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Post by bigbear67 on Aug 9, 2018 9:50:44 GMT
Thought i'd seen everything till last night. Was carting straw and while waiting to pull out of the field I saw a little scooter coming towards me on the road. Seemed to be weaving about so drew my attention. Anyhow'as it got close I saw the rider looking down and sure enough,as he passed me he was steering with one hand and fuckin texting on his mobile! Couldn't believe it. Are kids these days brought up in such a society that it just never occurd to them that some things need to be done without the aid of a mobile fuckin phone? Can't help thinking when (not if, sadly) this naive fuckwit gets flattened, all fingers will point at the car driver or whoever. Surely our youth should be better informed about road safety. How many times has a young lad or (usually)lass walked out into the road with their eyes glued to the screen of the pissing phone? I once had cause to blast my truck air horn at a young mother who walked out from between 2 parked vans texting away and chatting to her buddy who was doing the same while they were both pushing fuckin pushchairs! It's a fuckin jungle out there,be vigilant while driving, cos today's youth don't seem to have eyes or ears!
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Post by VanWoman84 on Aug 9, 2018 9:59:32 GMT
Surely the best way to be informed is to read the highway code? That,s what you are supposed to do before driving or riding a motor vehicle. Pedestrians are supposed to read it too!
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Post by bernie on Aug 13, 2018 11:04:07 GMT
I was coming home from visiting my son on Saturday evening about 6.30pm heading south on M25 by Heathrow, its 4 lanes at that point, I was in the second lane doing about 60-65mph I was overtaken by a car towing another car on a short bit of rope in the next lane, doing about 70.
Unbelievable! Both were old bangers. All the lanes were very busy, as they always are round that section. That is very illegal but also so dangerous, they never could have stopped.
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 13, 2018 14:28:45 GMT
Sadly its not just the youngsters.My new neighbour 6o+ yrs old asked me to go to caravan spares place with him on Saturday for advice on a few things.No sooner had we left the site he was pissing about on his mobile phone and weaving about all over the road looking for the websiteof where we were off to to get postcode to get satnav working.I asked him why hed not done it before we left, answer because hed not thought about it so i suggested he drop me off amd ill walk back to the site and he can proceed on his own.He did put the phone aside till someone rang him but ive made it plain i wont be going anywhere with him again. He was lucky i couldnt reach the phone or it would have gone out of the window,it wouldnt be the first thats suffered the same fate. I dont care what age people are,yoing or old theres no excuse for fucking about on a phone when driving.
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Post by VanWoman84 on Aug 13, 2018 14:42:40 GMT
I take calls handsfree, but luckily I'm not a texter and wouldn't dream of going online when driving.
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 13, 2018 15:15:43 GMT
I dont make or answer calls much at all but certainly not when driving.Why do i need to talk to anyone that urgently. It just fucking pisses me off people cant do anything whether its driving or shopping or poncing around in their own kitchen doing dinner without a phone stuck up their ear or walking around like zombies with their head in the screen. I love technology,i wouldnt really want to go back to not having access to the capabilites we have from it, but for the most part its allowed everyone to talk endless shit 24/7 and create this impression to themselves and everyone they know that theyre a really really interesting person with thousands of friends all over the world and not actually the lonely dull fucker they really are, dependent on self promotion and masturnate their own ego....everything in their lives goes on in the little box they carry aroind while simultaneously they completely ignore whats going on in real time around them and the people talking to them face to face. What a fucking world eh? Beam me up Scotty!
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Post by fenrisulfr on Aug 13, 2018 16:54:57 GMT
Saw two twunts texting as they overtook me whilst driving my bus on the motorway today. Can't be asked to make gestures nowadays but they should get instant bans. Fn wankers of the first order.
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 13, 2018 17:39:44 GMT
I think when im out one in every five drivers has a phone up their ear or looking down where obviously their phone is resting while they text. No end of lorry drivers on their mobiles. Whatever did we do 40 years ago without mobile phones and computers 😱
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Post by fenrisulfr on Aug 13, 2018 18:33:06 GMT
Concentrated on 'real life', thought, breathed and had better quality 'me time' without being 'needy needy must talk to some fckr' every minute of every day.
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Post by bernie on Aug 13, 2018 19:38:59 GMT
I live in London so when I reached 60 I got a free travel pass which allows me to roam around London, buses and trains, as much as I like for free. That's worth a lot of money, as you can imagine, and I make very good use of it. Travelling around as I do I spend most of my time surrounded by morons head down in their phones the whole time.
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Post by EcoBob on Aug 13, 2018 20:48:05 GMT
I had a delivery lorry half pull out in front of me the other day and guess what the driver was fiddling with his phone. Luckily he looked up and managed to stop in time before he fully pulled out.
I've seen police driving on whilst on the phone round here as well before but there does seem to be a lot of lorry drivers doing it.
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 13, 2018 21:09:17 GMT
Concentrated on 'real life', thought, breathed and had better quality 'me time' without being 'needy needy must talk to some fckr' every minute of every day. It struck me some time ago that sooneror later some pointy shoed twunty nerd will design an app to use the mobile camera to record and play the streetscene directly in front of the user on the display screen alongside what theyre doing on the phone so they wont have to look up to see where theyre walking. 😂
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Post by lonewolf on Aug 20, 2018 13:47:03 GMT
wife went on a car journey to Kent the other week, she was a passenger in a friends car, the friend was fiddling with the sat nav all the time WHICH WAS ON THE FLOOR, so kept looking down, she took no notice of road signs but would only do what the sat nav told her, it was on the floor the whole journey. wife said NEVER AGAIN!!
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Post by NomadCris on Aug 20, 2018 13:57:09 GMT
Anyone can be stupid,no special qualifications required.Friends are no different and no friendship is worth getting killed for because of their inherent stupidity.
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Post by lonewolf on Aug 20, 2018 16:18:40 GMT
"you cant fix stupid!"
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