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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What's behind all THIS ? : |
| Papaumau |
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 14:38
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| To Kaz..... ( Crivvins, this is hard work to have to reply to everyone who finds my thoughts so interesting by quoting them ! ). Anyway.... You can't have it both ways, and councils attempts to set speed limits according to politically correct agendas is what is currently discrediting all limits. W... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
| Papaumau |
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 14:11
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| Cjb Mate.... You have been one VERY lucky cuss as well as a 20/20-sighted one with your specs on ! You know - of course - that you have now tempted providence far too much to stay clear of points ! If you notice white-knuckle syndrome when you are out in the car the next time....just relax...and st... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 13:54
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| Hornet...you said - after a long pre-amble: May I ask what selling point drew you to the PT Cruiser? Well.......It was not based around all of that very interesting EuroNCAP stuff I can tell you ! Probably, if I was totally truthful here I would say that I picked it because I am a ZEE ZEE-TOP fan !... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
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Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 13:35
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| OK....Gatsobait...I will try to explain after you said: Papaumau, I'm getting dizzy. You began this thread with criticism of the motoring press hyping up fast cars (with a certain amount of justification btw, though not always). Your second post went off on a tangent about drivers of fast cars again... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
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Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 12:56
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| Sorry r11co.... but it would be very bad mannered of me to let this thread die after I have been asked a question ! Serious question for you, Papaumau... What spec is the PC/laptop you use? My PC is the fastest thing that you can get that will sit still on a workstation....SO WHAT ? I still have to... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 18:26
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| SO....It seems to me to be the case that the powerful car or the powerful bike is bought so that one can beat the other punter from the traffic lights and that's that ! As these fast cars and bikes - ( I have driven both BTW ) - cannot be driven at anything NEAR their potential top speed it is only ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 14:11
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YEH....that's what I said...."FANTASY"
Mind you, in this particular case I think that "fantasy" should be left on the magazine shelves and in the TV screens and NOT carried out onto the roads. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Expert Opinion of excess speed? |
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 14:06
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| Sorry Mrs M..... I cannae get your link to work ! ( mind you it could be becuse of my webfilter programme, as I have been having problems with some sites switching off if I don't allow them to advertise and chuck data-miners into my computer from their webpages.) Anyway..... I find that not just in ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Re-Direct..... |
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 13:54
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| For those that are interested in the cost and extended value of buying a new car and who don't often read the "blether" section of the forum here is a link directly to it : http://www.safespeed.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=440 Thankyou ! You better be quick as the boss is going to deep six this inno... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Motoring magazines and TV programmes. |
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 13:46
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| I cannot understand why these magazines and TV programmes glorify the most powerful and most sexually attractive cars and bikes. It seems to me that the punters who narrate the articles and clips push the fastest and greatly accelerated cars and bikes too when they might appeal to the blokish types ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Expert Opinion of excess speed? |
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Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 13:25
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| I think that the cops are scared of bikers ! I say this as where I used to live was on an approach road to the Knockhill racing track and whenever there was an important meeting on there was never a cop or a speed gun to be seen when these racing enthusiasts - especially the bikers - broke every spe... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What's behind all THIS ? : |
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 16:07
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| CJB & Gatsobait..... "because the speed is inappropriate for the conditions." I think that this phrase put's it all in a nutshell ! As I have already said - to the Nth degree - It cannot be the driver who decides what speed is "appropriate for the conditions" and if this is accepted then the sp... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: OK...let's look at speed.... |
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 15:48
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| Can I widen this a bit please ? Let's look at judges for a minute shall we: It has been reported in the media for some time now that the law and the justiciary only sit there and Solomon-like make sentence interpretations that in the main seem to be less than able to fit the crime. From the victims ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What's behind all THIS ? : |
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 15:23
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| The rationale as I interpret it, is that at any specific time at any specific location and under any specific traffic / weather conditions (and of course in a specific type of vehicle) there is a "safe speed" at which a specific driver should not exceed. This speed varies wildly according to the in... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What's behind all THIS ? : |
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Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 13:43
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| In Gear & The General....... I DO get your points and as a sensible chap I agree with most of them ! The point that I cannot get my head around is the "Safespeed" slogan that this site and a few other are wrapped around ! It sorta suggests that as long as you are a perfect driver and maybe even... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What's behind all THIS ? : |
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 18:30
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| Thanks Gatsobait....... "We might as well say that it's dangerous to work in tall buildings since jumping off the roof is very dangerous" That is a perfect analogy of my speed in a vacuum argument ! OK...let's just stand on the roof of that building and jump off without a parachute shall we...... J... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: WHAT A SHOCK ! |
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 13:32
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| In the absence of creativity and imagination we get the one-line putdown ! |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: What's behind all THIS ? : |
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 13:27
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| Ahhhhh Gatsobait..... Yes it was you that quoted that the "Speed Kills" slogan is dogma ! I agree, I agree....OK ! ( I am so sorry for the question mark above - I just couldn't be bothered looking back to see where it had come from...Happy now ? ). A also agree that the phrase is a dogmatic bit of ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: WHAT A SHOCK ! |
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Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 13:00
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| Introduction: I have copied this from my own forum and put it into the "blether" section of this "motoring" forum as I feel that the drivers who read and write to this "safe speed" site should know about this subject - that is if they don't know already of course ! As the owner has not bothered to p... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Women are the safest drivers ? |
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 20:30
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| Yeh Andy..... I have seen SOME women doing SOME of these things too but I find it difficult to stereotype all women like that ! ( Remember Sheila Van-Dam ? Or am I speaking before your time ? ). She was one of the greatest drivers that has EVER been behind a wheel ! I am sure that even the most rab... |
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