Re: F*ck me shitless.....

CA Carlisle

9 being between 8-12, I reckon you are a jammy bastard.

Steve (E*)

And from the same website:

Do Uninsured Drivers increase the cost of your Car Insurance Premium? Yes - latest figures suggest uninsured drivers add approximately £30 to each insurance policy.

Hmmmm.

TonyB

Heh, also;

"Are women better drivers than men?

Well.......its hard to say they are better, although they are statistically safer. Women have just as many accidents as men, however they tend to be minor prangs. Men on the other hand seem to do the job properly when they crash and as a result cost their insurance company a lot more money."

Bloody wimmin, can't even crash properly!

BTW I live in SP8, a low risk area, the insurance companies practically pay me, but it is annoying that it's all done on such large areas, I'm lumped in with two nearby towns despite living in a tiny village where the most recent crime according to the neighbourhood watch bulletin was a couple of months ago when someone stole a potted plant from a garden. Mind you, insurance-wise, can't get lower than group A!

Nige wibbled:

postcode_risk.htm

I thought you'd rejected it?

It started costing me money, so i let them fix it & sold it, as there is now an 8 week waiting list, so no loss to me.

I looked at that list *several* times checking as I didn't really believe they would miss one out and still didn't see it.

Comes of living in the middle of Englands Last Wilderness. Travel S from here and there is nothing but open moor for about 10 miles, similary to the NW, other directions only have about 5 miles before you get into areas with villages and roads.

Crime: We did have a mugging in April but that is way, way, up the exception scale. Curiously since then a few juveniles have been arrested and interviewed and the crime rate has taken a nose dive from half a dozen or more incidents (mostly Criminal Damage or petty theft) per month to virtually nothing.

Reading between the lines I suspect the mugging was the last straw and the police got enough information on these few people to be able to do something. The Police already know who gets up to what but don't normally have enough evidence to do anything about it.

We have a one-child "crime wave" around here, by which I mean he apparently knicks potted plants, money left out for the milkman and sometimes milk, but not that often. I've lived here for about 4 years and have never seen him until recently, he's about 11 and was pedalling a pedal-car down the road like mad with thick glasses on while chuffing away on a ciggy, sticking his thumbs up while steering directly at me while I was thundering down the road the other way in the pinz, certainly a sight I'll remember. He supposedly only steals from old folk and goes to funny school being a bit touched in the head, as are most of his family. Not much to do about him apparently, but he's hardly causing much trouble, even for the old folk. Some of them occasionally mention him but there's not much in the way of malice there.

Nige wibbled:

Fair enough - what was up with it?

Heh. I live in SA62, which is similarly group A. The last "crime" round here that I remember was about 10 years ago, when a garage was broken into, and - er - nothing was taken. I also went to France for a fortnight once and couldn't find my house key on my return home. I'd lef it in the front door. Having been brought up in Leeds, I find this quite a pleasant change.

Lovely part of the world - it's the only place I've found apart from here where I feel at home.

Heh, I went away on business for a week and left the house unlocked by mistake, not quite as bad as you leaving the key in the front door for two weeks though!!

I was bought up in the arse of nowhere in Scotland, so door locks were an alien entity to me, and remained so until I went to Reading, my first town. It was there that I was the victim of the only crime to have befallen me in my 36 years of life, I had £10 knicked from my pocket at a fun fair. Dangerous places these towns!

Mind you I did have the old lotus "vandalised", some kids threw stones at it and chipped the paint on the bonnet, but I'm not sure which were the new paint chips and which were the old ones so didn't really count that as a crime worthy of the name. They might just have chipped off some layers of patina.

And me. When were you round here, then?

"Character marks."

"You can the boy out of Wales, but you can't take Wales out of the boy", as they say round by yur[1].

Snot far wrong either - Dyfed has definitely got a place in my heart

Might be advisable ;-)

Ah. After a long campaign in the early 90s, the name Dyfed was dropped by the PO and the old counties of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire were re-instituted for postal purposes. Dyfed is still used by some, as many of the postcode/address databases have not been updated, but no-one I know ever uses it. And you would be pronouncing it "duh-ved", wouldn't you - not "diffed" as most English call-centre workers prefer? Good man.

On or around Thu, 7 Jun 2007 21:21:46 +0100, "Nige" enlightened us thusly:

ours is A...

could be worse, there are some that aren't graded at all.