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Forum: Campaigning Topic: On-line Petition |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 18:33
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While I was signing for something else I saw this and after doing a quick search it didn't come up so I'm hoping you might be interested.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/NoSpeedCameras/#detail
I'm sorry if it has been discussed eleswhere but better to repeat than miss.
Regards to all. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: [VIDEO] Driving in India |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 08:57
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Replies: 14
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| Is the way you drive a national trait? Or just a sympton of the way you're taught? Are we too regimented? Germany has good road discipline and they are fairly regimented. Aren't road deaths in India huge as a percentage of the population? We have too many signs telling us what to do without allowing... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Bikers |
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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 08:29
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Replies: 85
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| I have a great deal of respect for bikers, I wish I was one. I nearly always get an acknowledgement as they pass. If they don't want to or can't pass then sitting in my offside wing mirrors would still make sense to me as it gives them an escape route. If they also happen to have loud pipes then I a... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: [VIDEO] Driving in India |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 09:03
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Replies: 14
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| That video is amazing. No major holdups, people going the wrong way and literally breaking all our rules and yet no accidents and no apparent road rage. It would never work in this country all sorts of people would end up in hospital from road rage. It is pretty much how pedestrians would behave wit... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Global Warming Mischief |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 17:41
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Replies: 23
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| They were talking about baby walruses (is that the plural?) this morning and a picture in paper of one stranded on an ice flo having been abandoned by mother. Mind you I am not really proficient at aging walruses but the picture actually looked like an old one or are they born with long tusks? Talk ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Illegal plates |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 17:33
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Replies: 5
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| So that's a no then? So the only way anybody gets pulled with an illegal plate is by BIB and I suppose most of the time it's not worth the bother because the cars are mostly going to be driven by legal people. I have absolutely no objection to novelty plates that just happen to mean something but I ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Global Warming Mischief |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 16:49
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Pete317 wrote: Brookwood wrote: The sea is a huge heat engine that will warm the air above it enormously but it is difficult to heat the sea up from above. Except they would have you believe that two degree rise in ocean temperature is caused by a half-degree rise in atmospheric temperature 
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Global Warming Mischief |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 15:52
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| While we are heading for a cyclic ice age the thing that is confusing the issue is the amount of ocean warming by undersea volcanic activity that is going on at the moment. So glaciers are moving faster because they are getting thicker (and heavier) but when they reach the sea it is warmer and break... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Illegal plates |
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 11:31
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Replies: 5
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| If you are caught by a speed camera are you also prosecuted if the spacing of letters on your plate is illegal? |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Rendezvouz |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:06
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Replies: 27
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Dixie wrote: Good job there where no speed cameras, and did I hear him miss a gear 
I'm sure I heard two, but what a lovely sound track or am I just a PH.
"No pigeons were harmed in the making of this film." but some had a narrow escape and I'm sure I saw a startled pedestrian at one point. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Keep 2 chevrons apart.... |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 11:18
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Replies: 21
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| Rigpig wrote: Quote: I'm beginning to wonder if the motoring public shouldn't just be left to their own devices and to hell with the consequences
Like they do in Egypt as per Rogers post. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Millions drive perilously tired |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 09:02
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Replies: 6
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| The thing that makes me go to sleep is long boring roads at slow speeds. And it doesn't appear to be relative to the time of day. And it comes on unexpectedly. However tired you are you won't go to sleep if you are excited. People have micro sleeps on motorways without even realising and sometimes m... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: New Laws |
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 08:47
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Replies: 12
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pogo wrote: Brookwood wrote: I have been interviewed several times, if you don't say exactly what 'they' want to hear they just don't use your quote and find somebody else. That's better than I'd assumed... I thought that if it didn't fit with what they wanted, they just made it up..!
I think they do that as well.  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Driving in Egypt |
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Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 08:43
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| Welcome back Roger. The Pyramids are impressive aren't they. What amazed me is until I went there I thought they were in the middle of the desert I didn't realise they were actually in the suburbs of Cairo. Was the Sphinx smaller than you thought? I take it you were a passenger and didn't actually d... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: New Laws |
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 09:20
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Replies: 12
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| Lum wrote: "If you don't know what you're talking about, shut up Act" I would like to see that one as well but while the 'Media' have free rein they will drag anybody out who voices an opinion. I have been interviewed several times, if you don't say exactly what ' they ' want to hear they just don't... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: First car for son |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 08:48
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Replies: 32
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| Having had and used a couple of classic cars you can indeed save on the depreciation but they can also be a bottomless pit to keep on the road. There are also a huge number of so called 'restored' cars on the road that look magnificant on the surface. If you consider the classic route and some reall... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Overtaking |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 15:52
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Replies: 19
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| If he was as old as you estimate he probably thought he couldn't possibly be doing any wrong because of his experience etc. If I had an XKR I would have swivelling eye balls on stalks making sure I kept out of everybodies way, I would also tend to accelerate away from followers and get back to insid... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Overtaking |
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 15:32
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Replies: 19
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| Difficult: A quick flash of the lights as an "excuse me did you know I was here?" is usually taken as a "get out the way I'm in a hurry." Hard as it might be I have found patience is the only peaceful and calm approach, but I do find it easier if I have a jolly good swear first. People leaving round... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Dealing with tailgaters |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 12:01
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Replies: 45
Views: 17288
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| To attempt to influence another persons driving while in your own car either by gesticulating, signs, (rude or otherwise), or by using your car as a weapon is highly dangerous and much more likely to cause more aggression and inflame the situation. You may get away with it nine times out of ten but ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: First car for son |
| Brookwood |
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:53
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Replies: 32
Views: 17173
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| We inherited a Peugeot 206 from my father in law that was 'A' registration and continued to run it up to about 5 years ago when we sold it for 500 quid to somebody who ran it for a further 4 years until it got written off while parked. Not sure whether they are cool or not but mechanically it was ve... |
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