http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "Bad driving crackdown: Speeding fines quadruple" en Fri, 22 May 2026 04:55:23 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10979#post-122958 Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:11:30 +0000 Focus 122958@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>A Scotsman/EEN-related Knock Knock joke:</p> <p>Outside a Scotsman commentator's door:</p> <p>Knock, knock!</p> <p>"I don't care 'who's there', I hate you because I hate cyclists, I hate the trams, I hate the council and I love my car and in some way you must be connected for my not getting my own way about one or more of the above, so go away!"</p> <p>(Some of those saddos must spend half their day on the Scotsman/EEN websites, considering how often the same few names keep cropping up. It's a wonder they have the time to see what Edinburgh actually <em>looks</em> like! I'd like to say some of their usernames are tongue-in-cheek but they clearly identify some deluded or antagonistic people). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10979#post-122888 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:10:33 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 122888@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Why did the Scotsman commenter cross the road?</p> <p>Walking? Really? Roads are for cars, get out of my way, I need to swerve round that pothole. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10979#post-122887 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 16:03:41 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 122887@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How many Scotsman commenters does it take to change a lightbulb?</p> <p>At least 7. One to change the lightbulb, and the rest to complain about the council and police being anti-lightbulb, pointing out how much better the lightbulbs worked before the trams, and that the real cause of darkness is cyclists.... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10979#post-122886 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:58:17 +0000 allebong 122886@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How do you know if there's Scotsman readers on a plane?</p> <p>When the engines stop, the whining keeps going. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10979#post-122885 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:53:52 +0000 Coxy 122885@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I wonder that some of the main offenders are a little 'tounge-in-cheek"?</p> <p>I would recommend:<br /> <a href="http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/">spEak You're bRanes</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10979#post-122882 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 15:28:30 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 122882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lovely from Mr Fuel Haed (who must spend all day simply finding things to be miserable about:</p> <p>"<em>How about tackling REAL crime that affects people's lives instead of trying to raise as much money as possible from the easiest target?</em>"</p> <p>Yes, because the results of bad driving don't affect people's lives at all. Every. Nope.</p> <p>"<em>this carckdown [sic] on speeding is a blatent [sic] attempt to raise money. They should concentrate on catching real criminals. This new police force is an anti-car, anti-motorist disgrace</em>"</p> <p>Intrigued that the new police force is anti-car, and wondering if there's any evidence of this save Fuel Head's addled delusions. But also, what is a 'real' criminal? In my mind a 'real' criminal is someone who breaks a law... Ipso facto, QED, etc etc.</p> <p>The ironically entitled 'Intelligent' Chauvinist come sin with:</p> <p>"<em>I've never been fined for speeding, or anything ales come to think of it, and I ignore all speed limits. Drive to the prevailing conditions and ignore these arbitrary, theoretical, politically correct numbers used as speed limits</em>"</p> <p>And of course, contrary to any figures on the death and destruction on the roads, the real menace of our streets are?</p> <p>"<em>They were so busy "raiding" places to save people who didn't want saving, they could've used the time to arrest pavement cyclists and all the other law breakers instead!</em>"</p> <p>"<em>Any increase in the number of penalties issued to cyclists? Just one would be a 100% increase. Oh sorry, Just remembered cyclists are above the law</em>"</p> <p>And finally this l ittle beauty:</p> <p>"<em>More totalitarian nonsense, if the potholes were fixed people wouldn't have to swerve all over the roads, and if the road surfaces were fixed there would be less [fewer] accidents</em>"</p> <p>Ah. I'm back in that place where these things don't annoy me, but rather amuse. The insanity of it all; the lack of intelligence or comprehension; the murder of the English language as froth spills from mouths and green ink flows from keyboards; I'm quite glad these people are hiding behind computer screens and not out in the real world. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10979#post-122867 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 13:51:44 +0000 chdot 122867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>THE number of drivers caught committing motoring offences in the Capital has nearly doubled since Police Scotland was formed, the Evening News reveals today.</p> <p>"</p> <p><a href="http://m.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/bad-driving-crackdown-speeding-fines-quadruple-1-3059514" rel="nofollow">http://m.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/bad-driving-crackdown-speeding-fines-quadruple-1-3059514</a> </p>