So apart from Snin, PSRB and Barry, who else likes driving at 90+mph down the motorway a foot from

[Ashberto]

other cars' bumpers in what I presume are your BMWs and Audis, flashing the headlights before charging up the inside etc.

And how often do you lot get nicked for doing this?

[Snin]

:-)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

However, let us not forget that it was nannying socialist uber-bitch Castle who 'temporarily' introduced the 70 mph limit which costs us so much in lost productivity each year.

[Brentwood]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

in them there days were a lot less safe, seatbelt laws/kids chairs and the like were still years away. My old man was a mechanic, I used to spend much of my holidays with him at his garage...some of the mangled cars that came in had to be seen to be believed - the garage was just off a holiday route/motorway. I have no figures to hand but I bet there were lots more deaths on the roads back then, proportionally...

[Snin]

:hehe:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Our motorway limit is 120k which I have always thought is fast enough for any man to be hurtling along at, though I will admit to quite often unwittingly exceeding it.

[Snin]

and the thing would collapse like a tin can imo

[Monty91]

the number of deaths caused by speeding and I asked her if there were any stats about how many deaths would be prevented if we reduced the speed limit.

[Ashberto]

which I agree is poor show, or do you mean that the outer lane is only for people going at 90mph+?

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

on the A30 dual carriageway just o/s Exeter...

[Monty91]

[Ashberto]

At that speed you get bicycles overtaking you. :-|

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We should all be getting around much more quickly. Time is money, sw.

[Ashberto]

[PSRB]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I always keep a flask in the vehicle, mind.

[Fred Killah]

Have no time for posers imo.

[PSRB]

then don't just pull out to overtake someone and cause me to jam on the anchors, wait until I go past and then continue on your (slow but) merry way!

*I don't mean you in particular

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

f**k her. I hope she dies.

[barrybueno]

bit more only I saw the c**ts in a van up on their little mound so applied some brakage (safely of course)

[Berni]

one point involves defecation on the windscreen of an Audi. Most amusing.

Slightly unfortunate opening scene, mind. Given recent events. Funny, though.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Pat Vegas]

You get a chance to over take a cyclist. Only for him to cycle right past you and you have to do the whole thing again.

No point even leaving 2nd gear. Plus some of the bumps are poorly marked at night you don't see them as the paint has worn off.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Just lower the speed limit to 0. It's the only logical consequence of following the leftist anti-motorist propaganda.

They hate drivers because we insist on having our own free space in which to live freely - to make our own decisions about which route to take, what time to leave, when to stop for refreshment. The leftists can't abide individuals thinking for themselves; all these decisions should be made centrally, by a duly appointed Worker's Committee.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I suggest you all slow down, figuratively and metaphorically speaking.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I have never, and will never, do anything which might assist the enemy sate of Argentina.

I will watch it at your house. You may steal if from the Junta for me.

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I know, I know. They all piss in the same pot, though.

[Berni]

Take that weird, psycho president woman who looks like she's been left too near the radiator!

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I loved Testament of Youth when I was young, funnily enough.

Do you know my wife has never read it? :yikes:

[Snin]

**** brakes, not even abs..lethal little things

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

WE have to work for a living.

[Snin]

with perhaps no cars in inside lanes! or perhaps fine its ok to use it to get past a car..but then pull back into middle ..thats all

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Ashberto]

I usually walk everywhere. If I want to get to somewhere more distant, or more quickly, I use the underground railway system.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I was speaking more on a national level.

[Snin]

warning ? bad walkers are as annoying as bad drivers..should be a dawdling and families lane on london and city pavements

[Berni]

That was Shirley's mum. You've got your ugly socialist women mixed up.

[PSRB]

[Ashberto]

:hehe:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That was a sort of clue, that it was a sort of throw-away gag.

I know my lefties, mate. You can rely on that.

[Pat Vegas]

Was not fun. stumbles in front of me. I stop and wait then he does nothing. As soon as I start moving he starts walking in front of my car again.

Then on the other side of the road other cars swerving to miss him.

the only other thing that's happened so far is some kids pushing their mate in the road in front of me at a bus stop.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

However as people we could still congregate in each other’s houses of an evening for storytelling and dance, “craic agus ceoil” if you will.

