Traffic is crazy though with the closed road. I just drove to Bitterne gym and it took me 45 mins instead of 15 mins.
It's a really busy road usually so all that traffic going different routes would really jam up that part of the city. I had the misfortune of having to go to Portsmouth this morning. Roads really quiet due to everybody watching the fireworks in Southampton, or trying to make you late for work.
Then you get the idiots that think they can just cut in. I had one guy in a big 4x4 basically trying to cut me off in a que. He stopped across the two lanes on West End road.
Always baffles me Beefy, why in a situation where the traffic is obviously slow and congested that some people suddenly decide that the laws of the road and indeed common courtesy just go out of the window because they have decided that a: they have waited long enough b: they are in more of a hurry than you are Don't even get me started on 4x4s
Don't tar all 4x4 drivers with the same brush I've decided that the worst drivers are ones in BMW/Audi saloons (usually M or RS models) followed closely by mums in their big cars with little Bernard/Bernadette in the back ........
I am prejudiced against 4x4s because two backed into me within a week...because I was apparently invisible. I have posed the question before...do 4x4s make you a bad driver or do bad drivers buy 4x4s.
Djokovic just beaten Nadal in a great match, but, more importantly, the commentators are wearing coats in Rome
Dave, I understand that there are some people who drive 4X4s who aren't complete twats, however I do loads of miles in my job so tend to come across enough of the other sort to colour my perceptions. I'm sure that some BMW + Audi drivers are OK too, but I'm with you on them generally. The worst are those people that buy BMW or Audi 4x4s...and then just use them for the bleeding school run.
http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/car...-signs-fears-from-english-heritage-94897.aspx Man has won the right to sue English Heritage after he fell into a moat at Carisbrooke Castle...obviously sad that he was badly injured, but the moat is a moat....do they expect it be filled in. There was a similar case where a woman was injured falling over a low stone wall in a Roman ruin. After all, who would expect stones to be lying round in a ruin. I can see a time when no one will be able to explore, but will be kept back behind barriers.
I'm prejudiced against cars that are unnecessarily large, on our cluttered roads, so 4x4s tend to come into that category. To see these behemoths running around with, more often than not, one person in them, I find rather sad. Some of them aren't even good vehicles. The Porsche Cayenne is well known to be poor, both off the road and on it. But it doesn't matter because most of the reason why the average suburban individual buys a 4x4 is for the pose and the perceived protection. Yes, people will name legitimate reasons for buying one, and I'm sure there are people with real needs beyond farmers and such, but the buying figures and the practical needs for buying a 4x4 just don't add up.
I was at Carisbrooke in 2011 - I was badly injured when I tripped over a pensioner who was just lying around making the moat look untidy. He didn't have any money at the time, so it wasn't worth suing him for stupidity....but he will have soon
Land Rover drivers are exempt from any criticism regarding 4x4 drivers as we are allowed to drive over any other vehicles on the road. It says so in the Highway Code.
OK, after two visits to the Graham Norton show, I can see what people [possibly just lads] like about Jennifer Lawrence. She's definitely up for a laugh and doesn't take herself too seriously. Ideal Graham Norton chat show personnel. The thing that nailed it though was her reference to Donald Trump. Watch on iPlayer if you haven't already seen it. I should add, it was a particularly entertaining edition this week. Almost as good [but not quite] as the one from a couple of years ago featuring Matt Damon, Bill Murray and Hugh Bonneville. That left my cheek muscles aching. I find that every time I watch TGNS [which hasn't been that often] I appreciate the skill in which he invites his guests to play, enjoy and tell stories. He's extremely good at what he does.
World heavyweight boxing champ Tyson Fury has unleashed a foul-mouthed religious rant on video. As he prepares for his rematch with ex-champ Wladimir Klitschko , Fury has reignited the row over some of his beliefs. He said: “It’s like you’re a freak of nature if you’re normal, you’re the odd one out nobody else. "What’s normal? I’ll just get myself changed into a woman that’s normal isn’t it today call myself Tysina or something like that, put a wig on...” “I don’t think it’s normal I think they’re freaks of nature.” He also appears to be critical of Jews, saying: “Everyone just do what you can, listen to the government follow everybody like sheep, be brainwashed by all the Zionist, Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers all the TV stations. Be brainwashed by them all.” And he continues: “I think it’ll be perfectly normal in the next ten years to have sexual relationships with your animals at home you know your pets your cats and dogs and all that so that will be legal. “You are already allowed to marry your animals and stuff. “It is going to happen though, isn’t it? Whatever you can think of that’s bad, will be made legal, because that’s what the devil wants.” The interview, which was posted on YouTube and the SportsViewLondon website, appears to be conducted with his uncle and trainer Peter Fury. Fury, 27, dressed in black tracksuit, appears relaxed and lounges on a settee as he talks about the up-coming clash with Klitschko, 40 in Manchester in July. But he soon starts firing off expletives as he rages about all the thing he finds offensive in the world. He rages about “plastic dolls that look like children so perverts can s*** them”. And he adds: “The world has gone mad, there is no morals there is no loyalty there is no nothing. “Everyone just do what you can, listen to the government follow everybody like sheep, be brainwashed by all the Zionist, Jewish people who own all the banks, all the papers all the TV stations. Be brainwashed by them all. “Maybe they might start making it legal so that four or five men can grab a granny and rape her in public in front of kids and all that. Or grab an old man and rape him.” “I think it’s terrible to open an innocent child’s eyes to dirt and filth at young ages, all this sex education and all that, as kids. “Kids need to be kept innocent for as long as possible because there is that much dirt and filth in the world and rubbish. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/tyson-fury-launches-foul-mouthed-7961614 Even more said in the link.
