Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

1p per pint? That is a serious pledge.

And 1p for a glass of wine for the ladies?

This guy is going to get hundreds of votes! About 3 hundred, I reckon.

Oh shit!

This is happening just down the road from my house. In fact, they might well take me there if I look like I'm about to flake out.

I reckon this will also save the students tons in parking charges. They are charged £10 per day to park their cars in the hospital car park but they work there for nothing. This will put a stop to that for sure.

You live near Northamptonstan EL ... commiserations.

By Camilla Turner
12:05AM GMT 15 Jan 2015
Critics say that the camoflage cameras enforcing a 70mph speed limit will catch drivers unawares on hitherto unpoliced stretches of motorways

Motoring organisations have reacted angrily to plans for a new generation of “stealth cameras” that are to be rolled out on Britain’s busiest motorways.

Pioneering digital technology will be used in an attempt to catch drivers breaking the 70mph speed limit, which until recently had been ignored by speed cameras.

The plan forms part of the Highway Agency’s expansion of “smart” motorways, which use a range of techniques to maximise ease the flow of traffic.

Motoring organisations say the plans will lead to thousands of drivers being handed fines and penalty points on their license for exceeding the 70mph limit.

Critics have also claimed that the introduction of cameras aimed at enforcing the 70mph limit, is not about road safety but about generating income through fines.

The new devices are grey, rather than the highly visible yellow cameras often used around roadworks, raising fears that motorists may be caught off guard.

Studies have shown that as many as 95 per cent of drivers admit to breaking the limit on motorways.

The introduction of cameras on one stretch of the M25 in Kent alone has led to almost 700 drivers receiving fines in little over two months.

Some cameras were installed on a northern section of London’s orbital motorway before Christmas, and more will be deployed on busy stretches of some of the most important motorways including M1, M3, M6 and M60 over the next few years.

In 2013, Patrick McLoughlin abandoned plans to introduce a new 80mph speed limit on Britain's motorways amid fears the change would alienate women voters.

Telegraph

effects of collapsing oil price
up to now, we have only had anecdotal evidence and whatever we have read in the press

however, i can now report first hand from our people in usa/canada where a couple of mining/oil "serious" clients will be returning kit due to mothballing of projects

those clients will not be in isolation, and of course there is and will be further repercussions not only in usa but also all over the world where these activities take place

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if you're a bull for 2015, i'ld be very very wary

if you play the stock indices, then it could be a wild time as i think there's still hefty volatility to come

The introduction of cameras on one stretch of the M25 in Kent alone has led to almost 700 drivers receiving fines in little over two months.


tell me about it
i got stiffed for doing 70 when i was apparently in a 50 mph zone of which i was unaware

for general info, this was m25 anticlockwise near jnct 5

Pay up and smile c, it's for your own good.

You weren't on your pushbike by any chance were you Cynic , just that with all the em , fitness stuff .

well it was downhill!

Max,

I misread the cartoon I thought the pile of F.... on the empty podium represented Cameron.

Thought it more apt.

DB4 and Manuel,

If you have a deadly weapon (car or gun) you should no the rules, regulation and law and abide with them or pay the penalties.

No sympathy.


I have been "clocked" twice in the last 10 years. Damn it!

Probably, tried to excuse myself, until I told myself to "grow up" and take the "medicine"!

Otherwise, clean licence for 50 years, but looking back perhaps that was due to a lot of luck.

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did i ask for sympathy?
just cross with myself for being clocked for being what i thought was within the applicable speed limit

Learn the "laws" and "regulations" and stop driving on "suppositions".

Applies to other areas too!

don't be a prick :-)
as it happens, there were no obvious roadworks so no reason to suppose other than usual 70 mph limit

Back to what I was saying yesterday about "moving about a bit more": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30812439

Manuel,

It appears you were wrong and once again shows your usual level of ignorance. Again I think "prick" is a more reflective and descriptive of yourself.

oh dear oh dear ..... i think you should go back to bed fred and get out the other side
clearly you're feeling very dyspepsic this morning ...... have you been doing your bollocks on the market again?

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