The Good Samaritan

Twat.

 

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

*Ginge*

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Poor bugger.
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What I thought ... when it was posted earlier

 

****, not again.

Unlucky, these Jag owners. Still, that's what happens when you buy a
fake Jag.
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Er, why? So what if it was a ginge, it didn't merit that sort of reply.

 

Bear said...

They call it progress, I call it badge engineering.

 

Bear wrote:

You mean the Corvair, 'Unsafe at any speed'?
Any videos of the original on the interweb thingy?
Was it really any worse than a Herald, Spitfire, Beetle or Porsche?

 

Bear scribbled on the back of a napkin:

Indeed. They found the same in Germany when cars with ABS became more
commonplace. Initially, inswearance companies saw a drop in accidents
involving cars with ABS, shortly followed by a massive increase as
people became more dependent on said technology.

I'd say it very much depends what you're after. TBH the average small
family car is probably better equipped to deal with the failures of the
person behind the wheel than it was ten years ago. They can now stamp
on the brakes as hard as they want to or do the same to the accelerator
and the car won't get out of shape the way it used to. In that sense
it's "safer" because people can be stupid behind the wheel without
being catapulted through a hedge.

The problem however is that people get dependant on mother's little
helpers. As a result the skill level of drivers seems to be falling all
the time, proving again that providing an idiot-proof design results in
someone providing you with a better idiot.

A side effect that people who are enthusiastic about driving note but
that is completely lost on most drivers is that cars have been getting
less and less involving and thus less fun to drive because every time
you do something thinking this would be fun, the electronic equivalent
of a NuLab do-gooder interferes because whatever you're up to is
clearly bad for you. After all, we know that fun is bad for you...

While I generally don't have a very high opinion of a certain J
Clarkson, Esq, his review of the Caterham for the Times
(http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,12529-1074076,00.html)
expresses the difference between a modern car (a Merc SL) and an
enthusiast's car (the Caterham) rather well.

Fuggedaboutit. The "Road Safety Lobby" shouts loudest about all the
wrong things in a zealous belief that they're about to improve "Road
Safety" by imposing more and more rules that no-one can be arsed to
know about unless they turn up on the front page of the Sun. There is
no real motoring lobby to balance out the knows-everything-better
brigade so the brigade mostly gets what they shout about loudest.

The one, simple change that would make a whole load of problems go away
is to improve the skills of the drivers but outside of (again)
enthusiasts circles, no-one seems to be interested in this. Why?

I guess my paranoid suspicion that this would involve personal
responsibility is going to ensure that it's dead already. After all, we
(as in the great unwashed) are clearly not responsible enough which is
why the scope of personal responsibility must be reduced as much as it
can be. At the end of the day we cannot let all the fingerwagging go
unheded.

Much as it pains me, I have to agree.

 

Eiron scribbled on the back of a napkin:

I think he does.

IIRC, the main problem with the Corsair was that they originally got
the tyre pressures wrong so the handling was completely off. Once they
got that under control, the cars were supposed to be pretty good but
the damage had already been done.

Don't forget that (AFAIR) the very early Porsche 911 had to have a
weight installed under the front of the car to cure a few handling
problems and 356s did have the uncanny ability to leave a bend going
backwards rather rapidly if the driver lifted the foot off the loud
pedal mid-bend. But these weren't exactly mass-market cars whereas the
Corvair was.

 

Ralph Nader and all the other career safety-nazis who successfully
managed to take the elemental risk out of driving.
There's something exciting about driving a heap of shit you know will
kill you if you make the slightest mistake. Imo, the Heralds, etc were
real cars; dodgy brakes, leaky windows, shit tyres, and gutless
performance. All you needed was to shoehorn some humungous lump of Yank
Iron under the bonnet and create a deathtrap - makes for a fun trip.
After all, people actually bought the Sunbeam Tiger.
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It's been ginged a few times in here and in every other fucking group I
sub. to at least a couple of times a day since it was first put up....

 

Phatso wrote

I was a Good Samaritan today I was. I regret it mind but I was. It
wasn't until after I had stopped and offered to help that I realised it
was a Hardly. I have since prayed for absolution. Although it being
coincidental with finding the horse shit halfway round a bend in Raweth
was just that, coincidental.

 

I think it's been posted three times on here so it's certainly been
overdone to put it mildly.

Not that I should be so forward as to comment because certain posters
would instantly start claiming I wouldn't have done so if it was a
regular and what does it matter if something gets posted a few times,
we're all on broadband aren't we?

 

Once. Brought to attention as the subject of the start of one thread.

Is the pathetic NThelL-dweller supposed to be aware of all the groups
you sub. to?

 

Dearie fucking me. What a complete and utter shame that the OP upset
you. It's still didn't merit that reply.

Take a good, hard look at yourself and try to see how others see you,
when you come up with shite like that. The world (and Usenet) wasn't
built around you.

 

Cc that to a few others around here

 

True, only some people make it more obvious than others.

 

And what about the Ford Edsel. Urban legend has it that a team of
psychologists were consulted about the grille design and they came up
with a design that was supposed to remind potential purchasers of their
mother.

Pity the front looked like a ****.
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