Speedy Operations
Apparantly, NHS patients should pay for smaller operations themselves, to save the NHS from having to pay from them.
Erm, don't we pay for them already? Through the little things called Tax and National Insurance?
Yup, thought so. So why do we have to pay for them twice? Doesn't make sense to me.
And in more stupidity, the usual zealots are lambasting Jeremy Clarkson, after he said "Remember - speed kills" at the end of the recently returned Top Gear, as an obvious snide remark, as Richard Hammond was back on the show after crashing a jet car at 280mph and suffering temporary brain damage, but returning to full health in a remarkable recovery.
The anti-speed organisation Brake, who won't be satisifed until there is a man with a flag walking in front of every car again, came up with their statistic that as far as they are concerned proves them right:
"Speed was shown to be a factor in nearly one third of fatal accidents"
Erm, self-defeating argument anyone? That just proves that speed was nothing to do with over two-thirds, i.e. the vast majority, of fatal accidents.
I'm not saying we should all drive at 70mph past the school gates at 3pm, but I am saying that it is inappropriate speed that kills, not speed in general. And if you are really picky, you can argue that it's not the speed that kills, it's the stopping really really really quickly that does it, as you slam into a brick wall.
Anyway, driving at, say, 90mph on the motorway is not usually dangerous. If it is pelting down with rain, then it is. If it is foggy, then it is. In normal conditions, it is not. A truck doing 55mph who swerves out suddenly into the middle lane to overtake another truck doing 54mph is dangerous. But they aren't speeding, so it's Ok.
Anyway, Hammond's accident showed that speed can be dangerous. Moreover, it showed them doing this on a runway, not on the M1. Therefore it wasnt' dangerous to others.
If you are doing 90mph on the M1, you are more likely to be concentrating harder. You are scanning the road ahead and far more aware of other cars around you. Whenever I drive this fast I reckon I am far safer than if I'm bumbling along at 60, drumming along to music and lost in whatever train of thought I'm following at that moment.
Doing 75mph on the wrong side of the road on a blind bend on a country lane in the dark is dangerous. Doing 45mph on a straight 30mph road at 3am is not.
Speed on the whole isn't bad. It's inappropiate speed that kills. Some people need to see the difference.
Welcome back, Top Gear.
Erm, don't we pay for them already? Through the little things called Tax and National Insurance?
Yup, thought so. So why do we have to pay for them twice? Doesn't make sense to me.
And in more stupidity, the usual zealots are lambasting Jeremy Clarkson, after he said "Remember - speed kills" at the end of the recently returned Top Gear, as an obvious snide remark, as Richard Hammond was back on the show after crashing a jet car at 280mph and suffering temporary brain damage, but returning to full health in a remarkable recovery.
The anti-speed organisation Brake, who won't be satisifed until there is a man with a flag walking in front of every car again, came up with their statistic that as far as they are concerned proves them right:
"Speed was shown to be a factor in nearly one third of fatal accidents"
Erm, self-defeating argument anyone? That just proves that speed was nothing to do with over two-thirds, i.e. the vast majority, of fatal accidents.
I'm not saying we should all drive at 70mph past the school gates at 3pm, but I am saying that it is inappropriate speed that kills, not speed in general. And if you are really picky, you can argue that it's not the speed that kills, it's the stopping really really really quickly that does it, as you slam into a brick wall.
Anyway, driving at, say, 90mph on the motorway is not usually dangerous. If it is pelting down with rain, then it is. If it is foggy, then it is. In normal conditions, it is not. A truck doing 55mph who swerves out suddenly into the middle lane to overtake another truck doing 54mph is dangerous. But they aren't speeding, so it's Ok.
Anyway, Hammond's accident showed that speed can be dangerous. Moreover, it showed them doing this on a runway, not on the M1. Therefore it wasnt' dangerous to others.
If you are doing 90mph on the M1, you are more likely to be concentrating harder. You are scanning the road ahead and far more aware of other cars around you. Whenever I drive this fast I reckon I am far safer than if I'm bumbling along at 60, drumming along to music and lost in whatever train of thought I'm following at that moment.
Doing 75mph on the wrong side of the road on a blind bend on a country lane in the dark is dangerous. Doing 45mph on a straight 30mph road at 3am is not.
Speed on the whole isn't bad. It's inappropiate speed that kills. Some people need to see the difference.
Welcome back, Top Gear.
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