Horses killed on M4

ycbm said:
Yes, stay! I've already posted several times that I find Old Fogie amusing. He's great fun, but on this thread he's been stupid and insulting to good drivers out there who know how to use an emergency stop and why, and don't blame a lorry driver for killing a horse on a motorway. It's a great shame that we don't have as many posts these days so that those of us who still post a lot look like we are dominating. But since the forum needs to sell advertising and can't if it doesn't get visits, you really should be thanking us through your gritted teeth :D And there's not much point posting if you don't have an opinion, is there :D
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I do thank you YCBM I think we are chalk and cheese as people in many ways but I weirdly I appreciate the debates you bring to HHO even if it sometimes drives me nuts :D I don’t always have the energy or mental strength to get involved directly though it depends how delicate I’m feeling so OF can do it instead :D
 
ycbm said:
Exactly FB.
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Had to take a H cat test last year for tracked vehicles still had to do an emergency stop LOL. So many open mouths in the centre of town with a 600hp 28ton challenger racing around they still do 40k. It was the most worrying experience in my life!
 
popsdosh said:
Had to take a H cat test last year for tracked vehicles still had to do an emergency stop LOL. So many open mouths in the centre of town with a 600hp 28ton challenger racing around they still do 40k. It was the most worrying experience in my life!
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On my list of things to do is get back my category H entitlement. I had it on my old UK licence, but lost it in the switch to a French licence. :mad:
 
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popsdosh said:
You wont get it back without taking the test! Assuming of course that you hadnt.
This may raise a smile for those who think they can take liberties with big vehicles https://www.facebook.com/AwesomeMachines121/videos/175892716329590/
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Yes, I've found several places that do the training and test in the UK.

I've not found anywhere in France to do it, yes, though I've not searched very hard.

France has some pretty strict and cumbersome laws about military equipment, which might explain why private ownership of tracked AFV's is less common that in the UK. I might have to take the training and test in a bulldozer or digger.
 
Keith_Beef said:
Yes, I've found several places that do the training and test in the UK.

I've not found anywhere in France to do it, yes, though I've not searched very hard.

France has some pretty strict and cumbersome laws about military equipment, which might explain why private ownership of tracked AFV's is less common that in the UK. I might have to take the training and test in a bulldozer or digger.
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Sorry my Challenger is an agricultural tracked tractor! France has all sorts of strange vehicle rules ! Find a friendly farmer with one and just apply for a test its just Highway code on top of the driving. I was unlucky as I was taken into town most are carried out near the vehicle base . I also had the misfortune of having a trainee examiner doing her first test being overseen by a senior examiner .
 
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popsdosh said:
Sorry my Challenger is an agricultural tracked tractor! France has all sorts of strange vehicle rules ! Find a friendly farmer with one and just apply for a test its just Highway code on top of the driving. I was unlucky as I was taken into town most are carried out near the vehicle base . I also had the misfortune of having a trainee examiner doing her first test being overseen by a senior examiner .
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I suppose that if you can hitch a ploughshare to the back, it's agricultural.

France's restrictions are such that you can't legally buy a gas mask over here. There might be exceptions for obsolete ones or for antiques. But modern ones are in the list of "matériel de guerre" and prohibited from private ownership. :rolleyes:
 
Sussexbythesea said:
Please stay OldFogie I don’t know whether you’re a “plant” or otherwise but your posts amuse me.
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Excuse me? I amuse you huh? Caution don't watch if you're easily offended! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWINtUCshxY

.... this forum is dominated by a handful of opinionated people ...
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I genuinely admire opinionated people - I am one myself but also very openminded - I can quite easily slip from arguing for something to being against without declaring what I truly believe. Most people do not reveal their true feelings to others in agreement but will quickly challenge something they find objectionable.
 
OldFogie said:
Excuse me? I amuse you huh? Caution don't watch if you're easily offended! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWINtUCshxY
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Are you intimating that you have mafia connections? :D should I be scared?

