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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: NI motorists escape speeding fines |
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Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2020 14:23
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| ...where speeding or use of inappropriate speed has been recorded as a contributory factor. Interesting that they're now conflating "speeding" and "inappropriate speed" to get the numbers up! It would be interesting to see the %age breakdown between the two components. Porcine a... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Are you working/middle/upper class? |
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Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:51
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| Re the "Rich List"... Interesting to note that the ones at the top who are getting seriously richer tend to be "foreigners" who have moved their bases to London as the tax climate in the UK is relatively favourable to non-doms. Our "Home-grown Billionaires" seem to be s... |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: Deer Hazard |
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Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 15:21
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SigmaMotion wrote: Can we appoint pogo as the SafeSpeed Cultural Attache??
You know the difference between me and a pot of live yoghurt?
Left to itself, the yoghurt has some chance of developing a culture..  |
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Forum: Near Misses and Crashes Topic: Deer Hazard |
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Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:20
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| Style="Reminiscing Old F*rt" I remember the first time I did the Swedish Rally (the delightfully titled "KAK Rallyt") and being somewhat bemused at a drivers' briefing given to "foreign entrants", part of which involved being told of the dangers presented by Moose and m... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Have you seen this sign? |
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Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 23:32
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| They're only any use if they are set to trigger at sensible values. We have a few that get moved around in the area where I live and the stupid things flash "30" at you even if you are going rather less than that (according to my GPS). If they were to trigger at, or just below, the ACPO li... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Are you working/middle/upper class? |
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Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:41
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| I'm old fashioned, my class system goes Capitalists/Haute Bourgeoisie Petty Bourgeoisie Proletariat/Working Class Lumpen Proletariat (Nowt's changed since the old days expect that the Lumpens now rely on benefits to survive) I reckon that (in the UK anyway) there are now only two classes... 1. Thos... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: March of the Zealots |
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 22:11
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| I've heard it said that in some of the "bible belt" states if a (married) couple are indulging in some fairly active sex and, by accident, fall out of bed, they'll break about 20 laws before they hit the ground! |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: TfL, mail-box congestion charge ? |
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Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 22:09
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| It's a tad worrying if you think about it... If they can't write very simple software - ie to acknowledge a payment - what is the likelyhood of the stuff that they write to (a) identify who's actually in the "zone" and (b) send out correct bills to those who might actually have been so, ac... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Monbiot talks sense ? |
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Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 23:17
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| In his diatribe against the privatisation of NHS services, Moonbat misses the most important fact of all... GPs' practices already are, indeed have been since the inception of the NHS, private companies. So, wrong again George. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Conservative Way Forward - Transport Policy Document |
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 12:15
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Replies: 60
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mmltonge wrote: it is worth noting Boris is not a driver either...
Are you suggesting that he has a chauffeur for his Lamborghini?  |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Clunk Click Every Trip - Still Sound Advice! |
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:35
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Replies: 28
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| There is a product call the "G-lock" that is starting to become popular with trackday drivers of cars with ordinary three point inertia reel belts. It locks the belt up and makes it behave like a static belt. Somewhat off-topic, but... I don't know whether you do track days, certainly oth... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Interesting police blog |
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 21:05
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| I hope you are pleased with yourself. I have just spent an hour reading first this blog then, upon following a link in the blog, the 419eater site. You should be ashamed at yourself at providing such addictive material via the web. :D If you liked that, have a look at http://www.scamorama.com - ded... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Stories from life |
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 18:43
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I prefer the more up-to-date version of "If"...
"If you can keep your head
when all about you are losing theirs...
... you don't have a proper grasp of the situation!" |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Controversial case, texting driver kills red light cyclist. |
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:12
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| France does seem to still be doing well though. But they tightened the initial training and whilst they have invested in "le scam" and have a few protest groups who are yanking up cams by their roots :popcorn: - per another Google sortie :lol: as advised by the :neko: - they did increase ... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: betterdrivingplease.com |
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 12:00
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Replies: 80
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| I don't give a flying f :censored: k whether it's libellous, legal, illegal or whatever... The whole concept seems to epitomise all that's mean-spirited, small-minded, smug, "holier-than-thou" and "Town Hall Hitler-ish" in present-day British society. The creator of the site and ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: $75 fine ended costing a lot more |
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:52
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: For all the trolls |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:51
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| But that's not what Tone was talking about. He was talking about the kind of society that I would like to live in, where we had genuinely rigourous enforcement for speeding. If by "genuinely rigourous enforcement" you mean "prosecute every single transgression", this may be redu... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Blanket 20 limits for London residential areas? |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 23:56
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| I thought that 20 limits had to be "self enforcing"... Speed bumps, chicanes etc... Bearing in mind that a speedometer isn't IIRC required by law to indicate any speed under 25mph, how else could it be? |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: global-getting-slightly-hotter |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 13:37
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| Lynas is just a typical media "environmental" journalist. His academic qualifications IIR are in History and Politics. Whereas, of course, Dr Whitehouse is an established and respected solar scientist. I know who I'd bet my money on to be correct!! (Edited to add) I know that this is effec... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: SafeSpeed Peer Review |
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 17:35
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Replies: 66
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| Regarding 20mph zones... ISTR that shortly before his death, Paul was examining some anomolous statistics that appeared to show that injury severity in 20 zones was actually worse than 30s... |
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