what grinds your gears
- Thread starter roscoe erf
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Av Gorritt
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- NE Ches / SE Lancs
People who won't take responsibility for their own actions . I often read about some young person who took ecstasy at some rave or other , and paid the ultimate price - death . These are presumably sufficiently adult people to be allowed out alone , and I never hear of anyone saying he held my son/ daughter up with a gun/ knife and forced her/ him to take it . And then the parents come in with she / he was a wonderful , handsome, cheerful, intelligent, hard working, studious , good looking person and the person who sold this drug murdered him/ her , and robbed them / us of our future . What happened to free choice and standing by the results of your own actions . ? I do appreciate that the parents must be very traumatised by it all - never having experienced such a thing, I cannot know how much , but surely ---- ? Is there not enough excitement already in these raves that they need to be drugged up as well ? Or am I just a grumpy old git who isn't "with it"?
Are you clenching your teeth?
Nearly
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- North of York
but then this makes me smile.
spanners and hammers
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- cambridgeshire
that was good of them to leave that as there was no one around to give there details too
Nearly
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- North of York
Name and serial number on one plate? Finch?
spin cycle
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- north norfolk
i pe'ed off with folk who can't anticipate meeting another car on a narrow road....or see you and drive straight past a pull in place
I reckon I've smoked more rollies over the past few months due to the non-locals using the lanes round here as Hereford's unofficial bypass with all the road closures in town. Gives them an extra few minutes to understand that I'm not backing 100 yards when they've only just passed the nearest pull in
Landyman
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Its been going in reverse since 2016
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A good school friend of mine died at the age of just turned 17 from an ecstasy overdose. She had been at a rave and been massively pressured into taking it by the group she was with. She had never taken anything before other than a few alcopops. I believe she was afraid of being seen as not fitting in with the group she was with that night and desperately wanted to. Stupid? yes! If you want to know "how much" her father was "traumatised" by her death at the age of just turned 17? Enough to blow his brains out! You say " presumably sufficiently adult ", my daughter is 17, just about to turn 18 and I believe to be very well brought up and obviously taught about peer pressure, drugs drink etc, but so was my friend.
Edit to add- Not having a go, just sometimes kids ( and that is what a lot of them are ) find themselves in dodgy situations that most get out of by the skin of their teeth, but some don't.
Philip Watkins
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- Back in Shropshire
2016 figure may have been incorrectly recorded (big jump from previous test) or it's been clocked in the mean time.
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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
But many taking risky "legal highs" are in their 20's, 30's & 40's.
Every death is a tragedy. Some are a depressingly predictable waste of a life.
There is a lot going wrong in our culture IMHO.
Pilgrimmick
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I agree, the culture is changing beyond recognition.But many taking risky "legal highs" are in their 20's, 30's & 40's.
Every death is a tragedy. Some are a depressingly predictable waste of a life.
There is a lot going wrong in our culture IMHO.
Look at the recent panic in London, two men have an argument on a tube platform, sixteen people hurt in the panic, fleeing the incident! Hardly the “blitz’ spirit, stiff upper lip etc.
Think a lot of it has to do with the ‘nanny state’ we live in. Governments have gradually reduced the ability of people to take personal responsibility and have the courage of their own convictions.
With our laws, if it is not banned then it is legal, so legal highs must be OK, because if they were not, then they would be banned.
This follows on from stupid laws like the using a mobile phone while driving laws, there is no need for them, it is covered under driving without due care and attention.
Governments seem to think by passing new laws they are tackling the problem, they seem unable to grasp the fact that criminals do not follow the law, the only people affected by new laws and regulations are the law abiding population.
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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Agreed. We don't need new laws, we need effective enforcement of the existing ones!
For instance: I read somewhere that the detection rate for burglary is running a little under 20% if you discount the "offender asked for x other offences to be taken into account" scenario. This leads habitual burglars to believe they won't be caught so they don't care what the penalty is.
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- Durham, UK
Having to go to the local town to calm the wife down as the local yoof decided it a good idea to chuck lumps of concrete at her car windscreen as she was coming back from the supermarket with the kids in the car. Then me pulling along side to see if she was ok then some local skiprat screaming abuse for me daring to stop the traffic for 3 seconds. (On a minor road) stupidly i lost it completely, chased his car down and only calmed down when i realised it was his learner driver missus driving. Im still wound up mostly because of worry for the family but also for me reacting like a complete tit. Arggggghhhhhh...........
Maybe should have been 66,000 instead of 962016 figure may have been incorrectly recorded (big jump from previous test) or it's been clocked in the mean time.
Tha 2013 test makes interesting reading - he had all those things fixed and getting vehicle retested all on the same day and with only one extra mile on the clock.
Philip Watkins
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- Back in Shropshire
What's wrong with that? If the repairs were done at the same garage the could quite easily have been exactly the same. It only had to go from test bay to repair bay and back. Most charge a full retest if you take it away but no extra if you leave it on the premises.
Edit: the 2011 fail & pass same day same milage.