OT Speed cameras on A420

"The Wages Of Fear." They got through alright with an unstable load
of tripe and black pudding. It was on the way back that they were
careless....

 

Well, if Bear refrained from posting stories that are demonstrably
untrue, and claiming they actually happened, he'd attract a little bit
less of this sort of stuff.

Tall stories are one thing, but posting complete fabrication as gospel
truth is bloody silly. And it knackers the credibility of much of the
other stuff he posts.

 

Which was exactly his point to the medical examiner.. but apparently it
is now a requirement.

Even pointing out the fact that airlines only test corrected vision in
their pilots didn't work either :-(

Hmm.. hadn't thought of that one!

Phil

 

Well, if Bear refrained from posting stories that are demonstrably
untrue, and claiming they actually happened, he'd attract a little bit
less of this sort of stuff.

Tall stories are one thing, but posting complete fabrication as gospel
truth is bloody silly. And it knackers the credibility of much of the
other stuff he posts.[/QUOTE]

Well, yes. I just don't see the point of being inflammatory.
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Champ
GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2
GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8
Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com

 

Are you sure about this?
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Champ
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It's about time I got a licence at least, it is something I've always
wanted to do.

Will do.

Merry Christmas!

 

Details from the Ministry of Truth:
http://www.cec.org.uk/press/myths/myth32.htm

 

I bought a Geodesy. It hasn't got any gadgety buttons or screens on it,
just a bank of LEDs and a beeper that get louder/brighter/beepier as you
get nearer the target.

It was an ex-demo job and cost £100 with six months' subscription.
Result!

It is the "MK1" so doesn't have the technology of telling you the camera
it's warning you of is on the other side of the road or over that bank
you just drove past by the flyover which can be a bit distracting and
the false alarm thing is where it takes them so long to remove sites
from the database. They got a website you can report it to but they have
to investigate which obviously takes time.

I can't honestly say it's saved my licence yet because I've only used it
in places I know and the other thing is that you can become complacent
and stop looking out for cameras altogether so in some ways it's a false
sense of security. Still, it's a useful tool and one I will be keeping
for a while.

 

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It's very, very hard to take you seriously when you post fiction.

Unless you're saying you don't?

Look, people cop flak when they post complete bollocks. I'm not talking
about damn silly postings, stupid opinions, daft ideas, or whatever,
but stuff that isn't true and known not to be true.

And as long as you keep doing that - the "I know best about everything"
approach that Ben seems to object to is a slightly different issue,
IMHO - you're doing yourself no favours.

It's not just *you* (as it were): I regard anyone who does it with
derision. As do others, incidentally.

Take a deep breath, knock the bullshit fantasy posts on the head, and
you'll earn a damn sight more respect. You post some worthwhile,
informative and funny stuff, but I'm not the only one fed up with
having to wade through all the Walter Mitty shit and trying to work out
what's what.

 

I was thinking about it in a purely technical way, not about cars going
splat on the front of logging trucks and stuff.

 

"Oh, the irony".

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

That's the one where the black pud was suspended on bungee cords inside
the back of truck? One good pothole and Carlisle would be a memory.

Another olde-tyme truck-driving classic was "Ice Cold in Embra", where
the plucky survivors of a Ne'erday haggis raid were cut off behind the
lines and had to navigate at night across hostile terrain, hiding during
the day from trafpol and bands of marauding clampers.

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GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Some, but not a lot.

Solicitor has brought in some heavyweight medical experts, its now a case
of waiting to see if they can come up with enough to be able to challenge
DVLA in court.

If not its another 4 years before I can try to get them back again.


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Kevin - Basildon
XV535
GPZ305 (her's)
BOTAFOT#67 BOTAFOF#23
OSOS#29

 

No.

Phil

 

This is the problem, that is why there is almost no policing of that
particular speed limit, those in the know, ie: the traffic police that have
done the lorry course[1] know that if the limit was enforced[2] they would
have a lot more scraping up work to do.

The main exception to the above is when a lorry is involved in an accident
and the lorry speed is deemed to be a contributary factor.


[1] any copper can do you for a traffic offence, but they have to do a
special course before they are allowed to inspect or test the vehicle or
tacho.

[2] which with tacho's in our cab that would be very easy to do.


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XV535
GPZ305 (her's)
BOTAFOT#67 BOTAFOF#23
OSOS#29

 

I wasn't thinking of that, actually, but "whatever".

This would include the deep-fried chewing gum tale? Sorry, but I don't
believe your assertion that you saw it offered for sale. You know why?

I was sort of associated with the original place that did this, as a
one-off, as a laugh. I was editing a paper for the fast food trade at
the time, and we were running a sort of "What daft thing are you frying
now?" column, and this shop rang me up and told me.

Now the tale has been posted a couple of times, in the last several
years, by me, and there have of course been loads of postings about the
Jocks' strange diet. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, you suddenly
claim personal experience of it.

Well, OK, yes, it's possible that someone in Aberdeen or Glasgow (and
you couldn't remember which, which given your perfect recall of
everything else in the story, I find odd) picked up the idea and ran
with it, but the odds are not betting odds. I'm sorry: call it a
character flaw, but I don't believe you.

EDIT: I've just googled for the earliest posting of that tale. It was
in 1998: http://tinyurl.com/65pfe

And you were in that thread, which I'm sure is where you got the idea
from. And you picked it up again in 2003: http://tinyurl.com/4fmuq

Although then, oddly, you couldn't remember then having seen it for
yourself. So yes, I believe your tale this month is a fabrication.

In the way you developed the theme, it's resembles your tale on upce
about how you bricked yourself when you saw what you thought was a
copper on a police bike - only it had POLITE written on the fairing.

And that was utter and complete bullshit. It just wasn't true. It's an
urban myth, which you appropriated for yourself. Damned if I know why.
ISTR pointing it out at the time, but you continued embellishing the
tale. Ironically, your mentioned the POLITE bike here on ukrm, some
time previously, and admitted that you didn't know whether it was a
myth or not.

Here: http://tinyurl.com/6dw95

You're the one who blathers that I "can't be trusted". It's awfully
difficult to trust the stuff you post, and this is why. I know I'm not
the only one who thinks the same. If you're now even more pissed off
with me, the solution is simple: don't post utter bollocks or, if you
do, X-no-archive your postings.
(to the rest of ukrm - sorry for this, at Xmas time an' all)

 

<TOG@toil>; <>;

I suspect what happen was that the guy running the shop had accidentally
dropped his chewing gum into the fryer and when it ended up amongst Bear's
chips he was able to convince him it was an authentic Scottish dish.

 

Heh. Oddly enough, that I *would* have believed.

 

<snip>

Job done. Would the next pathological liar like to step up to the
plate?

 

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<darsy mode on>

Not at all, you are, after all, only here for our amusement