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Kawasaki Jimbo
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PostPosted: 11:26 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
The number of colleagues who work part time, by which I mean 3 and 4 day weeks. It used to be just women but now blokes are doing it. Add in holiday time and it gets hard to get stuff done when their involvement is needed.
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PostPosted: 11:59 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Booked on a speed awareness course. Folded arms
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PostPosted: 12:12 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Booked on a speed awareness course. Folded arms

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PostPosted: 12:17 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Talking to groovylee he recommended to take the fine..but I am retarded. <<<I disagree..I'm the opposite of retarded. I did not delay or hold back in terms of progress.
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PostPosted: 12:18 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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The number of colleagues who work part time, by which I mean 3 and 4 day weeks. It used to be just women but now blokes are doing it. Add in holiday time and it gets hard to get stuff done when their involvement is needed.


Logical step, and who would expect less as everything gets more and more automated, replacing people in the work place. I would hope that the trend for part time becomes ever more commonplace, as long as you're in the happy position to be able to do it. Companies and their employees will just have to adapt for when people are off.
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PostPosted: 12:20 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Howling Terror wrote:
Talking to groovylee he recommended to take the fine..but I am retarded.


This depends on what you're losing to attend. Half a day in a classroom on a subject you're (clearly Laughing ) not interested in is better than fines and points if you've got the time to spare imo.
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PostPosted: 12:34 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Depends what points does to your premiums. I attended as it would have added £400 to car insurance (bike was obviously less), but it was so painful I'd seriously have to consider doing another. It also made me pro-speeding at a time when I was trying to ride a bit more slowly.
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PostPosted: 12:38 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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It also made me pro-speeding at a time when I was trying to ride a bit more slowly.


I'd be surprised to find it much affected anyone's driving/riding approach in any way after they got home from it.
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PostPosted: 12:45 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Howling Terror wrote:
Talking to groovylee he recommended to take the fine..but I am retarded. <<<I disagree..I'm the opposite of retarded. I did not delay or hold back in terms of progress.


Is it speeding awareness or RIDE?

I did RIDE a few weeks back, and it was just a bikesafe day without the riding, and it also doesn't count as speeding awareness so I can truthfully say I haven't attended one to insurance.

Would recommend if that's the case. Speeding awareness is shit from what I've heard. At your, uh, youthful age, I doubt a couple of points will matter much to your insurance though.
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PostPosted: 12:47 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
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It also made me pro-speeding at a time when I was trying to ride a bit more slowly.


I'd be surprised to find it much affected anyone's driving/riding approach in any way after they got home from it.

Well it's the fact I got caught by a sneaky red light camera* (measuring speed). They then tell you on the course Motorways have the lest amount of accidents, towns have the most. So the problem isn't speed, it's peoples observations (and maybe road design).

So I went from thinking maybe I should slow down a bit for my own self-preservation, to it's all about revenue. The borough wide 20 mph limits have also made me butthurt, and added to the sense it's not about safety.

*they'd recently removed the obvious Gatso in the central reservation, I guess it wasn't profitable enough Rolling Eyes
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They then tell you on the course Motorways have the lest amount of accidents, towns have the most. So the problem isn't speed, it's peoples observations (and maybe road design).


Except that motorways these days seem to be about the slowest roads going, what with all the road works and variable speed limits.

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So I went from thinking maybe I should slow down a bit for my own self-preservation, to it's all about revenue. The borough wide 20 mph limits have also made me butthurt, and added to the sense it's not about safety.

*they'd recently removed the obvious Gatso in the central reservation, I guess it wasn't profitable enough Rolling Eyes


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PostPosted: 13:00 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
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They then tell you on the course Motorways have the lest amount of accidents, towns have the most. So the problem isn't speed, it's peoples observations (and maybe road design).


Except that motorways these days seem to be about the slowest roads going, what with all the road works and variable speed limits.

Exactly, the safest roads yet they need average speed cameras? Eh?

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PostPosted: 18:19 - 08 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
The number of colleagues who work part time, by which I mean 3 and 4 day weeks. It used to be just women but now blokes are doing it. Add in holiday time and it gets hard to get stuff done when their involvement is needed.


Logical step, and who would expect less as everything gets more and more automated, replacing people in the work place. I would hope that the trend for part time becomes ever more commonplace, as long as you're in the happy position to be able to do it. Companies and their employees will just have to adapt for when people are off.

Automation is supposed to release us from crank-the-handle type tasks so we can focus on the clever stuff like project and data management. That requires increased levels of cooperation, communication and "cross-functional" team work. I could crank that handle all day on my own but the other stuff needs people to be available. Yeah, I'd love a 4-day week too if I could afford it, but I don't think it helps the business.
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PostPosted: 09:05 - 09 Aug 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kawasaki Jimbo wrote:
The number of colleagues who work part time, by which I mean 3 and 4 day weeks. It used to be just women but now blokes are doing it. Add in holiday time and it gets hard to get stuff done when their involvement is needed.


You should try it - it's great Smile
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grr666 is so eager to help out he posted twice...

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Worse news, the Chinesey ladies at your nail bar are slaves. You can't even get your nails did without some do-gooder guilt tripping you these days. Mad
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The BBC now want you to login to use the iPlayer Rolling Eyes I also seem to have caught andyscooter's anklevitis (I didn't know it was contagious)
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Worse news, the Chinesey ladies at your nail bar are slaves. You can't even get your nails did without some do-gooder guilt tripping you these days. Mad


I did wonder.
Still ... got to be better odds for staying alive than picking cockles.
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Worse news, the Chinesey ladies at your nail bar are slaves.

I did wonder.

Does their jewellery clank rather than jingle?
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Horrible rat scum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-40899839
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Horrible rat scum.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-40899839


QUOTE Ten of the 11 were released on bail ahead of the sentencing.

That's the last we'll see of those fuckers then.
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Who the f**k would hire pikeys to resurface their drive? Eh?
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