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• #15226
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• #15227
Quaker oats don't even have anything to do with Quakers. They had a reputation for being reliable business owners so the Oats people decided to put that in their name despite having nothing to do with the religion.
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• #15228
That's the WTF, no?
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• #15229
Yes, that's the joke.
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• #15230
that's...niche
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• #15231
on the targeted ads thing, I found this quite amusing this morning...
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• #15234
The friction of a vest is inversely proportional to its visibility.
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• #15235
I remember doing something similar in my sixth form sports day. Nobody else was gonna run the 100m, so I (the 100 kg prop forward) gave it a crack. Pleased to say I didn't (quite) come last.
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• #15236
Won't somebody think of the cars?
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• #15237
Fucking bellends
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• #15238
21,000 signatures. Cute
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• #15239
Of all the whinges and whines, the speedo watching really grinds.
What did you do before you prick?
Also have any of these tossers used a motorway in the last 10 years? I genuinely can't remember the last time in the UK I was on a motorway where I could just drive at 70mph for an extended period of time.
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• #15240
Actually a chunk of the M4 (the only motorway in Wales) past Newport is 50 limit for pollution limiting.
Still cunts though.
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• #15241
Aw, boo-hoo. Poor little motorists.
It’s twenty past my partners house. Most drivers ignore it. No enforcement measures. -
• #15242
We live just off one of the main roads in and out of Edinburgh, which they have just made 20mph. For the first few weeks people were driving at 30, but that's changing now more people have noticed new signs etc
Most still driving at 23-25mph though
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• #15243
"The controversial plans have seen a petition to scrap the change signed by 21,000 people, amid claims it could increase road rage."
What does that tell you about the mental state of the cunts behind the wheel we have to "share" the roads with?
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• #15244
Where I live is 20 and I make a special effort to drive no more than 19 if there is someone right up behind me, which is most of the time :)
Most people ignore it but are probably closer to 25 than 35 which is an improvement at least.
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• #15245
See the Cars Crashing into Buildings thread for examples of people definitely not doing 20mph limit.
In Australia, we went strict on speeding and seems to have worked quite well in bringing down crashes. I can't believe they don't have the same speed camera tech in this country.
Conclusion from one study:
"Evaluation results estimated a 27.7% statistically significant reduction (p=0.016) in all casualty crashes associated with fixed speed camera installations. A corresponding 30.2% reduction in fatal and serious injury crashes was estimated however, this was not statistically significantly different from the estimate for all casualty crashes combined, suggesting the cameras are associated with uniform crash reduction effects across all crash severity levels. Absolute crash savings associated with the Hume Freeway point to point camera system were much greater than those estimated on the Geelong Rd spot speed camera network with annual estimated reductions of 21 and 6.8 casualty crashes
respectively associated with the cameras. This reflects the greater crash population covered by the point to point system compared to spot speed cameras, with the Hume Freeway system covering nearly 80km of road across the four enforced sections. In contrast the Geelong Rd camera system effectively covers a total of 10km of road length across the 5 camera installations evaluated which represents about 20% of the total road length. Despite this, the Geelong Rd cameras appear to be well placed covering around 37% of the total crash population." -
• #15246
We need a huge network of average speed cameras to reeducate these entitled cunts.
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• #15247
In Oz, it's so big they just stuck cameras in all the cop cars.
So, there's hidden fixed cameras all over the place (not high viz yellow boxes), there's hidden cameras in all the police cars including the unmarked ones and there's the guys that sit on the side of the road with camera/radar and ping you the old fashioned way (moving locations)
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• #15248
Most people ignore it but are probably closer to 25 than 35 which is an improvement at least.
I mean this is the bit people can't say out loud.
30mph = 35mph*
20mph = 25mphAnd the difference between hitting people at 35mph vs 25mph is fucking significant.
*except when people are averaging 8-11mph or whatever it is irl
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• #15249
Sorry just a bit grumpy today.
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• #15250
This. I’ve lived in Leyton for 8 years, and have seen how the roads have become much calmer since the ‘mini Holland’ scheme, 20mph limits and LTNs were phased in.
There are still muppets who feel their masculinity is affronted unless they drive 35 in a 20, especially on Church Road where there are zero cameras or calming measures, and a skip depot with the truck drivers barrelling it down past the school. Could be solved so easily with an average speed zone.