7 day wait

Happily driving along a country road, listening to You & Yours on R4.
Enters a village[1]. Spots a camera van ahead, glances down 38mph so that's
okay. Gets to the other end of the village, looks in mirror to see a
reversed 30 on the sign. Bollocks. When did the cunts do that? It doesn't
seem long since it went from NSL to 40.

Hopefully my speedo is hopelessly inaccurate and the threshold is 10%+2

[1] Devauden, middle of nowhere, cross country route to Chepstow.

 

Tripe innit? R4 has it's highs & lows, that's pretty fucking boring.

Although, at least the most pointless radio series ever has finished...A
history of the world in a 100 objects, great that you cant fucking see them
at the time of broadcast.

 

I'd had the Today programme on, going there. As I got back in the car R4
resumed and Y&Y were discussing community care which is related to my
"job". Then it was industrialised dairy farming so, having been born on a
dairy farm, I kept it on. The report about what they do in the US was
interesting and mind boggling. One enterprise has 32,000 cows and supplies
enough milk for Chicago, Indianapolis & all the towns inbetween. Someone
has put in a planning application in Lincolnshire for a similar, if smaller
scale, project.

We've had this discussion before. I quite like current affairs, magazine
style programmes on the radio. I've mentioned R5 before and you get snooty
about that too, despite them having one of the best political commentators
on the radio in John Pienaar and Mark Kermode's film review.

 

That's exactly how I got nabbed earlier this year. You're goin' daahhhn

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Nige

You really are a total bloody Philistine. That was a superb series.

 

Perhaps Nige is a fan of Bread.
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but the difference is that they usually have a bit of proper journalism to
set the scene and where the vox pop is included in the *edited* report it
can be quite informative. Aligning it to the claptrap that Richard Bacon
does is a category mistake, IMV.

You've just been brainwashed by ISIHAC.

 

hhhmmppph!!

 

No pete, it was as funny as Liverpool, oh hang on...

 

Wrong 'Bread'. Before your time but:

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I'll add mine but with the caveat the repeated musical theme was damn
annoying.

 

I'm with you on this, I think. Assuming that this was the thing that
later went on TV, and was just about art and shit.

And anyway, talking radio is just for folks who can't afford telly.

 

I'm a R4 fan too. Apart from the sitcoms which I find just too
predictable and the Archers of course.

 

Which would be 35 on the speedo, so it'd need to be more than hopelessly
inaccurate, it'd need to be totally fucked to give you a chance of not
getting a NIP.

Another road fucked by the safety nazi's.

 

Not really, as most speedos are made to over-read, usually by just
slightly less than the maximum 10% allowed. So a genuine 35 would read
about 38 on many/most speedos.

 

Hmm. I had a silent moment of bogglation as, when drifting down the A1
in the car, I checked the speedo against the GPS: both steady on 85mph.
I hadn't noticed this degree of correlation previously, so had a little
experiment: speedo 100, GPS 99; speedo 70, GPS 70 - and later on an
urban straight: speedo 40, GPS 38.

The tyres must have worn to exactly the right circumference, or summat.

 

That's worth knowing about. I've recently had three points to
calibrate, having discovered how to get a display of the
pre-adjustment spped taken from the wheels, as well as the GPS. These
two are always within ~1% of each other, with the variance of the
actual speedo set at around +8%.

My wife finds this hard to understand, but when passing cameras I find
it absolutely essential to drive as close to the maximum possible
speed below the trigger-point, so it's important to know that an
indicated 90kph is a genuine 82, hence 3kph in the safe, as it were.
This means I set the cruise to 93kph, of course.

 

Scary. The Mazda 6 over reads enough to give a good margin for error cf.
the GPS. Gets the revs up more in to the sweet spot on the autoroute
without taking the piss out of the natives too much when passing fixed
cameras.
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<awaits disaster report from Nige, when his Chinese car stereo arrives>

 

Safety Nazi. I'll confess that I was wondering if such a device was
legal in the UK if fitted in the dashboard? No more distracting than a
Satnav though, and probably less entertaining most of the time.

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