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its okay to be sad in this thread. :( |
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you maked the thred sad |
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:((( |
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i saded a girl once |
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"Rumbelows", said brian blessed. |
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I actually donated my chin for that picture. |
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This is the longest reply in this thread so far. |
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this is definitely a sad thread alright |
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A sequence of easy exercises to relieve stress, enhanced by the tropical music of the pan-pipes. First, find a quiet place to recline – a bed, or a big chair. I want you to imagine you’re lying on the beach, divested of all the trappings of the twentieth century. No mobile phone, batteries out of your pager, no clothes. You’re completely naked, or with undergarments perhaps made from bark. You’re all alone, the waves gently licking at your feet, your bark trunks soaking up the water like a sponge. Your head loosens from the torso and bobs into the distance. Remember the breathing techniques from Tape 1. Please relax. I can’t emphasise that enough. All of us experience stress, whether you’re a heart surgeon making vital incisions, or just Dave Bloggs queuing for a rail ticket behind a man who’s buying a travel pass, which involves photographs, scissors, forms being filled in, and his access won’t wipe. You get the picture. Stress like this just won’t go away, and it has to be combated. |
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I've been feeling really bad the past few days. A lot of stress and uncertainty: Possible loss of car and bike licence (which would result in losing my job if it was for more than a month), even if I manage to keep my licence, the insurance price hike will be huge come renewals (300%), this has made me feel pissed off with the police and state and feeling generally anarchistic; I'm looking at buying a house for the first time, so a steep learning curve and lots of ringing around; I'm still trying to get an insurance settlment off the fucker who had me off my bike in December; Work's expense and company car policy has changed just in a way that means I'm no longer sure I want to move my career in the direction I was going and that I may not have subsidised motoring and will have longer hours and a more stressful job; My university's tuition fees are still crippling me, taking more than 60% of my after tax income each month; I've just started training for my Institute of Advanced Motoring test, which aside from being a bit of a disappointment (it's not nearly as good/a massive change in my driving/riding as I'd expected), which if I get many points/a ban, I won't be able to do, so I'll have given up 6 weekends for nothing; 3 Masters modules courseworks to do (half of a full time academic year's work), to fit around all of the above; as well as trying to fit in seeing friends, gf, sleeping, etc. The above has made me extremely irritable and quick tempered, which resulted in an argument with my parents (haven't had that for years), so the atmosphere at home is uncomfortable too. In short, too much on my plate. I like being busy, but I've got too much on and a lot of it isn't even things I have any control over or can drop/postpone without severe ramifications. I feel like an angsty teenager, frustrated at their lack of control over everything, which is very unlike me. I'm sure it will pass, but for the moment I am definately sad. |
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sorry to hear that ceri. i hope things work out for you soon. i think it's quite an accomplishment to have a life as busy as yours, and then to moderate xlt in your spare time as well. i'm sad when others are sad. i'm also sad because i am sick, and need to take care of health insurance and tax issues today, which i absolutely hate. i join this thread in saying ':(' |
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I join becuse nobody cares about my mix. And also hope things get solved for you, Ceri... :.( |
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so what happened? You dont strike me as the drunk driving type. |
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sorry man. foreign traffic limitz here. as soon as they fucking vanish, i'm a crazy downloader |
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:((((( sorry to hear that, hope it gets sorted |
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i need to shave my long beautiful beard :( also, T3 banned....for a week..... :( |
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T_T |
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I'm not. Nor am I reckless or a danger to other road users, nor have I ever been involved in an accident that was deemed to be anything other than the other party's fault. I just drive and ride briskly when it's safe to do so. Sadly, gone are the days where a copper would run a check on your licence, see you're insured, taxed, generally a good boy and then, provided you were maintaing good lane discipline and not hurting anyone else, slap you on your wrist, tell you not to do it again and send you on your way. Instead, I was caught doing 102 in a 70 (dual carriageway) at half two on a sunny week-day afternoon when there was literally no traffic in sight ahead of me (hence why I didn't see their brake lights and slow down). I basically came round a really long, gently sweeping curve and the camera van was parked in the hard shoulder. I threw on the brakes within a second of him coming into view and went past at 80, but the range of the radars takes the piss; seems they had me in well under 5 seconds of seeing me. Needless to say, I could have stopped in time had they, or anyone else been in the road where they were and had I crashed (although you'd have to be a retard to crash in such ideal conditions in a car with that much grip), it'd only be me who got hurt and even then, on that sort of road, I'd most likely of survived. All my biking friends are ripping the piss, because I have a bike that murders pretty much any car under £100K, but managed to get caught speeding for the first time in a Corsa of all things. The shame of it all. So, from now on all work related trips will be <85mph and I'll save the speeding for the bike and decrease the frequency with which I do it (I have to be honest, I can't remember a time I didn't do licence losing speeds when I've been on my bike, I just tend not to go very quick on motorways as it's boring). I reckon I could get off with 6 points and a £200 fine if I put my sorry face and a suit on and lie convincingly about how I accept how dangerous it |
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how dangerous it was and how even if they ban me, I'll have gotten off lightly compared to a crash, which at those speeds was a real likelihood. ;-P |
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well 102 is rather fast my friend! it is fucking hard not to speed though, maybe I should make more of an effort because I am reckless. |
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briskly and 102mph are very different. it appears you were just unlucky and got caught,i hope you dont get banned. |
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now i must leave the sad thread cos im happy. |
