One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 3

[Muddle238]

M42 last week with heavy traffic, gantries showing 40 and traffic in all lanes moving stop-start. Have some thick fatst woman wearing earphones behind me in her Corsa, so bloody close that I can't even see her bonnet in my rearview mirror. I decided to leave a fair gap infront of me to compensate for the lack of hers, plus really concentrate more than usual to slow down gradually, as anything other than light and steady braking for traffic ahead would have had her imbedding her stty grey Corsa into my car. I've largely grown to ignore tailgaters now, but this one really took my piss and boiled it.

Another tailgater earlier as well, 30 zone with traffic infront, some resale-grey Discovery Sport up my chuff obviously pushing to go faster, despite the traffic infront. Then only a few minutes later, Discovery woman has turned off but now I have a 20-something girl in a newish Ka, crap hanging from the mirror and again I can't even see the bonnet on her car. 30 zone, traffic infront, not much I can do. Sunday drivers out in force.

Not to mention the driver of the brand new white Mercedes GLC/GLE/GLB SUV thing (look the same to me) who wasn't able to manage more than 35 in a 50.

edit, it's a Thursday not Sunday... fml

[Wombat3]

Driver of a black BMW 1 series on the M40 southbound between J11 & 10 at approx. 4.10 this afternoon.

You , sir, are a weapons-grade, dangerous and very stupid .

Driving with no lights on in a black car on a dull evening at dusk. Stupid

Following a dangerous under-take at speeds well north of the limit and then slicing out in front of me (causing me to have to lift), when flashed you then did turn your lights on - including adding your rear fog lights (clearly intentionally) - you obnoxious

The next bits I observed from some distance behind:

Approximately 2 miles further on you then turned all your lights off again (every single other car on the road was using dipped lights). You stupid

Then, after weaving around & tail-gating a car in the middle lane , cutting to the outside lane to pull level with the car in the middle, but right up the chuff of a car on the outside only to then pull back across in front of the car in the middle lane causing heavy braking (because you nearly took his front bumper off as far as I could see)

May Darwin's law assert itself in short order before you kill someone.

(Happy Christmas) You .

[anonymous-user]

The weapons grade bell end in the red alfa 4c on the shepherd and flock roundabout today.
you know who you are and will probably read this. You know what you've done.

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[SlimJim16v]

AVV EM said:

The weapons grade bell end in the red alfa 4c on the shepherd and flock roundabout today.
you know who you are and will probably read this. You know what you've done.

.

But we don't.

[AJXX1]

Driver of the white BMW x5 (x3?) series driving right up my chuff in a 40 zone - god awful blue tinted headlights burning away at my retinas - I probably have some form of radiation - surely these aren't standard fit?! The retina damager was off hogging L2 (as expected) as soon as it became available (despite no other traffic in sight). His sitting like a complete pansy in L2 overtaking bot all (but directly level with me) then resulted in me getting stuck behind a L1 dawdler further down the road. Yes, retina damager, I dared blast my horn at you and your superior white pile of shyte - move out of the way! You're sitting in L2 like a prize tit and preventing me from making progress - either overtake something or get the fook out of the way. L2 is not your own private lane to arse about in!

I'd also like to nominate BT. I've had BT Infinity 2 for around 2 (maybe pushing 3) years, has always been faultless. This morning - no internet connection at all, just a flashing orange light on the home hub. Got on the phone to BT who (to their credit) must have been able to see it was an issue at their end as I didn't have to do the usual fannying about with test sockets. So why are they knobs I hear you ask? Apparently the issue has to be fixed by "level 2", which requires the booking of a "slot". No slots until tomorrow, this was at 9 am! Granted it's a standard residential line and I'm by no means entitled to priority service - but waiting 24+ hours for someone to call me back seems like a p*** take to me - especially when they seemed to know what the problem is. Everyone in the household has been forced to communicate with each other rather then be buried in tech - it's been bloody awful! We also have several tablets, computers, VOIP phones, CCTV, phone signal boosters, TV sticks etc... all completely useless at the moment.

I also have a sneaky feeling that if they either A) can't fix it or B) don't call me back I'm going to have no chuffing internet until after Christmas.

