Nominative Determinism of the Day

May 19, 2023 3:32 PM

School bus gets stuck
posted by pipeski (27 comments total)

Took me a while to catch that.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 3:34 PM on May 19, 2023 [3 favorites]

Clicked through, still don’t understand.

Edit: ooooohhhhhhhhhhhh…
posted by not just everyday big moggies at 3:40 PM on May 19, 2023

For some reason I'm reminded of Greenpeace EU transport campaigner, Lorelei Limousin.
posted by hat_eater at 3:43 PM on May 19, 2023

I've wondered how the Dodgers feel about having a player named Outman on their team.
posted by LionIndex at 3:44 PM on May 19, 2023

(Note the byline on the BBC article.)
posted by mbrubeck at 3:45 PM on May 19, 2023 [15 favorites]

Normally I appreciate these kinds of posts, but this is a bridge too low
posted by gwint at 4:11 PM on May 19, 2023 [4 favorites]

Wait, is that a double decker? This works on so many levels
posted by phooky at 4:17 PM on May 19, 2023 [7 favorites]

Much less extreme than getting stuck under a bridge: When I was in middle school, I rode the school bus, which was mostly on gravel roads. There was a several month period where there was road work going on, and first in deep gravel and then later in snow-on-deep gravel, the school bus would get stuck almost every day. It became totally routine. The bus would get stuck, the driver would honk or radio to the construction crew, and they'd drive over with a front-end loader, hook up a chain, and yank us out. It was exciting for the first three or so times, then it just became a thing where everyone would groan when you felt the bus get stuck because it meant a delay.

I feel bad for the kids that this happened on the way to an exam.
posted by Dip Flash at 4:29 PM on May 19, 2023 [2 favorites]

I had to look up Nominative Determinism. Guess I didn't make it to school the day that was taught.
posted by not_on_display at 4:50 PM on May 19, 2023 [2 favorites]

I had to look up Nominative Determinism. Guess I didn't make it to school the day that was taught.

It never really sank in for me until I had a surgeon called Dr Butchers (she didn't).
posted by Thella at 5:11 PM on May 19, 2023 [2 favorites]

Guess I didn't make it to school the day that was taught.

Accident involving your bus and a low bridge?
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:28 PM on May 19, 2023 [3 favorites]

again.
posted by clavdivs at 5:30 PM on May 19, 2023 [1 favorite]

I worked with a person on an automotive propane project who had the surname “kargas”
posted by CostcoCultist at 7:41 PM on May 19, 2023 [2 favorites]

Does the sign on the lower left of the bus actually say "Driver's wanted"? I greatly fear it does.
posted by bryon at 8:43 PM on May 19, 2023 [1 favorite]

Driver's wanted: higher bridges
posted by allegedly at 9:03 PM on May 19, 2023 [3 favorites]

http://11foot8.com is not impressed.
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:12 PM on May 19, 2023 [1 favorite]

Nitpick: that's clearly a bus chartered by a school. Does that make a school bus?
posted by kschang at 10:15 PM on May 19, 2023

Yes, because in the UK students ride ordinary public transit to school. There isn't any specific (yellow) school bus like there is in America and Canada. Wikipedia
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 11:06 PM on May 19, 2023 [1 favorite]

State schools in rural areas will often have bus services specifically for students, but they're mostly contracted to private firms who use their own vehicles. If the BBC say that it's a school bus, then it only had schoolchildren on it.
posted by plonkee at 12:29 AM on May 20, 2023

I don't get the joke. Edit: wow that's...a thin joke.
posted by tiny frying pan at 5:45 AM on May 20, 2023

Does the sign on the lower left of the bus actually say "Driver's wanted"? I greatly fear it does

They have their CDL suspended in twelve school districts!
Best be careful.
posted by tigrrrlily at 7:13 AM on May 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

Edit: wow that's...a thin joke.

Well, admittedly it's a low bar.
posted by notoriety public at 7:22 AM on May 20, 2023 [9 favorites]

I have to admit, I got stuck on the joke for a while
posted by solotoro at 8:33 AM on May 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

I envision some UK civil engineer laughing whenever some city permits him to build a bridge too low for double decker busses.

Appears they've closed Rufford ford sadly. I'd propose Rufford residents replace their county council by electing Tyre extinguishers.
posted by jeffburdges at 5:35 PM on May 20, 2023

Apparently not her most .... well-known piece for the BBC though.
posted by BenAstrea at 10:34 PM on May 20, 2023

O
posted by tiny frying pan at 6:08 AM on May 21, 2023

Apparently not her most .... well-known piece for the BBC though.

Yeah. I Googled her name as I suspected it was made up, as a joke for the story, but no, the BBC really has a journalist with that name and the third Google result for her name is this Wikipedia entry. An entire entry on one of her articles which was highly controversial due to its TERFy or at least TERF-adjacent content/perspective. Sigh.
posted by bitteschoen at 8:56 AM on May 21, 2023 [1 favorite]