Posts by Justin

Bacon sarnies cure hangovers: Official

Veggie broken by Bacon

I was a vegetarian and it was a Bacon Sarnie that finally broke me. That and the dreams about Pork Pies.

Court rules airline secret security list is stupid

Confiscated Items

Confiscated items do end up in the hands of the security staff, my father-in-law used to work at Luton Airport and a number of the security staff had a lucrative sideline at car boot sales.

What annoyed me was having a fountain pen confiscated during the liquid explosives scare nonsense. I wasn't allowed to carry it because it had ink in it and thats a liquid "sir". Squirted the ink on the floor, pointed out it was empty and they took it anyway.

Its a load a bollocks, doesn't keep anyone safe.

R2-D2 robots with frikkin lasers on them in development

Peppering US Warships

Indeed as one poster commented, the only time Phalanx was ever used in anger it shot up an adjacent warship, completely missing the incoming Styx missile. That was blasted out of the sky by a Sea Dart from a Royal Navy Type 42 destroyer. But then an American system failing, with the cavalry coming over the hill in the shape of a product from the British defence industry doesn't make for such a good story.

Slo-mo MoD budget traincrash rolls on

Recce grenade

The idea of a recce grenade or shell isn't new. Royal Ordnance did a technology demonstrator (with PV capital) about 15 years ago.

Lies, damned lies and government statistics

To Chris

Really? I'd adjusted my speed to the road conditions, plenty of people were caught going much faster. And if my driving really had been dangerous, I'd have been done for it.

The issue is that the speed limit being imposed after the bend creates a hazard, do you not agree or are you only out for a spot of light trolling before lunch?

Smug?

To all the smug people with the message that if you don't speed you won't get fined. I used to be one of you.

Then one day, whilst I was at work, they changed the speed limit on my route home. Obviously I failed to notice the tiny A4 bit of paper 6ft of the ground on a lamp post announcing the change.

So on the way home, I came round a bend to find a 40 mph sign that hadn't been there in the morning and "click" £60 and 3 penalty points from the mobile camera parked just after it to catch all the mugs who were similarly unaware.

1. Positioning a Speed notice just round a sharp bend didn't strike me as the safest place to put it. And further investigation shows it doesn't conform to DfT guidelines.

2. I was fined for doing 45 mph, in what was previously a 60 mph zone, I'd slowed down for the road conditions.

3. The claim is that the speed limit was imposed on a road with a poor safety record. The accident blackspot is at a T-junction a mile away that really needs a roundabout.

So I came to the conclusion, that the safety camera crap is utter bollocks and nothing more than a revenue earner. Particularly when the speed limit is posted to make it difficult for people unfamiliar with the road. In this case, they've created a road hazard; people take the corner at 60 and slam their anchors on or if you know its there, you're tail gated by the plonker who doesn't.