Be Excellent To Each Other

Also Chris, when I passed my driving test 8 years ago, the petrol at my local pump was 79.9p, which is about the only time I bothered to remember. Since then it's been on a steady increase, and only jumping to silly degrees in the last year or two.

I don't know how anyone 'poorer' than me can cope.

Direct Line and NFU are the two companies I insure my cars with - Direct Line cars when you have 6 points, NFU when you have 9.

nynfortoo. I had a similar diverion a couple of weeks ago. One corner closed for a week meant an extra 10 miles a day. I didn't dare work out how much extra it was costing, rather I just bought cheaper sandwiches for a week.

Also Chris, when I passed my driving test 8 years ago, the petrol at my local pump was 79.9p, which is about the only time I bothered to remember. Since then it's been on a steady increase, and only jumping to silly degrees in the last year or two.

a pair of 3 litre Sierra's which they use for work

Nah it actually went down for a bit, then started climbing again.

I don't know if this is the case elsewhere, but petrol's finally started dropping a bit around here. The (very) local garage (a Shell) dropped its unleaded price from 118.9 to 114.9 last week, and now it's 112.9. Clearly, it's not exactly news unless it drops under a quid again, but I was expecting 130-odd by now.

I don't know if this is the case elsewhere, but petrol's finally started dropping a bit around here. The (very) local garage (a Shell) dropped its unleaded price from 118.9 to 114.9 last week, and now it's 112.9. Clearly, it's not exactly news unless it drops under a quid again, but I was expecting 130-odd by now.

Nah, that's rubbish, Grim...

It's a story I would like to archive for the ages. I'll write it up for my blog and post a link here when I'm done.

That's happening to people right now. Explain how it might be rubbish?

Because they bought a 3l Sierra instead of the myriad of other £1000 cars that would have been a much, much better idea?

A 1.6l Sierra for a start.

I knew someone was going say something like that. It's hardly the point, is it? They know now.
Anyway, that's only one point of my post, blah blah, back to WoS with you, blah.

[edit]And you didn't even read it properly - it's a £500 car, not a £1000 one. And that's so not the point anywa[explodes]

And I forgot my waterproof overpants today, so I'm soaked.

What sort of overpants do you normally wear to ride 50 miles, then?

Better yet, make it an audio recording, as it's even funnier as you get increasingly irate telling the story due to the foul memories it brings.

“Here’s what we are going to do. You are going to call your supervisor and you are going to call your tow truck driver and he is going to deliver the car back to exactly where he took it from. And I’m not going to call the police.”

Done. It's an angry story but it has a sweet, sweet ending.

That must have taken a long time to write, but it remains as excellent as the first time I heard it. Well done sir.

Perhaps I should expand my new blog by posting links to 'Anger elsewhere on the internet'

They seem more miffed and upset than EXPLODINGWITHRAGE

I was taken on a very long taxi ride to an airport in Denmark about eight years ago. On the way the driver took great pleasure in demonstrating a local set of controls to curb blatant high speeds on a straight road. On approaching a detector, your speed was clearly displayed if you were over the limit. If you were still going too quickly as you approached a second detector, some traffic lights turned to red just ahead. In the early days, apparently, the locals were prone to ignoring the lights so the authorities installed a camera. Consequently, if a culprit ignored everything, he would receive a ticket for three separate offences. I have to assume that this excellent arrangement is not deployed in the UK because it does not generate enough revenue.

They do have those 'speed detector/display' things here, there's one along that road in Rhiwderin. There doesn't seem to be a camera attached or near it, though.

And only complete fucking idiots get done by them... like those who speed up once they're past the camera and don't slow down until the next one, failing to understand what 'average' means.

Yeah, the cameras are quite small and blue

Wasn't there some story about how cameras on one lane didn't talk to those on the other two? Meaning that if you passed the first camera in lane one and the last in lane three you could get away with it. Has been fixed now?

That's not the same thing though, those nagging signs are not calibrated to a legal standard.

Those "nagging" signs that display your speed are great - they put one on a fast chicane near where I used to live, and we we're queuing up that weekend to see who could take it the fastest (my mates dad in a TVR Griffith, but only because it didn't detect motorbikes). They took the sign away again

Here is the corner in question - it doesn't look like much, but the fact that you can't see the white lines because of the rubber left on it gives you a clue as to how fast everybody goes round it.