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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: bestie26 on 15 November 2010, 21:34:21
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first bad bit of frost this morn and yes it was bloody cold scraping the windows ready for the school run but..... the amount of people on the roads this morning with just windscreen cleared or a patch cleared on drivers side to see out of gets my back up it takes all of 5 mins to clear them ! i clear ALL mine even after a night shift when the roads are quiet (6am) cant believe people wing it by scraping peepholes in the windscreen :o
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i don't understand it either, the 5 mins it takes to scrap all windows with heaters on full, its nice and toasty by the time i get in too
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It's very stupid, dangerous & if plod sees them i hope they get a ticket.
I had a very slight & i mean slight mist on the inside of my windscreen on the way to work the other week, which didn't affect my vision until i turned a junction & the sun was shining directly onto my screen. I had to pull up & wait a few extra seconds for the screen to clear, but how many do i see with misted up windows or ice on their windows? Quite a few >:(
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i even had a neigbour (four doors away) who drove his car outside my house then decided to clear his windows all the while his missus reving the car to keep it ticking over ! serves them right as far as iam concerned if they get a ticket , would the set off in a morning with a bed sheet over there windscreen ? id hope not yet quite happy to have windscreen covered in ice ???? makes no sense
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lazy barstewards. They'd bloody complain though if someone crashed into them because of it.
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they would, but like with drink drivers unfortunatly its the innocent people who get hurt the people in the wrong tend to walk away unscathed should be a on the spot fine if anyone is caught with iced up windows, charge of dangerous driving or driving without due care and any commen sense :y
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I walked passed a woman this morning as her wipers were scraping their way across the frosted screen. Apart from the fact she was killing her wiper blades, it would've been far faster for her to get her lazy backside out of the car & scrape her window. :-?
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It beats me how many women I see, with their most treasured posessions in the car, on the school run, with ice still all over their windscreens.
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The thin blue line is getting thinner as we speak so these morans know they wont be caught and given a ticket.
The other one that gets my goat is snow covered cars being driven before the snow has been cleared off them >:( >:( >:(
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The thin blue line is getting thinner as we speak so these morans know they wont be caught and given a ticket.
The other one that gets my goat is snow covered cars being driven before the snow has been cleared off them >:( >:( >:(
You're not kidding!
And people driving with their mirrors turned in, and hyper active baseball cap wearing idiots driving whilst fiddling with radio/turning heatin on/texting/doing anything other than look whilst driving
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We used to start the cars, leave the heater on and come back in the house... ::) ::) ::) till last winter when my sister in laws car was stolen from the drive and the insurance have not paid up, stolen with keys in......
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ah yes there will be plenty of them once the snow comes , yes its good you cleared your windows of snow but that pile you have on your bonnet will blind you and your windscreen again as soon as you get up to a decent speed , not to mention the pile you have on the roof blinding everyone behind you ! seems common sense is out of the window everyone is in a rush and defo gets worse nearer xmas :(
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It beats me how many women I see, with their most treasured posessions in the car, on the school run, with ice still all over their windscreens.
steady on. you will be expecting them not to park on the school building entrance steps next.
as for the 20mph limit outside schools from another thread...
with cars parked everywhere the roads like an assault course..impossible if not dangerous at 9am/3.30pm
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You have got to feel for them when they have to go and pick up the bits afrer these prats crash >:( >:( >:(
Just watched coppers on C4 tonight and the S*** they have to deal with is unbeliveable
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It beats me how many women I see, with their most treasured posessions in the car, on the school run, with ice still all over their windscreens.
steady on. you will be expecting them not to park on the school building entrance steps next.
as for the 20mph limit outside schools from another thread...
with cars parked everywhere the roads like an assault course..impossible if not dangerous at 9am/3.30pm
Make the little buggers walk to school , like we did all those yrs ago as it never hurt us
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unfortunatly its at a point now where you cant leave your car unlocked for 5 mins let alone have them running to clear windows and warm it up , only a couple of weeks ago a stolen car trying to hide from police slammed my dads drive gates then reversed with the passenger door open , smashing into my cousins saxo .police left my cousin with a crime number and a dented rear 1/4 saying nothing much else they could do ! the offending little tit was caught around the corner arrested and back out by dinner time >:(
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It beats me how many women I see, with their most treasured posessions in the car, on the school run, with ice still all over their windscreens.
