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MG ZR ZS ZT Technical - Welcome to Eastbourne FLASH FLASH

Only just decided to get the big bad car going again yesterday. So went and bought a new battery fitted it stuck a new tax disc in the window and YAHOOOOOOO!

Rock and roll! ZT260 back on the road again

So we go off to the coast to visit James's prospective new school Eastbourne College. On entering Eastbourne home of old biddies and dented 216s, and drug addicts on the dole, I am greeted by the tell tale FALSH FLASH of a Gatso planted at the end of a long cross country road that "all of a sudden" went down to 30 mph. I braked heavily during the experience but the camera still went off at something around 35-40mph.

So!
Welcome to our poxy town!
Do you really want to invest heavily in this crappy little place? well while you are thinking about it have a fine and some points on your licence!

Anyhow. I would like take this to apologise to anybody over 70 who was terrified by the red monster doing a doughnut in the middle of your nasty little run down high street! Yeah sorry about all smoke but your lungs are probably used to the Smog of Olde London Towne, anyway haven't you overstayed your welcome.

Hopefully I will get the Biddyville alternative of a rebuking instead of the points. At which time I will gladly tell them that sticking a camera right on the way into the town:-

A discourages anybody liking the place. I think it's a F*&^%$ S*&^hole now
B encourages bad behaviours. Who Me?
C probably actually costs the town money in lost inward investment. Why not put a bloody great big sign up at the town limits saying NO ENTRY WE'RE CLOSED

Neil

Shouldn't be speeding, but hey I can't talk
Jeff Patterson

<Anyhow. I would like take this to apologise to anybody over 70 who was terrified by the red monster doing a doughnut in the middle of your nasty little run down high street! Yeah sorry about all smoke but your lungs are probably used to the Smog of Olde London Towne, anyway haven't you overstayed your welcome.>

What a nasty little person you are! To me it sounds as though it is you that has overstayed his welcome.
Ted Newman

What a Nasty person I am?
I am not the one demanding money with menaces!
Speed cameras are simply a method of raising revenues and we all know it!

Getting 3 points on your license when I was young was a real issue. Nowadays the insurance companies and many drivers treat it as an occupational hazard. The criminalisation of joe public is another step towards a totalitarian state.
My point is that it doesnt work! in fact it is grossly counterproductive. It doesn't take much intelligence to realise that if you treat a populous AS criminals THEY BECOME CRIMINALS.

I am not alone with the sentiment Ted, so get off your high horse and join the human race. I come to a town in a 100% legal car and fall foul of a carefully and cunningly placed "revenue" trap. This makes me a criminal judged and sentenced by a robot.

A policeman wouldnt have stopped me, it just wouldnt have happened that way.

Does Eastbourne get terrorised by the mods and rockers anymore? No?...shame!
Neil

Neil

I was NOT referring to your being flashed or getting points - I have done that and been there myself (in my case by Tunbridge Wells) so know what it is like and how you felt.

But I am referring to your extremely nasty remarks about people over 70 living in Eastbourne - and if I am on a high horse then I am rightly on that high horse because those remarks are not just ageist but akin to the sort of sentiment that the NAZI party of thirties Germany practised.

Just because you feel aggrieved (due to your own actions) do not try and put the blame on others and certainly not in a fashion that is so nauseating - REMEMBER there are plenty of MG drivers that are 'overstaying their welcome' and are going to have to be 'put down' if you get your way.
Ted Newman

It's amazing that what you say can get turned around so dramatically.

David Cameron

There is nothing turned around in the following cut and paste from the original post:-

<Anyhow. I would like take this to apologise to anybody over 70 who was terrified by the red monster doing a doughnut in the middle of your nasty little run down high street! Yeah sorry about all smoke but your lungs are probably used to the Smog of Olde London Towne, anyway haven't you overstayed your welcome.>

It is a disgusting ageist remark - had it been racist Neil would have left himself open to prosecution but because it was only ageist he obviously felt he could get away with it.
Ted Newman

Get a life

Mega

Thank you Mega I have one BUT Neil feels that I, along with many other senior citizens, should not.
Ted Newman

Whatever Ted
think what you like.

Neil

Neil

I am sorry BUT it is not what I think, it is what you state, IN WRITING - and there is nothing ambiguous about what you posted.
Ted Newman


The pervading issues of state control and stealth taxes are obviously not as important as political correctness.

PC is the red herring by which thought control is introduced.

Neil

Neil

Why don't you just accept that you made a blunder (in fact two blunders) and not every one thinks that all persons over seventy are past their 'sell by date'.
Ted Newman

ted you are an old and obnoxious tw@t
bored

Maybe Bored BUT that is better than playing God and thinking you have the right to decide when people should die!

BTW Have you all noticed that the 'clever' people are all using pseudonyms and/or are Non-members - wonder if there is a connection?
Ted Newman

NO TICKET FROM EASTBOURNE!

I Love Eastbourne! I love Eastbourne!

SO much better than Bournemouth!

..... and just for you Ted ...

Bournemouth, aka God's waiting room!!!

:ŹD



Neil

Arn't you the lucky one then
Jeff Patterson

Neil this stealth tax is a good one, it is the easiest tax in the world to avoid. If you want to know how ask a respectable citizen or read the highway code.
Also "it suddenly changed to 30MPH". How do things work in your own town? Do you have countdown markers 59, 58, 57, 56, 55 and so on. I too would moan if I got a ticket but the only person to blame is yourself! It is definately not the fault of government or the people of Eastbourne!
Bob (robert) I used to own a Morris Oxford

Hear Hear Bob, but he didn't get a ticket
Jeff Patterson

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