JT> They're aimed at those who can't tell the stain-remover ads are
JT> high school chemistry dressed in dirty clothing.

> I always though the Macdonalds one would have had more impact
> (sorry abotu the pun) if the dork had swerved to avoid the car
> coming out and then hit a little old lady in a Volvo, head-on. If
> they needed the psychological impact of "I just killed me little
> bruvver" they could have put his muvver in the Volvo. Then he
> coudl stagger out of the wreck look in the Volvo and scream
> "Mum!". For extra emotion, he could disembowel himself on the
> spot and run screamign down the street with his intestines
> dragging...

> Gee! I ought to write these RTA commercials. It sounds like fun.

JT> You wouldn't degrade yourself like that. When I called to
JT> complain, (way back when I had the enthuiasm, and thought it
JT> would actually achieve something), the guy in charge of those
JT> ads said it was before his time (so it isn't his fault) and
JT> he's changing roles next week, (so it isn't his problem
JT> either).

 You actually complained? What an optimist.

 I only ever complained once... 'way back when 2JJ started up (The AM
J, not JJJ). They were fuck this, fuck that, fuck the other on a
Sunday night andit actually offended me so I rang up on Monday to
complain. I got a lecture from... can't remember her name, now Ah!
Margaret Thursby? Anyway, she gave me a lecture on freedom of speech
so I said, "Okay, then you go fuck yourself, you offensive lesbian
cunt!" and hung up.

 This was the 70's when it was okay to say "lesbian."  

 I think I may have offended her.

JT> Ah, I understand. I didn't figure the risk factor in. But then
JT> again, I'm no suprised, the RTA has a habit of aiming for those
JT> with no teeth so they can't bite back. Excuse the pun.

 That's ageist... inplying we have no teeth. I see that the High
Court has ruled last week, that age discrimination is illegal. Us
wrinklies can go to HROC, now, so just watch yourself. This isn't the
70's when it was okay to call a silly old bastard a silly old fart.
Now you'll have to call me an intelligence-challenged age-challenged
flatulent-challenger (ICAC FC for short) Sorry, for height-challenged.

JT> What I object to are the bastards who are fully licenced and
JT> STILL CAN'T FUCKING PARK THEIR CARS.

 What I object to is FUCKING Westfields putting a yellow parking
bollard right where a really observant and excellent driver in the top
1% can hit the FUCKING thing and cause $600 damage to my lovely car.

 I'm sure the bloody thing jumped up our of theground, but Westfields
were so cunning I couldn't find the hydraulics. But I know they're
there. The nice man at the smash repairs told me they paint them
yellow because no one can see them if they're yellow.

JT> The more you drive, the better you get at it.

 I'm not sure that's true. This is the first time I've hit a fucking
bollard, and I haven't been practising for 40 years, or anything like
that. Some people are born hopeless drivers (not me, though, I'm in
the top 1% like everyone else).

JT> That's why all the wankers come out on the weekends. They're
JT> the only ones who are game enough to take their cars out for
JT> that half hour in the week, because they're too stupid to
JT> realise that a half hour in a week isn't practice. 

 Weekend drivers are real, they're hopeless, but I think it's because
they have no idea fo cooperation with other drivers. I used to drive
the length of Parramatta Road twice a day in peak hours, and it was
almsot relaxing. You knew *exactly* what the drivers around you were
going to do. On Sunday, you never know what they'll do next.

 JT> Mothers driving kids to school? Are they more of a risk to
JT> themselves or to everyone else? They're the ones who drive
JT> landcruisers and never take them offroad remember?

 They are an incredible risk, to everyone including the kids. There
is a primary school at the top of the hill (North Strathfield) and I
won't go anywhere near it in the afternoon. It's too dangerous!
Kidswalk anywhere, the mothers in the trucks can't see anything out
the back (or *under* the front), and once they've got their own kids
loaded they drive off feeling invulnerable in their truck...

 I can't bear to see so many potential accidents waiting to happen.
It would upset me to see a few kids crushed, and I'd only get angry if
a truck ran into me... so I drive the long way around to avoid it.

Regards,
Bob
  

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