hi i'm nick? just turned 18. i live in melbourne and absolutley love Madina Lake, thats about it really?...

hey nick!
i'm diana [obvs]. welcome to the boards!

thank you so much for joining

westsider or eastsider?

West ...the scummy parts

oh me too!
hoorah.

Hi Nick,

I've never been to Melbourne so im not even going to try to figure out what you guys are talking about.

I'm ALMOST 18

where abouts in the west diana?

:O i passed my license first try im so proud, big boy now

oh congrats!
I'm on my learner's .. drove home from Glen Waverley last night. I was pretty proud of myself
the new p-plate laws suck so hard though.

I'm from the Sydenham area.

yea the laws suck so bad, e.g. i have a party tonight 30 minute drive away, im taking my mate from where i live to the party, but i can't take my girlfriend to it and she lives 5 minute drive away. It's ridiculously unfair to the majority of P Platers who drive responsibly

i know that area i'm from out near werribee

what are the P Plater rules over there?
I have had my licence for almost a year and LOVING it

hmm i think the main one is that you can only have 1 passenger between the age of 16 and 21...so anyone n that group and you can only take one, really sucks.
they've changed the test too, seems like its designed to get people to fail, i think my friends dad found a fact sheet on it saying 70% of people going for their P's fail first time roung :S, some of my frinds have failed twice now and they are actually good drivers

Well thats just gay
i think they are doing more these days to not allow drivers.
but they dont seem to realise, that the older people did nothing to get their licence.
for example - my dad (now in his 40's, got his P's and 2 weeks later had his full licence.
and they drive fine.
maybe just making it harder to get our licence isnt going to help the fact that P Platers are simply just inexperianced

yea that, but also they're taking precautions for a very small group of P platers that causes every other P plater to be stereotyped as a hoon who speeds and drink/drug drive, there would be seriously like 1 in 30 people that would be any kind of problem and the rest are all responsible, yet the govt is punishing the lot of us *angry*

pretty cool how a new person topic went to P plate laws...kinda

What really annoys me is that it will end up putting more cars on the road because of the passenger limit. Example - say I'm going out with 4 friends - we'll need 3 cars; 2 in two cars and 1 on their lonesome which is totally ridiculous, seeing as we COULD be using just one car.

I mean, they're fighting against 'pollution' and telling us to use less energy, good effing job.

yea its stupid, it will increase drink driving or Co2 emissions, pointless

good point, hadn't thought of it like that

thank god for WA