Snow X Rubbish Driving

Check out the skid pan in this clip :

On the buses movie part 5

BTW the Wiktionary definition of Chav says “working class” but do they work?

I had to look it up too :

Noun
chav (plural chavs)
(British, pejorative) A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived “common” taste in clothing and lifestyle.
I wouldn’t go to that part of town if I were you; it’s full of chavs.

A philistine and or a Dolt

A rather cool 25* today, might have to put a shirt on :diablo:

I’ve been out of the country for over 30 years now so I have to ask, what is a Chav, Anna? Obviously a ‘nick-name’ for one of your ‘fellow citizens’ but form which country?

Happy Christmas everyone.

Doug

I had to look it up too :

Noun
chav (plural chavs)
(British, pejorative) A working-class youth, especially one associated with aggression, poor education, and a perceived “common” taste in clothing and lifestyle.
I wouldn’t go to that part of town if I were you; it’s full of chavs.

A rather cool 25* today, might have to put a shirt on :diablo:

I’ve been out of the country for over 30 years now so I have to ask, what is a Chav, Anna? Obviously a ‘nick-name’ for one of your ‘fellow citizens’ but form which country?

Happy Christmas everyone.

Doug

LOL! 😀 Aren’t you supposed to put knobbly tires on the car when the roads are icy?

:D:D:D…I would have been inclined to stay with the car…they were lucky !!!

Here is a quality bit of driving for you Anna… 😀

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MPRmOUxRMY&feature=player_embedded

aftermath

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/4112/damage2.jpg

LOL! 😀 Aren’t you supposed to put knobbly tires on the car when the roads are icy?

Here is a quality bit of driving for you Anna… 😀

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MPRmOUxRMY&feature=player_embedded

aftermath

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/4112/damage2.jpg

I’m nearly 20, have been driving for 2 years and have never driven in snow/ice and I’d never dream of going out in it without any training. I agree that there should be some sort of skid pan training scheme set up, and that it’s highly encouraged as part of a learner driver course.

I believe that in some countrys (Austria being an example I think) it is the law that every vehicle has to have either snow tyres or snow chains avalable after October ???.

I tried that today! great fun:) 😀

Skid pan training should be mandatory!!!

Yes, I guess it is a state of mind (or an absence thereof), not an age thing…

Could have been an adult Chav:D

Monday night, slight snow, and the road past the house hadn’t been gritted. So, cue some muppet trying to drive at 30 and fish-tailing all over the place.

And this wasn’t a chav, this was an adult of at least 40!

:rolleyes:

Any of those idiot drivers we encounter in normal conditions become potential killers in the snow and ice.:mad:

Thank you Frank I will tell her today before she goes out 🙂 The roads here are still not salted and it is -5 so not good.

Have her put a lot of weight in the trunk, it should help…

After last year’s chaos I bought a pair of Weissenfels WeissSock Tyre Socks (£50) but actually got to ‘test’ them last week……

What a great idea, I know what I shall be ordering my friend Michelle for her birthday, she has a rear wheel drive car and has had massive problems in the snow. 🙂

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What makes me crazy are the drivers who go screaming up to a red traffic light and then slam on brakes. Or they honk at you when you are slowing up to try catch the light as it turns green. :mad:That is really intelligent.

Mainly young people who’ve not long obtained their licence 😡

I used to carry snow chains on the truck when I was on continental haulage, a legal requirement when transiting Switzerland on the way to Italy. But I found that snow curtains were better. These were the ones you pulled around the cab windows on the inside after the central heating was put on. slept until the road was clear…worked every time!

I was out walking an old airfield near home yesterday afternoon. luckily I have a little Suzuki Jimny 4×4 but it still took an hour and a half to get home because everyone seemed to be using maximum revs to get up the slightest incline. Except for one young girl in a little Fiesta. I followed her up Cats hill in Stanstead Abbots, she was turning the steering left and right gently while using low revs and got her way up the hill. I wondered who taught her that old trick. I was very impressed.

A few miles further on we were travelling between Roydon and Harlow on a narrow backroad that was down to one lane. A set of headlights were behind me and after a couple of miles I heard hooting, A Corsa with a bucket for an exhaust overtook the pair of us, the driver, and I use the term loosely, was shaking his fist at me for travelling behind the Fiesta without attempting to overtake it.

How I wished he would have stacked it on the next bend, but he obviously got away with it…this time.