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Forum: Paul Smith, RIP Topic: What next ?? |
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2007 14:45
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| Sorry to post this under Paul's title, but I here at his computer, I need to go up on the roof and make a structure around the header tank for the only log stove that works in my office, but the other day at -11 all the water froze - even the pipes that are on the basement floor and lead back to the... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Police 'Right to Strike' |
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 18:13
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| How much support do people think the under equipped & underpaid soldiers who were sent to a streetwar we had no business being in will give to our government ? To the Squaddies reading this... I support you 100% Not the reasons you were sent there though. This is a difficult area for me persona... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Street lamp colour |
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 17:57
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| I always quite liked the old monochromatic orange sodium street lamps. Theye were certainly better than the mercury and fluorescent designs that were also common years ago. Sometime the more modern pinkish high pressure sodium lights are significantly brighter, which I think is helpful. But if I was... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: "Wannabe Police" Highways Officers? |
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 17:45
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| Not trying to labour a point, but why is a resemblance to Police vehicles a problem? [...] Balance that against the safety of Traffic Officers working on the motorway (and the people they may be protecting) and in my (admittedly biased) view it is a 'price' worth paying. There was a lot of consulta... |
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Forum: Help! I'm being prosecuted! Topic: Conditional Offer of Fixed Penalty - On Route |
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 17:35
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| This is a LTI20.20 laser speed meter in a camera van connected to video. The laser speed meter is dodgy at best, especially with vans. It should have been withdrawn years ago. Nevetheless it remains hard to fight. In the circumstances you describe it's possible - or even likely - that alternative ev... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Eu Treaty Signed |
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 16:55
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Replies: 19
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We have been betrayed.
Democracy itself has been betrayed. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Peer Review and Monbiot |
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Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 13:19
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bombus wrote: (I know I've been ranting a lot lately. My apologies to anyone who's fed up with it; I just wish I didn't have so much to rant about!  )
If that's a rant it's surely a top rant.
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Smoking in Cars,,My Mate's are now POLICEMEN. |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 23:24
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smeggy wrote: Paul_1966 wrote: Unless you know of any state-owned pubs and restaurants, of course it is. I see your point, the public access is probably what threw me.
Nothing to do with it being called a public house, obviously...  |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: A14 look good for new cameras |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 23:19
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| Between July 15 and September 15 this year there were eight collisions on that stretch of the A14, compared to 21 for the same period in 2006. [...] During the first four months since the cameras went live on July 9 there have been 258 speeding offences identified. There's some MAJOR cherry picking... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: "100 Lives Saved" statistics |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 20:55
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| Where do the government get the statistic of safety cameras saving 100 lives per year in the uk? The claim is usually ~50% decrease in KSI at camera sites. There are about 6000 cameras. Assuming 4 KSI in 3 years at each site- call it 1 KSI a year before camera installation. That is about 6000 Ksi. ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Advanced skid control |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 20:52
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| But it's worse than even that, really. You just can't get the throttle control balance stuff with the cradle cars, nor can you learn to feel the early warning signs of loss of grip in the steering. i've been lucky enough to have the chance to drive a high performance 2 seater recently, wide wide lo... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: BBC Radio Cambridge, 12th December 2007 |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 18:01
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| I'm on by telephone at about 5:10pm talking about 'early results' from the A14 specs cameras. What results would that be? :) http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=241031 (all I have so far). Perhaps someone would like to paste it as a news story and discuss it there? Ke... |
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Forum: Safe Speed in the News and Media Topic: BBC Radio Cambridge, 12th December 2007 |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 17:49
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| I'm on by telephone at about 5:10pm talking about 'early results' from the A14 specs cameras. |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: Driving school buys breathalysers |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 17:48
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| http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7140057.stm Driving school buys breathalysers A driving school in Derby is using a breathalyser on its pupils to make sure they are safe to get behind the wheel. The Derby Driving School has bought eight of the hand held devices for instructors to check ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Just been sent this - Re: Richard Brunstrom Thread |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 17:34
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| The thread has been edited and restored. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Just been sent this - Re: Richard Brunstrom |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 17:33
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The thread has been edited to remove the potentially offensive remark.
Sorry folks, I could find no other way.
antera309, who made the origninal remark, did not break any forum rule and should not be assumed to be censured in any way. |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Advanced skid control |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 15:49
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| I rate ordinary cars on real slippery skid pans as far far ahead of funny cradles and funny rear wheel steer cars. absolutely. I took a course in a cradle car about 10 years ago. The instructor pressing the buttons said 'now this is what happens in a real wheel drive car', pressing the button to re... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Just been sent this - Re: Richard Brunstrom Thread |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 14:46
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| "Just been sent this - Re: Richard Brunstrom" The thread of the above title has been moved to a private holding area because a comment was thought to be offensive. Did he compare him to Mohammed? I'm a little concerned that you have censored a thread. If the post was inciting violence the... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Advanced skid control |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 13:41
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| So contemplating getting us a his'n'hers skidpan course as an extra xmas pressie. Before anyone says "you old romantic", she's already going to do quite well for pressies..... I don't know about the specific skid pan (there might be better) but... DO IT, DO IT, DO IT! I rate ordinary cars... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Diabetes plea after fatal crash |
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 13:31
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| Eh? Are you saying that the insurance company had access to your confidential medical history? Really? How? And How dare they? As cabbie mentioned, the insurance company already knew, they probably checked with the DVLA. I wouldn't be surprised if the DVLA/Insurance/MOT database shows this informat... |
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