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

[numtumfutunch]

Usual evening rush hour gridlock last night - more fool me for driving not cycling

Usual queue of over 400m at a dual carriageway leading to a roundabout
Ambulance makes itself known on the full lights and sirens

Both lanes efficiently move to the left to let it squeeze through at 20-30mph including 3 nob heads taking 'ambulance chasing' up a level tailgating it

Ambo's cross the roundabout but lead fkwit then executes a left turn causing mayhem

I really hope the junction has CCTV which is actually monitored.............

[Gixer968CS]

As a motorcyclist of 35 years + it is very certainly the Shoreditch hipsters on their custom BMW R80s etc with cut off mudguards and knobbly tyres. They wear stupid retro bubble fronted crash helmets and desert boots. Grrr. I should be happy that motorcycling is booming, but to theses knobs it just a fashion thing.

[Mandalore]

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.

As i wasn't there, I'll take the eye witness assessment. The 4c driver still sounds like a cockwomble.

[Liquid Knight]

As above but I noticed when you drive a nice car people around you become emasculated idiots. They box you in, cut you up and more often than not every set of lights, junction, roundabout or if you happen to be driving along at the speed limit they simply have to race to prove a point to themselves.

Bragging on social media or posting a YouTube clip later about how they had a "insert sports/super/hyper car here" off the lights, junction, A road, B road; etc, etc. Blah, blah, blah.

Maybe the chap in the 4C was in the wrong lane because another idiot boxed him/her in further back. Maybe he/she drove like a tool to get away from a fool.

Just maybes there. He/She could just as easily have been having trouble with the flappy paddles in traffic and took the frustration out on the tarmac, having a bad day or just a pillock.

It does sound like the sort of most people see every day and maybe got more attention because the car wasn't a generic minicab, BMW/VAG or chavmobile.

[SlimJim16v]

PH, where driving like a knob may be excusable if driving a nice car.

[anonymous-user]

Mandalore said:

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.

As i wasn't there, I'll take the eye witness assessment. The 4c driver still sounds like a cockwomble.

I should mention that when I say first exit only lane, there are hashed lines between that lane and the others on the roundabout.

[Liquid Knight]

SlimJim16v said:

PH, where driving like a knob may be more noteworthy if you're driving a nice car.

EFA

[Blown2CV]

Liquid Knight said:

SlimJim16v said:

PH, where driving like a knob may be more noteworthy if you're driving a nice car.

EFA

to be honest most of the culprits we hear accounts of on this thread are not driving PH-worthy cars.

[AlexRS2782]

AVV EM said:

I should mention that when I say first exit only lane, there are hashed lines between that lane and the others on the roundabout.

Is this the part of the junction you're referencing? - https://goo.gl/maps/M9HCp2JrTb82

If so, regardless of the car being driven, I'd agree that the driver is a knob as I've also encountered too many people there that use the feeder lane for the A31 only to then veer across the hatchings so they can turn right for the Farnham centre / Sainsbury's direction lanes instead

A couple of years ago I remember seeing a guy in a Clio feed around in that lane only to then slam on the brakes and start indicating right to try to get across running traffic. He was lucky the LGV that was behind him was paying attention and managed to slow down rather than run into the back of him.

[Liquid Knight]

Freezing fog, untreated roads (because the Council gritter crews do not work on Boxing Day) and twunts with only a patch of windscreen cleared and looking like their main beams are up because they failed to clear their headlights.







It was one of those mornings I'm glad I'm not a Police officer. I would have set up a road block on the outskirts of town and issue Due Care summonses to every idiot on the road. The courts would be fully booked for the next six years.

[untakenname]

Had to pick up my gf last night due to her connecting train being cancelled, taking my normal route the Police had a roadblock due to a crash and they wouldn't let me go down the road before the crash so had to make a massive detour which made me late.

On the way back was in the correct lane for going straight/turning left waiting for the lights to change then some Jaguar XF pulls up in the right hand lane and tried to get the jump on me but their traction control system let them down as they pulled forward then looked like they stalled as the car tried to cope with the frozen ground.

[Stridey]

The mini cab driver who seemed to want to drive into my boot, then beeped me on exiting a roundabout, because the car in front of me was driving slowly.

The car in front had 'L' plates.

