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It never ceases to amaze me how self righteous people get about our driving ability ..... There is a study should any of you care to search for it that shows a huge proportion of us when asked rate ourselves as above average drivers .... Including those in prison for motoring offences ...... There are indeed idiots at the wheel and we can all at times number ourselves amongst them
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But flashing your lights and beeping your horn are acceptable forms of telling other drivers you are there. Middle lane joggers are usually oblivious to what is around them, therefore as the highway code states it is perfectly acceptable to let other road users know you are there.
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But flashing your lights and beeping your horn are acceptable forms of telling other drivers you are there. Middle lane joggers are usually oblivious to what is around them, therefore as the highway code states it is perfectly acceptable to let other road users know you are there.
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But flashing your lights and beeping your horn are acceptable forms of telling other drivers you are there. Middle lane joggers are usually oblivious to what is around them, therefore as the highway code states it is perfectly acceptable to let other road users know you are there.
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To answer the person who asks why I will not simply overtake a car hogging in the middle lane, that is not always possible, if the nearside lane is empty and I catch up with a vehicle using the middle lane doing let's say 50mph I have to move to the middle lane to overtake them, to move to the outside lane which may be busy is not so easy, so yes I sound my horn, flash my lights and let the idiot in the middle lane with no reason not to move to the nearside lane that I would like them to do so, some ignore you but not for long, they start to get embarrassed at the attention your bringing to them. after all they are insecure drivers so are easily unerved and you don't even have to get close to them.
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I am a patient driver, unless on the motorway behind a middle lane hogger then I just sit behind them flashing my lights and sounding my horn until they move over
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On speeding I understand the law, I understand why we have it, but it does work both ways for me, I drive for the speed of the road at the time, I dont speed often, I try not to speed but at 2am on a dual carriageway speeding is less dangerous than driving past a school at 3pm with the kids coming out at the legal 30mph. Some people though believe they are above the law and break it simply because they want to
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I am a patient driver, unless on the motorway behind a middle lane hogger then I just sit behind them flashing my lights and sounding my horn until they move over
Quote by MidsCouple24
On speeding I understand the law, I understand why we have it, but it does work both ways for me, I drive for the speed of the road at the time, I dont speed often, I try not to speed but at 2am on a dual carriageway speeding is less dangerous than driving past a school at 3pm with the kids coming out at the legal 30mph. Some people though believe they are above the law and break it simply because they want to
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But they are above the law on so many occasions, albeit that sometimes it is because they have made a ruling that they are above the law.
For example, they can legally smoke in some bars in the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
They do not have to pay for a TV licence.
They do not have to pay road tax for the car they use for constituency work.
They continue to flount the Rules of the Houses of Parliament and Lords not signing the book declaring their interests in things not connected with their work as an MP but which could be affected by their position.
Many still abuse their expenses claims and in so doing also break UK Tax laws.
Yes it is better to have a democracy but that does not give them the right to be above the law when it suits them.
Take the MP convicted of drink driving but not given any punishment because he was "taking his wife home from a party because she felt ill"
If any of us used that excuse we would be laughed at and probably given a more severe penalty.
Being bribed to do things within your employment is the worst thing you can do, MP's take a job where they have to be above bribery or fear of blackmail, we insist on that of many of our armed forces and civil servants who are "Positive Vetted" for certain jobs and an army Private accepts that responsibility for a lot less salary and benefits than an MP does.
If that was a football manager, player, sportsman, jockey etc the penalties are severe, why not MPs.
The reason they get away with it seems apparent by this thread, people don't care, people just accept it, brainwashed by the very people that do the crime.
so many sheep, so many sheep.
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No. There's no flying boots, just fake blood capsules. This holier than thou attitude from rugger-buggers does my head in.
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It still didn't take 3. That was inappropriate - did they feel they needed to protect each other from her flying Tai Kwan Do kick?
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It still didn't take 3. That was inappropriate - did they feel they needed to protect each other from her flying Tai Kwan Do kick?
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A somewhat different take on the same story!
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The point I was making is how many of those 10 receive national news coverage?
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Murders are an all too common occurrence, most of which do not receive national news coverage. The difference with the murder of Lee Rigby was that it was carried out in full public view, by people who claimed to have committed the murder for political reasons and who obviously wanted to attract as much publicity as possible.
I'm sure that had Mr Saleem been murdered in similar circumstances to Lee Rigby by two members of the EDL, the media coverage would have been just as extensive and and the focus would equally have been on the racial aspect of the crime.
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The lack of information about the death of Mohammed Saleem simply proves the point that a seemingly grotesque racist attack on an innocent 75 year I'd goes largely unreported albeit you can find details if you dig deep enough.
