Texting on a horse!

[brokenflipflop]

Yet I appear to be able to cycle for miles on public roads and no-one has ever billed me - so AFAICT, road tax does not exist.

I think the authorities don't call it road tax because they spend hardly any of the "road" tax on the roads.

I think if Police car was stuck behind because I was driving at the speed 2 horse walk then I'd probably get a ticket which is a bit rich considering I pay "road" tax and the kids on the horses don't.

 

[Bicycle]

I think if Police car was stuck behind because I was driving at the speed 2 horse walk then I'd probably get a ticket which is a bit rich considering I pay "road" tax and the kids on the horses don't.

Similarly, I think that if the Moon were made of cheese it would probably attract mice, which is a bit rich. Especially Stilton.

 

[brokenflipflop]

Only one would be a distinct possibility and the other just pie in the sky.

I'm reading the Guardian now because I want to be all high brow and clever and yet my grammar is rubbish. Does anyone know why ?

 

[Bicycle]

Only one would be a distinct possibility and the other just pie in the sky.

I'm reading the Guardian now because I want to be all high brow and clever and yet my grammar is rubbish. Does anyone know why ?

Cripes! That's a hard question to answer. Poor grammar might be the result of one or more of several things, among which two of the more likely are:

1. A poor education
2. A good education to which you paid too little attention.

You will know which (if either) of these is the more applicable.

If I wanted to improve my grammar, The Guardian would not be my first port of call. There is an excellent book by a man called Eric Partridge. It is called Usage and Abusage of the English Language (or similar). If it is no longer in print... don't worry. Spellcheck will make everything beautiful.

 

[brokenflipflop]

Number 2 was me.
Partridge.....I've studied his work avidly: Knowing me, Knowing you, I'm Alan Partridge, Alan Partridge Bouncing Back.

 

[brokenflipflop]

Time for another history lesson. This is taken, without permission from http://ipayroadtax.com/

ROAD TAX WAS ABOLISHED 74 YEARS AGO​

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Road tax doesn't exist.​

That's why I wrote "road" and not road. I reckon if there were no vehicles ergo no "road" tax (or VED) the authorities wouldn't have been able or willing to provide tarmac roads at a cost of billions for the use of road bikes and horses.

You don't like vehicles do you Adrian.

 

[ianrauk]

I am pretty much convinced that the overwhelming majority of vehicle use is actually completely unnecessary and quite useless.

I wholeheartedly agree with that.

 

[MontyVeda]

I am pretty much convinced that the overwhelming majority of vehicle use is actually completely unnecessary and quite useless.

yup same here... from my desk at work I watch slow moving traffic heading for Morecambe all day long which never seems to ease up, it just goes even slower around 9am and 5pm... what is the point in going to Morecambe FFS!!!

 

[brokenflipflop]

If one factors in the tax on a car purchase, the income tax paid by everyone employed in the car industry and all business's dependant on vehicles, fuel duty and VED, and the fact that only a fraction of the VED alone is spent on roads every year then I'd suggest revenue collected as a consequence of the motor car must subsidise a lot of other things e.g. NHS, Asylum seekers, London etc etc.

I do use my vehicle for dozens of completely unnecessary trips but I've Just been to the Coop in the SUV for some milk, jelly babies and Soreen - it is about 450 metres though so I could argue it was justified. Also every trip I take I always think the fuel duty I pay is helping to pay for a Romanian Asylum seekers lunch.

 

[lukesdad]

Yep most of my rides are unnecessary, and im often quite useless at them

 

[brokenflipflop]

Nice try but I just don't believe you.

To make it worse, I can't remember the last time I walked to the Coop. To be fair Adrian, I've got a manual job and I am knackered when I get home and when the wife suggests I go and get her something nice from the Coop and it's cold and damp and dark outside then it's the SUV every time (and I don't miss any Emmerdale)

 

[Bicycle]

As for liking vehicles, I am pretty much convinced that the overwhelming majority of vehicle use is actually completely unnecessary and quite useless.

I can't quite agree with this statement. You and I might disagree with the idea of portly parents driving portly children to school. We might arch an eyebrow at a gym-bunny driving three miles to spend twenty minutes on a static bicycle...

... But I do not believe that 'the overwhelming majority of vehicle use is completely unnecessary'. It may be something that you and I would not consider using a vehicle to do, but that's a different thing. I'm sure that some vehicle use is unnecessary, but I'm not sure how we can state that the majority is.

I feel similarly about your classification of the overwhelming majority of vehicle use being 'quite useless'. Much of the art on my walls is quite useless, but I wouldn't be without it. The flowers growing among the fruit trees in my garden are quite useless, but they mean as much to me as the fruit, herbs and vegetables we grow for the table.

We try to drive as few miles as we can, but we still need two cars as a family and are right up the creek when one of them is U/S.

I realise you may have made the point as a retort to something (probably slightly provocative) from another poster, but on the basis purely of the sentence as you write it, I disagree.

 

[lukesdad]

I can't quite agree with this statement. You and I might disagree with the idea of portly parents driving portly children to school. We might arch an eyebrow at a gym-bunny driving three miles to spend twenty minutes on a static bicycle...

... But I do not believe that 'the overwhelming majority of vehicle use is completely unnecessary'. It may be something that you and I would not consider using a vehicle to do, but that's a different thing. I'm sure that some vehicle use is unnecessary, but I'm not sure how we can state that the majority is.

I feel similarly about your classification of the overwhelming majority of vehicle use being 'quite useless'. Much of the art on my walls is quite useless, but I wouldn't be without it. The flowers growing among the fruit trees in my garden are quite useless, but they mean as much to me as the fruit, herbs and vegetables we grow for the table.

We try to drive as few miles as we can, but we still need two cars as a family and are right up the creek when one of them is U/S.

I realise you may have made the point as a retort to something (probably slightly provocative) from another poster, but on the basis purely of the sentence as you write it, I disagree.

In other words he means " Cobblers "

 

[brokenflipflop]

The thing I love about cyclechat is the thought of me going down the road to the Coop, in the rain and dark, in my vehicle of choice to get the wife some toffees is viewed by some on here as the most unreasonable thing in the world.

It make I larf it does

 

[lukesdad]

Pleasure.