Pussies (aka wtf happened to PH?)
Discussion
Schmed said:
Ok. So I grew up in the 80s watching the A Team, Knight Rider and the Dukes of Hazzard. Great shows and great era, I couldn’t wait to get a fast car and what what really kept me watching was the absolute wanton disregard for any speed limits or rules on the roads and always outrunning the cops (or colonel Decker). By contrast the millennials of today have grown up with liberal tv, hate cars and are absolute pussies afraid of their own reflection, let alone taking to the roads at anything more than 35 mph. What the f
k happened ? Threads now seem to take an almost religious devotion to speed limit adherence with outright attacks and outrage is directed toward anyone who suggests fighting tickets.
Go back to 1997 and that is where everything went to st in my view. We had B-liar as prime minister 
and the country just went down the pan, with safety revenue cameras everywhere, a small minded bureaucratic mentality persecuting every minor infraction such as 35 in a 30 and now everybody is too scared to even take a piss on the hard shoulder let alone fight an SP30 just in case they get prosecuted for PCoJ or dangerous driving. Whatever happened to Freeman and the spirit of fighting every ticket and speeding injustice with laser jammers or registering your car to fake shell corporations to evade points ? Does everybody just love Blair so much they can’t wait to take to the roads at stupidly low speeds, sit in traffic for hours whilst they close the motorway at every possible opportunity for every minor shunt to discourage driving full stop in favour of pleblic transport and immediately paying any 35 in a 30 tickets because they are to scared to fight them in the courts? Maybe it’s just me but this entire underhanded and cowardly method of issuing nips through the post when in the old days the cops could only give you a ticket at the roadside and to do that they’d have to catch you first, really now needs to be fought every fking step of the way. Far too many lefties seem to be on this site now and I am genuinely shocked at some of the nonsense responses I’ve seen on recent threads.
There's some truth in what the boy says. PH has a definite snowflake element today.k happened ? Threads now seem to take an almost religious devotion to speed limit adherence with outright attacks and outrage is directed toward anyone who suggests fighting tickets. Go back to 1997 and that is where everything went to s
t in my view. We had B-liar as prime minister and the country just went down the pan, with king step of the way. Far too many lefties seem to be on this site now and I am genuinely shocked at some of the nonsense responses I’ve seen on recent threads. 
RegMolehusband said:
There's some truth in what the boy says. PH has a definite snowflake element today.
Who's the snowflake then, the person that disagrees with inherited wisdom or the person that starts a thread to post a stream of consciousness rant before flouncing from the forum?My wife was on the phone to a friend today. Last Saturday this lady was minding her own business driving down the road in Canvey Island, when she was suddenly confronted with a BMW being driven at an estimated 60mph in a 30mph limit, coming straight at her. She thought her number had come up. The car was being driven by an 18 year old boy. It was his dad's car, of course, and he had no insurance to drive it, but this didn't stop him trying to impress his younger mate sitting alongside him.
The BMW veered off and missed my wife's friend's car, but in doing so, mounted the pavement and ran into a group of young men walking along. Five lads were left on the pavement, suffering from compound fractures for the most part. In a word, mangled. Bones sticking out through flesh, and who knows what internal injuries. The friend was out of her car trying to comfort the victims, who were crying and traumatised, holding their heads and encouraging them to breathe steadily while the emergency services came. Not only ambulances turned up, but three, I repeat three, air ambulances. This lady is still wondering how she found it within herself to cope with all this herself.
The driver of the car got out and legged it as far as a nearby pub, where he sat with his mate taking selfies. Until the police arrived, that is.
Mr OP, you have a problem distinguishing between the fantasy of cheap American TV dramas and real life.
The BMW veered off and missed my wife's friend's car, but in doing so, mounted the pavement and ran into a group of young men walking along. Five lads were left on the pavement, suffering from compound fractures for the most part. In a word, mangled. Bones sticking out through flesh, and who knows what internal injuries. The friend was out of her car trying to comfort the victims, who were crying and traumatised, holding their heads and encouraging them to breathe steadily while the emergency services came. Not only ambulances turned up, but three, I repeat three, air ambulances. This lady is still wondering how she found it within herself to cope with all this herself.
The driver of the car got out and legged it as far as a nearby pub, where he sat with his mate taking selfies. Until the police arrived, that is.
Mr OP, you have a problem distinguishing between the fantasy of cheap American TV dramas and real life.
Roofless Toothless said:
My wife was on the phone to a friend today. Last Saturday this lady was minding her own business driving down the road in Canvey Island, when she was suddenly confronted with a BMW being driven at an estimated 60mph in a 30mph limit, coming straight at her. She thought her number had come up. The car was being driven by an 18 year old boy. It was his dad's car, of course, and he had no insurance to drive it, but this didn't stop him trying to impress his younger mate sitting alongside him.
