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    Red traffic light jumpers.

    Green light means safe to proceed if clear to do so.
    So many folks forget this and just whizz through a junction when they see it change to green.
    So many also cut the red/amber and even red.

    It is indeed only a matter of time before the worst happens.

    On an advanced driving course, one of the basic aspects is to always look left/right etc. as you go through any junction, for blue-light but also anyone jumping lights etc.
    It has served me well a few times.

    I teach the same to my kids for pedestrian crossings. Green means look to see if clear, and keep looking whole time you cross.

    The world is full of careless people, mongs and unaware selfish idiots - just factor it in and move around them best you can


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    Quote Originally Posted by notenoughwrists View Post
    … mongs …


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    Oh dear, we've gone back to the 1970s

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    Quote Originally Posted by Onelasttime View Post
    Oh dear, we've gone back to the 1970s
    Unbelievable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Onelasttime View Post
    Oh dear, we've gone back to the 1970s
    Probably not the case but my wife used that term fairly regularly until recently. She thought it was slang for mongoose.

    When she found out she nearly had a panic attack. She was even using it at work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wileeeeeey View Post
    Probably not the case but my wife used that term fairly regularly until recently. She thought it was slang for mongoose.

    When she found out she nearly had a panic attack. She was even using it at work.
    I always thought it was ‘member of nation’s greatest’

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    Many years ago, I served on a jury where we found a guy guilty of causing death by dangerous driving. He’d steamed on through a red light and t-boned a car turning right on a filter light, killing the driver.

    I’ve never forgotten it and what was worse, he’d been charged with running red light previously and we didn’t get to know that until after the verdict.

    He got 3 years in prison, which seemed an insult.

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    Mental, angry place, end off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wileeeeeey View Post
    Probably not the case but my wife used that term fairly regularly until recently. She thought it was slang for mongoose.

    When she found out she nearly had a panic attack. She was even using it at work.
    That's just made me spit beer. Mongoose!

    Although, I've just told my wife the story and she asked what a moongoose is. She's deaf in one ear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wileeeeeey View Post
    Probably not the case but my wife used that term fairly regularly until recently. She thought it was slang for mongoose.

    When she found out she nearly had a panic attack. She was even using it at work.
    Proof that there’s no curing dim

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    Quote Originally Posted by genesos View Post
    Proof that there’s no curing dim
    Now now, mouth frother. Back to the pit for you.

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