steady on. you will be expecting them not to park on the school building entrance steps next.
as for the 20mph limit outside schools from another thread...
with cars parked everywhere the roads like an assault course..impossible if not dangerous at 9am/3.30pm
Make the little buggers walk to school , like we did all those yrs ago as it never hurt us
Yeah, then they might not all be so obese and protected and lacking in life skills
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It beats me how many women I see, with their most treasured posessions in the car, on the school run, with ice still all over their windscreens.
steady on. you will be expecting them not to park on the school building entrance steps next.
as for the 20mph limit outside schools from another thread...
with cars parked everywhere the roads like an assault course..impossible if not dangerous at 9am/3.30pm
Make the little buggers walk to school , like we did all those yrs ago as it never hurt us
Yeah, then they might not all be so obese and protected and lacking in life skills
I used to walk to school .. I still ended up obese, protected and lacking in.. wait, er.. ;D
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It beats me how many women I see, with their most treasured posessions in the car, on the school run, with ice still all over their windscreens.
steady on. you will be expecting them not to park on the school building entrance steps next.
as for the 20mph limit outside schools from another thread...
with cars parked everywhere the roads like an assault course..impossible if not dangerous at 9am/3.30pm
Make the little buggers walk to school , like we did all those yrs ago as it never hurt us
Yeah, then they might not all be so obese and protected and lacking in life skills
[b]I used to walk to school .. I still ended up obese, protected and lacking in.. wait, er.. ;D
[/u][/b] ;D ;D ;D ;DPMSL U FAT B****** ;D ;D ;D
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It beats me how many women I see, with their most treasured posessions in the car, on the school run, with ice still all over their windscreens.
steady on. you will be expecting them not to park on the school building entrance steps next.
as for the 20mph limit outside schools from another thread...
with cars parked everywhere the roads like an assault course..impossible if not dangerous at 9am/3.30pm
Make the little buggers walk to school , like we did all those yrs ago as it never hurt us
Yeah, then they might not all be so obese and protected and lacking in life skills
I used to walk to school .. I still ended up obese, protected and lacking in.. wait, er.. ;D
Oh sorry Aaron i didn't mean to offend you, not everyone of course. I think even in the 13 years since I left school alot more of them are getting lifts for half a mile, the bloody roads are blocked it's ridiculous! I've never seen so many oversized kids!
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first bad bit of frost this morn and yes it was bloody cold scraping the windows ready for the school run but..... the amount of people on the roads this morning with just windscreen cleared or a patch cleared on drivers side to see out of gets my back up it takes all of 5 mins to clear them ! i clear ALL mine even after a night shift when the roads are quiet (6am) cant believe people wing it by scraping peepholes in the windscreen :o
I agree: It's symptomatic of the lazy careless streak running through many people today who don't seem aware of anything outside their immediate sphere of influence.
Then, with enforcement sadly lacking - or non existent in many cases, why should they bother?
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first bad bit of frost this morn and yes it was bloody cold scraping the windows ready for the school run but..... the amount of people on the roads this morning with just windscreen cleared or a patch cleared on drivers side to see out of gets my back up it takes all of 5 mins to clear them ! i clear ALL mine even after a night shift when the roads are quiet (6am) cant believe people wing it by scraping peepholes in the windscreen :o
I agree: It's symptomatic of the lazy careless streak running through many people today who don't seem aware of anything outside their immediate sphere of influence.
Then, with enforcement sadly lacking - or non existent in many cases, why should they bother?
Totally agree here Z, but I think education is key, before enforcement.
We're all told that we're all demi-gods now and people think they can do whatever the hell they want with no consequences, then when they get held to account they're bloody gobsmacked.
I'm always amazed how many people resort to verbal abuse and violence straight away.
