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From: Albert T Cone on 25 Jun 2010 11:32 Brimstone wrote: > > "Mike Henry" <{$mrtickle$}@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > news:q997269kmbhnd9j23vo495opibf55p4beh(a)4ax.com... >> In <3-mdnciqY6XhC77RnZ2dnUVZ8uWdnZ2d(a)bt.com>, "Brimstone" >> <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On what scale of things is football important? >> >> This is one scale of importance: >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_uOgyBK1c&feature=player_embedded >> >> "massively mattering to someone, presumably" :-) > > Like it, it sums it up quite nicely. > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU gets fairly close too.
From: Adrian on 25 Jun 2010 11:41 Silk <me(a)privacy.net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: >> But it's not 'just' to save money - my wife wont drive the Rover, but >> would drive a smaller car - and a smaller car is simply a lot easier to >> manoeuvre in tight car parks. > In my experience visibility is more important than size when it comes to > maneuvering as most cars are roughly the same size in as much as if you > can get one car in a space you can usually get another. There's 500mm difference in length between a Fabia estate and a 75 estate and 150mm difference in width. Neither of those are unimportant to a less confident driver, especially one who has issues with manouvering. Given that Kev's wife refuses to drive the Rover, and that they've had no other car in the household for about 8 years, I don't think it's a leap of imagination to assume that description fits.
From: Ret. on 25 Jun 2010 11:53 Adrian wrote: > Silk <me(a)privacy.net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were > saying: > >>> But it's not 'just' to save money - my wife wont drive the Rover, >>> but would drive a smaller car - and a smaller car is simply a lot >>> easier to manoeuvre in tight car parks. > >> In my experience visibility is more important than size when it >> comes to maneuvering as most cars are roughly the same size in as >> much as if you can get one car in a space you can usually get >> another. > > There's 500mm difference in length between a Fabia estate and a 75 > estate and 150mm difference in width. Neither of those are > unimportant to a less confident driver, especially one who has issues > with manouvering. > > Given that Kev's wife refuses to drive the Rover, and that they've > had no other car in the household for about 8 years, I don't think > it's a leap of imagination to assume that description fits. Spot on. -- Kev
From: Silk on 25 Jun 2010 11:59 On 25/06/2010 16:41, Adrian wrote: > There's 500mm difference in length between a Fabia estate and a 75 estate > and 150mm difference in width. Neither of those are unimportant to a less > confident driver, especially one who has issues with manouvering. Although the laws of physics must play a part, I still maintain that certain cars are easier to park than others simply because of the design. For this reason, I find estate cars are much easier to park. I doubt Kev's wife has a problem parking the Rover for want of 500mm. It's more likely a mixture of psychology (a Rover is a big man's car) and design (it's difficult to judge the position of the R75 relative to the space. > Given that Kev's wife refuses to drive the Rover, and that they've had no > other car in the household for about 8 years, I don't think it's a leap > of imagination to assume that description fits. Many women, and men, for a whole load of reasons, simply don't like parking and blaming the car may be just another excuse.
From: Silk on 25 Jun 2010 12:03
On 25/06/2010 16:53, Ret. wrote: > Adrian wrote: >> Silk <me(a)privacy.net> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were >> saying: >> >>>> But it's not 'just' to save money - my wife wont drive the Rover, >>>> but would drive a smaller car - and a smaller car is simply a lot >>>> easier to manoeuvre in tight car parks. >> >>> In my experience visibility is more important than size when it >>> comes to maneuvering as most cars are roughly the same size in as >>> much as if you can get one car in a space you can usually get >>> another. >> >> There's 500mm difference in length between a Fabia estate and a 75 >> estate and 150mm difference in width. Neither of those are >> unimportant to a less confident driver, especially one who has issues >> with manouvering. >> Given that Kev's wife refuses to drive the Rover, and that they've >> had no other car in the household for about 8 years, I don't think >> it's a leap of imagination to assume that description fits. > > Spot on. I still don't see that having an extra 500mm will make much difference to someone who has difficulty parking - it's approximately the difference between the parking sensors saying you're going to hit the car behind and actually hitting it. If the car doesn't fit, you find a bigger space. There is absolutely no difference in the skill required to park a slightly larger car in a slightly larger space. |