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- Comment on BDSM 7 hours ago:
Windows Bob has entered the chat
- Comment on Time to chop wood 4 days ago:
I’m gonna guess this is an American thing
- Comment on Time to chop wood 4 days ago:
I’m 38, I’ve not used a cheque since I was 19.
- Comment on Got my boy Crassus on speedial 1 week ago:
Classic mistake. He should have persuaded his neighbours to have private firefighters. That way they’d have put his house out to stop the fire spreading to that of their clients.
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 2 weeks ago:
Well. Shit.
- Comment on Time to make your decesion 2 weeks ago:
Can I work from home instead?
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2: Electric Boogaloo 2 weeks ago:
Remind me, just how long did it take them to ban thedonald?
- Comment on The key is to over share until they stop asking. 2 weeks ago:
As a Brit this is easy. The response is always along lines of “good, you?”. You might get away with “mus’nt grumble” if you’re having a really shit day.
- Comment on Water 2 weeks ago:
Not Hitler though.
- Comment on For your wish using a noun associated with a male chicken is a mistake 3 weeks ago:
A jenie will always twist a wish. I think the wiser was quite lucky this was a result and they didn’t end up like that freaky cock sup from the boys.
- Comment on If someone murdered me, how long would it take (if ever) until they catch the murderer? 4 weeks ago:
Fucking hell mate. Where do you live that’s so rough? There’s around 600 murders a year in the country I live (UK).
That said I don’t think there’d be much effort to investigate here either, the police just default to saying things are a civil matter these days.
- Comment on "Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media" 4 weeks ago:
Doesn’t one of the charges carry the death penalty?
- Comment on Excellent anti smoking ad 4 weeks ago:
It’s not great. I’ve way the photos are lit and the angles does make it look cool.
That chicken looks like it’s in a gangster movie.
- Comment on The European mind can't comprehend 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure it’s not worse than Russia.
- Comment on The European mind can't comprehend 5 weeks ago:
With the level of ambulance delays after 14 years of managed decline under the Tories, you might be better off with the Uber in the UK too. Just for different reasons.
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 months ago:
This was what the UK discovered after Brexit
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
The first two are newsworthy because of their exceptionality. Thousands of cameras two issues.
The third link points 100% away from the argument that it’s just to get revenue. If it were they would be actively decreasing the amount of dropped fines. They’d be making sure cameras were calibrated correctly (as if they’re not the court would throw out) and that they weren’t
unable to send tickets to motorists in the post within the allotted time before they are no longer valid
and that they wouldn’t suffer from a
lack of resources to bring cases to court
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
Riiighhtt because you’re sooo busy and soooo important to your job that you can’t take a morning off. Speed awareness course is like 4 hours and you can do over video call. Get a fucking grip.
Or, if you are genuinely so important and busy you must be paid a bomb, so just pay the fine, take the points, pay the bit extra on insurance. Job done.
Or, here’s an idea. Don’t break the mother fucking law in the first place.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
“hi boss I need to take a half day holiday on X date, I have to attend a speed awareness course”
"Hey bob, can I swap a shift with you on X date, I’ll work your X Saturday. I’ve got to attend a speed awareness course "
Or if you’re to chicken to tell the truth replace with dentist.
It’s hardly rocket science.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
It only seems to be since the yanks woke up.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
Over here if you’re just a bit over they’ll normally put you on a speed awareness course for the first time getting caught.
And I 100% agree on fines being income based. I think some of the Scandinavian countries have done that. I also think there needs to be some kind of catch for the super rich who work the system so they don’t really declare an income. Maybe if your net worth is x times the national average the fine is the greater of either a percentage of your net worth or income.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
In the vicinity of camera sites, the pre/post reductions ranged from 8% to 49% for all crashes and 11% to 44% for fatal and serious injury crashes. Compared with controls, the relative improvement in pre/post injury crash proportions ranged from 8% to 50%.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
I don’t know what the rules are in the USA but over here you should be stopping on amber, not blasting through.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
Maybe you guys ought to campaign to get the law changed. They used to be grey over here, but pressure was put on the government and how they’re all high vis yellow with loads of warnings before them.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
Fixed speed camera housings located within an area of street or highway lighting should be coloured yellow either by painting both the front and back of the housing or covering both the front and back of the housing with retroreflective sheeting. In an area not covered by street or highway lighting, the speed camera housing should be treated with yellow retroreflective sheeting.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
I mean I don’t know how you could think it wouldn’t be. Well signposted camera will help you pay more attention to your speed on the slope, it’s woods so presumably animals could run out at you.
If you can’t see a bright fucking yellow speed camera, and haven’t been paying attention to the ten dozen signed, then that’s 100% on you.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
I don’t think anyone has ever received a speeding fine from a speed camera who was going at the speed limit.
Stop being a cunt and think of others road safety.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
Except they do make it safer and because there’s always tonnes of signs around them you don’t get the brake slamming. They act as a deterrent.
Mobile speed traps, however, are a definite revenue boost.
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
So you’re going to go back on the death (and injury) part now that it has been pointed out that the study you linked was only about the collisions. And itself points research that shows that there is a reduction in death (and injury).
Right?
- Comment on There you go little guy 3 months ago:
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if you drive at the speed limit you won’t have a problem
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the speed camera will be well signposted (car on the left so this is the UK) while it’s not a legal requirement that they have signposts I’ve never come across a fixed camera that isn’t
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If you don’t break the law you won’t have a problem
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the camera is painted bright yellow for visibility
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once again for the those at the back who are hard of thinking: don’t speed and you won’t get fined
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usually for first time offences if you’re just a bit over the limit you’ll get the option of a speed awareness course.
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You’ve probably come to expect odd numbered points to tell you to not break the law by now, so I’ll mix it up: if you get caught breaking the law and get a slap on the wrist, don’t keep breaking the law.
I do agree though that the fining structure should be reformed, it should be a percentage of income with some provision in place so the super rich can’t get out of paying their appropriate share too.
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