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purpledonkey

Munqui wrote: »

What annoys me is, say you're on a 40mph road - clearly posted limit, nobody exceeding 40mph... but wait, there is a bright yellow speed camera, let's all slow down to 30mph, just in case theres a glitch in the cameras speed sensor :T :mad: :rotfl:

I'm with you on that. There's a section on the A406 where people drive between 35-40mph when it's 50, no wonder there are so many accidents :mad:

Savvybuyer

Munqui wrote: »

What annoys me is, say you're on a 40mph road - clearly posted limit, nobody exceeding 40mph... but wait, there is a bright yellow speed camera, let's all slow down to 30mph, just in case theres a glitch in the cameras speed sensor :T :mad: :rotfl:

Clearly I've started something off tonight:eek::rotfl::rotfl:.

40, they'll comply with. After travelling at 40 all the way up to where it first became 40 from the national speed limit 60 beforehand:mad::mad::rotfl:. I'm talking about cars, not HGVs. In that situation, 40 mph limit, a speed camera is there, I would not slow down to 30, I'd continue to do the 40 (if safe). If there's a glitch in the camera and it caught me, well the speed limit was 40 not 30, it does not matter what the speed camera detects. Again my way of thinking is obviously wrong.

Look, I've gotta go! Busy day tomorrow and trying to get up a bit earlier to fit Morries in (if that attempt ever succeeds lol:rotfl:).

:wave:

Sarahdol75

fairclaire wrote: »

if you don't like bad endings and you haven't watched it already.....don't EVER watch lost......:mad::mad:

How are you doing being home alone Snappy? :kisses3:

I loved lost until they moved to sky and we dont have it so never got to watch anymore, keep hinting for someone to buy me the bidder but so far nobody got it me.

Savvybuyer

purpledonkey wrote: »

I'm with you on that. There's a section on the A406 where people drive between 35-40mph when it's 50, no wonder there are so many accidents :mad:

Yes, put 50 on, and they're doing 35:mad::mad:. Change to 40 - and they speed up to 45!?!:huh:

That is what I can't understand! It's why I've thought of writing in to the Department for Transport on a number of occasions, though not actually done so, to suggest that, along with removing all traffic lights, they would be no delays without them, they increase the speed limit if they wish people to go slower.

Just totally bizarre and seems upside-down to me. Obviously, as an autistic person (that chestnut:D:D), I'm upside-down, so that normal people's behaviour will appear to me to be upside-down, even though it's obviously the right way up, and that therefore that is why people travel at 45 in 40s and 35 in 50s. Just seems the wrong way to me:rotfl::rotfl:. I'm obviously missing something. (And I know some people know will now respond with jokes, that are explanations, or not really but just intended as jokes, but I can see they're jokes and not really seriously meant - is there really a serious answer to why?) Anyway, goodnight!:rotfl::wave:

purpledonkey

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Yes, put 50 on, and they're doing 35:mad::mad:. Change to 40 - and they speed up to 45!?!:huh:

That is what I can't understand! It's why I've thought of writing in to the Department for Transport on a number of occasions, though not actually done so, to suggest that, along with removing all traffic lights, they would be no delays without them, they increase the speed limit if they wish people to go slower.

:rotfl: very true. The weekends are worse, everyone picks their own speed and disregard any kind of safety.

Ooooh oven timer!

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

My rant over - and perhaps I feel better now (or maybe not:rotfl:).

[1] Not just me that has the problems with other drivers then. I don't drive "too slow", I am driving there as fast as I can within the limit - yes, it feels slow to me too - but I'm being quite reasonable (good word again:rotfl:).

[2] Ah, thank you for that! What a cop-out though:rotfl:. I don't see why I shouldn't try to understand it - it's my yearning for - there's got to be some reason - in the absence of any other explanation, I'm starting to conclude that non-autistic people are incapable of driving within the speed limit and that's actually a pathological problem with them.:mad: Sorry to appear to put up a "them and us" barrier line - remember the impression that you get of me is undoubtedly wrong - Asperger's people often giving the wrong impression and often being misunderstood - but it does really annoy me!

