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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: This country's losing the plot!!! More dogooders |
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 21:29
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| and it gets worse... http://www.stanleyhill.org There a total of 8 posts, 5 of these from the site owner. It has been over a month since the last post. Perhaps there would have been more activity if he had let people register :roll: actually i suspect the post from bigbum is a bit dubious :lol: and... |
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Forum: Motorcycling Topic: Police death smash bike 'grounded' |
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 23:22
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| the same problem occurred on the BMW machines that used to be used. It was "solved" by moving the panniers forward....the bikes then became single seat. The more weight on the back, the less on the front sorry to chip in so late but donkeys years ago when i was a avid rider a plod told me... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Mr Loophole to take on council |
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 01:22
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| The idea was that the valuation for business rates applied to car park spaces provided for staff would be increased to a punitive level. The company would then pass this charge on to employees to avoid the cost hit and thus discourage them from driving to work. This is typical ivory tower Governmen... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Life in the fast lane |
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 01:10
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| i like the reference to stopping distances......surely a valuable use of someones time would be to recalculate stopping distances on the basis of modern vehicles braking systems |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Smoke free premises and enforcement powers |
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Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 00:01
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| can't find an online link but on the radio today, some non-smokers are crying that pub gardens have now become no-go zones for them... No problem. The councils can have pub gardens declared "no smoking" zones as well then. why not make everywhere non smoking except the Isle of Wight.....q... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Smoke free premises and enforcement powers |
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 17:17
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| What really gets up my green friend's nostrils is them patio heaters springing up everywhere in the back of pubs. I expect we'll see even more now the smokers have been kicked outside. Call to stop patio heaters sale People are being told to wear jumpers instead of relying on patio heaters, in an a... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: This country's losing the plot!!! More dogooders |
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Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:31
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| Guffaw. It's only derogatory if untrue, I'd be interested to hear why it's inflammatory to quote the posters here words back at them. Go to the search facility on Safespeed and search on "nazis" or "stasi". It's Godwin's Rule- whosoever invokes the nazis in their argument invali... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Smoke free premises and enforcement powers |
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 22:34
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| Mrs B and i were talking about this - interesting point that as it's a council property, does that mean that she cannot have ciggie if council employee is in house- or like pub in BERKS ( suggest it's the right name for that place ) has to be smoke free for a period :shock: :shock: Does our house b... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Met given real time C-charge data |
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 00:38
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| Weren't most of these cameras originally installed as anti-terrorist measures then later upgraded with ANPR when the con charge was brought in? How come the police need permission to use them to catch terrorists but camden can use them all the time to issue parking fines? Priorities huh. if i recal... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Solar panels - waste energy? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 00:36
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| fair few people playing around with hydrogen for cars....if you can produce it without a hindenburg side effect it (in theory) could reduce fuel consumption think it only works on modern vehicles with computer controlled fuel injection that senses the extra fuel in the mixture and leans of the petro... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: This country's losing the plot!!! More dogooders |
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 15:42
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| Only one month into our project to alert drivers to the dangers of speeding on Stanley Hill and we’ve incurred the wrath of an extremist national organisation er surely you mean posted on their website (as otherwise its unlikely anyone would have found Stanley Hill) and then refused to engage in de... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: This country's losing the plot!!! More dogooders |
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:15
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| maybe this is why he posted on here in the first place....now he can be a 'victim'...... is this just a very complex example of trolling? |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Smoke free premises and enforcement powers |
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 01:32
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| You own a premises in which it is illegal to not display the signs. You don't display the signs because they are ugly and insult your intelligence. You get fined by the secret smoking police. You still don't display signs because you really don't want to. How long until they can fine you again for ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: This country's losing the plot!!! More dogooders |
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 22:30
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| Obviously someone with his own web design company lives in Stanley Hill. Does anyone know this road and can comment on the appropriateness of the 30mph limit? if you look in the galleries you can see all the replies sent by companies whose vehicles have been caught speeding.....i dont think anyone ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Telegraph/Prius |
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 23:33
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| Bu66er! That's called my bluff then! Although I saw a chip shop owner on the telly the other day saying how the price of chip shop oil had gone up because of biodiesel! Hmmmm. fuel...or chips.... tricky! use veggy and be a double winner (eating less chips will make your car more er fuel efficient :... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Telegraph/Prius |
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 17:33
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Mole wrote: ...some legal way of avoiding the duty on top of the 50p that makes it barely worthwhile? 
duty was removed the end of last month 
up to 2500 litres tax free |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Telegraph/Prius |
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Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 01:32
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| guys get an old diesel and use veggy fuel....50p a litre and saving the planet at the same time................what more could you want? |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Drink Driving Up |
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 17:29
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| nah i end up driving round late at night as well i see loads of really obvious ones (drifting to the curb, overcorrection drifting again etc etc) |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Drink Driving Up |
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Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 22:56
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be interesting to know what percentage of the drunks were detected after they had crashed!
i cant remember the last time i saw a police car late at night so it no great surprise that more people are starting to 'take the chance'.... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Web chat whitewash |
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 00:19
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| i cant see how they can do road pricing without retaining tax (of some sort on fuel)..... if people are taxed on the distance they drive rather than the fuel they consume a lot of people are going to shift over to large engined cars. The entire point of the new generation of small diesels is that th... |
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