One single thing that makes you think "knob"
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elvismiggell said:
This is annoying me a lot at the moment. Seems to be happening far too much on the M25.
Like you say it's really no trouble to just brake and go round them, but it's still infuriatingly poor road manners, and in my view constitutes not anticipating a hazard or completing an overtake in a timely manner. Or something.
I get this a lot, as well as the accelerate-if-being-overtaken thing that really grinds my gears. I presumed that it was because people don't like being overtaken by a beaten up Mk II Scenic in 'pathetic blue' but maybe it's just general fLike you say it's really no trouble to just brake and go round them, but it's still infuriatingly poor road manners, and in my view constitutes not anticipating a hazard or completing an overtake in a timely manner. Or something.
kwittery.Insanity Magnet said:
elvismiggell said:
This is annoying me a lot at the moment. Seems to be happening far too much on the M25.
Like you say it's really no trouble to just brake and go round them, but it's still infuriatingly poor road manners, and in my view constitutes not anticipating a hazard or completing an overtake in a timely manner. Or something.
I get this a lot, as well as the accelerate-if-being-overtaken thing that really grinds my gears. I presumed that it was because people don't like being overtaken by a beaten up Mk II Scenic in 'pathetic blue'.Like you say it's really no trouble to just brake and go round them, but it's still infuriatingly poor road manners, and in my view constitutes not anticipating a hazard or completing an overtake in a timely manner. Or something.
Whoever thought it was a wise idea to send two huge oversize lorry loads down the M6 yesterday morning. The blocked lanes meant there was a huge tailback behind them. Fortunately I was on the opposite carriageway. Why wouldn't they make the journey at night or on the weekend, when there's less traffic about?
fortunately when I'm on my motorbike I don't have to put up with any of these knobs. I just undertake or overtake at will, and nothing can out accelerate you, so you can pretty much ride how you want without these dheads having their power over you (by blocking you in or whatever).
In the car I try not to get wound up, and cruise like Mr and Mrs average. And plan further ahead than the competition, thus making sure you're in the right lane as much as poss so you don't get blocked.
heads having their power over you (by blocking you in or whatever).In the car I try not to get wound up, and cruise like Mr and Mrs average. And plan further ahead than the competition, thus making sure you're in the right lane as much as poss so you don't get blocked.
e600 said:
Marked police cars doing 69 mph in the left hand lane of a motorway whilst lanes 2 and 3 have a 2 mile tailback for fear of overtaking
The Meaning of Liff said:
Grimbister (GRIM-bis-ter) n.
Large body of cars on a highway all traveling at exactly the speed limit because one of them is a police car.
Sometimes they go at 60 so people actually overtake and get on with things, but some people would still cluster around them in fear of getting stopped.Large body of cars on a highway all traveling at exactly the speed limit because one of them is a police car.
The tt today. I was in the Minibus (16 seater disabled) and approached the lights at the John Nike Hotel in Bracknell. Timed it as they turned green i was through, but the prick on th insoide lane didnt like this and gunned it past me to the Coppid Beech roundabout, doing more than the 40mph posted. Went on towards Wokingham still above 40 and then tail gaited the car in front of them into Wokingham. There are roadworks there at the moment and going into the one way system i wanted and got in the right hand lane for the A329. This turd was in the LH lane and as the road turned to the right decidsed to straiht line in nearly taking off my nearside wing. Horn put it right and i was then brake tested, but didnt respond as there was a fair distance twixt us all the way up to the Council office traffic lights. last seen up the chuff again of car in frony So driver of W*61EEC just give it up
t today. I was in the Minibus (16 seater disabled) and approached the lights at the John Nike Hotel in Bracknell. Timed it as they turned green i was through, but the prick on th insoide lane didnt like this and gunned it past me to the Coppid Beech roundabout, doing more than the 40mph posted. Went on towards Wokingham still above 40 and then tail gaited the car in front of them into Wokingham. There are roadworks there at the moment and going into the one way system i wanted and got in the right hand lane for the A329. This turd was in the LH lane and as the road turned to the right decidsed to straiht line in nearly taking off my nearside wing. Horn put it right and i was then brake tested, but didnt respond as there was a fair distance twixt us all the way up to the Council office traffic lights. last seen up the chuff again of car in frony So driver of W*61EEC just give it upCoolHands said:
fortunately when I'm on my motorbike I don't have to put up with any of these knobs. I just undertake or overtake at will, and nothing can out accelerate you, so you can pretty much ride how you want without these dheads having their power over you (by blocking you in or whatever).
Must be nice when the rules of the road don't apply to youheads having their power over you (by blocking you in or whatever).People for whom the word "Volvo" isn't cool enough to say. "Ovlov" makes you look like a cock.
