Wow, isn't Eric Thompson a dim witted idiot

[imdying]

No really, he cracks me up (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motoring/news/article.cfm?c_id=9&objectid=10649470&pnum=2).

First he gobs off about women drivers, providing some meagre observations to back his crap up with, and then he's encouraging people to start recording the sex of the drivers causing bad drivers. Come on Eric, why not start recording the races too, or didn't you have the balls to suggest that, so thought you'd fall back on same easier prey? Surely we could start trying to palm shit off onto gooks and nig nogs as well??

Further on he presents another badly thought out suggestion...
Cars don't have accidents - people do - so stop worrying about changing road rules. Make it so hard to get a licence that'll it'll put most people off. Make the written test at least an hour long and no multi-guess. Make the driving test an hour long and as hard as physically possible and any mistake means a fail.

Put a cap on the horsepower a learner driver can be in control of. And after 18 months of an accident-free and ticket-free run, let them apply for a provisional that will be for another 18 months before they can get a full licence and again, just one ticket knocks them right back to very beginning.

I'll bet my house that'll keep the idiots off the road.Well you better get used to living in a tent you muppet; plenty of disqualified drivers out there just driving around, and plenty of learner and restricted drivers driving against their license conditions.

Have I fallen for a pisstake, or is this git for real?

[GOONR]

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Have I fallen for a pisstake, or is this git for real?

I thought the same thing when I read it yesterday, he's either having a laugh or as you said, he's a dim witted idiot.

[Fatjim]

Yep, he is a twat, but he's bang on the nail about women drivers.

[Smifffy]

No really, he cracks me up (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motoring/news/article.cfm?c_id=9&objectid=10649470&pnum=2).

Further on he presents another badly thought out suggestion...Well you better get used to living in a tent you muppet; plenty of disqualified drivers out there just driving around, and plenty of learner and restricted drivers driving against their license conditions.



Yup, so let's target Stan & Mabel doing 105 km/hr this weekend.

[imdying]

Yep, he is a twat, but he's bang on the nail about women drivers.Twenty bucks says Danica Patrick would rape you all the way around Ruapuna :laugh: (and not in the good way)

[CookMySock]

Yup, so let's target Stan & Mabel doing 105 km/hr this weekend."Stan and Mabel" who generally don't do that much open road driving, going on holiday with two under-pressure tyres and a car load of distracting screaming kids should emphatically not be cruising extensively at 105 km/hr.

Not everyone gives their car the once-or-twice-over before going on holiday and drives with a positive attitude. Many many "Stan and Mabels" don't think like you and I, and routinely blast along at the speedlimit-or-a-bit-more in brain-switched-off mode, and the results from this are clearly evident every holiday season.

The problem is, the roads are a consumer / general public environment, and they are not set up to cope with enthusiasts who know what they are doing, so the enforcement people have to set the standard somewhere, so it gets set at the lowest common denominator - "Stan and Mabel". Unfortunately, that means those who do think, get forced to drive at the lowest common denominator speed.

It would be nice if the fuzz backed off from processing the enthusiasts for every tiny misdemeanor, but they can't tell the difference.


Steve

[onearmedbandit]

Twenty bucks says Danica Patrick would rape you all the way around Ruapuna :laugh: (and not in the good way)

I'd put my gixxer on that!

[The Pastor]

most boy racers and learner drivers dont have high horsepower cars

[imdying]

I'd put my gixxer on that!

I'd put my gixxer on that!What, you've got two gixxers now?! :blink::shifty:

[oldrider]

You have to remember that all the critics of the standard of NZ drivers are themselves excellent and all of their criticism is only applicable to everyone else!

Meh, why do I have to share the road with these peasants! :rolleyes:

[onearmedbandit]

What, you've got two gixxers now?! :blink::shifty:

Well it's twice the bike of any FurBlade... :p

[Urano]

haven't read about women, but in this case i pretty agree with him.
and i don't even need to know what conditions are actually there in nz, he's simply saying universal rules:


it's the abjectly poor standard of driver skills that are killing people on New Zealand roads, not speed

you can put "anycountry" instead of "New Zealand"....

and


If government agencies, local and regional councils, council officials and even mayors, want to reduce the number of deaths on the road, teach people to drive, not make cars safer or reduce the speed limit.
[snip...] Reducing the speed limit won't stop people who speed; they'll break the limit whatever it is. How hard is it to work that one out?
Cars don't have accidents - people do - so stop worrying about changing road rules. Make it so hard to get a licence that'll it'll put most people off

it's all way true...
and i'm longin for a law to put closed number license here in italy: 5 million licenses that's it (and we're 60 millions...). you'll have jams, parkings, pollution and accidents problems solved in a time.
i have 5 licenses, as for modena city we've done... :laugh::laugh: :laugh:

no, seriously...
stop to think a second. i've got a flight license: i have to got through a full medical examination every year (below 40, every 6 months above). you've got high colestherol? sorry you've got risk of an heart attack, you cannot fly, you have difficulties with peripheral vision? sorry, stay on the ground... aside i have to go under emergencies procedures examinations twice a year: i'm unable to comply the standards? sorry, try again in two months, if you fail again you license is gone... and i have to do also a minimum of flight time every year...
all this to move with a thing that is controlled every time it lands, and then every tot hours is completely disassembled and checked in every piece, and when i fly i've always got somebody that tells me "be aware of that guy, then there's another there, then you can turn safely, now you can move up...", and if the weather is not as i like we'll say "sorry, safety reason, we stay on the ground"...
so i'm hardly checked to use a supercontrolled machine in a supercontrolled mean.
now think at the roads.
you've got a license going through a multi choice exam, here in italy once you've got it will last 10 years, and every then years a guy will ask you "do see the letter on the wall? and with the other eye? good..." the possibility to have your license canceled are less than winning the lotto... are you able to use the brakes? boh... are you able to make an emergency stop in a turn? boh... will you get afraid of the pedal response of the abs in an emergency brake? boh... do you know where to look and wht to expect from others on the road? boh...
all this to move with a car, a machine often with old flat tyres, with lamps not working, with wipers broken, in the middle of people that say "sorry, didn't see the red light" after have entered your car's door, with fog snow, turns with wrong rate, tarmac with holes...

