Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith8339) on "TalkTV" channel.

  1. @@MarkAntonyMcDonald You really have no grasp of basic mathematics if you think a 20 limit instead of a 30 in urban areas will have that big an affect on average speeds and thus journey times. Next time you make a journey of between around 10 and 15 miles on mixed roads (including motorways as long as you are on one for less than 4 miles) work out your average speed and you will be very surprised.
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  2.  @imbonkers3629  You forgot the latest trainers, I-Phone and huge tv not to mention a three bed semi as a starter home! Oh, and meals delivered to their door several times a week.
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  3.  @williamrae9954  Not sure I get that?
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  4. With potentially less traffic on the roads and a negligible affect on average speeds purely due to the limit change, goods should get through quicker and using your argument be cheaper.
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  5. @@MarkAntonyMcDonald I guess my suggestion regarding working out your average speed was rather beyond your comprehension?
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  6. Much as I loathe Costa and all the other rip-off trendy coffee shops and have contempt for the snobs and posers who frequent them, I have 3 thoughts about this rubbish cartoon character (that looks like it was drawn by a 7 year old): 1. The people complaining about it are no better than the wokes who seem to enjoy being offended. 2. The people reading something into the cartoon are like the pretentious idiots who see the "meaning" in modern art that looks like it was drawn by a 7 year old (before you say anything, I have 2 very expensive original modern art paintings but they are way above the rubbish I am talking about). 3. The whole "scandal" is actually the work of a rival company out to discredit Costa.
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  7. What about a giant squid? They are formidable creatures and the sub is only made of carbon fibre so it is not really that tough.
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  8. Do you really have no concept of average speeds and the effects on journey times?
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  9.  @trevorferguson6222  The elderly and infirm should not be driving and way too many people have become suckered into thinking they need to drive everywhere and that is just what the car makers and oil companies wanted. Even I confess to driving round to the supermarket around a mile away from home rather than walking to one 1/2 a mile away (which I often do as well) because I like many of the things that Lidl sell and the prices are good. My tiny city car costs very little to run so I still save money.
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  10.  @snakeman9902  Greed (of the oil companies and motor manufacturers) got us hooked on cars. The control and slavery bit is total hogwash because we have become controlled by and slaves to the motor car without even realising it.
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  11.  @IhaveMy0pinion  Apparently at one time the then French president set out to make it so that everyone was no more than a 15 minute bike ride from a station and I believe he nearly succeeded. That would be much easier in the UK and if you substituted a good bus service where trains would be impractical, just think how quiet the roads would be for delivery drivers etc.
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  12.  @ejoneswales  You very clearly illustrate my whole point. I can claim that I need my large yacht to go on extended sailing holidays to France like I have just returned from, and of course I need a large vehicle to carry stuff to and from it. I also "need" a proper, big 4x4 for when I go pheasant shooting and deer stalking. Except those are all things I choose to do and am prepared to pay whatever it might cost (within reason money wise and accepting restrictions wise). I have to remind myself that a very large majority of people don't have the option of doing what I choose to do for one reason or another.
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  13.  @GromDarkwater  Ah, the let's get personal defence. Followed of course by the "China" reference. China might be much more restricted than many countries but much of what we hear from there is what MSM and our government want us to hear. I know from recent experience in France that the buses and trains are very widely used by all sorts of people. Yes, sometimes the pure convenience of using a car makes it an obvious choice, but with a 20 limit on urban roads unlikely to add more than a couple of minutes to a typical journey, if that in reality, what is the problem?
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  14.  @GromDarkwater  You sound so young and modern I guess you drive an EV?
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  15.  @GromDarkwater  With rights go responsibilities and I am not against anyone driving as such, as long as they do it in accordance with the law and with respect to others. The whole issue kicked off by this video is about a change to the law that in all honesty will have very little impact on most people on most of there daily journeys. Tell me how far your trip to work is each day and how long it takes. Then if you know how to, work out your average speed. Now look at the current speed limits you encounter. You will be shocked by what you discover. When I was working, my journey was about 10 miles and it was very rare that I could do it in under 25 minutes despite doing 70 all the way that was possible down 5 miles of motorway. Often it could take 40 minutes if I left home a tiny bit later than I liked to.
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  16.  @GromDarkwater  What, afraid of modern technology by the sound of things.
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  17. I bet all the very dodgy media tycoons are lining up and rubbing their hands together waiting to snatch all the BBC assets for a song from their mate Ritchie. I wonder how much hand they have had in discrediting it?
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  18. It could also be a drunken feral chav being seriously obnoxious and only one step away from the yobs in Oxford street. Why were the pigs there in the first place?
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  19.  @hughjardon5101  True, but when a Russian warship wants to come down the English channel it is very closely escorted by our navy.
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  20.  @hughjardon5101  They aren't allowed to use their guns as they are too loud for modern sailors and cost too much to fire!
