Democracy?

Today, yesterday and the day before....

 

Well quite I was only saying I exceed 90 in 30 zones and 120 in 40 zones.
It's good A-road and dual carriageway respectively FFS.

 

Bzzt. The mobile one I was got with wasn't visible until far too late,
as I recall it was for sweller.

The limits are dropping around manchester too.

 

Doing the Manx this year?

 

Pah. I used to do 100 in a 20 on a regular basis when I worked in Park
Royal. When I was a teenager I used to see if I could max out my TZR
going through the traffic calming by my school.

Course, I'm an adult now. I only crash at under 20mph.

 

No you weren't.

hth

 

<reads original post again>

Oh, you pedantic sod.

 

They used to be 'NSL' all over the town where I spent much of my childhood,
and there were a multitude of tunnels and bridges so that, in theory, you
could go from A to B without ever crossing a major road.

Then a boy (~5 years IIRC) managed to get out of the house, down an
embankment, cross a fence, and got skelped by a car on the carriageway. He
didn't survive.

Rather than punching the useless parent's faces and asking them what the
**** they were doing when they were supposed to be supervising their child,
or taking it up with whatever official body deals with fences around
A-class roads, the council decided to lower the limit on that road to 30.
Now, whenever you go into one of the streets in that town, you see signs
with '20' and the sugary, cutesy (and fucking toe-curling) 'twenty's
plenty' on them.

It's just more of the 'de-responsibilisation' that's evoked on UKRM from
time to time. When I was that age, I was left in no doubt by my parents:
do _not_ go near the road'.

My solution: insert a gene into all human DNA, effecting reversible
sterilisation. An independent body maintains a 'marker' and, when the
person gets to 16 and scores over 100 on an IQ test, he or she is injected
with this 'marker' which reverses the sterilisation.

D.

 

Oh, I dunno. You argue with me often enough.

D.

 

I saw a wonderfully vague sign on the A361 between Glastonbury and
Pilton last week saying "Three people injured here in the last few
years".

 

Crikey, that solution sounds a bit final. You may be interested in the
work of this man:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele

 

I was saying what I meant to say, any misinterpretation is of no concern!

 

Exceeding the speed limit by three times means that you are travelling
at four times the speed limit, or 120mph in a 30 zone.

 

He was doing it based on race or ethnicity.

Doing it based on intelligence is the right thing to do. Just imagine the
red carpet, the Veuve Cliquot flowing like water and the mini-skirted
hostesses catering to your every whim at the ceremony in which the
expression, 'sorry mate, I didn't see you' is officially removed from the
English language as it hasn't been heard in a generation.

There's a Nobel in this for me.

D.

 

Yeah, they have the black 'human' cardboard cut-outs over here. Maybe
people would see it differently if they had signs reading, 'a working class
fuckwit with an IQ of 65 who thought that his new girlfriend would sleep
with him if he did a handbrake turn in the wet, bought it here last week.
The gene pool thanks him' ..?

D.

 

Greybeard banged the rocks together and they said :

You want to oil the road. Will stop the squealing a treat, that will.

The crunching, OTOH...

 

Yes probably, we're far to sensible to take the piss like that.
100+ on NSL roads is fine, but 30 is normally (almost always!) a built up
area or village. Since I live in a village where speeding drivers (cars
mainly, the bikers seem to respect the limit) are a nightmare. Especially as
I live on a sharp bend and the squealing tyres gets really annoying.

--
Greybeard



FLHTCUI UK-07 Mk II
Trumpet Trophy 1200 new one coming soon!
Garmin Zumo 550, To get me home!

ukrm@foxtails[dot]co[dot]uk

 

Des wrote

.... and motorcycle test, and has enough mechanical nous to know what's
inside an engine, and why.

Otherwise its off to the Soylent Green factory with them.

 

I almost hit one the day I bought the K100 and was heading to Honfleur to
pick up SWMBO.

But that's another story for another day.

D.

 

Des wrote

Presumably replaced with "Oooh Darling, we're all on the Pill and very
clean."