Driving to work on the M1 this morning and the sky was amazing. The woman in a Mercedes in lane 3 obviously though so too as she was driving along in rush hour traffic taking photos of it. She had her phone upright, in portrait. How stupid do you have to be to not know you’d get a better photo with it in landscape orientation?

Maybe she needed a new wallpaper on her phone, the stupid bitch.

Should’ve taken a photo of her and sent it to the police

Reminds me of a woman doing a facetime call on the M80 in the evening rush hour

A person is smart.
People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals.

…the on screen wisdom of Tommy Lee Jones.

About average really

Of course none of us are stupid enough to be unaware of Director of Public Prosecutions v Barreto (2019).

Though obvs that doesn’t mean it’s a smart idea, or totally legal, to snap away at the sunrise while “making progress”

some people just need a high five…in the face…with a chair

How sexist are STWers ?

Never forget that half the people you meet are less than average intelligence

How stupid are people?

… but but they are “multitasking” with mobile phone while driving …

…the on screen wisdom of Tommy Lee Jones.

Did he say that when looking at big paper map, placed/slammed down on the hood of a truck, while jabbing his index finger at it.

The woman in a Mercedes in lane 3 obviously though so too as she was driving along in rush hour traffic taking photos of it

You sure she wasn’t using the front facing camera to check makeup ?

A person is smart.
People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals.

…the on screen wisdom of Tommy Lee Jones.

Reminds me of one of those Doom.com demotivational posters:

Meetings; none of us is as dumb as all of us

I got it Mr P.

some people just need a high five…in the face…with a chair

That’s a “high four.”

I got it Mr P.

The sunrise? Post it up

Taking photos of a landscape in portrait is remarkably stupid, yes.

Instagram is best used in portrait, tis you dat is stoopid.

I tried to hire a landscape gardener once. He said he couldn’t help me cos my garden was …oh, you got it already.

I tried to hire an uphill gardener once.

Is lane 3 the fast lane or the slow lane?

It’s the German rep wagon lane.

Of course none of us are stupid enough to be unaware of Director of Public Prosecutions v Barreto (2019).

“There is also a related offence (although it carries fewer penalty points) of not being in control of a motor vehicle.”

Shit! I’m currently not in control of a motor vehicle.
Can anyone provide a watertight alibi for me?

Can anyone provide a watertight alibi for me?

“I was aboard a submarine at the time of the offence, yeronner!”

How stupid are people?

Think of a level of stupidity, then worse than that!

How stupid are people?

I work with someone who was amazed when I pointed out to them that half the population are below average when it comes to intelligence.

Some people are happy to assume that the distribution of intelligence is symmetrical (or loaded towards the lower end) and that half of people will have below average intelligence 😉

(Or answer the question, do you have an above or below average number of legs (Edit – for a human)? And are how about the people you know. I bet most of them also have above the average number).

Stupid people are everywhere.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidity/

Some people are happy to assume that the distribution of intelligence is symmetrical (or loaded towards the lower end) and that half of people will have below average intelligence

What sort of average for you have in mind?

Taking photos of a landscape in portrait is remarkably stupid, yes.

Of course it is. (Rolls eyes)

See, you’ve missed half of that tree, you nugget!

“Never forget that half the people you meet are less than average intelligence”

“I work with someone who was amazed when I pointed out to them that half the population are below average when it comes to intelligence.”

Gotta love folk demonstrating a misunderstanding regarding statistics at the same time entering into a intelligence dick waving thread!

Never forget that half the people you meet are less than average Median MEDIAN intelligence

Taking photos of a landscape in portrait is remarkably stupid, yes.

Of course it is. (Rolls eyes)

Would’ve looked better in landscape to be fair. More landscape(y) innit

TBF you can post to insta and Facebook more easily in portrait. No point starting a task and not finishing it.

@thepurist

@rob Hilton

Baretto just means that a prosecution under s41d(b) must show an interactive communication function (which may or may not have been the case here).

The high court were pretty clear that they see filming whilst driving as likely to be at least careless driving and possibly dangerous driving. That’s 3-9 pts or an automatic ban respectively. In any case, where penalty points can apply (including the “lesser” 41d(a) offence or C&U provisions that might be broken by displaying moving images in sight of the driver) the sentencing judge has the option of imposing discretionary disqualification.

Thanks for clearing that up. I can now go about my day without the fear of being sent to prison by a military court for a crime I didn’t commit.

Rob Hilton earlier today

Just go and wait in the queue for self-service passport gates then you will see how thick most people are.