There is a ring of truth, I think, in personalities changing behind the wheel - the inside of a car offers an area of seeming safety and security that I think takes over the emotions of most people:mad::( and causes them to forget. They also don't notice details like a small minority of the population that includes myself do - such as speed limit signs:mad::mad::rotfl:. Add to that the presence of any other person in the car and most people's attachment to the social environment caused by faces having a subconcious drawing on the brain of the normal person, that diverts their attention away from the road and onto the other occupants of the car. I also leave people in their cars staying stationary at traffic lights, as soon as that light has changed to green (assuming I'm first in the queue behind the light), I'm off and gone - and leave others standing! Again, slow reaction time of most people. If I'm not the first in the line, I'm just waiting ages for them to realise the lights have changed:mad::mad::mad::mad:.

:rotfl::rotfl:

not a cop out at all you go ahead and try and understand and report back to me with your findings

MY bugbear is those using mobile phones whilst driving :mad::mad: I BEEP loudly at every one of them I see, much to the embarrassment of whatever kids I have in the car at the time. I absolutely hate it that technology has made it possible to never have to do it......but people do :mad: It's SOOO dangerous. How can you turn a corner with one hand because your other hand is holding your phone??

I had a small bump with a woman who was on a mobile when she bumped me a few years back. Such was her attention to detail and her haughtiness that it wasn't her fault......she got said mobile out and started photographing the opposite side of the car to which she had bumped into.

........I just stood there looking smug and let her take her pics THEN pointed out to her she might like to photograph the side of the car she actually bumped into A very silly Moo

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

not a cop out at all you go ahead and try and understand and report back to me with your findings

MY bugbear is those using mobile phones whilst driving :mad::mad: I BEEP loudly at every one of them I see, much to the embarrassment of whatever kids I have in the car at the time. I absolutely hate it that technology has made it possible to never have to do it......but people do :mad: It's SOOO dangerous. How can you turn a corner with one hand because your other hand is holding your phone??

I had a small bump with a woman who was on a mobile when she bumped me a few years back. Such was her attention to detail and her haughtiness that it wasn't her fault......she got said mobile out and started photographing the opposite side of the car to which she had bumped into.

........I just stood there looking smug and let her take her pics THEN pointed out to her she might like to photograph the side of the car she bumped into A very silly Moo

No, I think I'll just keep driving safely (if that's actually possible and not dangerous to be driving at the maximum speed limit much more slowly than anyone behind:p:rotfl:). Oh, gawd, I have started something... with the mobile phones! You and me both...:(:rotfl::rotfl::)

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

No, I think I'll just keep driving safely (if that's actually possible and not dangerous to be driving at the maximum speed limit much more slowly than anyone behind:p:rotfl:). Oh, gawd, I have started something... with the mobile phones! You and me both...:(:rotfl::rotfl::)

Its good to exchange views on these things It's something we all have a view on and we can't talk about chocolate and toilet cleaner all the time. that would just be boring

fairclaire

Gocat.....I hope you are ok. I see you reading and not saying much. hope your hubby is ok :A

Savvybuyer

Ooh -- change of subject, sadly not money-related, a warning on the News Channel for distressing pictures on the front of the newspapers for tomorrow. But.. are they going to put up warning signs at the entrance of supermarkets/newsagents in which such front pages of the papers can be seen? No, of course not - yet another inconsistency again. You really are a strange set of people!

Bye folks:).

Do I really not understand that different rules apply to television and to newsagents shops? No, I understand that - but why? Why are they different and decided at a seeming whim? Completely illogical again - albeit that I realise that the world is illogical and therefore it is totally consistent with that, but still does not explain why "you" have these strange set of rules? You don't even comply with flamin' rules when you have them!:rotfl:

Context of course. But why? Surely, the "context" of a supermarket, where you might not know and might be more likely to encounter front pages unawares, would make it more necessary to have a warning there than not*, as opposed to a late-night news channel with a self-selecting audience that is aware there might be a review of newspapers at some point? In that context, it is illogical to me. Again, however, I'm clearly wrong and missing the point. I'm context-blind and therefore don't understand the context:rotfl:.

It does just seem to be at a complete whim most of the time, and that you, the non-autistic people, decide and my own opinion is irrelevant. It's a capricious whim that doesn't even comply with the supposed principles that it claims to in the first place - is that any wonder when virtually nothing that any normal person ever says is actually the truth? Oh, I am being controversial tonight:D - particularly on my outspokenness of saying it's a "capricious whim". Rules adjusted to when they suit, and then disapplied at whim if they are "inconvenient":(. Anyway, enough controversy!:cool:;)

*Not that I think it is necessary at all (I have no view one way or the other on that matter) - I'm just examining the different rules, their application or maybe not even application of any rules at all but just what different sets of people decide to do (or not) in different circumstances.