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Forum: General Chat Topic: Flooding Hebden Bri, Mytholmroyd & elsewhere |
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 01:33
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| Terrible news tonight (although the BBC TV news doesn't seem to have woken up yet). :roll: Hope everyone affected by these events is at least OK. Even more rain to come we hear, Am listening to radio 5 live at the moment, the only sort of light relief from the bad news is the attempts by southern BB... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed Cameras Under Worldwide Assault |
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 05:31
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| It's simply....A Tax! They don't want you to drive your car They don't want you to buy increaseviy expensive imported fuel, because our overseas earnings have collapsedl. They will use every instrument at their disposal to prevent you from buying imported goods! Unfortunately, Every pound that they ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: And in the 'states.... |
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 04:21
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| I agree!......A war on the motorist! it's become nothing more than a "tax collecting"......"oil importing protectionist scheme" to stop you buying the stuff! :x (balance of payments...that's what it's all about) From now on only the mega-rich will be able to afford fuel. They are... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Go green - go by bus |
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 04:10
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Replies: 17
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Isn't it a pity......They closed all those rural railway branch lines! Get a train moving and it'll roll on for the next 5 miles without power! Another ruddy shortsighted capitalist plan. May Beeching rot in hell.............  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Petition -Sigs needed |
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Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 03:50
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| botoch, My friend, I am very sorry, I don't want to offend you or denigrate you in any way but!.........many years ago, although I had left the mining industry many years before, I still had many friends in the mining community who were then being unlawfully beaten into submission and vilified by a ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Is it April 1st or are these people having a laugh? |
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Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 04:40
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Replies: 52
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| 'You know something? I'm getting quite fed up of these "mind the Kiddywinkles" types who run their kids to school in their 4x4, people carriers, park on private land, pavements, bends, within 15mtrs of road junctions forcing us ordinary motorists to tiptoe carefully around right hand bends... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: steering symptom |
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 02:22
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| Ernest, I see that this post is a little old now, but I seem to remember that I once had a 2.0L Ford Cortina (the very last model + with Gas struts). I'd fitted it with Hankooks and found that it tended to understeer in corners...unless.....you were brave enough to push the throttle a little more wh... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: bank charges |
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 01:59
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Replies: 33
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| Gentlemen, You all need to factor into the equation the fact that the GBP has lost 25% of it's real value since 2008. The more they print, the less it's worth and we're all going to find that out next year. They have of course announced that they're going to print more. Time to start hoarding the ti... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Media Help Wanted for LBC Radio - Nick Ferrari Show |
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 01:29
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| I'm sorry that I missed this post, it would have interested me a great deal. As a occasional listener of LBC & Nick Ferrari, I have also thought for some time that: (and I'm being polite here) that the insurance companies are "taking the Pith" because we motorists HAVE to have insuranc... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: commercial fuel sales down 3% on 2008 |
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 01:01
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Replies: 10
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| MMmm! Well, for my money I'm going to say that what do you think that the fuel esculator was for?............ Answer: To protect the level of tax take here in the UK, whilst minimising the import of expensive oil as OPEC and those nasty globalist capitalists took the oil and burned it elsewhere for ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Dualling the A9 between Perth and Inverness |
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 01:56
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| I don't know when most of these accidents occurred, day? night? Summer? Winter etc. All I know is that the last time that I drove it at night....the white lining, road surface and reflective aids were very poor in parts. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Down by one billion litres |
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 01:36
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| Motorists bought one billion fewer litres of petrol and diesel in the first three months of this year http://money-news.dailyfinance.co.uk/article/2011/07/08/garage_sales_down_a_billion_litres Now we know what the fuel esculator, global warming scare tactic and demonisation of the motorist by speed... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: IAM Poll on 20 mph limits |
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 01:21
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| There is one not too far from me near but not in front of a school. The signs are totally illegal.....i.e. not of the prescribed size etc. This tells me that the council have not applied the correct procedure when changing it from the standard 30mph. Just let them try it on with me and I'll have the... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Nearly Fell Off Me Chair |
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Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 01:11
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Well spotted that man!...........  |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Child pedestrian casualties up 75% on 2008 |
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 18:51
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| Sadly,....We have just had an example of this on the news haven't we, in Yorkshire where a young boy was killed. Now I don't know the circumstances or anything but....... the first thing that my wife said was: "What was a pair of 5 and 6yr old's doing beside a main road on their own?" The ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Insurance scam gang convicted |
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 04:08
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Replies: 23
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| A few years ago now, it may be as many as ten (time flies don't it) A work college of mine who is no longer with us sadly, went to visit family in South Africa. I forget exactly where he went but I think that it was in or near Cape Town. One day they drove up to Durban to see other family, filled up... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Insurance scam gang convicted |
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 04:09
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| Bookmakers!.............Full Stop. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: liquid hydrogen fuel... |
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 03:56
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Replies: 26
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| Either way Gents you're on a looser. THE arabs will in future charge you more for your fuel or your government will increase the tax on it. I'm not A FAN of the new thinking you understand, I'm no greeny, just a realist. You can either ignore it and pay the price or pay £25,000 this year for a biscu... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Using Indicators |
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Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 03:32
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| Many good replies there and thanks to everyone. Another incident came to mind of one day in my local town at a 5 way roundabout. IMO it should have been a 4 way (it's quite new) but they missed the opportunity. Any way it's a 5 way, and it's the main way into and out of the town, and across as well,... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Using Indicators |
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Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 04:40
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Replies: 15
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| Fellow motorists! Would it help do you think, if people actually used their "indicators" either: at all, or at least sometimes? I've noticed that the tendendcy these days is to drive around and never touch the indicators. As a pedestrian or a driver, how often have you waited for that appr... |
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