Driver fined for clutching apple

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There's a huuuuge difference between eating an apple and using a mobile
phone. When using a mobile phone, not only is one of your hands not on the
wheel, but you are also holding a conversation and therefore not
concentrating on what you are doing. That's why I think the legal use of
hands free sets is pathetic.

Mind you, some of the inhabitants of UKRM probably don't think when they are
talking and need to cncentrate when they chew ;-)

 

So in your opinion should talking to a passenger be made illegal as
well? How do you feel about listening to the radio?

 

Bear wrote

Swot I thought. Two things mind you, the 60's are a lot clearer than
the 70's in my mind which suggests that maybe I wasn't quite as 'there'
as maybe I thought I was at the time and Alice's Restaurant and the
whole of what I was doing way back then ended up being one of those
defining moment periods in my life.

 

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

"pedal". 1/10.

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rb wrote

I am more concerned about those people who talk to themselves. Not me
you understand, I am asking for a friend.

 

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

It's the sort of thing that a bloke who owns bicycles should know.

Oh... Wait...

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I think they should invent chewing gum that explodes when it hits the
ground wet, taking out the idiot that just spat it out/dropped it.

 

I sing to myself (within the confines of my lid), is this ok?

 

Rope wrote

I am not arguing. It is all to do with the wrong impressions people
would be getting from the bollox being spoken in the thread as a whole
and I actually know a fucking sight more about this one than the whole
fucking lot of you put together for a fucking change and I decided that
I could put them right with one well chosen place to put a single all
explanatory paragraph and the paragraph to go with it and you won, so I
did but you can have one if you want. I'm easy.

 

Talking to a passenger is less concentration-intensive because the sound
quality is much better and you're both to some degree aware of the
surroundings. I've tried to make this point time and time again, talking on
a phone takes a lot of concentration.

To prove it, try distracting someone talking on the phone. Usually all
you'll get is The Hand. Very rarely will anyone say "Hang on a minute" and
find out what you want.

In fact, set fire to them, I bet the result is the same.

 

porl wrote

Right on dude.

I am with the weird **** all the way on this one.

 

Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote

5-10 years I should think.

 

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You'll get over it. Or not.

 

Or drive along behind them in a police van with siren and blue lights
going, and see what happens.

<aside: it's tough to be a trend setter...>

 

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Perhaps you have to concentrate on listening to the radio to the extent that
it affects your ability to carry out other functions, I don't know.

How many SMIDSYs are down to car drivers not concentrating or being
distracted?

A bint in deep gossip mode with her passenger pulled out in front of me in
her Polo. If she had've connected that fact would've been a major part of
my statement.

That's one of the great things about riding a bike. There are few other
distractions and you concetrate on the business of riding. You are so much
more 'connected' with the experience of controlling a vehicle on the road.

 

Sure about that? You don't ever calculate how many more miles you
have to go before you fill up, what that tapping noise is from the
engine area, what you're going to have for dinner, whether the direct
debit for the gas bill bounced, whether your wife is having an affair
with the next-door-neighbour, whether your boss is going to leave
making promotion space for you, whether that dark cloud means rain or
just miserable daylight, whether Jonathan Woodgate's tendonitis is
going to clear up before the end of the season, wonder where the ****
that CD that you were looking for yesterday has got to, weigh up
whether to go to the doctor about your piles or wait and see if they
clear up with the anusol, have your memory twigged by something and
hark back to something that happened a long time ago, or just ponder
on Jennifer Aniston's (now available) nipples?

 

I don't like the radio on in the car as I get "shouty".

 

My passengers don't like the radio on in the car as I get "singy".

 

On your part, it would seem.

#I can't get used to not living next door to Alice

It was -7 on the way in this morning, with about 10-15cm of
accumulated snow (less in the city of course), which is quite unusual
for round here. It's sunny/cloudy at the moment, but then it was in
the middle of yesterday too but then we had loads of snow overnight.

Haven't seen a forecast but we're heading down to Morzine on Friday so
I'm hoping that the snow continues. Best you wrap up warm anyway.
We'll wave in your general direction as we pass on Monday.