Comments on: Cop some (white) stick!

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:48:58 +0000

Yair, okay missy, person with real estate next to Edinburgh Castle (for real). One day I’ll post the pic you sent me from your back yard, DEM.

By: Deus Ex Macintosh

Deus Ex Macintosh — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:37:19 +0000

Okay yes, there was a hanging tag in THAT one. Sorry.

By: Deus Ex Macintosh

Deus Ex Macintosh — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:36:53 +0000

Much as growing up in Qld under Joh annoyed me because he knocked over so many heritage sites, living in the UK under the aegis of the National Trust almost cured me of my fondness for heritage â€˜built environmentâ€™ sites.

We’ll see if you still feel that way once you’ve visited MY place.

By: Deus Ex Macintosh

Deus Ex Macintosh — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:35:53 +0000

I think they have pelican/zebra crossings in mind rather than jaywalking. There are no alerts and blind people rely on their ears to ‘look both ways before you cross’.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:04:23 +0000

Not in the UK, Jason. There’s all these silly ‘heritage’ rules designed to prevent changes to city kerbs or to allow audio alerted crossings.

By: Jason Soon

Jason Soon — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:32:14 +0000

I don’t see the need for intervention here. They have those audio alerts all over Sydney and there’s almost always a traffic light, so what’s the problem?

If some people choose to jaywalk or not cross the street at a traffic light, that’s their own problem, blind or sighted. I’m not blind and I go out of my way to always cross a traffic light and hardly jaywalk.

By: Deus Ex Macintosh

Deus Ex Macintosh — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:27:22 +0000

The alternative is of course to provide more filtered crossing places with audio alerts of when to cross … but this requires local authorities to spend money and isn’t considered a particularly high priority (they can’t even provide comprehensive coverage of dipped kerbs).

By: Daniel Barnes

Daniel Barnes — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 13:10:16 +0000

FDB:
>Whatâ€™s more, you could make your Prius sound like a GTO…

Or get SFX of one of those boy racer blow-off valves….excellent!

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:34:43 +0000

Basically they want to change the flag. They were big during the Republic dust-up in 1999.

Website here.

By: JC.

JC. — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:32:20 +0000

Got it. And Harold’s involved…. SINCE 1981??!!!
This boring dude has been at it for 26 years?! Crikey!

Ausflag is an apolitical Australian not for profit organization that exists to promote debate on Australia’s national symbols, in particular the flag of Australia.

Ausflag was formed in 1981 by Harold Scruby, and has since worked to foster debate on the design of the flag.