Be Excellent To Each Other

Well, yeah, I assumed that'd be taken as read. It was one of the estate Mondeo ones, and was in 'normal car' mode.

A friend of mine recently conclusively proved this does not work.

If it hasn't worked you haven't actually done it...

So I'd still say it's a better rule of thumb to tell people than giving them a chart of distances in meters at various speeds. Certainly if everyone did observe the two second rule there would be fewer pile ups.

MyFinger was once queuing on the Severn Bridge tolls when a police car came screaming up with lights and siren on. When this happens, they radio ahead and open a special slip lane down one end of the tollbooth. Except, not this time -- he braked hard down from 90mph, turned the siren off, meekly queued through the toll, waved his "let me through badge", turned the siren back on, and zoomed off the other side.

I presume the emergency was the end of his shift, then.

I would imagine the withdrawal method has extra pitfalls on a motorway.

I thought so to, so I got my calculator and worked it out, and thought "huh, 26.8, he is right"

I very rarely get angry. maybe 'miffed' or 'irked' but not angry.

Don't get angry, get mad. And then get even madder.

I don't get angry very often, but I do when it comes to my kids, I suppose most parents do really. I'm a pretty laid back person, but I have noticed lately that I'm taking a lot less shit than I used to. I used to just ignore stuff for a quite life, but not anymore, I seem to have gone into zero tolerance mode. Not that I get things out of perspective, ust when someone else loses out because of something someone else has done, I don't do road rage, but when someone refuses to take responsibility for their own actions (e.g. in a car accident) that makes me very cross as I find it to be immature behaviour and it makes me feel like a school marm!

I think the last time I got angry was last week when Darryl got punched, the cops have cautioned the bloke saying that he had said that Darryl had been taunting him, when I asked about what the WPC said she didn't know! Riiiiight, so he's not really making shit up to say he was provoked...

When road rage goes wrong:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 804007.ece

Oh well. If nothing else, she'll at least get a bit of posthumous infamy on Wikipedia's list of unusual deaths.

Screw that. She's surely a Darwin award in the making.

Admit responsibility at the scene of an accident and you may find you're suddenly not insured any more.

Hilarious! stupid bint.

I think she was probably seriously mentally ill.

It did say at the end of the article about that. Her brain was pretty fried.

She got a bit hot under the collar, certainly.

Oh dear, it's not actually funny at all is it

Yes!

Anyone who deliberately stays in a car accelerating madly while it catches fire around them doesn't deserve the slightest sympathy.

Need-psyc-profiling-FTFY

Heh, did you see CSI Noo York on 5 last night?

I'll agree it is no design for life, but look at manslaughter charges, for example the asian guy somewhere oop narth who is doing life for killing his beyenpee next door neighbour whose family had racially abused his own for years and who had his (the asian guy's) child by the throat, as I recall... ok, killing someone is not really acceptable (though in the case of nazis I'd argue if it was good enough for my grandfather, it is good enough for me) but the cold hard unchangeable fact is that if you push someone far enugh, they snap and do you in.

THIS IS NATURAL. GOOD, HONEST HUMAN NATURE.

We are not perfect, we are barely out of the trees and our current progrss over the last couple of thousand years is a drop in the ocean. We are primal, savage beings learning to change and doing so very fast, and well done us... but the claw is still the law (hence police, prison and armed forces) and any person(s) who willfully push another until they retaliate in an uncharacteristic and savage manner bloody well deserve it and natural selection found them wanting. Tough fucking shit. U am t3h ep1c phail, etc.

Making someone be angry is nature's way of updating you as to how thin the ice upon which you metaphorically stand is. I recoil from any situation where I feel I've upset or angered someone, and I do so out of natural sense of self preservation. I think my own anger comes from facing off against faceless organisations I can't directly confront.

Manslaughter i have a hard time justifying. The provocation which often precedes it I can NEVER justify. Hiroshima. Belsen. Stoke-on-Trent. Places and times linked forever to utterly epic acts of violence. We all know them, we all know why, and how and so on. We know what man is, yet some will test his patience.

Seems like a better idea all round to be respectful and polite to others. And funnily enoough when people aren't, it bloody makes me angry

The thing with anger is, unless you literally go around screaming at and butchering everyone who makes you angry (and even if you did and got away with it, your'e further assuming that this would make you feel better), the only person who suffers by clinging onto it is you.

Just learn to accept crappy people and events. It'll make you feel a lot better, and it'll piss off the people who like annoying you. Always forgive your enemies, etc.

The greatest possible revenge over the things and people that thwart you is to simply enjoy life despite them.

Unfortunately, crappy people in various governments do insist on piling crappy events on everyone, all the time.

Ho ho!