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  • aka Calum Da Jazbo
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 9173

    no my point was that speeding is an offence that is also committed by women, that the pressure of everyday life will lead you to it easily and that the bar stewards are getting quite cunning in raising their revenues by fines yes injuring or killing someone through negligent or worse driving is insufferable and unforgivable ... my point is that a reasonably ordinary human being can quite readily amass a few points ..if you want to sit in judgement on them ok, whatever turns you on .... it is a minor offence .... now Huhne and his wife falsified a statement as to who was driiving [and how many ahve done just that i wonder?] ...m'ludships take very poorly to disrespect for the law and its processes ... so they are in the nick mainly because their family blew up and it all came out ...the family situation is tragic


    i find the interest in this case and the personal attacks on Huhne absolutely appalling ... remind me , who may cast the first stone?
    According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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    • Mr Pee
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 3285

      Originally posted by aka Calum Da Jazbo View Post
      on her speeding course which she did perversely envoy the tutor was most explicit that thirty mph feels like one is walking, it is slow and feels slow ... so you get done for doing forty in order not miss the dentist etc ...

      many people speed, it is not all boys toys and Jeremy C
      It only feels slow in relation to fast.....30mph is 30mph, and it's still pretty quick. A lot of the problem is modern cars, that are so quiet and insulated from the outside world that even 70 or 80 feels like 40. Just because many people speed does not make it any more acceptable.

      And if you're speeding to get to the dentist- leave 5 minutes earlier. :erm:
      Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

      Mark Twain.

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      • aka Calum Da Jazbo
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 9173

        forgive me the patronising advice, my point was quite different

        who may cast the first stone?
        According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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        • Resurrection Man

          Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
          .... The best cameras are the 'average speed' ones that cover a long stretch of road.
          Oh yes..they really are the best ones. Especially along the motorway on a Sunday morning when there are (a) no workmen and (b) no other vehicles...mile after mile after mile ....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz....did I fall asleep, just then?

          It's not speed. It is the wrong speed for the road conditions. You can drive within the speed limit and be much more of a danger to other road users, pedestrians etc.

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          • mangerton
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3346

            Speed limits are there for a reason. Much of my drive to work is on a route used by workers in the local hospital. I am appalled by both the speed that some of these characters drive at, and by the fact that they tail gate. It's a 30 mph limit through streets busy with houses and a school.

            You'd think, working in a hospital, and dealing with the effects of "accidents", that they'd know better.

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            • LeMartinPecheur
              Full Member
              • Apr 2007
              • 4717

              Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
              BUt my experience is that when people know where a speed camera is there they immediately slow down while they drive across the markings on the road, & then speed up again once they are safely out of range. So the camera has no over-all effect. If people know there are cameras, but not where, then they are more likely to stick to the speed limit (except for those who 'allow' their number plates to become so dirty they can't be seen). The best cameras are the 'average speed' ones that cover a long stretch of road.
              Am I the only one who gets cross when drivers bang on their anchors just before a dual-carriageway camera apparently in the belief that the speed limit is 60mph??

              Another curiosity is a traffic info sign nearby on the A30 giving us timings for the 64 miles to Exeter. Usually it says 60min implying an average speed of 64mph which is fine. But several times I've seen it saying 55 min, an average speed (assuming the distance is exact) of over 69.8mph. It's a very clever trick to achieve this average without ever going over 70!
              I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30205

                In that case, so do men.
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • alycidon
                  Full Member
                  • Feb 2013
                  • 459

                  Originally posted by Mandryka View Post
                  in the case of someone like Huhne, a multi-millionaire with a high value property portfolio that means he doesn't actually NEED to work for a living, the financial penalty is negligible
                  Oh, and there was me beginning to feel a tad sorry for him because he has incurred £108,000 costs!:laugh:
                  Money can't buy you happiness............but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery - Spike Milligan

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                  • Flosshilde
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7988

                    You can feel less - or more? - sorry for him as he's appealing against the costs, saying that he should only pay a quarter because applications he made "resulted in documentation relating to Constance Briscoe coming to light, which led to allegations being made against her".. Presumably he reckons the other £75,000 are due to him as fees for fingering Briscoe.

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                    • amateur51

                      Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                      You can feel less - or more? - sorry for him as he's appealing against the costs, saying that he should only pay a quarter because applications he made "resulted in documentation relating to Constance Briscoe coming to light, which led to allegations being made against her".. Presumably he reckons the other £75,000 are due to him as fees for fingering Briscoe.

                      http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...secution-costs
                      Dear oh dear - he has serious attitude problems this one. :erm:

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                      • Bryn
                        Banned
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 24688

                        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                        Dear oh dear - he has serious attitude problems this one. :erm:
                        Indeed, nice of him to try and shift the responsibility for paying for his criminal behaviour onto us rather than facing up to his own responsibility for the prosecution and its associated costs.

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Be fair, Bryn! A politician "facing up to his own responsibilit[ies]"? He'd need a lot of counselling and "Bullshit Management" before that's going to happen!
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • mercia
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 8920

                            oh well, that's that - all's well that ends well
                            Former cabinet minister Chris Huhne describes prison as a "humbling and sobering experience", as he and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce are released.

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                            • Serial_Apologist
                              Full Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 37559

                              Huhn owes

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