Want to know if you're intelligent or incomptent?
A former lecturer of mine (who was actually a bit of a cunt) told me that the difference between an intelligent person and an average joe was thus.

The average joe keeps pressing the button at the crossing thinking it'll speed up the traffic stopping process.

The intelligent person realises that one press will suffice.

Take heed.
(scentless_apprentice takes two bottles into the shower!, Sat 20 Jun 2009, 23:28, 8 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Twiddling the knob
underneath the traffic light button in the right direction will speed up the traffic stopping process...
... unfortunatly I can never remember the direction, the wrong way slows it down
(Earthling wants a silver moustache to show off to his chums, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 20:26, Reply)

Incorrect.
Was this told to you the same day as you were informed that the Ice Cream Van tune meant it was out of ice cream?

The knob rotates when the green man is shown, and is simply to let blindies know when to cross and not get a lorry shaped bump on their head.
(TheColonel, Wed 24 Jun 2009, 17:10, Reply)

this is right
they are hardly going to spend loads of money getting engineers to figure out traffic light timings only to leave the controls there for any moron to fiddle with.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 26 Jun 2009, 11:26, Reply)

The same
goes for when summoning a lift.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 23 Jun 2009, 21:55, Reply)

this has to get a click
very interesting
(knackerz is skinning up, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 4:31, Reply)

actually
I'm not sure if the last click worked
(knackerz is skinning up, Thu 2 Jul 2009, 4:32, Reply)

Press it again

( chart cat has an itch, Wed 8 Jul 2009, 7:54, Reply)

so does that mean
That since I know it doesn't make a jot how many times I press it, but choose not to care cos it's kinda theraputic to spam the button that I'm just impatient? ;)
( bluemeat has been best of all the animals since, Tue 25 Aug 2009, 11:31, Reply)