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V8MoneyPit:

--- Quote from: "muddyweb" ---"Jade Goody says that her new baby will be named Simon in honour of her 3rd cousin's hamster....  and in other news, 500 people were killed today when something exploded"
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Now doesn't that just sum it all up perfectly? Well said. I really think people have their priorities all wrong and the media (well parts of it) thrive on unimportant 'so called' news. I can't remember that last time I bought a newspaper. I do remember buying a Sunday Times and find just as much drivel in that as some of the tabloids..... whatever next?!

I guess they have to sell papers to make a living. But the biggest worry is that there must be huge public demand for such rubbish. Otherwise there wouldn't be a market for these publications and TV shows.

I think it is the same mentality that drives the do-gooders who bandwagon any minor cause to fill their otherwise empty lives. For goodness sake people.... get a life and stop wasting time reading/watching, and acting on, such insignificant drivel. If you want to save the planet, stop getting trees felled by buying the Sun/Star/Sport......
It will, in turn, help reduce the spread of misinformation and we will all live in a happier world as a result!

<deep breath... steps off box!>

WHITE WHULF:
I gotta have my say in this, I drive a 44ton Artic for a living, and do the best part of 2000 miles a week, and I can say with quite a bit of certainty that its not 4x4 owners who cause accidents, its idiots. Every type of car on the road is driven badly by someone, 4x4`s are no exception, the problem with big 4x4`s is that if you drive them like you would a mondeo, or a polo then you will have problems, they are not designed to be driven like that and if you try to you will get into problems. Its not a problem with the car itself, its a problem with the driver, whoever said it earlier in the thread has it dead on, there should be more education for drivers, and heres a novel idea, lets get rid of some of these annoying spped camera`s, the ones that measure average speed are much more effective speeding deterrants, and get some more coppers in patrol cars. the problem with speed camera`s is they only take photo`s of people who are speeding, speed on its own is not the problem, driving like a moron is.

rant over.....

till next time

V8MoneyPit:
When I was at Lotus they had a guy come in and teach advanced driving techniques. It was all part of local PR because there were a number of RTA's on the road from Lotus to the local town (!). It was a great talk. The very first thing he said was 'it is not speed that is dangerous, it is the misuse of it'.

We then all had a thrash (sorry, a controlled high speed drive!) in some Elans around the test track  :D

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