What a great weekend.
Friday, quiet and moist but loads of fun.
Saturday daytime was spent with Lemony doing sod all, all day.
Saturday night time was filled with huge amusing fun, including… Karl running around Hwang’s house in a thong and nowt else. Tequila slammers, Mark’s hair in plaits, chavvy, drunk slappers dancing to Taproot around their handbags. HUGE thanks to Hwang for the housey fun before we hit town and also thank you to everyone else who was there putting up with me trying to get them into taxis at the right time to continue drinking in town.
Sunday I hit level 26 on my warlock, Elementas and ate pizza.
Perfect weekend.!!!
*****RANT WARNING*****
Ooooh coach crash rant. Could you possibly imagine THAT was on the cards.?
Now when ONE coach crashes on a greasy road when the tachograph clearly showed the speed as being excessive, why withdraw ten other coaches of the same design.? I don’t get it. People on Radio 2 on Friday were saying how dangerous coaches are and the little buggers actually made me defend road transport.! Now there is something that doesn’t happen often.
Coaches will never be as safe as trains for one important reason. The public. On a railway line the ONLY vehicles running are driven by specially instructed drivers. Any of the unusual errors that occur are rarely due to a lack of training (you don’t want to send out a driver who has never driven a line out with £2.5m worth of rolling stock and 800 lives).! But on the roads coach drivers are PSV trained but still at the mercy of every little retard who managed to suck his or her way through a driving test when letting them drive a car is the WORSE thing they could do.
But in this case, it would appear driver error was indeed to blame. That is certainly not my point though. The fact that each double deck Neoplan Skyliner is tilt tested to 28 degrees with a FULLY laden upper deck and totally empty lower half seems to be neither here nor there.! Some people will tell you something is unsafe no matter what it is. HSE usually say it about stupid things like water.! People were calling for a change in the law to ensure people were FORCED to use their seatbelts on the coaches. Why.???
Why not do this… at the start of a journey just warn people that in the event of a crash then you may die if you don’t wear the belt. Simple as that. If I am in a car crash then I know I will be wearing the damn thing because it stops me flying through the windscreen. If you haven’t got the personal sense of self preservation that will prevent you being carapulted half a mile down the road then I dont particularly give a toss. You died.? How.? Oh lack of seatbelt when one was available.? Unlucky, but well done for having enough common sense to die and make sure that the rest of us who ARE sensible and wear seatbelts can carry on without fear of being knocked over by your high velocity corpse as it comes hurtling out of the front seat of a badly modded Saxo.
Take responsibilty people.? You can’t have a driver knowing when someone undoes their seatbelt two minutes after getting on the coach, so just sort yourselves out.
Ahhhhhhh. That is so much better, been holding it in all weekend.!
see i use national express coaches to get from north to south all the time. and when you get on they give you the usual speech about emergency exits, toilets etc. and then they say something along the lines of: “seatbelts are there for you to use, the law says you have to use them, i however am going to do fuck all to make sure you do use them” i personally believe this should be replaced with “oi, dickeads, yeah you with your two screaming kids, and you with your loudly obnoxious phone call to the sti clinic, wear your fucking seatbelts or in the case of an accident you WILL die. And believe me, thats a hell of a lot scarier than giving birth, tax fraud, or crabs”