So this curfew, which is described in short here is being discussed today in a round table [the government think they're the knight's of camelot now] today and is an idea they've concocted to help slash the road toll, which is up 15 people from this time last year. i think this is going to turn into one of those 2am lockout type things and isn't going to work because, let's face it, there are always going to be stupid people doing stupid things no matter what the laws are, they haven't thought about the implications of people who work in hospitality, when i worked at the espy i started work at 9pm and finished at 3am, and there's no way to get from st kilda to coburg via public transport at that ungodly hour, i had to drive. and what about the designated driver? if you can't drive your friends home after midnight then the whole group will just get drunk, and if there isn't at least one sober person in the bunch, then they're more likely to do something stupid like get in a car and drive into a tree. honestly government people, i thought you would have learned by now to consider all the options and put yourselves in the shoes of the average person. remember the first time you tried that by calling a press conference at a train station and catching the train in? do you remember that? yeah, oh course you do, because you were 20 minutes late you dingbat because you're running a system that doesn't work, and if you'd ever been on the train system before you would have known to catch the earlier one "just in case".
this is really just going to punish safe drivers who do the right thing. i don't mind being designated driver, i personally like driving and on occasion would rather drive than drink and thus be the hero of the night taking everyone home safely when frivolities have come to an end. are you going to improve the public transport system to cater for these rules? i mean young drivers are mostly students or part time/casual workers, making very little money and possibly still living at home. in my case, home is a very long way away from the city and too far to catch a taxi, so if i'm going out and want to get home, i drive. night rider buses don't go out my way, and they hardly go where you need them to go anyway. i propose night riders that follow all tram and train lines to a tee so that people can actually get home at the end of the night. can you deal with that to compensate for these changes government? seeing how poorly these buses already run i'm going to say no.
i think the issue isn't just a blanket problem for drivers under 25. these are the least experienced drivers on the road yes, but they aren't the only problem. if you seriously and accurately want to make the roads safer then perhaps it would be helpful to introduce a psychological test to accompany driving skills test when one is going for their license to assess whether the applicant is at a maturity level able to handle the challenge of driving and all the risks involved. of course a hoon isn't going to hoon in their driving test, they do that shit when instructors and officials aren't looking. and maybe every time one goes to renew their license they should have to do the tests again to make sure they haven't slackened and forgotten simple road rules. placing a curfew on young drivers is not the answer to these problems. you're just punishing the obedient and giving another challenge to the idiots.
ok, now to doctor who. i missed watching it on tv because i was at work, and shall be every sunday for the next two weeks, so i had to watch it on iview. when i first jumped on it wouldn't work because the sibling and male_parental_unit were both on the internet at the same time and considering the fact that we can't even get out phone to work at the moment, it goes that our internet connection is weak at best. so i went and watched bones and castle waiting for someone to get off the net and came back in to let the episode load. even without anyone else blocking my bandwidth it took me 1 and a half hours of loading, playing, pausing, loading, playing, pausing, loading etc to watch the episode, but it was worth it. the new series is getting a bit existential. questions such as "what is the point of you" directed at the doctor are starting to be raised, and given the guilt trip of the space fish queen in last weeks episode, it is starting to look pretty dubious for our hero. this week a dream lord tricked the doctor, amy and rory into playing a game of dream and reality. it turned out at the end...
that the dream lord was in fact the doctor himself, a darker version of himself which some wacky space dust stuff [i forget what it was called and shall do no more prying as the bbc doctor who website is a week ahead of our doctor who viewing and i just found out something i didn't want to know yet. gosh, warning much bbc...] was feeding off and projecting in their minds as the dream lord. it's sad because earlier in the episode when the doctor figured out who the dream lord was he said "there's only one person in the universe who hates me this much" and that means that he hates himself. i get the feeling this hatred comes from him letting entire species of alien life form die to save the humane race, abandoning his companions when they're all grown up etc. i don't like to see the doctor so sad because he is brilliant and wears bowties and tweed jackets.
all this meaning of life stuff is really getting to me and amy's question bugged me a lot last night as i tried to sleep. "what is the point of you?" what is the point of the doctor, i mean, what exactly do time lords do? he is brilliant and saves amy and rory a lot, but if he hadn't have come around in the first place they would never have been in trouble. he seems quite narcissistic jet setting through time and space, changing the course of the universe. i mean he did go back in time and inadvertently make the dalek's as dangerous as they are now. he gave them that knowledge.
oh, and hey, what is with the dalek's? they're like the big bad of doctor who, like the joker to the doctors batman, but they can't even go up stairs. oooo, i'm so scared. sorry doctor who writers, but that's pretty lame.
i do wish i had a tradis though. that would be awesome.
in other news, lovely_girl did some trawling and found a picture of us all dressed up at fed square somewhere online [she will not reveal her sources, but i will also continue to look]. she is already wearing a mask so her face can stay, but if i were a marvel character and having to choose sides in the avengers series i'd be on captain america's side [i know he died but i want to keep my identity secret, i'm just a humble blogger, not some tony stark].
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