Things that annoy you beyond reason...? [Vol 3]

[Antony Moxey]

WD39 said:

Antony Moxey said:

mybrainhurts said:

jogger1976 said:

Lorry driver's that tailgate through average speed sections of roadworks. BACK THE fk OFF!
tts!

Fair enough. Get a move on, you're going too slowly. You don't have to stick to 50 on your speedo. If the truck wants to go faster, follow his lead, he's not going to expose himself to a speeding ticket. It's numpties in lane 3, holding 50 on their speedos, who need a kick up the arse. You sound like such a driver, I hope you're not.

It's not fair enough though is it. The speed limit is a maximum limit not an instruction so if someone wants to do 50 and they're on the inside lane then live with it instead of trying to bully them into going faster. I know we're all going to die because a supermarket was 30 seconds late in getting its delivery of chicken nuggets but tough. Give the car in front some room and stop driving like a tit.

Got it in one.

(Are you related to the Derbyshire Moxey's?)

Not as far as I know. We'm all Debm bauys.

[marmitemania]

WD39 said:

FourWheelDrift said:

"Happy Holidays"

fk off you are too early and take your politically correct non-offensive to minorities bks with you.

It's an Americanism. Usually referring to Thanksgiving and Christmas. Obviously creeping in over here.

Whilst we are on to Americanisms, which is a subject that really fks me off. Why has everyone started saying mustache as opposed to moustache? Get a fking grip people. I also saw the mastermind, what a bunch of thicko's.

[All that jazz]

jogger1976 said:

only last week some arrogant knobber in a Scania was flashing people and blaring his horn FFS!

Not without reason. I am willing to bet a large sum that they were sat in lane 2 doing 40-45mph whilst making zero progress on anything in lane 1 and then probably started brake testing him or slowing down even further instead of getting the fk out of the way.

[All that jazz]

Antony Moxey said:

mybrainhurts said:

jogger1976 said:

Lorry driver's that tailgate through average speed sections of roadworks. BACK THE fk OFF!
tts!

Fair enough. Get a move on, you're going too slowly. You don't have to stick to 50 on your speedo. If the truck wants to go faster, follow his lead, he's not going to expose himself to a speeding ticket. It's numpties in lane 3, holding 50 on their speedos, who need a kick up the arse. You sound like such a driver, I hope you're not.

It's not fair enough though is it. The speed limit is a maximum limit not an instruction so if someone wants to do 50 and they're on the inside lane then live with it instead of trying to bully them into going faster. I know we're all going to die because a supermarket was 30 seconds late in getting its delivery of chicken nuggets but tough. Give the car in front some room and stop driving like a tit.

Ah the "it's a limit not a maximum" excuse again. There is too much traffic on the roads to have people doing their own thing, eg. driving at such a low speed to cause problems with the flow and that's exactly what happens when people drive at 40 in 50 limit motorway roadworks "just to be safe" - all the other traffic is also reduced to that speed which causes bunching, frustration and accidents. You can see this quite well on any dual carriageway where if everyone drove at the expected speeds then the trucks would happily trundle along in lane 1 at 56 and everyone else would get where they're going at the usual 70-85 in lane 2. Works well, except for Percy in his Rover 45 who is doing 54-57 mph in lane 1 in a 70mph limit and suddenly the road nearly grinds to a halt for 10 mins while all trucks try to get round him.

If you can't (and won't) drive at the posted limit then you should be disqualified imho (rural national speed limits on country lanes excluded, obviously).

[whoami]

[hidetheelephants]

northwest monkey said:

Stickyfinger said:

Iva Barchetta said:

St. Reatham.....for those too posh to live just south of Brixton.

Brixton = St.Reatham on the Hill

Heh heh I love it when people say stuff like this about where they live!

In Manchester we've got Burnage (pronounced Burn-ij) but people wot ar posh now say Burn-arj. It's where Liam & Noel came from. Didsbury is not a bad place whereas Withington is a bit grot. It's now known as West Didsbury - mainly by estate agents flogging tat.

Every city must have areas like this - a bit st but next to somewhere quite nice so adopt their name.

Glasgow has a few; North Kelvinside is a euphemism used by estate agents for South Maryhill, a hellhole filled with neds and sengas.

[Antony Moxey]

All that jazz said:

Antony Moxey said:

mybrainhurts said:

jogger1976 said:

Lorry driver's that tailgate through average speed sections of roadworks. BACK THE fk OFF!
tts!

Fair enough. Get a move on, you're going too slowly. You don't have to stick to 50 on your speedo. If the truck wants to go faster, follow his lead, he's not going to expose himself to a speeding ticket. It's numpties in lane 3, holding 50 on their speedos, who need a kick up the arse. You sound like such a driver, I hope you're not.

It's not fair enough though is it. The speed limit is a maximum limit not an instruction so if someone wants to do 50 and they're on the inside lane then live with it instead of trying to bully them into going faster. I know we're all going to die because a supermarket was 30 seconds late in getting its delivery of chicken nuggets but tough. Give the car in front some room and stop driving like a tit.

Ah the "it's a limit not a maximum" excuse again. There is too much traffic on the roads to have people doing their own thing, eg. driving at such a low speed to cause problems with the flow and that's exactly what happens when people drive at 40 in 50 limit motorway roadworks "just to be safe" - all the other traffic is also reduced to that speed which causes bunching, frustration and accidents. You can see this quite well on any dual carriageway where if everyone drove at the expected speeds then the trucks would happily trundle along in lane 1 at 56 and everyone else would get where they're going at the usual 70-85 in lane 2. Works well, except for Percy in his Rover 45 who is doing 54-57 mph in lane 1 in a 70mph limit and suddenly the road nearly grinds to a halt for 10 mins while all trucks try to get round him.

If you can't (and won't) drive at the posted limit then you should be disqualified imho (rural national speed limits on country lanes excluded, obviously).

If my speedo tells me I'm doing 50 through roadworks then as far as I'm concerned I'm doing 50 and will continue at that speed until the speed limit changes. The rest of your rant is simply irrelevent because the posts were about being tailgated by trucks through roadworks. If YOU can't drive at the limit your speedo is telling you and think bullying other drivers into going the speed you want just so the nation doesn't run out of chicken nuggets then YOU should be disqualified.

[marmitemania]

All that jazz said:

jogger1976 said:

only last week some arrogant knobber in a Scania was flashing people and blaring his horn FFS!

Not without reason. I am willing to bet a large sum that they were sat in lane 2 doing 40-45mph whilst making zero progress on anything in lane 1 and then probably started brake testing him or slowing down even further instead of getting the fk out of the way.

Was it this Scania?

[Hugo a Gogo]

truckers being held up by 5-10 mph for a mile or two, boo hoo

not nearly as bad as the bloody elephant racing everyone else has to put up with

[All that jazz]

Antony Moxey said:

All that jazz said:

Antony Moxey said:

mybrainhurts said:

jogger1976 said:

Lorry driver's that tailgate through average speed sections of roadworks. BACK THE fk OFF!
tts!

Fair enough. Get a move on, you're going too slowly. You don't have to stick to 50 on your speedo. If the truck wants to go faster, follow his lead, he's not going to expose himself to a speeding ticket. It's numpties in lane 3, holding 50 on their speedos, who need a kick up the arse. You sound like such a driver, I hope you're not.

It's not fair enough though is it. The speed limit is a maximum limit not an instruction so if someone wants to do 50 and they're on the inside lane then live with it instead of trying to bully them into going faster. I know we're all going to die because a supermarket was 30 seconds late in getting its delivery of chicken nuggets but tough. Give the car in front some room and stop driving like a tit.

Ah the "it's a limit not a maximum" excuse again. There is too much traffic on the roads to have people doing their own thing, eg. driving at such a low speed to cause problems with the flow and that's exactly what happens when people drive at 40 in 50 limit motorway roadworks "just to be safe" - all the other traffic is also reduced to that speed which causes bunching, frustration and accidents. You can see this quite well on any dual carriageway where if everyone drove at the expected speeds then the trucks would happily trundle along in lane 1 at 56 and everyone else would get where they're going at the usual 70-85 in lane 2. Works well, except for Percy in his Rover 45 who is doing 54-57 mph in lane 1 in a 70mph limit and suddenly the road nearly grinds to a halt for 10 mins while all trucks try to get round him.

If you can't (and won't) drive at the posted limit then you should be disqualified imho (rural national speed limits on country lanes excluded, obviously).

