If you’re going to pretend it was you, you should get down on your knees
Hold on, if you're taking the points shouldn't she be the one on her knees?
Linchpin. Excellent.
Then tell her look on Here for the fine.
What that has taught me is that if I'm going to speed on the motorway I may as well do 90. That'll make some of my longer trips a bit quicker.
@zokes - you're not wrong about aussie police being in suprising places. I once got speed gunned halfway across the Nullarboor by a cop hiding behind the only bush for hundreds of km and a long way from the nearest roadhouse. Only reason I wasn't speeding was I'd slowed down to check out a sea eagle snacking on roadkill and hadn't got my campervan up to top speed yet! What a ****er...I mean who isn't going to speed across 3000km of desert!
Returning to the original post and the immediate responses, OMG how scared are you of your girlfriend/ wives/ partners? It was her misdemeanour, not yours, just say ''is this you?', and then support her as necessary. With the exception of CFH and his (hopefully!) tongue in cheek post, many of the other comments just go to reinforce a lot of, frankly, 1970's prejudices along the lines of Rigsby/ Fawlty/ Stan Ogden. And BTW, you don't need permission to ride your bike, just do so at an appropriate time for those that with whom YOU have chosen to spend your life.
I mean who isn’t going to speed across 3000km of desert
I didn't. After borking our aged Falcon in the first few hundred km I strapped the drive shaft back in place with an armful of bailer twine and carried on. 3000km and 21lt of oil later we made it to Perth. Bertha - I miss her - you genuinely could not break her. We did plug our way across it at a stately 40mph however.
I did however manage to spend much of a day perfecting the art of lashing the steering wheel to the door handle and seeing how far you could go before bricking it. Just shy of 5 miles once.
Returning to the original post and the immediate responses, OMG how scared are you of your girlfriend/ wives/ partners? It was her misdemeanour, not yours, just say ”is this you?’, and then support her as necessary. With the exception of CFH and his (hopefully!) tongue in cheek post, many of the other comments just go to reinforce a lot of, frankly, 1970’s prejudices along the lines of Rigsby/ Fawlty/ Stan Ogden. And BTW, you don’t need permission to ride your bike, just do so at an appropriate time for those that with whom YOU have chosen to spend your life.
What were you arguing about when god was dishing out the humour detectors? Was it the face? I bet it was the face.
Returning to the original post and the immediate responses, OMG how scared are you of your girlfriend/ wives/ partners? It was her misdemeanour, not yours, just say ”is this you?’, and then support her as necessary. With the exception of CFH and his (hopefully!) tongue in cheek post, many of the other comments just go to reinforce a lot of, frankly, 1970’s prejudices along the lines of Rigsby/ Fawlty/ Stan Ogden.
Not particularly, TBH. It's a meme, I showed her the ticket she eff'ed and blinded a bit, I sympathised that between us we have one ticket in 60-odd years of driving and we agreed that where she had already committed to some theatre tickets I'd sort them out instead, no sense her going overdrawn over a speeding fine.
She went out to see her brother and our new niece today, I told her to drive carefully (poky out tongue) and she told me I was a very funny man and to **** off.
All's good here.
Convert - 'the face'? Please expound/ explain. With illustrations.
I'm going with 
or maybe
One portrays general confusion and bemusement of the world in its infinity permutations. The other is a play on general disapproval. Which is the closest match?
Convert; really? Genuinelyl not getting your allusions, so I'd be grateful for an explanation.
Neither am I FWIW, lets hope politely asking leads to an explanation
Bex : Some of us, if not all were taking the piss...........and as for the comment regarding “reinforcing 70’s prejudices” ?.........lighten up
It'd be a dull world if the story went "I got home and found a speeding ticket but it wasn't me it was my wife so I showed it to her and she was annoyed and then I agreed I'd help her pay the fine" Of course we turn it into humour / take the piss, sorry if you see it as reinforcing stereotypes from the 70's but that does come across as being professionally offended.
Fwiw uselesshippy made us laugh the most.
Still dont get the reference to face...anyone?
Have an affair with her best friend. That'll learn her.
What were you arguing about when god was dishing out the humour detectors? Was it the face? I bet it was the face.
I'm only half getting this as well. So, you are saying there's a lack of humour detectors but whose face are we talking about?
Maybe a massive A Team fan?
I assume he was too busy arguing about the face he had been given that the fact he had also not been given a sense of humor was something he missed. Boom-tish .
Convert; really? Genuinelyl not getting your allusions, so I’d be grateful for an explanation.