OldFogie said:
I genuinely admire opinionated people - I am one myself but also very openminded - I can quite easily slip from arguing for something to being against without declaring what I truly believe. Most people do not reveal their true feelings to others in agreement but will quickly challenge something they find objectionable.
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Me too except after many years on the forum it’s often the same people and sometimes I think it puts people off posting and it’s often noted the forum is now slow well maybe that’s one of the reasons - clearly this doesn’t apply to you :p
 
Sussexbythesea said:
…….. . Plus this forum is dominated by a handful of opinionated people and ……..
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The worry that this opinionated bod has, is and as you seem to imply, it's so easy to imagine readers with a rather glazed look when reading my diatribes.

I'll admit to becoming rather bored with the sound of my own typed thoughts and imagine that others must feel the same being equally bored with my assertions. I don't post anywhere near as often as I used to, and that's simply because I imagine that others will be as bored with me, as I am - and I am!!! :D

Alec.
 
Sussexbythesea said:
Are you intimating that you have mafia connections? :D should I be scared?



Me too except after many years on the forum it’s often the same people and sometimes I think it puts people off posting and it’s often noted the forum is now slow well maybe that’s one of the reasons - clearly this doesn’t apply to you :p
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I would say this, wouldn't I :) ? But I'm not sure that's true. This forum was wild and nasty back ten years ago when I first joined to promote Spinal Research, yet it had thousands of members. The most we get online now is a few thousand viewers and a couple of hundred members. Yet in 2013 the record was set at over 23,000 viewing at the same time. Just before my reincarnation as this login in 2015, I was torn to absolute shreds on a libellous, lying thread that I had to force the forum administrators to delete by appealing to a Director level person. At one point I was barred from posting (for having two logins, which is not even against the forum rules!) while members were being allowed to post more lies about me that I had no way of correcting. At the time that debacle started there were 4,800 active members and in the following month it reduced to 2,200 members, the rest presumably appalled by what they saw happen, and has never recovered its previous levels.

But it has increased in numbers since that time, while posting by prolific posters like me has probably reduced rather than increased because less is going on to comment on and quite a few have left altogether.
 
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Rowreach said:
There's something wrong with your spellchecker if it let you put "reccommend" :D
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Ah, that's one of my favourite "deliberate" mistakes - my spellchecker switches on and off to suit itself! I have several machines plugged in down here in my office and they spend more time talking to Bill Gates & Co than listening to me!!! I can see the drive light flashing away on one now!
 
Sussexbythesea said:
Are you intimating that you have mafia connections?
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No not the Goodfellas kind but I did build a house for one of the local Bosses - funnily enough ( and if you doubt me ask any builder ) up to last year, his was the only fully paid up account in my life a sort of honest crook. I grew up on an estate where it was quite natural to progress from petty crime up through the ranks of young hoods to be not far short of Richie & Co - I also grew quick so there is the added pressure of "let me fix him for you Boss." While still in those circles I witnessed a couple of occassions when some member of the group would be picked on just like the film ...... but NOT so funny!

....the forum is now slow well maybe that’s one of the reasons - clearly this doesn’t apply to you.
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For the moment I'm giving my Conspiracy friends a miss - you can only repeat yourself so many times!
 
ycbm said:
......... and has never recovered its previous levels.
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Isn't that pretty common for on-line stuff? Even real world restaurants have to keep changing their menu to keep the till ringing and webfolk seem far more fickle - I used to contribute to a general current affairs site that had millions of hits but has since disappeared. 911 spawned literally hundreds of weird but interesting sites, again millions of hits and thousands of member posters - most have gone. Once that ad ticker reaches the point where the administrators have to dip in their pockets - plug pulled.
 
OldFogie said:
Isn't that pretty common for on-line stuff? Even real world restaurants have to keep changing their menu to keep the till ringing and webfolk seem far more fickle - I used to contribute to a general current affairs site that had millions of hits but has since disappeared.
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Exactly the point I was making OF. That prolific posters, even opinionated ones like you and I, are unlikely to be responsible for the decline in posting on the forum.
 
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