What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)
Discussion
DoubleD said:
OldSkoolRS said:
Johnspex said:
nonsequitur said:
Cliftonite said:
Hands-free telephoning by vehicle drivers should be made illegal.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49320473
Definitely. Any phone use whilst driving is dangerous. When talking on ANY phone you picture the person on the other end of the call. You may be required to answer questions, calculate figures and other distractions.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49320473
All whilst in charge of a vehicle.
Hand held or hands free. Lunacy.
Maybe should ban car radios/CD/MP3 players too?
An even stupider branch of the 'war on motorists' is the speed limit brigade. Why not make it 10mph everywhere. fk it, 5mph. Some dhead on my village's local facebook group said someone hit his cat because they were speeding in a car, and it was hurt. When pressed not only had he not seen the car, but he had no evidence they were speeding whatsoever. He just assumed. I hate cats but even that aside, what a fking tt. Maybe consider that owning a cat comes with risk, and they don't really fking understand the highway code...and they dart around like unpredictable rapid little bds too.
I have an unpopular opinion to round it off with. If I hit a cat with my car, I'm not stopping.
DoubleD said:
Blown2CV said:
I have an unpopular opinion to round it off with. If I hit a cat with my car, I'm not stopping.
Would you stop if you hit a dog?Blown2CV said:
DoubleD said:
Blown2CV said:
I have an unpopular opinion to round it off with. If I hit a cat with my car, I'm not stopping.
Would you stop if you hit a dog?DoubleD said:
Blown2CV said:
DoubleD said:
Blown2CV said:
I have an unpopular opinion to round it off with. If I hit a cat with my car, I'm not stopping.
Would you stop if you hit a dog?paulguitar said:
I have a vague memory that you are legally required to stop after hitting a dog, but not a cat. I might be wrong though.
Correct. Dogs are property, cats are wild animals.Blown2CV, I think most dog owners would go mental if you killed their dog, duty of care notwithstanding.
Blown2CV said:
DoubleD said:
Blown2CV said:
DoubleD said:
Blown2CV said:
I have an unpopular opinion to round it off with. If I hit a cat with my car, I'm not stopping.
Would you stop if you hit a dog?Flibble said:
You wouldn't check the cats injuries and maybe take it to a vet then? Cold.
well i did say it was an unpopular opinion. I just think that if the premise of cats as a pet is that no one controls them, and they come and go with the breeze, that comes with some risk to the cat and therefore the owner. Why should a driver then run around investing effort to primarily - let's face it - make themselves feel better, when cats are meant to be these semi-wild, independent animals with primal tendencies... roads are dangerous places for animals. They guy in the FB story lives on a main road too.
Blown2CV said:
well i did say it was an unpopular opinion.
I just think that if the premise of cats as a pet is that no one controls them, and they come and go with the breeze, that comes with some risk to the cat and therefore the owner. Why should a driver then run around investing effort to primarily - let's face it - make themselves feel better, when cats are meant to be these semi-wild, independent animals with primal tendencies... roads are dangerous places for animals. They guy in the FB story lives on a main road too.
Are you actually familiar with pet cats? I ask because your views on them seem a bit clichéd. There are many cats that are indeed pets (not wild animals) and they live as pets and can be controlled to an extent like dogs. Also, if the cat had a collar and name tag would you still not bother? No probs with your opinion, seems a bit strange treating cats so differently.I just think that if the premise of cats as a pet is that no one controls them, and they come and go with the breeze, that comes with some risk to the cat and therefore the owner. Why should a driver then run around investing effort to primarily - let's face it - make themselves feel better, when cats are meant to be these semi-wild, independent animals with primal tendencies... roads are dangerous places for animals. They guy in the FB story lives on a main road too.
Blown2CV said:
Shakermaker said:
Center Parcs is not that bad.
It isn't that cheap, sure, but, if you go out of school holidays, you can avoid the type of people you don't want to see there who can only go during the school holidays, and enjoy the relative tranquility and reasonably priced accommodation. Even if you just use the pool area (included in the price) you don't have to shell out for all the other activities.
not been for years but booked in with the wife, kids and (gasp) my own parents too, all in the same house, in september. Keeping open minded but after getting railroaded into an all inclusive this summer (another thing i have avoided for more than a decade) I don't have high expectations.It isn't that cheap, sure, but, if you go out of school holidays, you can avoid the type of people you don't want to see there who can only go during the school holidays, and enjoy the relative tranquility and reasonably priced accommodation. Even if you just use the pool area (included in the price) you don't have to shell out for all the other activities.
We go during term time (one of my boys is disabled so its quieter and easier to get an adapted lodge) and its great.
No riff raff - just decent like minded folk.
No fat families with noisey rampant kids. Lovely.
Flibble said:
I think the reaction of the man to his cat being injured would be similar if it were a dog. He'd assume the car driver was in the wrong regardless of evidence to the contrary. People are illogical like that.
NahOne of our cats got run over last year and died, but this was the cat who didn't usually "roam" unlike her brother, so was probably not familiar with the comings and goings of the traffic. It was sad, but it wasn't the fault of the driver
I recall hitting a cat when I had not long passed my test, stopped to see if it was OK and the bugger had shot off.
Blown2CV said:
i always thought the vast majority of the distraction with using a phone whilst driving was the physical aspects like holding and looking at the device itself. I don't agree that talking whilst driving has a massive distraction effect.
Interesting. Are you going to publish your detailed research on the matter, to counteract the very detailed and independent research that goes against what you are saying?After all, I'm sure you're not disagreeing with years of actual scientific studies based on your hunch. because that would be a bit foolish.
Shakermaker said:
Flibble said:
I think the reaction of the man to his cat being injured would be similar if it were a dog. He'd assume the car driver was in the wrong regardless of evidence to the contrary. People are illogical like that.
NahOne of our cats got run over last year and died, but this was the cat who didn't usually "roam" unlike her brother, so was probably not familiar with the comings and goings of the traffic. It was sad, but it wasn't the fault of the driver
I recall hitting a cat when I had not long passed my test, stopped to see if it was OK and the bugger had shot off.
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