The Kintyre Forum

Don't know if it's just me, but there seems to be even more people using mobiles whilst driving since they changed the laws and made this an offence.

Is it just as bad up there in Kintyre?

Only if you can manage to get a signal.

i do so wish i was important enough to justify owning a mobile phone, even more so if i was really so important that i had to carry it in my hand everywhere i went and i pray for the day that i become really really important and have to make calls while i'm driving.

it must be great to be one of those people, all these thousands upon thousands of surgeons and members of the emergency services that you see, walking about with their phone in hand, needing to be in constant contact with the hospital, fire station, lifeboat, ready to pounce at a moments notice to save a life!!!!

but wait!!! these people don't walk about with a phone in their hand, they carry a discrete beeper, wonder what all the rest are doing?

Coming back from Campbeltown yesterday evening, I met a van driver on his mobile while negotiating one of the corners on the Muasdale hill and he looked to be changing gear as well.

I thought at the time - Damn! these white van drivers are good

Actually, that's not what I thought - it was more like - WHAT A frick MORON - GET A HANDS FREE YOU STUPID runt!!!

Malky

PS I should never have installed the swear word censor - it detracts from the message

nice to see someone take responsibility for their actions, we are all big boys and girls on here, theres worse things can be said than an odd swear word, feck is at the core of the scottish vocabulary, no other country can use it to it's full potential like we can. seldom is it used in it's original context, for example

i hate feckin mobile phones, see? i'm saying i have an intense dislike for mobile phones, when the statement implies that though i have a strong aversion to commiting a sexual act with a mobile phone, i am somehow compelled to do so, which is the option you should have chosen with your white van driver. yes!!! you should have stuck his phone up his erchie!!!!

Coming back from Campbeltown yesterday evening, I met a van driver on his mobile while negotiating one of the corners on the Muasdale hill and he looked to be changing gear as well.

Was he smoking,eating a burger and drinking a can of Irn Bru as well ?

No. Not who I thought it was then.

general jack o'niell wrote:but wait!!! these people don't walk about with a phone in their hand, they carry a discrete beeper, wonder what all the rest are doing?

We were talking about this just a couple of days ago.. do people still own beepers. Don't think even doctors or drug dealers use them any more. I think someone needs a little guided tour of the 21st century

Bobbie En Tejas wrote:

general jack o'niell wrote:but wait!!! these people don't walk about with a phone in their hand, they carry a discrete beeper, wonder what all the rest are doing?

We were talking about this just a couple of days ago.. do people still own beepers. Don't think even doctors or drug dealers use them any more. I think someone needs a little guided tour of the 21st century

The fire boys and girls here still carry pagers.

I've got one tucked away at the back of a drawer somewhere. Haven't used it in ages.

I use one of those little BlueTooth headset thingummies for the phone when I'm driving.

Bobbie En Tejas wrote:

general jack o'niell wrote:but wait!!! these people don't walk about with a phone in their hand, they carry a discrete beeper, wonder what all the rest are doing?

We were talking about this just a couple of days ago.. do people still own beepers. Don't think even doctors or drug dealers use them any more. I think someone needs a little guided tour of the 21st century

They do on House!

fire brigade and lifeboat use them, but then i still think they fire the rockets and i run doon to see danny do a handbrake turn roon the cross, seeing as i'm stuck in the seventies.

plenty folk wear beepers, mostly round their ankle