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tsk92
In fairness to them, a lot local authorities in the UK are on the verge of/close to bankruptcy. Unless the pot hole is catastrophic then the Local Highways Authority probably can’t afford to fix it.
Jiraiyaasama
Hahahh i am your 888th updoot!!
Blunderwriter
I’ve got an entire 30 mile stretch of major highway he can come paint if he has the time. Probably need a gofundme just for the amount of paint he (or she?) would need.
TheElliotPage
high-larry-us
abroraliofficialakramov3000
New💥💥💥👍👍👌
TheGalosheen
It's ok guys, Darren's spirit level says it's fine.
GinAndTonicAllTheWay
That's a holey quest they're on!
Procrastinator57
The worlds greatest private dick
NPaine
No no. We deserve him.
sdrawkcabmIpleH
At least we deserve his art
Twinklepot
thegrouchohandleisunavailable
I answered my own question (I knew the show, just couldn't remember the episode) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0579539/?ref_=tt_ch
Twinklepot
Fair play to you! I am usually oblivious (as in this case) of the origin of the meme that I use.
thegrouchohandleisunavailable
You should be ashamed of yourself, this is Jayne we're taling about here, JAYNE. For a little giggle, have a look at this. https://firefly.fandom.com/wiki/Jaynestown
Twinklepot
beeloute
On french bicycle race, there is a job called Penis eraser
https://youtu.be/UBJWqhgQrVc?si=_PhDXlWgTkohJWUI
DigitalDruid255
Just watched that clip. The music choice tho, they might as well have had it in black & white to match the vibe.
Also they paint over, and add lines to transform the rudimentary dick/balls to balls -> boobs and shaft/head -> oval body with top of mound maybe?
sonnuvah
Found a shortened English version for mono linguistic Americans like me :(
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7e2c1n
Also can't they let those guys use some extension poles or a stripe painting rig? My back hurts just watching them hunched over like that.
Svartsinn
More like painting over than erasing. Also goddamn those two are particularly unenthusiastic about their job. Like there are far worse jobs in the world....
WoodfolkFae
He commented on that they already had 4 in the first 5 kilometers.
DontcallmeLen
I presume they have to rub them off?
orp0piru
No, they don't, instead they tastefully forepaint them.
titoitoi
Is the forepaint because of the foreskins?
MicroChannelMaster
Unpopular opinion: If a poorly maintained road damages your vehicle, the governing body responsible for maintaining it should be forced to cover repair costs. They can either use our tax dollars to maintain infrastructure or they compensate us when their unmaintained infrastructure damages our vehicles.
jursamaj
See, the problem with that system is that the bill will just come out of the local government budget. Either taxes go up to pay the bills, or something else gets cut that much.
ImSynnical
Yeah instead of spending 90k on 3$ worth of screws and lining their pockets but they make the laws so they’ll never hold themselves accountable
xSPARExSTEWx
CO does this on paper, but will decline any claim anyone submits. I hit a pot hole that damaged 2 of my tires. It was about a foot deep, the whole lanes width and 3 foot long on a 65 mph highway. No way to avoid it and they denied my claim because they “didn’t know it was there and was not given enough time to fix it”. It has been there since at least 2007 looking at google street view and they tried to fix it a few times over the years, but opens back up in less than 6 months.
IlDepo
Where I live that's a thing. After first damage paid the governing body would set a "beware: uneven road, speed limit 5" sign, so if somebody else damages their vehicle in the pothole it's their fault for not complying with the speed limit.
amoeba15
That’s a thing in the US. The trick is proving the damage was caused by the pothole.
Slugsie
It's a thing in the UK too, with the same issue of proof.
rufustphish
How on earth would an accountability system work for that?
I agree with your premise, but have no clue how it would be implemented.
Remember, folks don't have to drive sanely, or on the road....
demagreg365
Your insurance company would sue for the damages in civil court is how I'd imagine it
Rabidbacon
My hometown would just continuously paint over it and not fix the pothole.
Kakeukh
My town has found the perfect solution : excavate paint and potholes. We're left with deep ditches everywhere.
ximzadix
My hometown wouldn't even care and just continue to ignore it lol
Someshithead241
That's what they did
TypeBlueMu
My home town would try to fix it and actually make it worse.
skinkabamba
My home town doesn't have potholes, but this mostly because they keep tearing our roads open every couple of months, to "fix" something. There are giant bumps though, because they never bother to level the re filled worksite afterwards
JustTryingToLiveLife
It pisses me off when they just pave the road, and its sooo nice, and then they rip it up, like are you fucking kidding me could you not fix that before….