And the woman in the black X5 who had both her wing mirrors folded in for the ten minutes I was following her and crawled through a width restriction in thirty seconds whereas most people in proper cars can just drive through with reckless abandon. Me, for instance.
And the old git in the ratty old yellow Vauxhall Combi whose understanding of a corner seems to be "slam it over into that other lane, Papa Hotel's car doesn't matter".
And the woman in the black X5 who had both her wing mirrors folded in for the ten minutes I was following her and crawled through a width restriction in thirty seconds whereas most people in proper cars can just drive through with reckless abandon. Me, for instance.
And the old git in the ratty old yellow Vauxhall Combi whose understanding of a corner seems to be "slam it over into that other lane, Papa Hotel's car doesn't matter".
Papa Hotel said:
And the woman in the black X5 who had both her wing mirrors folded in for the ten minutes I was following her and crawled through a width restriction in thirty seconds whereas most people in proper cars can just drive through with reckless abandon. Me, for instance.
Boils my p*** when people in normal cars slow almost to a stop to drive through width restrictors... same morons that leave enough room to get a bus up their inside when they pass parked cars, forcing oncoming drivers right in to the gutter.Learn how wide your car is or get off the road FFS.
The knob driving the fuel tanker artic who thought it would be clever to block two exits on a roundabout, despite the fact he could see the traffic a head was queued up.
The knob in the artic who went mental flashing his lights because I didn't come to a complete stop and let him out (while doing motorway speeds) as he started indicating as I was level with his cab.
The knob in the artic who went mental flashing his lights because I didn't come to a complete stop and let him out (while doing motorway speeds) as he started indicating as I was level with his cab.
Rostfritt said:
e600 said:
Marked police cars doing 69 mph in the left hand lane of a motorway whilst lanes 2 and 3 have a 2 mile tailback for fear of overtaking
The Meaning of Liff said:
Grimbister (GRIM-bis-ter) n.
Large body of cars on a highway all traveling at exactly the speed limit because one of them is a police car.
Sometimes they go at 60 so people actually overtake and get on with things, but some people would still cluster around them in fear of getting stopped.Large body of cars on a highway all traveling at exactly the speed limit because one of them is a police car.
doogz said:
CoolHands said:
fortunately when I'm on my motorbike I don't have to put up with any of these knobs. I just undertake or overtake at will, and nothing can out accelerate you, so you can pretty much ride how you want without these dheads having their power over you (by blocking you in or whatever).
In the car I try not to get wound up, and cruise like Mr and Mrs average. And plan further ahead than the competition, thus making sure you're in the right lane as much as poss so you don't get blocked.
heads having their power over you (by blocking you in or whatever).In the car I try not to get wound up, and cruise like Mr and Mrs average. And plan further ahead than the competition, thus making sure you're in the right lane as much as poss so you don't get blocked.
Negative Creep said:
CoolHands said:
fortunately when I'm on my motorbike I don't have to put up with any of these knobs. I just undertake or overtake at will, and nothing can out accelerate you, so you can pretty much ride how you want without these dheads having their power over you (by blocking you in or whatever).
Must be nice when the rules of the road don't apply to youheads having their power over you (by blocking you in or whatever).t about being a good boy and suffering them? Eg drivers on this thread that flash someone in the outside lane of a motorway when the inside lanes are clear, and wait and wait and wait oh so patiently for said d
head to move over (or not). Seriously? I give them 3 milliseconds thought as I approach, if its one of them knobbers I'm straight past on the inside. Bus drivers stopping dead on clear roundabouts to let other bus drivers out, three times it's happened this week near where I live, for fks sake it's not the end of the world if you don't stop and let the 309 out onto the roundabout; the bus company isn't going to go bankrupt in the 10 extra seconds he may have to wait, consequently then you're not going to be made redundant, and your wife's not going to leave you for your more successful fully employed neighbour etc. the other bus will get out at the next available chance that's how fking rounabouts work! Don't see what gives them the god given right to stop in the middle of their right hand turn on a clear roundabout to allow their peasant wagon driving commrades out, when other people following the bus are; I dunno expecting and anticipating a clear rounadabout to be used fking correctly.
ks sake it's not the end of the world if you don't stop and let the 309 out onto the roundabout; the bus company isn't going to go bankrupt in the 10 extra seconds he may have to wait, consequently then you're not going to be made redundant, and your wife's not going to leave you for your more successful fully employed neighbour etc. the other bus will get out at the next available chance that's how fking rounabouts work! Don't see what gives them the god given right to stop in the middle of their right hand turn on a clear roundabout to allow their peasant wagon driving commrades out, when other people following the bus are; I dunno expecting and anticipating a clear rounadabout to be used fking correctly.
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