Nope why would I. My car was built in Hiroshima and last time I checked Ford don't have a factory there.
He touched my car
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srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
It wasn't that Aberdeen doesn't need a bypass, it was that it already has two, that the claims made by supporters for traffic reduction are unrealistic and that the money could be much better spent.
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User482
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Good news! An Audi tt is an excellent aid for a poorly executed track stand.
growingvegetables
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Oh for goodness' sake, another driver with a humourectomy.
Now - your turn to chill out. Bearing in mind what you've said of yourself, and how you've reacted ....... hmmm, I think you may just have backed up my tongue-in-cheek smiley-ed suggestion. There are dingbats out there, and there are terminally stupid people in possession of driving licences.
I'm guessing not you - and certainly not me. Cos I drive too
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
With apologies for citing an insurance company press release in evidence (and please don't mention the English or the numeracy), 76% of drivers report that they're bored while driving, and 55% believe boredom affects their concentration.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/are-we-there-yet-ask-britains-bored-drivers-2012-11-05
Desperate stuff, screenman!
Drivers do not usually cite boredom as an advantage of driving. "Let's get the car out - I love to arrive at my destination bored within an inch of my life."
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That's not what I asked.
Boris Bajic
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This is unusual stuff. One might get the impression that you (and perhaps others) are bent on proving how utterly dull, frustrating and vexing it is to use a mode of transport you do not favour, do not enjoy and appear to disapprove of.
I don't enjoy watching cricket. Many of my friends do. I do not tell them how utterly dull it is and how much more fun they'd have watching (or playing) football. They would, of course, but I might start to sound eccentric.
One of the lovely things about our society is that we have the option not to use these modes of transport of which we disapprove. I'm not sure, though, why there is a need to tell others who seem to enjoy motoring that it is dull, frustrating and quite the opposite of relaxing.
It is clear that you do not find motoring exciting. You might even find it dull. I'm sorry that it's been like that for you, but only as far as my friends are sorry that I find no pleasure in cricket.
I've cycled for forty years or more and have loved most of it. I've raised my children to have the opportunity to cycle and all have grasped the opportunity. .
I've also driven quite happily (for the most part) for well over thirty years. Most (but not all) of my drives are a pleasure. My wife and I both go for the keys if we're going to her mother's the Valleys - it is such a lovely drive. I imagine the children will all also drive when old enough. The eldest already does
I cycle for the Hell of it sometimes... It can be such distilled joy. It is quite unlike driving.
I do not drive for the Hell of it. I'm not sure I ever have, outside track use and blats in the desert when I was younger. But that does not make driving dull, boring, frustrating or infuriating.
I'm sorry it is so for you, but for many of us, most of the time, it is rather fun.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
My statistics prove you wrong.
The fact is that driving betrays an inability to engage with the world. It's not a grown-up thing to do. As the waffle two posts up amply demonstrates. There are people who find themselves in positions that make it the least worst alternative, but driving as a choice, or, heaven help us, an expression of individual liberty is a poor thing indeed.
I'll tell you this. If I pass you on the road, you in your car, me on my bike, I know I am the better person. There's nothing you can do by way of leather-backed driving gloves, tweed caps, shinier hubcaps or car stereos that can convince me otherwise.
I'll tell you this. If I pass you on the road, you in your car, me on my bike, I know I am the better person. There's nothing you can do by way of leather-backed driving gloves, tweed caps, shinier hubcaps or car stereos that can convince me otherwise.
