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Post by billywhizz on May 14, 2007 14:37:20 GMT
uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070514/tuk-uk-britain-smoking-fa6b408.htmlhhhmmmmmm it would appear that some people still think there are police patrol cars out there chasing/catching drunk drivers and stolen cars? Haven't seen that for years.. (sorry you police members  ) and as for flicking the still hot cig ends out of the window, well what ever next!! No mention what they 'might' do to us on two wheels. so stop smoking, eating , drinking while moving. then ban changing your music station on the radio, or swopping cd's!! then ban talking to passengers as this is also distracting. oh then ban any transport.. of course, we wouldn't smoke while riding, (don't smoke anyway) and we never eat and drink while on the move  listening to music and chatting. we wouldn't do that would we ;D Link now working(Reaper)
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Post by teejayexc on May 14, 2007 14:58:34 GMT
Local Authority Road Safety Officers' Association (LARSOA)
Anagram of (A ARSOL)?
trev
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2007 15:02:04 GMT
If they can ban mobiles for the distraction and fine people for eating while sitting at traffic lights, then I see no reason why smoking while driving shouldn't be banned too. It's far more distracting than eating a chocolate bar whilst stationary.
Not to mention the benefits to health and the environment, maybe it should be taxed ;-)
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Post by apricot on May 14, 2007 15:03:09 GMT
"we wouldn't smoke while riding, (don't smoke anyway)"
I've got a mate who purchased an open face lid just for that purpose!
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Post by teejayexc on May 14, 2007 15:06:51 GMT
If they can ban mobiles for the distraction and fine people for eating while sitting at traffic lights, then I see no reason why smoking while driving shouldn't be banned too. It's far more distracting than eating a chocolate bar whilst stationary. Not to mention the benefits to health and the environment, maybe it should be taxed ;-) What about little blue pills? They could seriously effect your riding habit's? Wouldn't need one of those steering wheel locks that go through your wheel though |
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Post by iooi on May 14, 2007 15:10:48 GMT
Banning smoking from car would be great. I get sick of folks with their arms out of cars with their fag ends dangling out... Then they just flick them, without a care as to where they go..  |
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Post by apricot on May 14, 2007 15:10:54 GMT
On a warm day I'd need the sunroof open as well Trev ;D
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2007 15:11:09 GMT
you're right TJ, little blue pills allegedly put lead in your pencil.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2007 15:12:58 GMT
hey, that would have been good on M40mans lead replacement thread.
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Post by teejayexc on May 14, 2007 15:19:50 GMT
On a warm day I'd need the sunroof open as well Trev ;D Trust you would have a helmet on that Ady! trev |
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Post by apricot on May 14, 2007 15:35:53 GMT
"Trust you would have a helmet on that Ady!" Like you wouldn't believe |
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Post by max900 on May 14, 2007 17:40:26 GMT
"Trust you would have a helmet on that Ady!" Like you wouldn't believe ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D PMSL i have successfully managed to do a number of things  while driving my car or truck Talk on a mobile(before hands free) EAT Drink Smoke   ;D and 1 or 2 other things which cannot be mentioned on a family site(it was 3am on the way to Scotland) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D as well as having a ciggie in one hand a coffee sat next to me when i wanted it and the phone under my cheek all without having or causing a single accident i use a simple technique its called paying the F attention to whats going on around you i don't care what I'm doing in the vehicle the ever changing world outside my windows is more important and i adjust myself to that stop what I'm doing get the problem out of the way then resume whatever i was doing Max...... |
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Post by apricot on May 14, 2007 17:52:28 GMT
Agree with Max, although when I velcroed my Playstation portable to the steering wheel airbag cover the missus said enough is enough ;D
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Post by Fiasco on May 14, 2007 21:21:23 GMT
"we wouldn't smoke while riding, (don't smoke anyway)"I've got a mate who purchased an open face lid just for that purpose! You know Old Divvy (Simon) then Dave ;D |
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 15, 2007 8:07:03 GMT
ok then, who nodds at motorcyclists and leans in corners, when their in there car ;D
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Post by staki900 on May 15, 2007 8:59:13 GMT
If they can ban mobiles for the distraction and fine people for eating while sitting at traffic lights, then I see no reason why smoking while driving shouldn't be banned too. It's far more distracting than eating a chocolate bar whilst stationary. Not to mention the benefits to health and the environment, maybe it should be taxed ;-) I would like to put the other point of view. I ride (aound 8,000 miles a year) and I drive (around 20,000 miles a year). I also smoke. To say that smoking distracts you from driving, or "It's far more distracting than eating a chocolate bar whilst stationary" is in my view a fallacy and a point of view put forward by folks who don't smoke and have never had a fag. Apart from 5 seconds when lighting the damn thing. Smoking can be done virtually unconciuosly it takes no real brain activity to smoke. Any driver can be more distracted with his / her own thougts and worries about, work, mortgages, children. I drive the same 46 mile route to an from work every day and sometime I arrive home with no recollection of large chunks of the journey not because I had three fags but because I was thinking about other things and been on auto pilot. BTW I have been doing this sort of mileage for the last 20 years and have never driven into anyone or anything. As I say I thought that someone should put the other point of view. |
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Post by m40man on May 15, 2007 9:29:27 GMT
If they can ban mobiles for the distraction and fine people for eating while sitting at traffic lights, then I see no reason why smoking while driving shouldn't be banned too. Yes. I think the point is though, that just because the law is an ass regarding phones & snacking, it doesn't mean we should just accept it's further ingress into our lives. The issue should be 'distraction' & it's affects on your control. Specifying individual tasks as 'worse' only serves to show the rules for the mockery they are. Perfectly adequate legislation already existed to prosecute motorists for lack of due care & attention, without the specific phone offence, for example. |
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Post by CD on May 15, 2007 9:52:27 GMT
But as someone already said its the fairly thick part of an even thicker wedge. Take this much further: Radios banned except remote controls,
Anyone with one hand off the wheel,
Anyone with passengers unless driver has a separate cage like a London cab
Cars must be automatic because one hand has to be removed from the wheel.