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first bad bit of frost this morn and yes it was bloody cold scraping the windows ready for the school run but..... the amount of people on the roads this morning with just windscreen cleared or a patch cleared on drivers side to see out of gets my back up it takes all of 5 mins to clear them ! i clear ALL mine even after a night shift when the roads are quiet (6am) cant believe people wing it by scraping peepholes in the windscreen :o
I agree: It's symptomatic of the lazy careless streak running through many people today who don't seem aware of anything outside their immediate sphere of influence.
Then, with enforcement sadly lacking - or non existent in many cases, why should they bother?
Totally agree here Z, but I think education is key, before enforcement.
We're all told that we're all demi-gods now and people think they can do whatever the hell they want with no consequences, then when they get held to account they're bloody gobsmacked.
I'm always amazed how many people resort to verbal abuse and violence straight away.
I do agree with that G and to try and rectify it will be an uphill struggle.
It's a clear example of the insular nature of society now as many people seem to have lost the basic skill of face to face communication - preferring instead to use electronic means.
It's perverse in a way, as a society we're communicating more than ever (electronically) but talking less (physically).
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first bad bit of frost this morn and yes it was bloody cold scraping the windows ready for the school run but..... the amount of people on the roads this morning with just windscreen cleared or a patch cleared on drivers side to see out of gets my back up it takes all of 5 mins to clear them ! i clear ALL mine even after a night shift when the roads are quiet (6am) cant believe people wing it by scraping peepholes in the windscreen :o
I agree: It's symptomatic of the lazy careless streak running through many people today who don't seem aware of anything outside their immediate sphere of influence.
Then, with enforcement sadly lacking - or non existent in many cases, why should they bother?
Totally agree here Z, but I think education is key, before enforcement.
We're all told that we're all demi-gods now and people think they can do whatever the hell they want with no consequences, then when they get held to account they're bloody gobsmacked.
I'm always amazed how many people resort to verbal abuse and violence straight away.
I do agree with that G and to try and rectify it will be an uphill struggle.
It's a clear example of the insular nature of society now as many people seem to have lost the basic skill of face to face communication - preferring instead to use electronic means.
It's perverse in a way, as a society we're communicating more than ever (electronically) but talking less (physically).
Totally agree, even though I'm typing on my keyboard!
Although as far as the uphill struggle is concerned. I think it's a lost cause.
I'm atheist, but due to the so called 'elites' constant attack and undermining of christianity and associated values, attacks on the family institution, too much freedom, too many 'rights', 24 hr drinking, too much expendable income, and what I said earlier, everyone being told their demi-gods, we are in a declining society. Now to some it might sound like I'm sat here lording it up think 'I am better than you', but not at all. There are alot of selfish people around now, who for example would gamble on the amber (because they're in a rush - probably to watch their favourite bloody soap), kill you in the ensuing crash, then swear blind they had the green.
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first bad bit of frost this morn and yes it was bloody cold scraping the windows ready for the school run but..... the amount of people on the roads this morning with just windscreen cleared or a patch cleared on drivers side to see out of gets my back up it takes all of 5 mins to clear them ! i clear ALL mine even after a night shift when the roads are quiet (6am) cant believe people wing it by scraping peepholes in the windscreen :o
I agree: It's symptomatic of the lazy careless streak running through many people today who don't seem aware of anything outside their immediate sphere of influence.
Then, with enforcement sadly lacking - or non existent in many cases, why should they bother?
Totally agree here Z, but I think education is key, before enforcement.
We're all told that we're all demi-gods now and people think they can do whatever the hell they want with no consequences, then when they get held to account they're bloody gobsmacked.
I'm always amazed how many people resort to verbal abuse and violence straight away.
I do agree with that G and to try and rectify it will be an uphill struggle.
It's a clear example of the insular nature of society now as many people seem to have lost the basic skill of face to face communication - preferring instead to use electronic means.
It's perverse in a way, as a society we're communicating more than ever (electronically) but talking less (physically).
Totally agree, even though I'm typing on my keyboard!
Although as far as the uphill struggle is concerned. I think it's a lost cause.
