Author Archives: John Smith

From Germany, but not ranting about “only in Ireland”, since I’ve been living here since ’94.
Mostly to be found covering all of Munster and racking up the miles.
Love being on the road, couldn’t survive in an office.

Just one change to the Driving Test

June 7, 2008 – 1:32 pm

I would like one important change to the whole driving test: If you sat your test 27 times and failed miserably every time you should be told “it’s not for you, if you go out there in a car alone, you will do untold damage and possibly kill yourself and most likely others”. If you [...]

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The 60 k Moron Brigade

April 6, 2008 – 7:18 pm

There can only be 2 reasons for driving at 60 km/h on a perfectly straight and clear road whilst keeping as far right as anyhow possible without crashing into oncoming traffic. A: You are either so inbred, senile and doped up that you simply don’t notice other people around you, probably don’t know where you [...]

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More Pea Brained Lunatics

February 7, 2008 – 7:23 pm

Today on The Last Word (I have GOT to stop listening to that program) some pea brained idiot (whose name I don’t deem important enough to remember) suggested that foreigners should be restricted to 80 km/h. Yeah. My case is that, not only is this rubbish, but I should be allowed to drive faster than [...]

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Brian Farrell or a broken record?

February 5, 2008 – 11:58 pm

There was a piece on road safety on Today FM’s Last Word with Matt Cooper today. Brian Farrell had a breakdown of the accident figures that he chose to interpret in a slanted, short sighted and biased way. He simply recorded the phrase “it’s speed and alcohol” onto a dictaphone and put it on a [...]

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Foreign Drivers

December 5, 2007 – 1:04 am

Foreign Drivers I’m a foreign national, have been in Ireland for a few years and it’s bad for me that a few idiots are focusing attention on foreigners and by extension, me. I abide by the law and I see plenty of shite going on on the roads. The statistics are undeniable, there is a [...]

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