Anyone driving to France, new rules from 1/7/15

Discokids · Jul 9, 2015

Useful info, I've been driving there every year for 8 years, to beziers. Great roads, mostly quiet, and still have my original bulb kit, bought for a vectra, never been opened, been in 3 other cars now. Do the alcohol testers go out of date? Because I've had mine for about 3 years. And as for the stop sign, where we go they're everywhere, to give people a chance to exit side streets. You need to be very switched on to them, and have to absolutely stop dead! Although I don't get why because there's not as much traffic and the French will just pull out anyway regardless of who's right of way it is.

Richard Martin · Jul 9, 2015

Discokids said:
Useful info, I've been driving there every year for 8 years, to beziers. Great roads, mostly quiet, and still have my original bulb kit, bought for a vectra, never been opened, been in 3 other cars now. Do the alcohol testers go out of date? Because I've had mine for about 3 years. And as for the stop sign, where we go they're everywhere, to give people a chance to exit side streets. You need to be very switched on to them, and have to absolutely stop dead! Although I don't get why because there's not as much traffic and the French will just pull out anyway regardless of who's right of way it is.

The ones I bought in Halfords about three years ago had a use by date of April this year. I chucked them out the other day and need to get new ones before we go in a couple of weeks

Datatek · Jul 10, 2015

Discokids said:
Useful info, I've been driving there every year for 8 years, to beziers. Great roads, mostly quiet, and still have my original bulb kit, bought for a vectra, never been opened, been in 3 other cars now. Do the alcohol testers go out of date? Because I've had mine for about 3 years. And as for the stop sign, where we go they're everywhere, to give people a chance to exit side streets. You need to be very switched on to them, and have to absolutely stop dead! Although I don't get why because there's not as much traffic and the French will just pull out anyway regardless of who's right of way it is.

Yes, the alco test kits have a use by date on the packaging, got to keep the economy moving

Marmaduke · Jul 11, 2015

Well just got to Dover and thanks to the surrender monkeys going on strike there's a three hour delay for the ferry

Datatek · Jul 11, 2015

Marmaduke said:
Well just got to Dover and thanks to the surrender monkeys going on strike there's a three hour delay for the ferry

It's a crossing that I would never use.

Volusia · Jul 11, 2015

:fighting2:

Marmaduke said:
Well just got to Dover and thanks to the surrender monkeys going on strike there's a three hour delay for the ferry

The reason they're on strike is because they don't surrender. How's the mining, ship building and steel industries going by the way?
Oh yes, they surrendered!

Thor1950 · Jul 11, 2015

Volusia said:
:fighting2:

The reason they're on strike is because they don't surrender. How's the mining, ship building and steel industries going by the way?
Oh yes, they surrendered!

:hysterically_laughi :hysterically_laughi :tea:

honolulujoe · Jul 12, 2015

not just the new rules you need to be aware of, you can't trust that the police are police

Bogus French 'police' stopping cars to rob tourists - Telegraph

Volusia · Jul 13, 2015

honolulujoe said:
not just the new rules you need to be aware of, you can't trust that the police are police

Bogus French 'police' stopping cars to rob tourists - Telegraph

Wasn't it a fantastic idea allowing Croatia and Romania in to the EU. We reep what our governments sow!

blue beasty · Jul 13, 2015

Volusia said:
Wasn't it a fantastic idea allowing Croatia and Romania in to the EU. We reep what our governments sow!

Bloody furriners moving to a furrin country and targeting furriners. .....

wattfield · Jul 13, 2015

Volusia said:
:fighting2:

The reason they're on strike is because they don't surrender. How's the mining, ship building and steel industries going by the way?
Oh yes, they surrendered!

I don't know what you'd call the year long miners strike, the three month steelworkers strike, or the Clyde shipyards work - in, but "surrender" isn't the first word that springs to mind!

MJI · Jul 13, 2015

wattfield said:
I don't know what you'd call the year long miners strike, the three month steelworkers strike, or the Clyde shipyards work - in, but "surrender" isn't the first word that springs to mind!

More like killing their own jobs

Datatek · Jul 13, 2015

honolulujoe said:
not just the new rules you need to be aware of, you can't trust that the police are police

Bogus French 'police' stopping cars to rob tourists - Telegraph

Armed hold ups of expensive cars/camper vans on the central route south are also not uncommon

Datatek · Jul 13, 2015

mji said:
more like killing their own jobs

+1

wattfield · Jul 14, 2015

MJI said:
More like killing their own jobs

The whole point was that the Tory government were killing their jobs; they were trying to save them. Do you think they'd have saved their jobs by doing nothing?

The Clyde workers succeeded, by the way.

Thor1950 · Jul 14, 2015

wattfield said:
The whole point was that the Tory government were killing their jobs; they were trying to save them. Do you think they'd have saved their jobs by doing nothing?

The Clyde workers succeeded, by the way.

If independence votes won, Clyde would of been history.

wattfield · Jul 14, 2015

Thor1950 said:
If independence votes won, Clyde would of been history.

Not necessarily. Apart from the fact that there isn't the capacity to take over the work elsewhere, there were also plans to build civilian ships on the Clyde.
I know several people who work, or have worked, in the industry, and most of them believed independence would give them a better future.

(It's would have, by the way.)

Thor1950 · Jul 14, 2015

wattfield said:
Not necessarily. Apart from the fact that there isn't the capacity to take over the work elsewhere, there were also plans to build civilian ships on the Clyde.
I know several people who work, or have worked, in the industry, and most of them believed independence would give them a better future.

(It's would have, by the way.)

Just going what BAE have said on the subject. If they could get civilian contracts fine. But don't BAE own the ship yard?

Datatek · Jul 14, 2015

wattfield said:
The whole point was that the Tory government were killing their jobs; they were trying to save them. Do you think they'd have saved their jobs by doing nothing?

The Clyde workers succeeded, by the way.

Bull****, the miners had been holding the country to ransom for ages with strikes, restrictive practices and unreasonable wage demands. The three day week caused by the lack of coal for generating electricity did my business a deal of harm, I still have the generator I bought in order to stay in business

wattfield · Jul 14, 2015

Datatek said:
Bull****, the miners had been holding the country to ransom for ages with strikes, restrictive practices and unreasonable wage demands. The three day week caused by the lack of coal for generating electricity did my business a deal of harm, I still have the generator I bought in order to stay in business

Whatever you think of previous strikes the 1984 strike was about preventing mass closures of mines and huge job losses. As for the 3 day week, that strike was about being offered a pay rise below inflation. What would you have done in their position?

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