Slowlycatchymonkey

@Richzx6r Find your way down south I’ll meet you with the Livewire.. assuming I can get it charged en route that is

Try it. Dare ya.

Try it before you condemn it. But FFS don’t buy it. As sirfallsalot says. Italians, electrics, RUN

Petes OAP status means he needs another reminder it’s 2022

Bridgwater Fair is as dangerous as ever, probably more so, it’s the same rides as 40 years ago with minimal maintenance going on

The next iPhone let’s you make emergency calls via satellite if there’s no mobile reception. Sounds just the thing for dark motorcycling.

Had a quick look. The NPCC (the police) say it’s used for speed enforcement and by Law Enforcement Agencies to track VOIs vehicles of interest like a possible terrorist threat or drug running. These VOIs flag up on the system. 90% of the recorded info (which is kept for two years) is never accessed or reviewed. So there you go they don’t do mot tax or insurance automatically.

I know what you mean @Richzx6r it seems daft to ban a subject that effects our daily lives so acutely but you’re approaching it from the stance of someone who’s doesn’t see a reason to throw a tantrum over a discussion about politics. Unfortunately because it has such a profound effect on peoples lives people feel passionately about what needs to be done and easily get carried away even if in other areas they’re perfectly reasonable. I was brought up in a house where politics was debated on a daily basis. It was a normal topic of conversation and you were rated on your ability to debate. Mostly this was simply a discussion about whys n wherefores but sometimes a huge amount of fun with whooping and jeering thrown in for good measure when someone exposed a weak point in someone’s argument and the OP couldn’t respond or keep up. I loved it when that happened it was a good laugh. Sometimes it would degenerate into someone getting called a wanker or having some physical attribute mocked for a laugh at their expense but we never took it seriously. When the conversation finished the topic was finished… for the time being until the person who lost came up with a new angle A lot of people do get very angry, it’s sad when people fall out over politics.

Some of those so called safe E numbers are shocking. Blue and yellow colourant was famous for it. Sugar can have such a profound effect on small children if it was tested as food additive it wouldn’t pass. The safe limit testing on additives only tests them individually. It’s perfectly legal to use a cocktail of them which combines to make very high doses in some processed foods. I wouldn’t give my sons ‘Fruit Shoots’ to drink because they had more sugar in them than Cola but some friends bought tickets for us all to go to the Panto (snore) and they had nothing to drink there except fruit shoots - not even water! I’d seen the effect this purple coloured drink had on my son at childrens parties so did not want to buy it. My childless friends (and we all know how judgmental and strongly opinionated on child rearing childless people can be) looked at me like I was a horrible mother (you know the sort, fanatical about their child having a healthy diet) and said oh go on he can have a fruit shoots at the panto at Christmas surely. I said ok but but he won’t see much of the panto and youre responsible for peeling him off the ceiling. They look satisfied with their victory. Well you can guess the rest. The looks in their faces made it worth it. First off when he started flipping empty theatre seats they found it amusing, then the smiles quickly faded when it ramped up to crawling under the seats, disturbing other patrons and disappearing through the doors back stage. I said satisfied? You’d better go and find him. They were so acutely embarrassed at the idea they would be thought to be his parents they refused. I said I thought not, I do these things with good reason. They were pretty quiet with their judgmental childless views after that

I believe they have to deliberately run a full check but I’m not sure.

My 9T failed it’s MOT cos I changed the plate and didn’t stick a reflector dot on it.

Yer I was referring to how they’d enforce the displaying of the manufacturer etc on the plate cos someone said it would be a mean police orifice to do you for that. Or words to that effect

Boboneleg didn’t mention garage plates but that’s a good point I hadn’t even thought about it.

Cos people often take their opinions on politics seriously and see any debate as a personal attack rather than a topic for discussion. People genuinely fall out for good over this stuff. Mainly cos they’re mental but there we are

Is that two vote switches away from the Busa? Where did they go?

Yes get the Busa. It fits me like it was made for me and it would make it so much easier to steal one if I knew where one was.

When the chain snapped on the first journey they took it to Granada. They were really very lovely but the mechanic somehow soaked the exhaust wrap in oil which gave off noxious fumes forever and the chain wasn’t tensioned correctly (far too loose). So I crossed them of the list!

Thanks Skippy that’s very kind of you. I’ll have a look

It’s the old nature nurture thing again isn’t it. I’ve watched one of my flakey friends nurture her teenage daughter into anorexia with her competitive pressuring style of parenting and not acknowledge she has anything to do with what happened. Then I see another friend with one daughter who is lovely n easygoing and one that’s a hellcat with behavioural problems from the outset. Its not easy there’s no manual (well there are thousands of conflicting manuals) and no one size fits all solution. Plus some people are just born bad. Sounds harsh but they literally have a larger psychopathic element than the norm. So there’s that too.

The evidence that MOTs make the roads safer is threadbare. Logic tells you if a car is inspected and passed as safe this must make the roads safer. But the stats don’t back this up at all. Mechanical failure accounts for around 2% of accidents in the UK. In countries without MOT it accounts for around… 2% I suppose the MOT really only says it was working on that day and vehicles can dramatically fail at any time MOT’d or not. I don’t understand why old vehicles are exempt. Personally seeing bald tyres on large vehicles (especially HGVs, buses n coaches) gives me the heeebiejeebies. So new boots once a year is at least something. There’s loads of them here in Spain compared with the uk but maybe the ITV (Spanish MOT) is more lenient. As for enforcing the new plate laws they just have to stick it on the MOT list.

Apnr shows all of that stuff doesn’t it?

I meant the bit Buck said about the manufacturer. But I guess it was the same time as other changes. Glad they’re spending time and energy taking us to the important post brexit sunlit uplands

When did that happen?