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Drivers not knowing how to use a ford

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  • A_Name
    A_Name Posts: 19 Forumite
    davidlizard wrote: »
    some numpty car driver blindly follows her sat nav...

    The only thing worse than people who can't correctly use a ford is casual sexism.
  • davidlizard
    davidlizard Posts: 1,582 Forumite
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    A_Name wrote: »
    The only thing worse than people who can't correctly use a ford is casual sexism.

    Every person I am aware of who has been rescued from this ford going back at least 10 years has been female. How can facts be sexism?
  • jamespir
    jamespir Posts: 21,456 Forumite
    its the health and safety bullox mentality that councils have got going

    none of these things they reckon happen happened before all this nonsense
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  • POPPYOSCAR
    POPPYOSCAR Posts: 14,902 Forumite
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    davidlizard wrote: »
    Every person I am aware of who has been rescued from this ford going back at least 10 years has been female. How can facts be sexism?

    I have a different experience.

    Out of all the people we have seen stuck in the one near to us only one has been a woman.

    The last one was a man in a very expensive car.

    I do love it though that so many people did stop to try to help, it restores my faith in human nature to a degree.
  • qetu1357
    qetu1357 Posts: 1,013 Forumite
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    POPPYOSCAR wrote: »
    yes.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9261609/Calling-out-fire-brigade-will-now-cost-400-per-hour.html

    Wow didn't know that.

    Perhaps all the emergency services should charge when someone is at fault.

    Need an ambulance because you a drunk? £400 an hour please.

    Need a police car because you have been nicked? £400 an hour please.

    Like it.
  • Azari
    Azari Posts: 4,317 Forumite
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    A_Name wrote: »
    The only thing worse than people who can't correctly use a ford is casual sexism.

    Yeah, because !!!!!philia, genocide and serial killing all take a back seat it the awfulness stakes compared to casual sexism.

    Seriously, though, casual sexism is annoying and women are just as guilty of it as men.
    There are two types of people in the world: Those that can extrapolate information.
  • ThumbRemote
    ThumbRemote Posts: 4,755 Forumite
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    A_Name wrote: »
    The only thing worse than people who can't correctly use a ford is casual sexism.

    Is well considered sexism acceptable?
  • cavework
    cavework Posts: 1,992 Forumite
    Drivers not knowing how to use a ford .. ?
    and theres me being a wickle girly numpy thinking you was talking about those really cute ikle cars us wimin can buy that are designed to be used while wearing stilleto heels.. wiv them handy mirrors for lipstick renewal while waiting at a junction

    Got stuck in major floods 3 years ago driving a Berlingo van and had a cute chap who insisted on following me through 'in case I broke down' in his ikle car..
    an I managed it all on my own while he drove in the bow wave very close to my bumper. ;)
    My hair was ruined that night :eek:
    signed
    girly van driver
  • meritaten
    meritaten Posts: 24,158 Forumite
    I wont let OH get a sat-nav - he would only argue with it and ignore its directions anyway!
  • shammyjack
    shammyjack Posts: 2,685 Forumite
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    2 local muppets !

    http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/local/picture-drivers-stranded-in-brighouse-torrent-1-4957275
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