay with
>> the vehicle and await the police, but the correct answer was to turn
>> on hazard lights and get help. I've never owned a bike with hazard
>> lights :(
>
>I've owned (really) dozens of bikes, and none has had hazard lights.
>(Mine dew, only three have had winking indicators - Triumph Trophy, TSX,
>and BMW R80.)

I think the arjfangled ones have 'em, prolly some sort of law about it.

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Boswell's "Johnson".
 
In article <[email protected]>, Peter Thomas
<[email protected]> writes
>In message <[email protected]>, Robert Harvey
><[email protected]> writes
>>Dave Larrington wrote:
>>> And WTS is a "toucan"
>>> crossing...
>>> They didn't have them when I was a lad...
>>
>>The nearest to me is in Notts. It's a normal light-controlled
>>crossing (no flashing amber ambiguity phase) whot is intended for
>>people on bikes to cross car traffic without getting off & pretending
>>to be pedestrians.
>>
>>Pertty rare really, & I don't know why they have such a silly name.
>>
>Bicyclists and pedestrians. Two can?


I think I once came across one that was pedestrians and horse riders.


Adrian
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On or around Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:47:48 GMT, Guy King <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>The message <4D45572E8F%[email protected]>
>from Br n <[email protected]> contains these words:
>
>> 25/27 on car1 my browser wouldn't let me answer the others.
>
>Not impressed by the colour scheme - the legends on the buttons are
>almost illegible. How on earth are blind people supposed to manage?

In internet exploder it has pretty dark blue buttons with white text. why
it can't just pick up the button colours from the machine eludes me.
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Austin Shackles wrote:

>
> I think the arjfangled ones have 'em, prolly some sort of law about it.
>

None of my modern bikes have had them - Honda Blackbird etc etc.
(latest one is 3 years old).

Got 20/35 on the lorry test though, not bad since I've no idea about
lorry laws.


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Austin Shackles wrote:
> On or around Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:47:48 GMT, Guy King <[email protected]>
> enlightened us thusly:
>
>
>>Not impressed by the colour scheme - the legends on the buttons are
>>almost illegible. How on earth are blind people supposed to manage?
>
>
> I found that. If your buttons and 3D objects are a pale colour, it don;t
> work. For some reason, the button text is white, rather than picking up the
> system colour for it.
>
> change to a darker scheme, it works fine. I conclude it was written by
> someone who uses a dark windows colour set. Might get tuits to tell 'em
> this.
>

Also doesn't work in Mozilla. I answered all the questions and then
got them all wrong since it wouldn't save the answer for any
question...did it twice to no avail then tried IE...

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Danny

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On or around Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:11:52 +0000, Danny
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>>
>> I think the arjfangled ones have 'em, prolly some sort of law about it.
>>
>
>None of my modern bikes have had them - Honda Blackbird etc etc.
>(latest one is 3 years old).
>
>Got 20/35 on the lorry test though, not bad since I've no idea about
>lorry laws.

29/30 on "lorry 2". passed "bus 1" though.

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On or around Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:13:06 +0000, Danny
<[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:

>
>Also doesn't work in Mozilla. I answered all the questions and then
>got them all wrong since it wouldn't save the answer for any
>question...did it twice to no avail then tried IE...

works in Mozilla here, apart from the button text issue already mentioned.

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Yes Toucan crossing comes from two can cross and Puffin crossing comes
from Pedestrian User Friendly crossing. I was told this by people who
designed them.

 
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:11:52 +0000, Danny
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Austin Shackles wrote:
>
>>
>> I think the arjfangled ones have 'em, prolly some sort of law about it.
>>
>
>None of my modern bikes have had them - Honda Blackbird etc etc.
>(latest one is 3 years old).
>
>Got 20/35 on the lorry test though, not bad since I've no idea about
>lorry laws.

It's all these Toucan crossings, and tram signs (we have none of them
around here) that got me.

I passed on the Car 2, but just failed on Car1.

I haven't had my leg over a bike for ... ooh - lotsa fortnights, but
might have a go on the bike theory test..

It has to be said that I only came off the bike a couple of times;
once on a lot of loose gravel in front of a few people I was training
in a "Star Rider" scheme. Embarrassing. Actually I didn't quite leave
the bike then; just a fair bit of damage to the fairing of the K100RS.

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In message <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]> writes
>Yes Toucan crossing comes from two can cross and Puffin crossing comes
>from Pedestrian User Friendly crossing.

Oddly, there's what they proudly called an 'arj toucan crossing' in
Well-in-Garding Cittie, which crosses a road bounded by abezny pavements
only (no psychle trax or shared pavements). I wonder if they are quietly
encouraging psychlisten to take over the pavement, as they seem to be
qbvat anyroadup in most towns?
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On Wednesday, in article
<[email protected]>
[email protected] "Austin Shackles" wrote:

> On or around Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:47:48 GMT, Guy King <[email protected]>
> enlightened us thusly:
>
> >The message <4D45572E8F%[email protected]>
> >from Br n <[email protected]> contains these words:
> >
> >> 25/27 on car1 my browser wouldn't let me answer the others.
> >
> >Not impressed by the colour scheme - the legends on the buttons are
> >almost illegible. How on earth are blind people supposed to manage?
>
> In internet exploder it has pretty dark blue buttons with white text. why
> it can't just pick up the button colours from the machine eludes me.

My experience of UK government websites is that if you're not using IE
you might as well **** off into the outer darkness.



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On or around Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:48:14 +0000 (GMT),
[email protected] ("David G. Bell") enlightened us thusly:

>On Wednesday, in article
> <[email protected]>
> [email protected] "Austin Shackles" wrote:
>
>> In internet exploder it has pretty dark blue buttons with white text. why
>> it can't just pick up the button colours from the machine eludes me.
>
>My experience of UK government websites is that if you're not using IE
>you might as well **** off into the outer darkness.

what beats me is how IE gets away with being such a pile of jnax.


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Austin Shackles <[email protected]> wrote:

> what beats me is how IE gets away with being such a pile of jnax.

Boodly Bill Gates is a Knight Commander of the British Empire now
(or some such similar ****y stuff). He can't call himself Sir Bill
though, coz he's firkin forn [smirk]. Brenda should kno better, innit.

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