La mamma degli imbecilli...

 

Someone posted on this site...

I removed his name, but his first name was Benjamin.

Sean Anderson and 713 others liked (or loved) his comment.

Actually, when you see this sign...

it actually means that the speed limit on this stretch of road is 100km/h. The important word is 'limit'.

Benjamin doesn't seem to know that, in this country, the speed limit on this road for trucks, or vehicles towing trailers, is actually 90km/h.

This means that, by law, there are a lot of vehicles on the road that should be going 90km/h or slower. 

I see a lot of very big trucks on 100km/h roads going 100km/h or faster. Now, I'm no expert on Physics* but I can guess what would happen, at that speed, if one of these huge vehicles had to stop quickly. Actually, it wouldn't happen.

I assume the level of understanding needed is a lot less than what is needed when dealing with Rocket Science.

I don't think that Benjamin is the sharpest knife in the drawer. Maybe he has a music degree?

I was driving over the Nuova Lazio hill the other day. The speed limit is 80 but I was doing 60. As I came around a corner, I had plenty of time to stop over quite a short distance. There were two cars facing the wrong way in the left hand lane (my lane), a little up from a blue car sitting in the right hand lane that had its bonnet completely squashed. There was hot water and oil pissing out of the car. Okay, I was guilty of going 20km/h under the speed limit (according to Ben) but, in this incidence, it gave me plenty of time to stop. The blue car would have had to be going a lot faster than 80 to acquire that much damage! A lot faster.

In this case Ben and his 714 followers were obviously off the mark.

As we say in Italian, "La mamma degli imbecilli è sempre incinta."

* I do have an Honours Degree in Music, but another blogger around here says that counts for Jack Shit.