How not to park when visiting the canal

[Tim Lewis]

Dimmingsdale today:

 

 

[MtB]

It wasn't me. Honest.

 

 

[Peanut]

Presumably, CRT can claim off of his insurance.

[MtB]

2 minutes ago, Peanut said:

Presumably, CRT can claim off of his insurance.

 

An outrageously sexist assumption....

 

 

[Peanut]

So it has to be a woman driver then, men never do things like that.

[MtB]

15 minutes ago, Peanut said:

So it has to be a woman driver then, men never do things like that.

 

Could have been either, obviously.

 

My money however, would be on it being a .....

 

"they".

[Alan de Enfield]

35 minutes ago, MtB said:

Could have been either, obviously.

 

Or, it could have been any one of the other 25 genders.

[Rebotco]

Whatever "it" it was, it really shouldn't have got out on the passenger side - or left it without locking the door!

[Peanut]

I think "it" is the one pronoun you are not supposed to use. They are a person not a thing.

 

[matty40s]

Can't Park There...

[MoominPapa]

Info from my mate whose hireboat was moored just down from the bridge. The passenger did actually fall out, and presumably landed in the canal, as they were uninjured.  The occupants of the hireboat slept through whole thing.

 

MP.

 

[ditchcrawler]

3 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

Or, it could have been any one of the other 25 genders.

A person who identifies as a driver ?

 

Well they know the car, do they know the driver and do they know who caused it to happen?

 

[Quattrodave]

8 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:

Well they know the car, do they know the driver and do they know who caused it to happen?

 

 

No doubt there will be a 6 month investigation so that 20 different people can justify their pointless jobs...

[Dog]

Nobody hurt, I hope?

[magnetman]

Very lucky there. People have drowned in cars which fell in canals..

 

The bridge seems a bit nackered that crack on the left looks like preexisting damage. 

 

Seems this exact thing has happened before judging by the new bricks. 

[midnight cowboy]

10 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:

Dimmingsdale today:

 

 

Is that the stoppage reported today on the S&W?

[jonesthenuke]

Lets hope the repair includes complete removal of the masonry from the canal else we will be scraping along the bottom

[MtB]

3 hours ago, magnetman said:

The bridge seems a bit nackered that crack on the left looks like preexisting damage. 

 

What's the difference between "existing damage" and "preexisting damage"?

 

Is it anything like "ordering" a new product and "pre-ordering" it? 

 

 

[magnetman]

The crack in the bridge is there at this moment in time therefore it is "existing" at the current moment, which is after the incident with the motorcar. 

 

If it had been there before the incident with the motorcar it would be "preexisting" in the sense that it was not caused by the motorcar but was already there. 

 

 

 

 

 

The crack in the bridge is there at this moment in time therefore it is "existing" at the current moment, which is after the incident with the motorcar. 

 

If it had been there before the incident with the motorcar it would be "preexisting" in the sense that it was not caused by the motorcar but was already there. 

 

 

 

 

 

existing

/ɪɡˈzɪstɪŋ/

 

adjective

1. in existence or operation at the current time.

   "opponents of the existing political system"

    

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   pre-exist

   /ˌpriːɪɡˈzɪst,ˌpriːɛɡˈzɪst/

    

   verb

   gerund or present participle: preexisting

   1. exist at or from an earlier time.

      "the statute does no more than restore what pre-existed"

[MtB]

Ah I see. It is preexisting because it existed before it exists? Is that it? I thinks I gets it! 

 

I'd of said it already existed, but I'm a bit odd liek that...

 

 

 

[jonesthenuke]

The extent of damage to the car and the bridge makes me wonder how fast they were driving (clearly too fast for them to stop)

[BEngo]

Shorely you mean the pre-existing car speed was greater than the existing braking capability?

N

[MtB]

5 minutes ago, BEngo said:

Shorely you mean the pre-existing car speed was greater than the existing braking capability?

N

 

There was a pre-existing car as well as pre-existing damage??!!!

 

 

Anyone would think there was a pre-existing bridge, too....

 

 

 

[Victor Vectis]

Good job I went through there last Sunday.

[Tacet]

10 hours ago, MtB said:

 

There was a pre-existing car as well as pre-existing damage??!!!

 

 

Anyone would think there was a pre-existing bridge, too....

 

 

 

Surely it means the crack existed before the bridge was built over it?