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JohnM

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No warnings needed. 32 sounds tough. General guidelines are 10% plus 1 mph. Again generally. For a true 32 mph. Your speedo could be showing anywhere between 32 and 35.

Take the course.


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I bet the housekeeper was fuming.

Phil
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This is going to be a bit of a political rant with a bit of swearing, so heads up. Why do we keep giving racists things, or let them take away things from us? If I wear red laces in my boots, I h

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Cheers yeh . Touch wood three years on . Meeting the best surgeon in the country who took some parts away , added some bits to make me work again and got a great team over 10 hours to complete the job

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Derwent

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F### C### W### S### and B########

Just been pinged for driving at 32 in a 30 zone coming home from work on Saturday morning @7am (not a speed camera, must have been cops hiding in the bushes).

I know what this will sound like.... but seriously? On a deserted stretch of road with no houses or anything around it?

They should be out catching the real criminals :D

 

I take it WYP don't adopt the 10% + 2mph approach then ? Anyway, you'll get a speed awareness course for it, unless of course you have previous in the last 3 years....

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Martyn Sadler

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No, nothing at all. Ever in fact. Maybe that's why it's so irritating. :D

 

I recently was caught in a similar manner.

 

I felt just like you do.

 

I attended a speed awareness course with clenched teeth.

 

But oddly enough it was quite interesting and I did learn a few things.

 

I don't know whether that means I'm a better driver now.

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Take the course JOC. You'll be with the steady Eddie over the speed limit drivers, rather than with the racers/headers.

 

Each time i have done the speed awareness course I have found it interesting.

gingerjon

gingerjon

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Each time i have done the speed awareness course I have found it interesting.

 

Works then.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)

gingerjon

gingerjon

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Indubitably.

 

Personally I'd ban the lot of you.

 

Twice.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. (Terry Pratchett)

Derwent

Derwent

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No, nothing at all. Ever in fact. Maybe that's why it's so irritating. :D

 

Speed awareness course isn't too bad, but it costs you about the same as the fine would have. Only difference is you won't get the 3 points on your licence, once you complete the course (only lasts about 3 hours) then your record is wiped clean.

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Phil

Phil

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Mrs Phil went on a speed awareness course, at the end they asked what she'd learned

"To keep an eye out for mobile speed cameras" was her reply. Apparently they were not too impressed with her answer

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Shaggy

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My speed awareness course was ok but was all about speeding in town.

I was got doing 77mph on the A1 in Lincs. Nothing on the course taught me why that was an horrendous crime.

Unlike 32 in a 30. They made those people feel really bad. What were you thinking?

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Griff9of13

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Speed awareness course isn't too bad, but it costs you about the same as the fine would have. Only difference is you won't get the 3 points on your licence, once you complete the course (only lasts about 3 hours) then your record is wiped clean.

I'm not sure it; I think insurance companies now ask if you have attended a speed awareness course even if it didn't result in a conviction/points on your licence. I may be wrong though. :unsure:

"it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it."

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I'm not sure it; I think insurance companies now ask if you have attended a speed awareness course even if it didn't result in a conviction/points on your licence. I may be wrong though. :unsure:

 

Some do. 

 

Mine doesn't.

 

Gratias deo.

SE4Wire

SE4Wire

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My speed awareness course was ok but was all about speeding in town.

I was got doing 77mph on the A1 in Lincs. Nothing on the course taught me why that was an horrendous crime.

Unlike 32 in a 30. They made those people feel really bad. What were you thinking?

 

I think that's also because doing 77 on the A1 isn't actually that dangerous (assuming it was a dual carriageway) providing you leave enough distance, but most people don't.  Accidents are far more likely on low speed limit urban roads than they are on dual carriageways and the impact of speeding on accidents is massive on those urban roads, plus you're more likely to encounter a vulnerable road use (pedestrian/cyclist).

Phil

Phil

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Spending £369 million of public money doing up a fabulously rich family's London townhouse.

I need my roof turning anyone wanna chip in or shall I go straight to the government for the dosh?

"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

Robin Evans

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Spending £369 million of public money doing up a fabulously rich family's London townhouse.

I need my roof turning anyone wanna chip in or shall I go straight to the government for the dosh?

i think you have this covered Phil....

I'm not needed here

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Mark S

Mark S

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Spending £369 million of public money doing up a fabulously rich family's London townhouse.

I need my roof turning anyone wanna chip in or shall I go straight to the government for the dosh?

Absolute scandal. No doubt the daily mail and the #### will be on hand to ensure the phuckwits are told what their opinion on this should be.

JohnM

JohnM

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i think you have this covered Phil....

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Quite so, given that many many decades of Labour councils in the north have made it the mess it is today.

However, i'd cap the renovation expebditure at exactly £369 million and not one single penny more. No cost overruns whatsoever.

Phil

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Quite so, given that many many decades of Labour councils in the north have made it the mess it is today.

However, i'd cap the renovation expebditure at exactly £369 million and not one single penny more. No cost overruns whatsoever.

A touch of whataboutism there John. How about making the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas pay for it themselves?

My house is older than Buck Place who's going to pay for my roof turning? Oh yeah, I am, in fact I'm such a lovely bloke I'm gonna pay for Lizzie's renovations too, along with you and just about everyone on here.

Still, its democracy innit?

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"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin

RabbitRhinoovOZ

RabbitRhinoovOZ

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When I read this story earlier it made me more angry, more resentful and more saddened than anything I've read in a while.

 

I think it's partly down to being within a few miles of me.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-38026524

 

:(

Disgraceful trash these people are sadly we have them in abundance hear in Oz. The property next door to mine breeds Bulldogs on a very large scale (Puppy farm) & brags how he brings in 70k tax free per year breading the dogs.

It makes me furious it's not policed.

RabbitRhinoovOZ

RabbitRhinoovOZ

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A touch of whataboutism there John. How about making the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas pay for it themselves?

My house is older than Buck Place who's going to pay for my roof turning? Oh yeah, I am, in fact I'm such a lovely bloke I'm gonna pay for Lizzie's renovations too, along with you and just about everyone on here.

Still, its democracy innit?

What do you mean exactly buy "roof turning" Phil? Not an expression I've heard before.

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JohnM

JohnM

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A touch of whataboutism there John. How about making the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas pay for it themselves?

My house is older than Buck Place who's going to pay for my roof turning? Oh yeah, I am, in fact I'm such a lovely bloke I'm gonna pay for Lizzie's renovations too, along with you and just about everyone on here.

Still, its democracy innit?

It a rant thread, so feel free to rant. My rant remains this: £369 million, not a penny more.No cost over runs, no delays.

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