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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: open and shut case?? |
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 14:13
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| http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2194814/Mother-recalls-moment-lost-husband-mother-foster-sons-crash-impatient-driver-forced-road-overtaking.html Now, when I first read this I found myself wondering how could he possibly plead not guilty. Surely it is "Open and Shut" But then I thou... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Drunk riding a bicycle ?............Jail. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 23:16
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| The usual victim of drunken cycling is the cyclist himself As is the usual victim of drunken driving (At least in the serious accidents), I am sure I read somewhere that around 70% of DD fatalities are actually the DD him/her self and/or, his/her, passangers (IE sort of willing participents). The e... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Electric handbrake rage! |
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Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2012 08:30
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| Me, now I prefer the manual option I must say (And while being cautious about attempting to establish a trend based on only a single data point) I do find the aparrant corralation.. "Speed cam supporter=prefers dumbed down de-skilled (and less versitile) version" an interesting one! I won... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Electric handbrake rage! |
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 19:58
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| My Neighbor has just come home in a hire car, it has one of these electric handbrakes that seem to be increasingly standard these days! She is Grumpy! She is Grumpy because it took her about ten minuits to park the damn thing! She needed to reverse into a confined space slightly down hill (In revers... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bradley Wiggins |
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 09:42
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| The way I see the argument going is like this. Obviously (I expect) Were I to propose to whack Weep over the head with my "Clicky-Ba" he would prefer that I did so after he had put a helmet on. So in absolute terms, wearing a helmet is safer. However, we are not looking at a simple envirom... |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bradley Wiggins |
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 09:40
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| As reported... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2182407/Dan-Harris-cyclist-death-Cyclist-killed-outside-new-Olympic-Park-velodrome-riding-bike-try-beat-jams-caused-Games.html And as suspected! Accident as a result of cyclist attempting to pass left turning large vechicle on the near side! Why... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: How the Tax system works-in Beer! |
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 08:50
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| The fact is that a very small number of taxpayers pay the lion's share of the tax. We already have a very socialist redistributive compact in the U.K. It is also forgotton that the world is a far more mobile place than it used to be. Treat the wealthy "Unfairly" and it is very easy for th... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: How the Tax system works-in Beer! |
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 19:50
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| Suppose that once a week, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to £100. If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this.. The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing. The fifth would pay £1. The sixth would pay £3. The seventh would pay £7. ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed |
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Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 13:30
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Replies: 249
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| So lets extrapolate and make everyone go along the motorway at 20 mph. Actually, that is about the speed for maximum throughput, (which is why it is the speed that traffic tends towards as traffic load increaces.) Unfortunatly,it is unstable! A couple of MPH each way reduces throughput fairly signi... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: MOT and MIL's |
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 16:22
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If it is now an MOT fail to have any MIL on at the time of testing. Is it now also an offence to use a car with any MIL on ??  |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: DVLA scam email warning |
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 19:56
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| Immediate red light:- licen S e And " inconviniences " Would that this was true. However! Even "Official" UK.GOV sites are riddled with Typos, Grammer bloopers, Pidgen English and whatever! I am no grammer/spelling expert, But I am also not publishing websites for a Major Global... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Windows 8, Anybody used it yet? |
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Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 12:48
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As Above!
Most of the reports I have seen are critical, But is this just the whinges of the naturally conservative or are the critisisims justified?? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The Need for Autonomous Vehicle Law |
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 09:11
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| I;d ratehr get into a newish airbus than a 1930 Tiger Moth - even though I had the reassurance of knowig that all the controls on the Tiger Moth are operated by good, solid levers and bits of wire! Mind, it depends on the enviroment. Flying BA I'd agree with you, but if I was flying "Rwandan A... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The Need for Autonomous Vehicle Law |
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 15:40
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| Anyway, presumably you're happy to get on a plane? Ah, but would you be happy getting on a plane that had missed its last two services because the owner was "A bit short" and the last service it did have was carried out by a guy called "Abdul" (with only a mobile number for cont... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The Need for Autonomous Vehicle Law |
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 22:50
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| Seems to me that much of this was covered decades ago in Sci-Fi. Nobody will be allowed to "Own" an autonomous vehicle. You probabally will not even be allowed to use manual controll! The vehicles will remain the property (and the responsibility) of the manufactureor. "Users" wil... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Speed |
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Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 16:01
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Quote: You'd advocate the removal of all speed limits and associate legislation?
Are you saying that it is impossible to drive safely without a speedometer? |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Air Con |
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Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 08:53
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| I find hairyness interesting from an evolutionary POV. (Particularly the ability to grow beards) It is NOT clear that it is nececarrily related to cold (I dont believe Inuit grow beards) I also find the modern habit of shaving intertesting. I suspect it goes rather deeper than just being more comfor... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Air Con |
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 20:32
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Cant remember the name of that strange Harrison Ford film about the Guy with a strange obsession about Ice... But he was right!
Ice (Or artificial cooling) is a sign of civilisation!
Any shaved monkey can keep warm in a cold enviroment! but keeping cool in a hot one!
OOoooh Yesss! |
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Forum: Cycling Topic: Bicycle bells dangerous..! |
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Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 09:14
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Whilst it is true that there are some enviroments where lead based paints can be hazardous (Childen WERE poisened by chewing on their cots, but not that many!) it should be remembererd that the lead wasnt used just for fun!
There is a reason why modern paint is mostly crap! |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: High /low pressure fuel lines |
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Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 09:44
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| On any diesel engine High presure lines will always be steel! Even traditional systems operated at 2-3000 PSI CR systems operate at stageringly high pressures (30,000-40,000! comes to mind) (DONT tamper with them! being sprayed by fuel from a leaking CR system will likley kill you!) However, many ve... |
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