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Mon 25 Nov 2002 23:26
education education education - crazed
[Sorry, nothing Motoring related here. M.]
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Tue 26 Nov 2002 10:21
education education education - BrianW
OK
What's the last actual motoring-related educational message that anyone can remember see coming out of official sources?

"Speed kills" and "Kill your speed not a child" do not count.
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Tue 26 Nov 2002 10:44
education education education - Toad, of Toad Hall.
"Think Bike."
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These are my own opinions, and not necessarily those of all Toads.
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Tue 26 Nov 2002 10:55
education education education - Dynamic Dave
Can I call a TV and official source?

Always remember the Green Cross Code.

All I can remember is those sideburns and flares Alvin Stardust was wearing.
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Sat 30 Nov 2002 18:03
education education education - Tom Shaw
Police Camera Action and all it's clones. "It's cool to drive like a prat" is the message the young seem to have taken deeply to heart.
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Sat 4 Jan 2020 08:20
education education education - barney100

the car with a glass of water on the bonnet with advice to drive as if you won't spill any of the water by exuberant driving.

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Sat 4 Jan 2020 17:30
education education education - galileo

the car with a glass of water on the bonnet with advice to drive as if you won't spill any of the water by exuberant driving.

In "The Wages of Fear" original B & W version this was how they selected drivers to transport 2 tons of Nitroglycerine in the wilds of South America.

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Sun 5 Jan 2020 09:41
education education education - edlithgow

If you want to save petrol you can wind your WW2 ambulance up sand dunes with the starting handle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k81rRaszRlg

You might need to stiffen your upper lip a bit though.

The nurse can help with that.

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Tue 7 Jan 2020 00:06
education education education - edlithgow

the car with a glass of water on the bonnet with advice to drive as if you won't spill any of the water by exuberant driving.

In "The Wages of Fear" original B & W version this was how they selected drivers to transport 2 tons of Nitroglycerine in the wilds of South America.

IIRC also introduced the term feche-feche to the British Motoring Public.

From what I hear about Yookside road maintenance standards, it might be time it made a comeback.

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Thu 9 Jan 2020 10:47
education education education - Sulphur Man

There's concerted drink-drive campaigning every Christmas - across tv, radio, social media etc.

They could save some money, and lives, by making the drink-drive limit zero, as there is absolutely no one who knows how much can safely be drunk and still get behind a wheel.

Edited by Sulphur Man on 09/01/2020 at 10:47

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Tue 26 Nov 2002 10:57
education education education - TrevorP
Is this the education as in the BIG queues I see forming for IAM and Rospa guidance?
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Sat 30 Nov 2002 17:53
education education education - Pugugly {P}
Rear seat belt ad (you know the one where sonny kills his mum and has a broken nose to boot)
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Sat 30 Nov 2002 19:27
education education education - James_Jameson
"Clunk Click Every Trip" (Jimmy Saville...use your seatbelts)
"Fancy a Jar - Forget the Car" (Don't drink and drive message)
"Let the Train Take the Strain" (Jimmy Saville...use the train instead of being stuck in the car in a traffic jam).
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Fri 3 Jan 2020 00:44
education education education - Bilboman

Beware of the Blunders! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIQX2UAt7P4

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Fri 3 Jan 2020 11:06
education education education - edlithgow

In a car chase scene, if the bad guys have, say:-

a Merc (bad guys really do have Mercs),

a Jag (bad guys really do have Jags, though not so often)

and a Ford Grenada with a smoky exhaust (bad guys don't really have Ford Granada's with smoky exhausts)

its probably the Ford Granada with the smoky exhaust which is going over the edge of a cliff in a quarry and exploding.

The Avengers. pretty much every episode.

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Sat 4 Jan 2020 21:44
education education education - Leif

In my book the people in the yellow and blue jerseys will live, those in red jerseys are expendable and may die.

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Sun 5 Jan 2020 09:17
education education education - edlithgow

In my book the people in the yellow and blue jerseys will live, those in red jerseys are expendable and may die.

Motoring connection?

Source?

Clearly fictional, however.

There's no gentle way to put this.

EVERYONE is expendable and WILL die.

Yellow and blue jerseys don't phase The Reepa.

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Sun 5 Jan 2020 14:17
education education education - concrete

We could appreciate the return of one Reginald Molehusband. The standard of parking is appalling. I realise that vehicle are larger and car parking spaces are the same size so all the more reason to be careful and considerate. Never a traffic warden around when this happens. On construction sites and offices the parking was required to be 'Back in- Front out'. Purely for safety reasons as it is a sight easier to assess situations looking face on. Should be compulsory in all parking situations where reversing out would be clearly a risk. That would sort out the people who can park from the people who cannot.

Cheers Concrete

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Sun 5 Jan 2020 14:23
education education education - Andrew-T

In my book the people in the yellow and blue jerseys will live, those in red jerseys are expendable and may die.

Yellow and blue jerseys don't phase The Reepa.

Faze ? :-))

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Mon 6 Jan 2020 00:54
education education education - edlithgow

In my book the people in the yellow and blue jerseys will live, those in red jerseys are expendable and may die.

Yellow and blue jerseys don't phase The Reepa.

Faze ? :-))

Oh yeh. Must work on my 70's US jive.

OTOH, who knows the metaphysics involved in the passage from life to death conveyed by sinister allegorical figures?

Seems like a phase tranition could be in there somewhere, and a defendable descriptive term, if one was so inclined.

On a more prosaic technical note, your jumper jive wont work in black and white, which forms the bulk of our temporal televisual context.

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Mon 6 Jan 2020 06:47
education education education - expat
OTOH, who knows the metaphysics involved in the passage from life to death conveyed by sinister allegorical figures?

Terry Pratchett seemed to be well up on that sort of thing.

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Tue 7 Jan 2020 16:29
education education education - Penumbra

No motoring connection but Red Jumper wearer longevity source is from Star Trek. If you beamed down to a new planet wearing a red jumper your life expectancy could be measured in minutes!

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Wed 8 Jan 2020 14:29
education education education - Engineer Andy

No motoring connection but Red Jumper wearer longevity source is from Star Trek. If you beamed down to a new planet wearing a red jumper your life expectancy could be measured in minutes!

Old Trek, yes, TNG-era Trek no (the shirts were swapped colours so the security officers wore yellow/gold). I still like the Scotty meme I use for my Disqus handle: "Laddie, you're speaking to the only guy in a red shirt who isn't dead". Still raises a chuckle from me.

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