Amazing cheek.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_428000/428965.stm
I know it's old, but check out this link from '99. All the more likely it will be put in place sooner or later.
The bl**dy cheek of the last comment from a sodding pedestrian just has to be read to be believed.
I know it's old, but check out this link from '99. All the more likely it will be put in place sooner or later.
The bl**dy cheek of the last comment from a sodding pedestrian just has to be read to be believed.
I have found that kids messing around in front of my bike are soon moved out of the way by starting a rolling burnout...
Back to the article, doesn't it make you wonder what we pay road tax for, if we have less rights than a tree-hugging leftie?
Things got a lot worse when Bliar got in power.
Back to the article, doesn't it make you wonder what we pay road tax for, if we have less rights than a tree-hugging leftie?
Things got a lot worse when Bliar got in power.
Well I for one will be nicked for speeding if they change it to 40 seeing as my car was designed specifically for country road driving. They only interviewed 1000 people and there is no reference to where... seems to me to be blatent news creation with false statistics. If I hit a person at 40 they are still dead.
I drive country roads every day I meet horses, predestrians etc and I always slow down and often get smiles and waves. Changing the speed limit would be stupid as always driver training is the key.
I drive country roads every day I meet horses, predestrians etc and I always slow down and often get smiles and waves. Changing the speed limit would be stupid as always driver training is the key.
Right does anyone know how to get in touch with this alex kirby bastard so we can verbally batter him. I generally slow down when going past horses so I can lean out of the window and shout "how much f***ing road tax did you pay you bitch / bastard"? I usually follow up by getting just out of kicking range and then blowing the horn as much as possible if the buggers fall off so much the better.
I was out at the weekend, and came across several couples walking over the couple of hours that I was out, and I made sure I slowed down for them all - about half of them still started shaking their heads and making silly faces even though I was well below the speed limit when I passed them all.
Fucking rambling monkeys !!
Jim
Fucking rambling monkeys !!
Jim
Seems to me that we should perhaps let em have their own lanes, we can have ours and then we can be sure that there ain't going to be a pedestrian round the next corner bending over to pick up their zimmer frame, and stick to doing 60...... (
ok perhaps I'm living in la la land then...)
ok perhaps I'm living in la la land then...)Nonegreen - too right !
Something that made me chuckle.. when out on my mountain bike (I know, please forgive me), I saw young girlie on horseback. I rode up next to her on the pavement, and said;-
"Did you know you have a 5 mile tailback behind you, because you are stupid enough to ride your horse during rush hour" !!!!!
She didn't know what to say, so I called her a stuckup tart and rode off. Brilliant !! just for once I had NO NUMBER PLATE so couldn't be reported.
Something that made me chuckle.. when out on my mountain bike (I know, please forgive me), I saw young girlie on horseback. I rode up next to her on the pavement, and said;-
"Did you know you have a 5 mile tailback behind you, because you are stupid enough to ride your horse during rush hour" !!!!!
She didn't know what to say, so I called her a stuckup tart and rode off. Brilliant !! just for once I had NO NUMBER PLATE so couldn't be reported.
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I generally slow down when going past horses so I can lean out of the window and shout "how much f***ing road tax did you pay you bitch / bastard"? I usually follow up by getting just out of kicking range and then blowing the horn as much as possible if the buggers fall off so much the better.
Whilst I understand that horses on roads irritate some drivers, and anyone who rides a horse during rush hour needs their head examined, it isn't the horses fault....your 'attitude' is no different to Mr Kirby's - just on a different subject. Its just as inconsiderate, thoughtless and selfish (and Im well aware here that im being OTT but this sort of thing really pisses me off). Reminds me of a hunt sab I met at Uni who decided the way to stop hunting was to go out and string wire between trees at horses head height - what a f***ing genius. I know you arent suggesting that, but if you spook a horse with your car, you have ansolutely no idea what it will do - and the most likely outcome is that it will injure itself.....
sorry for being a ranting git, but I just can't agree with that sentiment...
Night
The point is nightmare that these green bastards are f***ing up our world. It is of course reasonable to adopt a policy of live and let live. But the greens are not being reasonable with us. If they were I would agree with everything you said. Until they start being reasonable then I have adopted this policy. Screw the legal system everytime the buggers catch me, harrass the politicians to the point of total abuse at every opportunity and pick on greens when they are doing their thing even if its a perfectly reasonable thing to do. In otherwords live and let die! If a few horses cop it in the process tough!
Horse and Hounds anyone ??? 
Live and let live is fine, until someones idea of reasonable behaviour become unreasonable to others. Looks like both sides are guilty as charged....
Frankly people walking in roads and deliberately trying to slow cars down is downright stupid, but then so is scaring a horse by passing too close. The countryside is not a racetrack but equally we shouldn't be villified by the greens for using roads as they were intended.
Might I suggest that if anything like this happens to you, just stop and have a polite chat (well, try and start off being polite
) with them to find out what they're so stressed about. Make them understand that cars are not illegal, nor will they ever be, and that they are endangering not just themselves but other road users by their actions. Ask them what they think might happen if they were struck by an open top car doing 30mph.....
Live and let live is fine, until someones idea of reasonable behaviour become unreasonable to others. Looks like both sides are guilty as charged....
Frankly people walking in roads and deliberately trying to slow cars down is downright stupid, but then so is scaring a horse by passing too close. The countryside is not a racetrack but equally we shouldn't be villified by the greens for using roads as they were intended.
Might I suggest that if anything like this happens to you, just stop and have a polite chat (well, try and start off being polite
) with them to find out what they're so stressed about. Make them understand that cars are not illegal, nor will they ever be, and that they are endangering not just themselves but other road users by their actions. Ask them what they think might happen if they were struck by an open top car doing 30mph.....
My other hobby is walking/rambling and it is very simple to plan routes with minumum road walks and is much more enjoyable on footpaths anyway. One thing I have noticed more recently is the lack of country code some ramblers have. For example walking on the RIGHT of the road so you are facing traffic.
When I do walk on roads I always am conscious that I am the "intruder" and it is my resposibility to ensure that I am safe, this can be done simply by a hand-up wave at a car. I would say 99% of drivers are responsible on country roads when it comes to predestrians. Especially if they can see them.
When I do walk on roads I always am conscious that I am the "intruder" and it is my resposibility to ensure that I am safe, this can be done simply by a hand-up wave at a car. I would say 99% of drivers are responsible on country roads when it comes to predestrians. Especially if they can see them.
mel, I would just qualify my earlier comments by saying that if said rambler turned out to be a total twat then they would be promptly enveloped in a cloud of tyre smoke and exhaust fumes as I side-stepped the clutch at 6,000rpm !!
Sometimes it's the only way to make your point.......
Incidentally, while the H&H troll was good fun and led to some right muppets getting wound up, there were some sensible people there and I think both "sides" came away with a slightly more reasonable view of the other's activities. God, I must be going soft in my old age......
Sometimes it's the only way to make your point.......
Incidentally, while the H&H troll was good fun and led to some right muppets getting wound up, there were some sensible people there and I think both "sides" came away with a slightly more reasonable view of the other's activities. God, I must be going soft in my old age......
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