If my speedo tells me I'm doing 50 through roadworks then as far as I'm concerned I'm doing 50 and will continue at that speed until the speed limit changes. The rest of your rant is simply irrelevent because the posts were about being tailgated by trucks through roadworks. If YOU can't drive at the limit your speedo is telling you and think bullying other drivers into going the speed you want just so the nation doesn't run out of chicken nuggets then YOU should be disqualified.

Please quit your whining and just GTF out of my way so I can deliver my chicken nuggets. Thanks.

[mybrainhurts]

Antony Moxey said:

If my speedo tells me I'm doing 50 through roadworks then as far as I'm concerned I'm doing 50 and will continue at that speed until the speed limit changes. The rest of your rant is simply irrelevent because the posts were about being tailgated by trucks through roadworks. If YOU can't drive at the limit your speedo is telling you and think bullying other drivers into going the speed you want just so the nation doesn't run out of chicken nuggets then YOU should be disqualified.

If your speedo is showing 50, you're doing 47-48mph. The average speed cameras will not get you unless your average is over 57. Holding cruise control at 57 takes me through at an average 54.8mph (GPS) and, in a 22 mile section, that can put me ahead of a lot of vehicles. If there's an incident, I might even have progressed beyond it before it occurs, thereby potentially saving me hours.

So, if lane 3 is free, please get over and let people through. You might not have heard, but it's an offence to stay on the right if you have free space on your left now.

[Antony Moxey]

mybrainhurts said:

Antony Moxey said:

If my speedo tells me I'm doing 50 through roadworks then as far as I'm concerned I'm doing 50 and will continue at that speed until the speed limit changes. The rest of your rant is simply irrelevent because the posts were about being tailgated by trucks through roadworks. If YOU can't drive at the limit your speedo is telling you and think bullying other drivers into going the speed you want just so the nation doesn't run out of chicken nuggets then YOU should be disqualified.

If your speedo is showing 50, you're doing 47-48mph. The average speed cameras will not get you unless your average is over 57. Holding cruise control at 57 takes me through at an average 54.8mph (GPS) and, in a 22 mile section, that can put me ahead of a lot of vehicles. If there's an incident, I might even have progressed beyond it before it occurs, thereby potentially saving me hours.

So, if lane 3 is free, please get over and let people through. You might not have heard, but it's an offence to stay on the right if you have free space on your left now.

Are you too busy gnashing your teeth to read a post? I don't care what speed you think I'm doing, I'll go by what my speedo says - is it the law that every single speedometer ever manufactured by every car maker on ever single car in history has to show 50mph when you're actually doing 47-48mph? And, as I've said about a billion times, but I'll say it once more for the retards who can't fking read, this is about being tailgated by trucks through roadworks, not being in lane three with empty lanes to your left, so don't make up situations to justify your childish whining.

[Antony Moxey]

G

All that jazz said:

Antony Moxey said:

All that jazz said:

Antony Moxey said:

mybrainhurts said:

jogger1976 said:

Lorry driver's that tailgate through average speed sections of roadworks. BACK THE fk OFF!
tts!

Fair enough. Get a move on, you're going too slowly. You don't have to stick to 50 on your speedo. If the truck wants to go faster, follow his lead, he's not going to expose himself to a speeding ticket. It's numpties in lane 3, holding 50 on their speedos, who need a kick up the arse. You sound like such a driver, I hope you're not.

It's not fair enough though is it. The speed limit is a maximum limit not an instruction so if someone wants to do 50 and they're on the inside lane then live with it instead of trying to bully them into going faster. I know we're all going to die because a supermarket was 30 seconds late in getting its delivery of chicken nuggets but tough. Give the car in front some room and stop driving like a tit.

Ah the "it's a limit not a maximum" excuse again. There is too much traffic on the roads to have people doing their own thing, eg. driving at such a low speed to cause problems with the flow and that's exactly what happens when people drive at 40 in 50 limit motorway roadworks "just to be safe" - all the other traffic is also reduced to that speed which causes bunching, frustration and accidents. You can see this quite well on any dual carriageway where if everyone drove at the expected speeds then the trucks would happily trundle along in lane 1 at 56 and everyone else would get where they're going at the usual 70-85 in lane 2. Works well, except for Percy in his Rover 45 who is doing 54-57 mph in lane 1 in a 70mph limit and suddenly the road nearly grinds to a halt for 10 mins while all trucks try to get round him.