I'm atheist, but due to the so called 'elites' constant attack and undermining of christianity and associated values, attacks on the family institution, too much freedom, too many 'rights', 24 hr drinking, too much expendable income, and what I said earlier, everyone being told their demi-gods, we are in a declining society. Now to some it might sound like I'm sat here lording it up think 'I am better than you', but not at all. There are alot of selfish people around now, who for example would gamble on the amber (because they're in a rush - probably to watch their favourite bloody soap), kill you in the ensuing crash, then swear blind they had the green.
nut the other day, thru on red to go... nowhere, other than to block the junction. not a small one either (3 lanes)
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Oh sorry Aaron i didn't mean to offend you, not everyone of course. I think even in the 13 years since I left school alot more of them are getting lifts for half a mile, the bloody roads are blocked it's ridiculous! I've never seen so many oversized kids!
Don't worry - you didn't offend me! If you had, I wouldn't have been taking the p*ss out of myself ;)
While we're on the subject of abject laziness and stupidity (back to the clearing windows) ..
Driving to work today there was between 50 and 250yd visibility, so why don't people turn their headlights on?! Dark colours cars kept 'appearing' from the gloom on roundabouts and out of side roads ::) Including a Ford Consul in one case..
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It beats me how many women I see, with their most treasured posessions in the car, on the school run, with ice still all over their windscreens.
steady on. you will be expecting them not to park on the school building entrance steps next.
as for the 20mph limit outside schools from another thread...
with cars parked everywhere the roads like an assault course..impossible if not dangerous at 9am/3.30pm
Make the little buggers walk to school , like we did all those yrs ago as it never hurt us
Yeah, then they might not all be so obese and protected and lacking in life skills
I used to walk to school .. I still ended up obese, protected and lacking in.. wait, er.. ;D
All 3 of my kids have always walked to school. There have only been a couple of occasions when the weather was so appallingly bad that I relented and provided 'Dad's taxis'.
I would estimate the school is about 1.5 miles away...
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All 3 of my kids have always walked to school. There have only been a couple of occasions when the weather was so appallingly bad that I relented and provided 'Dad's taxis'.
I would estimate the school is about 1.5 miles away...
That's about how far it was when I was a lad, too - at least for primary school.. and ditto on the walking in all weathers!
Secondary school was a bit further at about 10 miles - so that was by bus.. and I distinctly remember that the school had a policy of no cars being allowed to drop off or pick up!
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It beats me how many women I see, with their most treasured posessions in the car, on the school run, with ice still all over their windscreens.
Yeah, but they don't take all their shoes and handbags, make-up and jewellery on the school run, do they? ;)
They're not always out of their pyjamas here. ::)
Driving to work today there was between 50 and 250yd visibility, so why don't people turn their headlights on?! Dark colours cars kept 'appearing' from the gloom on roundabouts and out of side roads Roll Eyes Including a Ford Consul in one case..
You would have thought, with the number of daft gits who drive around with their fog lights on in all weathers, day and night, and usually one headlight working, sometimes two... ::)
Mind you, I did come up behind someone with some common sense last night. Had his rear fog light on, and as I got close enough to see him clearly, he turned it off. :y
Kevin
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Yeah, but they don't take all their shoes and handbags, make-up and jewellery on the school run, do they? ;)
They're not always out of their pyjamas here. ::)
Not always a bad thing .. ;D
Mind you, I did come up behind someone with some common sense last night. Had his rear fog light on, and as I got close enough to see him clearly, he turned it off. :y
Wow, I thought I was the only person who did that :o :)
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I see it all the time. Where I live there's a primary school at the top of the road and the amount of parents that drive like idiots, looking through a small patch of clear windscreen at 8.55 in the morning is amazing, yet they would be the first to call for someone to hang if something happened to their child by an irresponsible driver >:(
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Mind you, I did come up behind someone with some common sense last night. Had his rear fog light on, and as I got close enough to see him clearly, he turned it off. :y
Wow, I thought I was the only person who did that :o :)[/quote]
whilst probably frowned upon, I have found turning my rear fog on a good method of getting idiot tail gaters to back off.