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Personally I don't think there should be any phone laws, we had driving without due care and attention and that should be enough.

The problem being as Jobbo says it will be a grey area and then too open to abuse.

I was quite happy being on my phone when it was legal but possibly affected my ...

I wonder if the law has/needs changing due to stop start tech?



It’s in the uk_gov link Jobbo posted


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The law still applies to you if you’re:

stopped at traffic lights
queuing in traffic
supervising a learner driver
driving a car that turns off the engine when you stop moving ...

It's not ambiguous - it is holding the phone in your hand which is an offence. Hands-free means it's in a mount, not that you're using Siri. Other resources are available to remove ambiguity: https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/ask-the-police/question/Q955 for example.
" Pushing buttons ...

I wonder if the law has/needs changing due to stop start tech?

Is the car running if the engine isn't on? Or do they just go from ignition being live - I guess that covers EVs too..

We had sausages in bacon with our Christmas roast as children. They were just called sausages in bacon.

Pigs in blankets feels fairly modern and also stupid. I would usually assume it had come from the US of A


This is what 'mericans consider Pigs in Blankets - hotdogs in pastry.

https://www ...

NYT are going for it...

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women
The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were ...

duncs500 wrote: Thu Dec 18, 2025 9:55 am but I think they've oversimplified it at test level.

They seem to have forgotten the art of the 5 day format

Part of the problem here is hoping to see a lead. Australia had more than a day to post their total and we would need similar. I just hoped to have not lost too many wickets rather than be leading already. That said, 6 of the 8 wickets were to defensive shots, either good balls or bad luck, not the ...

Is that a CD player, player, player, player, player, player, player, player in the front of his chest?

Sad times.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79x7q325p3o

And then this was all over the Aussie press:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/ ... /105931332

Madness in concert for R2

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002njkx

A little Christmas cheer:

RobYob wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 3:49 am

Subaru Brumby at play in Aus. Looks like they were having the time of their lives.

Saw the MCM vid about it - 27 secs per set of tires

The west coast of Tassie is fantastic driving roads - all immaculately tarmacked too, presumably for/due to Targa.
Got the boat over, stopped at Cradle Mountain for a couple of nights then due west and down to Queenstown, east and down to New Norfolk and back to civilisation of Hobart. Just had ...

Targa Tasmania is back after 3 years in the *ahem* wilderness after a number of deaths and a falling out with Australia's main motorsport body.

Whilst the rules seem to have been made stricter and speed limits imposed the fact the lead three cars are a R35 GTR, an Exige V6 and a Viper ACR is ...

Jobbo wrote: Fri Dec 05, 2025 11:29 am Found on Google Streetview: a rather Mad Max style mk2 MX5 on a bridge over the M50:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eqZVXsnUFfo6SUEe7

If the maps are updated and that takes you to a different date, it's the May 2024 image.

I wonder what the story behind that is - especially the boot

Sliding doors to save room space?

Saw them in a few new build rabbit hutches, makes the rooms look small instead of tiny

jamcg wrote: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:00 am Can’t see anything there that would have a buzzer inside. Have those dark marks been checked? Looks like scorching from a hot spot inside the board?

They're sticky, suspected residue from a plugin air freshener type thing to mask the smell of weed - not round to cleaning up hat high yet!

Definitely sounds like a battery dieing but also definitely coming from the consumer unit.
Flipped each breaker one by one but no change.

Unusual for a consumer unit to have anything that beeps. Do you have any CO alarms or smoke alarms nearby? Sounds more like something battery powered is dying


I thought so too!

Smoke alarm and C02 are in a different room.
However it was 0515H and I wasn't fully with it! I'll see if it happens ...