If you can't (and won't) drive at the posted limit then you should be disqualified imho (rural national speed limits on country lanes excluded, obviously).

If my speedo tells me I'm doing 50 through roadworks then as far as I'm concerned I'm doing 50 and will continue at that speed until the speed limit changes. The rest of your rant is simply irrelevent because the posts were about being tailgated by trucks through roadworks. If YOU can't drive at the limit your speedo is telling you and think bullying other drivers into going the speed you want just so the nation doesn't run out of chicken nuggets then YOU should be disqualified.

Please quit your whining and just GTF out of my way so I can deliver my chicken nuggets. Thanks.

No. Quit YOUR whinging and stop tailgating, the world won't stop turning because your 'essential' deliveries got there a couple of milliseconds late.

[jogger1976]

marmitemania said:

All that jazz said:

jogger1976 said:

only last week some arrogant knobber in a Scania was flashing people and blaring his horn FFS!

Not without reason. I am willing to bet a large sum that they were sat in lane 2 doing 40-45mph whilst making zero progress on anything in lane 1 and then probably started brake testing him or slowing down even further instead of getting the fk out of the way.

Was it this Scania?

[Negative Creep]

Family friend had a massive stroke a few days ago and is completely paralysed at the moment. He was in his 50's and very active so it came out of nowhere. Both my remaining Grandparents are getting pretty frail and it's made me realise this is probably the last Christmas I'll have with both of them .


Just out of interest, can an employer refuse leave if something non-fatal were to happen?

[Rostfritt]

BristolRich said:

Might be a Bristol habit...

People who have absolutely no idea where the front of their car is in relation to traffic light stop lines.

Motoring along, far ahead you see the traffic light turn to red; the cars ahead come to an abrupt halt.

Just as I join the back of the queue the person at the front of the queue then realises that they've stopped 20foot short of the stop line and sloooooooooowllly crawls forward only to stop again at the stop line....the rest of the queue then follows suit.

So just at the point I join the back of the queue, I come to a stop, handbrake on, in to neutral, the car in front of me moves forward by three car lengths!

I have noticed it being a Bristol thing to stop with the line somewhere underneath your car or be halfway into the cycle box. It seems to mostly be taxi drivers which makes me wonder about their eyesight. Either that or they think they will somehow get to their destination minutely quicker if they go as far forward as they think they can get away with. More than once I have seen this cause chaos. Once a lorry turning left ended up stuck as the driver over the line made it impossible for them to get round the corner.

[Halmyre]

jogger1976 said:

Halmyre said:

mybrainhurts said:

jogger1976 said:

Lorry driver's that tailgate through average speed sections of roadworks. BACK THE fk OFF!
tts!

Fair enough. Get a move on, you're going too slowly. You don't have to stick to 50 on your speedo. If the truck wants to go faster, follow his lead, he's not going to expose himself to a speeding ticket. It's numpties in lane 3, holding 50 on their speedos, who need a kick up the arse. You sound like such a driver, I hope you're not.

Wouldn't be so bad if they did stick to 50 on the speedo; it's the tts who stick to 45 or 40 "just to be safe" that are the problem.

Just to clarify, I'm driving to the sat nav speed and on cruise, so probably just over 50mph and people that dawdle get on my tits, too. But the section that I was referring to is the M1 near Dunstable, where the roadworks are for the new Woodside Link junction, which at peak times is pretty congested, so quite often 50mph is pretty optimistic

Yet time and again HGV's are tailgating, and only last week some arrogant knobber in a Scania was flashing people and blaring his horn FFS!

Surely you're not condoning this?

Well, no. But if I'm stuck behind someone driving too slowly, I can't do anything about it. If I'm being tailgated, I can.

[mybrainhurts]

Antony Moxey said:

mybrainhurts said:

Antony Moxey said:

If my speedo tells me I'm doing 50 through roadworks then as far as I'm concerned I'm doing 50 and will continue at that speed until the speed limit changes. The rest of your rant is simply irrelevent because the posts were about being tailgated by trucks through roadworks. If YOU can't drive at the limit your speedo is telling you and think bullying other drivers into going the speed you want just so the nation doesn't run out of chicken nuggets then YOU should be disqualified.

