With respect Nsar, there may well be some drivers in the category you describe who are using sat navs.
There is also a possibility that there are some very experienced and good drivers using them. They may be people who are visiting an area for the first time and have chosen to use the technology because it is safer than trying to read a map or A-Z while driving. This does not make them clueless, it might even indicate some common sense.
Edited by Humph Backbridge on 22/11/2008 at 17:05
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Better safe than sorry.
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"Baby on Board" sign in rear = retard in driving seat.
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"Baby on Board" sign.... "
With luck there should now be fewer of these. Under the Companies Act 2006 directors have to be at least 16.
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Absolutely agree with Humph about satnavs: I often have to give lectures in hotels or conference centres in the middle of towns I haven't been to before, and it's much easier, and probably safer, having 'Thomas' than sneaking a look at the atlas while traffic lights are red.
That's despite it having to sit precariously in the ashtray nowadays......we were setting off on holiday in the Z3 in September, and you know how you need to swing yourself into a low-slung car and go plunk into the seat: I'd forgotten that I'd put the Tom-Tom on the seat, and inadvertently gave a whole new meaning to 'sat-nav'. It works but the stalk broke off, not surprisingly.
There's the risk of being offensive when talking about stereotypes, unless you do so in jest. But I do like the quips, both I think from Clarkson, that:
- the Rover 75 was named after the average age of the people who drive it; and
- if ever there was a man born to drive a Nissan Micra, it's Bob Cratchit from Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Edited by Avant on 22/11/2008 at 17:32
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OK here mine:-
Old shape Micra drivers - old smug drivers thinking they drive the most reliable car in the world even though it only does 500 miles a year, while they are chatting about how good their car is their car is rusting so bad they don't realise it will be baked beans soon.
Mondeo/Vectra - Dull sales person that knows more about pencils than anything else.
New mini - Fashion obseseed moron with more money than sense.
Fiat Panda (new shape) Clever git who realises that a car is not everything.
Old Fiestas - Idiot who puts up with frequent garage visits smug in the knowledge parts are cheap.
Any post 51 Skoda - Clever people who buy good cars as a discount
Golf MK4 - Idiots who pay a premium price for a none premium car.
Suzuki Alto - People who think that saving a few quid is more important than dignity for even surviving an accident.
PS The above is tongue and cheek and is supposed to be slightly offensive but is not meant to be serious. I have included a very good dig at myself in there :).
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White-haired old men driving sports cars clearly too young for them.
Oops...
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Green L or P plates, I'm a new driver so Police please ignore me breaking the law.
And I don't mean little mistakes that new drivers make, two examples from the last week
1) 1990's micra being driven with no front number plate, not even a peice of card written on in pen, seen it twice this week, driving past the local motor factors on the first occasion.
2) New micra with 2 adults and 4 young children aged about 4 or 5, obviously not it child seats as there wouldn't be the space and I've seen this driver doing this more than once.
And another stereotype:
Ford Escort estates, only driven by young mums or men over 50..... except for me.
Edited by Mookfish on 22/11/2008 at 18:13
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See also "New game - stereotype spotting" half way down the Silly Thread, volume 8.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=53358
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Fat, ugly, middle aged women with too much make up driving stupid convertible versions of cars which were already rubbish before someone decided there was a market for them with folding roofs. Sitting too close to the steering wheel, elbows stuck out staring straight ahead peering over the top of the wheel ignoring the "admiring" glances of passers by.
No my dear, they are not glancing admiringly..........
;-)
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Humph, you disgusting, cynical, chauvanistic pig!
I agree 100%!
Saw some blousy mutton-dressed-as-lamb type today in a ragtop PMT Cruiser, out for her 'look at me' saturday afternoon drive.
Doing about 60km/h in an 80 zone (the road goes alongside an industrial estate, so hardly çruising'along a beach) ... maybe to avoid the wind disturbing her coiffure.
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- the Rover 75 was named after the average age of the people who drive it;
lol. Trouble is I find myself agreeing with JC on that, as I'm sure do many other people.
Which is why having a 4.6 V8 lump in (one of) mine is sooo entertaining at times ;)
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