The Fall Of Twitter (Bluesky lists ahoy)

When I first moved to Belgium in the mid 90s they had only just changed the rule on roundabouts from priority to the right (which was the general national rule) to priority given to those already on the roundabout (ie to the left) - but it varied from roundabout to roundabout, not all had made the switch yet, so there was signage to let drivers know which kind of roundabout it was, but this was Belgium, so signage was shit, in short, it was hilarious.

A fun thing to do to those inchers out is to slow right the fuck down in front of them, ideally if it gives a gap of cars behind you enough time to close.

Their bones were eventually recovered and given a proper burial.

This can't be real. Why are there so many lanes?! And the top right one doesn't look like it's attached properly. It looks like a Dark Souls area.

The theory is that its faster. If you wanted to get from bottom left to bottom right, you can do it in two mini-roundabouts without encountering any traffic from the three other exits and going the whole way around.

Same with bottom left to top right. You can go straight across the first roundabout, cut over a few lanes then over the top right mini-roundabout and you will generally have right of way. The problem is, as you can see, people don't tend to do that but, honestly, in the main, it works fine. It takes traffic from the two busiest lanes and keeps them away from the other exits so it doesn't snarl the town up.

The thing is, people only ever see it from above and it looks like a fucking nightmare. If you work yourself up about it like a fanny it can be a problem but, honestly, the fact that swindon isn't perpetually on fire is a testament to how ok actually it is.

Although my low stakes conspiracy is that swindon town planners get paid by the bit of street furniture as they never use one roundabout when four will do or, heaven forbid, one set of fucking traffic lights.

We have one in Wycombe too, I mean obviously we bow to Swindon for going full fat but it's not bad

That's my local one too. Looks positively gentlemanly in comparison to the Swindon one, but because it's used by people that live in Buckinghamshire, it can be fiesty. I'm surprised they don't just drive straight through the green bit.

Yeah, the Swindon one looks like one of those My First Toy Town maps you get for kids.

Swindon being perpetually on fire is a nice thought, but it's a bit of a pipe dream.

Another low key conspiracy is that Swindon deliberately try to ruin their own reputation to stop people looking too hard at them. It has quite a few blue chip companies, one less now Honda is gone, and is actually surprisingly affluent. Like every car is an Audi or BMW. I have genuinely no idea why it gets such a bad rep other than them deliberately turning their town centre into a wasteland for some reason.

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