Do motorcyclists have below average intelligence?

[gn2]

RBS is a British bank, currently the majority shareholder is the Westminster Government.
Gordon Brown is a scot but he is a British M.P.
What is our current national debt?
What was it when Cameron assumed the helm?

[c4aok]

Gents scoots not scots!

[wozza]

RBS is a British bank, currently the majority shareholder is the Westminster Government.
Gordon Brown is a scot but he is a British M.P.
What is our current national debt?
What was it when Cameron assumed the helm?

Yep the government certainly is the majority shareholder in RBS, but it wasn't before the crisis as RBS had to be rescued or left to collapse.
Surely you can't be laying the national debt at Cameron's feet? He's been left with it yes, but he certainly didn't create it.

[Steve_D]

I live next door to a Scot. He was telling me that he was on holiday and he walked past an expensive French restaurant with his wife and she commented on the lovely decor inside, the well presented waiters and tantalising aroma's coming from it. "Fuck it", he said, "you only live once" and as a special treat he walked her past it again!

[gn2]

As Frank Carson would have said, that's a cracker!

[Bluebottle]

I'm always wary of running down the inside of slow moving traffic, even if it is in a bus lane

[c4aok]

Has to be less dangerous than going up the outside with oncoming traffic as well

[gn2]

Has to be less dangerous than going up the outside with oncoming traffic as well

That's one thing which prevents cars pulling in front of you.
You can see and avoid oncoming traffic so thats not a problem.
Passing on the outside is always safer particularly if large vehicles are involved.

[c4aok]

How can it be safer than riding in an empty bus lane? I ride in london and bus lanes are a breeze compared to filtering because cars generally stay out of them so risk of a left turn is very rare until you hit a junction when you can ride accordingly

[Steve_D]

Oh, it's easy to have an accident in an empty bus lane! I had an accident in 2012 riding down an empty bus lane. There were signs all along it saying that the bus lane restrictions no longer applied and was open to all traffic but still, no-one went in it. The lane of traffic to my right was at a standstill. As I got to a junction with a side turning that had a 'keep clear' area, some twat in the outside oncoming lane just zipped through the gap in the traffic to turn right and hit me side-on.