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I'm not a twat nav fan either, part of the fun (for me) of a long journey is looking at the map beforehand and picking the most interesting looking route. They do have their uses I suppose but we don't own one.
I do find it amusing driving at night on the motorway and seeing the number of screens lit up in people's windscreens!
I do find it amusing driving at night on the motorway and seeing the number of screens lit up in people's windscreens!
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I find those stupid screens pretty expensive useless toys.
I look up on a map first, then use google maps with streetview and print off pictures of any things of note, like what my destination looks like.
You can print off the whole written route too (helps with the memory) At least you know where you are going.
Just a thought:- How come you get done for using a phone, yet it's OK to blitz along at 70+ staring at a screen???
I look up on a map first, then use google maps with streetview and print off pictures of any things of note, like what my destination looks like.
You can print off the whole written route too (helps with the memory) At least you know where you are going.
Just a thought:- How come you get done for using a phone, yet it's OK to blitz along at 70+ staring at a screen???
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OR what if im using the GPS satnav on my phone? Id like to see that come up in court.
Judge: You are accused of using your phone whilst driving
Me: No i was using the satnav function on it, i see people driving using satnavs all the time.
Judge: You are accused of using your phone whilst driving
Me: No i was using the satnav function on it, i see people driving using satnavs all the time.
OK, so i've got some stuff, some of it goes, some of it doesnt, some of it never will again!
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Screen size will obviously make a difference but at what point does it become OK, and who decides? Plus I bet some phones have bigger screens than some sat navs.
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The mobile law is not enforced as far as I can tell - unless there's an accident and no doubt insurance liability has to be determined.
I get so annoyed by the twatty SatNav voice... and bear left is not the same as turn left, and Brighton is nowhere near Medway and I find using common sense makes more sense.
I get so annoyed by the twatty SatNav voice... and bear left is not the same as turn left, and Brighton is nowhere near Medway and I find using common sense makes more sense.
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There are rumours that Brian Blessed is going to do a sat nav voiceover, that would be worth buying one for!
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I can just imagine him launching into a showbiz anecdote on motorway stages...my sister has a habit of downloading famous voices for hers - Basil Fawlty anyone?
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There isn't a law on mobile phone use. The law is for portable and or communication devices, so it already covers sat navs/sat nav phones.
The best thing about not having a sat nav in my opinion is all the exciting places you find when temporarily miss placed, especially little back alley shops you come accross when doing a quick turn around having previously missed a junction.
The best thing about not having a sat nav in my opinion is all the exciting places you find when temporarily miss placed, especially little back alley shops you come accross when doing a quick turn around having previously missed a junction.
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Oh yes it is.Scarecrow wrote:The mobile law is not enforced as far as I can tell - unless there's an accident and no doubt insurance liability has to be determined.
I mentioned to an officer lately how he seemed to enjoy doing people for using their phones and he explained why - it's because he'd been to several fatals in which the dead driver was clutching his phone.
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all the exciting places you find when temporarily miss placed, especially little back alley shops you come accross when doing a quick turn, having previously missed the one you were looking for.
He must have found THOSE streets in Amsterdam
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Have you not been to Amsterdam Phil? 'Those' streets (both types) are most certainly NOT lost hidden back streets, and are right ontop of Damm square so hardly easy to miss. Even Mat, in a drunk state, could navigate his way there.
They're not as safe a place as they used to be!
They're not as safe a place as they used to be!
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Good pint of Amstel beer just of the square - you mean the one with the Grass Hopper Bar on it?
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Bastard.Vanny wrote:Even Mat, in a drunk state, could navigate his way there.
And I have done!
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Does Mat get drunk then
It's a long time since I was there actually. The first time I spent pissed mostly in bars and cafe's around the Oude kerke. Which I now know is about 5 mins walk behind Dam square.
I know this because the last time I went it was just me and the mrs. I got to see a whole lot of things I never saw on the first 2 times I went, including the Rijks museum
It's a long time since I was there actually. The first time I spent pissed mostly in bars and cafe's around the Oude kerke. Which I now know is about 5 mins walk behind Dam square.
I know this because the last time I went it was just me and the mrs. I got to see a whole lot of things I never saw on the first 2 times I went, including the Rijks museum
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Or 10 minutes if you swimPhilhod wrote:Which I now know is about 5 mins walk behind Dam square.
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The 2 times we went from work there was about 10 of us. How ever we all managed to stay out of a canal I'll never know.
We only went down canal st in Manchester once and 2 of the group took a swim.
The cops were going to arrest Tex, but didn't coz they couldn't stop laughing.
We only went down canal st in Manchester once and 2 of the group took a swim.
The cops were going to arrest Tex, but didn't coz they couldn't stop laughing.
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I went to Holland for the bulb picking one year - but when I got there it was the wrong season and all of the camp sites were closed. Eventually found myself in Amsterdam with about £50 and where a German bloke gave me a nefarious cigarette and then proceeded to abuse me about WW2!
On the way back a disturbed youth attached himself to me, I fell out with the coach driver because I made him wait for a girl at a service station because she was a couple of minutes late (woman troubles). Then got thrown off the coach at Dover for nearly fighting him after the now crying girl explained what he'd said to her in Flemish, and he'd blamed me for ripping his curtains which had actually been torn down to use as a blanket by the disturbed youth mentioned before who had passed out after eating all of his drugs
Eventually the police came to arrest me and after a chat about the circumstances they told the driver he had to let me back on and all of the passengers applauded me If only my mum could have seen that
On the way back a disturbed youth attached himself to me, I fell out with the coach driver because I made him wait for a girl at a service station because she was a couple of minutes late (woman troubles). Then got thrown off the coach at Dover for nearly fighting him after the now crying girl explained what he'd said to her in Flemish, and he'd blamed me for ripping his curtains which had actually been torn down to use as a blanket by the disturbed youth mentioned before who had passed out after eating all of his drugs
Eventually the police came to arrest me and after a chat about the circumstances they told the driver he had to let me back on and all of the passengers applauded me If only my mum could have seen that
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You see, that's where diplomacy works for you.
I would have probably been arrested coz I would have laid the cunt out and driven his bus myself. No patience see.
I would have probably been arrested coz I would have laid the cunt out and driven his bus myself. No patience see.
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stu wrote:Oh yes it is.Scarecrow wrote:The mobile law is not enforced as far as I can tell - unless there's an accident and no doubt insurance liability has to be determined.
I mentioned to an officer lately how he seemed to enjoy doing people for using their phones and he explained why - it's because he'd been to several fatals in which the dead driver was clutching his phone.
I should have said 'observed' rather than 'enforced'... but what can you do if people don't take any notice?
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Kill them!
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