JamueLSaxon4thEdition
Merica?!
Rabidbacon
Merica..
ChloeRed
Someone tried this in scunthorpe, the paint was pressurewashed off. thing is, it was done on a duel carrageway. 70mph traffic to paint in.
ForceAwakenWasLame
Only if there were some orange object, tall and visible from afar, that could be used to caution and slow the traffic somehow.
ChloeRed
Weirdly, people painting cocks onto roads don't a) have traffic cones, or b) the legal ability to close off a lane.
ChloeRed
....they did get the road reduced to 1 lane for 3 hours for it to be washed off though, which pissed everyone off. 2/2
Serenitis
TheElliotPage
well, at least the Whiny Karens might help get these fixed
Nathanyel
Ah, so a conservative local government: only focusing on attracting industry, not actually doing anything for the citizens.
sortofkindamadbutnotreally
Its insane to me how many people have alzheimers about being a child. Like maybe Im the exception, but dick drawings were plentiful (and hilarious) in all kinds of areas by the time I was in 2nd grade.
ThePastmaster
IIRC, in some cases they send a crew out to CUT OUT the pavement with the dick on it and just leave it.
Lantric
Never know, a child seeing a penis could instantly turn them gay. I'm surprised that Republicans haven't passed laws that state any child using the restroom has to be accompanied by an adult republican. That way, they can watch the children peeing, thus preventing the child from looking down and accidently becoming gay.
kirmes
classic politician thinking
NappaTheFriendlyGhost
I would like to know how much it costs people annually to repair their vehicles from the damage caused by these potholes.
MrWobblyHead
I know cost me £115 to get two new tyres when I massive pothole took out both on the driver side. Didn't see it because it was dark, raining, and disguised by the water it was filled with.
userfriendly19777
Everybody know that children seeing a drawing of a genetalia is much worse than an open skull fracture or a broken collarbone.
johnvictor
That's why violence is idolized in the USA but the human body and sexuality scorned.
rmmmm
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!
(/s)
Ekibwurm
for politicians looking to get re-elected, yes, yes it is... they care more about public image than public safety.. they should be the ones used to fill in the potholes, while still concious. see how long until their replacement fills them up then.
mohavewolfpup
That means you have to hear their cries for help and other malformed banal drivel. I vote that since there are too many around that do nothing but hold court and fatten their own coffers on tax payer backs, develop a cheap substitute for concrete involving grinding them up. If on the off chance areas run out of what will be known as GPCCA (General Political Crap Concrete Alternative) then it can be imported town, state, country or the world over until everything is fixed or the supply runs out
TheAngriestBeardman
If it's America, hunting children for sport is a rising national pastime. Much like certain hunters, hitting your prey with your vehicle still counts.
Groetgaffel
Yes, Manchester, famously located in America
TheAngriestBeardman
The joke has flown over your head, my good sir.
Shaodyn
It's funny how governments stopped investing in infrastructure like 40 years ago because "the free market will fix everything" and the roads are full of potholes that nobody cares about fixing. There was a story somewhere about a neighborhood where people put a birthday cake into a pothole because it had literally been there, untouched, for a year.
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
A year? I've seen potholes that are in their 20s
Shaodyn
That's even worse. So, when do you think the "free market" will get around to fixing the potholes?
BaklavaWearingBalaclavaWhilePlayingBalalaikaOnBlackLava
When it's profitable. There will be some sort of pothole filling startup eventually, and it'll get corporate sponsors or whatever.
Shaodyn
Also, governments (at least in the US) stopped investing in public transport around the same time, also because "the free market will take care of it." Now, in those rare places where public transport exists, it's incredibly inconvenient.
titoitoi
Efficiency and effectiveness - promised both from the Chicago school of economics, but got neither. Unless a billionaire of course, in which case, yay.
Shaodyn
Probably because public transit is less profitable. It's a lot more cost-effective to sell 50 people one car each than it is to sell a city one bus that 50 people can use at once.
Shaodyn
And carpooling is (apparently) horrible, because then you're stuck on someone else's timetable, and therefore not truly free, and might as well be living under communism.