Random Irritations

Orikoru said:
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, my instructor reckoned we could get it in by end of this month but I keep checking the website to move it up and there are never any times available.

Other local ones are the same story, plus all my lessons have been focused on getting to know areas that our test centre use for the tests.
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Whilst this prepares you to pass a test, it hardly prepares you for driving though.
I guess it's the modern way with qualifications and teaching anything.
 
2-3 months ago someone decided to knock dents in the side of our factory. They were bad enough to need repairing, one was along a join and a temptation for someone to bend and break in. We got them fixed, finally done 3 days ago, delays on getting replacement panels. We claimed on the insurance but there was still a healthy excess. Today we have come in to work and found 2 more dents, same place :mad:. This morning has been spent going through cctv footage. Not a thing. Presumably done at night when everything is black. More expense to fix, a security light will be fitted. Business is tough enough right now without dealing with mindless vandalism.
 
murphthemog said:
Whilst this prepares you to pass a test, it hardly prepares you for driving though.
I guess it's the modern way with qualifications and teaching anything.
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I had my first driving lesson at 21, I'm now 34, if I'm not prepared by now I never will be. :p I just need to get the test passed!
 
While I was working in the UK I didn't have to take the driving test, once we moved back here after retirement I had to get off my butt and take it. You get a year to do it, although it's pretty silly since if I was a terrible driver I could go around knocking people off the road for year....sigh.....it's not only golf that isn't fair. That was about 4 years ago now, I think I only had to wait about a month back then. I've never understood why you have to wait 3 months (or some other long period) to get a test, is it crazy to just hire more testers? Or....is it an effort to keep more people off the roads by making it harder and harder for people to even bother with trying?
 
banjofred said:
While I was working in the UK I didn't have to take the driving test, once we moved back here after retirement I had to get off my butt and take it. You get a year to do it, although it's pretty silly since if I was a terrible driver I could go around knocking people off the road for year....sigh.....it's not only golf that isn't fair. That was about 4 years ago now, I think I only had to wait about a month back then. I've never understood why you have to wait 3 months (or some other long period) to get a test, is it crazy to just hire more testers? Or....is it an effort to keep more people off the roads by making it harder and harder for people to even bother with trying?
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There's been a shortage of examiners for years.
They have to pay for their own training, which includes a 6 week course at Cardington in Bedfordshire ( ok if you live close enough) and then a series of tests
The pass rates are pretty poor.
If you do pass you then have to hope you get allocated a test centre close by. I know examiners who commute 70 miles each way.
You can also be moved to another test centre at a days notice.
The starting pay isn't brilliant for the amount you have to invest and taking into account that you get into a car up to 7 times a day with someone you dont know and have no idea how good or bad they are.. and you have to let them make mistakes...and the perks are virtually non existent.
Can't think why they can't keep numbers up....
 
Imurg said:
There's been a shortage of examiners for years.
They have to pay for their own training, which includes a 6 week course at Cardington in Bedfordshire ( ok if you live close enough) and then a series of tests
The pass rates are pretty poor.
If you do pass you then have to hope you get allocated a test centre close by. I know examiners who commute 70 miles each way.
You can also be moved to another test centre at a days notice.
The starting pay isn't brilliant for the amount you have to invest and taking into account that you get into a car up to 7 times a day with someone you dont know and have no idea how good or bad they are.. and you have to let them make mistakes...and the perks are virtually non existent.
Can't think why they can't keep numbers up....
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Got it. I knew I didn't know details of their jobs. But like so many things that there are shortages of, pay them more? It would seem to me that they could have another training site, pay the instructors more so it's worth doing, and then charge a bit more for taking the test. Paying a little more for the test doesn't seem to be the problem, you just can't get a test for months. Granted.....it makes people take it more seriously knowing that they better take it seriously or they are going to have to wait months for another test. Unlike in the US where you don't have to wait at all....but all they do is drive you around the block and make sure you don't kill anybody......but a week or so later you can do it again.

When I took my test I think I got the instructor in a good mood. I really didn't care all that much if I didn't pass the test, at the time it was another month+ to take it again, but that didn't bother me. The whole test was in an area of Knaresborough I've never been in....she was taking me tight back city streets and I'm mumbling away "I have no idea where I am" and her response was "that's fine....I do". I consider myself a decent driver (1 fault...corrected a parallel park) so I think she wasn't worried about dying so was in a better mood.
 
pauljames87 said:
People are just disgusting

My wife was telling me when she went to pick up our daughter yesterday two people pulled up with their kid to park (luckily not going to the school) and the machines haven't worked for months and he goes to his wife "machines broke free parking" this old guy walked past with his dog and said oh round here you have to pay on an app or they will fine you (it's hour free anyways)

His response

"Who the f do you think you are you f ing c#"

Followed him down the street shouting at him

All for just being helpful
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You can't buy class, can you.
 
BBC Sport's poll for the greatest footballer of all time.
10 candidates, all great players ......................... BUT NO GEORGE BEST!
I don't know many who wouldn't have him in their top three, let alone top ten!
 
Slime said:
BBC Sport's poll for the greatest footballer of all time.
10 candidates, all great players ......................... BUT NO GEORGE BEST!
I don't know many who wouldn't have him in their top three, let alone top ten!
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Pele, Beckenbauer, Cruyff, di Stefano, Maradona, Messi, Puskas, Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Zidane

Yeah id happily not have Best on that list let alone in the top 3

there you know another
 
HomerJSimpson said:
Would Best make a best UK side either? A footballing genius but like Gascoigne, perhaps a flawed one who never made the most of their talent.
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Of course he'd make a best UK side, and yes, a flawed genius, but he'd still be in the side.
What he used to do with a football like a medicine ball, in six inches of mud with no protection from referees was beyond belief.
 
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