JdeBPIn other seismic news today:
The Blackadder Mini Market's white van has moved in #Greenlaw, for the first time since 2025-11-10.
https://mastodon.scot/@borderswx/115887677214852259
#WhiteVanMan
If you are not following @borderswx , you might well have missed that the church Christmas lights have just been turned on in #Greenlaw.
Well done them! They went on in my part of the world almost 2 months ago.
On the other hand, someone should do a wellness check on the owner of the Premier little white van. It has been parked there in the same spot at the same angle in every frame hour after hour day and night since 2025-11-10.
Charming MalcontentIf the #Essex #WhiteVanMan lived in #Murrica instead of #Ingerland he'd be a #MAGAt
(they have the physique and male pattern baldness.. they just need the insurrectionist facial hair and no foreskin)
(they have the physique and male pattern baldness.. they just need the insurrectionist facial hair and no foreskin)
STOP🚗🚘🚛BlechTerror🛑Fascism@thygrrr @fahrradfalko Im Englischen ist #WhiteVanMan ein geflügeltes Wort für Rücksichtslosigkeit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_man
ThreefromleithWe really need the police and/or traffic wardens to get a grip on the continuing endemic pavement driving & parking on Leith Walk, especially around pedestrian crossings (blocking driver sightlines of anyone waiting to cross) & on cycle lanes.
JdeBPAutumn flood sent art
into #brown paper wrappings.
Was a white van used?
JdeBPFor comparison: The last vehicle that I drove where the windscreen wipers would not complete their cycle when the engine was turned off was manufactured by British Leyland.
About the only two automatic features in the #FordTransit rental that did not have problems were the automatic windscreen wipers (which still had a tendancy to get stuck part-wipe when switching the engine off) and the automatic main beam headlights. The USB player failed, hill start assist rolled me down a slope, and Eco mode kept being forgotten. Hill start assist going wrong on a goods vehicle with no handbrake was quite troubling.
The #FordTransit rental's lane-keeping feature is also more problematic than useful. It failed to recognize any dashed white lines on multi-lane carriageways, and gave false positives from worn surfaces on an un-lined country road. And even the mildest auto-steering setting jerked the entire vehicle hard enough to have caused a load shift, had it not been empty.
As implemented, these two features give a false sense of security bordering on the dangerous.
The #FordTransit rental has a system where it chimes and puts a sign on the dashboard when the speed limit changes and also warns one when one is even 1 m/h over. This superficially beneficial feature is marred by the fact that over half of the time the speed limit in its database is wrong. Continually warning me for driving at 43 m/h on a NSL road is not a good look, Ford. Nor are having different speed limits for the same road, and inventing a non-existent 30 sign.