so i'm completely unchecked to use a never controlled machine (if not by myself) in a hardly controlled environment....

does it make sense?

my idea? two years valid license. every two year check with night drive, spider slider, city drive, emergency stop with water wall: if your car get wet, sorry, try again next year...
i dont' know there in nz, but here in italy driving license is not a constitutional right. well, it shouldn't be...

[imdying]

Well it's twice the bike of any FurBlade... :pNot right now is isn't :P

[Fatjim]

I'd put twenty bucks on that two. But an exception doesn't prove a rule.

Teaching a woman to drive is like house training a dog. They both understand what to do, but neither understand the why.

[Fatjim]

And the few I see seem to drive very conservatively. Nothing like the idiots we were when we were young.

[imdying]

But an exception doesn't prove a rule.True true, but the anecdotal evidence of that twat doesn't either :)

[FJRider]

You have to remember that all the critics of the standard of NZ drivers are themselves excellent and all of their criticism is only applicable to everyone else!

Meh, why do I have to share the road with these peasants! :rolleyes:

You are not supposed to share the road ... you are supposed to CONTROL the road ... it's the KB way ... :yes:

[Fatjim]

True true, but the anecdotal evidence of that twat doesn't either :)

No it doesn't. The guys an idiot. But as that old worn out saying goes, "even a broken clock is right twice a day".

[SPman]

stop to think a second. i've got a flight license: i have to got through a full medical examination every year (below 40, every 6 months above) Is that a commercial licence? PPL is every 2 yrs here.

[Fatjim]

OFF TOPIC there SP. We're debating the wankerdom of Eric Thompson and the wisdom of women driving.

[Oscar]

He's at it again:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motorsport/news/article.cfm?c_id=66&objectid=10804073


Stoner had a great point when he told AAP: "Tampering by the ruling body Dorna has forced manufacturers to develop costly new machines and priced some brands out of the sport."

How does he (and Stoner for that matter) explain the 50% increase in the MotoGP grid?
The return of Aprillia and BMW?
The imminent return of Suzuki?

Did he do any research at all?????
What a moran.

[BoristheBiter]

No it doesn't. The guys an idiot. But as that old worn out saying goes, "even a broken clock is right twice a day".

Unless it's digital.

[BoristheBiter]

"Stan and Mabel" who generally don't do that much open road driving, going on holiday with two under-pressure tyres and a car load of distracting screaming kids should emphatically not be cruising extensively at 105 km/hr.

Not everyone gives their car the once-or-twice-over before going on holiday and drives with a positive attitude. Many many "Stan and Mabels" don't think like you and I, and routinely blast along at the speedlimit-or-a-bit-more in brain-switched-off mode, and the results from this are clearly evident every holiday season.

The problem is, the roads are a consumer / general public environment, and they are not set up to cope with enthusiasts who know what they are doing, so the enforcement people have to set the standard somewhere, so it gets set at the lowest common denominator - "Stan and Mabel". Unfortunately, that means those who do think, get forced to drive at the lowest common denominator speed.

It would be nice if the fuzz backed off from processing the enthusiasts for every tiny misdemeanor, but they can't tell the difference.


Steve

The ones that concern me more are the ones that travel by bus during the week but get on the motorway every weekend with no idea where they are going, what lane they need to be in or what the speed limit is.

[sil3nt]

He's at it again:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/motorsport/news/article.cfm?c_id=66&objectid=10804073



How does he (and Stoner for that matter) explain the 50% increase in the MotoGP grid?
The return of Aprillia and BMW?
The imminent return of Suzuki?

Did he do any research at all?????
What a moran.Hah CRT bikes aren't MotoGP bikes. They might increase the grid size but they are 10-20kph slower down the straights and finish 20 seconds behind the slowest motogp bike. The fastest qualifying time for CRT in Losail would still miss out on pole for the 2009 WSBK race at Losail (And only just get pole in some of the previous years WSBK raced there).
CRT may fill the grid but they are yet to add anything to the racing.

[oldrider]

Unless it's digital.

Seriously Boris? :confused:

[Oscar]

Hah CRT bikes aren't MotoGP bikes. They might increase the grid size but they are 10-20kph slower down the straights and finish 20 seconds behind the slowest motogp bike. The fastest qualifying time for CRT in Losail would still miss out on pole for the 2009 WSBK race at Losail (And only just get pole in some of the previous years WSBK raced there).
CRT may fill the grid but they are yet to add anything to the racing.

Given that we're only a few races in, CRT bikes are doing better than expected, and can only get better.
Without CRT bikes, MotoGP bikes as we know them have no future.

Notwithstanding that, all the new classes have been created with cost-saving in mind, which makes Eric's rant look a bit stupid.

[BoristheBiter]

Seriously Boris? :confused:

Well when a digital clock is broken it doesn't display anything so shows no time hence it can never be right.(insert tongue in cheek smiley here)