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Forum: General Chat Topic: Does a flash motor act as a fanny magnet or not? |
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 02:30
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Quote: Although women found the flashy guys more desirable for a date, the man with the Porsche was not preferred as a marriage partner. Women inferred from a man's flashy spending that he was interested in uncommitted sex.
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Government to scrap M4 bus lane |
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:05
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Replies: 29
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| Since its introduction I think I have only used that M4 section once (when it was empty). However I do remember that during my commute there were daily traffic reports for weeks after that had traffic backing up onto the M25 (which it was implied they didn't before introduction). This slowly improve... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Travelling by bus "less stressful" than by car |
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Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 04:54
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Replies: 31
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| The last time I bothered with a bus was approx 18 years ago. At the time I was commuting 12 miles across South London. By car 35 mins By Bicycle 45 mins Car died and some scroats nicked my bicycles so: By train/bus (via central London) theoretical 90 mins best achieved time 135 mins By Bus theoretic... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: £656,000.00 speeding fine [possible] |
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 08:47
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Replies: 5
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| I don't know anything about Sweden's roads, or if it was a camera, but this is almost certainly a fair cop. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10960230 Although the local police are clearly on message "It's not controllable" - a clear falsehood as in the right conditions (racetrack) pe... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: New cameras in Stockport |
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 20:37
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| One of our resident cameraphiles quite often spouts more BS than comes out of the rear of Daisy( yer average friesian) , but on this subject I would tend to believe him when he says that these sprays just don't work . They certainly wouldn't admit it worked at all even if it sometimes worked. Going... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: New device going up near Gatsos. What is it? |
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 20:30
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Replies: 140
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The new unit is clearly a flash unit.
I would say it is to combat flash back caused by sprays such as this one:
http://www.phantomplate.com/
by changing the angle there will no longer be a reflection in the direction of the camera. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: New cameras in Stockport |
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Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 03:10
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Replies: 8
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I believe the second flash may be to combat products such as this one:
http://www.beatthecamera.com/
Once the camera and flash are seperated there will be no bright flash reflection and hecnce your number plate will be completely visible. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Concern over rural driving skills |
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 07:00
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Replies: 15
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| Return to mean: 2008 19 2007 12 2006 17 2005 17 2004 18 I couldn't find any earlier figures however with such a small sample you would have to use a rolling average of several years to gauge the result of any "improvements". Since around mid-late 2006 there has been significant increase in... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Stationary car clocked at 37mph |
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Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 13:54
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Replies: 12
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| Around 7-14 days later they post a request for the money and withhold the evidence to back it up. Your position is likely to be hopelessly weak as you may not even know if you past the speed trap in question on that day. You are threatened with the full weight of the state to impose extra costs and ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Stationary car clocked at 37mph |
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Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 00:12
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| http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2009/03/25/liverpool-teen-gets-a-speeding-ticket-for-her-stationary-car-100252-23228494/ Yet again the infallible system is flawed. At least on this occasion they withdrew but not before refusing to show the photographs until she pleaded not ... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Motorists face fines and points for minor accidents |
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Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 22:10
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| In 1986 there were 107,600 motorists convicted of careless driving but by 2006 this had fallen by more than 75 per cent to only 25,400. "The level of enforcement is steadily dropping," the Government noted in the consultation paper. This, it is believed, has resulted in an increasing numb... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Password Managers |
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 13:58
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Replies: 11
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| Not tried either but these are free and meant to be quite good (certainly better than a notepad file!): http://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordsafe/ or to run from USB stick you can directly use all sorts of software from here : http://portableapps.com/ in p... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: could not find a mention |
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2008 09:03
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| 7% drop? So that'll be about the rate at which they had HAD been dropping for many years before the introduction of cameras and this current passion for over-zealous automated enforcement! Which considering 2007 marked the year in which they stopped ramping up the number of cameras then the underly... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Cyclists allowed to ride the wrong way! |
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:09
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| Take a look at this roundabout , can you see the tongue of tarmac on its southern entrance extending from a flower bed done to a keep left bollard in the hatched area? This road divider has a raised kerb, though obviously you cannot see it. This roundabout was installed somewhere around 1986. At th... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Way To Go! Neil Hamilton! |
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 23:27
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| Our nationwide spying system brings in about £120million a year in fines but costs over £90million to run. So who benefits? Only the jobsworths. This is not quite the whole truth as getting the points will increase your insurance premium despite little or no increased risk, hence the insurance comp... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 1 in 200 chance of dying in a road crash |
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Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 02:00
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Flying is pretty safe its the take off and landing that's generally a bit dodgy. So if you only do short haul this is particularly risky.
If you don't believe that flying is a bit iffy get a life insurance quote and then see what happens when you phone back and say your a pilot. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M25 Variable Speed Limits |
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 23:02
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| I have in the lasts few months travelled anticlockwise at around 02:00 to find the signs on the approach to the M4 junction showing 50 despite there only being a dozen or so vehicles visible front and behind on both carriage ways. Is this just a revenue earning scam? Worse still on one occasion (ver... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Govt Response To "Climate Change Honesty" Petition |
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 04:08
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Replies: 45
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| The actual evidence they have is that CO2 has an insulating effect (although tiny compared to water vapour & methane {largely due to cattle & sheep}). When atmospheric C02 is high the global temperature is high although rather unfortunately it seems the temperature becoming high seems to sen... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: 60% increase in fatalities in Borders |
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 01:58
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| The A68 is a fabulous scenic road which as many excellent safe opportunities to pass the many lorries that use this road (it's significantly shorter than the A1 hence all the lorries). In England (at least last time I went that way) there is not a single camera. But once you cross the border they ar... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: licence with no test? |
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 07:19
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Replies: 7
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| The website was only registered on 6th November 2007. I doubt the website, successful license applications and testimonials could be achieved in 19 days. So personally I would suspect it is a 400 Euro (& ID theft) scam. It is possible they have operated without a website, however the whois addre... |
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