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I hope you get banned for at least 6 months. A fine and 6 point is nothing (although that is probably what you will get). If you didn't see the pigs in time to slow down to to under 80mph what fucking chance would you have had if it were a kid on a bike or an old person out for a spot of jaywalking...you would have dented your car you selfish fuck...which would have meant an insurance claim and MY premiums go up as a result. You bastard! |
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i just spat my coffee out reading that:) |
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Not really: Briskly suggests making swift progress, in a safe manner. Fast suggests a sensation of speed, which is something you only really get when you're pushing the limit of what you/the vehicle are capable of. Doing 70 in a poorly maintained car with tiny tyres and knackered suspension and loads of road and engine noise feels "fast". Similarly, if you're inexperienced and you've not driven on a motorway before, 70mph will feel very fast, whereas to a person with race experience in a sports car, 100 on an open road will feel tranquil. The sensation of speed is a very important factor when determining the safety of your speed (talking in terms of physics; crashing, not braking fast enough,etc. rather than litigative ones). In the past I've done speeds where it feels "fast" and it really got my adrenaline going and that was due to either approaching the limits of grip at high speed, or too fast for how far you can see down the road. It's been ages since I've done that though as the reason it feels fun is that it's dangerous. 100 in that car on that road in those conditions, with no traffic didn't feel fast at all. Just brisk. ;-P Don't worry, I won't try to be such a smart arse in court. :) I've been reading up on it and from the magistrates guidelines (actually a friend who is a magistrate should be down to stay in 2 weeks so I'll ask her for advise too) suggest I should get 6 points and <£1000 fine. Showing then my bank statements should be able to convince them that a small fine is punishment enough, or at least allow me to pay it over a long time. Needless to say, I can forget about the VRS, due to the insurance hike. Likewise, a new bike is going to be at least 3 years away. *crosses fingers and prays that the rozzers are as inept in their evidence gathering as they are in chasing up reports of stolen bikes, hit and runs, dangerous driving, etc.* |
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Stop moaning the lot of you. It's nothing a good fast wank wont sort out, I'm sure. |
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It doesn't matter whether you feel safe going at that speed or not. You aren't. Nobody who speeds thinks of themselves as a shit driver or thinks that they wouldn't be able to control the car, if they had to. It's when people like you feel indestructable that serious, horrible accidents happen. |
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driving/riding while drunk = lame i drove drunk only once : to a petrol station, for some beers. i think it's shit and totally irresponsible. |
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drinking and riding is fun (push bikes) - up a bike track so you wont get run over, anyway. the lack of alcohol in my house with which to do it at the moment makes me sad. |
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Trust me: My lane discipline and indications are impeccable, my eyesight is the best that is biologically possible for a white person's to be, thousands of miles on a motorbike have given me exceptional observation. I've recieved more advanced training than 95%+ of people on the road and drive professionally. My IAM observer has described me as "very good" and the only flaws he commented on were so minor as to not even be included in the IAM and police driving handbook (both of which I've read several time and applied to my motoring). I am massively courteous to other road users and when it will not seriously impede my progress and is safe to do so, always let other road users out, or move to allow them to get by. I am not the prick you see who cuts people up, pulls out, making other drivers dive on the brakes or change to the exit lane last minute on a motorway. I am not the person who undertakes other cars at 20mph+ over the speed limit whilst on their cell phone. I am not the woman who is doing 40 in a 30, looking at her kids in the back seat rather than the road ahead. I am not the person who doesn't do over the shoulder observations then turns left through cyclists. Believe me, I get as riled as you when I see someone using inappropriate speed and putting their car on its roof. If not through any sympathy for them, merely through it adding to the anti-speed lobby's argument. People like you who blanket everyone who speeds (wake up; that's 94% of car drivers and 100% of motorcyclists, and those are just the ones who admit to it) as dangerous, sicken me. You're the ones we can thank for the reduction in the number of traffic police and the rise (for the first time in years, since the introduction of speed cameras) in traffic accidents. Actually read the research from leading academics and motoring organisations, rather than the "government statistics". Speed is the main cause in only 3% of accidents. Speed camers not only confer no safety benefit, but make the roads more dange |
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rous. The people who are most outspoken against speed, tend to be the ones who need to drive least, or don't even drive themselves. The idea that all you need to do to be a safe driver is not speed is an insidious one and the reason we see so many low speed collisions round towns. |
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just imagine what tridenti must be going through though |
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I bet he'll be posting twice as much on his "excellent music site" to compensate. |
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Excuse me, what?! I didn't say I didn't ever speed at all. I just meant that you can't ever say that you know for a fact that you are in complete control of your car doing 120mph. I meant that it's that kind of cockiness and feeling of indestructability that leads to terrible accidents. Even if you are a safe driver in every way other than your speed, it doesn't mean that other people are. What I mean by that, is that if you were driving at that speed and some idiot did something without warning it would be much more difficult for you to control the car and prevent an accident. The fact that you said that you slammed on your brakes when you saw the police is evidence enough that you aren't a completely safe driver. It's very rarely that people will check their rear view mirror before they do harsh breaking like that, and so if there was anyone behind you that hadn't spotted the van, that in itself could have caused an accident. |
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Sorry for being so sharp in my previous post, I was in a bad mood and didn't take your criticism lightly. I wrote a really long reply, to your last post, then looked at your profile and decided not to bother. I've been debating advanced driving with at someone who, at best, has had a licence for a year , probably only driven a few thousand miles and is quoting the "pass your driving test" book doctrine at me. Frankly, I don't think either of us is going to convince the other that their POV of is right, so I think we should leave it there. |
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