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yeah, but if you turn up for the MOT with forward pointing phased plasma cannons in a 40 watt range, they really frown upon you.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
It's not the BMW flashing it's head lights in the fast lane. I just pull over no problem. I see them coming a mile off.
It's the guy who sits in the middle lane at 60 because they feel safe with lots of space either side. It's the young driver in a custom Saxo driving like a twat weaving in and out the lanes.
In town it's the company transit driver and taxi drivers who think they own the road.
Or the plod who sit at 69mph in the middle lane daring anybody to overtake.
Worst if all are the European truck drivers.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I think the big one is uninsured drivers. A £300 fine is useless when the premiums for the people who do not insure are often in the £'000's. but I do like the idea they take the car away and if not resolved and fines paid they crush it. Get more old heaps off the roads if nothing else.
I used to love driving and car ownership ... witnessed by my posts on the 'classic car' thread ... but now I positively hate it (apart from small country roads). I'd abandon the car completely if the infrastructure was there to get to and from where my horses are stabled without setting wheel to tarmac, but it doesn't.
The motorist has become the cash cow for every parasitic industry and government agency under the sun ... and the driver, seen as being as antisocial as the public cigarette smoker. Manners and consideration have evaporated from the motorway, A road and town centre ... and you are as likely to get stabbed for some perceived slight to another road user as get the rude sign you might have got twenty years ago. You are sandwiched between loony Clarkson-esque petrol heads and tree hugging eco-twats.
I'm not sure motoring as we know it will be around in another twenty years ... and I'm not sure if I'm sad.
My plan is to move out to the country in a couple of years ... living on site with the horses ... use my 4x4 on waste oil ... and only on my own property ... and keep a shotgun handy for anyone who doesn't look 'local'.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
The fact that everyone thinks they're great drivers is why I think they should be off the roads, replaced with cool futuristic pod shit.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
I used motorist as I see it as a catchall term for those that drive cars, vans, motorcycles, pickup trucks, 4x4s, lorries ... in fact 'motor vehicle' drivers. 'Car' to me implies just a four seat, four wheel plain vanilla ... er car. And many moterists feel picked on because the car is seen as an extension of the human personality not simply a possession. Pick on someone's car and you pick on them is how many feel inside ... again rightly or wrongly.
If you look at the letters written in the era when the horse was being replaced by the railway ... then the same outrage for things that might 'fright the horses' was being expressed. I might hazard because 'personal transport' is fixed deep in the psyche alongside notions of personal freedom. Personally I think that the motorcar has had its day ... but there's not really any viable alternative for most people. I drive because I have to ... and hate pretty much every minute of it.
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog
Reliant Robin!!! Unless you also say Escort Ford, Astra Vauxhall, etc.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Just because I don't care, doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson
The poor househippy's car upside down at night.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I don't think you can lump mumsnet together, it would be like defining all of us with he same poitical and moral beliefs.