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Liz was just on the Phone. Said she wondered who the puffed up ponze was holding the SLOW sign, said to say hello.

She did the wave, as well, but she's getting tired, could only manage one finger today....

Couldn't of been her Ray, she drives a Land Rover :-)))

Or maybe it was her and she was slumming it, after all the're in the colonies on holidays ;-))))

Ray ,Wolfi and Redback ,I would have thought that u 3 repobates would at least have replied to the affirmative on a safety issue ,the post was /is not about a friday funny , Lone Wolf how would you like your lathe set up 1mtr from some richard cranium driving past you at 100kph ,Redback same for you except we change the w/shop for your computer desk and have ford explorers wizz past less than 1mtr from you,, road works are a workplace ,lets just try to keep the poor old shovel leaner safe !!

Point taken....

Sorry.

Wolfie

I suppose I should take life more seriously, bad habit of mine. I consider myself swiftly kicked in the backside. ouch!

Well the last time i had a go at someone here for speeding i got NO support from anyone so bugger you, he reckoned it was OK to do 140kph towing a trailer, his justification for it was he didn't want to get stone chips.

So i guess it better to risk peoples lives than get stone chips, hey Mr ABR person.

Baz.

There's no excuse for unsafe driving.

The way it is set up is ridiculous. If there are workman and machinery about then by all means have a 40KPH speed limit but after and before work and on weekends it is bloody stupid. Just another way of revenue raising. The other stupid thing is this 40KPH speed limit is usually about 1 to 2 kilometers from the worksite. I for one DO NOT obey them when there are no workman around. OK, if I get caught I wear the fine. As stated above 100KPH might be a bit over the top depending on the road conditions. It's a bit like driving over the Blue Mountains on the Great Western Highway. I mostly drive at 20KPH over the speed limit and have more cars go around me than I go around. I am all for safe driving but speed limits in general need to be looked at all over Australia. Just a revenue raising system to help fill the government coffers.
While I am on my soapbox the other thing that really p155es me off is the dickwit who will travel in the right lane at the speed limit. GET OVER TO THE LEFT where you belong. If I want to go faster than the speed limit then that is my choice. Nothing worse than the guy in the left lane sitting just under the speed limit (his choice of course) but then some clown who should NOT have a licence decides he will sit on the speed limit in the right lane. Just get to the left and let the traffic flow.
We need to know that having a driving licence is privilege not a RIGHT.
By the way I have been driving for 40 years with 2 small accidents many years ago and I spend a lot of time on the roads and the sooner the "governments" teach people to drive PROPERLY the sooner the road tole will be less.
I feel better now and will sit back for the backlash from those who I just mentioned.Cheers
The Bigfella

And the prick he forces to slow down (you!) just may "arrive alive".

If you want to speed everywhere then your part of the problem. You do NOT have the "RIGHT" to speed and put other road users at risk.

How many points do you lose for travelling 60km/h over the limit ?

Mike

Mike,

Probably more than you can handle with a clean slate if there's any justice in the current systems at all.

"We need to know that having a driving licence is privilege not a RIGHT."

Mate, if you're openly admitting to constantly driving at 20kmh over the speed limit, then I think you're abusing your privilege. 40 years of good luck doesn't give you have the RIGHT to speed.

What pi55es me off is people speeding putting my and my wife's lives in danger, e.g. should they have an accident going around a bend coming towards me that they misjudged they could take at 120kmh in a 100kmh zone.

The 40kmh limits in workzones are there for a reason - poor bloody road workers getting cleaned up by cars speeding through workzones. How do you know there's NOT a roadworker? Depending on the location, they could be working at any time, 24/7. Sure they're a bloody inconvenience, and you question why the signs are left in place when the shift has ended and everyone has gone home, but if you have to do 40kmh for 2km instead of 100kmh, it's only adding about a minute 40 seconds to your trip. Worth risking killing someone over? I think not.