Edited by AJXX1 on Thursday 22 December 23:21

[anonymous-user]

SlimJim16v said:

AVV EM said:

The weapons grade bell end in the red alfa 4c on the shepherd and flock roundabout today.
you know who you are and will probably read this. You know what you've done.

.

But we don't.

From a first exit ONLY lane in traffic he stopped before flooring it through a gap 1 car in front of me barely big enough before cutting across another lane on the roundabout and hammering it around.
Perhaps if he'd had the foresight to choose the correct lane he wouldn't have very nearly caused an accident. What would be the second accident on that roundabout today hence all the traffic.

[AlexRS2782]

A select few on my travels up and down the M3 today in no particular order.

The Evoque that started indicating left and slowed down to about 25 MPH in the left lane of the southbound M3 in an attempt to exit the motorway at Fleet Services. This despite there being a number of signs, starting a mile or more back, stating that the southbound Fleet Services are totally shut following the massive fire there about a week ago. Not to mention the long run of cones that starts a good 500+ yards away from the entrance clearly indicating it's blocked / closed.

A reasonable number of cars running nothing but front DRL's, so no rear lights, in the dark.

A MLM 3 series BMW with what appeared to be chair cushions stacked 5 high loosely tied onto the roof of the car (no roof bars) with the rope fed via the rear windows. It appeared that they'd originally attempted to cover the cushions with some blue tarp like material which must have came loose at some point and started flapping around over the rear screen and behind the car, so the driver must have been aware.

Current model Mini Cooper S drifting between lanes 1 & 2 whilst doing around 50 MPH. As I drove past I could see the mid 20's female driver was attempting to hold a Facetime call on her oversized phone/ tablet.

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Thursday 22 December 23:39

[Name of user]

AVV EM said:

SlimJim16v said:

AVV EM said:

The weapons grade bell end in the red alfa 4c on the shepherd and flock roundabout today.
you know who you are and will probably read this. You know what you've done.

.

But we don't.

From a first exit ONLY lane in traffic he stopped before flooring it through a gap 1 car in front of me barely big enough before cutting across another lane on the roundabout and hammering it around.
Perhaps if he'd had the foresight to choose the correct lane he wouldn't have very nearly caused an accident. What would be the second accident on that roundabout today hence all the traffic.

No doubt that's bad, but I'm just wondering if you'd be posting this if it wasn't for the 4c? If, for arguments sake, he was in a mondeo- would it have the same impact?

[BORN2bWILD]

Biggest knobs are the ones who indicate right to go around the roundabout you are waiting to pull onto and turn left and exit prior to you.
Don't these plonkers understand by allowing the action of turning left to cancel the right indicator they are doing the opposite and other drivers are waiting for them to continue around the f**cking roundabout.

[anonymous-user]

Name of user said:

AVV EM said:

SlimJim16v said:

AVV EM said:

The weapons grade bell end in the red alfa 4c on the shepherd and flock roundabout today.
you know who you are and will probably read this. You know what you've done.

.

But we don't.

From a first exit ONLY lane in traffic he stopped before flooring it through a gap 1 car in front of me barely big enough before cutting across another lane on the roundabout and hammering it around.
Perhaps if he'd had the foresight to choose the correct lane he wouldn't have very nearly caused an accident. What would be the second accident on that roundabout today hence all the traffic.

No doubt that's bad, but I'm just wondering if you'd be posting this if it wasn't for the 4c? If, for arguments sake, he was in a mondeo- would it have the same impact?

I would post it regardless of the car, still a knob whatever they drive. Speaking of mondeo's, thats the exact car that crashed and caused the tail backs. But I can't call someone a knob for crashing.

Edited by AVV EM on Friday 23 December 00:34

[AJXX1]

AJXX1 said:

I'd also like to nominate BT. I've had BT Infinity 2 for around 2 (maybe pushing 3) years, has always been faultless. This morning - no internet connection at all, just a flashing orange light on the home hub. Got on the phone to BT who (to their credit) must have been able to see it was an issue at their end as I didn't have to do the usual fannying about with test sockets. So why are they knobs I hear you ask? Apparently the issue has to be fixed by "level 2", which requires the booking of a "slot". No slots until tomorrow, this was at 9 am! Granted it's a standard residential line and I'm by no means entitled to priority service - but waiting 24+ hours for someone to call me back seems like a p*** take to me - especially when they seemed to know what the problem is. Everyone in the household has been forced to communicate with each other rather then be buried in tech - it's been bloody awful! We also have several tablets, computers, VOIP phones, CCTV, phone signal boosters, TV sticks etc... all completely useless at the moment.