The BMW veered off and missed my wife's friend's car, but in doing so, mounted the pavement and ran into a group of young men walking along. Five lads were left on the pavement, suffering from compound fractures for the most part. In a word, mangled. Bones sticking out through flesh, and who knows what internal injuries. The friend was out of her car trying to comfort the victims, who were crying and traumatised, holding their heads and encouraging them to breathe steadily while the emergency services came. Not only ambulances turned up, but three, I repeat three, air ambulances. This lady is still wondering how she found it within herself to cope with all this herself.
The driver of the car got out and legged it as far as a nearby pub, where he sat with his mate taking selfies. Until the police arrived, that is.
Mr OP, you have a problem distinguishing between the fantasy of cheap American TV dramas and real life.
I think he is protesting about speeding enforcement- There’s a bit of a difference between mowing down innocent pedestrians and doing 35 in a 30 no ? Nobody got hurt on the a team afaik but that incident does sound genuinely horrific.The BMW veered off and missed my wife's friend's car, but in doing so, mounted the pavement and ran into a group of young men walking along. Five lads were left on the pavement, suffering from compound fractures for the most part. In a word, mangled. Bones sticking out through flesh, and who knows what internal injuries. The friend was out of her car trying to comfort the victims, who were crying and traumatised, holding their heads and encouraging them to breathe steadily while the emergency services came. Not only ambulances turned up, but three, I repeat three, air ambulances. This lady is still wondering how she found it within herself to cope with all this herself.
The driver of the car got out and legged it as far as a nearby pub, where he sat with his mate taking selfies. Until the police arrived, that is.
Mr OP, you have a problem distinguishing between the fantasy of cheap American TV dramas and real life.
Roofless Toothless said:
My wife was on the phone to a friend today. Last Saturday this lady was minding her own business driving down the road in Canvey Island, when she was suddenly confronted with a BMW being driven at an estimated 60mph in a 30mph limit, coming straight at her. She thought her number had come up. The car was being driven by an 18 year old boy. It was his dad's car, of course, and he had no insurance to drive it, but this didn't stop him trying to impress his younger mate sitting alongside him.
The BMW veered off and missed my wife's friend's car, but in doing so, mounted the pavement and ran into a group of young men walking along. Five lads were left on the pavement, suffering from compound fractures for the most part. In a word, mangled. Bones sticking out through flesh, and who knows what internal injuries. The friend was out of her car trying to comfort the victims, who were crying and traumatised, holding their heads and encouraging them to breathe steadily while the emergency services came. Not only ambulances turned up, but three, I repeat three, air ambulances. This lady is still wondering how she found it within herself to cope with all this herself.
The driver of the car got out and legged it as far as a nearby pub, where he sat with his mate taking selfies. Until the police arrived, that is.
Mr OP, you have a problem distinguishing between the fantasy of cheap American TV dramas and real life.
This is the problem.The BMW veered off and missed my wife's friend's car, but in doing so, mounted the pavement and ran into a group of young men walking along. Five lads were left on the pavement, suffering from compound fractures for the most part. In a word, mangled. Bones sticking out through flesh, and who knows what internal injuries. The friend was out of her car trying to comfort the victims, who were crying and traumatised, holding their heads and encouraging them to breathe steadily while the emergency services came. Not only ambulances turned up, but three, I repeat three, air ambulances. This lady is still wondering how she found it within herself to cope with all this herself.
The driver of the car got out and legged it as far as a nearby pub, where he sat with his mate taking selfies. Until the police arrived, that is.
Mr OP, you have a problem distinguishing between the fantasy of cheap American TV dramas and real life.
15 years ago if you told your mates you did something risky they would probably laugh and call you an idiot. Now everyone has an anecdote about people dying from doing something similar and lobbies their MP to do something about it.
It's sad really. I grew up in the '60sand my formative years were a pageant of fun and games, tempered by the need to be educated and the
experiencing of quite a few close shaves. Despite no H&S, I survived more or less intact.
The sad part is that now, I can see what's going on but when there are parts I disagree with,
I'm no longer free to say anything about them. Human interaction is governed by rules
that work fairly well but this nanny/PC bks undermines them.
Little hint. I heard of soemone's being busted for 34 in a 30 hereabouts. Now, I use
my car's speed limiter. Just the other day, Plod skipped out from behind a building and
levelled his hairdryer at me. Tough, officer, my tech beat your tech. Arf, arf.
experiencing of quite a few close shaves. Despite no H&S, I survived more or less intact.
The sad part is that now, I can see what's going on but when there are parts I disagree with,
I'm no longer free to say anything about them. Human interaction is governed by rules
that work fairly well but this nanny/PC b
ks undermines them. Little hint. I heard of soemone's being busted for 34 in a 30 hereabouts. Now, I use
my car's speed limiter. Just the other day, Plod skipped out from behind a building and
levelled his hairdryer at me. Tough, officer, my tech beat your tech. Arf, arf.
