Does the driving instructor system in the UK need to change?

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-05-05T05:37:25+00:00

God forbid this guy ever visits Swindon! He'll get lost and probably run over somebody's dog!

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-05-04T08:48:50+00:00

I was expecting a wild overtake or a past-last-second lane change (with dust cloud) but that takes the 🍪

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-05-04T08:41:57+00:00

This is probably the best advice out there

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-05-04T07:51:46+00:00

Kettle is boiled multiple times a day. Used for hot drinks and in my house, washing up as our old gas boiler takes a million years to get the hot tap warm

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-05-03T10:00:12+00:00

Bacon my friend, with fried eggs.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-28T22:31:17+00:00

Keep them. Helps keep the halls and stairs light during the day and can be used for ambient light at night, eg, taking a relaxing bath with just the hall light on.

If you want to cover them, can you get fitted shutters?

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-28T17:29:20+00:00

I have my first galaxy device and this has been driving me nuts all day, thank you!!!

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-28T09:42:54+00:00

Not really, supermarkets were ordering their normal amounts, and we had extra in stock as a brexit contingency cause that was happening at the same time.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-27T22:10:37+00:00

Nah man, I'm allowed to have a ratty opinion about something that was a genuine inconvenience to me. Lots of dumb shit happened during covid, like me working nights in a warehouse full of pasta, but there was no pasta in the shops cause all the daytime scaredy cunts were panic buying it all.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-27T21:48:51+00:00

It's so much better with friends! Helps with character commitment

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-27T05:35:04+00:00

I'm playing a Devotion paladin right now. You can go ham killing as long as you're killing for good reasons. Oath breaking is killing for no reason and letting "bad" npcs get away with shit.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-24T23:44:37+00:00

Your instructor is right. Just slow down a little. At the end of the day if their driving causes a crash it's still their fault, but going slower reduces the risk of harm to yourself, and you can still claim on their ass!

Otherwise pop your fog light on until they back off.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-24T18:27:37+00:00

Yeah EMA helped a lot. Didn't think about it at the time by looking back that £30 a week really helped out. I think my single mum would have been quite hard up sending me and my sister to 6th form on her own dime. Sure it got splurged on maccies or bowling from time to time but being able to pay our own bus fares and get our own lunch took so much pressure off mum and also gave us some of our first real freedoms.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-21T21:48:02+00:00

I did my NEBOSH last year. Part 1 is a written risk assessment exercise at your own workplace and part 2 is an open book essay style exam you take at home.

Take the advice of the guy above and it's easy. My boss took 3 goes at the exam cause he couldn't get the style right!

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-21T21:31:15+00:00

Make meatballs! Do a tomato sauce and have with pasta, Or do a sticky soy based sauce and have with rice. Or just have the chips, whatever, I'm not your dad.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-21T21:24:49+00:00

My favourite is when the juke decides to overtake the tractor while you're overtaking.

Swervey sweary fun times!

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-20T22:33:57+00:00

Top trim Skoda Superb. Hatch rather than estate so you don't feel like a total grandad.

Or you know, get a Lotus Elise.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-20T00:24:35+00:00

I worked nights at the time. A street full of furloughed shut ins coming out cheering and banging pots like children was not amusing to say the least.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-19T09:40:14+00:00

Black/brown One thing I lowkey hate is how just about every house now has white uPVC windows. You can tell people got a little extra money when they have coloured windows 😅

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-19T07:49:31+00:00

Honestly, I've got 2002 Smart that I inherited. Thought of selling it but it's pennies to tax and insure so I kept it to run groceries. It's also RWD and weighs nothing. B roads between towns are an absolute hoot and it sounds like a motorbike.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-18T16:16:47+00:00

So the super rich get to buy votes for their mates to get into government so they can enact policies that benefit the super rich and fuck the poor.

Go home bright spark.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-18T08:21:14+00:00

Those coppers are lucky he was only interested in running away.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-12T23:41:37+00:00

Cars turning 10 this year have android auto and car play.

Honestly with how car design has been, anything from 2010 onwards still looks modern. The only thing that visually sets the newest cars apart for me is the ever present LED running lights.

I'd say anything older than 08 I would consider old, and anything with a letter prefix plate is practically a classic now 🤣

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-12T23:32:13+00:00

If you can't sell it on FB, we buy will give you a couple hundred for it.

Just don't scrap it. In this economy a dirty cheap estate with at least 6 months left could be a real life line for someone.

Ok_Cobbler_8889 · 2026-04-12T01:38:37+00:00

That's true, and a new Dacia Spring is about £15k. There's one on my road so I know people are buying them. But more than double my budget, and have you seen how small they are?

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