Just to cheer us all up……

by Anna Raccoon on April 2, 2009

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Anna is the landlady of the Raccoon Arms. She lives in the Monbazillac area of South West France and still takes a keen interest in British politics.

{ 14 comments }

1 janes April 2, 2009 at 16:45

Very funny, you traitor!

2 Anna Raccoon April 2, 2009 at 16:46

If we can’t laugh at ourselves………

3 AnnieD April 2, 2009 at 18:36

Male drivers have a 77 percent higher risk of dying in a car accident than women, based on miles driven.

4 Zak April 2, 2009 at 19:06

Not so funny if you happen to be an automated barrier! AnnieD did those figures show who caused the accident that the men died in? Perhaps a woman who veers in and out of motorway lanes unaware of the terrified drivers behind her because her rear view mirror if facing her so she can check she still looks okay and a side mirror facing the ground after some previous failed parking attempt. Of course I don’t know but would be interested to find out.

5 Anna Raccoon April 2, 2009 at 19:11

Well, if we are going to be sexist about this Zak – how many women imagine they are a 22 year old Formula One Racing Driver as they weave in and out of the rush hour traffic?
But then how many women would dream of spending two and half hours driving round and round in circles at 200 miles an hour in order to have the dubious pleasure of spilling a perfectly good bottle of champagne over their friends…..

Regards,
Formula One Widow aka Anna

6 janes April 2, 2009 at 19:20

AR: how many women imagine they are a 22 year old Formula One Racing Driver as they weave in and out of the rush hour traffic?

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At least one!

7 Zak April 2, 2009 at 19:40

Driving round in circles at 200mph? Surely that is the daily school run. If it is racing we are talking about I believe the sport you are referring to is NASCAR where drivers compete on an oval shaped circuit. Formula 1, and believe me when I say I am far from being a fan, is much more complicated, their courses are more difficult to drive on because they are comprised of sharp bends and deceiving cambers. However if I take the meaning of your post; you are correct and many if not all men do live out their fantasy of being extremely good at driving (although most are not) by driving at stupid speeds on our nations roads. However being good at driving fast means not crashing and getting used to driving faster than one would drive normally does have its advantages. Rather than just operating a machine it becomes second nature as you ‘think’ less and less about gear changes etc so perhaps this, normally short lived, dance with death at 200mph actually results in a better driver when he or she slows down.

8 Zak April 2, 2009 at 19:49

By the way that post about the girl and the mirrors wasn’t a sexist fabrication or clich

9 Zak April 2, 2009 at 20:10

In the interests of fairness check out this guy. We all remember the Hamlet ads, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB6GLVB-mbA

10 spark up April 3, 2009 at 02:40

6:36 pm

Male drivers have a 77 percent higher risk of dying in a car accident than women, based on miles driven.

trying to escape from passenger seats having been driven mad by the vehicular multi-trashing skills of the freakier sex.

11 Coco April 3, 2009 at 03:09

I am shocked to think any woman would drive like that. I am not sure I believe any of these clips. I would like to think they are all men wearing ladies clothing.

However ………. I must admit there was the time when I have asked some smart-arse to try and get my car out of a spot where somebody else had blocked in. He kept shouting from his own car that he could get a bus get through the gap. It turned out that he couldn’t get my car through the gap – never mind his imaginary bus.

Being a bloke proved wrong and bright red with embarrassment, he abandoned his own car and stomped off the car-park as if he had somewhere to go ………. And ploughed into some freshly-laid concrete! There is a God.

12 janes April 3, 2009 at 10:36

Coco, I do like a laugh in the morning! Recent scientific research suggests you have just extended my life by 5 minutes. Thank you.

13 Zak April 3, 2009 at 13:47

All of those clips are duplicated on YouTube under the title ‘male drivers’.

14 Coco April 3, 2009 at 15:36

See what I mean Zak? ………… I thought that they simply had to be men anyway. :lol: