(05-09-18, 10:12 AM)agricola link Wrote: politicians are spineless bastards, jellyfish floating on a sea of sewage, drifting wherever the current takes them.
Yes, accurate. Quite easily solvable however...
It is my opinion that politicians should be stripped of all money and assets once elected, given a (say) £1500 relocation fee in order to rent somewhere to live and then paid the national average wage monthly in arrears with no expenses added or allowed for the duration of their membership of the house. Then we would see only those that really want to improve our society making decisions for us with a vested interest in raising living standards for the masses. I suspect that affordable housing and transport would suddenly move up the political agenda.
All the time our 'leaders' are on a 85k basic salary the majority don't stand a chance of being helped very much.
It won't happen though.
is it clean enough?
Amazon and their like.........it's simple, Stop using them and buy elsewhere
fire never sleeps
(08-09-18, 09:28 AM)maddog04 link Wrote: Amazon and their like.........it's simple, Stop using them and buy elsewhere
Or just stop caring about how much tax they pay, and get on with your life.
Quote:Amazon and their like.........it's simple, Stop using them and buy elsewhere
Don’t see what that has to do with it. I don’t use Vodaphone but I still think they should pay the usual corporation tax in the UK – but they don’t.
Further Amazon isn’t just an online store, it’s a market place. It’s getting to the point where it is almost unavoidable.
Finally, if companies don’t pay their taxes the revenue needs to be collected elsewhere, that means you and I. So that gets my goat.
VNA I rarely agree with much you say or believe but your spot on here no if or buts if we agree on one thing with no argument there's hope for us all.
How ridiculously competitive the vintage car racing had become at the Goodwood Revival.
Just watched a Lotus Cortina roll over about 5 or 6 times. What's the point in that?. Those cars have nothing to prove anymore.
There was a '62 V12 Ferrari in one of the races and I'm wincing every time it looks like coming close to a collision. Must be worth millions.
(12-09-18, 12:58 PM)YamFazFan link Wrote: There was a '62 V12 Ferrari in one of the races and I'm wincing every time it looks like coming close to a collision. Must be worth millions.
You are totally right of course, but i managed to catch it by chance and was in total awe of some of the cars being chucked about, rather than being a show car all the time.
I'm not a car person at all but know a bit of class when i see it, and the sounds coming out of them was such a privilege to hear.
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
I sound like a bit of a killjoy curmudgeon don't I :lol
But I do enjoy watching them, just dread seeing these classic racers smashed up.
I guess there's a lot of historic racing taking taking place all the time, but I don't normally get to see it.
(12-09-18, 08:24 PM)darrsi link Wrote: [quote author=YamFazFan link=topic=17546.msg284196#msg284196 date=1536753495]
There was a '62 V12 Ferrari in one of the races and I'm wincing every time it looks like coming close to a collision. Must be worth millions.
You are totally right of course, but i managed to catch it by chance and was in total awe of some of the cars being chucked about, rather than being a show car all the time.
I'm not a car person at all but know a bit of class when i see it, and the sounds coming out of them was such a privilege to hear.
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Another ex-Fazer rider that is a foccer again
I think its great that the old cars are getting an outing, if you got the money better spent like that than keeping them in a heated garage.
What gets my goat is....people who don't indicate going round roundabouts if they are going right..traffic would flow loads better if they did.
14-09-18, 02:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 14-09-18, 02:28 PM by bludclot.)
And then not indicating left to leave the roundabout. In fact any failure to indicate correctly at roundabouts gets my goat, there's no excuse for not giving the correct indication at the correct times - all roundabout users are sat there and shouldn't be doing anything else other than negotiating the roundabout and indicating correctly.
While on road habits that get my goat there's these:
- coming to halt in a traffic queue then randomly creeping forward some time later before the queue has started moving. What's that all about anyway?
- creating a second lane when one is not marked, particularly approaching a roundabout
- sitting on the brakes in a traffic queue, dazzling drivers behind, particularly modern Mercedes that have very bright brake lights
- indicating right to pass parked vehicles - oh really you're going to pull out? I thought you'd plough into the back of that parked car... (similarly indicating right to join a main road at the end of a slip road - wasted information, nobody ever ploughs into the nearside verge instead of joining the main road.)
- using hazard lights when (badly) parked, particularly when the nearside lights are obscured
- slowing to 18mph and creeping around the outside edge of a clear roundabout. For crissakes, have you not seen and dealt with a roundabout before? Just straightline it and clear it....
- not merging in turn when two lanes become one, instead accelerating and closing the gap to make life difficult, slowing everyone behind
and finally the worst that's pretty much endemic in the UK:
- slowing and holding up a line of traffic behind to let in a vehicle, often slowing 20 cars (with all the ensuing brake dust emissions etc.) to enable one vehicle - that was waiting quite happily - to join a traffic flow. Extremely bad practice.
All these are covered by the Highway code but nobody seems to take a blind bit of notice.
is it clean enough?
(14-09-18, 02:24 PM)bludclot link Wrote: - indicating right to pass parked vehicles - oh really you're going to pull out? I thought you'd plough into the back of that parked car... (similarly indicating right to join a main road at the end of a slip road - wasted information, nobody ever ploughs into the nearside verge instead of joining the main road.)
I have to object to this one. My youngest son recently passed his driving test and follows the instructors brief of not indicating. My view is that they are wrong.
The reason is simple. Imagine you are following a large van in a smaller car / bike and the van didn't indicate but you didn't see the parked car and tried to overtake just as he pulled out without indicating.
Another ex-Fazer rider that is a foccer again
14-09-18, 03:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 14-09-18, 03:40 PM by bludclot.)
It's all about giving and taking information. Yes in the case you outline indication is useful, perhaps vital information. When there's nobody else around or within striking distance of an overtake it's unnecessary.
I missed one out:
- drivers that leave a massive nearside gap in tight situations pushing them into the path of oncoming traffic....
is it clean enough?
(14-09-18, 03:31 PM)bludclot link Wrote: It's all about giving and taking information. Yes in the case you outline indication is useful, perhaps vital information. When there's nobody else around or within striking distance of an overtake it's unnecessary.
I agree with that. The problem is, for new drivers, its black and white. They get in to a van having passed their car test and treat it exactly the same. They are not taught to drive differently or even the fact that if they do have to drive a van things like speed limits are lower.
Another ex-Fazer rider that is a foccer again
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
I had to check it wasn't April 1st after reading that one darrsi :groan
(14-09-18, 04:08 PM)darrsi link Wrote: Where does it all end? :grumble
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/se...36041.html
I guess washing powder manufacturers will find themselves in court over the invention and use of the phrase too. :wall
You can't have some politically correct prick change the English language overnight.
It's a phrase that's even in the dictionary.
These people make me really fucking angry.
More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.
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