Speed awareness course..

[old.Tohtori]

This calls for a fanny kick jpeg

Suprisingly hard to find a pg rated version of that, especially a gif.

 

[MYstIC G]

Most of my driving is on the motorway, where accidents are unlikely. Why should I subsidise people who drive in rush hour urban traffic? Or should we all pay to support Comrade Mystic G?

Oh look, a facetious reply. You're not subsidising people who "drive in rush hour traffic" so don't talk shit. If you pay for your car, insurance & fuel drive where and when the hell you like, just like everyone else should be able to. You want to volunteer for the queue where you could face additional unnecessary sanctions being placed on your existence, so be it, but don't drag everyone else along for the ride.

 

[Tom]

Oh look, a facetious reply.

Wow, what a hypocrite.

You're not subsidising people who "drive in rush hour traffic" so don't talk shit. If you pay for your car, insurance & fuel drive where and when the hell you like, just like everyone else should be able to. You want to volunteer for the queue where you could face additional unnecessary sanctions being placed on your existence, so be it, but don't drag everyone else along for the ride.

ROFL, so first you call me a socialist (as though it's some kind of slur) and then you advocate everyone being able to do whatever they like on a socialised road network. What are you going to complain about next - your electricity bill being "tracked"? Your phone call details being "tracked"? Maybe you think you're Will Smith, being chased by spooks in helicopters.

Here's an idea. If everyone should be able to "drive where and when the hell you like", let's get all 70 million of us in cars, on the road, every day. See how long your principles last then, when you can't drive your lardy arse to the chip shop? The roads are a shared resource and it makes perfect sense to plan accordingly to get the maximum benefit from them. If you don't like being tracked, walk.

 

[Ch3tan]

Can we try and keep it a discussion please? This thread was going so well

 

[MYstIC G]

Actually comrade was probably the wrong word, it was meant more in a "fuck off you little dictator" sense actually.

drive your lardy arse to the chip shop

Yeah, chip shop, that's what everyone in England except you does with their cars

Please sir, can we all be as super special as you are since you're such a cut above...

 

[MYstIC G]

Can we try and keep it a discussion please? This thread was going so well

It went downhill when you didn't post the kick picture tbfh

 

[Raven]

Its a waste of time trying to talk to Tom, he lives in a weird little bubble.

 

[Scouse]

Why should I subsidise people who drive in rush hour urban traffic?

You have to pick which is the bigger issue. Freedom, or cycling.

I completely support your ambition to have more people cycling - but never, ever, at the cost of more power in the hands of authority.

 

[Scouse]

Its a waste of time trying to talk to Tom, he lives in a weird little bubble.

This is not true. He's normally quite reasonable.

 

[sayward]

I was supposedly doing 40 in a 30 limit on a road full of cameras where I always crawl.

Got offered a course so took it to avoid points. Had to keep my mouth tightly closed as I knew all the answers and could have probably held the course.

Of course they keep sending people on them they are making thousands and thousands of pounds out of them. Can't remember the actual figures but at £80 a pop it's lots according to the Sunday Times driving section.

 

[Exioce]

The course is good at explaining some of the things people have been complaining about here, like seemingly arbitrary speed limits etc.
It gave me some really useful tips for figuring out the current speed limit. Before I would sometimes be unsure until I saw a sign - it's actually a really consistent system.

I randomly watched the BBC's The Motorway: Life in the Fast Lane doc and it's useful to see things from the other side.

 

[Draylor]

It gave me some really useful tips for figuring out the current speed limit.

Ignoring the obvious (common sense) isnt it as simple as looking at the sat nav?

 

[old.Tohtori]

Ignoring the obvious (common sense) isnt it as simple as looking at the sat nav?

I was thinking more "isn't it as simple as looking at the speedlimit signs"

 

[fettoken]

You have to pick which is the bigger issue. Freedom, or cycling.

Where do you live, the Scottish moors or something?

 

[Moriath]

I was thinking more "isn't it as simple as looking at the speedlimit signs"

Things like spacing of lamp posts etc

 

[Draylor]

I was thinking more "isn't it as simple as looking at the speedlimit signs"

For anyone else that would absolutely qualify as common sense

 

[old.Tohtori]

For anyone else that would absolutely qualify as common sense

Luckily for the rest there's satnav

 

[sayward]

Sat nav is not always right.

 

[Draylor]

Well, again, common sense - dont rely on Apples directions

 

[Corran]

Well, again, common sense - dont rely on Apples directions

Please drive into this river!

ok!

oh no I blame the satnav not myself for not looking

 

[fettoken]

I was supposedly doing 40 in a 30 limit on a road full of cameras where I always crawl.

Got offered a course so took it to avoid points. Had to keep my mouth tightly closed as I knew all the answers and could have probably held the course.

Of course they keep sending people on them they are making thousands and thousands of pounds out of them. Can't remember the actual figures but at £80 a pop it's lots according to the Sunday Times driving section.

So all in all they're just taking the piss and earning an extra buck.