Best way to travel 5 miles to a train station?

I don't want to make you feel old, but my parents had one of those 25 years
ago. It was very yellow, but not as yellow as it was crap. My dad bought
it because my mum had just passed her driving test and found the Cortina he
owned too big and scary.

Given that he replaced the Datsun with a Talbot Solara, followed by a (brand
new) MG Maestro I wonder, in retrospect, what the **** he was thinking of,
really.


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Yes, very true. It's good for Renault really, because after they
produced some superb cars in the 1960s and 1970s (Dauphine, 12, 14 and
of course, the 4, as you say) they really lost the plot in the '80s and
'90s.

I would have amed Mercedes as an instantly identifiable car a few years
ago, but they seem to have lost their identity too.

Fiat seems to be getting its act together as well....

 

Actually, you're right here. I'm sure more motorists jump red lights
than did, say, ten years ago.

Or maybe it's a sort of "policemen are getting younger" thing.

 

No, I don't think so.

Welsh miner choices:
- walk to the mine
- starve

London choices:
- commute to work
- get a different job
- move
- dole
- starve

All of which still ignores the main point, which is that those
affected by low income and long commutes are a small subset of London
commuters. And few are without alternatives. My sister, for example,
got a council transfer to a block of flats next to the Hammersmith
Apollodeon where her husband worked.

Guy

 

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I think it's more of a 'policemen are getting fewer' thing IYSWIM.

 

Not entirely. There are actually more plod than ever before, but
traffic policing is not a "core duty" and none of the indicators on
which forces are measured are directly related to traffic enforcement,
so traffic police numbers are down.

Blame the Daily Mail, they think the plod should be guarding Middle
Britain's video recorders rather than reducing the death toll on the
roads ;-)

Guy

 

In case museums try to steal them?


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The casualty rate in the States is still horrendous.

The casualty rate change from introducing smooth steering wheels and
seat belts here was /not/ lower. but the folk killed changed from
drivers to pedestrians.

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So, according to you, function /should/ come before form.

So why are you objecting to function coming before form in the case
of the Peugeot?

And, to return to the preceding argument, beauty is in the eye of the
beholder. So far, only you've gone on about the Peugeot being
horrible. So you want /just your/ idea of form to come before
function.



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Isn't that discriminatory against diabetics?

 

True- but for some of these cases, the law of the land supports going
thro' on red.

3 and some of 4. If the vehicle you are in fails to trigger the cycle
of the lights, the lights are faulty, so you may proceed with caution.

1 isn't allowed, but I must admit, I have a significant degree of
sympathy with, depending on typical driver behaviour in the OP's area.

(I have been in two collisions where the vehicle I was in stopped at
red traffic lights, and was rear-ended by the vehicle behind. Both
times I was in a car, and the fact we were hit by a lorry was not too
traumatic. On a bike, the outcomes might have been much more
horrific).

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It's a car, its function is to provide a means of transportation.

I tell you what. You return to the previous argument. I really can't be
bothered. Enjoy.

<runs away screaming>

 

If chocolate is vatted then so should imported outofseason food.

People dont read enough fiction now anyway, reading (even harry potter), is
educational

be

Halfords, £90 for a bike

 

There's VAT on: chocolate, crisps, peanuts, other nuts, orange juice,
fizzy drinks, chocolate bicuits, if half-covered or more (remember the
Jaffa Cake business? Cakes VAT exempt, biscuits taxed...)

Fresh food is zero-rated.

If you shop at supermarkets, looking at your receipt will indicate which
items have VAT applied (It's an asterisk at Sainsbury's, for example)

 

(The Older Gentleman)typed

<argh RAYS!>

Surely it was Customs & Excise, not Inland Revenue, at the time?

 

Orange juice? As in fruit juice, or squash? Sounds very confusing

 

No, for a pile of crap.

Come to think of it it is difficult to buy a decent bike for 150 quid.

 

Yes, you're absolutely right. It was a VAT issue, so C&E.

 

Not a surprise, the same happened in the UK when compulsory seat belt
legislation was introduced.

Guy

 

Rather, families with young children cannot afford to buy multiple
bedroom city centre dwellings because they are too costly.

People without children to support need fewer rooms, and also have
higher levels of disposable income to spend on housing.


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