People like you, BIGFELLA, kill innocent people .... slow down boy, you have to drive a pushbike mate ! ....
We dont need idiots on the wheels!
Have a "safe" weekends!

Mate it is best to keep your opinions on Roadwork’s, Speed limit’s and speed limit’s around roadwork’s to yourself or you just get burned, as I have in the past.

I mostly drive at 20KPH over the speed limit> Now that I don’t agree with as there are many situations that this is not appropriate I.E 70 down suburban streets, 80 in a 60 zone ECT.

Unlike the others I am not hear to lecture you and would be a hypocrite if I did, the world has got way to many “Do Gooders” already.

naaah ! Just equal air time for differing opinions, that's all.

Yep I'll answer to 'preacher' on this topic , I just hope that the "speedsters" dont have to make use of my services

"MAN that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. "

Perhaps we could use that instead of "Bloody Idiot" or "Speed Kills"

John

Not preaching Sandman ,just making a point , People work at / in roadworks ,you may not "see" them as you go through for whatever reason , how would YOU like a 3tonne cruiser or a 45ton truckndog fly past YOU 1mtr away ,, ohh so sorry to run over YOU but slowing down for roadworks is such an INCONVENIENCE ,I may be 1 minute late for the funeral.

Yeah, we're talking about the value of human life and the apparent disregard for it some seem to have while in a hurry to be somewhere and complaining about others being 'in their way'. That is a symptom of the craziness of the society we live in. You can't live your life any faster than 60 minutes per hour. And why would you want to; life is short enough as it is. I think it is the 'human condition' to realise how quickly our lives pass but then our reaction is to go for quantity rather than quality in life; how many things can we squeeze into a day rather than savouring each moment. Speeding, impatience, intolerence etc are symptoms of this social disease.
Jeez, that was a bit deep! Maybe it's because I turned 42 today. LOL

Bware,

Happy Birthday for yesterday :))) No good getting too deep at your age LOL Leave it for later.

Regards

It was yesterday, but I'm still up after work so my day hasn't finished yet and this is how I'm celebrating; ranting to anyone who will listen in the EO circus. LOL. I'm a perfectly well-adjusted social misfit.

LOL there's quite a few of us misfits in the EO circus. At this time of night/morning we get to pick over the bones of the discussions the 'normal misfits' had while we were away from our windows to the EO world :))))

An excellent perspective!

Brian

Er ..... what's that got to do with some brain dead idiot doing 100 in a 40 zone?

hahahahaha two clowns gone in one hit. That's a bonus :))))

Sorry, got carried away there

Is that a record for the most bleep s in one post ? :))))

"It's a new EO record, he has won bleep ing gold!"

Mad Doggy,you now on you're way to having you're own sheep station,Bleeeeeeeeeeeeep!Now that you were carried away were you the doing 20k,40k,100k or 120k in that said work zone? Gramp's that was not like you too get rid of 2 clown's in one hit,think of the kid's in a world with no clown's,jeeeeeeeeeze they would have to rely on us to make them laugh. it could be a worry. Bob.

No No, not on your nelly Scooter, it wasn't me. I'm usually the one holding everyone up :)

Now the sheep station sounds interesting, oh so many girlfriends to choose from.

Have been entertained by this forum for a long time now, but have never joined or registered until today. I have been working on roads my entire working life (20 years) and currently have a small business (8 employees) with a partner involved with road maintanence. We seem to get all the good jobs off the likes of VicRoads and others, and have worked on all sorts of streets, from Flinders St in Melbourne, Punt Rd on the Domain Rd hill, the Nepean Hwy @ South Rd, various Freeways; you get the picture.

I sat down this morning for a browse thru the posts and came uon this one.

Bigfella, the way the signage is set up is there for a reason. The reason is that I and my men want to go home in one piece. Please feel free to speed your head off elswhere and kill yourself for all I care. But around MY worksite, obey the bloody rules of the road.

I reckon this forum is brilliant, but God I hate posts like this one.