Is Twenty Plenty?

[Doug Tait]

5 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Bitte Ihre Papiere

 

je ne suis qu'un instituteur monsieur, je voyage pour voir ma mère

[GarethM]

2 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

 

je ne suis qu'un instituteur monsieur, je voyage pour voir ma mère

Didn't they wish them good luck in English in the great escape ?.

[Doug Tait]

13 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Didn't they wish them good luck in English in the great escape ?.

 

It's too vague in the memory

[Haironyourchest]

Mandatory on all vehicles and ban seat belts. That'll slow the ****************ers down.

 

 

[Doug Tait]

56 minutes ago, benedmonds said:

Not a nanny state. Happy for people to put their own life at risk in as many interesting ways as they like. What I am not keen on is knob heads putting my life in danger as they speed.

 

Also have 4 teenage children and would rather they weren't in cars driven by speeding numpties. There are 2 trees within 1 mile of my house bedecked with football scarves and shirts where boys have been speeding and killed themselves and passengers in one case.

 

Last Halloween we were at a party in the village when some idiot youths did a hit and run killing a chap walking home from the pub. Our host a nurse spent an hour giving cpr. 

 

And if cars could drive themselves and were safer why would I drive?

 

I agree with the sentiment completely but the way it seems to go in practice is the people that take risks on the road and break laws would break new laws just the same.

[Squaredy]

1 hour ago, GarethM said:

Didn't they wish them good luck in English in the great escape ?.

Yes.  As it happens I watched it yesterday.

[Steven P]

Nanny states, health and safety at work, speed limits, clean air acts, and whatever else you might want to rant about, the rules are only added because enough numpties can't be trusted, have no common sense and have hurt themselves or others - often in the cause of cutting a few corners, getting there quicker or making a bit more cash from someone else.

 

History often tells us that the rules were the right thing to do. Seat belts for example have been shown to save drivers lives... but it is true that when they were introduced more pedestrians and cyclists were killed because the drivers felt safer, drove quicker, but the drivers calmed down after a few years and end result is fewer deaths.

 

 

 

..and yes, it is one of the lines I remember, at the station, and they replied in English, back they went again

[Mick Dempsey]

3 minutes ago, Steven P said:

Nanny states, health and safety at work, speed limits, clean air acts, and whatever else you might want to rant about, the rules are only added because enough numpties can't be trusted, have no common sense and have hurt themselves or others - often in the cause of cutting a few corners, getting there quicker or making a bit more cash from someone else.

 

History often tells us that the rules were the right thing to do. Seat belts for example have been shown to save drivers lives... but it is true that when they were introduced more pedestrians and cyclists were killed because the drivers felt safer, drove quicker, but the drivers calmed down after a few years and end result is fewer deaths.

 

 

 

..and yes, it is one of the lines I remember, at the station, and they replied in English, back they went again

Weren’t they taken and shot in a field with the others?

[Mark Bolam]

Indeed they were.

All thanks to that idiot Gordon Jackson.

[Mick Dempsey]

How he ever got to be the boss of CI5 escapes me!