Granny Danger Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 55 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: I've always been blessed with absolute cowardice. Anything remotely dangerous didn't attract me. Setting fire to things maybe, but I was well out the road of any consequences usually. Reichstag? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Jacksgranda said: Frozen water is both incredibly attractive and incredibly dangerous. ^^^ choked on a vodka ice cube. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 4 hours ago, ICTChris said: Had a fantastic morning sledging with my boy on Saturday, building snowmen and playing in the snow. Great fun. Not so much fun driving on ungritted roads today, but hey ho. Every year. Why do folk do this? Why risk it? In Dundee there's a big hill/street called the Hilltown, and I've seen plenty of idiots try to drive on it when it's snowed here, with the obvious consequences. Saw one car slide down after trying to drive up it (the only made it a metres). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Alert Mongoose said: I know it's hard to say but the parents have to take a large portion of the blame there. 41 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: A terrible thing to happen to children, but their deaths were entirely preventable through proper supervision. Chain them to the TV and Xbox? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torpar Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Second snow fall and first decent one of the season on Saturday night into Sunday morning. Snow is great when you don't have anywhere to go. It would easy to laugh at the videos of people driving badly in England, but without snow tires, that would happen in any country. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennie makevin Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 8 minutes ago, Torpar said: Second snow fall and first decent one of the season on Saturday night into Sunday morning. Snow is great when you don't have anywhere to go. It would easy to laugh at the videos of people driving badly in England, but without snow tires, that would happen in any country. Wise words young sledger...and well constructed for one so small ! Stick at it, a tobogganing future awaits 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd_is_God Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 RE: The Kids and the ice - surely as good an advert as any for re-introducing those Public Safety films targetting children? The amount of screentime kids have they could easily have targetted adverts pop up on an iPad etc at regular intervals to warn them of the dangers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 26 minutes ago, Torpar said: Second snow fall and first decent one of the season on Saturday night into Sunday morning. Snow is great when you don't have anywhere to go. It would easy to laugh at the videos of people driving badly in England, but without snow tires, that would happen in any country. I used to sledge down the Braehead Golf Course in Alloa. One year we didn't have a sledge so used a metal tray. It was mental, faster than anything else. At the bottom of the hill was a fence, with a wee rise in the ground before it. Folk tried to build up enough speed to use the bump to jump over the fence. Nobody was quick enough to get near it, except me. With my tray I managed to get tangled in the fence and take loads of skin off my face, which was closer than anyone else got. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 2 hours ago, scottsdad said: I used to sledge down the Braehead Golf Course in Alloa. One year we didn't have a sledge so used a metal tray. It was mental, faster than anything else. At the bottom of the hill was a fence, with a wee rise in the ground before it. Folk tried to build up enough speed to use the bump to jump over the fence. Nobody was quick enough to get near it, except me. With my tray I managed to get tangled in the fence and take loads of skin off my face, which was closer than anyone else got. Sure there was a few young lassies killed one year sledging on a car bonnet, it hit a wire fence at a speed of knots. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 8 hours ago, Torpar said: Second snow fall and first decent one of the season on Saturday night into Sunday morning. Snow is great when you don't have anywhere to go. It would easy to laugh at the videos of people driving badly in England, but without snow tires, that would happen in any country. The fun bit over here is that people do decent on snow, but the ice absolutely causes mayhem. The worst offenders, of course, are young men in 4x4 trucks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Drove from Dundee to Meigle this morning. Minus 8 degrees on an untreated road. The only blessing was that the sun was up. Keeching myself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 The downhill stretches are the worst on icy roads. I've driven in Poland in worse conditions, but with winter tyres. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 It's all about trying to regulate speed by avoiding the use of braking wherever possible. Homer Simpson's old man gifs incoming 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Tunbridge Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 One post with all that information would have sufficed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TxRover Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, Cosmic Joe said: The downhill stretches are the worst on icy roads. I've driven in Poland in worse conditions, but with winter tyres. Ice>Winter Tyres>Snow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 38 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said: One post with all that information would have sufficed. It wasn't exactly an information overload 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 16 hours ago, Torpar said: snow tires, 7 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said: winter tyres. 7 hours ago, TxRover said: Winter Tyres Mods plz ffs Spoiler It’s “tyers” 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 19 hours ago, Alert Mongoose said: I know it's hard to say but the parents have to take a large portion of the blame there. 18 hours ago, Richey Edwards said: I might just be a massive shitebag but I have always been too scared to go near large outdoor bodies of water or to walk on them when they are frozen over. Walking on frozen water especially is a stupid thing to do. If you fall through the ice into the paralysingly cold water below then you are as good as dead unless you're very lucky. A terrible thing to happen to children, but their deaths were entirely preventable through proper supervision. I'm sure none of the parents will have considered this, and once they do it will be a big consolation to them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 -13, icy roads and some c**t tailgating you. Lovely 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 -7 today 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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