WE HAVE ALL BEEN LEARNERS ONCE YOU IDIOT!!!

[anonymous-user]

M42 a few drivers driving on the hard shoulder when there are signs saying only use in emergencies.

[Blown2CV]

The Spruce goose said:

M42 a few drivers driving on the hard shoulder when there are signs saying only use in emergencies.

there were red X displaying?

[sim72]

Blown2CV said:

The Spruce goose said:

M42 a few drivers driving on the hard shoulder when there are signs saying only use in emergencies.

there were red X displaying?

I was just thinking that. When the M42 signs say "emergency only", the red X is usually in use.

[anonymous-user]

AlexRS2782 said:

AVV EM said:

I should mention that when I say first exit only lane, there are hashed lines between that lane and the others on the roundabout.

Is this the part of the junction you're referencing? - https://goo.gl/maps/M9HCp2JrTb82

If so, regardless of the car being driven, I'd agree that the driver is a knob as I've also encountered too many people there that use the feeder lane for the A31 only to then veer across the hatchings so they can turn right for the Farnham centre / Sainsbury's direction lanes instead

A couple of years ago I remember seeing a guy in a Clio feed around in that lane only to then slam on the brakes and start indicating right to try to get across running traffic. He was lucky the LGV that was behind him was paying attention and managed to slow down rather than run into the back of him.

Yep that'd be it, I drive on that roundabout on my commute and can't stand it, from people braking for no reason on the straight ?! to throbbers cutting across the hatching. Don't care when the roundabouts empty at 9pm but when its in traffic, really gets my goat.
A31 is dangerous enough without these idiots.

[Mandalore]

AVV EM said:

AlexRS2782 said:

AVV EM said:

I should mention that when I say first exit only lane, there are hashed lines between that lane and the others on the roundabout.

Is this the part of the junction you're referencing? - https://goo.gl/maps/M9HCp2JrTb82

If so, regardless of the car being driven, I'd agree that the driver is a knob as I've also encountered too many people there that use the feeder lane for the A31 only to then veer across the hatchings so they can turn right for the Farnham centre / Sainsbury's direction lanes instead

A couple of years ago I remember seeing a guy in a Clio feed around in that lane only to then slam on the brakes and start indicating right to try to get across running traffic. He was lucky the LGV that was behind him was paying attention and managed to slow down rather than run into the back of him.

Yep that'd be it, I drive on that roundabout on my commute and can't stand it, from people braking for no reason on the straight ?! to throbbers cutting across the hatching. Don't care when the roundabouts empty at 9pm but when its in traffic, really gets my goat.
A31 is dangerous enough without these idiots.

I still don't get why certain people would want to exuse such behaviour simply because the driver is in a PH worthy car.
Stockholm syndrome perhaps?

Edited by Mandalore on Friday 30th December 21:16

[ashleyman]

Every single person between Sutton and East Molesey via the A3 that was using fog lights this morning and this evening. It really was NOT necessary.

[giantdefy]

Today I nearly collected a motorcyclist who appeared out of the quite thick fog up the centreline of the Great Missenden Bypass. I thought it strange that he had no lights on until I noticed he was wheelieing and thus his headlight was pointing straight up. tt!

[AJXX1]

Is every Mercedes A-Class owner an utter tard?

Excuse the broad generalisation but every single A-Class I've encountered has been 'driven' by an utter cretin. A particular favourite with said cretins is of course white paint and black alloys. If they're not hogging the outside lane like their life depends on it they're trying to enter your rectum from behind or flighting tooth and nail to try and get ahead of you.

Cretins please take note that the "AMG" and/or "Sport" badge is at best styling option. You are not driving a "real" AMG Merc, you are driving an entry level bobby basic Merc.

Special note just for the idiot in B&Q's car park today: your white A180 CDI "AMG Sport" with black alloys and tinted windows is about as fast as my nana's Ford Focus. I particularly enjoyed laughing at the miserable sound produced by whatever 'mod' you've done to the exhaust and hard acceleration used when exiting the car park in a rather pathetic attempt to show off. I could hear your miserable diesel engine farting down the road even after you'd left visual range. I'm so jealous of your entry level Merc and I relish the thought I get my hands on something as powerful as your 107 bhp some day!

Edited by AJXX1 on Saturday 31st December 04:08