Drunk Latvian kills 2 near Bremen

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Sir +:
Orys and Switchlogic,you are both intelligent people ,but opinionated and headstrong.There can be no winners in this dialogue-you both used to post interestingly.Orys,with the best will in the world,you do tend to labour points.I realise you have to make your views known,but sometimes less is more :wink: .Switchlogic,nasty does not become you.So,that’s my 2p for what it’s worth,and just as an aside when I mentioned to a Tatra Mountain guide about Poland being an Eastern European country,I was told in no uncertain terms that it is in Central Europe .

Just saw Simon’s warning–I hope this post is OK :slight_smile:

This says what I wanted to say earlier, but I couldn’t keep it so neat and tidy :slight_smile:
This will be the last post on this difference of opinion.

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Sir +:
Orys and Switchlogic,you are both intelligent people ,but opinionated and headstrong.There can be no winners in this dialogue-you both used to post interestingly.Orys,with the best will in the world,you do tend to labour points.I realise you have to make your views known,but sometimes less is more :wink: .Switchlogic,nasty does not become you.So,that’s my 2p for what it’s worth,and just as an aside when I mentioned to a Tatra Mountain guide about Poland being an Eastern European country,I was told in no uncertain terms that it is in Central Europe .

Just saw Simon’s warning–I hope this post is OK :slight_smile:

I hope educative post will be all right.

Nope. Agreement on that point by Sir + will be plenty.

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Sir +:
Orys and Switchlogic,you are both intelligent people ,but opinionated and headstrong.There can be no winners in this dialogue-you both used to post interestingly.Orys,with the best will in the world,you do tend to labour points.I realise you have to make your views known,but sometimes less is more :wink: .Switchlogic,nasty does not become you.So,that’s my 2p for what it’s worth,and just as an aside when I mentioned to a Tatra Mountain guide about Poland being an Eastern European country,I was told in no uncertain terms that it is in Central Europe .

Just saw Simon’s warning–I hope this post is OK :slight_smile:

How dare you call me intelligent! I just post what Bertie tells me to, hence the nastiness :wink:

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Greetings from Munich.

I ran down here yesterday (tipping at the trade fair early doors Monday), so missed all the action on this thread.

In an earlier post, I stated that I was just reporting on an incident without expressing any personal opinion.

In doing so, I employed a common journalistic practice of adding geographical locations eg: “Czech tourists missing in French Alps” or “Local man arrested for stealing Spam in Pennywell”.

I merely provided the information and added a link for those interested enough to follow the story further.

In hindsight it has occurred to me that I made one glaring omission from my original report which would doubtless incur the wrath of my teacher and warrant a “2/10 See me” were I ever to enroll at the “School of Hacks”.

He was 47.

There, I said it.

I realise that by stating this fact that some people may take umbrage and accuse me of being an ageist twit (other vowels are available) and blatantly “having a go at the bairns” :wink:

So sue me :laughing: :laughing:

Now if you will excuse me, I am going to spend the day pottering around the capital of Bavaria on my comedy bicycle.

Auf Wiedersehen, pets…

(Just realised:1,000th post!! GO ME :laughing: :laughing: )

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Oh so being 47 is the optimum age to be a drunk driver is it ? What an outrageous statement ! I am only 45 and drive drunk all the time , I hope you know your insinuations cause great offence to anyone outside this age group. I’m flabbergasted.

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To try and promote harmony on this website I’ve looked at this statement and tried to remove anything that might upset people or prove controversial. I hope it meets to everybody’s approval. :smiley:

Inselaffe:
A ■■■■■■ up Latvian drove onto the A1 near Stuhr with a 40t truck in the wrong direction.

This statement could offend ■■■■■■ up people, Latvians, the people of Stuhr, truck drivers and in this liberal society there is no such thing as the wrong direction. It’s a life style choice.

Inselaffe:
Realizing his mistake he then tried to TURN THE TRUCK AROUND ON THE AUTOBAHN!!!

His can’t used as it identifies the culprit as a man. We have a no blame culture, so the word Mistake is out.
The word truck can’t be used in a negative story. We can’t annoy the road haulage industry. Can’t have turn and around, to much of a reminder or Mrs Thatcher “you turn if you want, but the Ladies not for turning” This might give some terrible flash backs and at worst cause Carryfast to start posting.
The word Autobahn is also not allowed as it identifies the Country as Germany and that is to closely linked with World War 2 and nobody’s allowed to mention the war.

Inselaffe:
Several cars rammed the trailer as it was straddling the road and 2 people were killed.

