Come on, England !!!

So you don't know. So as you also don't know how to drive a fully
loaded 53ft long lorry how would you know it isn't being driven
professionally?

 

If he didn't, then what on earth was he doing coming round a blind
corner so fast?

It's bad enough when you do know it, and are just assuming there won't
be anything obstructing the road that isn't there every day. But when
you don't even know the road, it is even worse.

But however badly the other driver was behaving, that is no excuse for
the OP to compound it by driving the way he did, but that is
irrelevant to this particular point.

 

As I said to Brimstone, it will depend on the context. There is no
single definition of "behaving in a professional manner".

Quite easily in many cases. With difficulty in others.

There are some behaviours which are clearly not driving in a
professional manner - such as changing lanes without warning, varying
speed significantly without cause (such as hills or other vehicles),
various other things which are obvious when you see them.

Then there would be the unobvious things which would apply to any
driver doing them, such as driving when tired, or when not paying
attention to the road.

And then there are the even less obvious things such as driving in a
manner that is harmful to the vehicle, that I agree nobody who does
not drive that type of vehicle is likely to be aware of.


Of the visibly obvious things (which are obviously all I can judge
on), I see far fewer examples from LGV drivers than I do from car and
van drivers.

 

How do you know what speed he was doing? I had one twat in a village
accuse me of speeding in a 40 limit just after a S bend. I got out and
showed him my tacho which showed just under 30.

Perhaps you should have stopped toying with him and making it worse.

 

Conor wrote

I don't think that is right. I think that his sentence, whatever the
spelling, is constructed proper. A two part sentence with a comma
delimiting the question bit and the other bit is perfectly fine.


Oh look auvache giving grammar advice, now there is a thing you don't
see often do you?

 

But obviously far less ignorant than you.

 

in your mind only, I am not foul mouthed like you which to me and so many
others is just a sign of ignorance, but then you don't need my help to prove
that as you show that on here with all your swearing and foul mouthed
claptrap.

Point proven.

By the way you must get lots of holidays to be on here so much or are you
typing on your laptop as you drive and thus getting ready to cause an
accident which you will claim was the fault of a caravan in front of you

GROW UP

 

From many perspectives, that's a much over-rated activity.

 

I don't.

I was just assuming that the OP was right in that.

If he wasn't, then why would he have driven right up tight behind the
OP?

???
Was that supposed to mean something?

 

Unlike you I'm not a wage slave and I'm extremely good at what I do so
therefore I can choose when I want to work. Other advantages are that I
charge typically around 60% more than an employees hourly rate at my
clients for driving and also get to write off a fair whack against tax
so can work far less for the same money.

I actually only need to work about 5-6 days a month to cover all the
bills/mortgage/savings.

 

Probably not. It's like the "Thundering juggernaut" headlines which I
find hilarious when you think that they're limited to 56 and the
journos are trying to make out that they're doing 70+.

Could be the OP was doing 30 in a NSL like the old bloke I encountered
on the A41 yesterday.

Sorry, by "you" I actually meant the OP.

 

How does that work then? Do I do it by telepathy?

Really? For a start I'm actually UNDERCHARGING. I'm £2 per hr basic/£5
per hr overtime cheaper than the employment agencies and if I was
overcharging, I'd have no work would I?

I'm a born and bred Yorkshireman - I say what I like and I like what I
say.

I have confidence in myself and my abilities which, going on your rant,
it appears you don't.

 

Brimstone wrote on 20/06/2006 08:25 +0100:

FSVO "decent". Take your choice from a proper dictionary (OED, although
my money goes on A IIc here ;-)

A. adj. I. {dag}1. Pertaining to or marking entrance into a
religious order. Obs. rare{em}1.

II. 2. Pertaining to, proper to, or connected with a or one's
profession or calling.

3. Engaged in one of the learned or skilled professions, or in a
calling considered socially superior to a trade or handicraft.
professional (middle) class, members of the learned and skilled
professions regarded collectively. Freq. (with hyphen) attrib.

4. a. That follows an occupation as his (or her) profession,
life-work, or means of livelihood, as a professional soldier, musician,
or lecturer; spec. applied to one who follows, by way of profession or
business, an occupation generally engaged in as a pastime; hence used in
contrast with amateur, as professional cricketer. Disparagingly applied
to one who ‘makes a trade’ of anything that is properly pursued from
higher motives, as a professional politician.
professional beauty, humorously applied to a lady with the
implication that she makes it her business to be a beauty, or to be
known as such.

b. Of play, sports, etc.: Undertaken or engaged in for money, or as
a means of subsistence; engaged in by professionals (as distinct from
amateurs).

c. Disparagingly applied to one who pursues relentlessly an
activity or belief that is regarded with disfavour; inveterate,
habitual, ruthless.

d. Reaching a standard or having the quality expected of a
professional person or his work; competent in the manner of a professional.

e. Of technical equipment: of a type or standard used by professionals.

5. That is trained and skilled in the theoretic or scientific parts
of a trade or occupation, as distinct from its merely mechanical parts;
that raises his trade to the dignity of a learned profession.

{dag}6. = PROFESSORIAL. Obs. rare.

B. n.

1. One who belongs to one of the learned or skilled professions; a
professional man.

2. a. One who makes a profession or business of any occupation,
art, or sport, otherwise usually or often engaged in by amateurs, esp.
as a pastime: see the adj., sense 4.

b. spec. A prostitute. Cf. PROFESSION 6e.

3. Univ. slang. Short for professional examination.
In the Scottish Universities, the four necessary examinations for the
degree of M.B.C.M. are commonly known as First, Second, and Third
Professional, and Final.



--
Tony

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using
his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
- Leonardo da Vinci