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From: Harry Bloomfield on 25 Nov 2009 15:49 mileburner formulated the question : > No wonder the railways struggle to make money. They pay 50 grand for some > monkey to sit in a box pulling levers. They don't pull any more, they flip switches and push buttons. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Harry Bloomfield on 25 Nov 2009 15:54 Conor wrote : > Why do a disproportionate amount of them end up on the side of the road > with a wheel missing? I've seen plenty where not only the tyre but the > brake drum as well is missing and its resting on whats left of the stub > axle. Don't tell me they take them off to get a tyre changed. I saw one last year. I saw may more cars abandoned by the road side. -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Harry Bloomfield on 25 Nov 2009 15:56 Silk wrote on 25/11/2009 : > Bikers are simply a different breed and, apart from sharing the same roads, > have almost nothing in common with car drivers. Supermen? :-) > > For example, car drivers never feel the need to wash their engine in the > kitchen sink. That says it all really. You would if you could :-) -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Harry Bloomfield on 25 Nov 2009 15:59 Conor has brought this to us : > What does it also say (and actually this is in the HC) about trusting > the signals of others? In what way is putting your headlights on main beam when you have a convoy of cars behind you anxious to overtake, a signal? -- Regards, Harry (M1BYT) (L) http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk
From: Dr Ivan D. Reid on 25 Nov 2009 15:54
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:09:38 +0000, Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote in <9rbog5pnpivff7fkpfgnu71o8mj67oncju(a)4ax.com>: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:16:34 +0000, Silk <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: >>*All* motorcyclists have a tendency towards hotheadedness and >>recklessness over and above other road users, the Police are no exception. >>Let's be honest, you have to have a bit of a screw loose to want to get >>on one. ><proud> You've got so many screws loose, you can be heard half a mile away! Which is small beer compared to some others around here... -- Ivan Reid, School of Engineering & Design, _____________ CMS Collaboration, Brunel University. Ivan.Reid@[brunel.ac.uk|cern.ch] Room 40-1-B12, CERN GSX600F, RG250WD "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484 JKLO#003, 005 WP7# 3000 LC Unit #2368 (tinlc) UKMC#00009 BOTAFOT#16 UKRMMA#7 (Hon) KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty". |