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Cant police officers read road signs
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: henryandlesley on September 09, 2008, 17:42:32 ---
--- Quote from: Lord Shagg-Pyle on September 09, 2008, 17:13:23 ---Oh dear, I feel the hate coming from this topic :roll:
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I was not having a pop at any police officer just saying why cant they read road signs which I thought it was funny seeing it turn up this road and the very line of traffic behind as I know I was down in dover a few weeks ago and turned up this road and just as i got round the corner there was a sign say no through road for hgv's so I went through knowing that i had a 45 ft trailor and if i backed out onto the main dual carrageway then there would of been a right mess so i went through to find a safe place to turn arround and just 300 yards there was and when i was turning arround a police car came up the road and stopped to let me carry on with turning arround and yes I did say thankyou for him holding up the traffic but what was safer doing what i did or just backing out
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Perhaps the use of the word 'hate' was the wrong choice on my behalf, and for that I apologise. 'Dissent' may have been a better one to use, and possibly justified.
To quote The Bard from his Merchant of Venice, when Shylock was on trial "If you cut us, do we not bleed?"
Something like that, anyway. Thats probably the only bit I do recall from the MoV, unlike A Midsummer Night's Dream, which he must have been stoned when he wrote it or at least having an 'alternative lifestyle moment. I mean, an ass called Bottom? Hmm, make of that what you will! Men dressing as women and women dressing as men? Sounds like an evening bash at a political party conference!
As for being a stoned author, how about Lewis Carroll with Alice in Wonderland.
Picture the scene. Lewis is suffering from writers block and laudanum withdrawal, so he necks a few glasses of absinthe and what happens?
"ok, ok, I've got it, right. Theres this chick, right, and she eats this special cake, and she starts to see this rabbit with a big watch, and a dormouse that lives in a teapot, right, and there is this hatter bloke who has unbirthdays, then these playing cards start running round painting flowers. Then the Alice chick, wow this is good gear, eats a mushroom and gets, like, really big and, right, sees this big cat that vanishes, leaving only a smile. What a far out trip!"
HE WAS A DOPE FREAK!
As for Mary Shelly and Bram Stoker, bad acid trips, or what?
I digress, where was I? Oh yes! Is it me, or are Mars Bars smaller now than when we were kids? I need sleep, lots of sleep. Beer would be good, or rum, or both, in a bucket with a straw.
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: henryandlesley on September 09, 2008, 18:47:06 ---
they are getting smaller and why have they changed the names on most chocolate bars like marathon to snickers and opal fruits to star burstwhat else is going to change it is a pitty this goverment dont change
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Re-branding and the ability of us public to think "Ooh, snickers, thats new, it must be better!" A bit like British Leyland having such a bad reputation, changing it to Austin Rover, which didn't really help, to Rover. Nuff said. Metro to Rover 100 or City Rover. Bad move. However much you polish a turd, it is still a turd! Unlike a marathon, which is not one of those, but could be if you warmed it in your hands, shaped it and dropped it in someones pint! Never fails to amuse at parties! :twisted:
Boddle:
--- Quote from: EbonynIvory on September 09, 2008, 09:14:24 ---Can any one explain to me why you can smoke while driving but be done for eating an apple?
--- Quote from: Boddle on September 09, 2008, 08:41:17 --- And bluetooth are not hands free as people still have to phone up to enter number and is as illegal to use as the pick up the phone to your ear.
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I use blue tooth and I don't hold my phone to my ear. Whats the difference between a corded hands free and a un - corded ear piece? Confused!
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Seem to recall on the scatter hunt watching you Scrabble with your phone for a period of at least 10 seconds fortunately we on a track like green lane traveling at five miles an hour an there was nothing to injure but rabbits for miles. At 30MPH you are traveling at 13 1/3 meters per second that's 133meter you haven't looked at the road once, at 70mph that translate to 310 meter (best part of 1/4 of a mile) it made me realise the danger even a bluetooth device can be. Hence the reason the state a wired in system and you are only allow to answer or use voice activated preprogrammed numbers. It Like the same as trying to read a map of or sat nav when driving or for that matter drink whilest driving (not just alcohol). All of which you will likely be done for dangerous particularly within the Warwickshire Borders as a result of an accident. Dangerous driving is a 2 year ban £1000 fine and the real humiliating part is the retest before you can drive again after your ban (Death by dangerous driving comes with 6 month in prison), with out all the additions to insurance cost and difficulties with jobs ETC you don't want to go there.
You know I am talking as some one who has had Dangerous driving conviction.
Think about it, Driving is like walking into a crowd of people with a hand grenade in your hand with the pin remove you may be have the strength to hold on to it or you may take out others and then having to live with that afterwards(as you may kill other but not yourself).
Although I don't currently work in areas of the vehicle which relate to crash I have done in the past and I've also spent time envolve with setting up crash tests. Having seen a Range Rover Classic in 30mph crash test I would not recommend it to any one you Disco won't fare much better.
Boddle:
If I'm not mistaken you'll find that it also Illegal to cover the ears with anything but the hair on your head when driving.
Wireless:
What about people driving motorcycles, they seem to cover their ears all the time?
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