What are your unpopular opinions? (Vol. 2)

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. Yes there may be a difference, but i get annoyed when i just hear this constant pressure to force drivers to take all of the slack when it comes to road safety, because of this idea that we should be doing everything and anything to reduce road deaths to complete zero everywhere. No want wants to die, but there is risk attached to everything and you have to pick the balance you are comfortable with. People need to get around. People need to interact with other people who are not right beside them.

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.

on the basis that there would probably be damage to my car that I would want to recover the cost for from the owner, yes. In reality cats roam and do their own thing - they are always out and about. Who knows how far away from home they are. Dogs would be far more likely to have their owner nearby, at least someone to engage with. A dog hit by a car is likely to have run off from its owner, or at least somehow been out of their control, in which case the owner is culpable for that. A cat hit by a car is a different matter, regardless of how the owner might feel. I am sure it is natural for them to assume it was the driver's fault, if as is very likely they are nowhere nearby to see witness what actually happened in order to make a fair judgement. So do you speak to the likely upset but likely to be nearby and apologetic dog owner - yes probably. In contrast do you search high and low every house in a 1 mile radius, carrying bleeding cat corpse only to be blamed and screamed at by the likely angry and finger pointy cat owner? Nope.

I get what you are saying, but what makes you think that a dog owner would be apologetic but the cat owner angry?

because the mindset of the owner, and what they physically do to take care of their pet is polar opposites. A dog owner would have had to lose control or let go of the dog, because they'd have to be there nearby. It's their job to keep the dog out of traffic, and they'd have failed. I'd imagine given that, the owner would already be feeling like it is their fault, providing the driver wasn't already doing something blatantly wrong, and even then it might be 50/50. Clearly knuckle dragging elevenerifes notwithstanding. Cats aren't chaperoned so if one runs out into the road it isn't really the owner's fault; they are almost certain to not be anywhere nearby, so they won't in their mind have been neglecting their duties as a cat owner if it gets run over. If they didn't see it happen, then i am sure they would assume the driver was at fault, despite the fact that cats are fking insane uncontrollable animals.

I disagree.

I would, but only if it wasn't using a hands free phone though.

Wot?

We go the CP the whinfell forest place up in Cumbrai.

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.

Commuter trains aren't expensive despite being overcrowded. They are overcrowded despite being expensive, or expensive because they are overcrowded.

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.