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[sweetie pie]

GO Sweetie Pie! >applause< You forgot the kids. The Cypriots are so inlove with their children yet they put them deliberately in mortal danger by allowing them to have free run of the inside of the car whilst its moving. How incredibly stupid is that? Hows often have you seen that in UK Zoopigi? Again, its a cant be bothered thing, just like queue jumping. They wouldnt want to upset the little darlings by making them do anything that they didnt want to do. Heaven forbid, here might be a fuss, and that would require the parent to deal with it, to take time out of the race to get from A to B in the fastest most dangerous way possible. They should make their little darlings get into a seat (though that would mean shelling out to buy one in the first place), and explain gently (with duck tape wound tightly around the L/D gob), the benefits of getting into the seat when told to. They may even teach these small beings that they just have to conform to general rules sometimes. i.e. queueing. Not to mention it will save their lives when they are involved in a crash. They way these people drive, its only a matter of time before they are.

Thank you pammie. That poster just got me riled. I know there are idiots in the UK but generally people do drive in a safe fashion. Put half the drivers here in a major city in the UK and they would have killed themselves or someone else in hours.

If they want to pull out then they pull out whether anything is coming or not. They don't even look as its as if no one else exists only them. Everyone else has to stop or slow down for them. The kids over here who ride their motor bikes without helmets because it spoils their image are stupid in the extreme. Nothing spoils their image as much as their brains all over the road for someone else to scrape up.
Yet the police let it happen and the people let it happen. The police do not enforce the law hence people ignore it.

[zoopigi man]

GO Sweetie Pie! >applause< You forgot the kids. The Cypriots are so inlove with their children yet they put them deliberately in mortal danger by allowing them to have free run of the inside of the car whilst its moving. How incredibly stupid is that? Hows often have you seen that in UK Zoopigi?

I had to laugh to myself when I read the above bit. Why? Because this morning I was approaching some traffic lights, with a car infront of me, when the lights turned red. The car in front braked, hardish but not that hard. The (apparently) lone woman then seemed to be preoccupied doing something in the back of the car, and remained stationary when the lights changed back to green. As I passed her I could see that she'd stuck her baby on the back seat, unsecured, and it'd gone onto the floor when she braked (presumably after hitting the rear of the front seat first). So "how incredibly stupid is that"? This was in Newcastle, by the way, not Cyprus.

I'm not saying that driving standards in Cyprus are great - in fact they suck. What I stick by is the assertion that they are definitely getting worse in the UK. So before you start the usual whingeing and wining that us Brits are so admired for (not!) wherever we set up camp in foreign lands, try taking a close luck at the glorious motherland. And if you decide it really is that glorious, then do everyone a favour and *ugger off back there.

[sweetie pie]

GO Sweetie Pie! >applause< You forgot the kids. The Cypriots are so inlove with their children yet they put them deliberately in mortal danger by allowing them to have free run of the inside of the car whilst its moving. How incredibly stupid is that? Hows often have you seen that in UK Zoopigi?

I had to laugh to myself when I read the above bit. Why? Because this morning I was approaching some traffic lights, with a car infront of me, when the lights turned red. The car in front braked, hardish but not that hard. The (apparently) lone woman then seemed to be preoccupied doing something in the back of the car, and remained stationary when the lights changed back to green. As I passed her I could see that she'd stuck her baby on the back seat, unsecured, and it'd gone onto the floor when she braked (presumably after hitting the rear of the front seat first). So "how incredibly stupid is that"? This was in Newcastle, by the way, not Cyprus.

I'm not saying that driving standards in Cyprus are great - in fact they suck. What I stick by is the assertion that they are definitely getting worse in the UK. So before you start the usual whingeing and wining that us Brits are so admired for (not!) wherever we set up camp in foreign lands, try taking a close luck at the glorious motherland. And if you decide it really is that glorious, then do everyone a favour and *ugger off back there.

IF this incidence did happen the difference between the UK and Cyprus is that if this woman had been seen by the police she would have been in some very serious doo doo. It would not have been ignored thereby being implicitly condoned.

I am not whinging or whining I am stating a FACT that is born out by statistics IF you can bother to research them.

I have come to live in Cyprus and enjoy my time here and my life with my Cypriot friends, who, like me, see things as they are and are not, like you, overly protective of all aspects of Cyprus but do recognise when things need to improve.

There are many things wrong with the UK and that is why I am here. I am talking about one aspect of Cyprus (the driving) that will have to improve and the police will have to enforce the law as it is enforced in the UK if the accident statistics are to come down.

Having been a driver for 35 years in the UK until January this year you can tell me absolutely nothing about driving there considering that a major part of both my and my husbands work entailed driving up and down the country.

[BOF]

OOoooooh! Zoopigi i think the conversatin has just been terminated!!!!!

[ukman]

well said sweetie pie .mr pomp may be quiet now and talk about what he nows and not sumise .you leave your house here and you will not return without seeing one near car crash every time .we now because we have had the balls to leave uk and come to cyprus they drive like no other people you could write a book and spielberg wouldnt believe it but its great here

[sweetie pie]

well said sweetie pie .mr pomp may be quiet now and talk about what he nows and not sumise .you leave your house here and you will not return without seeing one near car crash every time .we now because we have had the balls to leave uk and come to cyprus they drive like no other people you could write a book and spielberg wouldnt believe it but its great here

Thank you Ukman. Living in Cyprus is great but I have to tell it as it is!!

[ukman]

it is great .but the driveing is so bad . what do you think of the post it would be ok if we had that in uk .no bills

[sweetie pie]

it is great .but the driveing is so bad . what do you think of the post it would be ok if we had that in uk .no bills

OOps sorry I forgot the original topic of the thread.

They always say that we Brits were born to queue. If we see three people standing in a line we go and join them!!
Yes I have noticed people queue jumping but as I am now generally not in any rush to go anywhere or do anything the odd person jumping the queue does not particularly bother me. Now if they knocked me out of the way then that is another matter

[ukman]

sorry i meant the postal service

[sweetie pie]

sorry i meant the postal service

Best laugh of the night.

What postal service???? I am still waiting for my mothers day cards that were sent two weeks before the date!!