And here we are now, out the other side of said recession, a buoyant economy and a nation again with a smile on our face and a tapping foot.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

:-(

[Ashberto]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Do whatever speed you wish to thereon, for the brief period you are occupying said lane whilst overtaking.

[Snin]

[Berni]

Sometimes it's difficult to know when you're being humourous and when you're just being plain wrong.

I do usually assume the former, to be fair.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Now I know that is not a ringing endorsement but it appears from many media sources that indeed the good times are about to roll again post austerity.

[Snin]

in and out as neccesary and lots of mirrors ..do that and ive no problems

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Not so much for the rest of them.

[Snin]

and all f**ked up again in about...5 years ?

[Berni]

It helps that, unlike certain others, they took their medicine hard and early in terms of austerity, rather than burying their heads in the sand - not that they really had that option, what with going flat bust and everything.

[PSRB]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

rock? That's why they've always had trouble growing enough food to feed themselves, apparently.

Something like that, anyway.

Austria seems to be doing remarkably well. It's like the Truman Show; the whole place is immaculate, full of immaculately presented people eating immaculate food in immaculate restaurants.

Plus 8 billion bewildered chinamen :sigh:

[Berni]

It's not all based on selling each other houses this time.

[Ashberto]

Lorries at 60pmh on the inside and lorries at 61mph in the middle. Cars at 90pmh on the outside. Difficult to pull out of the middle lane without getting in the way with that differential.

I agree that people should use their mirrors, and not hog lanes they are too slow for. They should also use indicators and not assume that everyone else should leap out of their way if they want to go at very high speed.

Basically if everyone drove at 80mph and lorries stuck to the inside motorways would be a lot easier to drive on imo.

[Ashberto]

as I'm barging my way through crowds of Italians in giant puffa jackets taking up all the pavement.

[Berni]

Hence having no food rationing in WWII.

Did you meet any Nazis while you were there?

[Classic Jorge]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

What I do know is that over the course of the last 6-7 years or whatever it has been, I personally am down roughly 500 euro per month on nett monthly salary however I do at least still have a job. The financial hit will now never be fully reversed as a large proportion of the cut was in the form of a new tax created solely to boost the Government’s coffers. The much maligned Universal Social Charge which no f**ker really seems to know what or why it was created for.

Of course we subsequently have had other new taxes on property and the new water one.

[Berni]

owned it in the first place? This one's always hilarious.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Well, yes, inevitably I met some Austrians :shrug:

A charming, cultured people, actually. I was most surprised.

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

sensible level. Before that, the bloody place was crawling with the f**kers.

[Snin]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Naturally the lights were with me so I walked across and cheeky *******s just sailed on through.

I gave him a piece of my mind though given I was listening to music on headphones, and the subsequent looks from other pedestrians, I think the piece of mind I gave him was notably louder than I had planned.

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[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Which f**ker has been telling me lies?

[Snin]

[Snin]

[Berni]

high income and not paying enough tax and that has now corrected itself.

This isn't helping, is it? :-(

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Shiny bicycle and suited.

I told him.

[Berni]

Although it is true that the central plain is shockingly bad agricultural land, as is much of the west coast.

[Ashberto]

themselves against light-jumping cyclists. I have come close to kicking the feckers of their bikes on occasion.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Tell me more about the quality of the soil, exactly.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You ever thought of giving a motivational Ted talk?

[Snin]

[Berni]

see? That makes it useless as both pasture and arable land and fit only for burning.

[Ashberto]

tbh all this is why I prefer to take the A roads when motorways are busy. Far less stressful on the whole.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You (or I) cannot prove the light jumping whereas he could prove the hammering you gave him.

It did occur to me earlier how much cooler it would have been had I been able to react and kick him off his bike instead of standing in the middle of a busy thoroughfare roaring and swearing at him as he shot off to his office.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Nice one Centurian.

[Snin]

im talking when out on the clearer motorways when lots of space and people block..i think we signing from same hymn sheet ash

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm considering the A1.

[Ashberto]

Doesn't take much longer than the M1-M6 and a lot less hassle.

[Ashberto]

I shall stick to wishing cancer on them under my breath.