Rainhill
Central Defender
I regularly check my phone at traffic lights. It's usually fixed to the dashboard.
A quick glance to see if there's any messages or emails.
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A quick glance to see if there's any messages or emails.
I see both sexes using their phones but the amount of young lasses I see using them is astounding.
TheWanderer
Striker
It’s a job, no difference between working on a production line and being at it for hours on end, concentrate on your job for x hours, then when you have a break check phone.
Then you're a danger to yourself and other road users tbh.
Because they're idiots who have to check their Instagram. Oh my god, Kylie Jenner has posted a new picture of her f***ing eyebrows or something.
Goat Eyes
Striker
You’ll still get the points and fine if caught.
But those messages and emails will certainly be important.
Rainhill
Central Defender
You don't glance at your radio? You fix your eyes 100% on the road?
I think you're a liar.
Indeed. Pretty f***ing tricky to prove I wasn't merely readjusting my sat nav though.
I'm not focused entirely on my phone at traffic lights though am I? Haway man. It's dangerous.
The sat nav app on my phone (Waze) is voice controlled and of all the buttons on my radio, the only one that ever gets used is the 'next song' button because it's always on Spotify shuffle.
People who think reading a message - both in time and attention - is the same as glancing at a display to see what station/song is on are deluded. Let alone the arseholes who think that they can reply to one and still not put other people at risk.
Rainhill
Central Defender
You have a voice controlled radio in a Peugeot 106?
In a better world, driving on a ban would be instant permanent confiscation of the car if owned/leased/hired by the driver and time inside, doubled if the car can't be seized, and then another penalty on top for driving with no insurance, which you would be.
Rainhill
Central Defender
How long does it take to search for a new radio station? Readjust the frequency? Skip through a CD play list / mp3 album searching for a song?
My point being, the poster believes it's perfectly safe to do all of that but not to skim a message at traffic lights.
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What’s the craic with daft fuckers doing that? The number plate thing.
Like I said, the only button that ever gets used is the next song button, which I don't even need to look away from the road to use.
I take it you're the bloke who sits there when the light is green giggling away at something on Twitter holding everyone else up?
Almost as stupid as the people who take off their rear wiper.
Is it true that plates with non-standard font are illegal? I see loads but never see the fuckers get lifted. I'd love to see them pulled over and arrested
I don't believe that 90% of people who do that will be able to resist - even if just occasionally - reading the message that doesn't come in where they are stopped, or leaving off halfway through a reply when lights go green.
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Deleted member 559
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Correct, same as any image instead of the EU flag and GB on the plate is also an offence.Like I said, the only button that ever gets used is the next song button, which I don't even need to look away from the road to use.
I take it you're the bloke who sits there when the light is green giggling away at something on Twitter holding everyone else up?
Almost as stupid as the people who take off their rear wiper.
Is it true that plates with non-standard font are illegal? I see loads but never see the fuckers get lifted. I'd love to see them pulled over and arrested
yorkyexile
Striker
yep it is. So are spacings as well so b 19 boy has to be clearly b 19 boy and not big boy (or small cocked wanker in reality) but unless they completely take the piss its not really that possible to measure them without stopping the carLike I said, the only button that ever gets used is the next song button, which I don't even need to look away from the road to use.
I take it you're the bloke who sits there when the light is green giggling away at something on Twitter holding everyone else up?
Almost as stupid as the people who take off their rear wiper.
Is it true that plates with non-standard font are illegal? I see loads but never see the fuckers get lifted. I'd love to see them pulled over and arrested
What about the Welsh and Scotch flags? I've seen both when in Wales and Scotland.
It's always some arsehole in a 15 year old Impreza with an exhaust louder than Concorde. I'd have them crushed along with the car.
BlackOps
Winger
Rainhill
Central Defender
No now it's blokes on Twitter and women on Facebook who are causing all these delays at traffic lights?Like I said, the only button that ever gets used is the next song button, which I don't even need to look away from the road to use.
I take it you're the bloke who sits there when the light is green giggling away at something on Twitter holding everyone else up?
Almost as stupid as the people who take off their rear wiper.
Is it true that plates with non-standard font are illegal? I see loads but never see the fuckers get lifted. I'd love to see them pulled over and arrested
Not you of course. Not with your absolute discipline that means you ignore your sat nav and only use one button on the radio.
You never skip forwards or backwards or search for a station/song.
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