Things you hate IV

Discussion in 'Taylor's Tittle-Tattle - General Banter' started by hornmeister, Jun 25, 2019.

  1. Robert Peel

    Robert Peel Squad Player

    I've done three. The last one was picked up in scummy Luton doing 60 on a 50 dual carriageway, coming back from a job interview I didn't get. Good thing was it was easyJet and I'd probably have been laid off by now.

    I don't like it when people try and chat. You're there for a couple of hours then will never see each other again, so leave me alone. This applies to many situations in life.
     
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  2. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    You could meet a best friend or partner for life at one of those joints. IBB and HH24 pretty much live there by the sounds of things.
     
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  3. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    How true that is.
     
  4. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Very true. Worst of all is chatting to people on internet forums that you're not going to meet even once, and wouldn't recognise if you walked past them in the street. I mean, who on earth would waste their time with such communication ?
     
  5. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    The last speed awareness course I was on Chesney Hawkes was also on. Much to his annoyance in pretty sure I’m the only one who realised but I didn’t let on.

    If you want anymore anecdotes like that I’m here all day.
     
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  6. Keighley

    Keighley First Team

    Fixed for you.
     
  7. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    Arsenal fans.

    Not met one yet that wasnt a c**t or a paedophile. True story.
     
  8. CYHSYF

    CYHSYF Academy Graduate

    My missus is an Arsenal fan, she may well be the exception to the rule
     
  9. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Speed awareness courses...having been caught on the motorway, then having to sit through about 3 hours of stuff with only about 10 minutes given over to motorway driving.
     
  10. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    You should have gone a bit faster. The one time I was caught, I was doing 89mph on the M40. On the back of the letter from Thames Valley constabulary the maximum speed to qualify for one of those courses was 86mph. So I had to take the £100 fine, 3 points on my licence which lasted for 4 years. Because I had an "SP50" endorsement on my licence, speeding on the motorway is probably considered the least naughty thing to have, it didn't affect my insurance premiums.
     
  11. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Unfortunately it was doing 56 at the end of a 50 mph reduced limit stretch they’d extended from 1 mile to 1.5 miles in the 3 weeks since I’d last driven that bit.
     
  12. rochdale away

    rochdale away Reservist

    So driving without due care and attention as well :D
     
  13. rochdale away

    rochdale away Reservist

    Got done twice in 6 weeks 4 years ago having done the awareness course 18 months earlier. I must say having 6 points slowed me down no end and I am pretty careful now even though the points have gone. It's the bloody camera vans that are the threat.
     
  14. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    You get a choice if you are in the “safety awareness” speed bracket - you don’t have to go on the course, you can take the fine and points instead if you prefer. Anyway, as I said previously, I thought the speed awareness course was interesting - I think it’s a bit arrogant and naive to say that the course is irrelevant just because the speeding you were caught for isn’t what is highlighted on the course. It’s certainly made me more aware of my driving and how much casual speeding I was previously guilty of. It’s early days but, so far, I’ve become a slower and more patient driver since doing the course. Plus, liked the fact it was on zoom so took up half the usual time and I could do it from the comfort of my own home.
     
  15. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    To be fair the points were enough to change my ways.
     
  16. Since63

    Since63 Squad Player

    Not arrogant as I honestly never speed in urban areas....but admit to doing it a lot on motorways when I had to drive a lot with my job.
     
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  17. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    Likewise, I was caught on a Sunday morning at 9am on the 4 lane bit of the M40, it was empty and I was running late for rugby match, there was a police van on a bridge. I don't speed in built up areas, never really have.
     
  18. FromDiv4

    FromDiv4 Reservist

    People who think speed limits only apply when there is a chance of being caught.
     
  19. Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett Reservist

    "running late for rugger m'lud, it's a shame about the family who died but needs must , next time
    I won't ignore the alarm clock although in my defence I was on the ale the night before etc etc ...."
     
  20. luke_golden

    luke_golden Space Cadet

    People who drive slowly.
     
