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[Macca]

the sheer igorance of grey nomads

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Just spent 10 days out the gibb river road working. Part of what I was doing was traffic control, signed from 1km out to a 80km sign, 60km sign , 40 km sign and then a 10km single lane across a culvet we were replace. The single lane surface was at best rough. well let me say that the amount of fancy offroad vans and their big Toyota tugs or camper trailers and tugs that their drivers just cant read aamezed me.

The average speed would have been 25kmh, bouncing every where.. At one time we had stop signs facing both direction and 3 idiots just started driving through, I pulled them up and explained the error of their ways.

Now not all the offending drivers were grey nomads but the biggest percentage of them were, the best behaved people of the 10 days I was on the job were workings travelling the gib for various reasons.

Well that's my bitch for the day

cheers

blaze

ps I am led to believe a 5th wheeler come unstuck up hear yesterday

[BruceS]

Do you think it's OK to lock this thread now before things get out of hand?
In all walks of life there are the good and the bad and I guess that makes for an interesting life?
Be pretty boring if EVERYONE was perfect like me??

What say you folks? Lock it?

[Chuck]

Yep !!

[generdawg]

What say you folks? Lock it?

Oooh yeth paleez. I feal a rant cuming on - Sombody hep me.

dawg (who can't spell either)

[Dot]

I said my bit on Kelvins thread. But I would hate to see it degenerate into a slinging match, we are above that crap here aren't we?

[T1 Terry]

It's a bit of a catch 22 situation, if we make everything too vanilla there is no spark or interest and it gets boring, if we let it go on too far people start to get offended and if it becomes the norm that every topic turns into a shite fight no one is game to say anything for fear of being attacked.
Conversations around a campfire often involve a bit of feet shuffling until you get a feel for where peoples boundaries are, we have an ever growing campfire crowd so there is always going to be those who enjoy the to and fro and those that are scared off by it, but on a forum you can sit in the background and watch and enjoy it without actually getting in the thick of it. Electrical threads on the CF are like that, only a handful post on them, but it doesn't mean they aren't popular, some of the biggest viewed threads are electrical ones.
There will always be those who look to stir up a situation, there are those mature enough to ignore the stirrers and they just get bored and move else where, let's see if we have a mature membership and let a bit of interest and opposing views come into the debate.

Not sure if this should be on this thread or the other one, or the two combined

[Izabarack]

Now not all the offending drivers were grey nomads...................
Well that's my bitch for the day

Well my bitch for the day is people who denigrate a whole section of the population on some undefined stereotype.

Iza

[T1 Terry]

Now not all the offending drivers were grey nomads...................
Well that's my bitch for the day

Well my bitch for the day is people who denigrate a whole section of the population on some undefined stereotype.

Iza

Can you think of any group within society that don't suffer the same problem, age group, religious group, race, financial situation, occupation, vehicle they drive, mobile accommodation type, the manufacturer of that mobile accommodation, where they live, even within the same state or even town for that matter? Human nature, stereotyping is just a human trait, at least the OP admitted not all were from the same stereo typed group, far better than the average I'm afraid.