Tories tackle speed camera rules

Pre-luddite technology.

 

<googles>
Oh, finely judged!

 

<g> Lucky guess, acherly.

 

Mebbe, but how one percieves these things is complex.

I don't do the Happy Birthday thing on here, as you probably know.

<fx: passes kleenex>

 

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 19:45:29 +0000, Paul Corfield
<> bored us all completely to death with wittery
prose along the lines of:

Sod it, you're already crying. I was gonna leave the burfday greetings
til Monday. Ah well, I'll say it now then.

Happy Burfday Paul!

 

Champ said:

The more people that gravitiate to living in the large urban
connurbations the better I think. They can enjoy the lifestyle and
convenience, good local public transport and shops - leaving miles of
empty country roads for me to ride on.

 

Ginge said:

I suspect that everyone has /always/ thought this.

 

Me neither

 

I've just felt we're overdue a change.

 

I may have been influenced in younger years by a school mate's dad. He was
an officer on Sub's, one of those rather large ones. He was always mumbling
on about the inevitability of *deployment*.
He was wrong of course.

Now I'm just convinced that HS is incapable of pulling in one direction.

 

Champ said:

We are though - as far as we are concerned, withing (say) 50 to 70
years, just about everyone of us (on this ng) will be dead.

 

Christ, that long?

 

Speak for yourself!! I intend to live to 150.

 

said:

I'm allowing for some of the younger members of the froup. For many of
us another 20 would be unlikely.

20 minutes in some (one) case.

 

Cab said:

That's not a lot of encouragement for the rest of us to try and live
longer.

 

<G> YP.

 

The talk I remember in the 70s was of "when the bomb drops".
Fortunately that's been stopped now. We've replaced it with "when the
terrorists strike".

There's something vaguely 1984 about all this terrorist stuff at the
moment; not knowing who the enemy is, sudden attacks, sudden victories
and all that.

 

*ding*

 

Champ said:

Aye - we were told it would be gone by 2000. Maybe it was gone by then,
and we are now using special petrol made from a secret recipe not
containing oil? It does smell a bit different to good old 4*.

We were also told that the coming of increased mechanisation and
computers would mean that we would all have a lot more lesure time; TBH
I don't think that the increased lesure is being distributed very fairly
at the moment.

Also. I want my hover-car and silver aluminium suit that we'd all be
wearing.

Perhaps the truth is, we can't really predict the future with any degree
of accuracy?

Whatever happens in 100 years time, it wont affect me in any meaningful
way. I'm sure that HS will still be plodding along, much as now -
prolly a bit more crowded and a bit better standard of living.

 

Cane said:

A few tweaks and you'd get my vote too - I like the thought of another
single European currency (to replace the outdated single European
currency that lasted 2000 years and we are still using in the UK).