  21. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    I haven’t done a speed awareness course for a while so assume it’s changed, there were some interesting and relevant points on it, but I found the final section odd. I assume it has changed since, but they focused on a big crash on the M4 that was basically caused by fog. It was a tragic event, but it just seemed strange to put so much focus on something that wasn’t really to do with speeding.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_M4_motorway_crash
     
  22. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    Having watched several programmes on engineering failures, disasters at sea and in the air I wonder why people feel the need to state God saved me, someone was watching out for me that day.

    Not the rational thought of your location ie deep inside a ship, at the back of a plane or wingroot, ability to swim, sheer will to live etc, etc played any part. What about the other people that died ? What of the little children clinging to the rails as described by a male survivor of the Estonia in heart rending terms. Was God not looking out for these innocents ?
     
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  23. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    That’s an (inadvertently?) amusing post a19tgg. :)

    Firstly, that you haven’t done a speed awareness course for a while and secondly because a multiple pile up in the fog has everything to do with speed awareness, i.e. matching speed to the conditions and not reckless other motorists.
     
  24. a19tgg

    a19tgg First Team

    The point is there is no proof that the accident was caused by anyone breaking the actual speed limit. Matching your speed to the conditions is just common sense, but it’s entirely different to breaking the speed limit under normal conditions which is exactly what everyone on the course had done. I think it would’ve been better if the example used was caused by someone actively breaking the speed limit.
     
  25. HappyHornet24

    HappyHornet24 Crapster Staff Member

    Nothing about that crash in the course I did last week.
     
  26. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    Mrs Crimble and her bloody coconut macaroons.

    Must be a major contribution to British obesity with their deceiving moistness and coconutty flavour. Only £1 for 6. I ate through a whole box of these yesterday through the day.

    About 8 thousand calories or something I suppose.

    [​IMG]
     
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  27. FromDiv4

    FromDiv4 Reservist

    You clearly learnt nothing on the speed awareness course! You use the correct words "speed limit" but give the impression it is the required speed, not that it is the maximum speed if all conditions are safe.
    I always find it strange when people drive at 70 or above with their fog lights on, do they think by putting them on they are then immune to the effects of fog? Do they think their fog lights on the back will stop them crashing into something in front of them they could not see, idiots.

    I am all for driving at the speed limit when safe to do so, but why do some many people think they don't apply to them or conditions never mean they should drive slower.
     
  28. Hornpete

    Hornpete Squad Player

    That was on the course I did.

    I thought it made sense. Most of the time in your comfortable metal box you feel safe and base your actions on the presumption of safety.

    Some people feel safe doing 35 in a 30.

    Some feel safe overtaking on bends because of their German engine.

    Some people think their brakes will save them.

    In the motorway m4 example it was made clear the drivers felt safe doing a higher speed but in reality they were not. Which is the point of the course.
     
  29. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Always best to keep your speed up in the motorway fog to avoid some speeding idiot rear-ending you in the gloom :).
     
  30. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    I can save your wasteline Clive. You do know that there is no ‘Mrs Crimble’ and that she is simply the invention of two pay school educated, marketing types? Our biscuits will be cooked by a diverse group of the minimum waged in a windowless barn. For this reason we are going to make you think that some charmingly gurning old lady, literally crochet’d from the salt of the Earth, bakes each one lovingly for you, as if you were her favourite grandson. Ooo ‘Mrs Crimble’.

     
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  31. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Still 6 macaroons for £1 is not to be sneezed at.
    God bless Julian and Arthur for their investment, and god bless capitalism setting the backdrop for their labour efficient manufacturing plant in Solihull.
     
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  32. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    If there was a ‘Mrs Crimble’ she’d be a Tory donor by now and her hideous offspring would be starring in ‘Made in Chelsea’.
     
  33. Moose

    Moose First Team Captain

    You were unlucky. Drive at 70 on the M40 and other than the trucks and one old dear in a Nissan Micra, you will watch an endless parade of cars zooming by you.
     
  34. Diamond

    Diamond First Team

    With the price of diesel right now I'm sticking to 56mph on the M25 and the lorries up my backside can **** right off.
     
  35. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    *fixed*
     

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