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  21. With that in mind, how do you view the post Hungerford and Dunblane changes to gun laws to which everyone who was affected by objected with very sound reasons.
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  22.  @firstlast5350  The changes were sold as making the country safer. I took part in what was up to that time, the largest demonstration in London against the changes. It didn't even get a mention on the news that night, probably because it was totally peaceful but also likely due to the topic being seen as "bad".
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  23.  @Dpo2203  I would say "with respect " but I loathe that expression. Both changes were done to supposedly make our country safer but while the gun laws have been proven to be completely ineffective in that respect, at least the 20 limit in urban/ built up areas may save the lives (or serious injury) of a few brats without costing the taxpayer many millions and putting numerous people out of business.
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  24. Maybe we need 70 mph limits in urban areas to cull the useless spawn the chavs who live in those places?
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  25. @@TOM-TOM-TOM The entitled generations! They have ruined the world as us grown ups knew it.
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  26. You are totally wrong there, it is about the useless, entitled generations who completely lack any trace of common sense. If people still had common sense they would ignore warnings that did not affect them. I pay attention to gale warnings and strong wind warnings because I sail and they are very important. Other weather warnings generally don't affect me as I look at a number of forecasts depending what activities I am up to.
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  27.  @richardmurphy4520  Is that Joe King or Fur King or their cousin Nosmo?
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  28.  @polaris7122  I would almost guarantee Labour will win the next general election as the Tories have lost votes to so called right wing parties and these may even appeal to a number of people who would typically vote labour.
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  29. Much as I loathe Costa and all the other rip-off trendy coffee shops and have contempt for the snobs and posers who frequent them, I have 3 thoughts about this rubbish cartoon character (that looks like it was drawn by a 7 year old): 1. The people complaining about it are no better than the wokes who seem to enjoy being offended. 2. The people reading something into the cartoon are like the pretentious idiots who see the "meaning" in modern art that looks like it was drawn by a 7 year old (before you say anything, I have 2 very expensive original modern art paintings but they are way above the rubbish I am talking about). 3. The whole "scandal" is actually the work of a rival company out to discredit Costa.
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  30.  @chipbuttytime3396  Then it goes to show that they are out to appeal to trendy posers and have had loads of free publicity out of it amongst their clientele.
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  31. Strangely enough, just about every English taxi driver in Portsmouth was in the SAS and single handedly won the Falklands war.
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  32. Is it really the poorest? How can a truly poor person afford a car?
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  33.  @johndoggett808  I just bought a big 4x4 because that is what I actually NEED sometimes. I didn't need a loan to buy it, just used my credit card which I will pay off straight away. It cost a lot less than my monthly take home pay before I retired. What I was talking about is truly poor people and not those who think they are poor because they only have a three bed
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  34. Continued: 3 bed semi and a 4 year old car and believe the TV adverts that make you think everyone deserves more.
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  35.  @Brookspirit  Not that vital if you are truly poor though, as in long term unemployed etc.
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  36. Too many people are happy to hide behind claims of so called mental health issues these days.
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  37. He was a sqaddie so previously had access to serious weapons.
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  38. Not many years ago, Israel was considered to be a terrorist organisation with sanctions against them. America became a republic through terrorism. One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter and this has always been the case. What happens when all the new comers to the UK start to push us out into less desirable areas and carry out atrocities against us? This is exactly what is happening in the middle east. The majority of Israelis are not from that region nor second generation.
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  39. Bring back police violence!
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  40.  @fairytalepurityanalyser6056  You would not want to be a lower cast in India even today. They are left to die on the streets in some areas and have absolutely no chance of bettering themselves.
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  41.  @josefk332  The gift to the world from a tiny village in Hampshire.
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  42.  @glen9303  But I regularly go to Indian restaurants.
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  43.  @Karlsefni-fh9fb  I wonder just how many of the people who moan about us stealing stuff have ever been to a museum?
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  44.  @PaulMason-c9m  Was he a Muslim as well?
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  45.  @huwwiliams8426  The stealing of history is nothing to do with what these feral looters were doing, much as it is nothing to do with shop lifting in the usual sense of the word.
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  46.  @davidprosser457  If you are talking about Indians (Asian) then huge numbers went to work for IBM and the like and are still highly respected in the computer industry.
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  47.  @davidprosser457  Romans, Saxons, Vikings, Normans. It is supposed to be one of the reasons we became such good fighters in later times.
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  48. @jonahwhale9047 That will do nothing to deter the behaviour in the first place. When these people feel they can get away with their crimes they are likely to go further and further down that route if there are no consequences. This is largely the fault of people with your attitude.
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  49. In France it seems almost compulsory to display the tricolour and the regional flag in some places. Many of them still seem to be proud of their country.
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  50. I am sorry, but anyone who claims they cannot drive at 20 cannot drive at 30 either, it really is not that hard. As for making journey times longer, do the real maths with real journey times and you might be surprised by the results.
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