The Shed

I'm seeing Credo with Jo Mc Cafferty!

fandango wrote: NaturalScience wrote: Yes, your life is immeasurably better if it is bereft of PowerPoint.   I guess that all depends on the contents of the lunch-time buffet they serve up, afterwards...

Or beforehand, in my case

fandango wrote: ^^tonight, I'm not seeing anyone....   but I have no customers booked in on Tuesday night, and if it stays that way, I might work through the day, and sneek off to see Karnataka at Bilston...   what do you people think??

I don't think on weekends, sorry...

Hehe, what makes you think that way, loneliness?

I don't mind if you don't like my cheese, it just means there's more left for myself. Same applies to your cheddar in the opposite direction.

I got a letter from the department of justice today. Apparently I exceeded the speed limit with 72 km/h in a place where maximum speed was 10 km/h.










Lucky for me, the only place where that limit is applied is on camp sites and company grounds - neither of which is present on the 70 km/h road where they flashed me. Already found out that many others received the same letter, some even with the same photo number on it - so obviously someone made a mistake. Glad my heart is healthy though - thinking back of how I reacted initially...

Fortunately, at least to the best of my knowledge, that technology is considered illegal and entrapment here in the US.  Although, I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if that has changed under the current administration where anything goes.

^^I'd imagine that if they took the driving license off such an integral part of the Dutch economy as you Angelo, the entire thing could collapse around the governments ears...

Edited by fandango - October 10 2008 at 17:23

rushfan4 wrote: Fortunately, at least to the best of my knowledge, that technology is considered illegal and entrapment here in the US.  Although, I suppose I wouldn't be surprised if that has changed under the current administration where anything goes.

I believe they did try the speed camera in the states some years ago, they had a tendacie to end up as target practice.

Probably more fun than tying an old tyre around one and setting it alight.

I got checked by a camera on the way home from seeing a gig with Fanny and Sleeper.

The thing is, I got all the way to Swindon and then got caught.  I was not best pleased.

I don't drive above the speed limit... except on this occasion when I though I was in a 40 limit and it was a 30.

It's also the only area in Swindon where the speed cameras actually work and these same cameras have seen stopped being used, due to funding issues.  So I don't think there's any speed cameras that work in Swindon now.

I'm sooooo glad I don't drive. 

Saves you A LOT of money, A LOT of stress, and keeps you trim too!  No gymn for me!

Of course, this is fine if you live in a city or a town with good public transport, or at least with work and shops within walking distance of your home, but if you're in a rural area with no amenities or public transport... you're forced to drive.

^ i couldn't be without my car i'm afraid - i returned to the wheel after a 15 year break due to waiting for an hour at wet cold bus stops, only to  share a bus with adolescent chip-throwing swearing loonies, drunks etc., (the trains were almost as bad), or being followed home in the dark by  potential muggers (they could be innocent but you never know...), i also am on night alarm callout some weeks and may have to go to work quickly at 3 o clock in the morning. i work shifts and avoid the school runs and rush hour traffic, though sometimes  if it's nice and i'm feeling fit i get out my trusty old mountain bike.