A lack of ability to listen and learn

[DeeGee]

Was just on another forum, there is a BMW X6 on rubber band tyres on it's fudging roof... you shouldn't laugh but.....

Yes you should laugh, as long as nobody is hurt, you have to smile.

There are far too many of these useless great lumps on their rubber band Grand Prix tyres taking up far too much room on the roads and in car parks.

What the posers who buy these things haven’t got the nous to realise is that when it comes to actually providing useful four wheel drive they are virtually just useless two tonne toboggans, and often driven by equally useless drivers.

 

[TripleSix]

Heard on the radio today that one family with 3 children in the car got stranded in the snow.

They were off out to get a McDonald's...

Someone else put their car in a ditch, they were out and about because his wife wanted to look at the snow.

 

[CharcoalWally]

Heard on the radio today that one family with 3 children in the car got stranded in the snow.

They were off out to get a McDonald's...

Someone else put their car in a ditch, they were out and about because his wife wanted to look at the snow.

These people must surely be idiots!! There can't be any other logical explanation. Don't they ever turn on their TV or radio? If they don't , can't they use their own grey matter , or is that just me being laughably stupid now?

They don't deserve help , but you can't just leave them there , especially those with kids , but , by Christ , the adults deserve a slap. For their stupidity means other people invariably have to risk their life and limb to set these cretins free.

 

[Happy]

These people must surely be idiots!! There can't be any other logical explanation. Don't they ever turn on their TV or radio? If they don't , can't they use their own grey matter , or is that just me being laughably stupid now?

They don't deserve help , but you can't just leave them there , especially those with kids , but , by Christ , the adults deserve a slap. For their stupidity means other people invariably have to risk their life and limb to set these cretins free.

But the kids have been off school for 3 days, parents off work to look after them, done the Xbox, done the iPad, can’t think of anything else to do and whole family gone stir crazy...............
Trip to McDonals only possible solution resembling normality

 

[DeeGee]

These people must surely be idiots!! There can't be any other logical explanation. Don't they ever turn on their TV or radio? If they don't , can't they use their own grey matter , or is that just me being laughably stupid now?

They don't deserve help , but you can't just leave them there , especially those with kids , but , by Christ , the adults deserve a slap. For their stupidity means other people invariably have to risk their life and limb to set these cretins free.

Could have been worse I suppose. They could have gone out specially for a KFC. Now that would be totally idiotic.

 

[RushesToo]

They should have closed Haldon & Telegraph hill and parked all vehicles at Exeter services all night
Just need the balls to close the roads
Up north Police have closed A66 for 3 days and guess what - no vehicles stranded
Same with A1 north of Alnwick - closed and barricaded
Police should do the same in Devon

I agree, police should get to hotspots and stop idiots that will block roads and cost ££££ to free. It's not like it's unknown where things will jam up. Scotland does it all the time - roads that just shut because they are unusable. Duuh.

 

[No5]

Our lane was shut due to drifts and 5 stuck cars, cones and road closed signs at each end and yet we still have cars passing the house having ignored the signs only to reverse back(nowhere to turn round) 10 mins later!

 

[CharcoalWally]

But the kids have been off school for 3 days, parents off work to look after them, done the Xbox, done the iPad, can’t think of anything else to do and whole family gone stir crazy...............
Trip to McDonals only possible solution resembling normality

If we all set off to go to McDonalds , now that would feel weird.......

 

[JP1]

Apparently there is a chap who has walked from Crediton to Exeter to his work at the hospital. There seems to be a few farmers out there who think they have the monopoly on hard work and working in bad weather etc.

Full credit to that surgeon who walked for 3 hours to get to his hospital in Scotland so his surgery list could go ahead

 

[betweenthelines]

We haven't 1 flake of snow yet the town is dry of diesel, milk and bread.

Are people that desperate for bread and milk that they cant go a couple of days without it and panic buy the stuff? Why panic buy fuel, if the snow is that bad you wont be fudgein driving anyway.

Id be stocking up on Cider and Celebrations if I thought I was in for a few days snowed in.

Unfortunately my wife would be stocking up on paint, wallpaper and paste to make use of me while I was trapped!

People aren't aware of how stupid the supply chain for basic goods is. The whole of Devon & Cornwall only has a few (3 or 4) local milk bottling factories which mainly supply smaller retailers. So all the milk for the Supermarkets -about 90% of demand-comes from Somerset or sites further East and most of the bread for the far west comes from the midlands. So with the M5, A38, A30 and A303 closed last night, it's likely that supplies will be low over the weekend.

