This will probably get pulled...

[mrs_overall]

I joined in this thread with genuine interest and am puzzled as to why I have been called abusive? Have I been out of order here?

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1133239.html

[mrs_overall]

methyl, if I did that my street cred would be out of the window.
Can I submit ot further flogging instead please?

[parkie]

Must admit I did not see this thread until now.
My own view is because mobility scooters are so slow on the roads and (through no fault of the genuine users) can cause problems, the fewer there are the better and they should be reserved only for those who genuinely need them.
I also think users should be tested before using them. A couple or so years ago I turned into a one way system near where I lived and nearly went head-on into a mobility scooter coming towards me in the middle of the road. What the driver didn't call me was no body's business. As far as he was concerned he was in the right.
(I wonder where AOG lives?)

[Buenchico]

AOG lives inside the Daily Mail, Parkdale ;-)

[MarkRae]

^^ Indeed.

And anyone who uses the Daily Mail as any sort of yardstick of the truth can be dismissed as little short of a Sun reader...

[wolf63]

I get the Daily Mail Monday to Saturday. It has a lot of good stuff in it. Good puzzles section, cartoons, middle pull-pits (femail etc), Liz Jones to laugh at, good TV guide and some competitions. What's not to like. :-)

[Buenchico]

>>>What's not to like?

Well xenophobia, racism and political bias within its so-called 'news' coverage comes to mind!

[wolf63]

I don't read any of that or the sports or motoring sections. Simple!

[mike11111]

If you are going to condemn the DM solely on the grounds of political bias you must also condemn virtually the entire British press, not least the Daily Mirror ( I can't mention the Grauniad else I will have to wash my mouth out with soap and water).

[Buenchico]

There's a big difference, Mike, between displaying political bias in leader articles (which is perfectly acceptable) and 'bending' actual news coverage because of it.

While no newspaper (or indeed, broadcaster) is ever without fault, both The Times[i and [i]The Independent] still manage to keep a certain amount of distance between the content of their leader articles and the way that they cover actual news. (Yes, you really did find me saying something positive about a News International publication there!)

[MarkRae]

Other than the italics, I couldn't have put that better myself... ;-)

[mike11111]

Ah, well, such is one of the penalties of ageing. My dying brain cells no longer allow me to dissect the various items in the press to arrive at an informed conclusion so I suppose I shall have to rely on AOG to keep me up to speed.

[MarkRae]

> I suppose I shall have to rely on AOG

That is sad beyond belief! It's not even the blind leading the blind...

[mike11111]

My avatar shows me wearing a green suit and a fancy hat.You perhaps may not have noticed the tongue in my cheek!

[jno]

well, I don't know, Chris - The Times' headline on the grooming story the other day was something like "Shame of a nation", which is pretty much indistinguishable from a Mail-type headline and manifestly non-factual.

[sandyRoe]

Which 'nation' did they have in mind?

[parkie]

Oh dear. Talk about the pen being mightier than the sword. I'm going for a quick rub down with the Radio Times. (Or is that politically biased as well?)

[FredPuli43]

Hang on. Wasn't The |Times "Shame of a nation" headline about the girls being not protected by the very organisations and homes set up and paid for by us that were meanty to protect them ? That was the shame of our nation. That was all it was about.

[EDDIE51]

Plenty of Mobility scooters on the Golf course except they call them Golf Carts , I can't see a diffrence . For the sake of argument, if I bought a Golf cart and called it a 'mobiliy scooter' and drove it to the shops would I be committing an offence ?