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      05-01-2020, 03:14 PM   #1
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Roads are bad

I have to drive a fair bit and I’ve had some really bad experiences over the past weeks.

I think what’s going on is that people are walking, riding and driving like they don’t expect to encounter anything else on the road. In the country lanes around me:

Pedestrians with their kids, in the road, where the roads are national speed limit.
Cyclists just pulling out from junctions. Riding in groups across both lanes.
Cars going very fast, chavs playing games, people cutting cross lanes (racing line), lots of cars driving like they are on a go kart track.

Have you seen tiktok (you may need to rinse your eyes after), I’ve seen videos of cars doing 160+ on U.K. motorways.

I don’t want to sound like a miserable old git, I’m not even that old, but some of these were serious. I was doing 50 and a half arse nearly AMG was sat 2 foot over the white line doing 70-80 on a backroad almost clipping my nose. That’s nightmare fuel...

I think the thing that most suprises me is that 1 in 5 cars seems to be police
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      05-02-2020, 01:19 AM   #2
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I have to drive a fair bit and I’ve had some really bad experiences over the past weeks.
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I think the thing that most suprises me is that 1 in 5 cars seems to be police
Edit: sorry didn’t mean police driving badly, rather that you’d think with so much (relative) police presence people would drive properly
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A lot of idiots are driving like we don't have police anymore, lots of comments on other forums about this.
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      05-04-2020, 06:37 AM   #4
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Whats happening in the UK with the governments aid plans for the hardest hit employees and companies? Are people getting part of their lost salaries paid by the governement?
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Whats happening in the UK with the governments aid plans for the hardest hit employees and companies? Are people getting part of their lost salaries paid by the governement?
Yes 80% of salary is being paid up to £2500 a month, its called being furloughed
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