Comments on: The Provisional Licence Joke

By: R G

R G — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:16:32 +0000

Great Post. I was also told that a couple of decades ago the government handed out driving licenses to a huge number of people as they could not cope with the back log of driving tests. Is this true or urban myth ??

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ShiteDrivers.com » ShiteDrivers.com shortlisted for two Irish Blog Awards — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:36:20 +0000

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By: ShiteDrivers.com

ShiteDrivers.com — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:24:58 +0000

@kav: You have no idea how much spam this site gets. The CAPTCHA is a necessary evil, I'm afraid.

@Jim Travers: Congrats on the award nomination!

By: kav

kav — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:34:46 +0000

Excellent post, well worthy of the best post nomination.

Don’t know if you care about comments or not, but if you do, I suggest getting rid of all the captcha shite – makes it like breaking into Fort Knox and probably puts a lot of people off.

By: Rubycored

Rubycored — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:20:12 +0000

It would be very interesting to know whether ANY of the politicians or high-profile executives who are behind all these "scandal" has actually experienced the driving on the roads.

Since many [if not all] of them either have their own private driver or better still – have the Gardaí to clear the damn roads for them so they can speed through Pearse Street at 85km/hr and yet we the tax payers are paying for the service that they the politicians enjoy .

The whole thing ; as you pointed out ; is just gonna make the situation worse and worser-er. We have had a couple of point-and-laughs at the provincial licence holders from full licence holders since whenever something happens it tend to be blamed either at us or the gardai; when in truth it's pretty much the taxi and themselves the full licence holders that's making the lives of us miserable.

How many politicians are actually provincial licence holders?

I would personally love to hear how they would react if there was a way for them to actually experience how badly our irish roads have been simply because of the ill-though-never-gonna-work laws they make day in and day out then they actually never experienced any of the TRUTH of the roads. Ever.

By: Ivor Kealy

Ivor Kealy — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:45:58 +0000

I thought I was only one that felt like this about the Irish hypocritical society,,,money grabbing in the extreme,
excellent article well said!!.

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The LouderVoice Blog » Irish Blog Awards, Best Post 2008 Shortlist — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:42:51 +0000

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By: Niall O'K

Niall O'K — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:22:02 +0000

The accompaniment requirement rules are due to change though, with the introduction of the new laws for learner drivers (discussed previously on shitedrivers.com here, here and here)... it's just a question of WHEN are these new laws due to be actually enacted?...