Maybe I’m Over reacting but…

[Sharky]

My old school, a grammar, when under the old convention or years 1 to 5 and upper and lower sixth used roman numerals to label each year and letters for each stream within.

So for example would have classes
IIIA, IIIB, IIIC, IIID
IVA, IVB, IVC, IVD

and in the 5th form
VA, VB, VC
But if there was a need for 4 streams, they were labeled VC1 AND VC2

The old head master didn't want VD in his school!

True story!

 

[Paulus]

When I was at primary school, 1960-67 we started in class 6, and went up to class 1. Then in secondary school we went from 1st year, to 5th year. Those that stayed on into 6th year to do A levels were 6th formers, much like today.

 

[matticus]

Still does kinda come back to my opening post, which is, when faced with roads full of stressed and impatient idiots like me, why put yourself in a position of danger unnecessarily?

Presumably they didn't know you were going to be there - but YOU knew that you were STRESSED and IMPATIENT:
seems like you had a duty to remove the danger YOU were causing. Either pull over - to calm down, and give them a chance to get out of your way - or take a different route.
Or get someone calmer to drive?

 

[freiston]

When I was at primary school, 1960-67 we started in class 6, and went up to class 1. Then in secondary school we went from 1st year, to 5th year. Those that stayed on into 6th year to do A levels were 6th formers, much like today.

My memory is a bit vague - probably because things went a bit awry whilst I was at primary school. I remember 3rd & 4th (the final year when you took the 11+) but prior to the "3rd Year", there were three classes to advance through. I started at the 1st class but, along with about four others skipped the next one and advanced two classes - this was to bring us in line with the ages of the other pupils in the class, presumably to ensure we were in the final year at age 10/11 (afaik, I was between 5 and 6 years old when I started school). Whether 3rd and 4th years were called that when I started primary school, I cannot remember but I'm sure they were when I left.

Secondary school was 1st through to 5th form with Lower VI and Upper VI after Fifth Form. School years at both primary and secondary school were, as I remember, always expressed as ordinal numbers.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Getting my knee down On the Cat and Fiddle pass on a CB250N 30 mph slower than the Blades and Ninjas was about as lively as I got, although racing with my mates from Storey Arms burger van to Merthyr was always a bit of light relief, so when I say the group was putting everyone in unnecessary danger, I mean I know what I’m talking about.

That's good, because the rest of us don't.

 

[Sittingduck]

Convenience was never part of opening this debate, we were out for a drive and in no rush. I also did not mean to imply the cycle club shouldn’t visit the resort. Coffee and ice cream. Yes please. What got me was the timing and route out of the place. Spinning up a hill at sub 10mph speeds surrounded by annoyed frustrated cagers was not wise. And yes you can filter but only when safe to do so. My brother in law nearly died when filtering along the inside of a queue of cars. He shouldn’t have and got side swiped when a driver let a car out of a driveway . Sorry mate, never saw you was no comfort after he alerted the car to his presence by hitting the windscreen with his head and shoulder. Lost a week’s work (self employed) and needed new wheel and fork. Unfortunately we all share busy roads full of fools and we need to manage the risk to our safety. Just because you’re allowed to do something doesn’t mean you should.

There's a lot in this thread that I don't agree with but the bit in bold is especially irritating.

Maybe, if you have no real reason to go out in the car (other than for a leisure drive on a busy accident blackspot in the middle of the weekend) then you might have left it at home and gone for a low carbon walk instead. Big part of the (wider) problem here...

 

[Alex321]

Getting my knee down On the Cat and Fiddle pass on a CB250N 30 mph slower than the Blades and Ninjas was about as lively as I got, although racing with my mates from Storey Arms burger van to Merthyr was always a bit of light relief, so when I say the group was putting everyone in unnecessary danger, I mean I know what I’m talking about.

Why does the experience you have related here mean you know what you are talking about regarding something very different indeed?

The road from Storey Arms to Merthyr, while it can get busy, is never the nose to tail slow drive that you get on the hills to the beach area on the Gower or other South Wales resorts.

There is a massive difference between weaving in and out of traffic at 10-15 mph as on the beach road, and doing so at 60+ on the A470.

 

[Jameshow]

It was Saturday most people don't have the need to rush about, those that are employed are on employers time so no need to rush...

If they were holding up an ambulance then fair enough but I'm sure they would have the decency to pull over.

We can all enjoy the road if we have a little patience.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

We can all enjoy the road if we have a little patience.

It appears to be a very sparse commodity currently

 

[jowwy]

There's a lot in this thread that I don't agree with but the bit in bold is especially irritating.

Maybe, if you have no real reason to go out in the car (other than for a leisure drive on a busy accident blackspot in the middle of the weekend) then you might have left it at home and gone for a low carbon walk instead. Big part of the (wider) problem here...

But he did have a reason to be out in the car......going out for a leisurely drive is a valid reason, not everyone, especially some peoples partners may not want to walk or cycle

 

[Dogtrousers]

Do people really do that? "Go for a drive". I've never, in my entire life (except when I was learning to drive) gone out and driven a car just for the sake of driving a car. I've only ever driven a car because I want to get somewhere.

It's bizarre.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Do people really do that? "Go for a drive". I've never, in my entire life (except when I was learning to drive) gone out and driven a car just for the sake of driving a car. I've only ever driven a car because I want to get somewhere.

It's bizarre.

He did want to go somewhere he was going to the beach

 

[T4tomo]

Do people really do that? "Go for a drive". I've never, in my entire life (except when I was learning to drive) gone out and driven a car just for the sake of driving a car. I've only ever driven a car because I want to get somewhere.

It's bizarre.

Agree, although I may have taken this kids out for a drive when they were your to either send them to sleep or split them up if getting tetchy with each other and I will say my gran used to like an occasional Sunday drive out when she was no longer up to walking far. We'd go somewhere in the countryside though.

What is also most odd about the OP's "rant" is that he was moaning about riders filtering, so who was hold who up exactly on the rider out of the seaside if the bikes were overtaking the cars?? Maybe the cars should use the quieter "route out of the place" and leave the obvious route for the cyclists?

 

[winjim]

Funicular. It's the obvious solution.

 

[jowwy]

Do people really do that? "Go for a drive". I've never, in my entire life (except when I was learning to drive) gone out and driven a car just for the sake of driving a car. I've only ever driven a car because I want to get somewhere.

It's bizarre.

people on motorbikes do, so whats the difference??