The reporting on the equally hideous death of Lee Rigby has opened wounds in the British psyche that have been closed for decades and the hysterical media coverage is creating division where there need not be division. These two murderers were demented criminals and not representative of the Muslim community. By focusing the nations attention on the racial and religious aspect of this crime we are at risk of alienating the vast majority of Muslims who are fully integrated into our society and who have contributed greatly to our society. We need mainstream Islam to fight radical Islam - attacking Islam generally will not help.
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The subject running on the video is clearly holding a machete.
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The subject running on the video is clearly holding a machete.
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As far as this particular crime goes I think it says a great deal about the media and how the media shape our understanding of what constitutes news.
Two or three weeks ago in Birmingham, a 75 year old grandfather was attacked and murdered by a machete wielding maniac. The man was walking home from the mosque and the white suspect was captured on CCTV fleeing the scene.
The story barely made local news coverage whereas the equally awful murder of the Woolwich soldier made International news and was the main feature for almost a continuous 48 hours on sky news and bbc news.
I am not trying to minimise the truly awful nature of either of these killings, simply pointing out how selective news media can be in their interpretation of what qualifies as news and it would seem that mainstream news may be about stirring outrage more than reporting news in an equal and unbiased way.
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As far as this particular crime goes I think it says a great deal about the media and how the media shape our understanding of what constitutes news.
Two or three weeks ago in Birmingham, a 75 year old grandfather was attacked and murdered by a machete wielding maniac. The man was walking home from the mosque and the white suspect was captured on CCTV fleeing the scene.
The story barely made local news coverage whereas the equally awful murder of the Woolwich soldier made International news and was the main feature for almost a continuous 48 hours on sky news and bbc news.
I am not trying to minimise the truly awful nature of either of these killings, simply pointing out how selective news media can be in their interpretation of what qualifies as news and it would seem that mainstream news may be about stirring outrage more than reporting news in an equal and unbiased way.
Quote by Too Hot
As far as this particular crime goes I think it says a great deal about the media and how the media shape our understanding of what constitutes news.
Two or three weeks ago in Birmingham, a 75 year old grandfather was attacked and murdered by a machete wielding maniac. The man was walking home from the mosque and the white suspect was captured on CCTV fleeing the scene.
The story barely made local news coverage whereas the equally awful murder of the Woolwich soldier made International news and was the main feature for almost a continuous 48 hours on sky news and bbc news.
I am not trying to minimise the truly awful nature of either of these killings, simply pointing out how selective news media can be in their interpretation of what qualifies as news and it would seem that mainstream news may be about stirring outrage more than reporting news in an equal and unbiased way.
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I'm not sure who it was that didn't give Chelsea a chance.
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They had a great side and it was a replay after a 2-2 draw at Wembley. Admittedly they had to get Chopper Harris to cripple Eddie Gray after his roasting of Webb in the first match. A much bigger shock was Sunderland's win against Leeds in 1973.
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One of the greatest teams in modern history of football being Leeds United in their great days of the 70's lost in an FA cup final to Chelsea who were not given a chance at the time. There have also been many other upsets where the little team defies the odds
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I tell you what LiznRob, I would be willing to work google and find non footballing celebrities that have been aggressive, caused GBH, caught taking drugs and other things that we should not see from role models if you will do the same and gather the list about footballers, to make it fair I will only target people in the music industry.
Let's see who can get the biggest list.
We could even categorise the behaviour, for example.
Murder
Drug Abuse
Violence towards another person off stage/pitch
Violence towards others on stage/pitch
Domestic Abuse
Affairs
Alcohol abuse
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I tell you what LiznRob, I would be willing to work google and find non footballing celebrities that have been aggressive, caused GBH, caught taking drugs and other things that we should not see from role models if you will do the same and gather the list about footballers, to make it fair I will only target people in the music industry.
Let's see who can get the biggest list.
We could even categorise the behaviour, for example.
Murder
Drug Abuse
Violence towards another person off stage/pitch
Violence towards others on stage/pitch
Domestic Abuse
Affairs
Alcohol abuse
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Naive for thinking that a networking site wouldn't actually be a networking site .. perhaps, maybe I should get trading standards to look at how they describe themselves and what they actually are then.
I do know that FB is losing 6 million members a month in the US and 2 million members a month in the UK alone. Those are the numbers closing accounts, no doubt many more are like me who now leave their accounts dormant, never actually visiting the site anymore.
But expecting a CEO to make money out if it, maybe, many sites exist only to encourage advertisers, but most of the businesses advertising on FB do not pay for the priviledge, they simply open user accounts, they could argue that they are merely networking but I think we all know they are not there to make friends and chat or play games.
Perhaps the businesses are welcome on facebook to compensate for the loss of public profiles on there, keeping up the numbers does help with the stock market price of FB and encourages those advertisers who do pay not to take their business elsewhere.