Really? Must I? You know you have done a rubbish job at a throw away repost when you have to explain it…..
It was perfectly clear that the OP was joking. It was written all over the subtext and all the contributors responded in kind. No one thought the OP was genuinely fearful; it was just a playful bunch of comments about the intricacies of being part of a relationship. Misogynistic, sexist or representative of 70’s stereotypes? Not that either – these comments could have been made by a woman in a relationship with a man, a man with a man or a woman with another woman. It’s just about relationships. Note that no one went down the ‘at least she wasn’t trying to park’ gag line or any other supposed gender traits.
Your comment was poor. You are either (I hate this term but it’s early and I’ve got things to do and cba to think of another one) of the professionally offended ilk electively choosing to not see the (attempted) humour in order to have a dig or score points; or you genuinely didn’t get the context for some reason. I’m not sure which but elected to be generous and chose the latter. It might not have been funny series of posts to you but it was blindingly obvious that is was not serious and was at least an attempt at humour.
My comment was a play on the pretty well known ‘He was still arguing about the XXX when they were handing out the XXX’ phraseology. I thought it common parlance, maybe not. Why face as the other ‘attribute’? To be honest chosen pretty much chosen at random, in haste. However, faces are expressive of attitude which married well with the first attribute (lack of ability to discern humour from sincerity). I envisioned yours like someone either as bemused with a lack of emotional intelligence or as someone who had swallowed a wasp being dour and supercilious. Hence the images when you asked for illustrations?
Anyway, glad the OP’s conversation with partner went well (actually not, thread could have been improved with a good rant) and you both are able to laugh about it now. Even though she is going to hell for being a speeding idiot (I’ll no doubt see her there).
it's getting a bit like twitter on here.
My comment was a play on the pretty well known ‘He was still arguing about the XXX when they were handing out the XXX’ phraseology. I thought it pretty common parlance, maybe not.
Never heard it myself and its the post above yours that means i understand it not this
How long would your post have been if you had time ? 😉
Is her name Louise?
Re the Oz posts, I got zapped by a cop with a speed gun riding my motorcycle across the Hay Plain. He was hiding behind the car and jumped up as I got there. I hadn't seen any other vehicles for some hours and it was unusual to see a car stopped off the road so I assumed it was someone in trouble and was slowing down to see if they needed help. I was doing around 5mph when he got me.
What that has taught me is that if I’m going to speed on the motorway I may as well do 90. That’ll make some of my longer trips a bit quicker.
Perhaps not such a daft idea. National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) 'suggest' that to take into account drivers attention, basically they recognise that a driver should be concentrating on the road and not the dash. They should 'allow' drivers 10% leeway with limits, also, because speedos aren't completely accurate they allow another 2 or 3mph for Speedometer errors.
So, if you're on the motorway and conditions aren't bad and your car looks in safe condition it's *likely* that if you're caught by plod or camera up to 82mph you won't be prosecuted, you might be stopped for a chat, but even that's unlikely.
Ironically, given the above, the law states that speedometers CANNOT over-read so motor manufacturers set them to over-read by about 10%, think of it as the motoring equivalent of a bakers dozen.
So, if you're driving at an indicated 90, you're *likely* to be really moving at 82mph and as the NPCC advises it's forces not to prosecute below 83mph you're *probably* safe.
Of course, you're still breaking the law so if you're driving anything other than Saintly (barring the speeding of course) or your car doesn't look in good condition you may still be fined if you pass a Police car, marked or otherwise (not that there's that many about these days) and you're cutting it very fine.
Personally I tend to drive at 80 if the motorway is clear and conditions good. 70 is a frustraiting PITA because it puts you at the same speed at the middle lane hogging mongs, and usually stuck in lane 1 trying to get into mong lane to pass a HGV and constantly changing speed which is bad for economy - 80mph is 50mpg on a 'clear run' for me.
Convert; apologies for the delay in replying but I have a job, a training programme and a life. Thank you for your lengthy explanation - you have just proven the adage that 'Women are from Venus, Men are from Mytholmroyd'. I'm not of the 'professionally offended ilk' but I genuinely don't understand your face allusion. I repeat, please explain.
This threads been ruined.
Started so well.
Was just checking in to see whether Convert has explained more yet....dissappointed....
He's saying you were too busy arguing about the shit face you were given so you missed being given a sense of humour
It seems most have missed the point made by jonv's wife that she already knew it was coming, but said nothing about it.
If I'd been in a similar situation I'd have probably mentioned it to my OH.