I also have a sneaky feeling that if they either A) can't fix it or B) don't call me back I'm going to have no chuffing internet until after Christmas.

Edited by AJXX1 on Thursday 22 December 23:21

Just had a call from "level 2" - it lasted approx 30 seconds and consisted of an irate sounding foreign lady telling me it won't be fixed until at least the 27th - 5 sodding days without broadband! I can't believe I've just waited 24 hours for someone to tell me sorry it's not getting fixed for 4 days.

[Blown2CV]

AVV EM said:

The weapons grade bell end in the red alfa 4c on the shepherd and flock roundabout today.
you know who you are and will probably read this. You know what you've done.

.

cool story

[Blown2CV]

AVV EM said:

Name of user said:

AVV EM said:

SlimJim16v said:

AVV EM said:

The weapons grade bell end in the red alfa 4c on the shepherd and flock roundabout today.
you know who you are and will probably read this. You know what you've done.

.

But we don't.

From a first exit ONLY lane in traffic he stopped before flooring it through a gap 1 car in front of me barely big enough before cutting across another lane on the roundabout and hammering it around.
Perhaps if he'd had the foresight to choose the correct lane he wouldn't have very nearly caused an accident. What would be the second accident on that roundabout today hence all the traffic.

No doubt that's bad, but I'm just wondering if you'd be posting this if it wasn't for the 4c? If, for arguments sake, he was in a mondeo- would it have the same impact?

I would post it regardless of the car, still a knob whatever they drive. Speaking of mondeo's, thats the exact car that crashed and caused the tail backs. But I can't call someone a knob for crashing.

Edited by AVV EM on Friday 23 December 00:34

could be 2 sides to this anyway, as there are plenty of bits of road near where i live where people don't let you change lanes with good grace when you need to, so people end up resorting to "flooring it" and "diving in" when in fact they just were running out of opportunity to move over.

[Moonhawk]

Bell end last week on the M53.

I was merging onto the M53 from the M56 junction on approach to Cheshire oaks (left lane is Cheshire Oaks only - two right hand lanes in M53).

M53 was queuing quite badly - all the way up to the Hooton Junction as it turns out (~6 miles). I was indicating and waiting patiently for a gap to open up. A car eventually fell back slightly and flashed me out.

Started to pull into the lane and had just about finished my manoeuvre when a car in the outside lane saw what he thought was a gap and thought it would be a great opportunity to dive into it to get one more car ahead in the queue - so yanked his car across towards the lane I was now in. tt almost drove right into the offside rear of my car.

Queue blaring of horn and gesticulating from tt. He then proceeded to sit up my chuff for a mile or so - before finally diving back into the outside lane (because at that second it was moving ever so slightly faster). I eventually lost sight of him a few more miles down the road just before the traffic cleared - but he cant have been more than 10 seconds or so ahead of where he had been by this point.

Don't understand why people chop and change lane like this, especially pulling into a lane you know other traffic from an on-slip will be trying to merge into. It's a fking traffic queue on a motorway, no fker is going anywhere. The couple of car lengths you might make up are going to gain you what, seconds at best. Is it really worth causing (or almost causing) and accident for?

[sim72]

AJXX1 said:

AJXX1 said:

I'd also like to nominate BT. I've had BT Infinity 2 for around 2 (maybe pushing 3) years, has always been faultless. This morning - no internet connection at all, just a flashing orange light on the home hub. Got on the phone to BT who (to their credit) must have been able to see it was an issue at their end as I didn't have to do the usual fannying about with test sockets. So why are they knobs I hear you ask? Apparently the issue has to be fixed by "level 2", which requires the booking of a "slot". No slots until tomorrow, this was at 9 am! Granted it's a standard residential line and I'm by no means entitled to priority service - but waiting 24+ hours for someone to call me back seems like a p*** take to me - especially when they seemed to know what the problem is. Everyone in the household has been forced to communicate with each other rather then be buried in tech - it's been bloody awful! We also have several tablets, computers, VOIP phones, CCTV, phone signal boosters, TV sticks etc... all completely useless at the moment.

