Comments on: I told you they were stupid

By: monaghan girl

monaghan girl — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:32:14 +0000

to the monaghan fella that said he knew 4 of the boys that were in the threemilehouse accident and eveyone would of known these 4 would have been involved what I say to you is your a prick.Take them out of the gene pool??What???which 4 boys was it that everyone would have known was involved ur talkin shit.I bet youve never seen any of them speeding in a car in ur life.only one of them had a car for feck sake.Theres speed merchants around monaghan that everyone knows of how could people who never drive a car be known for speeding.

By: Brian Greene

Brian Greene — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:41:43 +0000

gay byrne said on taking his road safe job “If I find, in a reasonable period of time, there is a lack of co-operation by civil servants or stone walls, or if I find that what I was told was all lies I will walk away as quick as Eddie Shaw or even quicker”

By: Yacuncha

Yacuncha — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:34:05 +0000

Interesting article on why drink driving should be legal.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/crovelli5.html

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:23:56 +0000

Dead right, Daniel. I learned to drive in the Netherlands and am appalled at the standards here. Just a relatively harmless example - earlier today, some tool with an L plate was chugging down the outside lane on the Stillorgan Road, totally oblivious to everything. The same sort of wanker that drives in fog without understanding what the buttons on their dashboard are for ….

In the Netherlands certain things are drilled into you until you get them right, including awareness of pedestrians, cyclists, and, most important of all, other motorists.

You can’t do your practical test until you’ve passed your theory. On the day of your test you are driven to the centre. If you fail he/she drives you home, if you pass the roles are reversed. So the sense of achievement is compounded (and it is very difficult to pass that test!)

However, most tellingly of all, my car usage was almost nil dfor long periods simply because public transport is so good. Say no more …

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:25:37 +0000

Don’t be afraid Penelope. I’ve spent a lot of time driving in Ireland and I’ve had no trouble. Maybe I was just lucky while I was there, but I think the drivers here in the U.S. are much more dangerous.

By: John of Dublin

John of Dublin — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:33:07 +0000

Good article.

By: fatmammycat

fatmammycat — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:29:32 +0000

No, just terrible at written English. I also somtimes say I should ‘of’ gone when I mean should ‘have’ gone too. Meh. I don’t say it’s ‘a’ nonsense, so I can rest easy.

By: Liam G

Liam G — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:42:10 +0000

Hey, bet you wish you’d kept your mouth shut now:-)

By: leitrimlad

leitrimlad — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:34:31 +0000

fatmammycat:

You mean FEWER drivers not LESS drivers. Are you foreign?

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On March 28th, 2007 at 3:10 pm fatmammycat said:
I agree, it the public transport system was better in this country there would be less drivers on the road, but as it stands I don’t blame anyone for using their car.

By: Penelope

Penelope — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:15:19 +0000

goddamn!!!

I grew up in LA where aggressive freeway driving is a high art and with a German educated father who treated the highway as his own personal autobhan.

I’ve taken countless road trips throughout the western US, notching up 1500 to 3000 miles at a go. I’ve driven cross-country and back, alone.

But good god I’m dreading driving in Ireland!!!

Not to say we don’t have our own idiots over here. The farmlands of California’s central valley (i.e. Fresno etc.) develop a thick ground fog and every few years you’ll hear of a huge pile up on I-5 or Hwy 99. I remember one that had over 100 cars involved with several fatalites.

Speed and fog = crash… big surprise!!

And people are horrified, appeals are made for safer driving but memories are short and sooner or later you’ll hear about it on the news again or be caught up in the traffic jam (i.e. tailbacks).

I think the key difference is because Ireland is an island the idiotcy is concentrated and you end up being directly impacted more.

That and the narrow, windy roads!!

I’m skeered!!!