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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 2 elderly deaths caused by courtesy |
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 19:40
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| Actually I think that cars are an excellent way to get around. You say they do 'too much damage', but I don't see it. We're going waaay off-topic here, but the damage is there for everyone to see in terms of climate change, increased incidence of respiratory disease in town and cities, and constant... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 2 elderly deaths caused by courtesy |
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 17:19
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| There is a definate 'car is evil' mentality and there is no doubt that there has been a general abdication of personal responsibility over the last eight years. That's not true, it's just that promoting personal responsibility is incompatible with the 'get everyone into obscene debt with the banks,... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 2 elderly deaths caused by courtesy |
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 16:38
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| The plain and simple fact of the matter is that Government (and that includes local level), whether you like it or not have been pandering to self interest lobby groups and that many decisions have been made, not in the interests of road safety but for political gain. And the same was true in the d... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: 2 elderly deaths caused by courtesy |
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Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 14:59
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| Because this Government has done such a great job of implementing an 'us and them' mentality between various road users, invariably it is all road users whom suffer as a result. Because of their transportation cockups and in an attempt at getting more people to walk, cycle or use motorcycles, there... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A12 - Blackwall Tunnel N. Approach - 40 limit |
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Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 00:40
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| OK, question for y'all: Now, I think it's clear that I'm not in favour of completely deregulated speed, and that the idea of limiting speed is not without merit* - even if I do believe that trafpol presence should not be negatively impacted by the presence of cameras. -But- Since taking up driving a... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Where do you see yourself politically? |
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Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 00:02
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| However, what I do find hard to swallow is paying thousnds and thousands of pounds to those who don't work and have no intentions of ever working. Usually because the difference in being on benefits and taking the few low paid jobs they are likely to be offered is so minimal they just can't be both... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Where do you see yourself politically? |
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Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 12:24
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| There's no distorted thinking in there in my opinion, you may feel differently. But the 'gimme-gimme-gimme-more-more-more' attitude that is at the root of those problems comes from the 'I've got mine, so f**k you' position that was at the heart of the Thatcher policies of the '80s - a very much Cons... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Driving Stateside? |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 14:14
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| I'm off to visit a friend in the States at the end of the month. I drove briefly there a few years ago, but this'll be my first journey of serious length where I'm actually navigating, and not just going straight up an interstate. Aside from the obvious 'Drive on the right' ;) has anyone got any tip... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Kid rode his bike into the road without looking |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 14:06
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Fair enough, but as we are going to become part of a wider European community regardless of what The Sun wants, it might make sense for us to try a little harder to integrate. 
Either way don't want to drag this off-topic.
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Kid rode his bike into the road without looking |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 13:27
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| I stopped her to inform her what her darling youngsters were up to (and tell her to take more responsibility) only to be informed that "she doesn't speak English!!!!" :roll: It kind of annoyed me that the woman didn't speak English as its not a tourist area, its a residential area... Uhh - au pair?... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Where do you see yourself politically? |
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 12:42
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| What kind of crime(s)? Remember it's an unspoken thing that burglary is something that is ameliorated by insurance companies rather than the police these days... just another consequence of the great Thatcher Revolution. Of course, if you can't afford insurance you're buggered, but if you're too poo... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Where do you see yourself politically? |
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 17:37
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| This doesn't suprise me one bit from a Policeman. ;) Seems to Joe Public that left wing ideals such as political correctness and re-habilitation are are more important than crime and punishment these days, Since when has PC been a strictly 'leftie' thing, as you put it? Aside from the fact that lef... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Where do you see yourself politically? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 17:34
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| you obviously haven't been to Australia recently if you feel the need to attach 'white' in front it. The white australia policy died a long time ago. Overtly, maybe... but to hear some of the pols coming in and out of the Australian High Commission talk, it's very much still going on under the surf... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Where do you see yourself politically? |
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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 11:47
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| I guess you'd call me a lefty, but pragmatic social democrat is probably closer to what I believe. The Grauniad is far more centre-left (aka "woolly liberal" to some) than "loony left". The facts on the ground are that permanent immigration does far more good to this country than harm, the illegal i... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: State Trooper survives horrific accident |
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Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 18:12
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| A few points: 1) If you want to improve the quality of life for third-world people, a good start would be to get rid of all the despotic dictators who squander every bit of wealth in, and aid to, their countries and leave their people to starve. Question : Who put the dictators in charge in the fir... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: State Trooper survives horrific accident |
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Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 16:53
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| _Tc_ has not come back yet .....maybe he has had to go and read his "activist briefing" document again. It did not prepare him for rational arguments. Ah well....another one bites the dust..... :wink: Not quite - I tend to be absurdly busy on the weekends. I'm actually absurdly busy at work at the ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: State Trooper survives horrific accident |
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 18:44
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All are too expensive, and the oil companies will do their best to keep them that way.
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: State Trooper survives horrific accident |
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 17:40
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| To be honest the more people bang on with that type of nonsense the more inclined I am to get one! Probably with bull bars! - We are going to run out of oil in 50 years at *current* rates of consumption - Fact. - Consumption is in fact increasing exponentially - Fact. Ergo we -are- screwing things ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: State Trooper survives horrific accident |
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 17:22
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Gizmo wrote: So what's your theory on the Kennedy assasination..... 
Colonel Mustard, in the Kitchen, with the Candlestick. 
(Sorry, it's Friday!  )
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Yob Uniforms |
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 16:07
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| Yet most expert opinion suggests that the biggest contribution that the present Chancellor made to getting rid of "boom-bust" economics was to remove the task of setting the Minimum Lending Rate from the Treasury and putting it into the hands of the Bank of England - essentially "business" - which ... |
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