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Aneirin -> RE: Heathrow Responds To Big Freeze By Freezing Passengers Heathrow responded to Britain’s big freeze (12/20/2010 1:48:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: RapierFugue
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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
Oh, but I get it, people of the past existed for themselves, what they did was for them, now we are all slaves to the corporation, we must work all the time.
<plays world's smallest violin>
If you seriously think people in times long past had easier lives then I'm afraid you're mistaken.
I didn't say that, all I was saying was people then had the sense to not go out in conditions which could lead to their death unless they really had to. Slippy under foot, under tyre, wtf are you doing then, no grip means no control and not only risking your own life, but the poor fuckers around you.
The cars I used to use was a veritable pneumonia wagon, it even used to freeze on the inside of the wind screen, but boy, didn't one just know what the conditions were like. That coupled with no servo or powered anything made you very aware of what the conditions were like where you were driving. Now I see fuckwits driving along in the snow and ice as if it was a summer jaunt, their cars are insulating them from the reality of just what is not under the tyres, that thing called friction. But perhaps those stuck at transport terminals are that kind of driver, they expect everything to be working, because they don't notice the realities in their insulated worlds. Oh, and the vehicle I used to drive in snow and ice, was a 1970's VW transporter, perfect for the conditions, 50/50 weight distribution, high ground clearance, limited slip diff, and snow chains all around, it might have only been a 1600, but in snow and ice, it was unstoppable.
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