I also have a sneaky feeling that if they either A) can't fix it or B) don't call me back I'm going to have no chuffing internet until after Christmas.

Edited by AJXX1 on Thursday 22 December 23:21

Just had a call from "level 2" - it lasted approx 30 seconds and consisted of an irate sounding foreign lady telling me it won't be fixed until at least the 27th - 5 sodding days without broadband! I can't believe I've just waited 24 hours for someone to tell me sorry it's not getting fixed for 4 days.

I've had BT Infinity for a few years now, but on the one occasion we did have an issue this sounds very familiar. It took over two weeks to fix ours eventually, because they'd run out of weekend slots and with us both being teachers we couldn't book a weekday slot (they only offer "AM" or "PM"). It turned out to be a knackered hub - frankly it would have been cheaper for them to post us a new one.

[anonymous-user]

Blown2CV said:

AVV EM said:

Name of user said:

AVV EM said:

SlimJim16v said:

AVV EM said:

The weapons grade bell end in the red alfa 4c on the shepherd and flock roundabout today.
you know who you are and will probably read this. You know what you've done.

.

But we don't.

From a first exit ONLY lane in traffic he stopped before flooring it through a gap 1 car in front of me barely big enough before cutting across another lane on the roundabout and hammering it around.
Perhaps if he'd had the foresight to choose the correct lane he wouldn't have very nearly caused an accident. What would be the second accident on that roundabout today hence all the traffic.

No doubt that's bad, but I'm just wondering if you'd be posting this if it wasn't for the 4c? If, for arguments sake, he was in a mondeo- would it have the same impact?

I would post it regardless of the car, still a knob whatever they drive. Speaking of mondeo's, thats the exact car that crashed and caused the tail backs. But I can't call someone a knob for crashing.

Edited by AVV EM on Friday 23 December 00:34

could be 2 sides to this anyway, as there are plenty of bits of road near where i live where people don't let you change lanes with good grace when you need to, so people end up resorting to "flooring it" and "diving in" when in fact they just were running out of opportunity to move over.

There was an entire stretch of dual carriageway to move over into the correct lane
It happens because they can't be bothered to wait.

[Slow]

AJXX1 said:

AJXX1 said:

I'd also like to nominate BT. I've had BT Infinity 2 for around 2 (maybe pushing 3) years, has always been faultless. This morning - no internet connection at all, just a flashing orange light on the home hub. Got on the phone to BT who (to their credit) must have been able to see it was an issue at their end as I didn't have to do the usual fannying about with test sockets. So why are they knobs I hear you ask? Apparently the issue has to be fixed by "level 2", which requires the booking of a "slot". No slots until tomorrow, this was at 9 am! Granted it's a standard residential line and I'm by no means entitled to priority service - but waiting 24+ hours for someone to call me back seems like a p*** take to me - especially when they seemed to know what the problem is. Everyone in the household has been forced to communicate with each other rather then be buried in tech - it's been bloody awful! We also have several tablets, computers, VOIP phones, CCTV, phone signal boosters, TV sticks etc... all completely useless at the moment.

I also have a sneaky feeling that if they either A) can't fix it or B) don't call me back I'm going to have no chuffing internet until after Christmas.

Edited by AJXX1 on Thursday 22 December 23:21

Just had a call from "level 2" - it lasted approx 30 seconds and consisted of an irate sounding foreign lady telling me it won't be fixed until at least the 27th - 5 sodding days without broadband! I can't believe I've just waited 24 hours for someone to tell me sorry it's not getting fixed for 4 days.

If you *need* broadband you could just buy a cheap 4g dongle with like 5gb of data to last the 5 days.

[sim72]

Slow said:

If you *need* broadband you could just buy a cheap 4g dongle with like 5gb of data to last the 5 days.

If you live in a 4G area, of course.

[Slow]

sim72 said:

If you live in a 4G area, of course.

Assume if he has infinity he is in a city, one provider would surely be able to offer 4g.

[Blown2CV]

Slow said:

sim72 said:

If you live in a 4G area, of course.

Assume if he has infinity he is in a city, one provider would surely be able to offer 4g.

i wouldn't assume that. Using mobile Internet connectivity is often flaky for use inside buildings, particularly larger ones such as apartment blocks etc. Even bang in city centre full signal areas you can step foot inside some buildings and it disappears.