Can’t use several, as it’s to vague we need and accurate figure. Cars will upset the car driving public who can never do wrong. Rammed this will really annoy the French Sheep Farming lobby, so that’s out then.
Trailer might upset the Film Industry who will claim it could be thought that they are implicated. Straddling, sorry it has to many ■■■■■■ connotations and this is a family web-site. So that does also mean we can’t edit the statement as “Rammed straddling 2 people”

Can’t imply that people were involved, or that they might have been killed, as it could upset any dead people reading this.

Inselaffe:
He took off but was stopped by police a few clicks down the road.

Again identifies a man is involved. Can’t report Police activities without written permission, and few clicks could be considered to refer to a metric measurements, and we don’t want to upset middle England do we.

Inselaffe:
Video report: HERE

Video can’t be used as they may contain scenes upsetting to some people.

Please re-wite as “a up drove onto the near with a in the realising then tried to the on the. cars the as it was the road and 2 were. took off but was stopped by a few down the road.”

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muckles:
To try and promote harmony on this website I’ve looked at this statement and tried to remove anything that might upset people or prove controversial. I hope it meets to everybody’s approval. :smiley:

Inselaffe:
A ■■■■■■ up Latvian drove onto the A1 near Stuhr with a 40t truck in the wrong direction.

This statement could offend ■■■■■■ up people, Latvians, the people of Stuhr, truck drivers and in this liberal society there is no such thing as the wrong direction. It’s a life style choice.

Inselaffe:
Realizing his mistake he then tried to TURN THE TRUCK AROUND ON THE AUTOBAHN!!!

His can’t used as it identifies the culprit as a man. We have a no blame culture, so the word Mistake is out.
The word truck can’t be used in a negative story. We can’t annoy the road haulage industry. Can’t have turn and around, to much of a reminder or Mrs Thatcher “you turn if you want, but the Ladies not for turning” This might give some terrible flash backs and at worst cause Carryfast to start posting.
The word Autobahn is also not allowed as it identifies the Country as Germany and that is to closely linked with World War 2 and nobody’s allowed to mention the war.

Inselaffe:
Several cars rammed the trailer as it was straddling the road and 2 people were killed.

Can’t use several, as it’s to vague we need and accurate figure. Cars will upset the car driving public who can never do wrong. Rammed this will really annoy the French Sheep Farming lobby, so that’s out then.
Trailer might upset the Film Industry who will claim it could be thought that they are implicated. Straddling, sorry it has to many ■■■■■■ connotations and this is a family web-site. So that does also mean we can’t edit the statement as “Rammed straddling 2 people”

Can’t imply that people were involved, or that they might have been killed, as it could upset any dead people reading this.

Inselaffe:
He took off but was stopped by police a few clicks down the road.

Again identifies a man is involved. Can’t report Police activities without written permission, and few clicks could be considered to refer to a metric measurements, and we don’t want to upset middle England do we.

Inselaffe:
Video report: HERE

Video can’t be used as they may contain scenes upsetting to some people.

Please re-wite as “a up drove onto the near with a in the realising then tried to the on the. cars the as it was the road and 2 were. took off but was stopped by a few down the road.”

:open_mouth: thought i was reading one of orys posts :smiley: :smiley:

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switchlogic:
Oh Orys will you never learn? You drive half the anti-Eastern European sentiment on this forum with your constant rants. I reckon if you just left well alone they’d be a lot less of it. After all I’m very mild mannered and you still managed to ■■■■ me off big time. Diplomacy really isn’t your thing old bean. Have a little rest. I remember a time not so long ago when you were a very popular member on here…

I will echo that to the word!!!

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muckles:
To try and promote harmony on this website I’ve looked at this statement and tried to remove anything that might upset people or prove controversial. I hope it meets to everybody’s approval. :smiley:

I hope you asked Focus and Inselaffe for permission to report what they have written on their website and here on forum? :slight_smile:

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turnip:
Furthermore orys , if their were such an incident involving a British truck I am damned sure it would be all over trucknet within hrs of it happening.

Yes Orys,
Some months ago I posted a picture of an Autoroute service vehicle, here in France, attending an incident, the driver had just stepped out of his van when an ENGLISH driver that had fallen asleep at the wheel ran straight into the back of it,reducing it to a third of its size, luckily with no fatalities.
So get off your high horse and stop all this " I’m being persecuted " mentality.

