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[diffwhine]

DAB and FM here diffwhine.

Far too modern and high tech for me!

[Manxcat]

I was wondering what he was on about...! I thought it had something to do with John Prescott...

The Jags were from Scarborough 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUlU105lkgs

Let Bruce

 explain to you about Scottish (and elsewhere) Jags;
https://kddandco.com/2021/01/18/jags/

[diffwhine]

I appear to have learned something else today!
I take it that the word "Jagged" must be connected somehow?

[Genem]

"The Jags" are also a well known Glasgow football team, otherwise known as "Partick Thistle Nil".

[Manxcat]

I appear to have learned something else today!
I take it that the word "Jagged" must be connected somehow?

Yes, same old British origins.
Meaning sharp or pointy.

Hence Partick Thistle football team being nicknamed the Jags or Jaggies 'cause of the Thistle in their name.

"There will be dancing in the streets of Raith tonight" is another Scottish footballing expression
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Leitch

[diffwhine]

Amazing what else you can learn from a really great club forum!

[Grandadrob]

I too started driving in 1966. In London the thought that you would extinguish your headlights when in certain situations, assumed that you had them on in the first place.....   Sidelights were only used sparingly, do you know the cost of bulbs, I remember being told. London buses used the one full beam and one dip principle, when dipped the offside one went out. But their rear lights were one only, about the size of half a crown, whatever that was.
Things have not changed much down here. Headlights are used more, but it is essential that one points either up or out, whilst the other is not on. A much used variation is the loose one which wobbles everywhere. I am sure that the potholes have an effect on lights as well.

[Old Hywel]

Wobbling headlamps? Standard fit on the Ford Cargo.

[Graham]

I love this little sticker but the belts are frightening..

[Betsy1969]

You should come to Norfolk, most drive round on sidelights or no lights at all !

Newer cars have auto lights, which means things are getting a little better - except to say a lot of those drivers just assume the car will turn the lights on when needed.
To say nothing of the cars with just one working headlight 

Always remembering the bon mot wrongly attributed to Joseph Lucas: - A gentleman doesn't venture out after dark.

 

The “Designed in Fault “ being that most drivers don’t seem to know that the automatic driving lights only illuminate the front lights , not the rear . So from behind they are hard to spot

[Betsy1969]

I love this little sticker but the belts are frightening..

I’ve got that sticker too. Happy to say not as much rust around it though 😀

[Dormy]

The “Designed in Fault “ being that most drivers don’t seem to know that the automatic driving lights only illuminate the front lights , not the rear . So from behind they are hard to spot

Daytime driving lights are just the front ones. But when the computer decides it is dark enough (not actually very dark), it will switch on the headlamps and rear lamps too.

Something we still have to decide for ourselves with our L/Rs.