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Thu 31 Mar 16 12:15

Best or worst driver? - Pat

I can't believe no-one has linked to this today

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/31/revealed-the-top-10-worst-drivers-on-the-road-by-profession/

Could it be because I'm in the top five:)

Pat

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Thu 31 Mar 16 13:45

Best or worst driver? - Duncan

Because you are less likely to have an accident doesn't mean that you are one of the 'best' drivers.

It means you are less likely to have an accident. Not necessarily the same thing at all.

'Roofers are the best', do me a favour!

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Thu 31 Mar 16 13:52

Best or worst driver? - Alanovich

This is simply down to everyone else getting out of the s0dd1ng way every time they see one of the drivers on the "best drivers" list.

Do me a favour.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 13:56

Best or worst driver? - WillDeBeest

This is the same Telegraph that gave us '...death rates increasing because of the ageing population', remember. Numerical reasoning isn't its strong suit.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 14:00

Best or worst driver? - Pat

That would be sour grapes then from those on here in the 10 worst drivers section:)

No sense of humour....don't you know women find it very attractive when a man can laugh at his own inabilities?

Pat

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Thu 31 Mar 16 14:07

Best or worst driver? - WillDeBeest

...or simply recognizing a heap of semi-numerate bollards designed to get an obscure insurer's name in a paper lazy enough to call that journalism. Makes the JD Power Survey look like a Cochrane Review.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 15:37

Best or worst driver? - Pat

Any excuse will do:)

What is your profession as a matter of interest WdeB?

Pat

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Thu 31 Mar 16 16:00

Best or worst driver? - Duncan

>> What is your profession as a matter of interest WdeB?

Are you implying that being a lorry driver is a profession?

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Thu 31 Mar 16 16:10

Best or worst driver? - Pat

It most certainly is Duncan and one I'm extremely proud of.

If you have any doubts just search this forum for the amount of times lorry drivers have been called professionals.......when they've done something wrong.

Pat

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Thu 31 Mar 16 16:05

Best or worst driver? - WillDeBeest

You might as well ask me my star sign for all the relevance it has to my driving prowess. I don't drive a white van; I do produce commercial models running to eight and sometimes nine digits, so you could say numbers matter to me. And like everyone else here, I'm only as good a driver as I show myself to be on the way home this evening.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 16:11

Best or worst driver? - Pat

Well fielded, but would have been better if you hadn't taken the bait in the first place!

Pat

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Thu 31 Mar 16 17:11

Best or worst driver? - sooty123

I do produce commercial models
>> running to eight and sometimes nine digits,

what's a commercial model? Yahoo wasn't helpful, unless you're actually a catwalk model.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 17:37

Best or worst driver? - WillDeBeest

Well, it doesn't score me many personality points at social occasions when the 'so what do you do?' question comes up; I'm too tall to be a fighter pilot, so I usually settle for 'lion tamer' or 'international jewel thief' instead.

I know quite a lot about Microsoft Excel. I'm especially fond of the SUMPRODUCT function. Get the idea?

Fortunately, I get to travel and help with selling the services packages I've modelled. That makes for some better conversations at parties - and makes a useful cover for the jewellery capers.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 17:42

Best or worst driver? - sooty123

I know quite a lot about Microsoft Excel. I'm especially fond of the SUMPRODUCT function.
>> Get the idea?
>>

Honestly? I think I'm a bit more confused now.

yahoo suggests something to do with working out budgets?

Last edited by: sooty123 on Thu 31 Mar 16 at 17:43

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Thu 31 Mar 16 17:49

Best or worst driver? - Runfer D'Hills

I know quite a lot about Excel too. I know that there are now far too many people spending hours filling in those cursed little boxes when they could be doing something useful instead.

And I know that my data input is far more accurate in Excel if I stick the tip of my tongue out of the corner of my mouth while typing.

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Fri 1 Apr 16 10:45

Best or worst driver? - Mapmaker

>>SUMPRODUCT

Perfect. That's just the function I've been looking for, how useful, thank you.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 16:33

Best or worst driver? - Alanovich

Strangely enough, Pat, this never struck me as the kind of place a married man would visit in the hope of attracting illicit female attention. It certainly isn't my main driver, if you'll pardon the pun.

My "profession" is not on ze list.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 17:04

Best or worst driver? - WillDeBeest

I confess I missed the come-on too. You must be losing your touch, Pat.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 17:18

Best or worst driver? - Pat

>> You must be losing your touch, Pat<<

No, I've just managed to maintain my sense of humour!

Pat

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Thu 31 Mar 16 17:44

Best or worst driver? - Haywain

"....don't you know women find it very attractive when a man can laugh at his own inabilities?"

Ah - I wish you'd tell mrs H that!

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Thu 31 Mar 16 15:45

Best or worst driver? - Armel Coussine

>> This is the same Telegraph that gave us '...death rates increasing because of the ageing population', remember. Numerical reasoning isn't its strong suit.

Reasoning of any sort isn't its strong suit. It's a newspaper, produced for the irrational multitudes. The other mass media are as bad or worse.

Still OK in my book though. You have to know how to read a newspaper and what to take seriously in the electronic media... but you still get misled quite often. Keeps things interesting.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 17:26

Best or worst driver? - Zero

Now I am retired

1. Roofer

tick - thats me

2. Farm worker

tick - thats me

3. Builder

tick - thats me

4. Lorry driver

nope dont do that

5. Cleaner

tick - thats me

6. Carpet fitter

tick - thats me

7. Factory worker

nope - not yet did it in the past tho

8. Mechanic

tick - thats me

9. Butcher

tick - thats me

10. Painter and decorators

tick - thats me

That makes me a bucking ACE driver.

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Thu 31 Mar 16 18:11

Best or worst driver? - Pat

That just makes you a Jack of all trades.......Master of none!

Pat

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Thu 31 Mar 16 18:17

Best or worst driver? - Zero

>> That just makes you a Jack of all trades.......Master of none!
>>
>> Pat

It makes me flexible, adaptable, no - lets not beat about the bush, Multi Talented.

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