I only know the situation in the Westcountry, but I suspect that most other "remote" regions eg Wales and most of Scotland, are in the same boat.

Feck knows what would happen if we have several days of bad weather, i suspect that the regions that have the most cows would run out of milk in the shops!

 

[DeeGee]

As others have said, God help this country if ever we had another winter like those of 1963 and 1947.

With people generally being so used to having everything provided for them and expecting it there at the drop of a hat, I honestly don’t think today’s society would cope with the long term hardship, the inevitable power cuts and the shortages of so many commodities that some of us remember and coped with in past harsh winters.

 

[CornishTone]

Heard last night that, back in my home town, a 7 year old girl was killed whilst out playing in the snow. A car slid out of control on compacted snow and pinned her against a wall and she was pronounced dead at the scene. I don’t know the full details, or whether it was a “necessary journey” the car was making but how does the driver or the child’s family ever get over something like that? It puts things into perspective a little.

We all make light of the stupidity of the general public these days but these warnings to stay off the roads are made for good reason! Very sad situation for all.

 

[M-J-G]

Dont forget there are a lot of people out there doing essential work other than farming. I think about all those care workers running round the country looking after old folk, most of these on minimum wage and having to provide a car into the bargain.

You're not going to feed many animals or save many lives by clogging up the roads and delaying highway or emergency services.

 

[M-J-G]

The reporter who was stuck in his car overnight had been chatting to other drivers - 1 was a plumber (or such) trying to get to a care home whose heating system had broken down.

And he was just adding to the problem!

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Exactly --- you've only got to look to farmers to see this

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Maybe we need to have law on winter tyres being fitted from October to April? To be honest I leave mine on all year round and many winter brands are pretty much dual purpose anyway.

To my mind it is absolutely bonkers fitting all these high performance cars and Chelsea tractors with ultra wide pow profile Grand Prix tyres for high speed handling when 90% of the time they are stuck in traffic jams or doing a maximum of 60mph on the highway or perhaps 80 on the motorway.

Christ above! Forty or fifty years ago we travelled at 70mph in little Minis, Ford Escorts and Vauxhall Vivas etc. none of which had tyres bigger then about 5” wide on thirteen inch rims! And we also drove through snow without half the drama that you see nowadays. Time to bring back some long lost common sense to our vehicle wheel and tyre design.

Or, just leave it to natural selection: remove all safety barriers and roadsigns (they aren't used, or read, anyway) and leave them to figure out what works for them
"The more you mollycoddle them, the more they need mollycoddling" eh @Hilly

 

[Hilly]

Or, just leave it to natural selection: remove all safety barriers and roadsigns (they aren't used, or read, anyway) and leave them to figure out what works for them
"The more you mollycoddle them, the more they need mollycoddling" eh @Hilly

Exactly, natural selection.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Exactly, natural selection.

I won't shout too loud, as I just bought a Nuffield 10/60 with no brakes, but if it kills me at least it's on something British

 

[fgc325j]

is your journey really necessary ? obviously to the two men I saw metal detecting in a field beside the A14 this afternoon

HI,
My house overlooks a junction on a narrow country B road. Went to bed at around 11.30pm on
Thursday night, when the wind and snow was at it's worst. A few minutes after lights out the whole
room got lit up by headlights. I went to the window and saw 7 4-wheel drive vehicles, 1 was a Mitsu
and the other 6 were land Rovers, all with 3/4 spotlights on their roofs, hence why the junction was lit
up like a fairground. I know that no farmer around here has spots on their roofs, so i can only assume that
what i saw were members of a 4 wheel drive club who were out for a jaunt in the snowstorm - MENTAL.

 

[kiwi pom]

Maybe we need to have law on winter tyres being fitted from October to April? To be honest I leave mine on all year round and many winter brands are pretty much dual purpose anyway.

To my mind it is absolutely bonkers fitting all these high performance cars and Chelsea tractors with ultra wide pow profile Grand Prix tyres for high speed handling when 90% of the time they are stuck in traffic jams or doing a maximum of 60mph on the highway or perhaps 80 on the motorway.

Christ above! Forty or fifty years ago we travelled at 70mph in little Minis, Ford Escorts and Vauxhall Vivas etc. none of which had tyres bigger then about 5” wide on thirteen inch rims! And we also drove through snow without half the drama that you see nowadays. Time to bring back some long lost common sense to our vehicle wheel and tyre design.

Why bother changing tyres, just buy a set of tyre chains and chuck them in the boot at the start of winter in case you get caught out in a snowstorm job done