Schmed said:
Ok. So I grew up in the 80s watching the A Team, Knight Rider and the Dukes of Hazzard. Great shows and great era, I couldn’t wait to get a fast car and what what really kept me watching was the absolute wanton disregard for any speed limits or rules on the roads and always outrunning the cops (or colonel Decker). By contrast the millennials of today have grown up with liberal tv, hate cars and are absolute pussies afraid of their own reflection, let alone taking to the roads at anything more than 35 mph. What the fk happened ? Threads now seem to take an almost religious devotion to speed limit adherence with outright attacks and outrage is directed toward anyone who suggests fighting tickets.
Go back to 1997 and that is where everything went to st in my view. We had B-liar as prime minister and the country just went down the pan, with safety revenue cameras everywhere, a small minded bureaucratic mentality persecuting every minor infraction such as 35 in a 30 and now everybody is too scared to even take a piss on the hard shoulder let alone fight an SP30 just in case they get prosecuted for PCoJ or dangerous driving. Whatever happened to Freeman and the spirit of fighting every ticket and speeding injustice with laser jammers or registering your car to fake shell corporations to evade points ? Does everybody just love Blair so much they can’t wait to take to the roads at stupidly low speeds, sit in traffic for hours whilst they close the motorway at every possible opportunity for every minor shunt to discourage driving full stop in favour of pleblic transport and immediately paying any 35 in a 30 tickets because they are to scared to fight them in the courts? Maybe it’s just me but this entire underhanded and cowardly method of issuing nips through the post when in the old days the cops could only give you a ticket at the roadside and to do that they’d have to catch you first, really now needs to be fought every fking step of the way. Far too many lefties seem to be on this site now and I am genuinely shocked at some of the nonsense responses I’ve seen on recent threads.
U OK hun? xxk happened ? Threads now seem to take an almost religious devotion to speed limit adherence with outright attacks and outrage is directed toward anyone who suggests fighting tickets. Go back to 1997 and that is where everything went to s
t in my view. We had B-liar as prime minister and the country just went down the pan, with king step of the way. Far too many lefties seem to be on this site now and I am genuinely shocked at some of the nonsense responses I’ve seen on recent threads. He's got a point to the extent of previous 70mph dual carriageways becoming 40mph ones just because some people can't drive - if I drive said bit of road at the old limit I'll probably get 6 points at best.
No change to the road to justify the reduction, and meekly accepted in the name of safety. No campaign etc to stop the change
No change to the road to justify the reduction, and meekly accepted in the name of safety. No campaign etc to stop the change
In other news I was out on a blat with some kit car buddies last night and had a great time making progress when appropriate and being considerate when required.
Coming home was more fraught due to a fatal collision involving two motorbikes running out of talent.
I think I would have preferred if they'd been a bit more snowflake and a bit less hero.
Coming home was more fraught due to a fatal collision involving two motorbikes running out of talent.
I think I would have preferred if they'd been a bit more snowflake and a bit less hero.
Numerous factors in play here.
The post a few up the thread regarding the tosser who mowed down the pedestrians is the type of story that would have been told to teenage schoolkids by a visiting bobby back in the 80's & 90s but these days the instant and wide-reaching shareability of social media means these stories get more airtime and are much easier to empathise with which may put some people off being reckless.
There's also the "growing up" factor mentioned near the top of the thread. I used to drive well in excess of the speed limit pretty much permanently. Then I got pulled on the A14 and despite slamming on when I saw the old bill I was done at 104 and the experience of schlepping to Bury St. Edmunds for a session in front of the magistrates wasn't exactly fun so I tend to stick the cruise control on these days.
I've also got a seven year old son and have become MUCH more aware of speed in residential areas.
All that said, although I obviously don't break the speed limits... I do still enjoy opening up on NSL country roads when the conditions are right.
The post a few up the thread regarding the tosser who mowed down the pedestrians is the type of story that would have been told to teenage schoolkids by a visiting bobby back in the 80's & 90s but these days the instant and wide-reaching shareability of social media means these stories get more airtime and are much easier to empathise with which may put some people off being reckless.
There's also the "growing up" factor mentioned near the top of the thread. I used to drive well in excess of the speed limit pretty much permanently. Then I got pulled on the A14 and despite slamming on when I saw the old bill I was done at 104 and the experience of schlepping to Bury St. Edmunds for a session in front of the magistrates wasn't exactly fun so I tend to stick the cruise control on these days.
I've also got a seven year old son and have become MUCH more aware of speed in residential areas.
All that said, although I obviously don't break the speed limits... I do still enjoy opening up on NSL country roads when the conditions are right.
Badda said:
Evanivitch said:
Schmed said:
Ok. So I grew up in the 80s watching the A Team, Knight Rider and the Dukes of Hazzard.
New rule, everyone has to declare what TV they watched growing up. Because it's relevant.
Art Attack btw
. ( Maybe the OP has a point. 
)i think the OP is that one irritating nostalgia gimp on social media who always posts stupid st like "if you grew up in the 50s/60s/70s please like and share, we went out at 8am and came back when we were hungry made our own box carts climbed trees and licked lead paint and we were fine if you like then like and share"
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