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Willo South coast - west of Brighton. 16 Feb 18 12.37pm
Originally posted by palace_in_frogland Willo, you are confused, old boy. Criterion is the singular form. Criteria is the plural. Here endeth the lesson. Of course ! The Gout anti-inflammatories can have adverse effects ! I stand corrected.
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Willo

South coast - west of Brighton. 16 Feb 18 12.37pm

Originally posted by palace_in_frogland

Willo, you are confused, old boy.

Criterion is the singular form.
Criteria is the plural.

Here endeth the lesson.

Of course !
The Gout anti-inflammatories can have adverse effects !
I stand corrected.

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martin2412 Living The Dream 16 Feb 18 1.28pm
Originally posted by Pussay Patrol Yeah but you don't learn to drive in the first seven days, it is assumed people become good drivers with years of experience, the test is just to show you are safe and not a complete numpty I did say 'in principle'
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Living The Dream 16 Feb 18 1.28pm

Originally posted by Pussay Patrol

Yeah but you don't learn to drive in the first seven days, it is assumed people become good drivers with years of experience, the test is just to show you are safe and not a complete numpty

I did say 'in principle'

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Forest Hillbilly in a hidey-hole 16 Feb 18 4.13pm
30 years ago my Welsh girlfriend introduced to me her one-armed grand dad. (his right arm was missing at the shoulder) He passed his driving test with one arm, as he was still able to operate the gears, indicators and lights with his left arm. Something sits very uneasy with me about this, as changing gears he would had to have no control (no hand on the steering wheel) over the car. I think it was one of those rural tests, where if you really needed a car to get around, the pass grade was set really low. And how did he turn the key in the ignition, with only his left arm ? Anyone who gets a motorbike in their middle-age, without taking a refresher course, is highly likely to have a prang. And it's the biker who comes off worst. As for Missus Hillbilly, she is going to amend her course, so that she gathers a lot more experience and confidence over a longer length of time. Aside from the obvious humour, someone could have been badly injured, or a pedestrian very likely killed. I disengage, I turn the page.
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30 years ago my Welsh girlfriend introduced to me her one-armed grand dad. (his right arm was missing at the shoulder)
He passed his driving test with one arm, as he was still able to operate the gears, indicators and lights with his left arm. Something sits very uneasy with me about this, as changing gears he would had to have no control (no hand on the steering wheel) over the car.
I think it was one of those rural tests, where if you really needed a car to get around, the pass grade was set really low.
And how did he turn the key in the ignition, with only his left arm ?

Anyone who gets a motorbike in their middle-age, without taking a refresher course, is highly likely to have a prang. And it's the biker who comes off worst.

As for Missus Hillbilly, she is going to amend her course, so that she gathers a lot more experience and confidence over a longer length of time.

Aside from the obvious humour, someone could have been badly injured, or a pedestrian very likely killed.

I disengage, I turn the page.

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Rudi Hedman Caterham 16 Feb 18 5.07pm
Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly 30 years ago my Welsh girlfriend introduced to me her one-armed grand dad. (his right arm was missing at the shoulder) He passed his driving test with one arm, as he was still able to operate the gears, indicators and lights with his left arm. Something sits very uneasy with me about this, as changing gears he would had to have no control (no hand on the steering wheel) over the car. I think it was one of those rural tests, where if you really needed a car to get around, the pass grade was set really low. And how did he turn the key in the ignition, with only his left arm ? Anyone who gets a motorbike in their middle-age, without taking a refresher course, is highly likely to have a prang. And it's the biker who comes off worst. As for Missus Hillbilly, she is going to amend her course, so that she gathers a lot more experience and confidence over a longer length of time. Aside from the obvious humour, someone could have been badly injured, or a pedestrian very likely killed. Automatic licence? If you can drive go kart? COYP
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Rudi Hedman

Caterham 16 Feb 18 5.07pm

Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

30 years ago my Welsh girlfriend introduced to me her one-armed grand dad. (his right arm was missing at the shoulder)
He passed his driving test with one arm, as he was still able to operate the gears, indicators and lights with his left arm. Something sits very uneasy with me about this, as changing gears he would had to have no control (no hand on the steering wheel) over the car.
I think it was one of those rural tests, where if you really needed a car to get around, the pass grade was set really low.
And how did he turn the key in the ignition, with only his left arm ?

Anyone who gets a motorbike in their middle-age, without taking a refresher course, is highly likely to have a prang. And it's the biker who comes off worst.

As for Missus Hillbilly, she is going to amend her course, so that she gathers a lot more experience and confidence over a longer length of time.

Aside from the obvious humour, someone could have been badly injured, or a pedestrian very likely killed.

Automatic licence?

If you can drive go kart?

COYP

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Mapletree Croydon 17 Feb 18 12.54am
Originally posted by matthau Maybe, I dunno, my old dad back in the day said in the sixties he had to hold the car on the biting point on a hill whilst not driving over two match boxes placed under the front and rear car tyres for five mins. Only then did he pass I didn’t have anything like that in the 70s.
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Mapletree

Croydon 17 Feb 18 12.54am

Originally posted by matthau

Maybe, I dunno, my old dad back in the day said in the sixties he had to hold the car on the biting point on a hill whilst not driving over two match boxes placed under the front and rear car tyres for five mins. Only then did he pass

I didn’t have anything like that in the 70s.

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chateauferret 17 Feb 18 1.22am
Incidentally my first driving instructor had to stop instructing me because he was picked up doing 110 on the M77 on a motorbike and banned from driving for 18 months. The irony is that he was always telling me off for "not making progress", i.e. driving too slowly. ============ The Ferret ============
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chateauferret

17 Feb 18 1.22am

Incidentally my first driving instructor had to stop instructing me because he was picked up doing 110 on the M77 on a motorbike and banned from driving for 18 months. The irony is that he was always telling me off for "not making progress", i.e. driving too slowly.

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ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 17 Feb 18 11.58am
My instructor used to get out of the car to confront and fight anyone with a French number plate or country badge. His missus had left him for a French guy. Sometimes we would drink instead of having lessons. He was going through a bad time. At least I got used to driving on my own pretty quickly. Red and Blue Army!
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Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 17 Feb 18 11.58am

My instructor used to get out of the car to confront and fight anyone with a French number plate or country badge. His missus had left him for a French guy. Sometimes we would drink instead of having lessons. He was going through a bad time.
At least I got used to driving on my own pretty quickly.

Red and Blue Army!

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eagle52 Shirley,Croydon 18 Feb 18 6.14pm
I passed my test in 1964, first time, and it was necessary to demonstrate the understanding of the clutch biting point by not rolling backwards on a hill start. However I'd have thought the clutch would burn out if held for any length of time without moving off. Modern cars now come with "hill start assist" and motorbikes can have "autoblippers". Obviously for drivers with no clutch control and bikers unable to downshift smoothly.
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Shirley,Croydon 18 Feb 18 6.14pm

I passed my test in 1964, first time, and it was necessary to demonstrate the understanding of the clutch biting point by not rolling backwards on a hill start. However I'd have thought the clutch would burn out if held for any length of time without moving off. Modern cars now come with "hill start assist" and motorbikes can have "autoblippers". Obviously for drivers with no clutch control and bikers unable to downshift smoothly.

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