Speed awareness course

[JBR]

I have just returned from attending a speed awareness course and, to be perfectly honest, I found it not only interesting but actually enjoyable. There was a young lady (yes, she was a blonde) who kept us in polite amusement due to her stupid answers and child-like questions (often asking something that had just been explained)!

Yes, you have to pay for them - about £80 - but they are very easy to apply for: just drive through a 'revenue camera' at a moderately quick speed (eg, 35 in a 30 zone - my wife; or 48 in a 40 zone - me)! B

 

[Whitespirit66]

You weren't on the same course as our red trousered tw@ t of a Lord Mayor were you? This is the moron who imposed the ridiculous 20mph speed limit on most of Bristol's roads - who was caught speeding himself.

The lower limit is pointless anyway, as everyone including myself just ignores it. Still, it only wasted £2.3m of taxpayers money. Yet another lefty waste of space.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-limit-city-caught-doing-35mph-30-zone.html

 

[Newboy]

You weren't on the same course as our red trousered tw@ t of a Lord Mayor were you? This is the moron who imposed the ridiculous 20mph speed limit on most of Bristol's roads - who was caught speeding himself.

The lower limit is pointless anyway, as everyone including myself just ignores it. Still, it only wasted £2.3m of taxpayers money. Yet another lefty waste of space.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-city-caught-doing-35mph-30-zone.html[/QUOTE]

So he's not getting your vote next time then?

 

[Whitespirit66]

No, he's blown it.

 

[longdogs]

I have just returned from attending a speed awareness course and, to be perfectly honest, I found it not only interesting but actually enjoyable. There was a young lady (yes, she was a blonde) who kept us in polite amusement due to her stupid answers and child-like questions (often asking something that had just been explained)!

Yes, you have to pay for them - about £80 - but they are very easy to apply for: just drive through a 'revenue camera' at a moderately quick speed (eg, 35 in a 30 zone - my wife; or 48 in a 40 zone - me)! B

We all know it's not about the money

 

[Astra99]

I have the misfortune to work in commie-land (Bristol to the uninitiated) and I can only hope the brainless idiots in the Traffic & Highways department and their elected paymasters soon lose their jobs (elections in May) before the traffic comes to a grinding halt due to their total mismanagement. As for the "independent" mayor, well, his red trousers say it all, and his actions, and the actions of some of the elected members give the impression "do as I tell you, not as I do".

 

[Whitespirit66]

Thanks. Confirms what we all thought. Another one on high, who thinks he knows best for the hard-pressed plebs. Yet another example of a useless, hypocritical socialist.

 

[Micilin]

I'm not sure how a speed limit is left wing or right wing?

 

[Dextraneous]

I'm not sure how a speed limit is left wing or right wing?

If you angle your wing mirrors, you could potentially see two different speed limit signs

 

[foxhole]

Don't need a speed awareness course, I always know when I'm speeding.

 

[Brigadier]

Some time ago, I was collared by the rozzers for speeding.
God, he was a patronising bugger.
I wouldn't mind so much, but (with the joys of Google Earth), I worked out that he must have averaged at least 120mph (not counting his standing start, and circling the roundabout), to catch me. On a dual carriageway.
Made my 95 seem pitiful in comparison......

 

[JBR]

If it's any consolation, there were some coppers on the course when my wife attended a couple of years ago, and we were told when I was there that coppers do get caught and convicted.

No-one on my course admitted to being a copper, of course.

 

[noseall]

If it's any consolation, there were some coppers on the course when my wife attended a couple of years ago, and we were told when I was there that coppers do get caught and convicted.

No-one on my course admitted to being a copper, of course.

I know a rozzer who has been on the course (years ago).

Since then he has been caught on another camera. It's route he travels daily too! I didn't take the pee. Much.

 

[noseall]

No-one on my course admitted to being a copper, of course.

Probably because of attitudes towards all rozzers. Your last to words say a lot.

 

[handyjack]

Interesting reading

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ght-speeding-going-red-lights-prosecuted.html