BTW today the police are complaining (rightly IMO) that govt targets are making them make silly arrests.
You know who's driving this trend.
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Post by General Gman on May 15, 2007 10:37:11 GMT
Told y'all..... vote for me......I'll fix everything.
Free hookers for FJR riders cos they obviously are too old to pull birds.All members of the north wales police to retrain as lion bait at longleat.Free craven aromatic for Fazer riders
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 15, 2007 12:21:20 GMT
If they can ban mobiles for the distraction and fine people for eating while sitting at traffic lights, then I see no reason why smoking while driving shouldn't be banned too. It's far more distracting than eating a chocolate bar whilst stationary. Not to mention the benefits to health and the environment, maybe it should be taxed ;-) I would like to put the other point of view. I ride (aound 8,000 miles a year) and I drive (around 20,000 miles a year). I also smoke. To say that smoking distracts you from driving, or "It's far more distracting than eating a chocolate bar whilst stationary" is in my view a fallacy and a point of view put forward by folks who don't smoke and have never had a fag. Apart from 5 seconds when lighting the damn thing. Smoking can be done virtually unconciuosly it takes no real brain activity to smoke. Any driver can be more distracted with his / her own thougts and worries about, work, mortgages, children. I drive the same 46 mile route to an from work every day and sometime I arrive home with no recollection of large chunks of the journey not because I had three fags but because I was thinking about other things and been on auto pilot. BTW I have been doing this sort of mileage for the last 20 years and have never driven into anyone or anything. As I say I thought that someone should put the other point of view. all very well, but my brother had a crash on the motorway because the tip of his fag fell out onto his lap, funnly as a non smoker, its never happened to me  |
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 15, 2007 12:23:30 GMT
Told y'all..... vote for me......I'll fix everything. Free hookers for FJR riders cos they obviously are too old to pull birds.All members of the north wales police to retrain as lion bait at longleat.Free craven aromatic for Fazer riders youve got my vote, it was the aromatic that did it replace our present dictator with gurniwoman yea ;D |
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Post by pebbles on May 15, 2007 21:44:37 GMT
beer does just as much damage to your health
as smoking and it causes more anti social probs
so why stop at smoking just ban having fun thats
the way its going i find what weekend binge drinkers
leave on the pavement far more offensive than smoke
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 15, 2007 21:48:15 GMT
beer does just as much damage to your health as smoking and it causes more anti social probs so why stop at smoking just ban having fun thats the way its going i find what weekend binge drinkers leave on the pavement far more offensive than smoke must stop drinking beer and drink wine instead ;D |
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Post by inane redstripe on May 16, 2007 19:23:04 GMT
can excess farting affect your riding. i dont smoke.
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Post by inane redstripe on May 16, 2007 19:25:18 GMT
can we ban low cut tops on ladies. that distracts me while driving. specialy driving the lorry.
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Post by HRHpenfold on May 16, 2007 19:38:35 GMT
can we ban low cut tops on ladies. that distracts me while driving. specialy driving the lorry. you gone mad ;D |
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Post by inane redstripe on May 16, 2007 19:50:23 GMT
momentarily.
strike that last proposal.
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Post by iooi on May 16, 2007 20:10:18 GMT
can we ban low cut tops on ladies. that distracts me while driving. specialy driving the lorry. Never mind driving a lorry.... You want to be sat where i am some days when you are talking to the people sat accross the desk... Being in a dept that is 90% females and of that the vast majority are very good looking and prone to wearing low cut tops and then lean across the desk to talk to you..... Some days i just do not know where to look for the best.. |
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Post by Pushbikedave on May 16, 2007 20:16:50 GMT
For the best what?
Lucky devil.........................
PBD
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Post by ContourMac on May 16, 2007 21:02:29 GMT
can we ban low cut tops on ladies. that distracts me while driving. specialy driving the lorry. Never mind driving a lorry.... You want to be sat where i am some days when you are talking to the people sat accross the desk... Being in a dept that is 90% females and of that the vast majority are very good looking and prone to wearing low cut tops and then lean across the desk to talk to you..... Some days i just do not know where to look for the best.. What's the money like? - £50 per week That's not a lot! - It's all I can afford  |
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