• baines@lemmy.cafe
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        2 months ago

        which was the point?

        uk driving school takes itself seriously

        I can understand maybe being confused by my comment but my other 2 in this thread right below would have cleared it up

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          2 months ago

          I don’t mean to sound like a cock, but why should I search through all the comments to find a comment making your original comment clearer, which may or may not be there? No, it didn’t make it clearer.

          • baines@lemmy.cafe
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            2 months ago

            imagine being this full of yourself

            do you ever wonder why people treat you the way they do in real life?

            probably not

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      2 months ago

      What’s the connection to someone struggling to learn to drive?

      Because that’s what I see, and frankly don’t understand it. Today’s cars are tremendously easier to drive than what I learned on, and you should see what my parents had to do to pass their tests, driving manual transmissions without synchronizers, having to start on a hill - smoothly, etc.

      All I see here is someone who finds driving particularly difficult, like I find math particularly difficult, or some people find spelling or grammar particularly difficult.

      If anything, I give OP credit for sticking with it and not giving up, despite the cost. It’s really hard to keep trying when it feels like you’re just always struggling.

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        2 months ago

        if only automatic transmissions made people know and obey traffic laws, not run red lights or drive drunk

        but my point was about the weakly enforced education component and how relatively easy it is to get a license in the US

        so even if he struggled the fact he was required to show minimum competence instead of simply processed through is my point

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          2 months ago

          In the UK, you need to show quite a bit of competence to pass. One of the hardest tests in the world.

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            2 months ago

            yep but we Americans get mad when told we are not exceptional and our drivers are under trained