One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
Discussion
Cliftonite said:
I am not really sure who is the knob here. Is it the publishers of "Know Your Traffic Signs" who insist it means "Vehicles may pass either side to reach the same destination " or the road designers / contractors / Highway Authorities who use it almost exclusively (my estimate) to split traffic flows into two separate routes?
Blown2CV said:
the lunatic!! Doesn't he know that's a residential area!! He could reverse into children or old people!!
So... why is this a knob?
Not sure whether serious but there was someone (me!) crossing the road and I would like to live long enough to be an old people. My dogs are like children to me! So... why is this a knob?
I had already waited for this van to pass me from right to left; I hadn't reckoned on then having to wait for it to pass from left to right on the other side of the road while I stood in the middle!
If you don't now understand, the knob is you!
(Waits for parrot in case I have missed something obvious and it's just a tease)!
Cliftonite said:
Blown2CV said:
the lunatic!! Doesn't he know that's a residential area!! He could reverse into children or old people!!
So... why is this a knob?
Not sure whether serious but there was someone (me!) crossing the road and I would like to live long enough to be an old people. My dogs are like children to me! So... why is this a knob?
I had already waited for this van to pass me from right to left; I hadn't reckoned on then having to wait for it to pass from left to right on the other side of the road while I stood in the middle!
If you don't now understand, the knob is you!
(Waits for parrot in case I have missed something obvious and it's just a tease)!
Cliftonite said:
Blown2CV said:
however they would indeed arrive at the same destination...
Eventually, perhaps. With the help of a sat-nav. Did you have a lot of red wine with your roast today?Blown2CV said:
every time I've seen that sign used it's been a temporary road split where they do in fact join back up again further on. Yes anyone disagreeing with you must surely be pissed and unreasonable!
I reckon your observation skills (or memory) need(s) some sharpening, then. 87% (I may have made that up) of these signs (usually on bollards between lanes) send traffic streams into two totally different directions.Could someone please back me up? Or perhaps it will make sense if I (also??) hit the red wine?
Blown2CV said:
you didn't say any of that though in your post did you... you just said "reversing" - no context whatsoever. It wasn't even clear whether you were in a car or not. I'd have said it was less likely that you were hanging around in the middle of the road taking photos rather than just crossing and getting on with your life, but clearly not.
I had the camera (phone) in my hand as a Rover P4 had just passed and I was hoping it would return. (It did - see the Classic Cars thread)!This is going well, isn't it?
fausTVR said:
The bell end in a Saab today who deliberately left me wearing an entire roadside puddle as he passed me in Old Warden today, as I waited to cross the road. I hope your knackers shrink to the size of raisins and then block your urethra.
ISTR that's undue care and attention. (Been some people charged with it) So make a complaint to the Police if you caught the reg. Few points on his licence may make him consider his actions in future!Cliftonite said:
I am not really sure who is the knob here. Is it the publishers of "Know Your Traffic Signs" who insist it means "Vehicles may pass either side to reach the same destination " or the road designers / contractors / Highway Authorities who use it almost exclusively (my estimate) to split traffic flows into two separate routes?
Red Rover 75 with chrome effect mirrors, tailgating me all the way up Fernhill Road this afternoon. I couldn't see the driver clearly, due to the angle the light was hitting their windscreen, but I'm assuming an older male, and a spineless, impotent a
hole to boot.
Yes, ttface. I know what the speed limit is. It's 30mph. BUT. When the car ahead is taking it's time to accelerate up to said limit, I prefer to maintain a safe and discreet distance. Unlike you, you festering pustule. Aggressively accelerating hard toward me, then dropping back, and repeat ad infinitum. You may have noticed that it didn't have the desired effect. Because I'll continue to drive to MY plan, not yours. And because you were acting the , I was forced to bleed off my speed to mitigate the forces of the potential collision you were risking. I noticed a few times that you 'had a look' for an overtake opportunity, but seemed to be too much of a pussy to take any of plenty of chances that presented themselves. Then, just as you turned right, you repeatedly flashed your lights. Why wait till it's too late to be of any used? Are you afraid of confrontation? If so, just playing nice with others will see that there's no cause for confrontation in the first place 
Oh, and by the way. FK THE HELL OFF away from the back of my car, you retard 
hole to boot.Yes, t
tface. I know what the speed limit is. It's 30mph. BUT. When the car ahead is taking it's time to accelerate up to said limit, I prefer to maintain a safe and discreet distance. Unlike you, you festering pustule. Aggressively accelerating hard toward me, then dropping back, and repeat ad infinitum. You may have noticed that it didn't have the desired effect. Because I'll continue to drive to MY plan, not yours. And because you were acting the , I was forced to bleed off my speed to mitigate the forces of the potential collision you were risking. I noticed a few times that you 'had a look' for an overtake opportunity, but seemed to be too much of a pussy to take any of plenty of chances that presented themselves. Then, just as you turned right, you repeatedly flashed your lights. Why wait till it's too late to be of any used? Are you afraid of confrontation? If so, just playing nice with others will see that there's no cause for confrontation in the first place Oh, and by the way. F
K THE HELL OFF away from the back of my car, you retard Women in a Picasso who had trouble maintaining speed and staying in between the lines. Overtook me at break neck speeds only to slow down to 50mph on a NSL, meaning I'd catch back up, overtake then a few mile later see her coming past doing 80mph+. We eventually exited at the same time, which happened to be onto another dual carriageway which led to a roundabout. Picasso in the inside lane now doing 30mph, despite the roundabout being a mile away, so I was in the outside lane. As my front bumper gets level with her back bumper, she drifts across the line into my lane, causing me to slam on and even my wife to comment what is she doing. I gave some horn to stop her drifting across, she then seemed to wake up and swerve back into her lane, then give me the coffee beans as we went past.
