Mrs Average has an ally.

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(now giving them the vote, *that* was the bad move!
<gd&r>😉

Pete.

'ware low-flying paving slabs... ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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On Mon, 24 May 2004 15:52:00 +0100, Helen Deborah Vecht
<[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):

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Gawnsoft <[email hidden]>typed

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On Mon, 24 May 2004 14:43:48 +0100, "Simonb"
<[email hidden]> wrote (more or less):

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Simon Mason wrote:

> Only a handful of people dislike me for bringing the topic of the
> Highway Code to the Mail.

She's taking this rather personally, isn't she?

> (I play golf, but don't know all the rules", Letters, Mail, April 14)

Hmmm. Isn't there a big difference between playing golf without knowing the
rules, and driving a motor vehicle on public roads without knowing the
rules.

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Mm, yes. Playing golf carelessly is not likely to kill or seriously
injure someone (yes it's possible it might, but the chances are not
high).

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...

Ummm... isn't golf a cause of more head injuries than cycling ;·/ ?

It's also a good source of electrocution deaths. There's nothing like
waving a metal rod above your head on a clear flattish bit of land
during a rainstorm to attract God's wrath! :-)

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"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" <[email hidden]> wrote in
message news:[email hidden]...

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Unfortunately, ``I don't need to worry about the details of driving, I
just do it'' is a common meme amongst, dare I say it, women. If a skill
isn't prized, it's not developed, and I know several women who have been
driving for thirty-odd years but lack basic skills with the clutch: they
passed their test, and saw no reason to learn or develop beyond that.

There's lots of the male of the species just as woefully inadequate.

Cheers, helen s

I think the PP is aware of this - I think he was making the point that
inadequate female drivers have a different flavour of inadequacies to
inadequate male drivers :-)

Indeed, the female flavour of inadequacy is usually superior to the male
flavour of inadequacy, as Quentin Wilson put it, women have little dinks in
car parks, men have testosterone-fuelled catastrophes.

Gawnsoft said:

It's also a good source of electrocution deaths. There's nothing like
waving a metal rod above your head on a clear flattish bit of land
during a rainstorm to attract God's wrath! :-)

It's nothing to do with conduction. It's divine retribution for the golfing
trousers.

On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:00:31 +0100, "Peter Connolly"
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

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(now giving them the vote, *that* was the bad move! <gd&r>😉

* INCOMING!!! *

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In article <[email hidden]>,

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers said:

There's lots of the male of the species just as woefully inadequate.

Quite. But differently inadequate.

ian

Simon Mason said:

"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers" <[email hidden]>
wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Unfortunately, ``I don't need to worry about the details of
driving, I just do it'' is a common meme amongst, dare I say it,
women. If a skill isn't prized, it's not developed, and I know
several women who have been driving for thirty-odd years but lack
basic skills with the clutch: they passed their test, and saw no
reason to learn or develop beyond that.

There's lots of the male of the species just as woefully inadequate.

Usually with a baseball cap at an unusual angle.

If it's a /Burberry/ patterned one, proceed in the opposite direction. Very
very fast.

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In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

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Women in general are as good at driving as men. I've never had a particular
problem with them.

Recently I have noted a worrying tendency of "girl racers" , young
aggressive, female drivers.

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

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There's a handful of people I am very nervous about being in a car
with. Most of them have never had an accident.

<Les Dawson>
They've never had an accident, seen LOTS of accidents but THEY'VE never
had any
</Les Dawson>

[is my age showing?]
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In article <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] says...

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(now giving them the vote, *that* was the bad move!
<gd&r>😉

I think educating them was the problem, that's what caused them to think
they should have the vote in the first place
(hides under bed)
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On Tue, 25 May 2004 23:43:02 +0100 someone who may be marc
<marccdimspamremovedimspamto [email hidden]> wrote
this:-

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Recently I have noted a worrying tendency of "girl racers" , young
aggressive, female drivers.

It is an apt description of a college friend twenty years ago. A
lovely lady in most ways, but rather too aggressive behind a
steering wheel. I would get into a lot of trouble for suggesting
that she is no longer young, so will just add that she remains much
the same in recent years, so perhaps will change when she gets
old:-)

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On Tue, 25 May 2004 23:43:02 +0100 someone who may be marc
<marccdimspamremovedimspamto [email hidden]> wrote
this:-

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Recently I have noted a worrying tendency of "girl racers" , young
aggressive, female drivers.

Quoted message said:

It is an apt description of a college friend twenty years ago. A
lovely lady in most ways, but rather too aggressive behind a
steering wheel.

A friend of my mum's was once told "you drive like a man". She took it
as a compliment, and it was indeed true - her favoured mode of driving
was foot-to-the-floor take-offs followed by flat out speed.

Quoted message said:

I would get into a lot of trouble for suggesting
that she is no longer young, so will just add that she remains much
the same in recent years, so perhaps will change when she gets
old:-)

LOL!

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