years ago i’d have said wow fantastic !! nowadays i’m less than impressed !!

for many reasons

1 train spotting is no longer the hobby it was you are more than likeley going to be arrested for suspision of terrorism nowadays than getting beaten up for being geeky !! in some instanses both on a bad day !!

2 having a name on a loco was once an honour for select things ,, for instace southern steam locomotives like merchant navy , battle of britain and west country class locomotives , amongst them names like , bodmin , winston churchill , tangmere , canadian pacific line
LMS locomotives like bahamas , kolhapur , etc all named after the empire

our local trams nowadays have the odd local name but one company has its name on the nameplates to sell chavs trainers , so it is looked on as advertising space rather than a thing of honour

quite a sad state of affairs that this once very honourable thing will be largely unimportant to the large proportion of british nowadays

i bet 99.9% don’t even look to see if they are named nowadays !!

very difficult to call !! i remember it as a kid and find it just as confusing today

whilst i have no doubt it is perfectly possible a dingo could take a child ,

how on earth did it remove clothes without a single tooth mark ??

adult humans can struggle dressing and undressing babies with 2 very dextrous hands

a dingo has one mouth and no experience of human dressing , i always thaught a more logical thing would be to rip the clothes off for a dingo

if i remember correctly didn’t it also have to enter a camp and go into a tent

there are some things i accept on this but also some that do seem to streatch credibility

much less tolerant did people seem to be back then.

the only difrence nowadays is it is spoken out less through various suppression methods

it exists in exactly the same numbers (if not more ) the trouble is it creates a powder keg nothing gets said till things explode !!

Me! I am disabled and can’t walk 100yards without severe pain or falling over.
Yes I drive to another supermarket because usually fat munters with no blue badges or little children have taken the disabled bays! Is that honest enough for you.To preempt the next(usual) question. I then use a Supermarket trolley as a zimmer even if I want only one small item!

there are obviously exceptions but a great percentage of the uk are fat and idle and do nothing to help thier situation

i’m partialy disabled but i walk most places and work ( even though it is painful ) because if i don’t i am not helping my own situation

the day i stop making the effort is the day i join the rest on mobility scooters riding around tesco for thier next microwave meal and tub of icecream

my own observations round my own town of obese people with obesity related walking problems on mobility scooters ( and i can’t see it being much difrent anywhere else in the uk ) speaks volumes

eat less and walk more / do more excercise

obesity was not a problem until everyone drove everywhere looking back to the 60’s obesity wasn’t a problem ( sure you got the odd one ) but in the main the population did manual jobs and more often than not worked close by so heaven forbid walked

we have to get our mind sets away from the car and change the way it is used therefore making them more expensive and harder to get can only be a good thing

You wouldn’t be opposed to employers choosing men instead of women, due to the increased cost of employing a woman compared to a man then? 🙂

and that is the whole point !! giving cheaper insurance by age or sex is discrimatory

if white drivers were proven to be better than black and insurance was offered at reductions because of colour there would be riots

even though the proof may be there it is discriminating certain groups

the only thing insurance should go off is the individuals experience and record whereby everyone starts on a level premium until difrent is proven

why should the little old dear that has many little claims pay less

than a young lad who may until proven difrently be an accident free motorist

it is discrimination and needs stamping out !!

There is no point imposing arbitary restrictions like that, just because it seems like it might be a good idea. The purpose of these regulations is not to make the roads safer, it is to gradually reduce the numbers of motorcyclists on the road by making the licence almost impossible to obtain. The UK govt doesn’t want this, but some countries (e.g Sweden) would LOVE to ban motorcycles, and see this as a major milestone on the route to doing that. Also, as the number of riders drops off, expect the price of motorcycles and related items to go up 😉

If we want to lower motorcycle KSI stats per 1000 riders, we need to target bikers in the 35 to 55 bracket. Motorbikes are a great method of transport, low cost and low congestion with potential for very high MPG figures. Most of the cars on major roads seem to be single occupant, so those who choose to use a motorbike instead of a big saloon car should be rewarded, just as they are for small cars.

)

but sureley today making any vehicle harder to obtain is a good thing especialy on britains roaads

we are like america in some senses we are becoming fat and idle because of car habits
now be honest on this , how many drive to another supermarket if they can’t park close enough to the doors ??
use of vehicles has become disgusting in the uk i live close to a villiage retraunt and it is unreal ( on a nice summer evening ) how many will go to the effort of starting the car to go to the village shop less than 100 yrds away
anything that makes people think can only be a good thing

I don’t care how much anyone has driven or what vehicles they’ve driven, there is no age, sex, colour or any other barrier to crap driving. Everyone is capable of it.

realy ??? i mean realy ??? now lets think about this !!

http://youtu.be/Y8zmv5Zd_cs

also worth a thaught is how many women have accidents as a “named ” driver on hubbies policy !!!

these may be counted as against the main policy holder rather than the named driver