If your speedo is showing 50, you're doing 47-48mph. The average speed cameras will not get you unless your average is over 57. Holding cruise control at 57 takes me through at an average 54.8mph (GPS) and, in a 22 mile section, that can put me ahead of a lot of vehicles. If there's an incident, I might even have progressed beyond it before it occurs, thereby potentially saving me hours.

So, if lane 3 is free, please get over and let people through. You might not have heard, but it's an offence to stay on the right if you have free space on your left now.

Are you too busy gnashing your teeth to read a post? I don't care what speed you think I'm doing, I'll go by what my speedo says - is it the law that every single speedometer ever manufactured by every car maker on ever single car in history has to show 50mph when you're actually doing 47-48mph?

Yes. Get a GPS speedo and check it for yourself. Competent drivers are aware of this.

Antony Moxey said:

And, as I've said about a billion times, but I'll say it once more for the retards who can't fking read, this is about being tailgated by trucks through roadworks, not being in lane three with empty lanes to your left, so don't make up situations to justify your childish whining.

What a delightful chap you are. Yes, I can RTFQ, thank you. I understand you were whining about being tailgated, but I moved on from that because you sound like one of those people who plant themselves in any lane and don't make progress. I did ask if you were such a driver, but hoped you weren't. You appear to have missed that.

I'll try to get through to you again. If a truck is tailgating you, he is unlikely to be holding a speed that will get him into trouble, so you must be causing an obstruction. He would pass you in lane 2 if you were in lane 1, so that implies you sit in lane 2 when you should be in lane 1.

Which is an offence.

HTH...

[mybrainhurts]

Antony Moxey said:

G

All that jazz said:

Antony Moxey said:

All that jazz said:

Antony Moxey said:

mybrainhurts said:

jogger1976 said:

Lorry driver's that tailgate through average speed sections of roadworks. BACK THE fk OFF!
tts!

Fair enough. Get a move on, you're going too slowly. You don't have to stick to 50 on your speedo. If the truck wants to go faster, follow his lead, he's not going to expose himself to a speeding ticket. It's numpties in lane 3, holding 50 on their speedos, who need a kick up the arse. You sound like such a driver, I hope you're not.

It's not fair enough though is it. The speed limit is a maximum limit not an instruction so if someone wants to do 50 and they're on the inside lane then live with it instead of trying to bully them into going faster. I know we're all going to die because a supermarket was 30 seconds late in getting its delivery of chicken nuggets but tough. Give the car in front some room and stop driving like a tit.

Ah the "it's a limit not a maximum" excuse again. There is too much traffic on the roads to have people doing their own thing, eg. driving at such a low speed to cause problems with the flow and that's exactly what happens when people drive at 40 in 50 limit motorway roadworks "just to be safe" - all the other traffic is also reduced to that speed which causes bunching, frustration and accidents. You can see this quite well on any dual carriageway where if everyone drove at the expected speeds then the trucks would happily trundle along in lane 1 at 56 and everyone else would get where they're going at the usual 70-85 in lane 2. Works well, except for Percy in his Rover 45 who is doing 54-57 mph in lane 1 in a 70mph limit and suddenly the road nearly grinds to a halt for 10 mins while all trucks try to get round him.

If you can't (and won't) drive at the posted limit then you should be disqualified imho (rural national speed limits on country lanes excluded, obviously).

If my speedo tells me I'm doing 50 through roadworks then as far as I'm concerned I'm doing 50 and will continue at that speed until the speed limit changes. The rest of your rant is simply irrelevent because the posts were about being tailgated by trucks through roadworks. If YOU can't drive at the limit your speedo is telling you and think bullying other drivers into going the speed you want just so the nation doesn't run out of chicken nuggets then YOU should be disqualified.

Please quit your whining and just GTF out of my way so I can deliver my chicken nuggets. Thanks.

No. Quit YOUR whinging and stop tailgating, the world won't stop turning because your 'essential' deliveries got there a couple of milliseconds late.

Sorry, just spotted this...



Magnificent effort...

[All that jazz]

Please get your parrots out of my way as I have important chicken nuggets to deliver and can't be held up by your parrots which are only flying at 47mph.