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johng wrote:I drove from Perpignan to Nice last week. They are far worse. Greeks worse again. Italians...... But Rome takes the top honour of places I've driven. Maniacs doesn't come close.

We need a new scale. STARTING at maniac.

I'm not allowed to drive in Italy - I start at road rage and escalate from there.
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johng wrote:I drove from Perpignan to Nice last week. They are far worse. Greeks worse again. Italians...... But Rome takes the top honour of places I've driven. Maniacs doesn't come close.

We need a new scale. STARTING at maniac.
The Rome drivers are first rate safe drivers compared to those in Naples, you haven't driven till you have driven through it. Then there is India, best not even try
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johng wrote:I drove from Perpignan to Nice last week. They are far worse. Greeks worse again. Italians...... But Rome takes the top honour of places I've driven. Maniacs doesn't come close.

We need a new scale. STARTING at maniac.
Portuguese are god-awful drivers too.
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Never quite made it to Naples. Furthest south I have driven in Italy is about half way between Rome and Naples. Never been to India and probably wouldn't consider driving there. Driven a fair bit in Portugal and Spain without any issues. Maybe just lucky.
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Palermo makes Rome look scandanavian
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johng wrote:Never quite made it to Naples. Furthest south I have driven in Italy is about half way between Rome and Naples. Never been to India and probably wouldn't consider driving there. Driven a fair bit in Portugal and Spain without any issues. Maybe just lucky.
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domhnallj wrote:
johng wrote:I drove from Perpignan to Nice last week. They are far worse. Greeks worse again. Italians...... But Rome takes the top honour of places I've driven. Maniacs doesn't come close.

We need a new scale. STARTING at maniac.

I'm not allowed to drive in Italy - I start at road rage and escalate from there.
For flips sake man that is prime Italian driving, wave hands, make gestures and honk your horn, they will think you are a local.
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Lottie Ryan. They used heavy metal music to break Noriega. For me it would be Lottie Ryan's voice.
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Thankfully I have never heard it or of her. :|
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The music on right here, right now #turnitoff
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the spoofer wrote:Lottie Ryan. They used heavy metal music to break Noriega. For me it would be Lottie Ryan's voice.
How is she employed by RTE?
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johng wrote:Thankfully I have never heard it or of her. :|
Jaysus, even I've heard of her...and I thought Gay Byrne still presented the Late late show.
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Awful scenes in US due to Hurricane Harvey, 18 dead as of now. Massive media coverage.
As a side note, floods in India have killed at least 500 people. Hardly a mention.
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Ryanair cancelling my £12.50 flight to Dublin tomorrow meaning I have now to pay £100 to Aer Lingus. The humanity, the b$&%@#ds...
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domhnallj wrote:Ryanair cancelling my £12.50 flight to Dublin tomorrow meaning I have now to pay £100 to Aer Lingus. The humanity, the b$&%@#ds...
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blockhead wrote:Awful scenes in US due to Hurricane Harvey, 18 dead as of now. Massive media coverage.
As a side note, floods in India have killed at least 500 people. Hardly a mention.
That says as much about the Indian media and Government as anything else.
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Oldschool wrote:
blockhead wrote:Awful scenes in US due to Hurricane Harvey, 18 dead as of now. Massive media coverage.
As a side note, floods in India have killed at least 500 people. Hardly a mention.
That says as much about the Indian media and Government as anything else.
No it doesn't you plonker. It says that our media doesn't think that it will gain much traction with audience's here and so goes unmentioned.
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Tonight. 500 people died but none of them were Irish.... Or even from a place where Irish people might have relatives so.....

Replace Irish with whichever country is reporting the news.

Put it another way....

A/ Someone was shot today in west Dublin but you don't know anyone who knows them.....

That's terrible. People are getting shot all the time here. Ffs.

B/ You know that girl who's going out with Mick? Yeah well her brother was shot dead today in west Dublin....

Holy fcuk that's so tragic. She's a lovely girl. She must be devastated. Is there anything we can do. How's her ma. Etc. Etc.
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