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Somebody just posted about a coach crash on the M3 involving a Dutch coach. I think it’s disgusting the anti Dutch sentiment in that post, terrible

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switchlogic:
Somebody just posted about a coach crash on the M3 involving a Dutch coach. I think it’s disgusting the anti Dutch sentiment in that post, terrible

Yes why use the word Dutch when European ish would suffice.

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switchlogic:
Somebody just posted about a coach crash on the M3 involving a Dutch coach. I think it’s disgusting the anti Dutch sentiment in that post, terrible

Thank you Luke for proving my point.

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I looked for that thread and I found it. It says “M3 closed, accident involving coach, Dutch passengers hurt” - somehow I can’t see there anything about nationality of the driver, followed by usual truckned comments “typical Dutch” “It’s time to ban Dutch coaches from our roads, passengers should be taken over in Dover by British coaches” and such :slight_smile:

Now you can see what I am talking about. :slight_smile:

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Ah the Dutch bloddy bunch of dope smoking pornographers :smiley:

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turnip:
I used to have some sympathy for your arguments. Not any more, the amount of times you have insulted us all is unbelievable. Your bordering on racist yourself.

Bordering!!!
I used to know a couple of poles many moons ago and thought they were the soundest pair of guys I’d ever met, ( long before the invasion )

Then last year I was talking to a young un, ( mid 20’s ) and asked him his opinion on the Euros, well racist is an understatement to the answer he gave me.

Me,
So how do you think your team (Poland) is going to do in the euros?
Him,
They goin to ■■■■! He says
Me,
What do ya mean ?I thought youse had a decent team.
Him,
No, they craaap team, they have Germans and French players,( I think these were the countries he mentioned)
Me,
They can’t have Germans and French playing for them, they’ve gotta be Polish…
Him,
Yea they mother or father German, or French, we want only Polish!

Enough said

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My god Orys if that chip on your shoulder gets any bigger you won’t be able to walk.

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orys:
Now you can see what I am talking about. :slight_smile:

I’ve always been able to see what you’re on about. Bigotry in all its forms disgusts me as believe it or not I’ve been on the recieving end of it both online and in person. I’d also like to point out that on many occassions on ferries and RDC waiting rooms and the like I’ve defended my eastern European coworkers in conversations with English and Irish drivers. In fact a favourite is the look on a British drivers face when after a rant about ‘Poles stealing our jobs’ you point out to him in that case we are both stealing an irishmans job.

My point was how you go about it. It was originally friendly advice. Trust me after many a battle on here with homophobic bigots I learned that my angry defence just made them more homophobic in the end. And you make the anti EE sentiment on this forum worse. You need to learn less is more. This particular post would have had and handful of comments and be dying by now. As it is you’ve just drawn more anti EE types in to the conversation.

Just wanted to make my position clear after the mud slinging and that I’ve done now which is what matters, as I’ve a feeling you won’t listen to as single word of that.

Maybe if someone had time we could do an experiment. If Orys didn’t comment on any EE posts for a period of time we could work out how many anti EE posts are made and compare it to a similar period of time from when he is posting. Would actually be really interesting, although I’ve a feeling he’d never agree!

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The problem is orys thinks and says they are anti ee when they are not !
For instance this thread. Look back through and nobody has said anything anti ee until orys pops up and hijacks the thread as usual. The use of the word Latvian was purely factual but orys well polished paranoia can’t accept that and away we go. I think he also has a very healthy delusion of grandeur.

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Outandabout:

turnip:
I used to have some sympathy for your arguments. Not any more, the amount of times you have insulted us all is unbelievable. Your bordering on racist yourself.

Bordering!!!
I used to know a couple of poles many moons ago and thought they were the soundest pair of guys I’d ever met, ( long before the invasion )

Then last year I was talking to a young un, ( mid 20’s ) and asked him his opinion on the Euros, well racist is an understatement to the answer he gave me.

Me,
So how do you think your team (Poland) is going to do in the euros?
Him,
They goin to [zb]! He says
Me,
What do ya mean ?I thought youse had a decent team.
Him,
No, they craaap team, they have Germans and French players,( I think these were the countries he mentioned)
Me,
They can’t have Germans and French playing for them, they’ve gotta be Polish…
Him,
Yea they mother or father German, or French, we want only Polish!

Enough said

Wait until you get most Eastern Europeans on black people it borders between alf garnet and adolf hitler.

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Oh god now you’ve done it, is that Orys I can see riding over that hill on his donkey? Complete with the Orys encyclopaedia of European history? With 3,000 pages on Yalta and how the west is to blame for everything? :wink: I see an opportunity for him, Wikiorys…