At the roundabout, left lane is marked as left only. I look in my mirror and see enter the roundabout in the left lane with a car to her right, only for her to turn right, cutting up the other car. The other car appeared to swerve right and slam on to avoid her.
Super driving.
At the roundabout, left lane is marked as left only. I look in my mirror and see enter the roundabout in the left lane with a car to her right, only for her to turn right, cutting up the other car. The other car appeared to swerve right and slam on to avoid her.
Super driving.
carlove said:
The maniac in a Prius, overtook me when I was doing the speed limit(NSL) and went flying along until he caught up with an A3, who he again overtook like a maniac. About 15 minutes after this there is traffic lights with two lanes, I'm going left but the right/straight lane is queuing, guess who is stuck in the traffic, the maniac with the Prius. He got far. He Must have bought the wrong car.
One man's "overtook like a maniac" is another man's "making progress". Please don't discourage the noble art of overtaking. When you reached the queue he might have been long gone. Just because overtaking gains a significant advantage only 50% of the time is no reason to stop practising.carlove said:
Middle aged chav in a bashed up old Micra. Pulled straight out on me on a roundabout, possible mistake, but then at the next roundabout he did exactly the same thing to an Audi. Decided he was a tt who didn't care if the had an accident.
When I say bashed up old Micra I mean it had a massive dent on the right side of the car, you know the side that the cars he is badly cutting up are. If the newish Audi or me (newish BMW) had hit him I imagine it would have done a lot more damage to him then us in the modern cars.
This was a few months ago, just remembered it happening.
Reminds me of one I had a week or two ago, I've drawn a picture to illustrate..t who didn't care if the had an accident.When I say bashed up old Micra I mean it had a massive dent on the right side of the car, you know the side that the cars he is badly cutting up are. If the newish Audi or me (newish BMW) had hit him I imagine it would have done a lot more damage to him then us in the modern cars.
This was a few months ago, just remembered it happening.
I'm heading towards roundabout (bright blue) and there are two cars ahead of me on the roundabout (green and pink) when a pauper spec Mk5 Astra full of the kind of youths who keep the stickers on their baseball caps comes steaming in from the right, now of course you're supposed to give way to the right but the statistic-in-waiting driving this thing is going fast enough that he almost hits the cars on the roundabout who would have not even been able to see him as they entered, in fact he was going so quick that he had to use all three lanes of the roundabout to actually make his full 180 turn, I saw him coming and assuming that at that speed he'd be going straight on and seeing him go from inside to outside, I entered the roundabout, not realising he was planning to then cut back from outside to inside coming across the front of me broadside on, displaying the mahoosive dent in the offside rear, no doubt the end result of a similar stunt.
speedking31 said:
carlove said:
The maniac in a Prius, overtook me when I was doing the speed limit(NSL) and went flying along until he caught up with an A3, who he again overtook like a maniac. About 15 minutes after this there is traffic lights with two lanes, I'm going left but the right/straight lane is queuing, guess who is stuck in the traffic, the maniac with the Prius. He got far. He Must have bought the wrong car.
One man's "overtook like a maniac" is another man's "making progress". Please don't discourage the noble art of overtaking. When you reached the queue he might have been long gone. Just because overtaking gains a significant advantage only 50% of the time is no reason to stop practising.The absolute tube who has just nearly mown me and the wife down as we were out for a run. We were running on the footpath which crosses the forecourt of a car repair place (it used to be a fire station so that might explain the layout), mr idiot comes down the road from behind us and decides he war to turn right across the forecourt and into the compound at the read of the garage.
Of course waiting for about 1 second to give way to the pedestrians crossing the forecourt was too much, bell end decides to turn right and we both basically run into the side of his van, even after we both tried to stop. I think the glare he got from me and the accompanying slow hand clap got the message across.
As you can see the route of the footpath is actually marked with a white line.
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Of course waiting for about 1 second to give way to the pedestrians crossing the forecourt was too much, bell end decides to turn right and we both basically run into the side of his van, even after we both tried to stop. I think the glare he got from me and the accompanying slow hand clap got the message across.
As you can see the route of the footpath is actually marked with a white line.
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carreauchompeur said:
speedking31 said:
carlove said:
The maniac in a Prius, overtook me when I was doing the speed limit(NSL) and went flying along until he caught up with an A3, who he again overtook like a maniac. About 15 minutes after this there is traffic lights with two lanes, I'm going left but the right/straight lane is queuing, guess who is stuck in the traffic, the maniac with the Prius. He got far. He Must have bought the wrong car.
One man's "overtook like a maniac" is another man's "making progress". Please don't discourage the noble art of overtaking. When you reached the queue he might have been long gone. Just because overtaking gains a significant advantage only 50% of the time is no reason to stop practising.I don't, however see the point when we're moving quickly, it's a twisting country road, been a few nasty crashes I believe.
His overtakes weren't particularly safe, I wouldn't call them dangerous but I wouldn't call them safe either, a bit close to me and close to the Audi and cut in a bit soon.
Not long after the overtake, probably less than a minute we reached a town with a 30 limit, long straight road with parked cars, he was nowhere to be seen.
Just so you know as there are a lot of t
ts who do this, I didn't flash, honk, gesticulate or speed up, in fact I slowed slightly.I could of course just be grumpy because I got overtaken by a bloody Prius.
Another knob thing, tractors who travel at rush hour. This morning traffic slowed suddenly on a dual carriageway, after a bit of slow moving traffic I see that there's a bloody tractor holding everybody up. I also counted two in the opposite direction.
Do they go at rush hour on purpose? I rarely see them on this road apart from morning or evening rush hour.
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